PingPong Game Rules

Here are a few rules to play pingpong or table tennis. Of course before playing we have to prepare the equipments (read PingPong Equipment). Here are some rules that I got from several sources:

• At the time of the serve, the ball must be released. If the ball hit the net and the ball went into the opponent, it must be repeated up to 3 (three) times, and if still touching the net, then the opponent will receive point. However if the ball touches the net and fell into our area, then point awarded to the opponent.

• At the start of serve, and the ball out of the hands and have not/did not get beaten, then the serve may be repeated as long as the ball did not touch the table. If the ball touches the table, point awarded to the opponent

• Serve changes  performed after 2 (two) points.

• Perform a total of three games. Maximum points in every game is11.

• During the game, if your hands or other body part touches the table, the match continues. And if the ball touches the hand (not intentional) and the ball fell to the opponent's area, the match continues.

• If the racket touched the table or touch the body, the match continues.

PingPong Equipment

1. Pingpong TABLE

•  The top surface of the table (playing surface), square-shaped, with length 2.74 m and 1.525 m wide, and should be laid  flat, as tall as 76cm from the floor.

• Playing surface must be no additional parts are attached vertically at the edge of the table.

• Playing surface may be made of any material, and must produce uneven bounce, which is about 23cm when a standard ball is dropped onto the table from a height of 30cm.

• Playing surface must be dark and visible / non-glare, with the side line (side line) 2cm wide and 2.74m long on each side of the table, and along 1.525m at each end of the table (end line).

• Playing surface must be divided into two courts with the same size, using a net that is placed vertically and mounted parallel to the end of the second-line (end line), and should reach the edge of the blank space on either side of the table.

• In a double game, each part of the table must be divided again into the same half-section bounded by the white center line, 3mm wide, parallel to the two-line edge of the table; the center line should be regarded as fully part of each half section table.

2.  Pingpong NET

• Net assembly shall consist of net, net hanger (suspension) and the pillar (supporting posts), including clamps that is attached to the table.

• Net must be hung strain (suspended) by rod on each end that is attached perpendicularly along the buffer (post) 15.25 cm tall, the buffer outside pole is 15.25 cm from the outer edge of the side line.

• The top of all the nets should be as high as 15.25 cm above the playing surface.

• The lower part (bottom) along the nets should be as low as possible to the playing surface and both ends of the net section (net) must be as tight as possible with pole-buffer.
  

3. Pingpong BALL

• The ball must be round-shaped hollow, with a diameter of 40mm and weighs 2.7 grams.

• The ball must be made of celluloid or similar plastic materials and must be white or orange, and not slippery gloss (matt).

4. Pingpong RACKET

•  Racket can be of any size, shape, or weight, but the blade must be flat and rigid.

•  At least 85% of the thickness of the blade must be made of natural wood, any additional layers may be added as a reinforcement, made of fibrous material, such as carbon fiber, glass fibers, or compressed paper, but should not be thicker than 7.5% of the total thickness or approximately 0.35 mm, or even thinner.

• Side of the blade that used to knock the ball should be coated, either with regular rubber speckled (ordinary pimpled rubber), in the form of spots out (pimpled outwards) with a total thickness including adhesive of not more than 2mm, or sandwich rubber with coated into or out of spots that have total thickness including adhesive of not more than 4mm.
  

History

Table Tennis is often said as a miniature of the field tennis. Around 1880, the English middle class society in the Victorian era using the table as a means to play like playing Table Tennis with crude equipment. But because of limited facilities, they used very simple equipment: the cigarette box as a bat, wine bottle cap as the ball, and the book as a net.
There is a British man named David Foster, who first took the initiative to play tennis on the table in 1890. He used the bat of rackets, 30 mm rubber-coated fabric balls, wood as the limiting of the table, and a net along the edge of a table used to hold the ball comes out. This game is like a combination of tennis, soccer, and cricket. On July 15 in the same year, Foster patented his innovation called Parlour Table Games in the UK. Because of his contribution, Foster considered as the inventor of Table Tennis.

At the start of the 20th century, found a ball made of celluloid. There is a company called Hamley Brothers who introduced a ball made of celluloid and patenting the name "Ping Pong" on September 20, 1900. The word comes from the sound of bouncing celluloid ball, when played on a table and beaten by a bet.