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.