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.

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.