Ping pong or table tennis? What's the difference between the two? As long as you are enjoying striking ping pong balls in ping pong tables does it matter what you call it? But just to set things right, the phrase "ping-pong" may have orginated from the sound from which is produced when you smash the ping-pong ball to and fro with the tennis racket. Hmm. Does it indeed sound like "ping-pong"? It sure does sound a tad like "whish-whack" to me. As a matter of fact, there was actually a time when players called table tennis "whiff-whaff", obviously for the same sound. So which would you prefer to say: "my pastime is playing ping pong" or "I am a skilled whiff-whaff player"? Some individuals in fact take this matter rather as a serious one. And for some peculiar reasons, perhaps to sort things out, players who are just playing this for recreation say it something like this "let's play ping-pong" and for those who play it professionally say, "I play table tennis for a living." Although "whiff-whaff" and "ping pong" have been used much previously to name this fun sport, perchance it is rather better to call it "table tennis" for the sake of official strict reasons. At least in this conversation for that matter. Table tennis has been played as olden as the medieval ages-that would have been between the 12 to 15th century to be exact. It was only played by the British aristocrats as an after-dinner parlour tournament fun. When it became a preferred outside game no one can really explain, maybe since manufacturers began to mass produce quality equipment like tennis racket and ping pong tables-oops, table tennis tables rather, and variations of the game have been introduced. The introduction of table tennis throughout the world may have been started when the British armed forces brought the indoor game to India, China and South Africa during the 1800s. In the 1900s, allegedly the game was already gaining popularity in the United States which might have inspired the Englishman capitalist stationed there, in the names of James Gibb to patent hollow celluloid balls as the table tennis ball we know of today. He brought his product back to England and it's thought that the name "ping-pong' was firstly heard from the different sound it has generated. However, the patent holder of the famous sport that is "ping-pong" is John Jacques in England whilst the Parker Brothers own the patent name in the America. There was a distinct "Ping-Pong Association" and "Table Tennis Association" registered in the year 1901 in England, which was registered only four days apart. In the United States, the two association merged and became the "United States Table Tennis and Ping-Pong Association" in May 1, 1903. Nowadays, there are many variations of the game and although the rules and regulations of the sport have been changed and altered throughout time, it only have made the table tennis game much more enjoyable to take part in. It also made the designs of table tennis gear like ping pong tables, racket, net and even table tennis outfit much more expert looking.
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