Consider that table tennis has appeared in the II half of XIX century. While there was no clearly defined asles of the game. Balls were made of yarn, books, arranged on a table, were a grid, and pieces of thick cardboard were rackets. In 1900, James Gibb player in America ran into a little hollow colored balls - toys for children. On his return to England, he tried a similar hollow ball on the table and pointed his advantage intact. In 1902, EK Hood plastered his racket asbber, allowing him spinning the ball. In 1901 was first registered in the name of the game. It included two simple words «Ping» (the sound of the ball when it hits the racket) and «Pong» (when the ball bounces off the table).The first asles were established in England. One batch was carried out by 30 points, followed, shortly before the beginning of the XXI century, to 21, but now the party is under 11. The form of the participants had severe: women - in long dresses, men - in tuxedos. Thanks to the flourishing industry, the emergence of new materials, varied sports equipment. Currently, sports equipment can pick up on request and cost, ranging from $ 5 for the amateur racquet and ending in hundreds, and maybe even thousands of dollars for a complete outfit athlete.The most significant impetus to the development of table tennis has given the appearance of a porous sponge asbber (sponge). With the advent of sponge game has becomemorediverse. Changed the trajectory of the ball, opened the opportunity to play actively, when he had dipped below the grid. Athletes who play in a protective style, now had far to depart from the table and quickly return to it. Changing technology and tactics.Currently, there are a few key terms describing the tangency of the ball with the racket: Nakata, top spin, and trimming. Thanks to the energetic activities of Dr. Georg Lehmann (Germany) in Berlin in January 1926 was established the International Federation of Table Tennis - ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation). In the ITTF registered 202 countries (April 27, 2006).. The program of the Paralympic Games table tennis was included immediately with the first launch in 1960 (Rome, Italy).Your A. Ignatowicz© «The Evolution of Table Tennis", Alexander Ignatowicz, 2007.