Table tennis
Table tennis is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net.
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Equipment
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Professional table tennis table
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Table tennis bat
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Table tennis plastic ball 40+ mm
Strokes
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Service
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Forhand top-spin
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Backhand top-spin
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Forhand back-spin (chop)
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Backhand back-spin (chop)
Professional players
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Men
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Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish former table tennis player, "the Mozart of table tennis"
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Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
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Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player
Women
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Li Xiaoxia, Chinese table tennis player
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Ding Ning, Chinese table tennis player
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Mima Ito, Japanese table tennis player
Historical images
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1926-31
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War
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Ping-Pong game by Parker Brothers
In Art
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A NAAFI canteen with a table-tennis match being played, 1941 (Second World War)
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Partie de Tennis de table en 1901