Originated in England. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, tennis was all the rage in Europe. However, due to the limitation of venue and weather, some college students in Britain move tennis indoors, using the dining table as a table, books as a net, parchment as a racket and playing around the dining table. 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India came across that playing tennis on a small table was quite exciting. Later, they used solid rubber instead of solid balls, then hollow plastic balls and wooden boards instead of rackets to play this novel "tennis match" on the table, which is the origin of the name table tennis.

Soon after its appearance, table tennis became a popular sport. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce complete sets of table tennis equipment. Table tennis is the number one grip sport in the United States, and more than 200,000 Americans play table tennis. At first, table tennis had other names, such as indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer coined the new word Ping-pang with the sound of ping-pong hitting, which became another official name of ping-pong. When table tennis was introduced to China, people created a new word-table tennis.

Table tennis singles usually adopt two wins in three games or two wins in five games (2 1 minute per game), but in 2006, it was changed to two wins in seven games or two wins in five games (1 1 minute per game). The so-called "game" is to set and serve in English.

Table tennis is divided into singles and doubles. The rules of the game are as follows:

First, the rules of singles competition, the choice of serving, receiving and orientation

(A), table tennis serve

1. The right to choose the service, receiving service and venue should be decided by choosing the front and back of the coin. The right player can choose to serve or receive the service first, or he can choose to be on the side first.

2. When a player chooses to serve first or receive first or choose a court, another player should have another choice.

3. After serving twice, the receiver becomes the server, and so on, until the end of the game, or until the scores of both sides reach 10, the order of serving and receiving remains unchanged, and each person only serves one point in turn.

4. The party in one direction in a certain game should be changed to another direction in the next game. In the singles deciding game, when one side scores 5 points, it is necessary to change places.

(b) Error handling of service, command receiving and positioning.

1. Once the referee finds that the order of serving and receiving is wrong, he should immediately suspend the game and serve or receive the service according to the order established at the beginning of the game and the score on the field. In doubles, when mistakes are found, the game will continue in the order determined by the party who has the right to serve first.

2. Once the referee finds that the players should exchange places but not, he should immediately suspend the game and correct the players' positions according to the scores on the field in the order established at the beginning of the game before continuing the game. In any case, all the scores before the error is found are valid.

3. When the ball served by the server touches the net, it is called "wiping the net", and the referee should order the server to serve again. Until there is no network cleaning or other service errors.

(3) legal counterattack. After the opponent serves or counterattacks, the players of our team must hit the ball so that the ball directly crosses or bypasses the net device (including the net touching device) and then touches the opponent's table. In all the above cases, the counterattack is legal.

(four), serve again, in the round without scoring the following circumstances, should be sentenced to serve again:

1. If the ball sent by the server touches the net device when it crosses or bypasses the net device, it becomes a legal serve or is blocked by the receiver or his partner.

If the server or his partner is not ready, the ball has been served, and neither the receiver nor his partner has tried to hit the ball.

3. Due to the interference beyond the athlete's control, such as the lights going out, the athlete fails to legal serve, fight back legally or abide by the rules. (If an athlete collides with his partner or stumbles over the baffle and fails to fight back legally, it cannot be judged to serve again. )

4. The referee or deputy referee announced that the game was suspended. For example: ① due to the need to correct the wrong order or orientation of serving and receiving; (2) Because of the rotating serve method; ③ For warning or punishing athletes; (4) The result of a round of competition may be affected by the interference of the competition environment (such as an outside ball entering the field or a sudden noise that can surprise the athletes).

Second, one point is awarded.

In this round of competition, except for the heavy service, one of the following situations will get 1 point:

1, failed to be delivered legally;

2. Failure to fight back legally;

3. shielding;

4. Hit the ball twice in a row (such as hitting the ball continuously with a clap thumb and racket);

5. Besides serving, the ball touches our table and then touches our table;

6. Hit the ball with an irregular racket face;

7. In doubles, players don't hit the ball in the correct order except serving or receiving;

8. the referee awarded points;

9, other illegal acts have been listed.

Third, a game.

In a game, the winner is 1 1. After the score is tied 10, the winner is the one who scores 2 points first.

Fourth, a game.

1, a game should use the best of seven or the best of five.

A game should be continuous, but any athlete has the right to ask for a rest time of no more than two minutes between games.

Five, the rotation serve method

1, if a game 15 minutes later is still not over (unless both sides score at least 9 points); Or at any time before this, at the request of athletes from both sides, the rotation service method should be implemented. The timekeeper should open the watch when the first ball of each game enters the game state; Stop the watch when the game is suspended, and restart the watch when the game is resumed. The suspension of the game includes: the ball flies out of the competition area and returns to the competition area, wiping sweat, changing direction in the deciding game and replacing damaged competition equipment. A game doesn't end until 15 minutes, and the timekeeper should report "Time is up".

2. When the ball is still in the game, the referee will immediately announce the suspension of the game, and the server who has been suspended for one round will serve to continue the game. When the ball is not in the game state, the receiver of the last round will serve and continue the game.

3. When the above situation occurs, the counter should report the number of hits after each hit of the receiver. When using the rotation service method, the counter should report the number of people in English or other languages acceptable to athletes and referees.

After that, each player takes turns to serve one point until the end of the game. If the receiver makes thirteen legal counterattacks, the server scores one point.

Once the rotation serve method is implemented, the rest of the game must last until the end of the game.

In addition, the rules of table tennis doubles competition have been formulated for reference. ?

1, serve?

In doubles, the ball should touch the right half of the server and receiver. If the referee has doubts about the legality of an athlete's serve, he will award a heavy serve and warn the server when it first appears in a game. After that, the referee once again suspects that the player or his doubles partner's serve is co-occurring, and will award the player a point. ?

2. What is the competition order?

In doubles, the server serves first, then the server returns the ball, then the server's partner returns the ball, and then the server's partner returns the ball. After that, the athletes returned in turn. ?

3. Score?

Except for the round that was sentenced to serve again, the player scored 1 minute in the following situations:?

In doubles, the opposing players hit the ball in the wrong order. In a game, the winner is 1 1. 10 After the draw, the winner is the one who scores 2 points first. ?

4. What is the order of serving, receiving and serving?

After every 2 points, the receiver becomes the server, and so on until the end of the game; Or until the scores of both sides reach 10, or the rotation serve method is implemented. At this point, the order of serving and receiving remains the same, but each person only serves one point in turn. ?

5. Determine the server's first game of doubles. The server first determines the first server, and then the receiver determines the first receiver. In the next game, after the first starter is confirmed, the first receiver should be the player who served him in the previous game. In doubles, every time the service is changed, the former server becomes the server, and the partner of the former server becomes the receiver. The player who serves first in one game should accept the service first in the next game. ?

6. Changes in the position of the deciding game In the doubles deciding game, when one player scores 5 points first, the receiver will exchange the order of receiving the service. In one game, one player in one direction will switch to another direction in the next game. In the deciding game, one side scored 5 points first, and the two sides exchanged?

Bearing. (In doubles, if the score is 5: 1 or 5: 3, after the players are exchanged, the original player becomes the receiver and the original receiver becomes the server. )?

7. What is the wrong service and receiving order and direction?

Once the referee finds that the order of serving and receiving is wrong, he should immediately suspend the game, and the player who should serve or receive the service should serve or receive the service according to the order established at the beginning of the game and the score on the field; In the doubles match, when mistakes are found, they will be corrected according to the order established by the party who has the right to serve first, and the game will continue. Once the referee finds that the athletes should exchange places but not exchange places, he should immediately suspend the game and make corrections according to the order established at the beginning of the game and the correct position where the athletes should stand on the field before continuing the game. ?

In any case, all points before the error is found are valid.