3 posts tagged “Equipment”
Why the 11-point game? Why did the ball go from 38 mm to 40+? Why was speed glue banned? This article runs through every key rules change in table tennis from 1937 to 2021 in order, and explains what each one was really trying to fix.
At the 1952 World Championships in Bombay, Japan entered for the first time and took men's singles with a thick sponge bat, producing the first non-European world champion. Five straight men's team titles followed. This is the 'Japanese era' squeezed between two strands of history.
From inner-carbon to hybrid rubbers, every 2025 equipment clue responds to the speed and spin shift brought by the 40+ plastic ball.
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