Table tennis

📖 In short

Table tennis, or ping-pong, is a fun game like tennis but smaller. Two players stand at either end of a table with a small net in the middle and hit a light white or orange ball with two small bats.

🤩 Did you know?

Table tennis has been played in Arab countries since 1925.
Egypt hosted the table tennis world championship in Cairo in 1939.
A table tennis ball weighs less than 3 grams.
China is one of the strongest countries at table tennis.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 How do we play?

The player hits the ball over the net so it bounces once on the opponent's side of the table, then the opponent sends it back. If they can't return it or it goes out, the other player gets a point.

🔍 The game

A game is won by the first player to reach 11 points, at least two points ahead. Games used to go up to 21 points.

💡 Spin

Skilled players can make the ball spin very fast, so it curves and bounces strangely and is hard to return.

🎯 Table tennis in the Arab world

Arabs began playing this game about a hundred years ago, and Egypt hosted the world championship in Cairo in 1939. It's a great game for families and schools.