Table tennis also known as ping pong is a game similar to a lawn tennis game, which is usually played on a table using a wooden paddle and a small hollow plastic ball played by two or four players. As in lawn or indoor tennis, the table has a net that divides the playing area into two portions.
The service in table tennis starts with the ball resting freely on the open palm of the server’s stationary free hand. The server then tosses the ball upwards and strikes it as it begins to fall, bouncing it once on his side before it passes over the net and bounces on the opponent’s side.
In playing table tennis, the service of the ball must bounce once before clearing the net and again bounce before being struck by the receiver. The player returning the ball should not let the ball bounce again on his side after striking the ball.
When an opponent’s service does not land properly or when an opponent’s ball is not returned properly, a player scores a point. The players may serve five times in a row, and the player who first earns 21 points wins the game.
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