If you are a loyal fan of table tennis, you can't help but understand the development history of table tennis. In a sense, the development of technology is the continuous innovation of racket tools and the continuous progress of sponge rubber research, which makes the speed and rotation of the ball compete with each other and makes the table tennis technology develop forward. At first, athletes used all kinds of rackets, but wooden rackets were the most common. Because there is no rubber or sponge, the speed and rotation are very poor. Just pushing the ball around, it was slow and monotonous, so no one watched. A man's greatness lies in his ability to change. This kind of bare board performance is not ideal, so smart people stick rubber boards with good elasticity on the bare board. This reform has promoted the development of table tennis, because the biggest feature of rubber is that it is easy to control the ball. From then on, the downward rotation defensive chop style was formed and became popular in Europe. Many athletes took the podium of the world champion with this style. For example, Bergman of Austria won the men's singles championship (Brad Cup) at 1 1 World Table Tennis Championships (hereinafter referred to as "World Championships"), Watt of Czechoslovakia won 12, and Leach of Britain won/kloc in succession at 16 and 18. As we all know, the chop play is mainly defensive, and the chop play and backspin play at that time are even more unique. The guiding ideology of their play is to strive for their own mistakes and let others make mistakes. Therefore, at that time, the competition for the singles title in the World Championships was several times longer than that in Malasson, and it was often tied from morning to afternoon. Finally, the referee had to flip a coin to decide the result. The most interesting thing is that in the women's singles final of 1 1 World Championships, because American and Austrian athletes played for too long, neither side was willing to flip a coin, and the report card of the women's singles champion said "No champion".
In the 1950s, Japan's long-draw style became more and more mature, and combined with its fast pace, it defeated the European downward-spin chopping style, and from then on, the upward-spin style took the lead. Japan's greatest contribution to table tennis was the invention of the sponge racket, which greatly accelerated the attack speed. Japan's long-range forehand attack, with great strength and speed, coupled with the threatening backhand serve, has since broken the monopoly position of European athletes.
When Japanese dominated the world table tennis in 1950s, China began to enter the world of table tennis. The Chinese nation is a nation full of innovative spirit and fighting capacity. In just a few years, the first generation of Chinese national players summed up the positive and negative experiences and lessons, maintained the characteristics of fast and fierce in technology, paid close attention to basic skills in training, strengthened the accuracy and variability of hitting the ball, improved the attack technique of chopping the ball, and gradually formed and created a unique fast attack style of the pen-hold with the technical style of "fast, accurate, fierce and changeable". From 65438 to 0959, Rong Guotuan won the first world championship for the Chinese nation. Since then, table tennis in China has become popular all over the world, and our Chinese nation has won numerous honors. By 1988, after table tennis was included in the Olympic Games, it further promoted the development of table tennis, and the competition among countries in the world became more intense, paying more attention to the popularization of table tennis and the national fitness plan.