Table Tennis Betting Tips & Match Previews

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The most important table tennis tournaments on an international level are the World Table Tennis Championships, the Table Tennis World Cup, the Olympics and the ITTF World Tour. 

Continental competitions include the following:

China has dominated these tournaments since their inception with Sweden also ranking surprisingly high.

Chinese players have won 60 per cent of the men's World Championships since 1959 and in the women's competition for the Corbillin Cup, Chinese players have won all but three of the World Championships since 1971. 

There are professional competitions at the clubs level; the respective leagues of Austria, Belgium, China (China Table Tennis Super League), Japan (T.League), France, Germany (Bundesliga), and Russia are examples of the highest level. 

Table tennis had humble beginnings as a “parlor game,” open to anyone with access to a table, paddle, and ball. The game began in the 1880s, when lawn tennis players adapted their game to play indoors during the winter months.

The game quickly caught on, and as early as 1901, tournaments were being conducted with over 300 participants. The Ping-Pong Association was formed but was renamed The Table Tennis Association in 1922.

In 1902 a visiting Japanese university professor took the game back to Japan, where he introduced it to university students. Not long after after British salesman Edward Shires, introduced it to the people of Vienna and Budapest, sowing the seeds for what would become one of the most popular sports in the region. In Britain, table tennis had also begun to spread outside the distinctly middle-class confines of London, and leagues sprang up in provincial towns as far apart as Sunderland and Plymouth. In 1922, an All England Club was formed, which boasted such luminaries as Jack Hobbs the cricketer and other famous names of the time from the world of sport. The Daily Mirror organized and sponsored a nationwide tournament in which there were 40,000 competitors.

Today, the sport both in England and abroad is very well established and is growing each year. The culmination of this has been its recognition as an Olympic Games sport, being featured for the first time in the 1988 games in Seoul.