Table Tennis and the implementation of the new rules Part 1

Table Tennis and the implementation of the new rules Part 1

International Table Tennis Federation amends and implements the rules for the game of table tennis which is played between two or more players.

Players must play the ball after one bounce in their court except the service in which the ball should be allowed to bounce on both sides of the table divided by a net in the middle.

After the initial service players must hit the ball with calculated amount of force so that it lands on the other side of the net before reaching the player.

There are different skills used by players these days most of common of them is spinning the ball and making it harder for opponent to return it back. If a player fails to return the ball on his opponent’s side he loses a point.

ITTF has published a handbook which illustrates the official rules of the game and updates it time to time as rules of Table Tennis have undergone different changes over the period of time.

The rule 2.13.1 of ITTF suggests that the game starts with a coin toss to decide which player to do the initial service.  The winner of the toss wins the right to start the game and get to choose the side of the table.

To start the service player must hold the ball in one hand and racket on the other. Ball is placed in the palm in a way that it is visible to the opponent, it is then tossed in the air without spin and player hits the ball as it comes down.

For a successful service, the player must make sure that the ball touches his court first and then his opponent’s court and shall not touch the net in the way through.

The service is changed after every two points till the end of game which extends up to 11 points and the player scoring 11 points with a minimum lead of two points is considered to be the winner.

The 11^th point is required to score in the scenario when both the players have secured 10 points each.

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Posted by Ahmed Babar on Mar 31 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.