Table Tennis Rules

The question of how to play table tennis, stands before everyone who comes to the table for the first time. There are no special difficulties here: we need only a table, a grid, two racquets and a ball. Given the fragility of balls for table tennis, it is desirable to have a few spare. The game takes place on a rectangular table, whose height from the floor is 76 centimeters.

The table has a playing surface, necessarily executed in dark color, with a white side line and including the upper edges of the table. The material of the playing field can be different, it is important only that when the ball falls from a height of 30 cm, the bounce is not less than 23 cm. The game table is divided into two halves by a grid, which is suspended on a cord with vertical struts, 15.25 cm high.

Playing table tennis is necessary with special balls. The tennis ball weighs 2.7 grams and has a diameter of 40 mm. It is made of celluloid or similar to the characteristics of plastic, and its color is usually white, but you can use the orange or matte color of the ball.

The most important thing for the game is the racket. She is not only flat in table tennis, but also tough. Its size, mass and shape are not regulated. When manufacturing a racket, a natural tree is used, pimple rubber.

The rules of table tennis clearly require that the racket has two sides of different colors: black and bright red.

Opponents stand at the table opposite each other. When filing the ball is freely located on the open palm of the hand, which should be fixed. After throwing the ball, the deliverer takes away his free hand.

At the throw, the player does not have the right to spin the ball. After hitting the server, the ball must first touch its half of the table, and then hit the surface on the half of the receiver.
Return the ball so that it flies over the grid or around it. Prior to this, it is possible to touch the net with a ball, the rules of table tennis say.

If the ball touches the net on the pitch, then the rally is replayed. He also replayed if the receiver was not ready to serve and did not try to hit the ball, or if the ball stops on the side of the receiver without moving it to him.

The rules of table tennis say that a player receives a point if his opponent has incorrectly executed the pitch or return. Also, a point is awarded if the opponent interferes with the ball or intentionally hits the ball twice in a row. Also, you can not move the playing surface when the ball is in the game; It is forbidden to touch the playing surface with any hand before striking the ball.

The winner is the tennis player, who is the first to gain 11 points. If the opponents have 10 points each, then the party wins the one who has reached the difference of two points.

The match is held on most of the odd number of games: according to the rules of the tournament there can be three, five, seven.

The rules of table tennis oblige the host every two points to become a server. This happens before the end of the game. Only with the score 10:10, or with the introduction of the activation rule, the depositors are replaced after the drawing of each point.

The sender is the first in one party to start the next batch as the receiving party. After each game, tennis players change sides, and in a deciding game they change when one of them picks up 5 points.

If the game does not end within 10 minutes, and 18 points are not played yet, then the rule for activating the game begins to operate.

Tennis players are served in turn, playing every point. When the receiver makes 13 correct returns, he wins a point.

Table tennis, the rules of the game in which described above, is considered an active and very exciting game that won the hearts of many fans of outdoor sports.