Interesting Table Tennis Facts on World Table Tennis Day

Author of the text: Aditya Kumar Awasthi

Title of Journal/Publication: SportsFlu

URL or Web Address: https://www.sportsflu.com/table-tennis/interesting-table-tennis-facts-on-world-table-tennis-day/

Main Idea: Table tennis is an extreme sport and it is recognized internationally.

Supporting Details:

1. Skilled athletes can slam a ping pong ball across the net at speeds surpassing 100 miles per hour. In 1993, two players named Jackie Bellinger and Lisa Lomas Set a World Record for hitting a ping pong ball back and forth 173 times in one minute.
2. Ping Pong diplomacy used by US and China in 1971 to develop diplomatic relation where friendship matches played throughout the US between the both country’s National team.