Ping pong is a mini version of tennis. There are only two major differences beetween ping pong and tennis and they are: 1. ping pong uses a table witch is smaller than a tennis court. 2. on the first point (serve) in ping pong you need two hit the ball in the air and it has to hit both sides before the point starts. The best ping pong player today is Zhang Jike. He is Chinese and was born on febuary 16, 1988 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He likes two play right handed in a handshaking grip. He has been number 1 scince june first 2012. He is 5 ft 10 in and 150 pounds. He was named after the brazillian soccer player zico. Zhang has one 4 gold medals in the olympics for ping pong. Many people call this table tennis witch is a more literale way of saying the game. There is no single name they both work. Ping pong is a name to atract people to play a game with a fun name. When you read these names you will say that they are all chinese so I say I beleave in you. The top five players in the world for men are:

Zhang Jike playing ping pong

  1. Zhang Jike
  2. Ma Long
  3. XU Xin
  4. Wang Hao
  5. Ma Lin
The top 5 for women are:
  1. Ding Ning
  2. Li Xiaoxia
  3. Liu Shiwen
  4. Guo Yan
  5. Kim Kyungah
The top 5 ping pong grips are
The shakehand shallow grip The shakehand deep grip The shakehand attacking chopper
The shakehand counter drive The penhold looper ping pong and table tennis are the same

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