How to Serve in Ping Pong: The Rules and the Basic Serves
What makes a ping pong serve legal under the ITTF laws, how lets and doubles serves work, and the basic spins coaches teach, in plain English.
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Month: November 2026
How to Hold a Ping Pong Bat: Shakehand, Penhold and the Ready Position
How to hold a table tennis bat: the shakehand and penhold grips, a relaxed ready position, and where to stand, drawn from Table Tennis England coaching.
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy and a Short History of the Game
From Victorian parlour game to the 1971 trip to China: a sourced history of ping pong, the Nagoya bus story, the Olympics, and what is still disputed.
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