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Anybody Competing This Year?

  • 11-09-2010 3:39pm
    #1
    Gary ITR
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    After years out of it I'm going into the seniors this year. I have the say the playing styles have dramatically changed over the last few years while I've been away from the sport.

    When I played you could glue the bat before every match, serve under arm etc etc :p


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  • #2
    Havermeyer
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    Those rules were brought in shortly before the end of our secondary school career, iirc.


  • #3
    Gary ITR
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    The year after I last played in U19's is when they came in. So I would have been a year out of secondary


  • #4
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    And I quote...

    "Toward the end of 2000, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport. First, the older 38 mm balls were officially replaced by 40 mm balls. This increased the ball's air resistance and effectively slowed down the game. By that time, players had begun increasing the thickness of the fast sponge layer on their rackets, which made the game excessively fast, and difficult to watch on television. Secondly, the ITTF changed from a 21-point to an 11-point scoring system. This was intended to make games more fast-paced and exciting. The ITTF also changed the rules on service to prevent a player from hiding the ball during service, in order to increase the average length of rallies and to reduce the server's advantage."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Tennis

    :)


  • #5
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    nummnutts wrote: »
    And I quote...

    "Toward the end of 2000, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport. First, the older 38 mm balls were officially replaced by 40 mm balls. This increased the ball's air resistance and effectively slowed down the game. By that time, players had begun increasing the thickness of the fast sponge layer on their rackets, which made the game excessively fast, and difficult to watch on television. Secondly, the ITTF changed from a 21-point to an 11-point scoring system. This was intended to make games more fast-paced and exciting. The ITTF also changed the rules on service to prevent a player from hiding the ball during service, in order to increase the average length of rallies and to reduce the server's advantage."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Tennis

    :)

    But that didn't trickle down to the amateur tournaments for a couple of years. The only tournament I played in where the scoring went to 11 was in the 'Eleven's'


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