话题3事物介绍B

Ping-pong is the national sport of China. Wherever you go, you can see Chinese people playing ping-pong at school, at home, or in the park. It is very easy to play ping-pong. All you need is a table, two bats, and a ping-pong ball. But do you know who invented ping-pong and when it was invented?It is said that ping-pong was invented by some Britons in 1890. These Britons liked playing tennis. One day, they found it exciting to play a tennis ball on a table, and they used two boards as tennis rackets. At first, it was called table tennis. Later, an American businessman started calling it ping-pong because of the sound it made.This sport became popular across Europe in the 1950s. In 1959, Chinese ping-pong player Rong Guotuan won the first world championship for China. Since then, Chinese players have continued to achieve great success in ping-pong games