ITTF がプロモーションビデオ 'This is Table Tennis!! を公開している(→http://www.ittf.com/media/press_release/PR_15Jul13/index.html#Video)。
- Table tennis originated in England during the 1880s, where it was played as an after-dinner parlour game
- International Table Tennis Federation was formed in 1926
- The first World Table Tennis Championships was in 1924 in London, England
- The ITTF has 218 National Associations, which is the 2nd most of all Olympic Sports
- Table Tennis has been an Olympic Sport since the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games
- ITTF.com is the 2nd most popular out of all Olympic websites in terms of traffic
- Top Table Tennis events are seen live on TV in 110 countries
- 150 million people play table tennis globally
- ITTF holds over 70 events a year
- The ITTF World Tour Final has over US 1 million dollars in prize money
- On a serve, a table tennis ball spins up to 3000 rotations per minute
- A table tennis ball can travel up to 160km/h; in a rally this means that a player has less than 0.11 seconds to react