前言
乒乓球運動于19 世紀后期起源于英國，流行于歐洲。它是由網球運動派生而來的。在20 世紀50 年代, 中國的乒乓球運動得到了飛速發(fā)展。在全國范圍內開展了群眾性乒乓球運動，使乒乓球技術水平得到了很大提高。1959 年中國優(yōu)秀運動員容國團第一次奪得世界乒乓球錦標賽的男子單打冠軍，標志著中國乒乓球運動在世界的崛起。 1961 年中國主辦了第26 屆世界乒乓球錦標賽。在這屆比賽中中國運動員力爭上游，一舉奪取了3 項冠軍，包括爭奪最激烈的男子團體冠軍獎杯思韋斯林杯。從此，中國乒乓球運動走到了世界前列。在20 世紀80 年代的5 屆世乒賽中，中國運動員獲得了金牌總數(shù)的80%。此后，乒乓球就成為中國的國球，中國運動員始終站在世界乒壇的最頂峰。當今世界乒乓球運動的發(fā)展不太平衡, 強盛的中國乒乓球隊常常包攬各個項目的冠軍。各類比賽的獎牌也主要集中在歐亞地區(qū)，不平衡的趨勢仍在逐漸加大。為了推進乒乓球運動在世界范圍內的普及和提高，促使乒乓球運動健康有序地發(fā)展，有必要幫助其他國家地區(qū)的運動員及青少年愛好者以科學的方法和先進的技術進行訓練，使更多的人能夠參與到這項運動中來, 使世界乒乓球運動更加繁榮。本書就是本著把中國乒乓球先進的技術推廣到世界，讓全世界的乒乓球愛好者共享的目的而撰寫。

Foreword
The sport of table tennis originated in Victorian England in the late 19th century and was prevalent in Europe. It was derived from tennis. In the 1950s the sport of table tennis in China developed rapidly. It was carried out as the mass sport across the country so that the technical level of table tennis was greatly improved.In 1959 the Chinese excellent athlete Rong Guotuan won the world table tennis championship of mens single for the first time, which marked the rise of Chinese table tennis in the world. In 1961, China hosted the 26th world table tennis championships. Chinese athletes raced to the top in the contest, winning the three champions at a stroke, including the mens team championship trophy, Swaythling Cup, which was the most intense competition. From then on, the sport of table tennis in China has walked to the front of the world. In the 1980s, Chinese athletes won 80% number of the total gold medals in the five times World Table Tennis Championships. Since then, table tennis has become the national sport of China;the Chinese athletes are always standing on the highest peak in the world table tennis.In todays world, the development of table tennis is not very balanced; the strong Chinese table tennis team often sweeps the champion of each item. All kinds of medals are also mainly concentrated in Eurasian area. This unbalanced trend is still increasing gradually. In order to promote the popularization and improvement of table tennis in the world, and to accelerate the healthy and orderly development of table tennis, it is necessary to help the athletes and young lovers in other countries and regions with scientific methods and advanced technique training and enable more people to participate in the sport, making a prosperous development of the world table tennis.The book is written in line with the purpose that is to promote the advanced technique of our national sport to the world, and enable table tennis enthusiasts in the world to share it with us.