Despite the growing pains, the switch to non-celluloid balls was practically a necessity because of the severe fire hazard posed by celluloid balls. “We can now have a large quantity of balls ...

It’s neither ping (the sound of a rubber paddle hitting a 2.5-gram celluloid ball) nor pong (when the ball bounces off a wooden table). It is table tennis, and to Ted Friedman, 75, the slam-bang ...

(ITTF) From 1 July 2014, all International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) sanctioned and World Title events will be played using plastic composite balls instead of the traditional celluloid ball.

Celluloid balls were introduced into the budding table tennis game in 1900. They produced the perfect bounce and became a staple of the table tennis equipment set. Not only did the celluloid ball ...

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has announced that all its sanctioned and World Title events will now be played using plastic composite balls instead of the traditional celluloid ...

Table Tennis balls used to be made of a celluloid material. As of January 2014, the ITTF officially made the switch to a plastic compound. They have extremely strict requirements about the kind of ...

Table tennis on board a Red Star Line passenger ship, 1907. The Red Star Line ran between Antwerp in Belgium, Dover in England and New York in the USA. Postcard. (Getty Images) Celluloid balls ...