Have you ever noticed that the colors used on ping pong table tops has started to grow? There are tops in just about every color under the rainbow. The traditional color of course has always been green, but why?
Funny you should ask. There is a very logical reason that the tops of ping pong tables have traditionally been green, tennis. Tennis? That's right tennis. You see ping pong or table tennis as it is known around the world is strikingly similar to...you guessed it tennis! Yes tennis which too has a traditional green court or playing surface, gets its color from grass. That is correct, green grass. You see in the old days before asphalt and concrete, tennis courts were made from grass. Hard lawns of very low cut green grass. So when people decided that having a tennis court in your back yard was too expensive and space intensive, table tennis tables or ping pong tables as they are better known here in the United States, were born. Now people could enjoy a nice game of tennis right in their very home.
But as we all know, status quo is rarely every good enough. So as is usual in the evolution of man, change enhancement and innovation lead to change, and in this case change in the color that is placed on ping pong tables. Now you can find blue, red and just about any color that you would like on a ping pong table. But as you might imagine this creates a whole new set of concerns, the main one being ball viability...a topic for another day.
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