I'm especially referring to playing the game rather than following it.
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Sweden, guess it’s something everyone has played, and quite a few families have in their basement. There are often tables in corridors at schools or even outside ones. We have had a few really good players, and recently did well in Olympics, which probably helps get new people interested.
I’d say quite popular, especially when the new young gun, Truls Möregårdh, performed wonders in the most recent olympics. Created a huge influx of younger folks seeking out their local table tennis club to join.
Also every school or youth center have a table to play during recess, so it’s quite ingrained in our youths.
Even bars have started to have tables.
Our greatest table tennis player throughout history was so good that the Chinese gave him the nickname “The Evergreen Tree”.
Table tennis is youth clubs stuff.. you’ll normally find it in bomb shelters, cellars etc. Sure there are clubs that play more seriously… and some comedians even started their own series here.. Bordtennis-kameratene (the table-tennis-buddies). Though more associate with sweden..
Decently popular, not a TOP TOP sport than many people seek out professionally. But it’s well liked.
I played a lot at school/youth levels, I looked at getting back into it as an adult, but nowhere in my city has a tables for hire or a local club though.
I think it’s one of those things that nearly everyone has played at some point while growing up though.
I had it at my high school gym, but don’t know if I ever played it outside of there nor have I ever seen a tournament being broadcasted.
Played it for years but it was and still is not very popular over here.
Honestly I picked it up in my youth because it was one of the few clubs around in my area. Its fun but so are many other sports. Most other sports are more rewarding in the sense of having team mates, doing more for your overall fitness, have a professional competition with decent money in it etc.
If I had to pick again, I would pick a team sport like basketball or whatever.
Not very popular. A table is something you’d maybe find in some place here and there (schools, break rooms at work), but rarely at home. That being said, it’s not completely non existent, there’s enough people competing on a local level, it’s available enough if you seek it out.
As an actual sport, not really common.
As a piece of furniture left somewhere for people to use, very common.
Quite popular. Like everybody has played it though tables are mostly found in schools.
Compared to China, Korea or Japan? Probably not too popular.
But in Europe, Germany is probably the #1 country when it comes to table tennis.
In my experience it’s a fairly popular “sport” for children but not adults. I say sport in quotation marks because I don’t think many people take it very seriously. It’s more like a game for kids. Many people have a table at home (in the garage for example) but usually only the children play and not very often.
I have never seen the sport on TV or heard anyone discussing the results.
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Sweden, guess it’s something everyone has played, and quite a few families have in their basement. There are often tables in corridors at schools or even outside ones. We have had a few really good players, and recently did well in Olympics, which probably helps get new people interested.
I’d say quite popular, especially when the new young gun, Truls Möregårdh, performed wonders in the most recent olympics. Created a huge influx of younger folks seeking out their local table tennis club to join.
Also every school or youth center have a table to play during recess, so it’s quite ingrained in our youths.
Even bars have started to have tables.
Our greatest table tennis player throughout history was so good that the Chinese gave him the nickname “The Evergreen Tree”.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ove_Waldner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Ove_Waldner)
Table tennis is youth clubs stuff.. you’ll normally find it in bomb shelters, cellars etc. Sure there are clubs that play more seriously… and some comedians even started their own series here.. Bordtennis-kameratene (the table-tennis-buddies). Though more associate with sweden..
Decently popular, not a TOP TOP sport than many people seek out professionally. But it’s well liked.
I played a lot at school/youth levels, I looked at getting back into it as an adult, but nowhere in my city has a tables for hire or a local club though.
I think it’s one of those things that nearly everyone has played at some point while growing up though.
I had it at my high school gym, but don’t know if I ever played it outside of there nor have I ever seen a tournament being broadcasted.
Played it for years but it was and still is not very popular over here.
Honestly I picked it up in my youth because it was one of the few clubs around in my area. Its fun but so are many other sports. Most other sports are more rewarding in the sense of having team mates, doing more for your overall fitness, have a professional competition with decent money in it etc.
If I had to pick again, I would pick a team sport like basketball or whatever.
Not very popular. A table is something you’d maybe find in some place here and there (schools, break rooms at work), but rarely at home. That being said, it’s not completely non existent, there’s enough people competing on a local level, it’s available enough if you seek it out.
As an actual sport, not really common.
As a piece of furniture left somewhere for people to use, very common.
Quite popular. Like everybody has played it though tables are mostly found in schools.
Compared to China, Korea or Japan? Probably not too popular.
But in Europe, Germany is probably the #1 country when it comes to table tennis.
In my experience it’s a fairly popular “sport” for children but not adults. I say sport in quotation marks because I don’t think many people take it very seriously. It’s more like a game for kids. Many people have a table at home (in the garage for example) but usually only the children play and not very often.
I have never seen the sport on TV or heard anyone discussing the results.