Study On Men’s Table Tennis Technical Characteristics In The30th Olympic Games

Based on an observation of the recorded videos of the first8competitors in the30thOlympic Games, this thesis made statistics on ball service, return of ball service, the third,fourth and fifth strokes, the athlete’s ball service area and spinning, proportions of use offorehand and backhand confronting the coming balls from different areas, proportions ofuse of techniques, area of returning balls, and techniques used for gaining and losingscores and areas. And this thesis conducted contrast combined with the analysis made byspecialists and scholars for the men’s table tennis technical characteristics in the previousinternational competitions. According to the law of table tennis development and with autilization of logical analysis method, induction, summary, contrast and analysis wereconducted. From all the above nowadays men’s table tennis technical characteristics weresummarized, existing technical limitations were found, and the development trend in thefuture were explored. By means of study and analysis the following conclusions weredrawn:1. With a main purpose of depriving the opponent’s potential high quality offensiveplay during the competitor’s ball service and with auxiliary reverse spinning, thecompetitor mainly adopted forehand ball service, which was suitable for him or her toconduct the third stroke back over-arm service. In aspect of stance, traditional forehandstance remained the preference, whereas compared with before the stance in the middlewas greatly enhanced, and backhand stance was rarely seen. In aspect of spinning, sideback spin was the preference for purpose of reducing potential opportunity of attack fromthe opponent; coordinated with strong absolute back spin, side spin, side top spin andnon-spinning service which may cause poor quality ball reception of the opponent, thecompetitor can create an opportunity for him or herself. Changes of backhand servicespinning were rare. The falling points were mainly forehand position of the opponentauxiliary by the middle way, and backhand stances were seldom. The gained and lostscores for ball service, which were7.28%, accounted for small proportion in total scores;the main area for gaining scores was the net zone, forehand stance of the opponent.2. In return of service usage rate of backhand was comparatively high, and short ballathletes in forehand stance always received the ball with backhand for the most time. Attack after reception of ball was principally adopted. But transitional technique was themostly favored for forehand, attacks were rare, and in transitional techniques short swingwas the preference. Top hands accounted for the most part in backhand head-start,pick-to-twist was mostly used and it accounted for a large proportion seen in total returnof service. In total return of ball service long ball to the opponent’s backhand stance wasmostly seen, and next there were middle way long ball and middle way net zone short ball.Among these, for backhand return of service to the opponent’s backhand stance, use oflong ball was the most; the falling point of forehand return of service was comparativelyscattered, while middle way net zone short ball was mostly observed. The gained and lostscores for return of ball service basically remained balanced, which accounted for18.92%of the total gained and lost scores. Forehand and backhand pull of ball and backhand pickof ball were mostly used for the main means of gaining scores, but rate of lost scores washigher than that of gained scores in backhand pick of ball. Transitional technique had lowrate of gaining scores. The gained scores mainly came from the two long court areas offorehand and backhand, but gained scores were comparatively more in backhand stancearea.3. In the third stroke (attack after service), the usage rate of forehand was a bit higherthan that of backhand, and attack technique was mostly used and it accounted for73.74%,among which technique of pull of ball was the preference, pick-to-stroke was rarely seen,and in pull of ball use of backhand was a bit more. Usage of transitional technique andunconventional technique were rarely seen. Return of service was mainly in theopponent’s long court area and net zone was rare. The gained and lost scores accountedfor29.23%in total, with the gained scores higher than lost scores. Pull of ball was themain technique for gaining scores, and forehand pull of ball was the main means ofgaining scores; forehand rate of gained scores was higher than that of backhand, and therate of gained and lost scores were basically balanced. Transitional technique has smallgained scores which were only6. The areas for gaining scores were the opponent’s twolong court areas, and such areas of middle way were comparatively less.4. In the fourth stroke (attack after return of service), affected by the third stroke, theattacks in their true sense were rarely observed, which were always counter loop andcounter attack. The usage rate of total backhand was a bit higher than that of forehand, and pull of ball was the mainly adopted technique, and the rate of forehand and backhandpull of ball were basically balanced. Whereas backhand counter loop rarely appeared,which was half pull and half stroke or bouncing for the most part, and usage of defensivetechnique of backhand was also higher than that of forehand. The usage rate of defensivetechnique increased, but usage of transitional technique still remained little. The return ofservice was mostly centered in long court area, and among these the main purpose wassuppressing the opponent’s backhand so the backhand was mostly adopted. The gainedand lost scores accounted for17.86%in total, with gained scores lower than lost scores.Among these forehand pull of ball was the main means of gaining scores, and the lostscores of backhand were mostly twice than gained scores. Backhand pull of ball had morerates of lost scores in middle court area, which means that the athlete did not adapt him orherself much to the changes of rhythm. Forehand sideway stance had higher rate ofsuccess, and forehand for gaining scores was centered on the opponent’s forehand andbackhand areas and had more gained scores in the opponent’s forehand stance.5. In the fifth stroke, the usage rate of forehand and backhand were basicallybalanced, and in use of techniques forehand and backhand pull of ball were thepreferences, supplemented by defense, and forehand and backhand were basically equal.In the area of return of ball the practice of suppressing the opponent’s backhand was stillthe preference. The rate of gained and lost scores accounted for12.75%in total, withgained scores higher than lost ones. Forehand pull of ball was the main means of gainingscores, and the areas for gaining scores were relatively the same with those of the fourtharea. While the rate of lost scores for backhand was still higher than rate of gained scores.6. After the fourth and fifth strokes, the gained and lost scores accounted for arelatively higher proportion, which served as an explanation that the main point of thecompetition transferred from the first3strokes to the later ones; and after the fifth strokebackhand stalement and forehand counter attack of each party were mainly observed, withgained and lost scores accounting for14.14%in total.