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Authors: PAULA APOSTU.
In the beginning table tennis spread year after year due to people recorded by history, but above all due to numerous practitioners who have remained unknown. Owing to Edward Shires, in the early years of the 20th century table tennis reached the Far East being practised in Hong Kong, China, Japan and Korea (4). In the last years of the 19th century the game had spread in Central European countries. The following years saw a period of great development in the Austrian - Hungarian Empire when it also reached towns in Transylvania, Banat and Crisana. The early history of table tennis in our country closely mirrored that of many other sports. Young Romanian, Hungarian, Saxon, Jewish people who were studying in great university cities like Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Prague and others started practising table tennis and taking part in competitions (Pásztai s. a., 2011). When they came back, in their luggage, together with the university degree they had bats and celluloid balls. There is evidence and oral tradition has it that in the years before the First World War table tennis was introduced in places from Transylvania, Banat and Crisana by young people who had studied abroad, but it was not very popular (Fehér and Hönig, 1937).
Key words: history of sport, table tennis, Oradea
