Who invented table tennis?

== == The earliest known origins of Table Tennis is that, in the 1880s, British soldiers in India and South Africa played a game using a table, a row of books placed in the middle of the table for the net, a cigar box lid for the paddle, and a rounded cork from a champagne/wine bottle for the ball. Click on the links found under the Related Links heading below to read about how the game adapted from its origins.