对于既喜欢乒乓球又喜欢网球的朋友来说,9月份里相当一段时间无疑都是节日——两个“中国公开赛”接踵而至,一个是乒乓球的,一个是网球的。其实,乒乓球与网球,本就是同宗同源,早在19世纪八、九十年代,英国正处于繁盛的维多利亚时代,那里的绅士淑女们需要一种既体面又运动量适宜的休闲项目,但网球(Tennis)却不能全天候作业,这在多雨的英伦可是件麻烦事,于是乒乓球(Table Tennis/直译为“桌上网球”)渐渐应运而生。 For friends who like both ping pong and tennis, there is no doubt that the festival will take place for quite some time in September - two “China Open” followed, one for table tennis and one for tennis. Actually, ping-pong and tennis are originally from the same clan. As early as the 1880s and 1890s in the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom was in the flourishing Victorian era where gentlemen and ladies needed a decent, sporty leisure program. However, tennis (Tennis) but can not work all day long, which is a troublesome thing in rainy England, so Table Tennis (literally translated as “table tennis”) came into being.