Tag: Table Tennis

by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

Video Broadcast on December 21, 2020

Game

• Players
  Singles
  Doubles
  
• Styles
  Hand shake
  Pen Grip
• Points
  21 points (early period) : Best of 5 games (typical)
  11 points (later period) : Best of 7 games
  
• Tournaments
  World Championship
  Olympics
  Asian Games
  SEAP / SEA Games
  National
  Inter-Institute
  RIT
  
• Miscellaneous
  Also known as “Ping Pong”
  Ping Pong Diplomacy (credited to Henry Kissinger)
  Pong (Early Computer Game)
  Ping Pong Tables (available at Recreation Center and many homes)
  Other RIT selection : Tin Myint (M69, GBNF, 4th Year Luyechun), Nyunt Tin (M70)

RIT Table Tennis team

which won the Inter-Institute Championship

Team Coach

Saya Mao Toon Siong (M62)

• Represented Burma in International Competitions
  (SEAP, Asian Games and World Championship)
• Retired Burma National Coach

Players

• U Maung Maung – C67
  (aka Chin Kaung Hook – extremely good in Chess)
  

• U Win Myint – E67 (aka Hin Lok Kung)
  Retired engineer, San Francisco Bay Area
  
• Stan Liou – M67
  Former Chair, Board of Directors, NorCal RITAA
  
• U Myat Lwin – Ch67 (GBNF)