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@Phillypong
TT has been the most popular sport in China, without the need to change. It is not due to the sport itself that not many people are interested in it. I agree with you that there should be tried to make more people interested in TT. But changing the sport is not how that is done. That tennis is more fun to watch than table tennis is totally personal experience. I can't watch a tennis match without being bored after 5 minutes. Also womens table tennis rallies are longer than mens, so the comparison between womens tennis and mens table tennis rallies isn't really fair. Besides, we've seen in the past how boring long tt rallies can be.
Maybe we should get people into our sports with compilation video's where not too much spin is involved, but excitement that is very clear for not TT players. Because you can clearly see from the X-mas vid, that alot of youtubers and news sites find it very awesome. So our sport is interesting for everybody, but we don't carry it out.
TT has been popular in China because of reasons of COST (the communist regime wants to give a large population a cheap sport that requires only limted space and equipment).
In the meantime it is basketball that is the most popular sport in China, i quote an article from USAToday :
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/beijing/basketball/2008-08-18-china-hoopla_N.htm
"The formidable Chinese Olympic team has won gold in more than a half-dozen events, from archery and diving to weightlifting and shooting. It is not likely to take gold — or even medal — in basketball. Yet there is little doubt what sport reigns supreme.
Even before Yao Ming carried his nation's flag into National Stadium at the opening ceremonies, basketball fever was surging past table tennis, badminton and volleyball as the favorite of the masses."
Being a relatively cheap sport that can be done by young to old, it is clearly due to the kind of sport itself that not many people are interested in it.
Basketball is only being played the last 20 years in China and it is already more popular than table tennis there !
Lets face the facts : without some serious changes the declination in popularity of table tennis will continue (and no Killerspin exhibition will change this evolution ;-) )