Accessories

Table tennis accessories — everything that keeps a racket and a table working, rather than what makes them.

If you glue your own rubbers, two of these are consumables and not one-off purchases. Rubber glue is used every time a sheet is changed, and edge tape protects the exposed rim of the blade and the edge of the rubber from chipping — a chipped blade edge cannot be repaired, which makes tape the cheapest insurance here. Keep both on hand before you need them.

The rest is upkeep and protection. Cleaner restores grip a topsheet loses to dust between sessions, and a protective film slows the surface ageing while the racket is put away. A case matters more than it looks: an unprotected blade edge chips in a bag. Bags carry the rest of the kit.

For the table and the hall, there are nets and posts, table covers, table spare parts, surround barriers for marking out a court, and robot spare parts, so equipment gets repaired rather than replaced.