Latest Hotspot and Evolution about Domestic and Foreign Study on Table Tennis

The study selected the literature about table tennis from CNKI and Web of Science, using the software Citespace Ⅲ, to conducted the visualized analysis of 676 domestic table tennis papers published from 1992 to 2016 and 238 foreign papers from 2006 to 2016.The results show that the domestic evolution of research goes through 3 stages, that is, exploration, rapid development, and stable and mature stage.The cluster of foreign authors and institution cooperation are more remarkable than domestic ones.While the Chinese researchers are more attentive of the athletes' competition psychological state, the table tennis culture and its communication, the management and operation of table tennis super league, the table tennis philosophy and the game theory of tactical behaviors, etc., the foreign researchers focus more on the dynamic characteristics of ball-hitting for table tennis players, the characteristics of energy metabolism and psychological changes in the process of competitions etc.The future research for table tennis study should be on deeper topics, the new research groups, the standardized research methods and the expanded research perspectives, which is of great significance to promote the internationalized development of table tennis study.