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Table tennis table dimensions, net height and playing space requirements from the ITTF Statutes, with every figure labeled as a rule or a derivation.

Governing body

An ITTF table tennis table is 2.74 m (9 ft) long, 1.525 m (5 ft) wide, and its playing surface stands 76 cm (2 ft 6 in) above the floor. It is the smallest surface this atlas measures. The net is 15.25 cm (6 in) high along its whole length, with no lower height at the center the way a tennis net has, and its posts stand 15.25 cm outside each side line. What most guides leave out is the room around the table: the ITTF’s Regulations for International Competitions set a minimum playing space of 14 m long, 7 m wide and 5 m high for sanctioned competition. That is roughly five times the table’s own length. The figures on this page come from the ITTF Statutes, each labeled as a rule or as something this page had to derive from one.

Perspective diagram of a regulation table tennis table, 2.74 by 1.525 meters and 76 centimeters high, with its net and painted lines, standing inside the ITTF minimum playing space of 14 by 7 by 5 meters, shown as a bounding volume around the table.
Table tennis table and its ITTF minimum playing space, drawn to scale. Original diagram by Playfield Atlas.

Dimensions and layouts

ITTF Rule 2.1.1 fixes the table at 2.74 m long and 1.525 m wide, its playing surface lying in a horizontal plane 76 cm above the floor. Side lines and end lines are painted 2 cm wide along the table’s outer edges, and in doubles a 3 mm center line splits each half of the table into two service courts, counted as part of the right-hand court. None of this changes by level of play: the table a club buys is the same table the ITTF uses for a World Championship.

The playing space is a separate rule, in a separate chapter. Rule 3.2.3.1 sets a minimum cuboid of 14 m by 7 m by 5 m high around the table for ITTF-sanctioned competition, reduced to 8 m by 6 m for wheelchair events and 10 m by 5 m for Masters events. The rule states no reduced height for either. The full table, with the net’s dimensions and the exact wording of each rule, is in the table tennis table dimensions, markings and layout guide.

Equipment

The net assembly is the table’s one piece of standing equipment: a net 15.25 cm high, suspended from posts of the same height, extending 15.25 cm beyond each side line for a post-to-post length of 1.83 m. The ITTF Statutes do not print that figure directly; it follows from the table width and the post offset. A regulation ball is 40 mm across and weighs 2.7 g. The playing surface itself must yield a bounce of about 23 cm when the ball is dropped on it from 30 cm, which is as much a property of the table as of the ball.

Overhead plan

The same surface seen from straight above, drawn to scale. Nothing is foreshortened here, so every figure can be read off the drawing the way a tape measure would take it.

Overhead plan of a table tennis table drawn to scale inside the ITTF minimum playing space, showing the 2.74 by 1.525 meter table, the net line, and the clearance beyond the table at each end and side within the 14 by 7 meter space.
The same table from directly above, inside its playing space. Every figure is the one ITTF Rules 2.1 and 3.2.3 publish.

Detail sheet

A rule book fixes more than the shape of the surface, and the rest of it is too small to draw at court scale: a mark a few centimeters long, a post standing a meter off the sideline, the clearance around the whole thing. Each one here has its own frame and its own scale.

Detail sheet for table tennis: the net 15.25 centimeters above the surface and level throughout, its posts 15.25 centimeters outside each side line, the 2 centimeter side and end lines against the 3 millimeter doubles center line, the table 76 centimeters off the floor on its legs, and the minimum playing space for standard, Masters and wheelchair events.
The net, the lines and the table's own height, at a scale the table drawing is too small to carry. Original diagram by Playfield Atlas.

Official sources

One governing body is cited on this page. The International Table Tennis Federation publishes its Laws of Table Tennis and its Regulations for International Competitions together, inside the ITTF Statutes.

These figures were checked against that document on 10 September 2026. How each one is dated and marked as a rule or a derivation is set out on the methodology page. If a number here looks wrong, report it through corrections.

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