Table Tennis is the fastest ball game and a sport which is played extensively in IITK campus with players ranging from campus kids, IIT Kanpur students to professors. It is a sport of tremendous reflexes and is the fascination of almost everyone here. IIT Kanpur provides outstanding facilities as well as opportunities to learn and relish the sport.Following the inclusion of the sport in Olympics in 1988, it was soon made a part of the Inter IIT Sports Meets. Since then, with the increase in availability of the sports equipment, the sport is played with great enthusiasm across all IITs.
The New SAC has a big wooden floored TT room with 7 tables. Additionally, there is an automatic ball releasing robot for perfecting your techniques and skills. The robot releases the balls with varying speeds, provides different directions of spin to the balls to help you master the game. IIT Kanpur boasts of being the only IIT with such facilities. In addition to providing excellent facilities to the Institute Table Tennis Team, the court remains open for all who wish to enjoy the sport from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Non-marking shoes, rackets and TT balls are available for issuing against the Institute ID card. All the table tennis competitions or tournaments held during inter-college or intra-college sports events are organised in this court. In addition to the main TT room in the New SAC, each Hall of Residence at IITK has a separate room for Table Tennis with one or more good quality tables installed for easy access and availability of the game at the very doorstep.