Ping pong. That’s what most of us call it. The game in your buddy’s basement, right next to the dart board and the old couch nobody sits on. And yet somehow, this became the second biggest sport for betting operators in Q1 2025.
LSports dropped their quarterly data report, and the table tennis fixture consumption numbers jumped 27% compared to last year. That’s not a typo. Ping pong leapfrogged basketball. It passed tennis too. Only football generates more operator demand right now.
Check any of the major betting sites in tanzania or scroll through European sportsbooks. You’ll find hundreds of table tennis matches listed daily. The Setka Cup, Masters League, and three other competitions handle about 70% of all ping pong betting volume. Q1 2025 alone? Those five racked up 3.5 million orders.
$31.7 Million on Ping Pong. In One State. In One Month.
That’s what one jurisdiction reported for January 2025. More than hockey, MMA, and golf put together. Ping pong came in fourth behind the NBA, NFL, and college basketball.
Somewhere else logged $9.1 million during a single month in late 2024. Table tennis beat everything except baseball there.
But the ticket numbers really show what’s happening. Bettors placed 890,000 individual wagers on table tennis in 2023. The year before that? Just 254,000. Do the math. That’s 250% growth in twelve months.
The table tennis betting market sits around $2.47 billion in 2025 according to industry analysts. They’re projecting $5 billion by 2033 with a 9.26% compound annual growth rate.
| Metric | Q1 2025 Data |
| Global fixture consumption growth | +27% YoY |
| Major competition orders | 3.5 million |
| Mobile share of bets | 60%+ |
| Market valuation | $2.47B |
Why Bettors Can’t Get Enough of It
Here’s the thing about in-play bettors. They want action. Constant action. And ping pong never stops.
No offseason. BETER covers over 130,000 events per year through leagues like the Setka Cup. Matches start every few minutes around the clock. Doesn’t matter if it’s 3am where you are. Something’s always on.
A single game takes maybe 10 to 15 minutes. Quick. Odds update with every point scored, so live wagering opportunities pop up constantly. You could place five or six bets in an hour if you wanted. Try doing that with football.
The betting markets stay straightforward too. Standard table tennis betting options include:
- Match winner for picking the outright victor
- Set betting if you want individual set outcomes or exact scores
- Handicap markets that level the playing field between mismatched opponents
- Over/under totals on combined points across all sets
- Correct score for predicting the final set count at longer odds
No complicated same-game parlays. No obscure prop bets. You wager, the match ends in fifteen minutes, and you know if you won.
And most of this happens on phones now. Over 60% of table tennis bets come through mobile. The 1xbet app streams matches directly, so you’re watching and betting on one screen. No tab switching.
2020 Changed Everything
Remember when the NBA shut down? MLB too. Premier League went dark. Bettors who wanted live action had almost nothing.
Except table tennis. Overseas leagues kept broadcasting. Matches kept happening. People found ping pong because it was literally the only game on.
Then mainstream sports came back. But a chunk of those bettors stayed. They’d gotten used to it. The sport makes sense instantly if you’ve ever held a paddle. No learning curve like darts or snooker.
Keeping Matches Clean
BETER runs the Setka Cup and operates match integrity monitoring 24/7 at every location. Only two players and one referee can access the match area. Electronic devices aren’t allowed during play. Everything streams live.
That’s 130,000 monitored events per year. Every outcome gets recorded and verified. Operators and bettors both get access to that data.
Q1 2025 Confirms the Trend
Table tennis still holds second place for betting fixture demand heading into Q2. Basketball and tennis remain behind it in operator requests. Sportsbooks keep adding leagues and expanding their in-play options for ping pong.
Five years ago this sport barely showed up on betting platforms. Now it’s generating billions annually and millions of wagers every quarter. Wild.
