In table tennis or Ping pong, the shakehand grip is so-named because one grips the racket similarly to the way one performs a handshake. The grip is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "tennis grip" or a "Western grip." The shakehand grip is popular among players originating in Western nations, although, nowadays there are a lot of Asian players using that grip. In fact, most of the players are shakehand.
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