桌球運動項目始終是國際綜合賽會的主軸運動種類，在講求國際競賽成績的現況中，我國桌球代表隊所肩負的社會壓力高過其他的競技項目。我國應正視限制桌球成績提升的瓶頸，並勇於突破，方能提升我國桌球競賽的水準與實力。本文針對桌球運動之現今規則變革之影響做一探討，並指出未來桌球運動之技術、體能、心理及戰術各方面訓練及因應之方向，據此提出桌球年度訓練計畫，並強調結合運動科學支援的重要性，對提升我國桌球競技水準有助益和針對2008年北京奧運我國應如何在近、中、長程目標上去突破，提出具體可行之建議。

Table Tennis has always been one of the main events at multi-sport international athletic events. Taiwan's National Table Tennis Team bears greater pressure from the society than those of any other sports. Taiwan should find ways to break through our bottleneck of limited success in Table Tennis games by going about raising the standard of Table Tennis. This article looks into the influence from its rule chang of table tennis. It also points out the training trends and application of skills, fitness conditioning, mentality, and game strategies in table tennis. Then it goes on to propose the annual training plan for Table Tennis, emphasizing the importance of integrated sports science support in helping to elevate the standard of our competitive Table Tennis athletic and proposes several feasible and valuable tactics to meet short, mid and long term goals laid out for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.