Champion Sports PN103 0.5 Inch Table Tennis Net & Post, Price/set

I bought this ping pong net for a basic, no frills ping pong table, at a summer house. In other words, the table gets abused, and we go through a lot of nets. This is a basic no frills net. It doesn't even seem to have strings through the casing top or bottom to adjust the tension. Just a plastic top and bottom. I don't expect it to last. But a plus to this net is that the C-clamp part of the simple metal clamp is deep enough that it goes around the edge of my particular table, which has a pretty deep apron. I have had limited success finding a deep enough clamp in the past. What I don't understand is why the net is several inches longer than the distance between the clamps, when they are as far out as they go. Instead of stringing the net across from clamp to clamp across the table. I have to wrap it around the clamps to use up several extra inches of length. Can anyone reading this who knpws more about ping pong tables than I do tell me whether this is normal? I was expecting to stretch it across more like a badminton net, with the strings going through the holes. Am I doing something wrong?

This net is just what I was looking for. It replaces one just like it that our family had for many years. It is a good quality net and I like the ability to adjust the tautness of the net.