Table tennis was introduced to the Royal College in 1945 as a lunch-hour sport along with Badminton and in the 1960s it took the centre stage at the College due to the level of interest among students. As of today, the Royal College has produced many national champions. There were two occasions in the past where this glory was achieved by Firoz Nilam in the years 1966 and 1967 and Buddhika Walagampola in 2008 while they were schoolboys. Numerous Royalists have also gone on to represent Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth games and the South Asian Games.