Table Tennis Legends
The greatest players in the fastest racket sport on earth.
The All-Time Greatest Table Tennis Players
Ranked by career honours, records and our FSP GOAT Score.
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All Table Tennis Athletes
Browse 37 of the greatest table tennis players of all time.
Japanese
Ai Fukuhara
Professional Table Tennis Player
Japan's most beloved table tennis player and the face who transformed the sport's popularity in Japa…
French
Alexis Lebrun
Professional Table Tennis Player
French table tennis star and older brother of Felix Lebrun whose aggressive playing style and consis…
Chinese
Chen Meng
Table Tennis Player
Two-time Olympic champion and world number one — Chen Meng's powerful forehand and consistency have …
Taiwanese
Cheng I-ching
Professional Table Tennis Player
Taiwanese table tennis champion whose attacking style, multiple World Championship medals and consis…
Chinese
Deng Yaping
Table Tennis Player
The most dominant female table tennis player in history — four Olympic gold medals.…
German
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Table Tennis Player
Germany's most decorated table tennis player of the modern era — Olympic bronze medallist twice, Eur…
Chinese
Ding Ning
Professional Table Tennis Player
The finest table tennis player of the 2010s — Olympic gold medallist, six-time World Champion and th…
Romanian
Elizabeta Samara
Professional Table Tennis Player
Romania's greatest table tennis player and Europe's most consistent female player of the 2010s — mul…
Chinese
Fan Zhendong
Table Tennis Player
Olympic champion at Paris 2024 and already the youngest world number one in modern table tennis hist…
French
Felix Lebrun
Professional Table Tennis Player
French teenage table tennis sensation whose explosive attacking style and immediate impact at the hi…
Japanese
Hina Hayata
Professional Table Tennis Player
Japanese table tennis champion and doubles specialist whose exceptional partnership skills, consiste…
Brazilian
Hugo Calderano
Table Tennis Player
South America's greatest table tennis player — world number three and the highest-ranked player from…
Swedish
Jan-Ove Waldner
Table Tennis Player
The Mozart of Table Tennis — the greatest non-Chinese player in the sport's history.…
South Korean
Jeon Ji-hee
Table Tennis Player
South Korea's most decorated modern female table tennis player — Olympic mixed doubles bronze medall…
Japanese
Kasumi Ishikawa
Professional Table Tennis Player
Japanese table tennis legend and captain whose consistent world-class performances across more than …
Chinese
Liang Jingkun
Professional Table Tennis Player
Chinese table tennis champion whose powerful forehand, exceptional looping technique and consistent …
Chinese
Lin Gaoyuan
Professional Table Tennis Player
Chinese table tennis champion whose aggressive forehand, explosive attacking style and multiple Worl…
Chinese
Liu Guoliang
Table Tennis Player/Coach
The only player in history to win every major title in a single year — and the coach who then led Ch…
Austrian
Liu Jia
Professional Table Tennis Player
Austria's most successful table tennis player, born in China — multiple European Championship titles…
Chinese
Liu Shiwen
Professional Table Tennis Player
China's most consistent performer across three decades — World Champion, five-time World Cup winner …
Chinese
Ma Lin
Table Tennis Player
Olympic champion and World Champion — Ma Lin's deceptive serving and extraordinary touch made him on…
Chinese
Ma Long
Table Tennis Player
The Dragon — the consensus pick as the greatest table tennis player in history, with three Olympic g…
Japanese
Mima Ito
Professional Table Tennis Player
Japan's greatest table tennis player of the modern era — Olympic mixed doubles gold medallist at Tok…
Japanese
Miu Hirano
Professional Table Tennis Player
Japanese table tennis champion whose exceptional speed, outstanding forehand and multiple world juni…
German
Patrick Franziska
Professional Table Tennis Player
German table tennis champion whose reliable performances, powerful forehand and consistent world ran…
Nigerian
Quadri Aruna
Professional Table Tennis Player
Nigerian table tennis champion and the highest-ranked African player in the sport's history, whose c…
South Korean
Shin Yubin
Professional Table Tennis Player
South Korean table tennis champion whose aggressive forehand, consistent international performances …
Chinese
Sun Yingsha
Professional Table Tennis Player
The defining player of the current era in women's table tennis — Olympic gold medallist and the play…
German
Timo Boll
Table Tennis Player
The most successful European table tennis player of the 21st century — world number one, multiple Eu…
Japanese
Tomokazu Harimoto
Table Tennis Player
The youngest World Tour winner in table tennis history at 14 — Japanese prodigy who became world num…
Swedish
Truls Möregårdh
Professional Table Tennis Player
Swedish table tennis champion whose aggressive play, exceptional consistency and ability to compete …
Chinese
Wang Chuqin
Professional Table Tennis Player
Chinese table tennis prodigy whose devastating attacks, exceptional speed and back-to-back World Cup…
Chinese
Wang Liqin
Table Tennis Player
Three World Championship titles and Olympic gold — Wang Liqin's power game redefined attacking play …
Chinese
Wang Nan
Table Tennis Player
Olympic champion at Sydney 2000 and the most successful female table tennis player of the early 2000…
Chinese
Xu Xin
Table Tennis Player
The most gifted left-handed table tennis player of the modern era — World Championship gold medallis…
Chinese
Zhang Jike
Table Tennis Player
The fastest to complete the Career Grand Slam — World champion, Olympic champion, World Cup champion…
Chinese
Zhang Yining
Professional Table Tennis Player
The most dominant table tennis player of the 2000s — two consecutive Olympic gold medals, four World…
Table Tennis Nations
Chinese
17
athletes
Japanese
6
athletes
German
3
athletes
French
2
athletes
Swedish
2
athletes
South Korean
2
athletes
Taiwanese
1
athletes
Romanian
1
athletes