Elite Player Profiles & World Ranking

As with any sport, the players who reach the top level of the game, as professional players often do, inspire and teach the rest of us new and better techniques. We hope this section will inspire and motivate some of you to reach your full potential.

Women Rank Previous Player 1 1    LIU Shiwen 2 6    FENG Tianwei 3 4    GUO Yan 4 7    DING Ning 5 3    GUO Yue 6 9    KIM Kyung Ah 7 5    LI Xiaoxia 8 21    FUKUHARA Ai 9 11    JIANG Huajun 10 N/A    YU Mengyu 11 12    PARK Mi Young 12 N/A    FENG Yalan		Men Rank Previous Player 1 1    MA Long 2 2    WANG Hao 3 4    BOLL Timo 4 3    MA Lin 4 12    ZHANG Jike 6 5    WANG Li Qin 7 7    XU Xin 8 6    SAMSONOV Vladimir 9 11    HYUK Joo Se 10 8    MAZE Michael 11 10    MIZUTANI Jun 12 9    CHEN Qi
Rankings as of May 8, 2010. Source: ITTF

You might also want to visit the 2004 Olympics and 2000 Olympics pages.