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 13 13    WANG Yue Gu 15 10    FAN Ying 18 18    LIU Jia 21 14    TIE Yana 33 23    LI Jia Wei 36 29    LIN Ling 39 30    GAO Jun 46 45    LAU Sui Fei 52 35    BOROS Tamara 54 N/A    SUN Jin 297 297    LI Nan N/A 2    ZHANG Yining N/A 8    WANG Nan N/A N/A    LI Ju N/A N/A    CHEN Jing N/A N/A    YANG Ying N/A N/A    RYU Ji Hye N/A N/A    STEFF Mihaela N/A N/A    GOTSCH Qianhong N/A N/A    KOYAMA Chire N/A N/A    JING Jun Hong N/A N/A    NIU Jianfeng N/A N/A    KIM Hyon Hui N/A N/A    NI Xia Lian		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 13 14    OH Sang Eun 14 7    HAO Shuai 16 16    SCHLAGER Werner 17 19    RYU Seung Min 18 20    CHUAN Chih-Yuan 21 24    CHEN Weixing 23 18    KREANGA Kalinikos 26 28    GAO Ning 28 21    LI Ching 36 26    PRIMORAC Zoran 39 22    PERSSON Jorgen 59 55    SAIVE Jean-Michel 66 51    CHIANG Peng-Lung 73 69    ROSSKOPF Jorg N/A N/A    WALDNER Jan Ove N/A N/A    KONG Linghui N/A N/A    LIU Guoliang N/A N/A    LIU Guozheng N/A N/A    KIM Taek Soo N/A N/A    KARLSSON Peter
Rankings as of May 8, 2010. Source: ITTF

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