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 4    LIU Shiwen 2 1    ZHANG Yining 3 2    GUO Yue 4 5    GUO Yan 5 3    LI Xiaoxia 6 7    FENG Tianwei 7 9    DING Ning 8 6    WANG Nan 9 8    KIM Kyung Ah 10 19    FAN Ying 11 10    JIANG Huajun 12 12    PARK Mi Young		Men Rank Previous Player 1 2    MA Long 2 1    WANG Hao 3 3    MA Lin 4 4    BOLL Timo 5 5    WANG Li Qin 6 6    SAMSONOV Vladimir 7 7    HAO Shuai 8 8    MAZE Michael 9 9    CHEN Qi 10 12    MIZUTANI Jun 11 10    HYUK Joo Se 12 12    ZHANG Jike
Rankings as of January 3, 2010. Source: ITTF

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