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Sub added for my "idol" Ishikawa.

Apparently taken from the Wiki for ML. These stats are likely pulled from Ratingscentral that include CTTSL that hardly any players care.

Woah, it's been almost 2 years since... http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=79816&PID=989928&title=is-waldner-the-greatest-table-tennis-player-ever#989928

Well, there's a similar GOAT thread on Tieba. There is a poor guy or gal by the handle "I mean what I said" who basically got ganged up by the ML fanboys or fangirls. To give you an idea of his stance... https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6119434132 80% of his No. 1 record is accentuated by peers...

http://sports.sina.com.cn/others/pingpang/2019-04-11/doc-ihvhiewr4727577.shtml "If you were to choose 4 players to form your dream team from the best player you have encountered in your table tennis career, who would they be?" asked Jens Fellke after the WTTC 1997. Waldner’s answer is: Guo...

https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/stories/news/detail/exclusive-ma-long-table-tennis-world-championships-injury-return/

Gold content. Folks in China always talk about that when comparing the weight of titles. The gold content of the last 3 WTTC titles is among the lowest in recent history. ML took out FB to win the title in 2015, FZD in 2017, and Falck in 2019. Ahem... ZJK is the last one to take the title...

The percentage shows how weak the field has been since WLQ/MLin/WH retired and ZJK finally busted his lower back.

Deeper field of competitors? Hmm, how about we look up some stats? Let's count how many non-Chinese World Champs and World Cup holders there have been since the 90s? Other than Waldner, there are Persson(WTTC '91/WC '91), Gatien(WTTC '93/WC '94), Primorac(WC '93 & '97), Rosskopf(WC '98), and...

ROFL during the part about Freitas being "Harimoto's natural enemy"...

Before WTTC 1999, Waldner was 3-1 up against KLH. Waldner won in that WTTC. Right before the Athens Olympics singles final, their record was 50-50, so KLH's up with that final win. Against LGL, Waldner lost 6 in a row b/w 1992 and 1999, before figuring him out and won the next 3. There are...

Too young.

One big caution for the top players is the larger point gap. For WTP/WT, SF and QF are where the curve breaks away. Whoever reaches the SF and beyond will enjoy a small but substantial advantage down the road. +--------+-------+-------+ | WTP/WT | 2019 | 2018 | +--------+-------+-------+ |...

Not too worried there. All players will see similar deductions as their points from 2018 expire and get replaced by those from the new point-table in 2019.

Because of "best 8" limit. With the new ranking, there's a fixed, hence predictable, amount of points available for players to accrue. Take Qatar Open for example, Ito, due to her high seeding, was set to finish QF(which she did) at a minimum. Because of the Platinum tier, her QF finish...

Too inaccurate. He fares well against those from the same era, especially during his prime. CNT players were afraid of him and expected to lose to him in the singles and team from '91 to '95. Cai Zhenhua actually published an article in the 90s bashing their own players for idolizing Waldner...

Too young. Victor Barna(WTTC held annually, 4 in a row, 5 overall in '30, '32, '33, '34, '35) and Zhuang Zedong(WTTC held biannually, 3 in a row in '61, '63, '65).