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Thought would be interesting to post a list of all the known nicknames of professional TT players. I'll start...

Ma Long: The captain dragon, The dictator

Xu Xin: The cloudwalker, entertainer, showman

Zhang Jike: Tibetan Mastiff

Liang Jingkun: The terminator

Lin Gaoyuan: The dark knight

Fan Zhendong: The warlord, beast

Dmitrij Ovtcharov: The machine

Koki Niwa: Chop block artist

Timo Boll: The Legend

Jan Ove Waldner: The Mozart of table tennis

Vladimir Samsonov: The Wall

Jun Mizutani: The king of defence

Simon Gauzy: The magician

Ma Lin: Penhold God

Feel free to add anymore or any new ones you can think of.
 
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Thought would be interesting to post a list of all the known nicknames of professional TT players. I'll start...

Ma Long: The captain dragon, The dictator

Xu Xin: The cloudwalker, entertainer, showman

Zhang Jike: Tibetan Mastiff

Liang Jingkun: The terminator

Lin Gaoyuan: The dark knight

Fan Zhendong: The warlord, beast

Dmitrij Ovtcharov: The machine

Koki Niwa: Chop block artist

Timo Boll: The Legend

Jan Ove Waldner: The Mozart of table tennis

Vladimir Samsonov: The Wall

Jun Mizutani: The king of defence

Simon Gauzy: The magician

Ma Lin: Penhold God

Feel free to add anymore or any new ones you can think of.
Actually Liang Jingkun is nicknamed "the fattie".

Ma Lin was nicknamed "maestro", "defense killer" or simply "the genius".

Most of your nicknames are youtube tribute titles or have been invented by Adam Bobrow :D

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In half of the names on your list, I've never heard the players referred to as such.
 
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As I said in the title, post any nicknames that are either yours or the more commonly ones or just make new ones, there's no rule to it in this thread.

Yes some nicknames were taken off youtube videos but I think they are pretty fitting.

I think I heard Liang Jingkun being referred as a terminator, because not only he slaughtered all the players in the Chinese mock up Olympics 2020 but also in the Chinese National Championships 2018, and he does have a face and has a playing style in a way that of a terminator imo. I try not to use belittling nicknames which "the fattie" can be construed as.

Wasn't Timo Boll known at the time for like one of the very few players that was a threat to the Chinese players? What nickname could be attributed to him?
 
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Nicknames from Chinese fans:
(directly translated from Chinese)

ML: 龙队 captain dragon
FZD: 小胖 little chubby
XX: 大蟒 big python
ZJK: 藏獒 Tibetan mastiff
WCQ: 大头 big head
LJK: 大胖 big chubby
LGY: 林妹妹 little sister Lin
Ma Lin: 马大厨big cook Ma
WLQ: 大力 big power
CQ: 杀神god of killing

DN: 宁队captain Ning
ZYL: 小猪 little pig
LSW: 小枣little jujube
CM: 大梦big dream
SYS: 莎莎,鲨鱼,小魔王 Sha Sha, shark, little devil
WMY: 鳗鱼 conger
GYT: 小黑 little black
LXX: 大锤big hammer
ZYN: 大魔王big devil

Harimoto Tomokazu: 摩托 motorcycle
Koki Niwa: 尼哇Niwa
Maharu Yoshimura: 魔球 magic ball
Jun Mizutani: 水鸟shorebird (his Japanese name means a kind of bird in Chinese)
Fukuhara Ai: 爱酱,瓷娃娃 Ai-Chan, porcelain doll
Jeung Youngsik: 大眼 big eye
Lee Sangsu: 室友 roommate
Jang Woojin: 张无忌Zhang Wuji (the main character of a Novel written by Louis Cha Leung-yung)
Wong Chun Ting: 大圣the Monkey King
LYJ: 小小林 little little Lin
Timo Boll: 波叔 uncle Boll
Samsonov: 老萨 old Sa (“old” plus name not only means age, but also respect in Chinese)
Waldner: 老瓦old Wa


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Probably because of his lack of forehand power and weak mental strength at his early time.

Because he was a step below the "big brothers" (ZJK, ML, XX) of the team during his rise, small and skinny stature, weak but plays fast and close like girls usually do, and is somewhat feminine in appearance.
 
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