Is any non-Chinese player out there a potential WR #1?

Tricon7 · May 11, 2012

Are there any promising non-Chinese players out there who have the potential for becoming WR #1 at some point? What about the Japanese player Koki Niwa who recently beat Ma Long?

Can any player in our time do it?

Steven · May 11, 2012

Koki Niwa might have a chance but it's too early. He might not even reach the top 10. I can't think of any other player to be honest.

WiWa · May 11, 2012

Koki can develop to be a #1 for sure. For the rest, Dima is relatively young I think, he might do good in the future. Also Kim Min Seok can be pretty good I think. But in normal circumstances Ma Long and Zhang Jike will compete for the #1 spot for the coming decade, with Xu Xin joining in in a year or two.

YosuaYosan · May 12, 2012

How about Wong Ho Hin

and some Indonesian players in a few decades

cmetsbeltran15 · May 12, 2012

koki niwa needs to get alottttttt bigger

peter · May 12, 2012

oh that's a toughie. You are looking at a nation which devote lots and lots of resources to make ping pong the National Sport

I believe the right question should be, which nation is most likely to nurture the next world class player ? by sheer player volumes, right environment and all that mental/physical conditions..

pccisme · May 12, 2012

Hard , very hard i mean.

judah000 · May 12, 2012

To be honest, at this point of time no one can stand against the Chinese players. But when talking about the potential Koki Niwa has it.

ttmedari · May 12, 2012

YosuaYosan said:
How about Wong Ho Hin

and some Indonesian players in a few decades

with nowadays system in PTMSI, it still hard to realize even to reach the big 100..

but we have some chances in badminton

YosuaYosan · May 12, 2012

ttmedari said:
with nowadays system in PTMSI, it still hard to realize even to reach the big 100..

but we have some chances in badminton

That's why I said in a few decades, fellow warrior.
If our generation couldn't reach the top, we must hoist the generation below us.
If Anton Suseno has reached at least WR 128, there is little to no doubt that with a good human resource management, the generation below us could reach world number one.

We need people INside to change the rather corrupt system here in our nation.
That's what I will do (hopefully not only me).
I have a great dream for our table tennis here in Indonesia, brother.
I hope you too have the same.

chughtai · May 12, 2012

i dont see nyone troubling the chinese in the near future

kevin septian · May 12, 2012

I hope that will become true. At last we can reach top20. But to do that we need PTMSI to work hard and goverment to help us to create the new table tennis player in Indonesia....

say_lapata_plz · May 13, 2012

None in near future...

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Anders · May 13, 2012

Sweden, but they have to get the right player to play table tennis. If a new Waldner, Apple or Persson kiddo starts to play TT, Sweden has the coaches and the knowledge to make him the best.

But ofc, it is hard to tell. Very hard

jmillsy2 · May 13, 2012

very hard to tell, but perhaps koki? he needs to train v,v hard tho to regularly beat chinese but its possible!!!
on the female side the young japanese look good as always like mima ito

clumsy · May 13, 2012

i dont think so bcuz out of all the coutries in the world, china trains the hardest and the most.

Matt Hetherington · May 13, 2012

In our time? for sure, that's like at least 20 years. I think of course there will be a non-chinese world number 1 in that time! Perhaps from South Korea, Japan or Germany, they seem to be the next tier down.

shaolinTT · May 14, 2012

Yes. Let's wait patiently for Fred to grow up.

UpSideDownCarl · May 14, 2012

Don't forget, Timo Boll was Ranked #1 player in the world from January 2011-March 2011. And for 5 months before that, and 5 months after that, his world ranking was #2.

Mennovanos · May 14, 2012

Koki, but he needs time. And than maybe he will get into the top10.

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