Favourite Table Tennis Player of 2014?

TTHopeful · Dec 15, 2014

Who has been your favourite player of 2014? I see a lot of discussions about favourite player of all time. For you, who has been your best player of the year and for what reasons?

This year I have enjoyed Dimitrij Ovtcharov, I thought he was brilliant at the World Team Championships and has made a big impact on the International scene.

mahomedy13 · Dec 15, 2014

For me,its Ma Long or Jun Mizutani(cant decide which,but my choice is leaning more towards ma long)

Great consistency,and they try their best in every competition they play.

oksa · Dec 15, 2014

Quadri aruna!!!

Elegant_Player · Dec 15, 2014

Krisstian Karlsson , his bakhand is awesome .

Tony's Table Tennis · Dec 15, 2014

Mima Ito of Japan
Lots of people go for mens players or world top players.

Mima Ito achieved a lot in U18 and even seniors section, both in singles and doubles, especially this year.
Just like the previous Japanese all stars, she is barely a teenager and competing with adults already.

To achieve so much at such a young age in 1 year, is defiantly worth more than top Ma Longs or Dimas of the world. Those top players get enough phrases already too lol

jedimasterplk · Dec 15, 2014

Aruna Quadri - meteoric rise in rankings, beat a string of vastly higher ranked players this year - and from what I have heard - even the chinese (ZJK) and chinese coaches were impressed with his play.

Dan · Dec 15, 2014

Aruna Quadri is my choice. I feel he has shown to many players outside the top 50 that's it's possible to push and take on the worlds best. The World Cup was such an excellent and exciting tournament and Aruna put on a great show making the tournament very interesting.

I also like Fan Zhendong this year and would like to see him push to the number 1 spot soon.

I am already looking forward to the 2015 world championships, this is going to be one incredible tournament to watch!

Der_Echte · Dec 15, 2014

Female side my 2 cent is Korea's Seo Hyo Weon.

TT4Life · Dec 15, 2014

Ma Long

TTournaments · Dec 16, 2014

I think for the women I would go with Han Ying. She played some awesome tournaments. For men, I would choose Steffen Mengel. He is now Top 30 and was 144 when He played Wang Hao this march. He even made a bigger progress than Aruna.

TTHopeful · Dec 16, 2014

Cool answers. I have put in a poll to spice things up.

Quan_Pham · Dec 16, 2014

omg until now 100% vote is for ZJK!! Unbelievable!! @@

ping fun · Dec 16, 2014

Zhang jike is my favorate player in 2014 . he got the world cup and played well in incheon + super league championship ... 100 % vote for zjk

. 2 users have voted .. one of them is me

Sali · Dec 16, 2014

I think we should consider players who made big progress in this year. I am thinking about:
Jun Mizutani - more consistent in this year, very inteligent trying to play closer and more aggresive then before.
Marcos Freitas - step by step, after starting training in WSA he is becoming better and better, climing in the ranking and made Portugal team won European championships
Aruna Quadri - of course his unique style, you can never predict what he is able to do, I would pay attention about him a lot
Yuto Muramatsu - very young, already playing with more experienced players. I think next 3 years he can be very hard to beat.

anchorschmidt · Dec 16, 2014

Too many. This was a great year but I agree that Quadri Aruna should top the list.

Honorable mentions:

1. Zhang Jike for coming back so strongly after the WTTC and winning the World Cup. (notable matches include the Asian Games Finals (doubles and teams) as well as the World Cup matches against Aruna, Boll and Ma Long, the last two were real nail-biters)
2. Timo Boll for being just unbelievably consistent and showing that he's still the best non-Chinese player. (notable matches, WTTC and World cup against Mizutani, World Cup against Ovtcharov and Mizutani)
3. Ovtcharov for his superb performance in the Chinese League. I honestly think that his performance vs Zhang Jike in the WTTC was kind of overrated. Zhang Jike was nowhere near even half his best.
4. Ma Long and Xu Xin for dominating consistently. I would have dearly loved Ma Long to win the World Cup but alas, it was not to be.

Best match of the year is probably Joo Se Hyuk vs Chuang in the WTTC and JSH vs Ma Long in the Asian Games. The duel between Mizutani and Ovtcharov is also a contender.

JackFH · Dec 16, 2014

I think you have to throw Pitchford and Drinkhall in there. Pitchford had a great commonwealth games and Drinkhall won Spanish open first guy to do that in many years and then made it to final of the Russian open

raazzz · Dec 16, 2014

Elegant_Player said:
Krisstian Karlsson , his bakhand is awesome .

+1 truly amazing!

gjcbento · Dec 16, 2014

Marcos Freitas also played really good this year! In my opinon he got better and better in the last three years.

deepinside · Dec 16, 2014

As his performance against ZJK's best Quadri Aruna could be a potential threat for the China in the very near future. I mean there has to be someone in the world who is able to beat them except Timo and Dima, which balances with every CNT player are negative (not sure for ZJK).

spicky · Dec 17, 2014

Ma Long but he is always my favourite player. Incredible forehand

Favourite Table Tennis Player of 2014?

Who is your favourite player of 2014?

Ma Long

Dimitrij Ovtcharov

Timo Boll

Zhang Jike

Jun Mizutani

Aruna Quadri

Mima Ito

Xu Xin

Fan Zhendong

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