according to gpt, some known pro players who use ST (with shakehand grip) are (feel free to correct):
- Darko Jorgic
- Truls Moregard
- Jörgen Persson
- Jan-Ove Waldner
- Matthias Falck
- Timo Boll
- Vladimir Samsonov
- Fang Bo
- Alexandar Karakasevic
Do you know anyone else?
Although lots of them are correct here, please, do not use ChatGPT; it mostly hallucinates things for table tennis. I would recommend checking for yourself on the photos from the tournaments (simply type WTT Flickr, you will find the albums), or from the matches on youtoube. It is more fun.
Anyway, to your question:
Timo Boll used it almost his whole career, then in his latest matches switched to FL.
Dmitrij Ovtcharov also used it for a long time, now playing with FL.
Vladimir Samsonov, I guess, was switching between.
Fang Bo, while active, used mostly, if not exclusively, FL.
Yu Ziyang - ST handle used at some point while playing in the Chinese Super League
Jun Mizutani - a long time with ST, then switched to FL
Kanak Jha - Viscaria SALC with ST handle
Anton Kallberg - Custom, now switched to Timo Boll ALC with ST handle
Anders Lind - Hexa Carbon ST
Kristian Karlsson - Korbel SK7 ST
Tom Jarvis - Cyber Shape ST
Kirill Gerasimenko - switching a lot Bty ST blades
Joao Geraldo - switching a lot of blades between ST and FL
Luka Mladenovic ? - not sure if ST, Dr. Neubauer Blades
Manush Shah - ST synteliac
Benyamin Faraji - ST Mizutani
Kay Stumper - ST Tibhar
Steffen Mengel - ST Soulspin
Andreas Levenko - Used ST DHS, now with FL
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Achanta Sharath Kamal - Andro
Tomas Polansky - ex Bundesliga player for Saarbrucken, used to be better than Jorgic, then a lot of injuries
David Reitspies - CZ nat. Champ, lots of good results internationally, then stopped representing - both Tibhar
Gionis Panagiotis - ST Korbel
Michael Maze - used to use ST
Ruwen Filus - ST Joo see Hyuk
Mittelham Nina - ST now Gewo
Sabine Winter - ST Andro
Ioannis Sgouropoulos - had ST at some point, not sure if still the case
Lee Sang Su - mostly ST
Ricardo Walther - ST Tibhar
Andre Beltesmeier - ST Andro
Hitomi Sato - ST Joo see Hyuk, but also changing to FL Nittaku
Jules Rolland- ST Andro
