5 Female Table Tennis Players of All Time

Table Tennis is touted again as one of the most popular game in the world and credit should be given to stakeholders who needs to work hard behind the scenes to make this entity extremely popular.

Table Tennis as sport is extremely popular in countries like China, India and Indonesia are expected that more countries will be involved in playing this sport.

Here in this article we will specifically talk about 5 Best Female Table Tennis Players of All time to be shared in the below format:

5. Ding Ning:

Ding Ning comes 5th in the list of legendary Female tennis players of all time.

Her achievements can be classified into different formats:

1. 4 Olympic Medal so far (3 times Gold Medal in 2016 , 1 silver medal in 2012)

10 World Cup medal

Pro Tour Winner for record 11 times in her career where some of the tournaments which  include- Kuwait Open(2009), English, USA, Austrian Open(2011), Slovenian, Polish Open(2012) & Japan Open (2016) .

3 Times Asian Cup winner which include in the year 2009, 2010 & 2014 respectively.

Her success in Table Tennis should be credited due to her proactivity.

Her game was full of attacking instinct, she hardly used to block during her matches.

She is incredibly reactive and light on her feet which makes her indominatable force and potent forehand loop and her snappy backhand stroke helped her to dominante her opponents.

4. Qiao Hong :

Qiao Hong comes 4th in the list of Legendary Female Tennis Players of All Time.

Before we deeply talk about his game let us share her stats in the below format:

4 Times Olympic Medals( 2 Gold medal, 2 Gold medal in doubles category

4 Times World Cup winning team medals(1992 Doubles Champion along side Den Yaping)

She was inducted ITTF(International Table Tennis Federation) Hall of Fame in 2005.

She boast total 6 Gold medals which include Olympics & World Cup

Her pairing with Deng Yaping where they won maximum gold medals together made her unbeatable double partnership  of all time.

Her playstyle was versatile  and feel based which gave her excellent touch on the ball and great shot IQ.

She used to normally spin the ball then pressure with strong drives on both wings.

She was more of rally player rather 3rd ball attacker.

3. Zhang Yining:

Zhang Yining comes 3rd in the list of Female Legendary Tennis ball players of all time.

She again hails from China a country known for producing powerhouse of table tennis talent.

Zhang achievements can be shared in the below format

4 Times Olympic Medals

7 Times World Cup Medals

4 Times winner of ITTF World Tour Finals.

She is easily the most dominating player of her era, and she had an amazing feat, where she was ranked from 1st to 6, in the year 2008.

She is backhand dominating player.

Zhang had a devastating active block, and her backhand shots were automatic and her retirement at the age of 29 years old was quite shocking but her glory as player will live on forever.

 

2. Wang Nan :

Wang Nan comes 2nd in the list of Legendary Female Table Tennis Players of all time.

She was ranked world number 1 from the year 1999 and 2002.

Nan achievements can be categorically shared in the below format:

7 Times world cup winning medal

5 Times Olympic gold medal winner

5 Times ITTF World Tour final tournament.

It is a very clear backhand dominant player and her fast backhand punches and explosive loops, with amazing control and placement on the ball.

She used to send near the middle of the table where she counter attacked, on less time which gave her opponents less time to react.

1. Deng Yaping:

Deng Yaping comes at the Top of Female Legendary Table Tennis Players of All time.

She won Olympic Medal for record 4 times also she won 7 World Cup medals

She won record 7 times in ITTF Tour finals

She stand tall among all other players, where she was less in height and initially considered not fit for national team.

Years Later he became GOAT (Greatest of All Time) .

She belongs to category of least female players who was excellent on both wings, where she executed distinct strokes brilliantly.

She preferred to take shots on bounce, powerful hits on forehand, mixture of Chop Blocks with her long pimples.

Her game play was pretty oppressive and deserve credit for maintaining the consistency.

Yaping becomes all time Female player for the way she dominated entire Table Tennis ecosystem.