Table 1. Characteristics of analysed players. |
| The style of the play |
The best Champions
(Total Number of analysed matches) |
Number of analysed players/
Number of left handed players |
Number of analysed players/Number of Olympic Champions in singles/Number of World Champions in singles |
| CHINA |
ASIA
(without China) |
EUROPE |
OTHER |
| Fast attack shakehand |
Teng (5), Falk (7) |
7/1 |
3/0/0 |
4/0/0 |
1/0/0 |
1/0/0 |
| Fast attack penhold |
Kohno (5), Jiang (12), Liu (12) |
13/3 |
9/1/5 |
2/0/1 |
1/0/0 |
0 |
| Topspin attack both sides shakehand |
Jonyer (5), Kong (11), Zhang (11) |
46/16 |
6/2/2 |
9/0/0 |
29/0/3 |
2/0/0 |
| Topspin fh+Attack bh shakehand |
Waldner (26), Persson (16), Wang LQ (10),Ma Long (33) |
27/4 |
8/2/7 |
3/0/1 |
16/1/4 |
0 |
| Topspin+Attack penhold |
Yoo (4), Ryu (5), Ma Lin (15), Wang Hao (11) |
20/7 |
8/1/4 |
9/2/3 |
2/0/0 |
1/0/0 |
| Combi Attack |
Cai (4), Lo (3) |
5/2 |
1/0/0 |
1/0/0 |
2/0/0 |
1/0/0 |
| Chop defence |
Chen (4), Ding (7), Joo 10) |
16/0 |
7/0/0 |
5/0/0 |
4/0/0 |
0 |
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