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