In the world table tennis arena with bright stars, there have been many famous figures, among which the excellent athletes who shoot with their right hand account for the majority, while the players who have achieved good results in the left hand shoot are a minority, and among all the table tennis players, the proportion of left-handed shooters is around 20%. Due to the obvious gap in strength, speed and reaction of male and female athletes, it is more difficult for male athletes with left-handed shots to achieve good results and the probability of winning world championships is even lower, as evidenced by the fact that none of the male left-handed athletes have won the Olympic and World Championships singles championships for more than two decades. Thirty years on, the left-hander athletes who won the men's singles world championship are still like morning stars, and because of this, the top left-hander masters with a prominent reputation feel scarce and precious. Here are the top 10 Chinese and foreign left-hand players who have left the deepest impression on the world table tennis competition in decades, let's return to the old arena and relive their unforgettable peak showdowns together! (Ranking is based on chronological order)
1: Li Jingguang (from Tangshan, Hebei)
Li Jingguang, a famous chinese men's table tennis left-hand player, is one of the famous "three musketeers" of national table tennis fifty years ago, he is 1.82 meters tall, dignified, majestic, is a typical Chinese traditional straight board glue fast attack method, smashing like a meteor flying hammer, pushing and blocking like Taishan pressing the top, its fierce ball style is all amazing. In the men's team final of the World Table Tennis Championships held in Nagoya, Japan in 1971, Li Jingguang played as the first main force of the Chinese team, one person defeated the three members of the Japanese team in succession, and staged the first hat-trick in the history of Chinese table tennis, especially when he decided the seventh set of the world singles champion Ito Shigeo, he was like a god on the field, while playing, while whispering: Little Japan, you can't run! You can't run... In front of the imposing Li Jingguang, Ito Waso was beaten up, full of goals, and soon lost 3:21, 6:21, this score also created the world table tennis team final in the history of the most disparity record, the Chinese team thus won 5:2 against the host Japan team, so that the Sweslin Cup after six years and returned to the embrace of the Chinese team, Li Jingguang is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the Chinese men's team to win the cup.
2: Cai Zhenhua (from Wuxi, Jiangsu)
In the men's team final of the 1981 World Table Tennis Championships in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, the fledgling Jiangsu teenager Cai Zhenhua was entrusted with the responsibility of being the third main force to face the last world champion, The Hungarian team. In the previous team matches, the young man with long, shiny black hair was impressive, and on the field, he always habitually tossed his hair, the racket in his hand turned around like a rattle, and his stomping on the ball made his opponents even more frightened. He holds the racket in his left hand, the rubber on both sides is the same color but the performance is very different (one side is anti-glue, the other side is anti-arc glue), and the rush and the inverted serve are the two major weapons for his scoring. In the men's team final of this World Table Tennis Championships, he appeared twice, all won, especially in the sixth set of the match with Gale Guy, the two played a 1:1 draw, the tiebreaker score was staggered until 15 draws, at this critical moment, his unique skill - the inverted board serve played a huge power, he used the inverted board to send five strange and varied serves in a row, making Gail Guy eat five consecutive serves, causing the score to open up quickly, Cai Zhenhua finally won the decider at 21:15, thus 2 :1 Won the sixth set, making a great contribution to the Chinese team's recapture of the Swesling Cup.
3. Xie Saike (from Liuzhou, Guangxi)
Known as the "ping-pong prodigy", the left-handed straight-forward shooting star Xie Saike, is one of the famous "troikas" of Chinese men's table tennis forty years ago (the other two are Guo Yuehua and Cai Zhenhua), the young man has thick eyebrows, big eyes, tiger heads, is the most popular Chinese table tennis male player of the year, in the 1981 Novi Sad World Table Tennis Championships men's team final, the rookie who adopted the right push left attack straight board positive rubber playing method as the first main force of the Chinese team, in the duel with the three Hungarian generals, he won the victory with the momentum of destruction and decay. It copied the myth of the anti-Japanese hero Li Jingguang alone scoring three points ten years ago, and composed the most gorgeous music in his life, not only for the national table tennis to win back the men's team championship, but also interpreted the singing of one person in the history of the world table tennis men's team final, because since 1991, the International Table Tennis Federation has changed the men's team format from a nine-set five-win system to a five-set three-win system, and he and his left-handed predecessor Li Jingguang have become the only two athletes in the history of the world table tennis finals who have scored three points.
4. Wei Yiguang (from Nanning, Guangxi)
Wei Yiguang (who later joined Japan), a former national player known as "Desperate Sanlang", was one of the three musketeers of national table tennis in the mid-to-late 1980s (the other two were Jiang Jialiang and Chen Longcan), representing the highest combat strength of national table tennis at that time. In 1988, he and Chen Longcan teamed up to win the first men's table tennis gold medal in Olympic history in Seoul by beating the former Yugoslav players Luplescu and Primorats 2:1 (20:22, 21:8, 21:9) in the men's doubles final of the Seoul Olympic Games. He holds the racket with his left hand, can pull and play, can attack and defend, often play many incredible divine balls, quite similar to the way of playing Wang Xuxin today, he should leave the deepest impression on his indomitable momentum and tenacious style of play, every good ball always waving his fist and roaring loudly, can be called the most tough ball in the national table tennis at that time, his motto "Forever put to death and be born later" is the true portrayal of his lifelong sports career.
5: Liu Nam-kyu (from Busan, South Korea)
Liu Nankui, a South Korean left-handed table tennis player with a height of only 1.66 meters, although he is not tall and does not look outstanding, he can be called a representative figure in the history of world table tennis, and he is the first athlete in Olympic history to win the men's singles championship. As the leader of South Korea's direct shooting one-sided pull, he has trained a pair of iron legs that run all over the field, coupled with a strong forehand and outstanding COSCO Platform holding ability, so that he stood out in the Seoul Olympic Games held at his doorstep to reach the final, and in the championship battle with his compatriot Kim Ki-taek, the young and tenacious Liu Nankui lost one inning first, won three consecutive sets, reversed the victory over Kim Ki-taek to win the heaviest gold medal in his sports career, I believe that the fans and friends who watched this gold medal battle that year, They all clearly remember the scene where Liu Nankui fell to his knees and wept silently when he won, and this heavy gold medal was the best reward for the world famous player's fighting spirit.
6. Wang Tao (Beijinger)
This only 1.65 meters tall, often shy belly of the table tennis wizard, is the 1990s to lead the national table tennis out of the trough, the realization of ZTE representative figures, he is known as the "most flexible fat man" of the national table tennis main force Wang Tao, he holds the ball board in his left hand quick attack combined with arc ball play, forehand backhand glue, backhand bounce and forehand fast belt is the main means of scoring, its speed of bounce, the number of drop point changes can be called the strongest in the history of this style of play. His peak battle appeared in the 1995 Tianjin World Championships men's team final, the Chinese team faced the two consecutive world champions Sweden, in the two teams to play 2:2, Wang Tao ushered in the fifth set of decisive moments with Person, the momentum of Wang Tao did not give the other side any chance, the whole game occupied a clear advantage, and finally defeated Perlson 2:0, for the national table tennis to win back the Swaslin Cup that has been separated for six years. I believe that the passionate scene of Wang Tao throwing away the racket after winning and lying on the ground and making a group with his teammates is still fresh in people's minds.
Seven: Jean. Philip. Guyting (France)
As the last left-hander to win the Men's Singles Championship at the World Championships, The French handsome Guyting was the world's top player on a par with Waldner thirty years ago. With a height of 1.78 meters, he adopts the two-sided arc ball play method of Zhongyuantai, is the representative of the unreasonable and fierce faction that swept the table tennis world that year, the founder of the violent table tennis aesthetics, and his speed of playing, the speed of movement, and the fierceness of the attack exceeded all the European players in history, and even the Chinese players known for their speed only had no ability to fight back in front of him, and he surpassed all the Chinese players of the same era in the world competition. In 1993, he beat Belgium's Sever 3:2 in Gothenburg to win the first world table tennis singles title in history for France, and in 1994, he beat Sever again to win the World Cup singles title, plus the men's singles silver medal he won at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, he was the first player in the history of world men's table tennis closest to a Grand Slam and the best male athlete in history as a left-handed in the world series.
VIII: Yan Sen (from Xuzhou, Jiangsu)
Yan Sen belongs to the typical straight board arc fast playing method, the ball road is wide, the serve is hidden, the threat of the first three boards is large, he and Wang Liqin, who has super first-class holding ability, formed the "Yama King Combination" in the men's doubles project, in the past ten years before and after this century, they have almost played invincible hands all over the world and become the champion professional households in various competitions. It is a pity that due to his stature and injury, Yan Sen has never reached the top of the world in singles, but this does not prevent him from becoming one of the best left-handed athletes in the history of world table tennis.
Nine: Tim. Bol (Germany)
The German American man Bohr, known as the "first gentleman in table tennis", is an old friend of Chinese athletes and an old opponent who has fought against at least four generations of national table tennis people. He holds the racket horizontally in his left hand, and the two-sided arc ball playing style is flowing, the technique is delicate, the psychology is stable, and the ability to hold each other is the world's first-class. At the World Cup Table Tennis Tournament held in Jinan, China, the 20-year-old Bohr defeated Wang Liqin and Kong Linghui in one fell swoop to win the first world championship in the history of German table tennis, and his achievements immediately caused a sensation in Germany, and table tennis jumped from obscurity to the top five sports in the public attention. Since then, he has become a regular in the top four of the World Series, often staging one-man shows with Chinese player Sanying Lü Bu. Nowadays, the evergreen tree of the table tennis world who has not aged is 39 years old, still active in the forefront of the world table tennis, and is still a powerful opponent that Chinese athletes cannot underestimate, whether in terms of professional record or professionalism, Pol can be called a benchmark and model for all table tennis players to look up to.
10: Xu Xin (from Xuzhou, Jiangsu)
Known as today's "first golden left hand" of the people's artist Xu Xin, is already a national treasure level figure that everyone is very familiar with and loves, his technical characteristics and achievements are obvious to all, there is no need to say more here, I believe that next year's World Championships and Olympic Games, our left-handed representative Xu Xin will certainly live up to expectations, hand over a answer sheet that makes the Chinese people proud and proud, let us wait and see!
Who is the invincible ping-pong left-handed king in your mind? I believe you have the answer now! Welcome to the old iron to participate in the discussion! Finally, let's cheer for the national table tennis together!