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Adham,


I decided to ask/translate something that has already been discussed here previously but thought that your perspective might add something new:

China the superpower - has always been like that, is it currently and will always stay like that?


Worldchampions in the males singles competition, Worldchampions in the ladies singles, Worldchampions in the males doubles, ladies doubles, Worldchampions in both team events, winners of all olympic competitions, many many titles at pro tour events and not to mention the countless 2nd and 3rd places (and so on...).

They have the player-superstars Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Ma Long and Wang Liqin (the latter seems to decline a bit) plus a number of high-profile "second row"-players that every Nation would be very fond of.

In womans TT, their strength and dominance, including the chinese-born foreign players seems to be even more extreme.

What is the secret of the chinese success? Is it the mentality? Is it the huge number of players? Is it the way tabletennis is fostered? What is it?

With the Olympics 2012 in London (or the 2016 ones) in mind (or the future in general), do you see the possibility to seriously break through their dominance or will it just be a matter of occasional surprises?

Do the top chinese players only have to fear competition out of their own rows while other continents have to hope for a good day form of exceptional players such as Timo Boll or J.O.-Waldner in the past?

Are the chinese coaching methods transferable to other countries/continents or is such a system unthinkable? Who knows exactly how the chinese practice?