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A question that has been asked time and again (but an interesting one nevertheless).
Who do you think is the all-time best player ?
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In the old history, Victor Barna and Richard Bergmann had been the best, in the middle history Chuang Tse-Tung and in the new history Jan-Ove Waldner and Wang Liqin.
To say who is the all time best, is not possible, because all decades had their own stars and their own style and development of table tennis. Sure could we say, that Jan-Ove Waldner had been the all time best, but not because of success, only because of his magic style. Waldner had been 2 times World Champion in Singles, Wang Liqin 3 times. Both would win easily versus Victor Barna (5 times World Champion) and Richard Bergmann (4 times World Champion) with their new kind of rackets and the athletic and the development of table tennis in our time. But that time thy had other rackets and the athletic, speed, spin and development we can not compare with our time. In their time they had been the best and had more success than Waldner and Wang Liqin in their time.