He began as assistant director of the Shanghai Table Tennis and Badminton Center, later rising to director. In 2018, he was ...

But Ma Lin knew exactly what he'd be doing from a very young age. The table tennis legend took up the sport at the age of six, and had won his first national championship by 14. That same year ...

The advent of table tennis supposedly dates back to the late 1800s ... Zhang Yining was the woman to claim gold in both the women's singles and women's team events, while Ma Lin had the honor of doing ...

Hashtag ‘Chinese table tennis really needs to reflect’ tops Weibo’s trending list after Lin Shidong’s World Cup defeat by Hugo Calderano.

and the ever-present challenge of maintaining China's grip on global table tennis. Success, however, is nothing new to Wang. In the 2000s, alongside Wang Hao and Ma Lin, he formed the legendary ...

The 2025 Table Tennis World Cup in the Macao SAR concluded on Sunday with China securing the women's title in an all-Chinese final while China's Lin Shidong fell short in the men's singles final.

The men's final of the 2025 Table Tennis World Cup in the Macao Special Administrative Region on Sunday evening saw Brazil's Hugo Calderano defeat China's Lin Shidong ... now that Ma Long and ...

Lin Shidong hits a return during the ... The CTTA added that with automatic qualification for the table tennis worlds, Olympic champions Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng confirmed on April ...

However, Fan withdrew from the world rankings in late 2024 due to disputes over fines imposed for skipping events organized by the World Table Tennis (WTT) body. The withdrawal of both Ma and Fan left ...