WTTC 2003: Werner Schlager-Joo Se Hyuk (Final) 

7 years later, still the same (and also last not Chinese world champion, carzy)

***** learn some decent English m8, then u will be considered as a legend ;)))

***** His attitude, his super bold long serves and his crazy way of playing is what's legendary about him.

+Greger Karlsson Schlager inspired a whole table tennis generation by being the last non-chinese that won the WTTC, he kicked out the World champion and the Olympic champion in two legendary matches were he saved several match points, then beat the greatest defender in the history of table tennis who kicked out himself the World Cup champion, he had an outstanding tactical playing style, was one of the world's best servers at this time, and all that at age 31, so yes, Schlager is a legend, sorry if you don't agree

+Greger Karlsson You have Timo Boll forgotten

+Tom Scholtes In the last 10 years he was the only player who can beat the Chinese players

actually he used to be an offensive player when he started playing tt

Do you have any videos of him before he was a chopper by any chance?

2002 WTTC champion? what? 2005 champion is for WTTC is Wang Liqin

His style is really good but not Boll

Schlager has a more important title.. But boll is prime for 15 years now... Hard to choose

Well answer your own comment now that it is 2022

Claudio Rodriguez Palma and the other rubber and blade?

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Иванов Иван He did so because: 1. a young and inexperienced Ma Lin lost against Joo, a surprising result but something you could have seen coming. 2. Wang Liqin was also quite young at that time, even though he did have some experience. Wang lost his composure in the quarterfinal against Schlager (he lost several match points) and I believe he was in pain (some sort of injury from what I heard). 3. Liu Guoliang had retired after the ITTF banned his short pips. 4. Kong Linghui was at the end of his prime. While he was not old, he was far from his 2000 form, when he won the Olympics. The game was still amazing though, 7 unbelievable sets.

wow, so much interesting information from you, thanks a lot!!!

Timo Boll 2005

@@gordon8655 that was world cup. Not wttc

Welcher Europäer wird öfter Weltmeister?