Legends Series: Liu Guoliang's Top 20 Shots

Happy Birthday Liu Guoliang! 🎂🌟
Celebrating this living legend's birthday with a new instalment of the Legends Series, showing off his unique #TableTennis prowess with his Top 20 shots 💪
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[@ChessMate_0102]

Waldner got a taste of his own serve😂😂 4:02

[@supersimme813]

For sure 😂😂😂

[@diegox.longpips]

Amazing series about legends, I think it is so important to remember such a players

[@druidzown]

21 points is insane when you think about it. AND BEST OF 5...holy cardio

[@debashishmitra]

' ... holy cardio ... ' 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🤣

[@123456789055332]

If a belive, it was best out of three back then.

[@hejiang9551]

@@123456789055332 BO5 for singles and BO3 for team match

[@antoniog2833]

Liu was a beast at his prime . Almost unstoppable

[@mrWXYZ7]

Essas homenagens são maravilhosas e merecidas. Parabéns ao Liu por tudo o que fez pelo esporte👏👏👏👏

[@emiliosaure9261]

1:55 shakehand :)

[@skil2134]

Legend

[@BsHoangHiep]

How fast is the pace ! truly great !❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Banane925]

Very nice player ! 🎉

[@eaglestar2962]

Liu has too many very creative and unpredictable serves and shots.

[@JoseJose-gz9hx]

Increíble la trayectoria de Liu lo ha ganado todo como jugador entrenador y dirigente unos de los mejores en la historia

[@Imran-mz5gp]

I really like this series

[@quickzilver333]

He is a Beast with short pips and close to the table relentless attacks. Once you get him going with his attacks it is almost impossible to stop him. Waldner is probably one of the few that can counter his speed with ball placements.

[@user-tz8sy3zt8f]

reverse side serve

[@BsHoangHiep]

the pace is even faster than the current wtt’s top players !

[@lkahd3456]

Because of speed glue and a different ball

[@TheBobbymcd]

@@lkahd3456 did they slow the game down so the cameras could catch it and how did the players feel about it

[@explodingsteak4268]

​@@TheBobbymcdindeed, those were the reasons listed for the changes, but choppers and penhold players suffered greatly because of the changes, and it's widely acknowledged that the changes were at least partially an attempt to break Chinese dominance of the sport.(didn't exactly work)

[@TheBobbymcd]

@@explodingsteak4268 thanks that was an education and no it didnt exactly work

[@eaglestar2962]

Because the ball is smaller (38 mm) back then.

[@kamyarabdollahi3406]

Nice video 👍👍👏👏

[@Im_walking]

Pls make more of these

[@FormostPanda]

Also, the inventor of the RPH that made Ma Lin, Wang Hoa, and Xu Xin so good.

[@alexanderdickens2517]

This is a common myth: Stellan Bengsston told me that a Romanian player (whose name escapes me) showed up to a tournament in the 80s with RPB, destroyed, was heavily studied by the Chinese, and then didn’t have much of a career after that.
Liu was just the first professional Chinese player to add it to his toolbox. Not that it’s not a huge feat! But not “invented.”

[@dickn.ormous1064]

The only thing that invented was serving with the backside of the blade.

[@aarontian4168]

​@@alexanderdickens2517actually Liu was not first Chinese to use rpb but another short pimple legend--Jiang jialiang

[@sergioaguilar2908]

Waldner and Liu 95 world has the 2 best points, 1 the paralel service that Liu puts back and attack. 2 Waldner play half long service and liu topsins it squatting

[@susanlie8307]

❤

[@flagella1337]

When some of the videos of LGL are actually higher quality than WTT videos nowadays...

[@user-mc5tw8pm7d]

basically ancient pingpong gods fighting scenes

[@quetzalcoatl5961]

You know how good you are when ITTF had to change the rules just to make you less competitive.. LGL a Legendary career cut short by ITTF at the age of just 26 years old..

[@BrunoNeureiter]

Why?

[@quetzalcoatl5961]

@@BrunoNeureiterITTF replaced the 38mm ball with the 40 mm balls which made the game slower and took a bit of the spins away. Then they changed the rules of service. Liu was known to rely heavily on his service to set up his game. He became less competitive because of the changes made, and decided to retire. Btw, he was the olympic champion at just 20 years old.

[@karlomarkouy4407]

His ball contact iscso early that even his fellow Chinese players like ma lin and wang liqin have to position themselves far from the table because they're already out of position at the start of the rally.

[@vonnichikun6532]

Liu Guoliang got too into table tennis his head started to look ling a ping pong ball

[@chrisnitsche42]

i hope we all agree points getting better with the new rules in early 2000

[@VahlenkoYuriy]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@000Fabse]

Where are the top shots? Pretty mediocre for a top 20 list. Very unusual top shots video.

[@johnng5016]

he wasnt short pips

[@TheBobbymcd]

look at the crowd...the players now are getting followers like the beatles

[@wangshuntian]

those are good shots but not top 20s