Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 88
- Longevity
- 72
- Honours
- 80
- Statistics
- 84
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | |
| 2014 | 3 | |
| 2015 | 4 | |
| 2016 | 5 | |
| 2017 | 4 | |
| 2018 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 3 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 1 |
Data sources
- ITTF
- Olympedia
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Zhu Yuling ranks #18 in Table Tennis
Zhu Yuling ranks 18th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 908th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 80.6 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 88, Longevity 72, Honours 80, Statistics 84. Those categories are normalised against the full Table Tennis reference universe of 295 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2010–present with 12 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2016, which sets the Peak component at 88. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 88 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world cup titles 1, world championship golds 3, world no. 1 ranking 1, world tour titles 12.
Immediately ahead sits Wang Liqin on 79.2, a gap of -1.4 points. Directly behind is Zhang Yining on 80.4. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Zhu Yuling GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Zhu stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak88/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2016. Scored 88/100.
- Longevity72/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 16 years of competition and 12 recorded seasons. Scored 72/100.
- Honours80/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 80/100.
- Statistics84/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 84/100.
Top Zhu comparisons
Zhu Yuling — frequently asked
- Is Zhu Yuling the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Zhu Yuling ranks 18th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 80.6, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Zhu Yuling's GOAT Score?
- 80.6 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 88 (20%), Longevity 72 (20%), Honours 80 (20%), Statistics 84 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Zhu Yuling rank all time?
- 908th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 18th within Table Tennis.
- Zhu Yuling vs Wang Liqin: who ranks higher?
- Zhu Yuling, on 80.6 against Wang Liqin's 79.2 — a margin of 1.4 points.