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Ding vs Ma Long
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Verdict
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🇨🇳 Ma Long
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Ma Long leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories. Back-to-back Olympic singles golds and the most titled player in history.
1. Ma Long
2. Ding Ning
Category breakdown
Season form · Titles per season
GOAT pace tracker
Through age 21 · Titles per season
1. 🇨🇳 Ding Ning33 titles
4 seasons by age 21 · 8.3 per season
Setting the pace at age 21
2. 🇨🇳 Ma Long7 titles
2 seasons by age 21 · 3.5 per season
Ma Long is -78.8% behind Ding's pace at age 21
Every career is cut at the season the athlete turned 21, so a rookie today is measured against exactly what a legend had banked by the same birthday.