#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
1	Ma Long	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2006–—	97.3
6	Fan Zhendong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2012–—	88.5
13	Ni Xialian	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	1983–—	86.2
14	Feng Tianwei	Table Tennis	🇸🇬 Singapore	2005–—	85.6
23	Daniela Dodean Monteiro	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	2003–—	84.9
24	Kristian Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2008–—	84.8
36	Cha Hyo-sim	Table Tennis	🇰🇵 North Korea	2014–—	84.2
47	Gustavo Tsuboi	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2003–—	83.6
48	Lily Zhang	Table Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	2010–—	83.6
55	Hugo Calderano	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2013–—	83
65	Lin Shidong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2022–—	82.7
68	Ni Xia Lian	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	1983–—	82.6
76	Kanak Jha	Table Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	2014–—	82
77	Liang Jingkun	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	81.9
80	Sarah De Nutte	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	2008–—	81.9
81	Chuang Chia-Fu	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2005–—	81.9
82	Suthasini Sawettabut	Table Tennis	🇹🇭 Thailand	2010–—	81.9
84	Mattias Falck	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2008–—	81.5
86	Miu Hirano	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2013–—	81.4
89	Patrick Franziska	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2009–—	81.1
91	Simon Gauzy	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2010–—	80.8
95	Zhu Yuling	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2010–—	80.6
96	Tiago Apolónia	Table Tennis	🇵🇹 Portugal	2002–—	80.6
104	Hina Hayata	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2016–—	80.2
105	Han Ying	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2005–—	80.2
106	Chuang Chih-yuan	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2000–—	80
107	Doo Hoi Kem	Table Tennis	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	2012–—	79.9
111	Aruna Quadri	Table Tennis	🇳🇬 Nigeria	2006–—	79.7
113	Panagiotis Gionis	Table Tennis	🇬🇷 Greece	1998–—	79.6
118	Sun Yingsha	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	79.1
119	Wang Chuqin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2016–—	79.1
120	Omar Assar	Table Tennis	🇪🇬 Egypt	2006–—	79.1
121	Marcos Freitas	Table Tennis	🇵🇹 Portugal	2005–—	78.9
123	Chen Chien-an	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	78.7
124	Adriana Díaz	Table Tennis	🇵🇷 Puerto Rico	2013–—	78.6
125	Koki Niwa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2010–—	78.5
127	Chen Meng	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2007–—	78.3
129	Chen Xingtong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2014–—	78.3
130	Emmanuel Lebesson	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2006–—	78.2
131	Petrissa Solja	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2010–—	78.2
132	Chen Szu-yu	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	78.1
134	Qian Tianyi	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	78
136	Lin Yun-ju	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2017–—	77.8
137	Manika Batra	Table Tennis	🇮🇳 India	2011–—	77.8
141	Shin Yu-bin	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2019–—	77.4
142	Anton Källberg	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2013–—	77.3
146	Adina Diaconu	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	2013–—	77
148	Cheng I-ching	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	76.8
154	Mattias Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2006–—	76.4
157	Cho Dae-seong	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2016–—	75.8

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