Ma Lin is a table tennis player born February 19, 1980, in the Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. He is currently the world's number one ranked player.

He learned to play table tennis at the age of six and became a member of the provincial team in 1990. In 1994, he joined the Chinese national team. He is considered to have some of the best serves in the world.

Ma Lin's style is the penhold style. However, in addition to the traditional backhand push, Ma has also incorporated the reverse backhand, resulting in 3 different possible strokes to use during a game (forehand, backhand, reverse backhand). The reverse backhand is an innovative stroke to compromise for the penholder's already weak backhand. It utilizes the underside of the blade, whereas only one side was originally used.

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