Jan-Ove Waldner

Jan-Ove Waldner, often called the Mozart of table tennis, made the all-round game an art. His serves were famously hard to read, and he could change from blocking to looping to touch shots within a rally, beating the Chinese attackers by thinking faster. He won world titles in 1989 and 1997 and Olympic gold in 1992, and his career spanned the sponge, speed glue and 40 mm ball eras.