Which grip is better in table tennis, penhold or shakehand? To answer this question we compared arithmetical mean of rating points of athletes using these different grips. As you can see, athletes with penhold have an advantage over athletes with shakehand if we select first 300 players ranked by ITTF. But if we select only top 100 players, we have contrary results for women.

Who is stronger in table tennis, attackers or defenders? To answer this question we compared arithmetical mean of rating points of both groups. As you can see, defenders have an advantage over attackers if we select first 300 players ranked by ITTF. But if we select only top 100 players, we have contrary results for men. Any top defender is generally weaker than any top attacker. Talking about women, we must admit that advantage of defenders is more noticeable here than among male athletes.

You might have heard that left-handed table tennis players have an advantage over right-handed players. In order to check this theory we created new special tool. As you can see, rating points arithmetical mean of righthanded players is a little bit less than arithmetical mean of lefthanded players. So our theory is true but superiority of lefties over righties in table tennis is really little nowadays.