Comment by Matt Solt on February 7, 2013 at 3:51pm

Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

The actual percentage of lefties worldwide is estimated to be 7% so Table Tennis certainly has a high amount of left handers at the highest echelons. This month's men's WR show 72:28 in a right-left ratio.

This is very similar to February of last year, which displayed a 70:30 ratio.

Comment by Rodney Bygrave on February 7, 2013 at 4:53pm

so that is 28% and not 40%? another thing is that Countries/teams like to have left handers in their squads to help with doubles and playing differences, so more opportunities for  left handers to be  developed 

Comment by Ben Larcombe on February 8, 2013 at 3:06am

I wrote a post about this a while back on my blog (http://www.experttabletennis.com/is-being-left-handed-an-advantage-...) and I think the 40% figure came from 10 of the top 25. I also found 16 lefties in the top 50 which was 32%.

Comment by pjlouage on February 8, 2013 at 2:17pm

interesting :)

Comment by Josha Matthewman on February 9, 2013 at 1:08am

Thanks for the comments! My coach told me those figures so they may be slightly outdated, although it seems there is still an overpopulation with 28%. Marko Gredelj also just pointed out to me on another post that Jun Mizutani is actually right-handed like Nadal; his parents encouraged him to play with his left.

Comment by Anik Gos on February 9, 2013 at 1:46am

Heyy, always felt so,infact i feel it translates in many sports( play badminton more than tt, but like tt too), may be more in tt cause of the small court size n lightening speed hand eye, The Rafeal Nadal fact is interesting, he said that many times in interviews also, even the enigmatic Federer said that the difficulty arises cause Rafa is like a player with two forehands..

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