Ma Long uses a special 506, old BOLL, forehand NEO, Kuangsan, backhand Nitaku and so on.

On August 12, 2016, he won the Olympic men's singles championship in the table tennis men's singles final of the Rio Olympic Games and achieved a personal men's singles Grand Slam. He is the only Chinese men's singles player after Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui and Zhang Jike. The fourth Grand Slam player in the history of table tennis and the first Grand Slam player in the history of men's table tennis.

Sports experience

In 2002, Ma Long participated in a training camp for outstanding young talents in Rizhao, Shandong Province. He won more than 20 places in the training camp of more than 60 people and was selected into the second national team.

In 2003, in his first promotion and relegation competition after entering the second team, Malone finished second among 12 players. Subsequently, he entered the second group of the national first team with this result. ?

In 2004, Ma Long won the men’s team, men’s singles, and mixed doubles championships at the Table Tennis Asian Youth Championships, and the men’s doubles runner-up; he won the men’s team, men’s singles championships at the Table Tennis World Youth Championships, and the men’s Second place in doubles and mixed doubles. In October of the same year, Ma Long defeated Liu Guozheng, Wang Hao and Li Ping in the men's singles competition of the National Championships to reach the finals, but finally lost to Wang Liqin and won the runner-up.