Offense - Defense Mode Analysis of the World Top Male Table Tennis Player - A Case Study by Chuang Chih-Yuan Who Participated in 2012 London Olympic Male Single Games

The purpose of this study was to explore the world top male table tennis player, Chuang Chih-Yuan taking the successful offense - defense mode to win 2012 London Olympic Games and get ranked the fourth, which was his best performance than Taiwan's male athletes over years to participate in Olympic Games. He is currently the most outstanding Taiwan's male table tennis player, so we not only selected him as the research object but also choose from his five matches as the study scope and took three-staged techniques analysis method of table tennis as the study structure. And then, to respectively analyze that he was how to take advantage of offensive and defensive tactics of serve-then-attack part (S.T.A.P), receive-then-attack part (R.T.A.P) and rally part (R.P) to play every round. Finally, we summarized and got the results to be as a reference to training Taiwan’s young players in the future from his successful mode, the study founded as follows: (1) In the first three matches (Third Round, Fourth Round, Quarter finals) of S.T.A.P, R.T.A.P and R.P were better than the opponents, but in the last two matches (Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match), only his S.T.A.P was a bit of better than the opponents, so the main causes to be defeated in the match were the obvious disadvantage of his R.T.A.P and R.P. (2) There were 4 kinds of score modes in his S.T.A.P including the best mode was “serve near net→attack→counter-driver”; there were 13 kinds of score mode in his R.T.A.P including the best mode of direct scoring by “backhand sidespin flick” and there were the 11 kinds of score modes in his R.P including the best mode was “counter-driver→counter-driver→counter-driver”. (3) There were 6 lost points mode in his S.T.A.P, mainly lost points mode was “serve near net→attack→counter-driver”; there were 13 lost points mode in his R.T.A.P, mode of the major loss of points was “control→attack→defense”; there were 12 lost points mode in his R.P, mainly lose points mode was “counter-driver→counter-driver→counter-driver”.