Truls is barely 18 and is still WJTTC eligible.  He was the national champion of Sweden at a young age not just any TT country.  For what he has achieved he is a legendary player.  If you disagree do what you like.  I have no problem considering him a legend. You are the one who does.  Probably the most disappointing player with that kind of background was Tristan Flore but injuries ruined his career.

My original point was that many great players (or legendary players) never make top 5.  "Legendary" has some degree of subjectivity so I gave a wide variety of players in case someone might agree with some and disagree with others.  You seem to have agreed with Maze since you didn't list him.  You got some reason didn't agree with Harimoto, when he is obviously a great player and was top 5. But in any case my point is that top 5 is a pretty hard standard.  Pretty much you only get there if you are the Asian, European, World, Olympics or Grand Final champ or do well at many tour events.  There are many great players with great careers who never got there.  Freitas was a two time runner up to Dima in European Champs and even won the top 16 one year.  Never made it to top 5.  Top 5 is really hard.  Even the modern legends of American TT never made it to top 5.  Falck hasn't .   I don't think Lee Sang Su has either.  Those are both WTTC medallists.

I don't know.  Are you saying Korbel is not a legendary player?

At present it is arguably unfortunate that he is as much noted for his vocal performance as his performance on the table. He is most definitely a fresh world elite talent especially given his age and past winning results from an even younger age. This is in whole if not mostly initially as a direct result of the skill and dedication of both parents being relatively high level Sichuan provincial players themselves and long before the Chinese birth name to naturalised current Japanese name change. Interestingly his younger sister is also very promising and again another very young talent well beyond her years. Japanese table tennis has massively benefited from their reliance on overseas talent as factually many of the top personal coaches and most better training partners originate from the usual dominant force in the game as not surprisingly if judging by latest results. Coaching and sparing partners are not to be forgotten about in achieving better performance results as many players globally now appreciative and trust in the techniques and use of black Chinese tacky rubber forehand!?

I wish the sport ever more success and as always may the best talent win irrespective of orgin and on a sad note I trust we can as a global caring community overcome potential world health and safety issues but importantly learn from what happened and why and never to repeat pass errors of judgement and acceptable living conditions or habits. Again not being judgmental or apportioning blame but we can all learn to be nice and all get on and therefore continue to ensure sport before it is cancelled or temporary banned for no fault of all the hard work and dedication of players and coaching teams.

Happy ping pong and peace out!