The year 2025 has come and gone, and as early as the day before (31 December 2024), the ITTF has announced the world rankings for the 1st week of the new year, with multiple positions changing due to the withdrawal of the three Chinese table tennis team Olympic champions Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng.
According to the official website, the current women’s doubles world ranking No. 1 pair has changed from Chen Meng/Wang Manyu to South Korea’s Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin (who also ranked No. 1 previously), while men’s doubles No. 1 continues to be held by France’s Leblanc brothers, and as for men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed doubles No. 1 still belongs to Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha respectively, for more details, please see below.
The recent international competitions in the ping pong world were actually basically laid to rest as early as 8 December after the Mixed Team World Cup in Chengdu came to an end, so there would not have been much change in the world rankings after the 50th week (10 December), but what caught people off guard was the sudden announcement of the withdrawal of Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng from the world rankings on 27 December, which naturally triggered the upheaval.
In the previous 52nd weekly world ranking (24th December), Fan Zhendong was ranked sixth in the men’s singles and Chen Meng was fourth in the women’s singles, in addition to Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin ranked eighth in the men’s doubles and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu ranked first in the women’s doubles, which are now no longer shown in the list.
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As for Ma Long, although not as Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng as publicly stated that the withdrawal of the world rankings, but his name has also been announced on 31 December list disappeared, including the last men’s singles eighth, men’s doubles fifth (partner Wang Chuqin) and sixth (partner Lin Gaoyuan), but the mixed doubles and Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, as was not with other teammates partner to obtain the rankings, and therefore did not cause the rankings to change.
The men’s singles top 10 are Wang Chuqin, Lin Sidong, Harimoto Tomokazu, Felix Lebrun, Liang Jingkun, Hugo, Moregard, Lin Gaoyuan, Qiu Dang, and Francesca, with the last two returning to the top 10 following the withdrawals of Fan Zhendong and Ma Long.
As for the women’s singles, the latest top ten in the world rankings are Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Hina Hayata, Zhang Moto Meiwa, Oto Shayuki, Zheng Yijing, Shin Yubin, and Ito Mima, with Japanese Olympic champion Ito Mima returning once again.
As mentioned earlier, the current three doubles world ranking No. 1 is divided by combinations from three different associations, including mixed doubles China’s Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, men’s doubles France’s Le Brun brothers, women’s doubles Korea’s Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin, which is also due to the loss of rankings of the combination of Chen Meng/Wang Manyu to return to No. 1, which is also considered an unexpected blessing.
Through Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng in the online article can be seen, the two because it is difficult to endure the WTT World Table Tennis Federation for the withdrawal of the penalty provisions, so choose to withdraw from the world rankings; Ma Long did not publicly respond to this matter, but it is likely to be out of a similar consideration, but taking into account that he is already 36 years old, so no matter when he chose to leave the field will not be particularly surprising.
Prior to this, the above three Olympic champions have been ranked the world’s first singles, doubles has also topped the points list, and now suddenly cleared the world rankings do let fans feel surprised and sorry, perhaps belong to their era has really gone.
