Beijing time on January 7, ITTF announced 2025 week 2 world ranking, because last week did not hold non-junior international tournaments, so the main change comes from the old points lapsed, China, France and South Korea athletes are still divided into five first, of which Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha steadily men’s singles, women’s singles, mixed doubles tops the list, Leblanc Brothers reigning as the first men’s doubles, Tian ZhiXi / Shin YuBin to maintain the first women’s doubles.
However, it is worth mentioning that South Korea’s Tian Zhixi has previously stated that he has quit the South Korean national team, and the probability is that his rankings will also disappear soon as well as those of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, and Chen Meng, and the No.1 women’s doubles will have to be replaced at that time, for more details, please see below.
The world rankings for week 1 of 2025 were actually released on 31 December 2024, and due to the impact of the withdrawal of the Chinese table tennis team’s three main players, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng, there are currently no singles Olympic champions appearing in the rankings – something that has happened since table tennis was introduced to the Olympics in 1988 and the winner was decided This is the first time such a situation has occurred since the table tennis programme was introduced and the winner was decided at the 1988 Olympics.
In addition, some athletes, while still retaining their points, have made it clear that they are on the national team of their own association, including South Korea’s Tian Zhixi and Lee Sang-soo, so it’s only a matter of time before they lose their world rankings, if nothing else.
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The more dramatic thing is that the previous women’s doubles ranked first in the world was originally Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, due to Chen Meng withdrew from the world rankings, so it was replaced by Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin; and now Tian Zhixi also gave up his qualification for the Korean national team, so the Japanese duo of Sazuki Otto/Yokoi Sakizakura, who is currently ranked second in the world, is very hopeful of hitting the top of the list, with Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi coming in at the third place.
As for the other events, the first place was not affected by the withdrawal of famous players, including Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha teamed up to win the first place in men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed doubles, while the Leblanc brothers topped the men’s doubles after winning last year’s finals.
The current top 10 athletes in the singles world rankings are Wang Chuqin, Lin Sidong, Zhang Motomo Tomazu, Felix Lebrun, Liang Jingkun, Hugo, Mooregaard, Francesca, Lin Gaoyuan, Qiu Dang, as well as Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Youtong, Hayata Hina, Zhang Motomoto Tomokazu, Harimoto Tomazu, Zheng Yijing, Shin Yubin, and Ito mima, with the only change being that Francesca moved up two places and Lin Gaoyuan, Qiu Party each dropped one place.
Currently WTT Doha ball tournament has begun, Harimoto Tomokazu, Harimoto Miwa and others have participated, the Chinese table tennis team mainly sent non-main force and young juniors to exercise, next week the world rankings or there will be a series of changes, sit back and wait for the latest results of the game out.
