On March 19, the ITTF announced the ITTF Ranking for the 12th week of 2024, with many players changing their positions due to the invalidation of the old points from last year’s WTT Smash and the addition of the new points from this year’s WTT Smash, among which Wang Chuqin once again overpowered Fan Zhendong to return to No.1 in the men’s singles, while Sun Yingsha maintained the No.1 position in the women’s singles by virtue of her points advantage in the past.
In addition, Wang Manyu continues to rise to No.2 in the Women’s Singles, Wang Yidi has overtaken Chen Meng to No.3, Chen Meng has dropped to No.4, and Qian Tianyi has plummeted 13 places to No.21 in the Women’s Singles; Liang Jingkun has overtaken Malong to No.3, and French youngster Félix Lebrun has overtaken Lin Yunru and Lin Gaoyuan to reach No.5 in the Men’s Singles, which is a new high for the individual, for more details, please refer to the following paragraphs.
The Smash is the most ranked event in the ping pong world, alongside the Olympics and the World Series, with singles champions earning as many as 2,000 points, so the two athletes who won the title, Wang Chuqin and Wang Manyu, have become big winners, with the former returning to No. 1 in the men’s singles, and the latter reaching No. 2 in the women’s singles.
As for the last period ranked first men’s singles Fan Zhendong because of the cold stop 32, was deducted 2000 old points after just get 90 new points, the loss is too big; However, the last period ranked first women’s singles Sun Yingsha in the previous won too many championships, although Smash tournament did not make it into the top 4, but the points are still far ahead of Wang Manyu and so on, the current continue to reign at the top of the list position.
The latest singles world ranking top ten list is as follows-
Men’s Singles: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Felix Lebrun, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Hugo, Zhang Ben Zhihe and Qiu Dang;
Women’s Singles: Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong, Hina Hayata, Shin Yubin, Itō Mima, Szokos, Diaz.
Compared with the previous period, the Chinese table tennis men’s singles regression, because the previously ranked 5th Lin Gaoyuan in the Smash tournament round trip loss of South Korea’s Lee Sang-soo, the result fell to 7th place, the Chinese team did not have the chance to wrap up the top 5; Smash tournament of the men’s singles champion Wang Chuchuqin returned to the world’s No. 1, the second runner-up Liang Jingkun squeezed out of the Ma Long, to the No. 3 spot.
Chinese table tennis team women’s singles have gained and lost, which Chen Xing Tong squeezed out Japan’s Hina Hayata, help the whole team bagged the top 5, but previously ranked in the world’s top 10 for up to a year Qian Tianyi fell to 21st, as for Chen Meng also appeared to slip, has become the bottom two of the five main, Smash women’s singles champion Wang Manyu, the runner-up Wang Yidi are back to 1 place.
Outside the Association, the French young Felix Lebrun to a new high, to the men’s singles 5th position: a European local straight shooter can achieve the current achievements, is indeed impressive! Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yunru also took advantage of Lin Gaoyuan’s decline to move up to 6th place.
The Japanese women’s team has seen a lot of changes, with Kina Hayata dropping out of the top 5 due to her Smash round trip and now ranked 6th, Itō Mima returning to the top 10 and reaching 8th, Miwa Harimoto moving up to 12th and getting closer and closer to the top 10, and Miyu Hirano also moving up to 14th.
Mixed doubles, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha in Smash to achieve three consecutive titles, naturally continue to hold the first place; men’s doubles Ma Long / Lin Gaoyuan topped the list, but the two of them work together less often, so the first is still held by the runner-up Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin; women’s doubles champions Chen Meng / Wang Manyu also recently cooperate with not much, so the first place is still belongs to the South Korean pair of Tian Zhixi / Shin Yubin who had more brush points.
According to the arrangement, the end of March will soon host the WTT Championships, followed by the Singles World Cup in April, and another Smash tournament in May, all able to provide athletes with more points, and is expected to be the ranking of the last few months will change again, so let’s wait and see what happens!
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