On 2 July, ITTF officially announced the world ranking list for the 27th week of 2024, China continued to reign as the number one in five categories, and there were some changes in the position of Japan’s main players, Harimoto Tomokazu, who had only won three titles in the regular season of the WTT Tunisia, returned to the 10th in the men’s singles, while Misaki Ito also returned to the 10th in the women’s singles.
As for Japanese world champion Mayu Hirano, she has dropped out of the top 10 again as her old points expired, Chinese table tennis team player Lin Gaoyuan has also slipped, while Szokos and Lin Yunru have risen, see below for more details.
The main changes in this edition of the world rankings come from the injection of new points from the 2024 WTT Tunis regular season and the invalidation of old points from the 2023 WTT Zagreb regular season. Since there were no Chinese table tennis team players at the previous event, naturally no new points were awarded to anyone, while a number of Japanese players who had notable results in Tunisia had a good haul.
As mentioned, men’s singles winner Harimoto Tomokazu saw a rebound in the rankings, progressing from eleventh to tenth in the previous edition, while Germany’s Party Qiu slipped from tenth to eleventh, which once again puts the name of a Japanese athlete in the men’s singles top ten list.
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As for Miwa Harimoto, who won the Tunisian women’s singles event, she was unable to advance any further and remained in seventh place – after all, the higher up the rankings, the harder it is to move up, and the more points are needed to propel one’s ranking forward.
The impact of the disappearance of the old points in the impact of the Chinese table tennis team players Lin Gaoyuan although still in the men’s singles top ten, but from the seventh fell to the eighth, by the Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yunru overtaking; Japan’s Hirano Mayu just into the women’s singles top ten soon, this time there is a decline, from the ninth to the thirteenth, by the Szokos, Ito Misakoto, Diaz, Zheng Yijing four people beyond.
The latest singles world top ten players and order are: Wang Chuchin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Felix, Hugo, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Francesca, Zhang Ben Zhihe, and Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Hina Hayata, Chen Xingtong, Harimoto Tomokazu, Shin Yubin, Szokos, Ito Mitsubishi.
The ping pong will next host the WTT Bangkok Stars Tournament from 2 to 7 July, where Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong return to compete with Harimoto Tomokazu and Miwa Zhangmoto for the title, and we expect the duo to have the last laugh and more points.
