On June 18, ITTF announced the world ranking list for the 25th week of 2024. It is worth mentioning that this is also the basis for deciding the Paris Olympics singles seats through the world ranking pathway, which naturally affects the athlete lists of many teams, and the importance of which can be imagined.
The main changes in this edition of the rankings came mainly from the WTT Ljubljana Ballon d’Or, in which Miwa Harimoto reached a new high, rising to seventh in the women’s singles, while Pavard, who won a cold streak against Misaki Ito, Miyu Hirano, and Yubin Shin, broke into the top 20 for the first time, and the Chinese table tennis team of Wang Chuchin, Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuchin/Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuchin/Malone, and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu continued to top the list of the top five items, for more details, please see below.
The most important tournament in the international ping pong world last week was the WTT Ljubljana Ballon d’Or. Although the Chinese team still abandoned all of them to participate in the event, the main players still had an absolute advantage in the ranking list as they had accumulated enough points before that, and were first in five items, with both men’s and women’s singles taking the top four places.
Foreign associations, the world’s top-ranked players actually did not suffer from the ball game too much impact, the world ranking list of the top ten almost unchanged, only the Japanese young Zhang Ben Miwa (in Ljubljana to reach the quarterfinals of the women’s singles), and so from the world’s eighth place to the seventh, which is her career so far the highest rankings, South Korea’s Shin Yubin from the seventh to the eighth drop.
Pavard, the big French dark horse, became the super dark horse at the WTT Ljubljana Ballon d’Or, and as mentioned before, she broke through the three main Japanese and Korean players, Misaki Ito, Miyu Hirano, and Yubin Shin, to reach the final, and despite a tough loss to Hina Hayata, she still moved up nine spots in the world rankings list, advancing into the top 20 for the first time to reach 19th position.
The latest women’s singles world ranking top ten athletes are: Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Hina Hayata, Chen Xingtong, Zhangmoto Meiwa, Shin Yubin, Hirano Mayu, Szokos – consecutively in Zagreb, Ljubljana two tournaments on top, in addition to the Rio de Janeiro tournament second runner-up, Hina Hayata deserves to be the foreign associations s top women’s singles player.
The top ten players in the latest Men’s Singles World Ranking have not changed from the previous edition, and remain the same: Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun, Ma Long, Junior Lebron, Hugo, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Yunru, Franziska and Qiu Dang – the higher the ranking, the more difficult it is to change the position of the athletes, because the points base is too large, and if you are not participating in the tournaments of a high level, it is very difficult for everyone to surpass others. It is difficult for everyone to surpass others.
In doubles, the mixed doubles, which is an Olympic event, is significantly more highly regarded, and the competition is fierce as current world No. 2 Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yubin and No. 3 Zhang Moto-Jiwa/Hina Hayata have been playing each other several times recently in an attempt to avoid the No. 1 pairing of Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha (the top two seeded players are usually placed in the top and bottom halves of the draw) in the Olympic draw.
As mentioned earlier, the world rankings on June 18 will determine the allocation of a large number of singles seats for the Paris Olympics, and many teams use this as a basis for setting rules and selecting athletes, such as South Korea, which has basically confirmed that Jang Woo-jin, Cho Dae-sung, Shin Yoo-bin, and Tien Chi-hee will make the cut, and now they just need to wait for the official announcement from the BING Association.
For some of the original can not get too much qualification for the team, who is ranked high, to the Olympic Games threshold, who will naturally be able to get the opportunity to participate: after all, the total number of places is so much, many associations have to solve the problem of “there is no”, as for the strongest teams will consider the list of “how! “So let’s wait for the list to come out!
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