On 28 May, ITTF announced the 22nd weekly world rankings for 2024, and after the regular WTT Taiyuan and Rio de Janeiro tournaments came to an end, the Chinese team once again swept the five firsts, of which the men’s singles Wang Chuqin, the women’s singles Sun Yingsha, the mixed doubles Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha reigned at the top of the rankings, the men’s doubles Wang Chuqin/Malong surpassed Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong to reach the top, and the women’s doubles Chen Meng/Wang Manyu surpassed Tian ZhiXi/Shen Yubin to be the king.
And by the 2023 Durban World Table tennis tournament old points failure, more than one ranking changes, its Chinese table tennis team original men’s singles second Fan Zhendong fell to the fourth, Lin Gaoyuan slipped to the eighth, Ma Long returned to the second, Liang Jingkun rose to the third, the young Lin Shidong returned to the tenth place; women’s singles Wang Man Yu again overtook Chen Meng, became the second place, some people happy and some people are sad, for more details, please see below.
The 21st week of the World Table tennis team held two WTT regular challenge tournaments in China and Brazil, with a lot of athletes participating, but because the level is not very high, the winning athletes and combinations can only get 400 points, especially in the singles field, the Chinese table tennis team’s six Olympic starters did not participate in the event, and the foreign associations of Tomokazu Zhang, Hina Hayada and other masters of the Association of the cold lost and failed to top the tournament, so the impact is not very big.
Comparatively speaking, the old points of the Durban World Series lapsed is the reason for the significant changes in the rankings in this period, for example, the men’s singles champion Fan Zhendong lost 2,000 points at one time, and his performance in the recent year and ups and downs, the new replenishment of the points is seriously insufficient, and so slipped to the fourth place, and the men and women’s doubles original number one Wang Chuchuqin / Fan Zhendong, Tian Zhixi / Shen Yubin also lost a lot of points.
The top 10 athletes in the latest men’s singles world rankings are Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Fan Zhendong, Felix Lebrun, Hugo, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Franziska, and Lin Shidong – in addition to the aforementioned changes in Chinese table tennis team players, Hugo has moved up two spots with his Rio win, and Lin Shidong’s improvement has pushed Zhang Ben Tomokazu out of the top ten.
The top ten players in the women’s singles world rankings for this edition are Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Hina Hayata, Chen Xingtong, Shin Yubin, Zhang Moto Miwa, Szokos and Ito Mimoto. In the foreign associations, Szokos moved up 1 place, while Ito Misaki regressed and is just one step away from dropping out of the top 10, and Hirano Miyu has progressed to the 11th spot.
In doubles, although mixed doubles Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha had a round trip in Taiyuan, they had so many points in the past that they are still ranked No. 1 in this period, but the top of the men’s doubles and women’s doubles list has already changed hands, even though Wang Chuqin/Malong didn’t participate in Taiyuan and Chen Meng/Wang Manyu stopped in the quarter-finals, they managed to take the No. 1 spot in both after Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong and Tian ZhiXi/Shen YuBin’s old points lapsed.
According to the arrangement, the WTT Chongqing Championships will be held from 30 May to 3 June, but only competing for singles, no doubles events, the winning athlete will receive 1000 points, which is 2.5 times more than the regular WTT Taiyuan, Rio de Janeiro, Ma Long gave up to participate in the war, Fan Zhendong rejoined the team, so will this war lead to the duo’s rankings change again? Let’s wait and see!
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