{"id":81710,"date":"2025-09-21T00:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanweisport.com\/?p=81710"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:12:53","slug":"ittf-announces-week-38-world-rankings-wang-chuqin-returns-to-no-1-hugo-at-no-3-sun-yingsha-holds-dominant-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanweisport.com\/en\/ittf-announces-week-38-world-rankings-wang-chuqin-returns-to-no-1-hugo-at-no-3-sun-yingsha-holds-dominant-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"ITTF Announces Week 38 World Rankings: Wang Chuqin Returns to No.1, Hugo at No.3! Sun Yingsha Holds Dominant Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On September 16, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) released the Week 38 World Rankings of 2025. In the men\u2019s singles, Wang Chuqin and Hugo Calderano returned to the world No.1 and No.3 positions respectively, while Lin Shidong and Tomokazu Harimoto dropped to No.2 and No.4. Lin Gaoyuan slid further down, falling out of the top 30. In the women\u2019s singles, Sun Yingsha continues to hold a commanding lead over the field, remaining the only player with over 10,000 points. Wang Manyu, who follows her, has seen a slight increase in points, but the gap between her and Sun Yingsha remains huge. Detailed breakdown below.<\/p>

This ranking update was mainly influenced by the expiration of points from last year\u2019s and this year\u2019s WTT Macao Champions and the addition of new points. Last year\u2019s men\u2019s singles champion Lin Shidong underperformed this time, stopping at the quarterfinals (losing to Denmark\u2019s Jonathan Groth Lind), while last year\u2019s semifinalist Wang Chuqin (who had lost to Lin Shidong then) claimed the title this year. As a result, Lin\u2019s points decreased while Wang\u2019s increased, leading to a swap in their rankings.<\/p>

It is worth noting, however, that although Wang Chuqin has returned to the men\u2019s singles world No.1 position, he only leads Lin Shidong by 50 points. The gap is extremely small, and just one tournament could easily reverse their positions again.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A similar situation occurred with Hugo Calderano and Tomokazu Harimoto<\/a>. Last year, Hugo did not participate in the WTT Macao Champions, while Harimoto was eliminated in the second round (round of 16), earning only 90 points \u2014 too few to be included among his eight valid results. This year, Hugo reached the final in Macao and earned silver, boosting his points. Harimoto, however, lost in the first round and only gained 15 points, which again were insufficient to count toward his valid results. Consequently, Harimoto\u2019s total points remained unchanged, but Hugo overtook him by 50 points and climbed to third, while Harimoto fell to fourth.<\/p>

Aside from the four players mentioned above, there were no changes among the rest of the men\u2019s singles top 10. The latest rankings are as follows:<\/p>

  1. Wang Chuqin<\/p><\/li>

  2. Lin Shidong<\/p><\/li>

  3. Hugo Calderano<\/p><\/li>

  4. Tomokazu Harimoto<\/p><\/li>

  5. Truls M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh<\/p><\/li>

  6. Liang Jingkun<\/p><\/li>

  7. Alexis Lebrun<\/p><\/li>

  8. Benedikt Duda<\/p><\/li>

  9. Xiang Peng<\/p><\/li>

  10. Darko Jorgi\u0107<\/p><\/li><\/ol>

    Meanwhile, China\u2019s Lin Gaoyuan \u2014 who has shown a decline in form and missed several international competitions recently \u2014 has dropped to world No.31.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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