On May 10, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the latest edition of the world rankings for the 19th week of 2022. This week's world rankings have changed as competition for the WTT Fremont Regional Tournament in the United States has just ended today.
Because the participants in the WTT Fremont Regional Tournament are all low-ranked athletes, it does not have much impact on the overall situation of the world rankings, whether it is men's singles or women's singles, compared to the top 25 last week, there is no change. The top three in men's singles and the top four in women's singles are still covered by national table tennis. Let's take a look at the details.
The top three men's singles finishers were Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Liang Jingkun. Although the ITTF cleared the initial points for 2020 last week, Fan Zhendong's points are still as high as 6900 points, higher than the second place Ma Long's 3500 points, he can be at the top of the list for a long time. Fourth place was Brazil's Hugo Caldenola.
After the change in the points rules, many players have risen sharply in the rankings, such as Sweden's 20-year-old moremore Moregaard who rose to fifth in the world in one fell swoop, and Slovenian athlete Dako Djočík rose to sixth place in the world, and the two also maintained this ranking this week. Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Ocharov and Aruna ranked 7-10th.
Wang Chuqin ranked 13th, Lin Gaoyuan ranked 18th, Yuan Licen ranked 32nd, Liu Dingshuo ranked 46th, Zhou Qihao ranked 55th, Zhao Zihao ranked 57th, Xiang Peng ranked 64th, Xue Fei ranked 76th, Xu Xin ranked 83rd, and Lin Shidong ranked 85th.
The top four women's singles players are Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi. Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha are only 225 points apart, and there is still competition between the two. Wang Manyu is 3500 points, lower than Sun Yingsha's 1500 points. This was followed by Hina Hayata and Mimako Ito, who ranked 5th and 6th respectively. Du Kaixuan, Han Ying, A. Diaz and Ishikawa Yoshinori ranked 7-10th.
Liu Weishan 17th, Fan Siqi 20th, Chen Xingtong 27th, Ku Man 34th, Zhang Rui 45th, Qian Tianyi 57th, He Zhuojia 68th, Qi Fei 70th, Shi Xunyao 76th, Liu Shiwen 80th.
Among the top 100 athletes in the world rankings this week, the most popular jumper was the WTT Fremont Regional Championships men's and women's singles champions, Japanese table tennis players Shikatsuka Anduka Sasao, of which Shinozo Daiden rose 29 places to 59th in the world, while Asuka Sasao soared in number one, and after rising 618 places, she is currently ranked 92nd.
After removing the initial points, the vast majority of athletes have less than 1,000 points, and there are also many athletes with less than 500 points and less than 200 points. Asuka Sasao's name did not appear in the points ranking before the side matches, but this time winning the championship (150 points) put her in the top 100. For athletes with low rankings, their world rankings change at the end of each competition, and if you want to get a high ranking, you need to compete more.
The top 20 in the three doubles have not changed, the top three in the men's doubles are the Japanese combination Yukiya Utada/Hayabusa Tokami, the Swedish combination Karlsson/Fark, the national table tennis combination Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin; the top three in the women's doubles are the national table tennis team Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu, the Japanese table tennis combination Ito Mimachi/Hayata Hina, the Luxembourg combination Ni Xialian/Denut; the top three in the mixed doubles are Chinese Taipei team Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing, the national table tennis combination Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, and the French team Lebesson/Yuan Jiannan.