On January 6, 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation finally announced the first world ranking of the new year after a two-day postponement, but due to the recent calm of the table tennis world and no international competitions, everyone's ranking has been in place, without any change, and the three companies of China and Japan continue to divide the first place in the five major projects, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng still occupy the first place in the singles list, and Ito Mimakoto ranks the highest in the foreign association.
Originally, everyone thought that the postponement of the world ranking of the Table Tennis Federation was due to new changes in the calculation of points, and now it seems that this is not the case, but although the current ranking still has a lag, it can also roughly reflect the pattern of table tennis, and the two major opponents of national table tennis - Japan and Sweden have become a corner, once again creating huge pressure on the Chinese team, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce!
1. Singles
In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong has maintained the world's first for 19 months, and in the second half of last year, he continued to pull away from others with the championship of the World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup final; in the women's singles, Chen Meng won the top of the list for two and a half consecutive years, but because the results began to decline after the Tokyo Olympics, there was a great tendency to be caught up by Sun Yingsha.
At present, half of the top ten athletes in the men's singles world ranking are foreign association players, namely Hugo, Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Ocharov, Pol, and the national table tennis players seem to be more, but Ma Long and Xu Xin have recently faded out of the official competition, so only Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun are left.
As for the top ten athletes in the women's singles, there are also four athletes from the foreign association, namely Ito Mimako, Ishikawa Yoshinori, Zheng Yijing, and Feng Tianwei, but there is Ding Ning, who has not retired, who has not retired in the national table tennis side, who is ranked sixth, Zhu Yuling, who has been recuperating for a long time, ranks tenth, and the remaining Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, and Wang Yidi are just the top four athletes who have entered the Houston World Table Tennis Championships.
In summary, when we put aside the lagging information in the world rankings, we can see that the players of the foreign association have indeed made some progress compared with previous years, but in general, the national table tennis women's team still has a huge advantage, and the men's team has Fan Zhendong Town Field, which is not a big problem, but other young athletes have to cheer up.
2. Doubles
In terms of doubles, Japan's Mizutani Hayabusa/Ito Mishimasa still ranks first in mixed doubles, but their pairing has long since disintegrated: Mizutani Hayabusa has retired, and Ito has no intention of participating in mixed doubles competitions recently, after all, she has won the mixed doubles championships of the Olympic Games and the Japanese National Championships, and she has no motivation.
As for the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles champion combination, Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha is still only ranked 5th in the world, mainly because they did not participate in the Olympic Games, so they lost a great opportunity to save points. The men's doubles and women's doubles are not Olympic sports, so the world table tennis champion Falke/Karlsson (Sweden) and Wang Manyu/Sun Yingsha are currently ranked first in the world.
Starting January 12, Düsseldorf, Germany, will host two consecutive WTT races, so the points of the participating athletes will definitely change. But unfortunately, due to the impact of schedule, national table tennis and Japanese masters are not expected to participate, and the core main players of strong teams such as Germany and South Korea are almost no one to register, so the position of the top athletes will continue to remain stable.
And the WTT Macau Tournament that started on January 19, although there are a large number of national table tennis world champions to join, but there are no points to earn, followed by the focus of the February sports world is the Winter Olympics, the probability of table tennis hosting large-scale international events is not large, so we may have to wait until March to see a big change in the standings, so let's wait and see the changes together!