Sun Yingsha won the WTT World Cup final in 2021, but the National Sports Bureau's Competitive Sports Department did not count her as a world champion, which caused concern. On January 18, 2022, the ITTF updated the world ranking rules, and the ITTF World Cup is still on the list, so the WT World Cup champion naturally cannot be counted as a singles world champion.
As for whether the WTT World Cup final champion is a singles world champion, one comes from the three words "World Cup" in the name, which naturally reminds people of the previous singles World Cup; the other is that the Singles World Cup was not held in 2021. In the final of the first WTT World Cup in 2021, Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship and Sun Yingsha won the women's singles championship.
However, when the Athletics Department of the General Administration of Sport announced the 2021 Chinese Player World Championship, the national table tennis was four at the Tokyo Olympics and four at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships. The WTT World Cup final was not settled, which means that Sun Yingsha did not achieve a breakthrough of 0 singles world championships.
2022 World Ranking Rules (Screenshot)
On January 18, 2022, the ITTF updated the World Ranking Rules for the first time in 2022, and in the competition for calculating singles world ranking points, "WTT Cup Finals" and "ITTF World Cup" were among them, which means that the "ITTF World Cup", that is, the Singles World Cup, has not been cancelled.
So for Sun Yingsha, the breakthrough of 0 for the singles world champion has not yet been achieved. Of course, this WTT World Cup final women's singles champion is a more important champion for Sun Yingsha, which has made her end the singles champion drought of the official competition. For Sun Yingsha, who is a post-00s generation, it is only a matter of time before she wins the singles world championship.