The first game of 2022 national table tennis, WTT Macau, has ended, but because there are no points in the event, the world ranking of the Chinese team athletes has not changed at all. On January 25, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the ranking list for the fourth week of the new year.
At present, the athletes and combinations in the top ten positions in the world are still unchanged, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa, Falke / Carlson continue to divide the throne of the 5 major events, but a small number of players who participated in the second WTT Düsseldorf Have risen, which is better than nothing!
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In the past week, the international table tennis world has hosted two competitions, namely the WTT Macau Tournament and the second WTT Düsseldorf Tournament. But the difference is that the former is almost equivalent to the civil war of national table tennis, 35 people participated in the war, 30 people came from the Chinese team, after the first round of competition, the foreign association 5 people were completely destroyed, and the International Table Tennis Federation did not think that this was a regular WTT event.
The second WTT Düsseldorf tournament originally did not have many points, and there were no masters to join, so the impact on the world rankings was also very small, which also made the top players in the latest ranking table almost no change.
In the men's singles, the 5 national table tennis players continue to rank in the top ten, namely Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin in the 1st to 3rd places, Lin Gaoyuan in the 7th place, and Liang Jingkun in the 8th place. Brazil's Hugo is no. 4, Japan's Zhang Benzhi and 5th, Chinese Taipei's Lin Yunru is no. 6, and Germany's two major world champions Ochalov and Bohr are ranked 9th and 10th respectively.
Among the athletes who rose in the rankings for competing in Düsseldorf, the world table tennis men's doubles runner-up Yonescu was the highest, and he rose two places last week with the men's singles runner-up at the Düsseldorf Tournament and is currently ranked 55th in the world. As for the German star Francesca, although he won the men's singles championship, he did not bring many points, so he still stayed in the 17th place.
In the women's singles, the 6 national table tennis players ranked in the top ten, namely Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha in the 1st and 2nd places, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Ding Ning (retired) in the 4th and 6th places, and Zhu Yuling in the 10th place. Japan's Ito and Ishikawa Yoshinori ranked 3rd and 7th respectively, Chinese Taipei's Zheng Yijing ranked 8th, and Singapore's world champion Feng Tianwei continued to lead Liu Shiwen to 10th.
Although Egypt's Mesself did not achieve a good result in Düsseldorf, she is still the only two athletes in the women's singles world top 80 to rise, from 37th to 36th, while the other is Austria's Sorja, who has changed from 86th to 80th.
In mixed doubles, the Serbian duo of Levaga/Luplescu, formerly ranked 82nd in the world, has risen 38 places with the victory of the Düsseldorf Tournament and is currently ranked 44th in the world, while none of their previous combinations have changed in the rankings, of which the top four are: Mizutani Hayabusa (retired) / Ito Mishimasa, Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen, Lebison / Yuan Jiannan.
The new World Table Tennis Champion group Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha was ranked 5th, and the runner-up Zhang Benzhihe/Hayata Xina was 7th, sandwiched between the finals winners Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan.
In men's doubles, the World Table Tennis runner-up duo Ofbras (Spain) / Jonescu (Romania) rose to 6th place in the world, while the French duo felix/Alex, who defeated them in the final in Düsseldorf, soared 82nd place to reach the 52nd position in the world.
At present, there is no change in the 5 pairs in front of the men's doubles, namely Falke/Carlson, Hwang Jin-ting/Lim Jong-hoon, Yukiya Utada/Hayasuke Tokami, Liang Jingkun/Lin Gaoyuan, and Lee Sang-so/Jung Young-sik.
In women's doubles, Düsseldorf runners-up Debra/Giorgia (Italy) went from 36th to 31st, while champion Mantz/Million Yen (Germany) moved up 19 places to 37th.
As for the world's top four combinations: Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, Ishikawa Yoshinori / Hirano Miyu, Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina, Tian Zhixi / Shin Yubin - in the three doubles ranking lists, the lag in women's doubles is relatively less serious, which also shows that the competitive situation of the project is relatively clearer.
With the Upcoming Winter Olympics in February, international table tennis competitions are almost always youth competitions, with little effect on the change in world rankings. But in March, the table tennis world will be very lively, and the WTT Grand Slam Tournament will finally debut, when the national table tennis and Japan, South Korea, Germany, Sweden and other strong teams will definitely actively participate, wonderful and worthy of attention!
So can Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng still occupy the top spot in the singles list? Will there be a chance to reshuffle the rankings in doubles events? The answer won't be revealed until more than a month later, so let's wait and see!