On January 30, Beijing time, the World Table Tennis Federation announced the latest ranking, and in the women's singles, Sun Yingsha reached the top and pressed Chen Meng. There have also been huge changes in the men's singles, with Brazil's Hugo Caldrano rising to No. 3 and Xu Xin slipping to No. 9!
Chen Meng is the Olympic women's singles champion, Sun Yingsha did not win the women's singles championship in the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, but because the points rule is based on 20% of the previous points, plus the cumulative ranking of the points obtained in 2021, the women's singles ranking has now changed dramatically!
Sun Yingsha topped the world's No. 1, which is the first time she became the world's No. 1, Chen Meng's No. 2, Ito Mimachi's no. 3rd, Wang Manyu's 4th, and Wang Yidi's 5th! Ding Ning, who has retired, slipped to 13th, and Liu Shiwen ranked 17th!
In the men's singles, the ranking has also changed dramatically, although Fan Zhendong and Ma Long are still in the top 2 in the world, but Xu Xin, who was originally ranked 3rd, slipped to 9th! After all, Xu Xin did not participate in the Olympic singles competition and the World Table Tennis Championships, and the ranking decline was reasonable. However, the decline is huge!
The top 5 in the men's singles world are Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Hugo, Zhang Benzhihe and Liang Jingkun!
Obviously, as a post-00s, Sun Yingsha has already carried the banner of Chinese table tennis and become the new world No. 1 with the youngest age on the list!
After winning the WTT World Cup, Sun Yingsha once said that she wanted to rest well first, and now that she is ranked No. 1 in the world, Sun Yingsha may not be able to rest well, and her pressure will become greater.
At the first time, CCTV spoke out and expressed congratulations to Sun Yingsha. Objectively speaking, in the absence of a competent coach, Sun Yingsha can reach the top of the world's No. 1, which is worth affirming!
Of course, Sun Yingsha's goal is the Paris Olympics in 2 years, and she hopes to participate in singles competitions, but even if she is the no. 1 in the world, it will not be easy to represent the Chinese team in singles. After all, the national table tennis also has Wang Manyu and Chen Meng' 2 best players. As for Chen Meng, you can put down the pressure, she is not the world's No. 1, but still has the world's No. 1 level, and the same is true of Wang Manyu, who is currently the strongest player in the women's table tennis world.