Recently, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the fifth week of 2022. There have been many changes in the ranking this time.
Let's look at the men's table tennis rankings first. In the first place is still Fan Zhendong. He accumulated 8598 points. Malone continues in second place. He accumulated 5404 points, 3194 points less than Fan Zhendong. The players in the back are many points worse than Fan Zhendong. If nothing else, Fan Zhendong can occupy the world's number one for a long time.
There are a lot of changes in the rankings later. Xu Xin, who was originally ranked No. 3 for a long time, dropped 6 places in the ranking and is now ranked 9th. If this continues, it is estimated that it will fall outside the top ten. Brazilian player Hugo moved up one spot in the rankings to third. And Malone will gradually reduce the number of games, and Hugo will only be 492 points less than Malone. Later, it is not ruled out that Hugo surpassed Malone to rise to second place. This will be a rare high ranking for South American players.
Zhang Benzhihe also rose one place in the ranking to fourth. Recently, Liang Jingkun, whose achievements are average, has risen a lot. He moved up 3 places to 5th place. German player Ochalov also moved up three places to sixth place. Ochalov is very strong and does not rule out continuing to rise. Lin Yunru dropped one place to rank 7th. German player Pol moved up two places to 8th. Lin Gaoyuan dropped 3 places and barely ranked 10th.
The top ten players, except for Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, have not changed, and the rankings of other players have changed. Among the top ten players, there are 5 national table tennis players. However, it feels like the advantage is not as strong as before. Especially from 11th to 100th, except for Wang Chuqin in the 12th place and Zhao Zihao in the 38th place, the others are all players of the Foreign Association. It can also be said that the top 100 are also 7 national table tennis players. By the time Ma Long and Xu Xin retired, there were fewer players at the top of the national table tennis rankings. The young players of Chinese men's table tennis should grow up quickly and take over the class of Ma Long and Xu Xin.
Looking at the women's table tennis rankings, there are also many changes. The biggest change is that Sun Yingsha has finally risen to the first place.
Sun Yingsha scored 7580 points, rising to the first place for the first time. This is the first time that a "post-00" player has ranked first in the world. Sun Yingsha's upward momentum is very good, and the future is unlimited. If she can improve her winning percentage against Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, it will consolidate her position.
Chen Mengji scored 7175 points, 405 points less than Sun Yingsha, and fell to second place in the ranking. Chen Meng ranked first in the world in women's table tennis in June 2019 and was ranked no. 1 until the previous week. She won gold medals in women's singles and women's team at the Tokyo Olympics. Originally thought that her time had come, I did not expect that she would not achieve good results in the future. The Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the WTT World Cup have not won the championship, and the point advantage is slowly being eroded. This week was finally pulled down by Sun Yingsha and fell to second place. The problem is that Chen Meng is already 26 years old. Older age, the state will definitely decline. If Chen Meng wants to return to the world first, it will be a little difficult.
Ito is still in third place, Wang Manyu is fourth, and Wang Yidi is fifth. There is no change in the ranking of these three people. Japanese table tennis player Hina Hayata rose sharply in the rankings, up 10 places. She was sixth. Hina Hayata competed in a number of WTT events in 2021 and achieved good results. Hina Hayata rose quickly and was already a player behind Ito in the Japanese women's table tennis rankings. She will pose a certain threat to Chinese women's table tennis. Hong Kong's Du Kaixuan moved up five places and also entered the top ten to seventh place.
Japan's Ishikawa Yoshinori dropped one place and can still rank eighth. Singapore's Feng Tianwei was ninth, and South Korean player Tian Zhixi rose five places to tenth. Puerto Rican player Diaz moved up six places to 11th place. It is estimated that she will be able to enter the top ten in the future.
Six of the top 10 players have changed their rankings. And there are only 4 national table tennis players in the top ten. Ding Ning, who has retired, finally fell outside the top ten. She dropped seven places to 13th. Zhu Yuling dropped 6 places, and also fell outside the top 10, ranking only 16th. Liu Shiwen continued to decline, and she only ranked 17th. There are 15 national table tennis players in the top 100 women's table tennis.
South Korea's youngster Shin Yu-bin rose 19 places to 46th. Chinese beauty player Liu Weishan also rose 19 places to 47th.