Women's table tennis rankings have changed dramatically! Stepping down to the world's number one position is not necessarily a bad thing for Chen Meng
On the last day of the Year of the Ox in the lunar calendar, and at the end of january in the Gregorian calendar, the World Table Tennis Federation has released the latest table tennis individual world rankings. As soon as this ranking was released, it aroused the warm attention of various sessions, and Sun Yingsha's name was once high in various heat lists. In particular, the fans who like Sun Yingsha are even happier, because As a young player under the age of 22, With her stable performance in the 2021 season, Sasha surpassed Chen Meng and stood for the first time in the world table tennis women's singles ranking. For Sun Yingsha, of course, this is a proof of strength, as well as the encouragement of self-confidence, and also paves the way for her to participate in the Competition for Olympic places in the Paris Olympic cycle. In the case of her recent unexpected loss in the first semi-final of the WTT Macau Tournament, there was such good news, which also created conditions for Sun Yingsha to reduce her frustration, reinvigorate and strive for new breakthroughs.
Of course, it is necessary to remind everyone that Sun Yingsha's points are indeed very high at present, reaching 7580 points. Chen Meng, who has occupied the first place in the world ranking for more than four seasons, has a gap of more than 400 points with Sun Yingsha in the personal standings. The two people exchanged each other in terms of ranking, which also proved that Sun Yingsha, as a young new generation player, has indeed launched a new challenge in front of the elder sister. The biggest competitor of the national table tennis women's team, Ito Mimachi, and Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, there is a large point gap, although she is only behind these two players, ranking third in the world rankings, but the point gap between them is more than 2,000 points, but also from one side to prove that Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng still play very stable in the world competition. In particular, Sun Yingsha seized every opportunity to appear and became one of the brightest stars on the field. Wang Manyu, the singles champion of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships, still has a gap of more than 200 points compared to Ito Mimachi. This also shows that Wang Manyu also needs to improve the stability of his play. This is also the most important problem for her to solve in future world competitions.
Regardless of what fans and friends think about the current calculation of the world ranking and everyone's ranking, at least I think that the current change can be said to be a win-win situation for Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng. Because Sun Yingsha has recently lacked a head coach, and there have been certain ups and downs in the performance, and even lost in front of the veteran Liu Shiwen, the most important thing is that she lost the game to Liu Shiwen, which made people feel her anxiety, which is of course not a good thing for a new generation of core players. So at this time, just when Sun Yingsha's world ranking has improved and she has come to the first place in a historic way, it will undoubtedly make her mentality more stable, in order to strive to get rid of the previous ups and downs as soon as possible and regain the previous state of life on the field. That is to say, the significance of ranking first in the world itself to Sun Yingsha may not be great, but the encouragement at the spiritual level will be great.
For Chen Meng, because she won the Olympic singles championship, especially in several key competitions after returning from the Olympics, she lost the game, so she put pressure and baggage on her back. The more you want to play well, the more you lose in some key games and suffer from injuries continuously. At this time, letting go of the aura of the Olympic singles champion and the world ranking number one will help Chen Meng to regain his previous more focused state, and strive to put himself in the position of an impactor in the future internal competition and competition, and get back on the road. Especially in the case that Wang Manyu's rise momentum is very strong, and Wang Yidi is also chasing after him, Chen Meng needs to help him improve his ability to fight hard and difficult battles by focusing on training and competition. Let us also look forward to Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng to show the style of Chinese women's table tennis together in the 2022 World Table Tennis Competition.
