In the latest edition of the world rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation, attentive fans have found that in the world rankings of women's singles, Grand Slam winner Ding Ning's world ranking has been quietly cancelled.
This also means that the former hegemon of table tennis will completely withdraw from the table tennis world.
In fact, Ding Ning's world ranking was cancelled long before the fans expected, after all, Ding Ning has not participated in international competitions for too long. In an official international competition, Ding Ning's last appearance was at the Qatar Open in March 2020, when Ding Ning lost to Japan's Ito Mimachi by a 0-4 score in the semi-finals! And this also made Ding Ning questioned by the fans, coupled with the postponement of the later Olympic Games, Ding Ning finally made the decision to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympic competition!
As a veteran, Ding Ning's performance in the Tokyo Olympic cycle is actually very good, she won the women's singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships for the third time in 2017, the Women's Singles Championship of the World Cup in 2018, and the women's singles semifinals of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2019.
Objectively speaking, if the Tokyo Olympic Games are not postponed, Ding Ning is entirely likely to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games!
However, due to the postponement of the Olympic Games, coupled with the fact that young young players Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu have also risen in an all-round way, Ding Ning's decision to withdraw from the Olympic competition is completely a correct choice.
Looking back on Ding Ning's career, it can be said that it is a very perfect career!
Ding Ning's playing style is almost a continuation of Zhang Yining's playing style, but Ding Ning is not as good as Zhang Yining in terms of explosive power, and At the same time, Ding Ning is easy to withdraw from the stage in the game, and is often beaten by the opponent in the game, which also gives people an illusion that Ding Ning's playing style is relatively backward.
But although Ding Ning is often beaten backwards and backwards in the game and looks very passive, Ding Ning can always rely on stable play and laugh to the end!
Despite experiencing the defeat of the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships and the punishment storm of the London Olympic Games, Ding Ning still stubbornly persevered, and finally with the results of 1 Olympic Games, 3 World Table Tennis Championships and 3 World Cups, it was enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Wang Nan Zhang Yining, and finally became a legend!
In the women's team final of the Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, Ding Ning, who was responsible for the lead, played against Singapore's Feng Tianwei in the first set, and as a result, Ding Ning led 2-0 in the big score and led 8-3 in the third set, but was reversed by the other side, and in the end, the Chinese team lost to Singapore with a score of 1-3 and did not win the championship.
After losing, Ding Ning secretly swore that he must personally win back the lost championship!
Sure enough, two years later, in the final of the women's team of the World Table Tennis Championships, Ding Ning once again took the lead, and it was still Feng Tianwei who fought against feng Tianwei, this time, Ding Ning won back the lost championship with a crisp victory!
In the women's singles final of the London Olympic Games, Ding Ning played against Li Xiaoxia, but Ding Ning's squat serve in the game was repeatedly punished by the referee, and in the end, Ding Ning's mentality collapsed and he lost to Li Xiaoxia!
Four years later, at the Rio Olympics, Ding Ning's mentality was more stable, and he finally defeated Li Xiaoxia 4-3 and achieved the great cause of grand slam!
The most classic match in Ding Ning's career is the women's singles final of the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships.
In the women's singles final of the Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, Ding Ning played against Liu Shiwen.
With one set to go, Ding Ning won three consecutive sets to take a 3-1 lead, but Liu Shiwen tenaciously pulled two sets in a row to drag the game into the decider.
Shortly after the start of the decider, Liu Shiwen moved Ding Ning at a large angle, and in order to save the ball, Ding Ning sprained his ankle! Sitting on the ground in pain, I had to apply for a medical suspension!
Many fans are very worried, can Ding Ning still stick to the game? Even if he can persevere, in the face of Liu Shiwen, whose morale is greatly boosted, it is difficult for Ding Ning to win and ascend to the heavens!
Pause back, although every step is drilled into the pain of the heart, but Ding Ning gritted his teeth and carried it down, can not run widely, then stand in the near stage and fight hard!
In the end, Ding Ning defeated Liu Shiwen under extremely difficult circumstances and won his second World Table Tennis Championships singles championship!
And this game has also become a classic battle of Ding Ning's career, from this game, we can also see Ding Ning's spirit of never giving up the courage to fight!
And this is precisely the most fundamental reason why Ding Ning can become a generation of legendary superstars!
Now that Ding Ning's world ranking has been canceled, it also means that Ding Ning will completely withdraw from the world table tennis world! But Ding Ning's fighting spirit of never giving up is always worth learning from young athletes!
Finally, I also wish Ding Ning better and better in his future work and life, come on!