Recently, the International Table Tennis Federation released the latest edition of the world rankings.
Since this year, the national table tennis has only participated in one WTT Macau Championship, although the prize money is generous, but there are no points, which also leads to little change in the world rankings.
In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong continues to rank first in the world with 8598 points, and his points are more than 3100 points more than the second-ranked Ma Long. It is foreseeable that for a long time to come, almost no one will be able to shake Fan Zhendong's position as the number one in the world.
Marlon, a 33-year-old veteran, is ranked second in the world. Hugo and Zhang Benzhihe ranked third and fourth.
Liang Jingkun is ranked fifth in the world, while veteran Xu Xin has slipped to ninth in the world ranking.
In the women's singles, Sun Yingsha continues to rank first in the world. But she only has 400 points more than second-placed Chen Meng, who is still ranked third by Japan's Ito Mimachi, while Wang Manyu is ranked fourth in the world.
Since the WTT Singapore Grand Slam is about to start, it can be said that after the WTT Singapore match, the world ranking of the women's singles side may change greatly, and Sun Yingsha will not be able to retain her world number one position at that time, there will be great suspense.
Last week's world ranking, due to the cancellation of Ding Ning's ranking, the world ranking of veteran Liu Shiwen was able to rise one place to sixteenth, but this week, Liu Shiwen's world ranking was surpassed by a 39-year-old veteran, causing Liu Shiwen's world ranking to decline again to 17th.
And the 39-year-old veteran who surpassed Liu Shiwen is Han Ying, a famous German-Chinese player.
Han Ying won the final women's singles title in the European Table Tennis Singles Round of 16 last week, which also brought Han Ying's world ranking to 14th!
Of course, at present, for Liu Shiwen, the world ranking is not the most important, and the world ranking does not explain everything, although Liu Shiwen is ranked low in the world, but Liu Shiwen's current overall strength can still be said to be the world's top five levels.
At the WTT Macau Competition at the beginning of this year, Liu Shiwen defeated Wang Yidi and Sun Yingsha successively to reach the final women's singles final, although she lost to Wang Manyu in the final, Liu Shiwen's performance proved that the veteran is still very competitive.
If Liu Shiwen can achieve good results in this WTT Singapore Grand Slam, her world ranking will usher in a leap forward!