On March 8, 2022, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the world ranking list for the 10th week of this year, because the WTT Oman Challenge was just concluded not long ago, so the position of many participants has risen, but because the points of this event are not much, so the impact is not particularly large.
It is worth mentioning that the ranking of the national table tennis veteran Xu Xin has regressed, and has now fallen out of the edge of the top ten, ranking only 10th; while the Men's Singles runner-up Lin Gaoyuan of the Oman Race has risen 2 places, surpassing the world champions Xu Xin and Bohr, and currently won the 8th place in the world; as for the 18-year-old young player Ku Man, he has soared 156 places, but unfortunately still only ranks 131st in the world.
See below for more details.
1. Singles
In the men's singles, the top ten players in the world ranking have not changed, but the position has changed slightly, that is, the ups and downs between Lin Gaoyuan and Xu Xin and Bohr just mentioned. At present, the athletes in men's singles 1 to 10 are: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Hugo, Zhang Benzhihe, Liang Jingkun, Ochalov, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Boer, Xu Xin.
As of March 8, Fan Zhendong has as many as 8598 points, surpassing the 3194 points that followed Marlon, so even if Malone wins the Grand Slam men's singles championship and gets 2000 points, he will not be able to surpass the other side. According to the latest selection measures announced by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Fan Zhendong has locked the tickets for the Asian Games in advance.
Women's singles, because none of the top ten athletes in the world ranking in the previous period participated in oman, so there was no change in everyone's ranking in this period, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Ito Mimachi, Wang Manyu firmly occupied the top 4, followed by Wang Yidi, Hayata Xina, Du Kaixuan, Ishikawa Jiachun, Feng Tianwei, Tian Zhixi ranked 5th to 10th.
Sun Yingsha, who is currently ranked No. 1, only has 405 points more than Chen Meng, the second place, so there is still a possibility of transposition between the two of them, but Ito Mimachi and Wang Manyu have more than 2,000 points less than Sun Yingsha, so the next issue is still unable to win the world's No. 1 throne, but Ito Mimachi may impact Chen Meng's 2nd place.
As mentioned earlier, although Oman played fiercely, the champion only had 400 points, so it was completely impossible to shake the existing ranking system. For example, although Liang Jingkun won the men's singles championship, he still relegated to Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Hugo, Zhang Benzhihe, and continued to maintain the 5th place in the men's singles.
And the women's singles champion Kuman's words are too few points in the previous loss, so even if she rose 156 places this time, she could not rank in the world's top 100 ranks, but she is participating in the Grand Slam tournament is entirely likely to continue to improve, which is worth everyone's attention!
2. Doubles
Due to the fact that the combinations participating in the Oman Doubles are not very strong, and the number of points in the tournament itself is not much, the new list has not changed, the national table tennis combination Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, the Chinese Taipei combination Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing, the Swedish combination Falke / Carlsson continue to win the women's doubles, mixed doubles, men's doubles top.
In addition, the combination of the top 14 in mixed doubles, the top 26 in men's doubles, and the top 11 in women's doubles has not changed at all, with Liang Jingkun/Wang Chuqin of the Chinese team rising 3 places, and Chen Xingtong/Qian Tianyi rising 251 places, but it is only better than nothing, and it has not had much substantive impact on the table tennis pattern.
So in the next WTT Grand Slam, who can win the championship and get as many as 2,000 points? The answer is about to be revealed, or let's wait and see: come on, Chinese team!