On March 22, the International Table Tennis Federation released the latest edition of the world rankings, and there were significant changes, and the national table tennis men's and women's teams achieved the feat of winning the top three. From a personal point of view, Chen Meng surpassed Sun Yingsha and returned to the throne of women's table tennis world number one. Fan Zhendong ranked first in the men's table tennis world, achieved a cliff-like lead, and the gap with the latecomers was getting bigger and bigger.
In the just-concluded Singapore Grand Slam competition, Fan Zhendong fought 7 rounds in the men's singles final, narrowly defeating captain Ma Long and winning the first Grand Slam men's singles championship. Fan Zhendong, who is the world's number one, has widened the point gap, and his current points are as high as 10598 points, which is the only player with more than 10,000 points, and the second-ranked Malone has only 6804 points.
After Fan Zhendong and Ma Long, the big fat Liang Jingkun jumped two places in the world ranking to the third place in the world, setting a personal best record. Next, from the fourth to the 10th place: Hugo Calderano, Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Ocharov, Xu Xin, Boer, Lin Gaoyuan. Wang Chuqin ranked 12th, still failing to break into the world's top 10.
Also in the Singapore Grand Slam competition, Chen Meng narrowly defeated Wang Yidi in the semifinals and defeated Wang Manyu in the final to win the women's singles championship. With this heavyweight singles champion, Chen Meng finally surpassed Sun Yingsha and returned to the world number one position, with her points reaching 9175 points. Sun Yingsha stopped in the women's singles top 4, and her total points reached 8280 points, retreating to the second place in the world.
With the grand slam women's singles runner-up, Wang Manyu surpassed Ito Mimako in total points and jumped to third in the world, while Ito retreated to fourth in the world. Women's table tennis fifth to tenth place: Wang Yidi, Hayata Xina, Ishikawa Yoshijun, Du Kaixuan, Diaz, Feng Tianwei.
National table tennis world champion Chen Xingtong stopped the first round of the Grand Slam tournament, lost to Wang Yidi, and her ranking also slipped one place to 14th in the world, and Liu Shiwen ranked 16th in the world.
The national table tennis coaching staff is very satisfied with the result of Singapore's Grand Slam winning 5 crowns, after all, while achieving the championship, it has also completed the coverage of the top three in the world ranking, which can be said to have successfully completed the task of the competition. However, the fierce confrontation of the Grand Slam tournament has made these main players consume too much, like Wang Manyu against Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, who are all 7 innings of the war, and she said that she feels a little low blood sugar.
Taking into account various considerations, the national table tennis team decided that the Olympic champions and main players participating in Singapore collectively withdrew from the Doha Star Challenge and returned directly to China for recuperation. According to the Asian Games selection method announced by the Table Tennis Association, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng are given priority to the singles quota of the Asian Games with the dual qualifications of Grand Slam champion + world number one. Ma Long and Sun Yingsha, who ranked second in the world, also qualified for singles.
Although the main players of the national table tennis do not go to Doha to compete, there are still non-main players who are participating in the Doha regular challenge, and the subsequent star challenge, depending on who can withstand the pressure and defeat the foreign experts to win the championship? Comparatively speaking, the results of the men's team may be worse, and the women's team is still somewhat attractive.
For example, in the Doha regular season challenge, 11 men's singles players in the national table tennis men's singles participated in the qualifiers, and only 3 people advanced to the main tournament. As a result, in the first round of the main game, Liu Dingshuo was swept out by Hugo, and Zhao Zihao and Yuan Licen advanced to the next round. In the first round of the women's singles tournament, young player Qi Fei eliminated Zheng Yijing and joined hands with teammates Fan Siqi, Shi Xunyao, Yang Huijing and Zhang Rui to advance to the round of 16.