On March 22, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially updated the world rankings for the 12th week, and since the past period of time, WTT held Singapore Grand Slam tournaments, the world rankings of men's and women's singles have been updated. Among them, in the women's singles, Chen Meng, who won the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles championship, regained the first place in the women's singles world with the harvest of 2,000 points, and Sun Yingsha fell from the original first to the third. In terms of the rest of the players, Wang Manyu, who won the runner-up, scored 1400 points, thanks to the overtaking of Japan's Famous Ito Mimachi, rising to the third place, behind Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha.
In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong, who won the Singapore Grand Slam title, won the world's No. 1, Ma Long followed him in No. 2, while Liang Jingkun, who reached the semifinals, rose to No. 3 with a 700-point advantage, creating the best world ranking in his career. Veteran Xu Xin rose from the original 10th to 8th. It can be said that many players in national table tennis are on the rise.
Among them, the ranking of the national table tennis captain Ma Long in the world is surprising enough, you know, the dragon team has not participated in the world championships since the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the major competitions with multiple points during the period, including the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup finals, have not participated. It was not until 2022 that Malone returned to the international arena, but even so, Malone still maintained the world No. 2 ranking, and led the Liang Jingkun behind him by more than 1800 points. Ma Long is worthy of being the first person in the history of national table tennis.
In women's singles, Chen Meng's return to the world's No. 1 is the biggest highlight, before participating in the Singapore Grand Slam, Chen Meng has not won the championship for more than 200 days, for this reason, this time in Singapore to win the championship, Chen Meng is to break the championship drought. At the same time, Chen Meng's victory this time is full of gold, the semi-finals and finals are 4-3 defeated Wang Yidi and Wang Manyu, Chen Meng has lost many games with these two opponents in the past, but this time one by one revenge, the championship has enough gold content. Returning to world No. 1 also proves once again that Chen Meng is still one of the best women's singles players in the active competition.
Of course, the overall strength of the national table tennis women's team at this stage is very outstanding, in the latest ranking, Chen Meng is followed by Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, Japan's famous Ito Mimachi slipped to 4th, followed by Wang Yidi, and Wang Yidi is less than 300 points away from Ito Mimachi, and it is very promising to complete the surpass in a short period of time. To this end, the current national table tennis women's team still has an absolute advantage over Japanese women's table tennis, and it is difficult for Ito to create a decent threat to them.
There are many remaining WTT events in 2022, of which the World Table Tennis Championships team competition is the national table tennis need to focus on preparation, in order to prepare for the World Table Tennis Championships in advance, the head coach of the national table tennis Qin Zhijian also gave the main players a holiday, including Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, including 7 Olympic champions withdrew from the Doha Star Competition, the purpose is to have a good rest, get time to adjust the state. At present, China's national table tennis still occupies an absolute dominance in the world table tennis arena, and this is true for both men and women's singles!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)