With the end of the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament, the World Table Tennis Federation has also updated the latest edition of the world rankings, due to the high number of points in the Grand Slam tournament, so the world ranking has also changed a lot. Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship in Singapore, surpassing 10,000 points for the first time in points, continuing to widen the gap between him and Malone. The Dragons continued to rank second, and Liang Jingkun, with his excellent performance of third place, reached the 3rd place in the world ranking. The new three main forces of national table tennis have been determined, Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan have fallen behind, while Liu Guoliang's heavy use has not yet entered the top ten.
In the words of Qin Zhijian, the national table tennis men's team has played an excellent role in the three generations of the Singapore Grand Slam. Among the older generation of players, Ma Long defeated Wang Chuqin, Lin Yunru and Liang Jingkun in a row to reach the men's singles final, and fought fiercely with Fan Zhendong until the decisive round before losing. Among the Mesozoic players, Fan Zhendong won 2 gold medals in men's singles and men's doubles, and the king was full of domineering. Among the new generation of players, Wang Chuqin won 2 championships in men's doubles and mixed doubles, with great momentum to succeed Xu Xin. Coupled with Liang Jingkun, who is also a Mesozoic player, entered the men's singles top 4, the overall performance of national table tennis is indeed very good.
Such an outstanding performance is also reflected in the world rankings, Fan Zhendong with 2,000 points in Singapore, the total personal points exceeded 10,000 points for the first time, reaching 10,598 points, and the gap between him and Malone behind him further widened. Many fans also sighed that Fan Zhendong was the first fault line. And Malone also relied on the runner-up 1400 points, widening the gap with the players behind him and sitting in the second place. With 700 points from the men's singles runner-up, Liang Jingkun surpassed Hugo Calderano who was out of the first round and Japan's Zhang Benzhihe to a career high of 3rd place.
So far, the national table tennis men's team has won the top 3 in the men's singles world ranking, and also let the pattern of the new three main forces of national table tennis be determined. Ma Long and Fan Zhendong naturally needless to say, Liang Jingkun won the third place in the World Table Tennis, the third place in the National Games and the third place in the Grand Slam, and is already the third main force of national table tennis after Ma Long and Fan Zhendong. The three of them have also basically determined to qualify for the Asian Games, plus a Wang Chuqin who has advanced by virtue of the selection rules for young players, and the 5 Asian Games quotas for the national table tennis men's team have been determined to be 4. The remaining 1 place will probably be created between Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and Xiang Peng.
Some people are happy and some are worried, while Liang Jingkun's world ranking has risen, Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan's world rankings are difficult to satisfy. Xu Xin is ranked 8th in the world and Lin Gaoyuan is 10th, and in the competition with Liang Jingkun, the 2 have obviously fallen behind. Lin Gaoyuan suffered the first round of the men's singles in this competition, and Xu Xin also lost to Francesca, and his performance was not very good. The national table tennis successor Wang Chuqin, who was reused by Liu Guoliang, rose 1 place in the world ranking to 12th, still failing to enter the top ten. However, this is of course the factor that Wang Chuqin encountered the big brother Ma Long in advance, if he met other people, the results of the big head should be better.
The national table tennis men's team is currently experiencing a new and old alternation, compared to the women's team, the men's team is not so fast. Ma Long can still play the role of the sea god needle, even xu Xin, his doubles ability is still needed for the current national table tennis. But it is undeniable that the three-legged situation of Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Liang Jingkun has become stable.