On March 29, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world ranking for the 13th week of 2022, of which the men's single, Fan Zhendong continued to rank first in the world with a fault-type advantage, which is also the top of the list for 22 consecutive months. On the women's singles side, Chen Meng surpassed Sun Yingsha to return to the first place, and the national table tennis won the top three. It is worth mentioning that in the women's doubles world rankings, 59-year-old veteran Ni Xialian from Luxembourg has soared to 3rd with her partner!
In the latest men's singles world rankings, Fan Zhendong ranked first with 10,598 points, and he was ahead of second place Ma Long's score, as many as 3794 points, which is more than Malone's lead over 10th place Lin Gaoyuan.
Since ascending to the world's first throne in May 2020, Fan Zhendong has been sitting in this position for a full 22 months. During this period, Xiao Fat won countless championships of large and small sizes. Among them, the heaviest is the World Table Tennis Champion, after all, this is the first time fan Zhendong has reached the top in his career. Although in the Olympic men's singles final, Xiao Fat regrettably lost to Ma Long, the champion of the men's team was also his first Olympic gold medal. In addition, Xiao Fat has also won the World Cup championship for consecutive times.
With the increase of Ma Long's age, today's Fan Zhendong, it is no exaggeration to say that his strength is the only one in today's men's table tennis. This year, Fan Zhendong's main tasks are the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships Team Competition. Next year, of course, it will be the World Table Tennis Championships, and Xiao Fat will play as the defending champion. 2024 is the most critical year for Fan Zhendong, because there will be the Paris Olympic Games.
In the latest men's singles world rankings, in addition to Fan Zhendong firmly ranking first, there are 4 national table tennis players in the top 10, they are Ma Long in second place, Liang Jingkun in fourth place, Xu Xin in eighth place and Lin Gaoyuan in tenth place.
Women's singles world ranking, Chen Meng won the championship at the Singapore Grand Slam And successfully surpassed Sun Yingsha in points to return to the first place. In the top five women's singles world, national table tennis sits 4 seats, in addition to Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, there is wang Manyu in the third place, and Wang Yidi in the fifth place.
Liu Shiwen, another national table tennis world champion who is very concerned about, has now fallen to 16th place in the ranking. Japanese table tennis star Ito Mimachi has fallen to fourth since the Tokyo Olympics, and the advantage ahead of Wang Yidi is also very small.
In doubles, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin ranked third in the men's doubles world; Wang Manyu/Sun Yingsha ranked first in the women's doubles world; and mixed doubles world first was Lin Yunru/Zheng Yijing. It is worth mentioning that the 59-year-old "grandma-level" player Ni Xialian, along with her partner Nat, has soared from the sixth place in the women's doubles world to the third place, which has also created the highest ranking in the history of the pair.