On April 5, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the latest world ranking for the 14th week, and since there was no event held in the past week, the ranking of most players has not changed. Among them, Japan's Miyu Kihara, who won the women's singles championship and runner-up in the Doha Star Competition, and Han Ying, a Chinese player, rose in the rankings, Han Ying rose to 12th, and the champion Kihara Miyu rose to 22nd. China's national table tennis players still dominate the list, with the top 11 women's singles unchanged, Chen Meng no. 1, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu followed, Japan's Ito Mimachi 4th, Wang Yidi 5th, Hayata Hina and Ishikawa Yoshinori ranked 6th and 7th.
On the men's side, the little fat Fan Zhendong still uncontroversially continued the 1st, the points are 10598 points, 3795 points more than the 2nd Ma Long, which is enough to reflect Fan Zhendong's terror strength, the 1st fault.
After the ITTF updated the 14th week rankings, the national table tennis also determined the men's and women's singles quotas for the Hangzhou Asian Games, of which the women's singles, Chen Meng, who won the Singapore Grand Slam championship, won a place, and because Chen Meng ranked No. 1 in the world, the other singles quota will be won by Sun Yingsha, who is ranked No. 2 in the world.
The men's singles quota is similar to the women's singles, with Fan Zhendong, who won the men's singles championship, locking up a singles qualification, and ma Long, who is no. 2 in the world, won the second singles qualification place. It is worth noting that this is a men's singles competition in which Ma Long re-appeared in the Asian Games after 12 years, the last time was at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, when Ma Long reached the men's singles final, defeating teammate Wang Hao by a 4-2 score and winning the men's singles championship at the Guangzhou Asian Games. After 12 years, Malone will once again hit the Asian Games men's singles title.
Amazingly, the last time Ma Long won the Asian Games, Fan Zhendong was only 13 years old and had not yet been known to the world. 12 years have passed, when Ma Long's brother Wang Hao has become a coach, helping the national table tennis to cultivate Fan Zhendong, the new world No. 1, and Ma Long's Zhang Jike, who was once Yuliang, is now in a semi-retired state, and has not played an official game since 2019. But 12 years later, Malone is still at the peak, still competing with his juniors for the championship, and has to marvel that Malone's career peak is really long enough.
Of course, for Ma Long, who has already sat in the first person in the history of national table tennis, whether he can win the Asian Games men's singles championship will not have an impact on his historical status, but as a professional athlete, as long as he has not retired, I believe that Ma Long will do his best in every game, which is a respect for the opponent and an attitude and spirit issue.
2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, national table tennis fans have the opportunity to enjoy a feast again, little fat Fan Zhendong and the king Of Ma Long may stage a peak showdown again, fans are happy, there is a game about Ma Long, fans need to see and cherish!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)