On April 12, Beijing time, the official announcement of the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world ranking for the 15th week, and Chen Meng of the national table tennis women's team continued to rank first in the world, Chen Meng had been ranked first in the world for 32 consecutive months, and so far for 38 months the world is the first. Can do such an achievement, enough to reflect Chen Meng's excellence, is one of the best women's singles players in the active world table tennis, Chen Meng is only one world table tennis women's singles champion away from the Grand Slam!
It is worth mentioning that since the Tokyo Olympic Games, Chen Meng has suffered a downturn of more than 200 days, and no major championships have been recorded for more than 200 days, especially in the women's singles event, and he has not won the women's singles championship in the National Games, the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup finals. This time Made Chen Meng questioned, during this period, Chen Meng's world ranking was also briefly overtaken by Sun Yingsha, slipping to no. 2, and due to being swept by Wang Manyu many times, Chen Meng was questioned to go down the peak and it was difficult to return to the world's top level.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Chen Meng recovered in time, and at the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Chen Meng competed in the women's singles and soared, defeating his nemesis Wang Yidi and Wang Manyu in two 4-3 successively, proving himself in one fell swoop, especially the final revenge Wang Manyu let Chen Meng release the pressure. Chen Meng finally won the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles championship, harvesting as many as 2,000 points, and the world ranking once again pushed Sun Yingsha back to No. 1. It can be said that Chen Meng's momentum is back to the peak and is expected to continue to harvest the honor of the competition.
At present, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha have determined to win the women's singles qualification for the Hangzhou Asian Games, when the competition is carried out in China, Chen Meng has the opportunity to impact the women's singles championship in front of his hometown father and elder, once he wins the championship, Chen Meng can once again determine the status of his national table tennis women's team, in the case of Liu Shiwen's high probability of retirement in the next 1-2 years, 27-year-old Chen Meng has the opportunity to become the leader of the national table tennis women's team in the next Olympic cycle!
In the 15th week ranking released by the International Table Tennis Federation, in addition to Chen Meng's 1st, Sun Yingsha is the 2nd, Wang Manyu is 3rd, the 4th is still Japan's Ito Mimako, and the 5th is Wang Yidi, the ranking is basically the same as the previous issue. Among the top 10 people in the women's singles world ranking, China's national table tennis and Japanese table tennis occupy a total of 7 seats, reflecting the pattern of today's world table tennis, with China's national table tennis in a dominant position, followed by Japan.
The remaining table tennis competitions in 2022, the Japanese table tennis team will once again launch an impact on the Chinese national table tennis, the World Table Tennis Championships team competition and the Hangzhou Asian Games are the two main battlefields. Among them, in the Asian Games women's singles event, the Japanese women's singles will be Hirano Miyu and Hayata Hina out of the competition, the famous Ito Mimachi is in a sluggish state, failed to qualify. For Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, winning the Asian Games women's singles championship is the only goal, can not lose to Japan's two rising stars, as the active world women's singles ranking of the top two players, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha will be the national table tennis to win the Asian Games women's singles champion double insurance, and strive to keep this championship!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)