On April 26, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the latest edition of the world rankings for men's and women's singles. The Chinese team still firmly occupies the advantage of the group, and Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng continue to sit firmly on the throne of the world's first place. Ma Long, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu all entered the top three in the singles world. It is worth mentioning that the rankings of the two veterans Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have declined, especially the World Championship women's singles champion Liu Shiwen, who has fallen out of the world's top ten. The national table tennis players have been disbanded and returned to their respective local teams, and after a brief adjustment, they will return to the arena to prepare for the World Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Judging from the latest world rankings, in the men's singles event, world champion Fan Zhendong is still far ahead, and further opens the gap with Ma Long. The two continue their battle over the Olympic cycle in Paris, and it is gratifying that Malone is steadily in second place in the world rankings, which also indicates that he will not choose to retire early. Brazil and Calderano, China's Liang Jingkun and Japan's Zhang Benzhihe are ranked third to fifth. The three players are on a par with each other and will be contenders for the final four in the paris Olympic cycle.
Big Fat Liang Jingkun has been in good shape lately, and the world's fourth place has also refreshed his career high. Veteran Xu Xin ranked eighth in the world, due to the decline in strength due to age, and the straight board technology has begun to lag behind, Xu Xin's situation in the new Olympic cycle will be more difficult. The most disappointing thing is wang Chuqin, who has high hopes, and he is only 13th in the world. After Ma Long, Wang Chuqin, who has the best chance to become Fan Zhendong's right hand, is uncompetitive in the world ranking if he wants to break through the cocoon and become a butterfly at the Paris Olympic Games.
With two years to go before the Olympic Games, Wang Chuqin not only needs to improve his comprehensive strength and become one of the cores of the national table tennis men's team, but also needs to improve the world ranking as soon as possible by achieving good results in the competition. The top five women's singles world rankings have not changed, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Ito Mimachi and Wang Yidi, among these players, Ito Mimachi is the only foreign player. Therefore, in the Paris Olympic cycle, Ito Isō is still the biggest competitor of the national table tennis women's team. However, judging from the hand-to-hand records, the top four players of the Chinese team can beat Ito Mimako, and the advantages of the group are visible to the naked eye.
Japan's Hina Hayata and Yoshinori Ishikawa, Hong Kong's Du Kaixuan and Singaporean veteran Feng Tianwei ranked sixth to ninth respectively. World Championship women's singles champion Liu Shiwen and world champion Zhu Yuling ranked 17th and 18th in the world, both of whom were previously the leading stars of the national table tennis women's team, but now they are not in the top ten of the women's singles world, and the ranking may further decline. Although Liu Shiwen did not retire, the overall competitiveness has long been different from the past; Zhu Yuling is the most frustrated person of the national table tennis women's team, appearing in a big way, but leaving silently!
(Luo Treasurer)