In the 17th week of 2022 individual world rankings recently released by the International Table Tennis Federation, the Chinese table tennis team still occupies the top 2 of men and women in terms of singles, and the overall advantage is unshakable, while the women's singles veteran Liu Shiwen has been hovering around 16th, with a difference of 4 points by Japanese player Miyu Hirano, ranking 17th. The men's doubles ranking was the lowest in the 5 individual events, Fan Zhendong/ Wang Chuqin temporarily ranked 3rd, and the Japanese women's doubles occupied 3 seats in the top 6, showing a strong group advantage.
The top 10 in the men's singles ranking have not changed, Fan Zhendong is proud with 10598 points, he has led the second place Ma Long 3794 points, Ma Long this year's limited number of participants, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up with Fan Zhendong. Liang Jingkun, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Chuqin ranked 4th, 8th, 10th and 13th respectively, due to the temporary stranding of grand slam events, resulting in the main players of national table tennis unable to participate in the increase in points, which is very unfavorable to the draw for the future Paris Olympics and next year's World Championships, or the scene of a continuous civil war at last year's Houston World Table Tennis Championships. The main rivals Hugo ranked 3rd, Zhang Benzhi and 5th, Lin Yunru 6th, Ocharov 7th, Ball 9th, Dako 11th, Aruna 12th.
The ranking advantage of women's singles is even greater than that of men's singles, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu directly won the top 3, Wang Manyu led 4th place Ito Mimachi by 1020 points, ranking 5-10 were Wang Yidi, Hayata Xina, Ishikawa Yoshinori, Du Kaixuan, Feng Tianwei and Diaz. There are also 3 places in the 10th-20th place of national table tennis, namely Chen Xingtong at no. 15, Liu Shiwen at no. 17 and Zhu Yuling at no. 18. Liu Shiwen has been hovering between 16th and 17th places, and this issue is squeezed behind by 2594 points by 2594 points, while Zhu Yuling has not appeared in international competitions for more than 2 years and can remain in the top 20 in the world.
Men's doubles is the lowest in the five individual rankings, and Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, who won the Singapore Grand Slam men's doubles title, only ranked 3rd due to the small number of entries, and there was no Chinese combination in the top 5 of the men's doubles at the beginning of the year. Currently No. 1 is still Singapore Grand Slam men's doubles runner-up Japan's Yukiya Utada/Togami Hayabusa, and the duo will appear in the US side event that starts next week. Sweden's Houston World Championships men's doubles champions Falke/Carlsson are no. 2 with the Doha Challenge, Germany's strong duda/Qiu Dang is no. 4, South Korea's World Championship runners-up Lin Zhongxun/Jang Woo-jin are no. 5, the other pair of national table tennis pairs Lin Gaoyuan/Liang Jingkun is no. 8, and Zhou Qihao/Lin Gaoyuan is 15th.
The women's doubles is still Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha ranked No. 1, after the duo won the World Table Tennis Championships and Grand Slam titles, the points ahead of no. 2 Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina 1393 points, ranking 3-5 are Luxembourg's Ni Xialian / Denut, India's Batra / Kamass, Japan's Kihara Miyu / Nagasaki Miyu, Hirano Miyu / Ishikawa Yoshinori ranked 6th, the Japanese combination occupies 3 seats in the top 6, and the top 20 of the national table tennis women's doubles are Chen Meng/Qian Tianyi, only 19th.
In the mixed doubles ranking 1st is still Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing of Chinese Taipei, who unexpectedly lost to the Olympic defeaters Yuan Jiannan / Le Besson in the absence of the main national table tennis players in the Doha Star Tournament, or had no chance to break the championship drought. Houston World Table Tennis Championships and Singapore Grand Slam champion Sun Yingsha / Wang Chuqin are in second place, and the two are naturally more behind in points due to not participating in the Tokyo Olympics, and there is still a 900-point gap between Lin Yunru and the combination. France's Yuan Jiannan/Lebison, Hong Kong's Huang Zhenting/Du Kaixuan, Japan's Zhang Benzhi and/Hayata Xina were ranked 3-5 respectively, and Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen was ranked 6th.