On April 26, the ITTF announced its world rankings for week 17 of 2022, and because there are no recent events, this week's world rankings are basically unchanged from last week.
In terms of singles, the national table tennis still showed a strong dominance, and the top two in the men's singles and the top three in the women's singles were all national table tennis players. Fan Zhendong topped the men's singles table with a high score of 10598, and the players behind him had a slight difficulty catching up with his points. Fan Zhendong has been sitting on the throne of the world's number one for 24 consecutive months, and with Fan Zhendong's points, I am afraid that he will have to stay on this throne for a long time.
The other four main players of the national table tennis team Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Xu Xin and Wang Chuqin are ranked fourth, eighth, tenth and thirteenth respectively in the world, and the Japan WTT Grand Slam tournament was cancelled, and they also lost the opportunity to earn points. Xu Xin did not participate in the Tokyo Olympic singles, and then only participated in the WTT Singapore Grand Slam, and finally fell all the way to the 8th place in the world ranking.
For veteran Xu Xin, he may not care much about the world rankings, and even if he does not retire, he will selectively participate in the competition, leaving some opportunities for the young players. Similar to his situation is the veteran Liu Shiwen, who is currently the 17th in the world, and most of them will fight for themselves in the future, and will not compete too much with young players. Events like the WTT Grand Slam are more suitable for them.
In the men's singles world rankings, it is worth mentioning that Germany's 41-year-old veteran Ball is still ranked ninth in the world, which is commendable. However, if the events become more numerous, it is difficult to say whether Bohr can still maintain this ranking, and the probability will slowly come down.
The competition between Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, the top two women's singles, is still relatively sticky, whether it is Chen Mengmeng holding the world's number one position or Sun Yingsha wants to overtake, both of them need to continue to work hard. Behind them, Wang Manyu is also looking at the tiger, so the competition between the top three women's singles continues to play. At the same time as internal competition, the three of them also need to prevent Ito's surprise attack, so as not to break the top three of the national table tennis women's singles.
The top players of the national table tennis women's team are Wang Yidi fifth in the world, Chen Xingtong fifteenth, Liu Shiwen seventeenth, and Zhu Yuling eighteenth.
In the doubles event, the men's doubles ranking is the lowest, and Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin, although they won the Singapore Grand Slam, they only ranked third in the world due to the small number of competitions. The second pair of national table tennis pairs Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan ranked eighth, and the national table tennis men's doubles still need to refuel. Men's doubles world number one is the Japanese table tennis duo Yukiya Utada / Hayabusa Toue.
Mixed doubles Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha ranked second in the world, the first place Chinese Taipei team Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing, the third place French team Lebison / Yuan Jianan, the fourth place Chinese Hong Kong team Huang Zhenting / Du Kaixuan, the fifth place Japanese team Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Xina are their opponents.
Women's doubles Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu ranked first in the world, but overall, the strength of the Japanese table tennis women's doubles is still very strong, the top six Japanese table tennis exclusive three seats, respectively, the second place Ito Mimachi / Hayata Shina, the fifth place Kihara Miyu / Nagasaki Miyu, the sixth place Ishikawa Yoshizu / Hirano Miyu, these pairs will also be the popular candidate combination for the women's doubles championship in each competition. Third place was luxembourgish duo Ni Charlene/Denut.
Looking at the entire ranking, Sun Yingsha's performance can be described as very dazzling, and she has become the only athlete to rank in the world's top two in all three lists. Sun Yingsha is still very young, and there is still a chance to create better results, and the future can be expected. At the same time, I have to say that the results are really piled up by hard work, and Sun Yingsha, who is on vacation, is still struggling in the training ground and still wants to create a better self.