Today, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation published a new article saying that the ITTF has revised the ranking rules and the "initial points" introduced in 2020 will be removed. This means that points like veteran Xu Xin Liu Shiwen will shrink significantly.
That's because the player's world rankings are made up of the sum of the eight highest points scored in the last 12 months. Before there were 2020 original points, although each month is decreasing, such as January this year to 20%, but after all, there are still points, and this "original points" once cleared, like Xu Xin Liu Shiwen in 2021 did not participate in the world series of singles, Tokyo Olympics and Houston World Championships did not participate, without the previous original points to do support, the world ranking will certainly have a huge slippery slope. It is said that according to the new rules, Xu Xin's world ranking will drop from the current 9th to 81st, Liu Shiwen will drop from the current 17th to 85th, and Zhu Yuling will be even more miserable and will rank 287th.
In fact, Xiaobian Xinxi 6 feels that this is not a big problem, after all, the world ranking does not represent a person's technical strength, such as Liu Shiwen, who ranked 17th, once defeated sun Yingsha, who ranked second, and Wang Yidi, who ranked fifth, at this year's WTT Macau competition, and there is no problem playing Feng Tianwei Ishikawa Jiachun and Hirano Miyu, so if this world champion is absent from the WTT Grand Slam event, it will definitely make everyone feel very sorry.
So is there a way for the ITTF to get these world champion star players to participate in high-point WTT Grand Slam tournaments? There are definitely special cases such as this year's WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Lim Shi Tung, Ku Man and Ho Zhuo Jia are special cases where they are not ranked enough but can compete with wild cards.
Therefore, we don't have to worry too much, after all, the rules are made by people, the international table tennis association to improve the popularity of table tennis, they will not turn away the star players who still have competitive strength, everyone says is this not the case?
And like the young general Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu, as well as the world's number one Chen Meng and Fan Zhendong, these rules will basically have no impact on them, so these rule changes will not substantially affect everyone, what do you think? Leave your comments in the comments section!