Beijing time on May 1 news, the International Table Tennis Federation recently announced that it will modify the rules of the world ranking. Under the new rules, the "initial points" proposed in 2020 will be deleted and the sum of the highest points for the 8 events in the past 12 months will be taken. The latest edition of the world rankings will be announced on May 3, but already enthusiastic netizens have calculated the latest points for some important players. The data shows that the ranking of many veterans of national table tennis will plummet.
Under the current points system, the national table tennis men's team has a total of 5 players in the top 10, namely Fan Zhendong in the 1st place, Ma Long in the 2nd place, Liang Jingkun in the 4th, Xu Xin in the 8th and Lin Gaoyuan in the 10th. But if the new rules are adopted, only 3 people will enter the top 10. Fan Zhendong and Ma Long continued to be in the top 2 separately, and Liang Jingkun rose to 3rd place. But Xu Xin and Lin Gaoyuan will fall out of the top 10, which is a pity.
And Xu Xin's points will only be 175 points left, and his world ranking will plummet to 81. Because in the past 12 months, Xu Xin has basically not participated in any singles competitions. Although he won the team gold medal at the Olympics, he did not participate in singles. In this way, if Xu Xin wants to participate in international competitions, he basically has to start from the qualification tournament. In addition, Wang Chuqin will be ranked 13th, and Lin Gaoyuan will fall to 18th.
In terms of the women's team, there are currently 4 players in the top 10 in the world ranking, namely Chen Meng in the 1st place, Sun Yingsha in the 2nd, Wang Manyu in the 3rd and Wang Yidi in the 5th. Chen Xingtong was 15th, Liu Shiwen was 17th, and Zhu Yuling was 18th. After the rule change, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu will remain unchanged in the rankings, and Wang Yidi will rise to 4th. But for the two veterans Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling, the ranking will be very low.
Liu Shiwen's points will also be only 175 points, and the ranking will fall to 85th. Zhu Yuling, a 27-year-old world champion who has not competed in any competition for a long time, will fall to 287th place. Such a ranking is undoubtedly lamentable. Of course, for the national table tennis, there was also such a points reform in 2017, but the top players have survived. But this time, the veterans are greatly affected, I don't know if they will retreat from this?