The International Table Tennis Federation officially issued new rules for the points reform, the old points implemented since 2020 will be completely deleted, and the points before 2021 will be calculated according to 20%, the initial points will be cancelled, and the sum of the highest points of the nearly 8 stations will be calculated. Such new regulations have plunged the rankings of many veterans of the national table tennis, and Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, who have only participated in Singapore's Grand Slam singles since 2021, will be ranked outside the 80th place, and another world champion, Zhu Yuling, is also in danger of zeroing out points. This move by the ITTF could accelerate the situation in which veterans retire and young players get to the top by playing more games.
The main purpose of the ITTF's reform of the points calculation method is to encourage athletes to participate in more WTT competitions, whether it is a side event, a challenge tournament, a star tournament or a Grand Slam tournament, as long as the participation is linked to the ranking, and the non-participants will naturally be surpassed in the ranking. For the veterans of national table tennis, Ma Long participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Singapore Grand Slam and other competitions, the ranking will not change for the time being, and Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling have been absent from the Tokyo Olympic Games, houston World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup Finals and other competitions for a long time, only Singapore Grand Slam points recently, the two did not reach the top 8 of the women's singles, resulting in the latest ranking roughly falling out of the top 80. Having not appeared on the international stage since 2020, it is likely that the points will be zero and there will be no ranking.
Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are now over 30 years old, their own inevitable injuries, in the process of running to the Paris Olympic Games, not only to fight with their own injuries, but also to have achievements to increase convincing, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen's playing style is not a Malone style of relying on absolute strength to eat hard, or need physical strength to dominate the pace and speed support, facing a dilemma, if forced to participate in the competition may not be able to achieve results in singles, and will be accompanied by serious injuries, do not participate in the face of falling rankings, do not mention the Paris Olympic Games, I'm afraid that the average challenge opportunity will only become less and less.
This gives foreign association players more opportunities to improve the world ranking, as we all know that the overall strength of national table tennis is strong, and the world's top 10 singles only a few main players are listed, not that other team members do not rank in the top 10 strength, but lack of competition opportunities, in 2020 the epidemic began to rage, national table tennis reduced the opportunity to go abroad to participate in WTT competitions, especially the competitions held in Europe, Africa and the United States are all abandoned, and the main opponents are basically desperately participating, Strive to avoid premature encounters with national table tennis players in the competition, Hugo, Daco, Aruna, Diaz are considered to be the "labor models" among the top ranking players, according to the new points method, several people can be ranked in the top 10.
National table tennis in the Doha regional competition, regular challenge, star challenge is also deliberately innovating, so that Lin Shidong, Xiang Peng, Ku Man and other team members experience, although these team members take over the main force is too early, but through a series of games can grow as soon as possible is indeed the only way out. And Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong, and Liang Jingkun are the current top pillars.