The upcoming 18th week of 2022 in the world rankings will be another "ranking earthquake" as the ITTF clears out old points for December 2020. In the case that the competition cannot be held normally, this move to make the points shrink sharply is very embarrassing, and the ITTF itself understands this, so it can only make up for it by extending the points in 2021.
These two initiatives are combined, and the ITTF has only one purpose, to let players compete more.
The old points are still an important part of the world rankings
In fact, the ITTF announced the launch of a new WTT competition system in 2021 and its corresponding world rankings. However, due to the epidemic, international competitions have encountered unprecedented difficulties, and the result is that there are only a few races a year.
In 2021, after the implementation of the new world rankings, the points in December 2020 were originally planned to be cleared in one year, but due to the small number of games, at the end of 2021, the old points are still 50% valid, becoming the most important component of the players' world rankings.
The ITTF started working on the old points, causing a big earthquake in the rankings
By 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation began to work on the old points, from the 5th week to the 17th week, the old points directly became 20%, which triggered a lot of changes in the world rankings, one of which was that Sun Yingsha surpassed Chen Meng and became the world number one.
After the end of week 17 of the world rankings, the ITTF announced the rules of the world rankings, and from week 18 onwards, the old points were cleared to zero. It will trigger the world ranking "great earthquake".
The direct impact of the old points clearing zero is that the points have been greatly reduced, taking Fan Zhendong as an example, in the 52nd week of 2021, the points are 14145 points; by the 18th week of 2022, only 6900 points are left, less than half, which is still in the case of taking the Singapore Grand Slam. The same is true of Chen Meng.
Zhu Yuling's points are directly cleared to zero, and this former world number one cannot see the world ranking for the time being. Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, since 2021, the singles competition has only participated in the Singapore Grand Slam station, so there are only 175 points left, the two were once the world number one, falling out of the top 50.
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The ITTF aims only one thing, to get players to play more
The number of points has decreased, and the ITTF itself is embarrassed, so there is another targeted measure to "extend the validity period of points for the 2021 high-level event, which will end as early as the first week of 2023." "Because according to the rules, the points for some events in 2021 will gradually expire in 2022. If the points in 2021 expire again, then the world ranking will really be impossible to watch, and the INTERNATIONAL TABLE Tennis Federation can only make up for the embarrassment.
Both initiatives have only one purpose, which is to encourage players to participate in new games. From week 5 of 2022 to week 18, the world rankings have improved significantly, and the players who have participated in many games since 2021 are the players.
In the men's singles, Sweden's Moregold will be ranked 5th in the world in week 18, Slovenia's Dako will be ranked 6th in the world, and Nigeria's Aruna will be 10th in the world. They all have one thing in common, which is that the matches since 2021 have been played in full or more than 8 races.