On May 3, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the world ranking list for the 18th week of 2022, and this is also the first ranking after the latest reform of the points rule, the results have changed dramatically, the national table tennis world champion Zhu Yuling completely lost the ranking, Liu Shiwen fell to 85th in women's singles, xu Xin fell to 81st in men's singles!
However, some people are happy and some are sad, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun won the top three in men's singles, while Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi won the top four in women's singles, Hina Hayata surpassed Ito Mimako in fifth, Morecod and Dako surpassed Zhang Benzhihe, and Brazilian player Hugo is still the highest ranking person in the foreign association (fourth in men's singles).
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As we all know, after the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, the table tennis world ranking has obviously lagged behind due to the sharp decline in competitions, and the ITTF has to introduce the concept of "initial points" to turn the points in December 2020 into a fixed value to protect the rights and interests of athletes who have not won major competitions such as the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships.
However, with the gradual recovery of international competitions, the initial points have become more and more redundant, so the ITTF officially announced on April 30 that the system was abolished and all initial points were emptied, which led to many players who have not participated in many recent games and have not achieved outstanding results.
In the men's singles, the current top ten athletes are: Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Hugo, Moregaode, Dako, Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Ocharov, Aruna, of which Aruna has become the first African athlete in history to advance to the top ten in the world, while Lin Gaoyuan has retreated to 18th in the world, and Xu Xin has dropped to 81st.
The top ten players in the women's singles have changed relatively little, namely: Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Hayata Hina, Ito Mimachi, Du Kaixuan, Han Ying, Diaz, ishikawa Yoshinori. Liu Shiwen has reached the 85th place in the world, and Zhu Yuling, who has not participated in the competition recently, has no world ranking!
Compared with singles, the change in doubles is not particularly large, Lin Yunru / Zheng Yijing, Yukiya Utada / Hayabusa Tokami, Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu continue to win the first place in mixed doubles, men's doubles and women's doubles - due to the low frequency of doubles events, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen also remains in the 7th position in mixed doubles.
In general, the new world ranking rules are still relatively fair, competitive sports is after all a continuous process, no one can eat the old, more than a year ago the points were abolished is not excessive, and finally look forward to Zhu Yuling can return to the field as soon as possible, but also hope that Liu Shiwen, Xu Xin, Lin Gaoyuan and other people can continue to work hard and return to the world's top ten: come on!