On May 3, the ITTF released its latest edition of the World Rankings.
Compared with the previous issue, this world ranking has changed a lot, because this world ranking adopts the latest world ranking rules.
On April 30, the ITTF officially announced the abolition of the system and the elimination of all initial points, which led to a major blow to many players who have not competed many times and have not achieved outstanding results recently.
Of course, for athletes who have performed well in the last two years or so, the impact of the new ranking rules has not been large.
Like Fan Zhendong Malong of men's table tennis, Chen Mengsun Yingsha and Wang Manyu of women's table tennis, the performance of the last two years has been very good, no matter what changes in the ranking rules, the ranking of these athletes is still in the forefront.
In the latest world rankings, in terms of men's table tennis, the national table tennis players won the top three. Fan Zhendong is still ranked first in the world, while Ma Long is still ranked second. In third place is Liang Jingkun.
Brazil's Hugo became the highest-ranked athlete among the foreign association athletes, ranking fourth behind Liang Jingkun.
Japan's Zhang Benzhihe has not performed well in recent times, which has also caused Zhang Benzhihe's ranking to have dropped a lot, and now Zhang Benzhihe's ranking has slipped to seventh place.
Veteran Xu Xin did not participate in many competitions after the Tokyo Olympics, which also led to a sharp decline in Xu Xin's world rankings, and now it has slipped to 81st.
There have also been big changes in the rankings of women's table tennis.
Chinese women's table tennis players won the top four, chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi were ranked in the top four, and this is also the first time that Wang Yidi has entered the top four positions in the world.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Ito's performance in the recent period has not been good, and she has now slipped two places from the original fourth place to the sixth place.
Hina Hayata, on the other hand, became the highest-ranked player in the world among the foreign association players, and she also surpassed Ito For the first time in the world rankings, and now ranks fifth.
Another Japanese player, Yoshijun Ishikawa, is currently ranked tenth in the world! Miyu Hirano is ranked 15th in the world.
The world ranking of veteran Liu Shiwen has now slipped to 85th, and Zhu Yuling has lost the world ranking!
In general, the new ranking rules are more scientific and more impartial, after all, competitive sports is a continuous process, and you can't always be at the forefront of the world because you have achieved good results before, and no one can lie on the merit book.