On May 3, the ITTF's 18th week of world rankings, unlike in the past, this edition of the world rankings to introduce new rules, the cancellation of protective "initial points", which also made some changes in the rankings and points, such as Liang Jingkun surpassed Brazil's Hugo to rise to the third place in men's singles and so on. Under the new rules, because there is no initial points, so many veteran points and rankings have declined, and some young players have improved their rankings, such as the national second team, a young player born in 2006, Whose ranking has risen by 638 places to 235th, which can be called the winner of the "Best Progress Award".
At the men's singles level, Fan Zhendong is still leading the way, although the new regulations are enabled, but Fan Zhendong's advantage is still very large, his points are as high as 6900 points, which is at least 1 times the points of any other player. There is no doubt that the current world of male table tennis belongs to Fan Zhendong, which is his era. Malone is second, his points are 3400 points, the veteran is still very competitive, and he is in good shape. Liang Jingkun surpassed Brazil's Hugo to rise to third in the men's singles, and the gap between the two is small. Zhang Benzhi and 7, ahead of Lin Yunru.
At the women's singles level, the Chinese team won the top four, of which Chen Meng had already surpassed Sun Yingsha to return to the first place, and now Chen Meng is still the first under the new regulations. Sun Yingsha finished second, with a point advantage of up to 1500 points ahead of third place Wang Manyu. Wang Yidi rose one place to fourth place, followed by Japan's Hina Hayata and Ito Mimachi, the gap between these two players is not large.
At the women's doubles level, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, the "seafood sisters", are still the first, as the world championship champion combination, the two are strong with each other, and the cooperation is quite tacit, as long as they play, whether it is the World Championships or the first Grand Slam, they have won gold medals. Ito and Hina Hayata were in second place, and they could not surpass Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu. Luxembourg legendary veterans Nicholane and Denut came in third.
In the men's doubles field, in addition to the first-place Japanese combination Tokagi Hayabusa and Yukiya Umada, the second-place Swedish World Table Tennis Championships champion combination Carlson and Falke, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin ranked third, it is worth mentioning that the two did not play together for a long time, but have won the WTT Singapore Grand Slam men's doubles championship, defeated the first place Oyster and Yukiya Utada, the fat head combination third, the next Hangzhou Asian Games, it is worth looking forward to.
In terms of mixed doubles, World Table Tennis Champions Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are not the first, they are ranked second, not as good as Zheng Yijing and Lin Yunru. Of course, if you want to talk about the results in the competition, the performance of the "Shatou Combination" is stronger.