On May 3, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world ranking under the new rules. Due to the cancellation of the protective "initial points", there have been some changes in the position of men's singles and women's singles players, with Fan Zhendong occupying the top of the men's singles list, Ma Long second Liang Jingkun third, and Xu Xin falling to 81st. Women's singles Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi occupy the top four. Japan's Tomokazu Zhang and Mimachi Ito slipped to seventh in men's singles and sixth in women's singles, respectively. Women's doubles Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha topped the list.
The ITTF Executive Committee previously approved the latest proposal developed by the World Rankings Working Group, and the "initial points" introduced in 2020 will be deleted in order to reduce the impact of the new crown epidemic on the event. Basically, the player's world ranking will be made up of the sum of the eight highest points scored in the last 12 months. This objective performance-based algorithm will be widely used to identify finalists and seeded players in the ITTF and WTT World Table Tennis Federation series.
In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong and Ma Long remained in the top two, and Liang Jingkun switched positions with Brazilian adept Hugo Calderano to rise to the 3rd place. The 5-10th places are: Moregaard, Jochik, Zhang Benzhihe, Lin Yunru, Ocharov and Aruna. Chinese player Wang Chuqin ranked 12th, Lin Gaoyuan dropped 8 places to 18th, and youngster Yuan Licen rose 77 places to 32nd. However, he is not the biggest beneficiary of the new rules, and the most obvious rise in the top 100 men's singles players is Chinese teenager Lin Shidong, who has improved his ranking by 331 places to 84th.
In women's singles, Chen Meng continued to occupy the top spot, Sun Yingsha ranked second, Wang Manyu ranked 3rd, Wang Yidi rose to 4th, and the national table tennis women's singles won the top four. Hina Hayata and Ito mimachi are 5th and 6th respectively, Hong Kong's Kazuki Du is 7th, German-Chinese han ying is 8th, Diaz of Puerto Rico is 9th, and Ishikawa is 10th. Japanese teenager Zhang Benmeihe, who has attracted the attention of Chinese fans, rose 216 places to 71st. China's Qi Fei and Shi Xunyao are also promoted to more than 100 places. Veteran Liu Shiwen dropped 68 places to 85th because of fewer entries.
Women's doubles World Table Tennis Champion Wang Manyu / Sun Yingsha was at the top of the table, while the Japanese duo of Mimachi Ito / Hina Hayata and the Luxembourg duo of Ni Xialian / Denut were 2nd and 3rd respectively. The men's doubles Japanese duo of Hayabusa Tokami/Yukiya Utada led the way, while Sweden's World Table Tennis champion team Carlson/Fark was 2nd and Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin was 3rd. In mixed doubles, Chinese Taipei duo Zheng Yijing/Lin Yunru ranked No. 1. World Table Tennis Champion Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha ranked 2nd, while the French duo of Lebison/Yuan Jiannan was 3rd.