It's now May. With the recent high-profile announcement by the International Table Tennis Federation to reform the world ranking points rules, everyone is waiting for the release of the latest list, after all, it is no accident that the ranking of some players will rotate. Sure enough, as the ITTF released its 18th week of world rankings, we saw that some familiar players had fallen out of the top ten category. However, whether it is men's singles or women's singles, the top three are still the most familiar to us, which is really good!
The original intention of the new rules adopted by the International Table Tennis Federation this time is undoubtedly to further mobilize the enthusiasm of all strong players, revitalize the almost rigid list in the past, and let more potential newcomers full of momentum and vitality have the possibility of breaking through. For the national table tennis, although this major tone is not friendly to some of the main players of the national table tennis who do not often play games, it has promoted the iteration speed of the replacement of the new and old national table tennis on the other hand, which is also a positive incentive. Judging from the latest list, in the men's singles, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, and Liang Jingkun are firmly in the top three, and Zhang Benzhihe, a brother of Japanese table tennis, has come to the 7th place, and many new faces have emerged in the top ten, such as Moregaard, Jochik, and Aruna.
In the women's singles, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu continued to lead the list hand in hand, followed by Wang Yidi, it is not difficult to see that the main rotation of the women's team has been basically completed, and the Mesozoic player Chen Meng will lead three little sisters to carry the honor of defending the national ball. In terms of foreign associations, the three main forces of Japanese table tennis still stand in the top ten and have not fallen out, but it is worth mentioning that the candidate for the highest ranking of japanese table tennis is no longer Ito Mimako, but her good sister Hayata Hina. Ito, who is known for his granular glue fast attack method, once emerged from the Rio cycle, and then became the number one external partner of the national table tennis women's team in the Tokyo cycle, but after entering the Paris cycle, Ito was in poor shape, not only in consecutive cold defeats at home and abroad, missed the Asian Games singles opportunity, almost missed the World Table Tennis Championships, and has already fallen into the bottleneck period of his career.
Ito fought and retreated, successfully making a background wall for her good sister Hina Hayata. Hayata, who is known for his "orthodox" cross-cutting two-sided anti-glue play, began to exert his strength at the end of the Tokyo cycle, and was very strong at the beginning of the Paris cycle, not to mention the domestic top 32 to lock in the championship, 11-0 critical hit sister Ishikawa Yoshijun, even the Asian Games selection tournament was directly guaranteed to get the "ticket", and now the world ranking is overshadowed Byo, and there is a great posture of leading the Japanese table tennis women's team. From the perspective of playing style, Hayata is mainly based on arc balls, which requires high physical and muscular strength, on the one hand, explosive force, on the other hand, it also has to rotate, so players like Ito are difficult to control, but Hayata, who has physical advantages, can do it. Therefore, Hayata now has gradually possessed and held the same style of playing of the national table tennis players, a competitive confidence and strength.
In my opinion, if Hayata had an extroverted personality like Ito, he might have made a name for himself very early. However, now that she is famous, it is not too late, if she can play a good result in the Asian Games, the new sister of Japanese table tennis is obviously going to rotate, let us continue to pay attention to it.