The International Table Tennis Federation gives veterans a problem! Xu Xin Liu Shiwen or missed the team World Table Tennis Championships, fearing to consider retiring. The International Table Tennis Federation released the world ranking of the 18th week of this year, compared with the previous issue, the change in the world ranking is still very large, especially for the national table tennis veterans, they have reached the time to make a choice, whether to continue to insist, or retire, including Xu Xin, Liu Shiwen.
Two years ago, the International Table Tennis Federation implemented new world ranking rules, when in order to make the new rules and old rules can be better connected, it was decided to introduce "initial points", that is, to retain 80% of the 2020 world ranking points, but over time, the proportion of initial points is getting smaller and smaller, until the INTERNATIONAL TABLE Tennis Federation directly cleared the initial points, so veterans like Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen who achieved good results before 2020 have ushered in a sharp decline in this world ranking. Among them, Xu Xin's world ranking dropped from eighth to 81st, Liu Shiwen's world ranking fell from 17th to 85th, and Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen also fell out of the world's top 80. This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not copy or port. If Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen want to improve the world ranking, they must achieve good results in the later competitions, otherwise they will only continue to decline, and the world ranking is too low, and many events are not eligible to participate, which is another vicious circle.
Judging from the current state of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, it is unlikely that they want to return to the top ten of the world, and the world ranking is too low, it is very likely that they will encounter teammates in advance in the game, in this case, the possibility of the veteran promotion is very small. For example, Liu Shiwen met Wang Manyu or Sun Yingsha in the first round, and Xu Xin met Fan Zhendong in the first round, whether from the perspective of national table tennis, or from the perspective of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen himself, it is more in line with the reality that young players are promoted, not to mention that Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are now difficult to win young players. There is also the fact that according to the current world rankings, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are likely to miss the team world table tennis championships in the second half of the year, because there are several national table tennis players who are higher than the two of them in the world rankings, and if Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are still allowed to participate, it will definitely cause controversy.
Although Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin did not say that they will retire for a long time, but now the INTERNATIONAL TABLE Tennis Federation implements the new world ranking points rule, which is to "force" veterans to make choices, so veterans like Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen also have to consider retiring, and Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen may slowly fade out of the national team in the future, or will continue to insist on it for a while, but we as fans should respect their choices and hope that they can enjoy the feeling of playing.