The ITTF has updated the latest edition of the world rankings, although the new world ranking method has been adopted and the proportion of the frequency of participation has been increased, but Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng still rank first in the world with their past brilliant achievements. What is more noteworthy is liang Jingkun's ranking, which has entered the top three in the world, and is afraid of becoming the no. 3 male table tennis figure.
According to the current personnel situation of the national table tennis men's team, Fan Zhendong is firmly in the first position, followed by Grand Slam Malone. But in order to make way for his younger teammates, Malone has tried to minimize his participation in the game, and last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston made room for Zhou Qihao. Although I don't know if Ma Long intends to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, but in terms of the current strength comparison of the main men's table tennis team, in addition to Fan Zhendong, there are really no other small teammates who can completely suppress Ma Long, which is also the current embarrassing situation of the national table tennis men's team. Reusing veterans is afraid of affecting the construction of the echelon, and it is a pity to put the stronger main force without using it.
Veteran Xu Xin has withdrawn from the competition, and the next focus will be on the affairs of the Asian Table Tennis Federation, after all, it is the vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation. The competition for the third male table tennis figure can be described as fierce, and Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan are all popular candidates. Lin Gaoyuan's foreign war results in the last year have been slightly poor, and there is little hope of participating in the Paris Olympic Games. Wang Chuqin, as a P card player at the Tokyo Olympic Games, was originally one of the popular candidates in the Olympic singles list, but from the recent performance of international competitions, Liang Jingkun has not prevailed, and Wang Chuqin has not yet entered the world's top ten.
If the world rankings don't tell the story, then foreign combat results are an unavoidable indicator of comparison. Wang Chuqin's main achievement is the mixed doubles competition, and he and Sun Yingsha won the mixed doubles championship of the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and are also a new generation of mixed doubles combinations of national table tennis. Undoubtedly, Wang Chuqin's most important task is to play in mixed doubles, which will inevitably affect the play of singles matches. At the beginning of the year, he won the single title of Macau, but the results of the Grand Slam were average. Liang Jingkun won the Oman Men's Singles Championship, reaching the final four of the Grand Slam tournament, and the singles record was not below Wang Chuqin.
And everything before the Olympics may change, such as Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, who had the hope of participating in the Olympic singles competition in the last Olympic cycle, and finally Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha went to the Olympic singles competition and successfully completed the team goal. If Wang Chuqin cannot improve on singles results, the identity of the Olympic P card can only increase vanity. Liang Jingkun's squeezing into the top three in the world is a crisis signal for Wang Chuqin.
Liang Jingkun's stable performance has also gradually made him the No. 3 person in the national table tennis men's team. In addition, Liang Jingkun's personality is relatively stable, and Liu Guoliang also specially explained the competition to Liang Jingkun during the competition. Once Liang Jingkun can reach the men's singles final of the three major competitions and the probability of playing in the Olympic singles skyrockets, Wang Chuqin really needs to seize the time to improve his performance, especially the world rankings.