On April 4, Beijing time, the ITTF announced that the latest world ranking for the 14th week has been released, and due to the clearing of Tokyo Olympic points, the world ranking has changed a lot this week. Among them, the women's singles, the top five in the world ranking are occupied by the national table tennis women's team, the top ten of the men's team also accounts for 5 people, and the doubles results are also quite good, of which Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen are no longer in the list in mixed doubles.
Women's singles, due to her excellent performance in the WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament just past, the results are remarkable, the national table tennis beauty Qian Tianyi's points have increased greatly, and the ranking has risen rapidly, and the latest world ranking is fifth; Due to the clearing of Tokyo Olympic points, Chen Meng broke out in the recent international competition, and the ranking did not rise but fell, and the latest ranking is fourth;
Sun Yingsha's Olympic points have also been cleared, but because the points surpass other athletes by a large margin, it is still the world's first, and I have to say that the "little devil" is really powerful! And Wang Manyu is currently the second in the world, she won the women's singles championship of the Western Security Games and the Houston World Table Tennis Championships after the Tokyo Olympics, her strength cannot be underestimated, and there will be injuries in 2023, I hope to be able to compete healthily!
Wang Yidi can be said to be a year of full-scale outbreak in 2022, and under the guidance of Ma Lin, her progress is also very fast, and she is currently ranked third in the world; Chen Xingtong's results in the second half of 2022 are good, but he still needs to improve in special play, currently ranked seventh, and Zhang Rui, who was once a sparring partner, is also improving, and is currently ranked eighth in the world!
That is to say, among the top ten in the world, 7 are national table tennis women's team players, and the top five are covered by the women's team, which is really powerful! The results of the men's team have also improved a lot, and 5 of the top ten are from the national table tennis men's team.
Fan Zhendong, like Sun Yingsha, is still ranked first in the world because of the fact that the points surpass other players; Wang Chuqin has greatly improved his points because he has participated in many competitions and won several championships in the past two years, ranking second, and the third place is Japan's Tomokazu Changmoto; Malone fell in the world rankings partly because he cleared Olympic points and partly because he did not compete internationally for quite some time after the Tokyo Olympics.
At that time, the coaching staff may have wanted to let the young players play, but they did not expect that the young players were not yet reassuring, and in 2022, Malone will once again appear on the international stage.
Liang Jingkun's world ranking is seventh, Lin Gaoyuan's world ranking is ninth, and the strength of the two is indeed there, but the stability is not enough, and more precipitation is needed.
In mixed doubles, the combination of Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin is already at the top of the list, while the combination of Lin Shidong and Qu Man is seventh, and the new combination of Wang Manyu and Fan Zhendong is eighteenth. The most noteworthy thing is that the mixed doubles combination of Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen has been removed and is not on the list.