On April 25, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world ranking for the 17th week of this year, and Sun Yingsha continued to be at the top of the women's singles ranking. Sasha is the 11th queen born since the ITTF implemented the computer points ranking, and her ranking has been in the leading position since July 19 last year, and has been leading for 48 consecutive weeks as of this week.
In October 1991, the ITTF began to rank athletes on a computerized basis, based on their achievements in international competitions. Deng Yaping is the first female queen of the computer ranking era and the longest female athlete to maintain the top position so far, Deng Yaping has been at the top of the ranking from October 1991 to December 1998, accumulating 87 months. It is worth mentioning that a year and a half after Deng Yaping retired, the first place in the ranking changed hands.
Zhang Yining is known as the "Great Devil", and her sports career has collected all the singles championships at home and abroad. Zhang Yining topped the ranking for 83 months, only 4 months less than Deng Yaping. Like Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining, the third and fourth places are also the table tennis Grand Slam winners, they are Ding Ning and Wang Nan, these two generation celebrities will lead the ranking for 53 months and 47 months respectively.
Li Xiaoxia is somewhat special among the 5 Grand Slams, and her cumulative time at the top of the ranking is 8 months, ranking only 9th out of 13 empresses. The world ranking list reflects the overall record of an athlete to a certain extent, among the 5 Grand Slams, Li Xiaoxia has won the singles championship of the three major tournaments the least number of times, Deng Yaping 6 times, Zhang Yining 8 times, Wang Nan 8 times, Ding Ning 7 times, Li Xiaoxia won gold in the Olympic Games, World Table Tennis Championships, and World Cup 1 time each.
Chen Meng is the top-ranked non-Grand Slam player, finishing fifth with 34 months. Liu Shiwen ranked sixth by only one month. Coincidentally, they are only one step away from the Grand Slam, Chen Menglack is the singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, Liu Shiwen has not participated in the Olympic singles competition, and now she has faded out of the arena, and the Grand Slam has become an unattainable height. Chen Meng still has a chance to impact the Grand Slam, the 57th World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Durban, South Africa in late May, can Chen Meng's dream come true?
The current world ranking queen Sun Yingsha ranks 7th out of 11 empresses, and her cumulative time to the top is 48 weeks, which translates into 11 months. Zhu Yuling, Guo Yan and Guo Yue ranked 8th, 10th and 11th with 10 months, 5 months and 1 month respectively.
According to the latest edition of the rankings, Sun Yingsha is more than 2,500 points higher than second-placed Wang Manyu, who set a record of 24 consecutive wins from October last year to last week. With Shasha's current competitiveness, it is likely to continue to lead for a while, can she surpass the two senior sisters Chen Meng and Liu Shiwen who are in front? Interestingly, among the 11 queens, Sun Yingsha is the only one who has not won the singles world championship, Sun Yingsha is the 2021 and 2022 WTT World Cup champion, the World Cup was once the world's three major table tennis events, from 2021 was transplanted to the WTT series of events, the champion winner is no longer recognized as the world champion by the State General Administration of Sports. Of course, with Sun Yingsha's strength, it is not a luxury to impact the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships singles championship, I wish her success! (Wang Quanli)