The 2023 Durban World Table Tennis Championships is in full swing, but the competition is not over, the ITTF came to a big move on May 23, that is, in the 21st week of the world ranking announced today to clear a large number of old points, which also made the latest list have undergone many changes, especially Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha lost the most, deducting 3375 points and 2200 points respectively.
It is reported that this ranking cleared the points obtained in the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships and the 2021 WTT World Cup finals, although the national table tennis still holds the first place in five events, but the gap between athletes is quietly changing, see below for more details.
As we all know, the world ranking is also timely, in order to ensure that the strength of athletes is accurately reflected as much as possible, the ITTF will regularly clear some points from a long time ago to maintain the objectivity of the ranking.
Prior to this, affected by the epidemic, the ITTF revised the world ranking rules many times, and now it has begun to stabilize. On April 4 this year, the points of the Tokyo Olympics and other events have been removed, and the adjustment on May 23 is to "start" the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships and WTT World Cup finals.
According to the latest ranking, the top 10 athletes in the men's singles are: Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Zhang Benzhihe, Liang Jingkun, Hugo, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Yunru, Qiu Dang, and Moregaard. Among them, Sweden's young player Moregaard declined, because many of his points came from the runner-up of the men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, and his performance in other competitions was average, so his ranking was about to fall out of the top ten.
Although Fan Zhendong is still at the top of the list, he was cut 3375 points, and now there is only a difference of 760 points with the second place Wang Chuqin, which also means that the throne of the first may be changed at any time, and the Little Fat World Table Tennis Championships are going to cheer!
The latest women's singles world top ten list is: Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Ito Micheng, Zhang Rui, Han Ying, Hina Hayada. Chen Meng was once again overtaken by Wang Yidi, and Hina Hayata also declined.
Sun Yingsha, who won the first place in this issue, reduced 2200 points, but the second place Wang Manyu was also cut by 1975 points, the difference is not much, so the gap between the two is still 2285 points, which also shows that the previous international competition results of the two are relatively stable, and there is no big gap, quite a bit of a common attack and retreat.
In terms of doubles, the world ranking has never had a great impact on the competition, and at present, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu are still ranked at the top of the three lists, and their position is relatively stable.
Since the Durban World Table Tennis Championships can provide a large number of points, it is expected that when the list is announced next week (May 30), a new reshuffle will usher in, and whoever can achieve good results in this event will be able to occupy an advantage in the next world ranking pattern: after all, it is a biennial competition, come on!