Beijing time on May 30, the ITTF officially announced the world ranking list in the 22nd week of 2023, because the competition of the Durban World Championships ended last week, so many people's points have changed significantly, its Chinese table tennis still occupies the first throne of the five major events, Zhang Benzhi Chikazu, Ito Mimakoto is still the highest singles ranking foreign association athletes.
As for Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha, who are proud of the spring breeze in Durban, they continue to rank first in the singles world rankings, Wang Chuqin and Chen Meng are closely followed by second, especially the veteran Chen Meng surpassed Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi this time, and the hope of competing in Olympic singles is growing!
During the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the ITTF cleared the points of the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships and WTT World Cup finals, which also led to many athletes being affected, but with the end of the new World Table Tennis Championships, the points of the participants have been newly supplemented, but because the results are good and bad, some people are happy and some are worried.
Fan Zhendong, Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, who won the championship in Durban, were originally the world's No. 1 athletes and combinations in men's singles, women's singles, mixed doubles and men's doubles, so they still topped the list this time and have not changed.
The women's doubles world number one Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu stopped in the semifinals this time and lost to the Korean combination, but because they originally had more points, they were still not surpassed, and the women's doubles champion Chen Meng/Wang Yidi of the Xinke World Table Tennis Championships rose from 7th to 2nd, Lin Shidong/Qu Man rose to 3rd mixed doubles, and Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong rose to 12th in men's doubles.
Tomokazu Chang / Hina Hayada, who won silver in mixed doubles at the World Table Tennis Championships, continued to rank No. 2, but the women's doubles Mimato Ito/Hina Hayata dropped to No. 3, Zhixi Tian/Shin Yubin only rose to No. 5, and Zhang Yuzhen/Lin Jongxun surpassed Yukiya Uda/Hayasuke Togami to reach the second place in the men's doubles.
At present, the top ten athletes in the women's singles ranking are: Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Ito Mimako, Hina Hayada, Han Ying, Zhang Rui - in this issue, Chen Meng surpassed Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi to rise to No. 2, Hina Hayata surpassed Zhang Rui and Han Ying to return to No. 8, but still lower than Mimato Ito, and Zhang Rui, who lost the World Table Tennis Championships, dropped to No. 10.
As for the order of the top ten in the men's singles world, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Zhang Benzhihe, Liang Jingkun, Hugo, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Yunru, Qiu Dang, and Moregaude, there is no change compared with the previous period.
Some people are happy and some are worried, let's sit and wait for the new table tennis battle to begin!