The world ranking of national table tennis has changed dramatically: a new world number one is born! Wang Chuqin surpassed Fan Zhendong to the top of the list
In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong lost the first position that he had maintained for more than three consecutive years and was surpassed by his junior brother Wang Chuqin. However, Fan Zhendong's fans don't need to be too anxious, because Wang Chuqin will be deducted far more old points than his senior brother in two weeks, so Fan Zhendong is expected to return to the top position.
Beijing time on July 4, the ITTF 27th week of the world ranking list released, this time because of the emptying of a large number of old points, so the ranking of each event has undergone a huge change, among which the men's singles, women's doubles, men's doubles top change of hands, Wang Chuqin surpassed Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng / Wang Yidi surpassed Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, Zhang Yuzhen / Lin Zhongxun surpassed Fan Zhendong / Wang Chuqin to rank first in the world for the first time.
At present, the first place in women's singles and mixed doubles is still controlled by Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, but Wang Yidi surpassed Chen Meng and Wang Manyu to reach the second place in women's singles for the first time, Lin Gaoyuan forced Liang Jingkun to become the sixth in men's singles, and the veterans Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen were removed to empty all points, and the era that belonged to them is gone! See below for more details.
The changes in this edition of the world rankings mainly come from four aspects: first, the invalidation of old points at the 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Slam; The second is the WTT Croatia tournament, which ended last week; Third, it is the table tennis competition of the European Games; Fourth, table tennis events in some other regions.
For higher-ranked athletes, the impact of old points being cleared is the greatest, because most of them have not participated in other events recently (and there are not many points in those events), so the world's top ten athletes are almost always due to the different number of old points emptied.
In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong lost the first position that he had maintained for more than three consecutive years and was surpassed by his junior brother Wang Chuqin. However, Fan Zhendong fans don't need to be too anxious, because Wang Chuqin will be deducted far more old points than his senior brother in two weeks, so Fan Zhendong is expected to return to the top of the table (because he missed the WTT Hungary Series in July last year).
In addition to Fan Zhendong, the major changes in the men's singles top 10 included Croatian champion Lin Gaoyuan rising to 6th, Liang Jingkun dropping to 7th, Brazil fiercely returning Hugo to 5th, South Korea's Zhang Yuzhen entering the top 10 for the first time and reaching 8th, Slovenia's Dako back to 9th, and Lin Yunru falling to 10th.
In the women's singles, although Sun Yingsha lost the WTT Croatian singles championship, she still maintained the first place, but Chen Meng and Wang Manyu both dropped one place to become 3rd and 4th, Wang Yidi came to the peak of her career and is currently ranked 2nd, South Korean teenager Shin Yubin entered the top ten for the first time, ranked 9th, and Zhang Rui was squeezed to 11th.
Other athletes who have changed more are: Lin Shidong rose to 13th, Moregaard fell to 11th, Qiu Dang fell to 14th, Alex rose to 16, and his younger brother Felix (European Games men's singles champion) followed him at 17th; Miu Hirano (Croatian women's singles champion) rose to 14th and Szokos (European Games women's singles champion) reached 17th.
It is worth mentioning that the few remaining points of the two Olympic champions of national table tennis Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen have been emptied, so they have now lost all their world rankings: from the once the world's number one to the complete disappearance from the list, they finally ushered in this day, which is really emotional.
In terms of doubles, the Koreans broke the monopoly of national table tennis, Zhang Yuzhen / Lin Zhongxun became the first combination of Xinke men's doubles, while Tian Zhixi / Shin Yubin reached the second position in women's doubles, Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu has dropped to the third place, Chen Meng / Wang Yidi won the World Table Tennis Championships and topped the list, it is indeed some people happy and some worried.
The WTT Slovenia Star Challenge is currently underway, and after this battle, it will definitely trigger a change in points again, let's sit back and wait for the latest news to come back!