Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha ranked first steadily! The latest world rankings were announced, and the national table tennis won the top spot in four consecutive events
On December 12, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation officially announced the world ranking list for the 50th week of 2023. The main source of this point change is the just-concluded Chengdu World Cup, in which the Chinese team that won the championship undoubtedly gained the most, but because it was a team competition, it was not distributed to each athlete, and it had little impact on players from other associations.
The top spot in the latest world rankings is still divided by Chinese and South Korean athletes, and the top ten singles when Chinese table tennis continues to occupy six seats each for men and women, Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha are firmly in first place, and Zhang Benzhihe is still not among the top ten, see below for more details.
Friends who pay attention to the table tennis world know that the Chengdu World Cup originally did not explain that it would provide individual points, but later it may have seen that the registration of foreign associations was not very active, so the International Table Tennis Federation decided to introduce points, but even the champion team can only get 1000 points, and it is not 1000 per capita, but to be divided by athletes, as for the team with poor results, it is not much.
Taking the national table tennis players who won the championship as an example, Wang Manyu, who received the most singles, only gained 222 points, and Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Yidi, who had the least, did not get points because they did not play in singles, only 28 points were obtained in mixed doubles, and there were not many other associations.
Therefore, after the end of the World Cup, the latest world ranking has not changed much, and the national table tennis has won the first place in men's singles (Fan Zhendong), women's singles (Sun Yingsha), men's doubles (Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin), and mixed doubles (Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha), and South Korea's Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin continues to maintain the first place in women's doubles, and this pattern has been maintained for many periods.
In singles, Fan Zhendong is still 1399 points ahead of the second place Wang Chuqin, and Sun Yingsha is 3318 points more than the second place Wang Manyu, with a very big advantage, worthy of being the two singles champions of the World Table Tennis Championships this year.
The top 10 athletes in the singles world rankings in this edition are the same as in the previous period, namely Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Hugo, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Felix, Lin Shidong, Zhang Yuzhen, and Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Hina Hayata, Chen Xingtong, Qian Tianyi, Shen Yubin, Han Ying, Misei Ito, and Tomokazu Zhang is still ranked 11th.
Next, on December 15th, the table tennis world will usher in the women's finals, and next January 3rd is the men's finals, and the singles champion can get up to 1500 points, so let's continue to cheer for the athletes of the Chinese team!