Sun Yingsha's lead continues to expand! Wang Yidi rose to the second place in the world, and the competition between the three national table tennis players intensified
On December 19, the International Table Tennis Federation updated the latest world rankings, Sun Yingsha continued to rank first in the women's singles world and expanded her lead; Wang Yidi rose to the second place in the women's singles world with the runner-up in the finals, and the competition between her and Chen Meng and Wang Manyu is still more intense.
In the WTT Nagoya Women's Finals that ended last weekend, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, and Chen Xingtong won the women's singles semifinals, and finally Sun Yingsha defeated Wang Yidi 4-2 in the final to win the championship. Sun Yingsha received the 1,500 world ranking points that belonged to the champion, replacing her current lowest score, and her world ranking points rose from 7,400 points to 8,550 points, firmly ranking first in the women's singles world while widening the gap with second place. Although 2023 is not over yet, Sun Yingsha has locked in the women's singles year-end world No. 1. Sun Yingsha's status as the first active member of the national table tennis women's team is becoming more and more solid, and the competition for the second person is becoming more and more intense.
With the runner-up in the women's singles in the Nagoya Finals, Wang Yidi rose two places in the current world rankings, surpassing Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, ranking second in the world, with a world ranking of 4505 points. Wang Manyu ranked third with 4,137 points, and Chen Meng ranked fourth with 3,995 points. Another main player, Chen Xingtong, ranked fifth with 2,545 points, a large gap with the top four, and basically withdrew from the competition for the Paris Olympics ahead of schedule. Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng will rotate between the second and fourth positions in the world, and with Sun Yingsha basically locked up one singles quota place at the Paris Olympics, the three of them will compete for another singles quota place at the Paris Olympics and the third place in the Olympic team.
In addition to the first place in the world rankings, Sun Yingsha is also firmly in the first place in the singles standings of the national table tennis Paris Olympics, with 13,050 points in the Olympic singles trials, plus the world ranking points calculated in the Olympic trials, she is far ahead in the Olympic selection rankings with 18,922 points. Chen Meng, ranked fourth in the world, is currently ranked second in the Olympic selection ranking with 8,328 points with 5,300 points in the second-ranked Olympic award points, while Wang Yidi and Wang Manyu are ranked third and fourth with 6,960 points and 6,757 points respectively.
However, in 2023, Sun Yingsha will have 7 singles championships, Wang Manyu will win 3 singles championships, Wang Yidi will also have singles championships, and Chen Meng will not win a single championship and only win four runners-up. It may be difficult to tell who will decide who will end up in the singles quota places at Paris 2024.