On December 26, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) brought the world rankings for the 52nd and final week of 2023.
The latest world ranking was officially announced, and this time the Chinese national table tennis finally lost the throne of the world's No. 1 in a certain event. Among the five major events, the national table tennis ranked first in 4 items, the first men's singles belonged to Fan Zhendong, and the first women's singles belonged to Sun Yingsha. The first men's doubles also belongs to China, not to mention the first mixed doubles, which must be the Shatou combination of Chinese national table tennis.
But at the same time, in the women's doubles event, the national table tennis lost the world No. 1. This is the last world ranking in 2023, which means that the Chinese national table tennis will not have a chance to take back this first place in 2023, and it is destined to end the year with a pair of South Korean pairs ranking first.
The last official announcement of the International Table Tennis Federation is very clear, the world number one in women's doubles this time is the South Korean combination of Shin Yubin and Tian Zhixi, the two of them bombarded 4620 points, the second is Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu 4290 points, the third is Chen Meng and Wang Yidi's 4012 points, only these three pairs of combinations exceed 4000 points, but we saw the new World Table Tennis Championships champion Mengdi combination, as well as the previous Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu's seafood sisters lost the world No. 1 in women's doubles.
This first place was taken by the South Korean team, and such an official ranking of the International Table Tennis Federation shows that in the women's doubles event, the advantage of national table tennis has gradually disappeared. At the end of the year, the world number one is not ours, although the second and third are us, but the first is South Korea's trump card, this combination is still very powerful, especially in the World Table Tennis Championships, they reached the finals, although they lost to Chen Meng and Wang Yidi, but they showed dominance, they have become the most powerful opponent and enemy of national table tennis.
In the women's doubles project, national table tennis definitely does not have such a big advantage. And after reading this ranking, we finally understand Liu Guoliang's painstaking efforts, before Chairman Liu Guoliang has made arrangements, the first stop of the 2023 Doha Star Challenge, the national table tennis will be directly dismantled, the seafood sisters will be directly dismantled, and the combination of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, who just won the Nagoya Women's Finals in the middle of the year, will be dismantled, forming a new combination of Chen Meng and Wang Manyu.
In fact, to a large extent, it may be because these two pairs of women's doubles may not cooperate so well, and now the team is dismantled to let Chen Meng and Manyu match, but also to let them regain the world's No. 1 if the effect of this combination is good, and at the same time, they will have the opportunity to make greater contributions in the women's team competition in the Olympic Games. Because if nothing else, the trio of the Olympics is still Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and Sun Yingsha are likely to play a single in the women's team, so the women's doubles position must be Chen Meng and Wang Manyu, so Liu Guoliang has already made a deployment. Seafood and Mengdi have lost the world's No. 1, so Chen Meng and Wang Manyu will form a new combination, which may take back the world's No. 1.