The latest world ranking of table tennis: A returned to the second place in the world, and Wang Yidi's ranking may fall again and again
On February 27, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the 9th week of 2024.
Last week, the team competition of the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships in Busan came to a perfect end, with the Chinese table tennis team once again winning the men's and women's team championships, and Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha were named the best male and female athletes of the event.
The men's and women's team champions each have 1,000 points, and players participating in the team competition can be allocated singles points according to the proportion of the number of wins. Among them, Fan Zhendong scored 333 points, Wang Chuqin scored 292 points, Ma Long scored 250 points, Sun Yingsha scored 333 points, Chen Meng scored 250 points, and Wang Yidi scored 167 points. The other teams that qualified for the Busan team round of 16 were able to pick up some points to a greater or lesser extent, so there was a change in the singles world rankings this week. At the same time, due to the expiration of the points for the second stop of the WTT feeder tournament in Düsseldorf last year, there are also some changes in the rankings of the three doubles, but there is no impact on the ranking of the world's top 20 pairs.
Men's singles
Among the previous top ten players in the world, only national table tennis player Lin Shidong did not participate in the team event of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, but it did not cause a change in the ranking of the top ten in the world this week. National table tennis players Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, and Lin Gaoyuan ranked in the top five, of which Fan Zhendong continued to maintain the first place with 7613 points.
The top 10 in the men's singles world are: 1. Fan Zhendong, 2. Wang Chuqin, 3. Ma Long, 4. Liang Jingkun, 5. Lin Gaoyuan, 6. Felix Lebrun (France), 7. Lin Yunru (Chinese Taipei), 8. Tomokazu Changmoto (Japan), 9. Qiu Dang (Germany), 10. Lin Shidong.
Ocharov dropped three places to No. 16 in the world rankings, while Zhang Yuzhen, Darko Joczyk and Moregard each moved up one place. Alex Lebrun moved up one spot to overtake Falke and move into the top 20.
Belgium's Allegero, who finished runner-up in the men's singles at last year's WTT feeder tournament in Düsseldorf, dropped 18 places to 74th due to the expiration of his points, while Japan's Yutai Tanaka, the men's singles champion at the time, fell 45 places to 113th.
Among the other players, Zhou Qihao is ranked 24th and Xiang Peng is ranked 33rd.
Women's singles
National table tennis players occupy 6 of the top 10 seats in the world, of which Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, and Wang Manyu are among the top four. Chen Xingtong ranked sixth, and Qian Tianyi ranked seventh. Sun Yingsha is firmly at the top of the list with 8800 points.
Chen Meng scored 250 points with his outstanding performance at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, and this week with a slight advantage of 22 points, he overtook Wang Yidi and became the world's second again. Wang Yidi's performance in the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships was criticized by fans, losing to India's Akula in the first group stage, and losing to Japan's Miu Hirano in the final, and this week's points were overtaken by Chen Meng. But that's not the end of the story, as Wang Yidi's 600 points for the Women's Singles title at the 2023 Goa Star Challenge will expire next week, and Wang Manyu will be overtaken by Wang Manyu to drop to fourth.
Zheng Yijing, a Chinese Taipei player who played well in the team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, surpassed the German veteran Han Ying, who was unable to participate due to injury, and came to ninth place.
The top 10 in the women's singles world are: 1. Sun Yingsha, 2. Chen Meng, 3. Wang Yidi, 4. Wang Manyu, 5. Hina Hayata, 6. Chen Xingtong, 7. Qian Tianyi, 8. Shen Yubin, 9. Zheng Yijing, 10. Han Ying.
Doo Hoi-king, who led the Hong Kong women's team to the World Table Tennis Championships team podium again, jumped 20 places to 45th, her teammate Li Haoqing rose 58 places to 85th, and French teenager Charlotte Lutz, who also won the third place in the team at the World Table Tennis Championships, rose 33 places to 82nd, setting a new career high.
Among the table tennis players from other countries, Zhang Rui ranked 20th, Kuo Man ranked 23rd, He Zhuojia ranked 41st, Li Yake ranked 43rd, and Shi Xunyao ranked 44th. Qin Yuxuan, the women's singles champion at last year's WTT feeder tournament in Düsseldorf, fell 60 places to No. 139 this week.
The top 10 in the world in three doubles, including men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, remained unchanged this week. The top three men's doubles are: Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, Zhang Yuzhen/Lin Zhongxun, Lin Gaoyuan/Lin Shidong. The top three in Women's Doubles are: Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin, Wang Manyu/Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng/Wang Yidi. The top three mixed doubles are: Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, Hina Hayata/Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Lin Zhongxun/Shin Yubin,