On May 12, Beijing time, the 2024 WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam came to an end with Wang Chuqin and Chen Meng winning the men's and women's singles championships.
Week20 World Ranking Points Change (20240514 Period)
【Men's Singles】
Wang Chuqin won the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam men's singles championship 4-2 Francesca [11-2, 11-7, 11-5, 8-11, 10-12, 11-6], and won two consecutive Grand Slam singles championships this season, ranking first in the world.
Francesca reached her first Grand Slam final in her career, rising seven places to No. 9, setting a new career high in the world rankings (11, 22week31), reaching the top 10 for the first time and entering the German men's singles rankings. Last week, the German Table Tennis Association announced the qualification for the Paris Olympics, Francesca was only a team P card, and he himself implicitly expressed his dissatisfaction, achieving a breakthrough under this pressure, and also reversed the world No. 2 Fan Zhendong in three consecutive games after falling behind 0-2 in the third round, and he should have a place in the German singles qualification (Ocharov 14th, Uncle Bol 24th).
Lin Shidong 3-4 Wang Chuqin [11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 9-11, 4-11, 11-7, 6-11] stopped in the semifinals, rising four places to No. 11, Wang Chuqin praised "Lin Shidong can win any opponent".
Zhang Yuzhen 3-4 Francesca, stopped in the semifinals, and rose 7 places to 13 places.
Zhao Dacheng 1-4 Lin Shidong, ranked among the top 8, refreshed his personal best world ranking for 6 consecutive weeks, rose 8 places to 23, entered the top 30 for the first time in his career, and came to the second place in the Korean men's singles world ranking; Grote 0-4 Wang Chuqin, also came to the top 8, up 5 places to 22; Lebrun Jr. 1-4 Zhang Yuzhen, the ranking remains unchanged and the player with the highest ranking in the foreign association: fifth in the world. Qiu Dang stopped in the quarterfinals 0-4 Francesca, dropping two places to No. 12, but he is the only men's singles player to reach the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slams in the Paris Olympic cycle, but he has not reached the quarterfinals four times.
Alamiyan and Shinozuka Daito, who also entered the third round, rose 18 and 19 places respectively to 50 and 51 respectively; Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan stopped in the second round, and the ranking remained unchanged, still third, fourth, sixth. Singapore's Kwok Yong returned to the top 100 after reaching the main draw from the qualifying round, moving up 27 places to 88th and qualifying for the Olympic singles at the Olympic Qualification Tournament this week.
【Women's Singles】
Chen Meng 4-2 Sun Yingsha [6-11,11-5,11-8,11-9,6-11,11-8] won the WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam Championship, rose 2 places, and returned to the second place in the world rankings. Everything is subject to the announcement of the national table tennis. It is worth mentioning that Chen Meng defeated three Japanese players Miyu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto, and Hina Hayada in the 1/8 finals to advance to the finals.
Sun Yingsha won the runner-up and ranked first in the world. 2790 points ahead of second place.
Qian Tianyi 0-4 Sun Yingsha, stopped in the quarterfinals, rose 8 places to 17, and returned to the top 20 in the world.
Batra 1-4 Hina Hayata, stopped in the quarterfinals, rose 15 places to 24th, set a new career high in the world ranking, returned to the first place in the Indian women's singles world rankings, and became the first Indian player to enter the women's singles TOP25! In the second round of this station, she also upset Wang Manyu 3-1, who is third in the world.
Misei Ito 3-4 Wang Yidi, stopped in the quarterfinals, and rose one place to No. 9. Szokos was defeated by Bayo in three games in a row after leading 2-0, and suffered a first-round tour in all four WTT Grand Slams in his career, dropping one place to No. 10. The remaining top10 did not change, Zhang Benmei and 1-4 Chen Meng stopped in the quarterfinals, and the ranking remained unchanged or 8th.
Picorin reached the third round of the qualifying round and rose 40 places to 56th, a career high. Serbian player Luplescu reached the second round of the main draw from the qualifying round, rising 42 places to 84th, setting a new personal best in the world ranking; Charlotte Lutz rose 11 spots to 72nd; Wanyuan reached the first round of the main competition from the qualifying round and returned to the top 100 to 90.
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