On May 14, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the 20th week of 2024, and under the influence of the Saudi Grand Slam, the men's singles and women's singles world rankings have changed greatly. In men's singles, Germany's post-90s star Francesca rose to No. 9 and became Germany's first brother, but he missed the Olympic squad and didn't even qualify for the team, which is a bit ironic. And Tomokazu Zhang fell to the tenth place in the world in men's singles and was hit again.
In this issue of the world rankings, the national table tennis won the top four in men's singles and women's singles, the top four in men's singles were Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, and Liang Jingkun, and the top four in women's singles were Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, and Wang Yidi. The highest-ranked player in the men's singles is Felix Lebrun, the highest-ranked foreign player in the women's singles is Hina Hayata, and Francesca, who finished runner-up in the men's singles at the Saudi Grand Slam, soared seven places to the top 10 in the world, temporarily ranking ninth.
Francesca has performed well this season, defeating Ma Long in the Singapore Grand Slam, Fan Zhendong in the Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, and he also defeated Qiu Dang, Zhang Yuzhen and other masters, losing to Wang Chuqin 2-4 in the final, and winning the men's singles runner-up in Saudi Arabia, which is his best record in the Grand Slam. With such results, Francesca surpassed Germany's Qiu Dang, Ocharov and others, and entered the top 10 in the world, temporarily ranking 9th, becoming the highest-ranked player in Germany.
Ironically, the Olympic lineup of the German team is Qiu Dang, Ocharov, Bol, the German coach and the German Table Tennis Association gave up Francesca and only gave him a P card, many fans called it unfair, in terms of the performance of these two seasons, Francesca is better than Ocharov and Bol, and Francesca's doubles ability is also very strong, I don't know if the German team will change the Olympic lineup.
In addition, Francesca also surpassed Tomokazu Zhangmoto, allowing Tomokazu Zhangmoto to fall to the top ten in the world, although Tomokazu Zhangmoto is still the highest-ranked player in the Japanese men's team, but compared to the state of closely chasing the national table tennis in the past, Tomokazu Zhangmoto is now somewhat mediocre. National table tennis player Lin Shidong rose four places to 11th place temporarily, chasing Zhang Benzhihe, who is only 240 points less than Zhang Benzhihe, that is, Zhang Benzhihe may fall out of the world's top ten next.
The men's doubles world No. 1 is still Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, the women's doubles world No. 1 is Tian Zhixi/Shen Yubin, and the national table tennis team of Chen Meng/Wang Manyu is second, only 77 points behind. The mixed doubles world No. 1 is, of course, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, the two are ahead of the fault, Wang Chuqin is ranked No. 1 in the world in three events, and he is indeed very strong!