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The 11-day WTT Saudi Arabia Grand Slam came to a successful conclusion, with the national table tennis winning five crowns, Wang Chuqin winning the "triple crown" of men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles, and Chen Mengli winning the "double crown" of women's singles and women's doubles. However, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Ma Long, and Wang Manyu all played poorly and stopped in the second round, and Fan Zhendong also missed the men's singles quarterfinals.
After the game, the ITTF announced the latest world rankings as scheduled.
Men's singles Wang Chuqin scored 8,625 points, ranking first in the world; Fan Zhendong 5228 points, second in the world; Malone scored 4,685 points, third in the world; Liang Jingkun 4280 points, fourth in the world; Felix, the highest-ranked player in the Foreign Association, is fifth with 3,377 points; Lin Gaoyuan scored 2,975 points, ranking sixth; Lin Yunru scored 2,931 points, seventh in the world; Hugo scored 2,635 points, eighth in the world; Francesca finished runner-up in a Grand Slam and is ranked ninth in the world; Tomokazu Zhang dropped one place to tenth.
Women's singles Sun Yingsha 9200 points, No. 1 in the world; Chen Meng scored 6,210 points, rising 2 places to second in the world ranking; Wang Manyu scored 5,965 points, ranking third in the world; Wang Yidi scored 5,305 points, ranking fourth in the world; Hina Hayada 3565 points, fifth in the world; The 6th to 10th places are Chen Xingtong, Shin Yubin, Zhang Ben Miwa, Ito Mimako, and Szokos.
According to the Table Tennis Association's "Table Tennis 2024 Paris Olympic Games Selection Method" and the later revised supplementary measures, the mixed doubles will be based on May 7, 2024, and the highest-ranked combination will participate in the mixed doubles competition of the 2024 Olympic Games and will be automatically selected into the team lineup. In the singles selection, the top two national table tennis players who participated in major international competitions from May 8, 2023 to May 11, 2024 will win the total number of bonus points and the ITTF singles world ranking points. The highest-ranked men, two women and two athletes from each gender, qualify for the singles event at Paris 2024 and are automatically selected for the team squad.
The measures also clearly stipulate that the total points will be calculated by adding up the points awarded for major international competitions between May 8, 2023 and May 11, 2024. Bonus points will be awarded to the top three athletes in singles in eight major international competitions, including the World Championships and the World Cup. Among them, in the women's table tennis Singapore Grand Slam, Incheon Championships, Macau World Cup and Saudi Arabia Grand Slam, players will be penalized for losing foreign battles.
According to the "Measures" and the latest world rankings of the International Table Tennis Federation, the men's table tennis kings Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, and the women's table tennis Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng qualified for the Olympic singles. In this regard, the doubts of fans have been endless. First, Chen Meng only won two championships in the Paris Olympic cycle, far lower than Wang Manyu's six championships; The second is that Chen Meng has lost more foreign wars than Wang Manyu, and the rules for deducting points for losing foreign wars in national table tennis were introduced too late, which is unfair to Wang Manyu. In addition, Fan Zhendong's ranking is fourth in the world, which also drags Fan Zhendong into the whirlpool of whether he can play in the Olympic singles.
But an official announcement broke all the doubts. The Table Tennis Association officially announced the list of participants for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games: Men's singles Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong; women's singles Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng; Mixed Doubles Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha; men's group Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long; women's group Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu; The male and female substitutes are Liang Jingkun and Wang Yidi.
Everything is in order, arranged according to the ranking, including the group third. In the "Measures", "the national team coaching staff shall comprehensively consider the Olympic singles selection points, technical and tactical characteristics, doubles competition ability and record against the main opponents and other factors, and collectively make a decision to determine the list of intentions for the group No. 3 candidate, and report to the selection leading group for approval". Even the substitute players were arranged according to the ranking, and there was no very responsible participation of young players such as Lin Shidong.
Regarding Chen Meng's doubts, professionals clarified after the official announcement. In the women's singles standings of the Paris Olympic Games, Chen Meng scored 17,960 points and Wang Manyu scored 11,865 points. From the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban to the Paris Olympics selection cycle in the 2024 Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng lost the Frankfurt championship and the Busan World Table Tennis Championships team event against Hina Hayata, even if the 6,000 points in these two stops are deducted, Chen Meng's total score is 95 points higher than Wang Manyu.
As for the problem that Chen Meng can surpass Wang Manyu in total points with only two championships, this shows that Chen Meng's results in each major competition are very stable, and a stable ranking can ensure an absolute point lead; Although Wang Manyu has many championships, many upsets have also dragged down her points ranking. The Olympic Games, a competition of national honor, requires athletes to be in a stable state of competition to ensure that the championship is earned.
"Fan Zhendong lost to second-rate players like Francesca and Lee Sang-so, and the world ranking slipped to No. 4," which in itself is a wrong proposition, and after the official announcement, Fan Zhendong was also freed from the whirlpool of "missing the Olympic singles".
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