Recently, the national table tennis team ended the Saudi Arabian Grand Slam competition and returned to Beijing to continue to prepare for the Taiyuan station. According to the schedule, the competition in Taiyuan will officially start on May 20, and there is not much time left. These main players of national table tennis are looking forward to getting good results again and preparing for the Paris Olympics.
With the end of this Grand Slam competition, the International Table Tennis Federation has also updated the latest world rankings, and the rankings of the major national table tennis players have undergone a major reshuffle.
First of all, from the overall ranking, the national table tennis in each event is still at the top of the rankings and dominates the entire table tennis world. This is still very good for young players such as Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, and the Shatou combination maintains the world's No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. As post-00 players, Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha's achievements in the past two years are simply invincible in the world and very competitive.
Let's take a look at the points in men's and women's singles, first of all, Wang Chuqin currently has 8625 points, far ahead of Fan Zhendong. In contrast, Fan Zhendong only scored 5,228 points, and the point gap between him and Wang Chuqin was as high as about 3,400 points. This is undoubtedly a huge blow to Fan Zhendong. I think that Fan Zhendong won the world's No. 1 ranking back then and once threw off Wang Chuqin, but unfortunately now I feel that feng shui is turning, according to Fan Zhendong's current bad state, he still wants to win the world championship in the future, and surpass Wang Chuqin from the points, I am afraid it is a very difficult thing.
On the other hand, in contrast, Malone is even more regretful. Ma Long's points are 4685 points, and the difference between him and Fan Zhendong is only a few hundred points. However, because the selection time for the Paris Olympics has been closed, Fan Zhendong directly replaced Ma Long to win the singles qualification for the Paris Olympics. For Ma Long, it is indeed a pity that he did not have the opportunity to hit the three rounds of the Grand Slam in his career. As for Liang Jingkun, who is ranked fourth, he is currently getting a place on a P card.
Let's take a look at the women's singles, Sun Yingsha is currently first with 9,200 points, almost 3,000 points higher than Chen Meng, who is in second place. And Chen Meng is 6410 points, and her points are far away from Sun Yingsha, who is in first place. It can also be seen from this that in the previous Saudi Grand Slam match, it was not easy for Chen Meng to defeat Sun Yingsha in an upset. Judging from the state and strength performance of both sides in recent years, Sun Yingsha is indeed higher than Chen Meng.
Of course, among the top three main players in the national table tennis women's singles rankings, the most regrettable one must be Wang Manyu, whose score is 5965 points, which is not much different from the second-place Chen Meng. And before the start of this Saudi Grand Slam competition, Wang Manyu's Olympic points and world ranking points were more than Chen Meng's. If you want to blame Wang Manyu for not playing well in this Saudi Arabia Grand Slam competition, she finally left a huge regret and confirmed that she would not be able to qualify for the women's singles at the Paris Olympics. In contrast, Wang Yidi's points are 5305 points, and she can get a P card like Da Fat.
In general, the current ranking strength of the six main forces of national table tennis is still quite good, which also makes Wang Chuqin and others have stronger confidence in the next Paris Olympics, and looks forward to their further achievements.