The International Table Tennis Federation announced the world ranking for the 41st week of 2021, because the Chinese table tennis team did not participate in any international competitions, some players' points stagnated or shrunk, but also let the fierce opponents participating in the Asian Championships surpassed, among which the Japanese post-00 beauty Hayata Hina, who won the Asian Championship women's singles championship, was promoted 4th in a row, ranking 17th in the world, approaching Chen Xingtong, the national table tennis world champion Liang Jingkun fell one more place, and was surpassed by South Korea's main player Zhang Yuzhen.
Since the national table tennis team has not participated in any recent events, and the top two main players of the Japanese women's team, Ito Mimako and Ishikawa Yoshijun, have not appeared in the Asian Championships, so the order of the top 10 places in the world women's ranking has not changed, ranking 1-10 is Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Ito Mimachi, Wang Manyu, Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling, Liu Shiwen, Zheng Yijing, Ishikawa Jiachun and Feng Tianwei.
The recent absence of the Asian Championships national table tennis is not unexpected, the strange thing is that Japan's Ito Mimako did not participate, the number one opponent of the national table tennis women's team has always been keen to participate in various international events, in order to improve the world rankings, perhaps after winning the Olympic Games, they are still immersed in joy, did not resume training, and could only give up the game.
Hina Hayata, who had won the world championship runner-up as Ito's women's doubles partner, won three titles at the Asian Championships: women's singles, women's team and mixed doubles. The world ranking has also risen from 21st to 17th, gradually moving closer to the first group of women's table tennis in the world. Chen Xingtong, who is gradually approaching the world ranking 15th, and another national table tennis player Wang Yidi is ranked 11th in the world, because Ding Ning has faded out of the international arena, in fact, Wang Yidi is also one of the top 10 players.
The top 10 players in the men's world rankings also did not change much because there was no competition, followed by Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Zhang Benzhihe, Hugo Caldrano, Lin Yunru, Lin Gaoyuan, Ochalov, Falke, and Pol.
The biggest change in men's singles was the South Korean men's team that participated in the Asian Championships and performed well, and Zhang Yuzhen, who reached the men's singles semifinals, surpassed the national table tennis world champion Liang Jingkun in the world ranking to 11th place, and Liang Jingkun fell 1 place. Lee Sang-so, who won the Asian Championship men's singles title, rose two places in a row to 20th, and Taiwan's 40-year-old veteran Zhuang Jiyuan, who won the men's singles runner-up, rose to 25th.
Due to the fact that the national table tennis has participated in few international competitions in the past two years, in addition to the top world ranking of the main players, the world ranking of young players is generally low, with the men's singles Wang Chuqin 17th, Zhao Zihao 26th, Zhou Qihao 123rd, and the national games men's singles runner-up Liu Dingshuo ranked 230th; the women's singles runner-up He Zhuojia ranked 23rd, Qian Tianyi 27th, Gu Yuting 47th, Zhang Rui 65th, Liu Fei 70th.
Although the national table tennis coaching team has been emphasizing more opportunities for young players, but so far has not fulfilled the promise, WTT events rarely participate, perhaps out of the perspective of being responsible for the health of athletes, but not participating means that there are no points or points reduction, which is not conducive to the accumulation of experience for young players. The Slovenian Open in November is the first international open tournament that the national table tennis plans to participate in this year, which will include Wang Chuqin, Lin Gaoyuan, Liang Jingkun, Zhou Qihao, Liu Dingshuo, Wang Yidi and Liu Weishan, hoping that young teams can seize the few opportunities to earn as many points as possible and improve the world rankings.