On October 27, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the latest edition of the world rankings of singles, doubles and mixed doubles. In the men's singles, Fan Zhendong ranked first in the world, Ma Long and Xu Xin ranked second in the world and third in the world respectively, but according to the latest list of participants in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November released by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Ma Long and Xu Xin are not among them, and the second and third in the world in an association do not participate in the extremely heavy World Table Tennis Championships, it is estimated that only the Chinese team dares to do this, in fact, only the Chinese team can do so.
Liu Guoliang
Xu Xin and Ma Long
In the women's singles, Chen Menggao ranked first in the world, Sun Yingsha ranked second in the world, and the main player of the Japanese women's singles, Ito Mimako, ranked third in the world, and Ito Mimachi is also the biggest competitor of the current national table tennis women's team. Wang Manyu ranked fourth, it is worth mentioning that Ding Ning, who has retired at present, is still ranked fifth in the world due to the number of points in the early stage. The 6-10 places are Zhu Yuling, Liu Shiwen, Zheng Yijing (Chinese Taipei), Ishikawa Jiajun (Japan), feng Tianwei (Singapore).
Chen Meng
Among the women's top ten players in the world, the two world champions of the Chinese team, Zhu Yuling and Liu Shiwen, did not enter the list of participants in the November World Table Tennis Championships, Zhu Yuling was mainly due to injury, and it can be said that after this, she will gradually withdraw from the main team of national table tennis. Liu Shiwen is currently the oldest in the national table tennis women's team, so the current situation is also very embarrassing, as the world table tennis championship women's singles defending champion, did not qualify for the new world table tennis championships, there are indeed some regrets and regrets. Although Liu Shiwen has no idea of retiring, from the current point of view, it can be said that she has gradually withdrawn from the main lineup of the women's team.
Liu Shiwen
In the list of the World Table Tennis Championships released by the Chinese Table Tennis Association, the players participating in the men's singles competition, in addition to Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan ranked seventh in the world; Liang Jingkun was 12th in the world, Wang Chuqin was 17th in the world, and Zhou Qihao was relatively low in the world ranking, only 123, but Zhou Qihao had previous experience in defeating Ma Long and Fan Zhendong, and the strength should not be underestimated, if he was in the World Table Tennis Championships, it was not impossible to win the final championship. In the men's national table tennis team, no matter who wins the final World Table Tennis Men's Singles Championship, it is the first time that he has won the Singles Championship of the World Table Tennis Championships, so it is of great significance.
Fan Zhendong
Players participating in women's singles competitions, in addition to Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi ranked 11th in the world, Chen Xingtong ranked 15th in the world, and the Chinese women's team participated in the 5 players in singles, all ranked in the top 20 in the world, it can be said that looking at any other association in the world, there is no, which is enough to illustrate the strength of the Chinese team in the world table tennis.
Sun Yingsha
Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong are the first to be selected for the singles list of the three world table tennis competitions, in the 2018 London World Cup team competition, Chen Xingtong won the final championship together with Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling and Wang Manyu, thus realizing his dream of world championship, but Chen Xingtong has not yet touched the singles championship of the three major competitions. Wang Yidi has not yet won any world championship title, so the upcoming World Table Tennis Championships is indeed a very rare opportunity for Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi.
Wang Yidi
Chen Xingtong
The Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November is also the best opportunity for Chen Meng to create a record, if he finally wins the women's singles championship, then Chen Meng will break the previous record of Zhang Jike's fastest "Grand Slam" in 455 days. And Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha are both eyeing the women's singles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, so it is very difficult for Chen to dream of winning the championship.
In terms of doubles and mixed doubles, South Korea's Lee Sang-so and Jang Woo-jin are ranked first in the men's doubles, Japan's Ishikawa Yoshijun and Hirano Miyu are ranked first in the world in the women's doubles, and this year's Tokyo Olympic champion Mizutani Hayabusa and Ito Mishimasa combined mixed doubles are ranked first in the world. In terms of mixed doubles, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen combined were not eligible for the World Table Tennis Championships list, and it is a pity that as the defending champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, they could not avenge the defeat of the Tokyo Olympic Games in the World Table Tennis Championships.
Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen