Just when the majority of table tennis fans are busy spending the Spring Festival holiday waiting to welcome the New Year, the World Table Tennis Federation has released the latest world ranking announcement. In this announcement through the WTT, a new method of calculating the world ranking is clearly proposed. That is, the previous points will account for 20%, and all the points in 2021 will be ranked cumulatively, so that Sun Yingsha, who has participated in the most various events in 2021 and has been very stable, has jumped to become the world's number one player. She also replaced Chen Meng, who stayed in this position for about 4 years, and became the new top of the standings. Sun Yingsha according to the new points rule, personal ranking points have also accumulated to 7580 points. Chen Meng, on the other hand, has more than 400 points less than Sun Yingsha, ranking second in the world.
Unlike Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, whose ranking points are above 7,000 points, Ito Mimako, who ranks third in the world, is 2,000 points behind them, and she is ranked ahead of Wang Manyu with 5216 ranking points, holding the position of the top three in the world. However, the point gap between Wang Manyu and Ito Mimachi is not large, and Wang Manyu's points have reached 5011 points, which is only 205 points away from Ito Mimachi. It can be said that this point gap can be caught up with and surpassed by the outstanding performance in a world event. However, in comparison, there is a big gap between these two players who want to catch up with and surpass the points of Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha. It even takes some miracles.
Comparatively speaking, Wang Yidi, another player in the main layer of national table tennis, who has recently performed strongly on the world stage and has also made a breakthrough in front of Ito Mimako, ranked fifth in the world with 4427 points, and her position also created good conditions for her to be selected for the national table tennis women's team lineup that will start in April. From a certain point of view, Wang Yidi is also more and more stable in the position of the main force of the fourth national table tennis. At present, she is also equal to the world ranking, only behind Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, the three major table tennis main players and the biggest competitor Ito Mimachi, to keep the lowest position of the world's women's table tennis first group.
Although Hina Hayata, who ranks sixth in the world in women's table tennis, looks very close to Wang Yidi in terms of rankings, her ranking points are now 3564 points, which is nearly 1000 points behind Wang Yidi. It is also very difficult to achieve catch-up, of course, Hayata Hina unconsciously stood in the sixth position of the world women's table tennis rankings, but also squeezed is not only a little bit of ishikawa Yoshijun in the Second main position in The Japanese women's table tennis, coupled with the just concluded Japanese table tennis championships, Hayata Hina and Ito Mimachi also won the women's doubles championship, mixed doubles, the same is her and Zhang Benzhihe's partner to ascend to the championship throne. Although she did not succeed in winning the championship in the women's singles field, she also reached the final with Ito Mimachi and won the women's singles runner-up. Now it is the basic pattern of Ito Mimachi and Hayata Hina as the two cores of the Japanese women's table tennis Paris Olympic cycle has been formed. National table tennis players also need to pay attention to Ito's movements while paying more attention to Hayata Hina.
Although Du Kaixuan lacks a major ranking in the world table tennis world, she is indeed a foreign association player with relatively good singles performance and maintains good stability in the world, in addition to the main players of national table tennis and the main players of Japanese table tennis. It is also normal for her to be able to reach the seventh place in the world rankings. Zheng Yijing, who was often ranked in this position before, has now been squeezed out of the world's top ten rankings. In addition to the above seven players, the eighth, ninth and tenth places are relatively veterans of table tennis. One is Yoshijun Ishikawa, the former sister of Japanese women's table tennis, who currently has 3110 world ranking points, and the other who occupies the ninth place in the world ranking is Singaporean veteran Feng Tianwei. Her current points are 3070. Tian Zhixi, a veteran from South Korea, ranked tenth with 2948 points.
Liu Shiwen, who just won the mixed doubles championship in the WTT Macau Competition and the runner-up in the women's singles, has slipped to 17th place due to too few world competitions. At the first time of receiving this news, the host of CCTV5 expressed congratulations to Sun Yingsha. I believe this is also an encouragement for Sun Yingsha, who has just played unsatisfactorily in the WTT Macau Competition. Let us hope that the girls of the national table tennis women's team, especially Sun Yingsha, can continue to work hard and strive to achieve better results in 2022. (ps: In the next article, we will conduct a new analysis of the men's table tennis rankings, and look forward to your continued support).