The International Table Tennis Federation announced the latest world rankings, this time the world rankings, the changes in the head group are still not very much, and they have not attracted too much attention from national table tennis fans, but some changes still need to be worth our attention, because the athletes of the head group of the Chinese team, even if they have no way to participate in the Olympic Games, have to follow the Olympic team of the Chinese team for large-scale training, so they have no way to participate, and they are more affected here.
Like Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan of the men's team, Wang Yidi and Chen Xingtong of the women's team, these are the main players of the Chinese team, and some foreign athletes who are very similar to them are still actively participating in various competitions this week. But fortunately, the level of the events they participated in this week was not particularly high, especially some of them were regional competitions, but the points to win the championship were only three or four hundred points. Therefore, the impact on our head group is not particularly large.
At present, in the men's singles, Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun and Ma Long are still ranked in the top four of the world men's singles, and the top four of the world women's singles have not changed from the previous week, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi and Chen Meng firmly hold the top four positions. The position of the top four is still very important, because in many top international competitions, if it is the top four, everyone will be alone in a small half, so that before the semi-finals, there will be no confrontation between the top masters of the Chinese table tennis team's civil war. Therefore, holding the top four positions in the standings will have a very important impact on the Chinese team's competition in the next few months after the Olympic Games. If these players like the ones mentioned above meet too early, it will be a relatively big loss for the Chinese table tennis team.
In addition to the top four, like Chen Xingtong and Lin Gaoyuan, who are also the five main forces of the Chinese team, they are relatively bad, and the gap is opened by the athletes in front of them, because they have not participated in the sub-station competition recently, so the points are slowly decreasing, and the rest of the top foreign masters with similar points are also slowly rising. The most obvious thing is that the gap between Chen Xingtong and Hina Hayada has further widened.
Hina Hayada is still participating in this week, in addition, the three main players of the Japanese team in the Olympic Games, all of them have rushed into the top ten in the world, Miwa Zhang has reached the peak ranking of his career, ranked seventh in the world, and Miyu Hirano has also come to the ninth position in the world rankings, the three top ten players of the Japanese team are all able to participate in the Olympic Games, and the Chinese team is indeed too competitive, Wang Manyu, who is currently ranked second in the world, and Wang Yidi, who is ranked third, have no way to participate.
However, the gap between Chen Meng and Hina Hayada is still very obvious, although before the Olympics, Hina Hayada still has to participate in the Bangkok Planet Challenge, but because the gap with Chen Meng has reached 1400 points, so even if Chen Meng does not participate before the Olympics, there will be no increase in points after the Olympics. He was overtaken by Hina Hayada and lost his fourth place in the world rankings.