The main players of the national table tennis are currently in the training camp to prepare for the Olympic Games. The International Table Tennis Federation also announced the latest week's world rankings today, and since there are no competitions to participate in, the ranking changes between most of the top players are not particularly large. Although our main players did not participate, there were no top tournaments like Grand Slams and Champions Cup during this period. Therefore, even if other top players from Japan, South Korea, and Europe participated in some sub-tournaments, even if they achieved relatively good results, they still did not pose a substantial threat to the main force of national table tennis in the head group, of course, the gap is gradually narrowing, which requires our attention. (At the end of the article, there are rankings of some other national table tennis players)
Among the five individual world rankings announced this time. After a lapse of months, the Chinese team once again won the world first place in five individual events. In the past few months, the world No. 1 in women's doubles has been held by two South Korean players, Tian Zhixi and Shin Yubin, but this time, Tian Zhixi and Shin Yubin have cleared some previous points, and they have not made good use of the opportunity of the main players of the Chinese team not participating in the competition for a period of time, and played some better results.
For example, in the just-concluded Tunisia tournament, the two players did not perform as expected, and did not show the style of the world's No. 1 women's doubles, so their points did not increase particularly quickly. In the end, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng, who did not participate in any matches, took advantage of the new rules to unexpectedly reach the top of the women's doubles world rankings.
Wang Manyu and Chen Meng are back in the world No. 1, thanks to some points accumulated by the two men's frequent team competitions since last year. In the case of basically establishing Sun Yingsha as the No. 1 singles player of the Chinese women's team, in the past two years, we have been constantly adjusting the women's doubles pairing according to the state of the players in women's doubles. In this 2022, Wang Yidi was in very good shape at that time, and he may become one of the main forces of the three team competitions of the Olympic Games, so there were a lot of partners between Chen Meng and Wang Yidi at that time, and the two even won the championship of the World Table Tennis Championships.
After entering 2023, Wang Manyu's state has soared, and she has become a strong contender with a relatively large team list, so Wang Manyu and Chen Meng have been partnered constantly, so now in fact, Chen Meng's doubles level is also rising, and Wang Manyu's achievements in last year. It is finally reflected in this edition of the world rankings.
In the other four individual events, the world No. 1 is without any suspense, the world No. 1 in women's singles is Sun Yingsha, the men's singles is Wang Chuqin, and the men's doubles is the partner of Ma Long and Wang Chuqin. The mixed doubles pair, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin, who have not lost any foreign battles in the entire Paris Olympics cycle, have also firmly held the No. 1 ranking in the mixed doubles rankings. This is also the only project in the past three years that has been ranked No. 1 in a single event and has never undergone any changes.
Other Chinese team players, women's team: Qian Tianyi ranked 17th, Kuo Man ranked 32nd, He Zhuojia ranked 42nd, and Shi Xunyao ranked 44th. Men's team: Lin Shidong ranked 12th