On July 2, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the 27th week of 2024.
In the past week, the WTT regular challenge Tunisia station ended, the national table tennis team was absent, and the Japanese table tennis team won a big victory, winning all 5 individual championships. Among them, Tomokazu Zhang and Yuya Uda met in the men's singles final, and the two fought for seven games, and finally Tomokazu Zhang won 11-9 in the deciding game. Zhang Benmei and Satsuki Oto met in the women's singles final, and the top seed swept his teammates 4-0 to win the women's singles championship. Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Teruku Matsushima defeated Feng Yixin/Huang Yancheng 3-0 to win the men's doubles championship. Sakura Yokoi/Satsuki Oto won the Women's Doubles title with a 3-0 victory over India's Chitale/Gol Lampard. Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayada narrowly defeated the Swedish pair Carlsen/C. Carlberg 3-2 to win the mixed doubles championship again, and Tomokazu Zhangmoto also became the "triple crown" of this tournament.
Points for the WTT 2023 Regular Challenge Zagreb expire this week, with the winner having 400 points deducted. At that time, there were successive upsets, Lin Gaoyuan narrowly defeated Fan Zhendong 4-3 and won the men's singles championship of the WTT event for the first time; Sun Yingsha lost to Miu Hirano 3-4 and missed the women's singles championship, ending her winning streak in foreign wars.
Men's singles
National table tennis players Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, Liang Jingkun and Ma Long maintained the top four positions in men's singles.
Although Fan Zhendong was deducted 280 points for the runner-up, he still barely maintained the second position with 4123 points, only 98 points more than Liang Jingkun. But next week, Fan Zhendong will have 600 points for the Star Challenge championship and will be overtaken by Liang Jingkun and Ma Long. Lin Gaoyuan's 400 championship points expired, and the latest points were surpassed by Lin Yunru, and the ranking slipped to eighth place.
Tomokazu Zhang has participated in 20 international tournaments in the past year, and finally broke the men's singles championship drought last week, surpassing Qiu Dang in points this week and returning to the top 10 in the world.
This week's top 10 men's singles are: 1. Wang Chuqin, 2. Fan Zhendong, 3. Liang Jingkun, 4. Ma Long, 5. Felix Lebrun, 6. Hugo Calderano, 7. Lin Yunru, 8. Lin Gaoyuan, 9. Francesca, 10. Tomokazu Zhangmoto.
Japan 选手松岛辉空排名上升至第27位,田中佑汰排到第48位,均创个人新高。
Ranking of other players in national table tennis: Lin Shidong is 12th, Zhou Qihao is 52nd, Xiang Peng is 55th, and Wen Ruibo is 95th.
Women's singles
The "Four Golden Flowers" of national table tennis Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, and Chen Meng are firmly in the top four. Chen Xingtong ranked sixth.
Miu Hirano had managed to get back into the top 10 before, but after only three weeks, 400 championship points expired this week, and the ranking dropped four places to 13th, with Ito back in 10th place.
This week's top 10 women's singles are: 1. Sun Yingsha, 2. Wang Manyu, 3. Wang Yidi, 4. Chen Meng, 5. Hina Hayata, 6. Chen Xingtong, 7. Miwa Zhangmoto, 8. Shin Yubin, 9. Szokos, 10. Misei Ito.
Japan's Miyu Nagasaki moved up four places to 24th; Oto Sayue has risen 25 places to 30th in the latest ranking, setting a new personal high.
National table tennis other player rankings: Qian Tianyi 17th, Kuo Man 32nd, He Zhuojia 42nd, Shi Xunyao 44th.
Men's Doubles
The three pairs of national table tennis dominate the top three, with Ma Long/Wang Chuqin firmly at the top of the list, followed by Fan Zhendong/Wang Chuqin, and Ma Long/Lin Gaoyuan in third place.
Feng Yixin/Huang Yancheng rose 26 places to 35th; Tomokazu Haramoto/Teruku Matsushima moved up 87 places to 39th.
Women's Doubles
There is no change in the top 10 of the Women's Doubles this week. The top three are the national table tennis pair Chen Meng/Wang Manyu, the Korean pair Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin, and Zheng Yijing/Li Yuzhen.
Japan's Sakura Yokoi and Satsuki Oto have won all three WTT tournaments and moved up 15 places to 14th this week.
Mixed doubles
The top three in the mixed doubles were unchanged this week, with the national table tennis pair Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha firmly in the top spot, the Korean pair Lim Joong-hoon/Shin Yubin continuing to be in second place, and the Japanese pair Tomokazu Haramoto/Hina Hayada won the title again, but still 210 points less than the second place and fell to third.
This week, the Japanese and South Korean pairs have all signed up for the WTT Star Challenge in Bangkok, Thailand, and the Japanese pair may have a chance to overtake the points.