On October 15, Beijing time, the International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the 42nd week of 2024.
In the past week, some players of the national table tennis team participated in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and won only two championships, among which Lin Shidong/Kuo Man won the mixed doubles championship. The men's singles title was taken away by Japan's Tomokazu Zhangmoto, the women's singles title was won by North Korea's Kim Qin-young, the men's doubles title was won by Korea's Lim Jong-hoon/Ahn Jae-hyun, and the women's doubles title went to two 20-year-old Japan's Satsuki Oto/Sakura Yokoi. The winner of the continental event can earn 500 points.
Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha are firmly at the top of the men's and women's singles rankings, and Lin Shidong has risen to the top three in all three rankings, including first in men's doubles, second in men's singles, and third in mixed doubles.
Men's singles
Wang Chuqin's results in this year's Asian Championships are not satisfactory, but his points remain unchanged this week, and he continues to rank first with 7,625 points.
Although Lin Shidong's momentum of winning three consecutive men's singles championships in international competitions came to an abrupt end at the Asian Championships, the 350 points of the Asian Championships runner-up still made his latest points reach 5185 points, surpassing Fan Zhendong and coming to second place, setting a new career high. Fan Zhendong slipped one spot to third. Liang Jingkun once again surpassed Ma Long to fourth place.
Tomokazu Zhang reached the top of the Asian Championships for the first time and overtook Lin Gaoyuan this week to move to eighth place.
This week's men's singles top 10 points are ranked as follows: 1. Wang Chuqin, 2. Lin Shidong, 3. Fan Zhendong, 4. Liang Jingkun, 5. Ma Long, 6. Hugo · Calderano, 7. Felix · Lebrun, 8. Tomokazu Zhangmoto, 9. Lin Gaoyuan, 10. Moregaard.
Shinozuka climbed 11 places to 33rd. Simon · Goetz slipped 10 spots to 41st; Pitchford dropped 21 places to 56th. Wong also slipped 11 places to 61st.
Other national table tennis players ranked: Xiang Peng 26th, Zhou Qihao 55th, Xue Fei 60th, Zeng Beixun 65th, Xu Yingbin 72nd, Chen Yuanyu 79th. Wen Ruibo fell 16 places to 93rd.
Women's singles
Sun Yingsha continued to lead with a fault of 10,800 points and ranked first. Wang Manyu, Chen Meng, and Wang Yidi ranked second, third, and fourth, respectively. Hina Hayada retired back-to-back races, but still ranked 5th with 3,695 points, and was always the highest-ranked player in the foreign association.
With 175 points in the women's singles semifinals of the Asian Championships, Ito finally surpassed Shin Yubin by a slight advantage of 45 points and came to eighth place.
This week's top 10 women's singles in the world are: 1. Sun Yingsha, 2. Wang Manyu, 3. Chen Meng, 4. Wang Yidi, 5. Hina Hayata, 6. Chen Xingtong, 7. Miwa Zhangmoto, 8. Misei Ito, 9. Shen Yubin, 10. Zheng Yijing.
Satsuki Oto surpassed Tian Zhixi to 16th place, setting a new high in his personal ranking. Du moved up 10 places to No. 38. With 500 points from the Asian Championships women's singles championship, Kim Jin-young soared directly from zero ranking to 57th. His teammate Bian Songjing, on the other hand, slipped 15 places to 78th.
National table tennis other female players ranking: Qian Tianyi 22nd, Shi Xunyao 33rd, Fan Siqi 35th, He Zhuojia 41st, Chen Yi 46th.
Men's Doubles
The national table tennis swept the top five in men's doubles, of which Lin Shidong/Lin Gaoyuan maintained the first place with 3045 points. They were followed by Liang Jingkun/Wang Chuqin in second, Yuan Licen/Xiang Peng in third with a one-point difference, Ma Long/Wang Chuqin in fourth, Ma Long/Lin Gaoyuan in fifth, and Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong in eighth.
Asian Championships Men's Doubles champions Lim Jong-hoon/Ahn Jae-hyun moved up six places to the world's top 10, provisionally No. 9. Malaysia's Chung Zi Yi / Huang Qi Sun, who knocked out Lim Shi Dong / Lim Gao Yuan in the Asian Championships, rose 123 places to 64th after reaching the semi-finals.
Women's Doubles
The top three women's doubles rankings remained unchanged this week, with national table tennis pair Chen Meng/Wang Manyu continuing to lead the list with 4378, Korea's Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin in second and Qian Tianyi/Chen Xingtong in third.
The Asian Championships women's doubles champion of Japan's Satsuki Oto and Sakura Yokoi continued to move up two places to fifth, a career-high high.
Mixed doubles
World No. 1 Mixed Doubles pair Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha are well ahead of second-placed Lim Jong Hoon/Shin Yu Bin with 7,520 points. Another pair of national table tennis Lin Shidong/Kuai Man, after winning the Asian Championships, surpassed Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayada in points this week and returned to third place.
From the end of October to the beginning of November, the World Table Tennis Federation will have another intensive schedule, when two WTT championships will be held in France and Germany, and there will be a regular challenge in Muscat, and Lin Shidong and other players will once again compete for three consecutive weeks. Lin Shidong ranked in the top three in all three individual items, and it remains to be seen whether he can withstand the pressure and go further.