In the latest world rankings, Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong are ranked first, and Ito has fallen to 14th.
Some time ago (Tuesday, February 13), the WTF official website announced the global rankings for the 7th week of 2024, and Sun Yingsha and Fan Zhendong continued to top the list. In addition, the sister of Qiu Dang, a famous German athlete from China, and Zheng Yijing, a former player from Chinese Taipei, have also moved up one place to return to the top 10. Japan's famous Mimato Ito slipped four places to 14th, suggesting that Ito's performance at the Paris Olympics was not promising. Despite falling off the Paris Olympic list, she remains confident and says her new goal is to become the best athlete in the world.
The specific leaderboard looks like this:
The top five are Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, France's Felix Lebrun, No. 6 is Hugo, No. 8 is Lin Yunru, No. 9 is Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and No. 10 is Mr. Qiu.
Lin Sidong, Aruna, Ocharov, Zhang Yuzhen, Darko, Moregard, Carlberg, Lim Jong-hoon, Fletas, Falk, ranked 11-20.
In addition, Zhou Qihao, ranked 24th, and Xiang Peng, ranked 32nd, also made it to the top 50. In addition, Yuan Licen won 64 places, Liang Yanbo 70 places, Sun Wen 87 places and Wen Ruibo 100 places. From this point of view, China's young table tennis players need to continuously strengthen their own skill training to achieve better rankings in international competitions.
In women's singles, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, Hina Hayata, sixth, Qian Tianyi, seventh, Shen Yubin, Han Ying, ninth, and Zheng Yijing, the Chinese Taiwan team, also improved one place and returned to the top ten in the world.
11-20, in order, Diaz, Szokos, Yang Xiaoxin, Ito Micheng, Zhu Qianqian, Zhang Benmei, Mitsu Mitsu, Miu Hirano, Zhang Rui, Yuan Jiannan.
Among the other 50 athletes, there are 23 Kuiwen, 40 Ho Zhuojia, 42 Li Yake, and 43. Chen Yi, Xu.
1. Yang Yiyun, Fan Siqi, Liu Weishan, Wu Yangchen.
In addition, in the mixed men's and women's competitions, Wang Chuqin, Sun Yingsha, Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin also won the championship, and only the women's singles championship was won by South Korean partner Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin. From this point, it can be easily seen that the national table tennis team still maintains a big advantage, but the score in the women's competition is slightly inferior to South Korea's Tian Zhixi and Shen Yubin.
However, compared to Japan, China seems to have invested much less in the training of young players. For example, Zhang Benmei, who is 15 years old this year, is about to go to Paris, which has not happened to Chinese athletes in nearly 20 years. Guo Yue was only 16 years old at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and before that, there had never been such a young athlete in the world.
However, Chinese table tennis also has its own selection principles, age is not the biggest problem, Ma Long is 35 years old, Chen Meng is 30 years old, both of them have good physical fitness, how can they not be allowed to participate? What do you think?