The ITTF today released its world rankings for week 10 of 2024, with minor changes in the top 10 of men's and women's singles. In the men's team, Lin Gaoyuan moved up one place to regain fourth place. And Wang Manyu of the women's team also rose one place and returned to the top three. In addition, the men's doubles and women's doubles combinations have also advanced.
Such a change has temporarily eased the wave of controversy that has existed since the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, "why not let Wang Manyu play", and gave a certain opportunity for relaxation. Wang Yidi's world ranking slipped to fourth and basically missed the Paris Olympics.
In men's singles, the top three world rankings are still held by China's Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin and Ma Long. The fourth position was recaptured by Lin Gaoyuan, and Liang Jingkun dropped one place to fifth.
However, it took a little later for Toko to move up to fourth place. Registration for the WTT Incheon Championships, which will be held at the end of this month, closed last week, and the entry quota is automatically determined based on the world rankings in Week 9. At that time, Liang Jingkun, ranked fourth, managed to retain the last spot in the men's singles for the Chinese team.
Sixth to 10th places were France's Florent Lebrun, Hugo Karl Tou, Lin Yunru, Japan's Tomokazu Haramoto, and South Korea's Qiu Dang.
Other Chinese players in the world rankings include Lin Shidong at No. 17, Zhou Qihao at No. 24 and Xiang Peng at No. 33.
In women's singles, the biggest change is that Wang Manyu surpassed Wang Yidi and returned to the top three.
Due to the expiration of the points in the WTT Goa match last year and being cleared, Wang Yidi's points fell sharply, making Wang Manyu return to the third place in the world with a surpassing advantage of 62 points. This gave Wang Manyu, who had been experiencing difficulties and public doubts before, a precious respite.
Now she can relieve a lot of pressure and face the next important matches such as the Singapore Grand Slam, the Macau Singles World Cup, and the Incheon Championship in a more relaxed state, so as to avoid the heavy pressure that will affect the Olympic pattern of the Chinese table tennis team.
The top two in women's singles are still Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha's lead will not change, and Chen Meng is nearly 400 points ahead of Wang Manyu, and the advantage is still quite large.
The other Chinese players in the world rankings include Chen Xingtong at No. 6 and Qian Tianyi at No. 8. Hina Hayada rose to fifth, and Shin Yubin moved up one spot to seventh, setting a new career high; Adriana Diaz moved up two places to ninth, while Bernadette Szokos also moved up two places to No. 10 to break into the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time.
Han Ying and Zheng Yijing both dropped out of the top 10, and the chances of them returning to the top 10 are slim. Other Chinese players in the world rankings include Zhang Rui at No. 20, Kuo Man at No. 23, He Zhuojia at No. 40, Li Yake at No. 41 and Shi Xunyao at No. 42.