BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) — Chinese paddler Fan Zhendong made a return to the boys’s singles prime place within the newest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) world rankings launched on Tuesday.
With his title in final week’s World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Ljubljana, Fan overtook his compatriot Wang Chuqin to the No. 1 place, whereas Wang, who had taken up the highest spot for the primary time in his profession one week in the past, slipped to second. Chinese veteran Ma Long sits third within the rankings.
The gamers ranked fourth to tenth are Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto, Brazilian ace Hugo Calderano, Lin Gaoyuan and Liang Jingkun of China, Jang Woo-jin of South Korea, Slovenia’s Darko Jorgic and Swede Truls Moregard.
Chinese paddlers dominated the ladies’s class, as Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong and Qian Tianyi claimed the main six positions.
They had been adopted by Japanese duo Mima Ito and Hina Hayata, South Korean teenager Shin Yu-bin and German veteran Han Ying within the ladies’s prime 10.