BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) — China’s Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha held agency to their main positions within the ITTF world rankings regardless of vital modifications triggered by the expiry of world rating factors from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Tuesday.
Fan’s compatriot Wang Chuqin rose to second place within the males’s singles class and Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan additionally moved up one spot to 3rd. China’s veteran Ma Long, who was ranked second within the earlier week, slipped to fourth.
Hugo Calderano (Brazil), Truls Moregard (Sweden), Liang Jingkun (China), Qiu Dang (Germany), Lin Gaoyuan (China) and Lin Yun-Ju (Chinese Taipei) rounded out the lads’s prime 10.
Sun, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng and Qian Tianyi, all from China, swept prime 5 within the girls’s singles world rankings.
The different prime 10 feminine gamers are Mima Ito (Japan), Chen Xingtong (China), Zhang Rui (China), Hina Hayata (Japan) and Han Ying (Germany).
Ranking factors from a number of different occasions, together with the 2021 World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender Doha, are additionally resulting from expire.
A participant’s ITTF desk tennis world rating is calculated based mostly on the overall factors earned from their finest eight outcomes achieved within the final 12 months.
According to the ITTF, because the calendar for 2023 is stuffed with thrilling occasions, a plan for expiring rating factors was formulated and these factors are expiring in batches between January and July 2023. This determination was authorized by the ITTF Executive Committee in December 2022.