China News Service, January 8th. Beijing time on the 8th, the ITTF world rankings were announced. Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng ranked first in the rankings of male and female players.
For men, Xu Xin, Ma Long, Lin Gaoyuan, Zhang Benzhi and ranked 2-5 respectively.
Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Ito Mima, Wang Manyu, and Ding Ning ranked 1-5 in the women's singles.
Data map: Fan Zhendong.
China News Agency reporter Chen Wenshe
Prior to this, the ITTF announced the latest world ranking rules.
Under the new rules, the World Table Tennis Professional League (hereinafter referred to as WTT) Grand Slam tournament will be included in the ranks of the top tournament points, and it will be the top three tournaments in the world ranking "Pyramid" alongside the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships and the Olympic Games. The winners of the three events will receive 2000 ranking points.
In addition, the new world ranking structure also considers the career path of athletes from youth to adult events, and provides table tennis world ranking points for players participating in the WTT youth series U19 age group.
This rule will be implemented in 2021, and will change from the ITTF World Ranking to the Table Tennis World Ranking.
Data map: Chen Meng.
China News Agency reporter Kan Li
The new world ranking measures also include changing the ranking from monthly to updating the ranking every Tuesday; the ranking points will expire after 12 months; the ranking will determine the automatic finalist list at the end of the tournament registration; it will be based on the round of the player's competition Get the corresponding ranking points; players who advance from the qualifying match can get the ranking points for the qualifying and race matches; only the best-performing intercontinental/international events are included in the best 8 events.
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