Ma Lin progresses to number two on the November Men's World Rankings |
11/1/2006
Victory for Ma Lin in the Liebherr Men’s World Cup on Sunday 29th October 2006 and defeats for Timo Boll, two days earlier, sees the two players change places on the Men’s World Ranking list issued by the International Table Tennis Federation on Wednesday 1st November 2006.
Ma Lin moves into the number two spot, whilst Timo Boll drops one place to number three.
However, that is the only change in the top ten places. Wang Liqin, who lost to Ma Lin at the semi-final stage in Paris last week, retains his number one spot with their Chinese national team colleagues Wang Hao at number four and Chen Qi at six. Vladimir Samsonov retains his place at number five on the list with the Koreans, Oh Sang Eun and Ryu Seung Min at seven and eight respectively.
Austria’s Chen Weixing and Chinese Taipei’s Chuan Chih-Yuan, both quarter-finalists in the Liebherr Men’s World Cup, maintain their places at nine and ten respectively on the new list.
Significant
The player to make the most significant progress in the top one hundred of the Men’s World Rankings is Japan’s Kaii Yoshida; he moves from sixty-three to forty-three, as a result of his efforts at the Serbian Open, where he won the Men’s Singles title.
It is the Serbian Open that has had the most noticeable impact on the Women’s World Rankings. Sayaka Hirano, the victor in Belgrade, progresses eleven places to number twenty, whilst those players who reached the penultimate stage at the most recent ITTF Pro Tour tournament, also make progress.
Italy’s Wenling Tan Monfardini, the runner up in the Women’s Singles, moves from thirty-five to thirty-one whilst Germany’s Wu Jiaduo progresses four places to thirty-six and Nikoleta Stefanova advances one step to number thirty-three.
Remains the Same
The top ten places on the Women’s World Rankings remain the same with Asia providing all the players. China’s Zhang Yining, Guo Yan, Wang Nan, Guo Yue are in the top four places with Li Xiaoxia at seven and Niu Jianfeng at nine.
Hong Kong’s Tie Yana retains her number five spot with Singapore’s Li Jia Wei at six and Wang Yue Gu at ten; the one remaining place is occupied by the backspin skills of Korea’s Kim Kyung Ah. She is ranked eight.
No Change
Similarly in the Under 21 and Under 18 World Rankings there are no changes at the top.
China’s Ma Long is ranked one in both Under 21 Men’s and Under 18 Boys’ Rankings; in the former he is followed by Germany’s Christian Süss and Korea’s Lim Jae Hyun, whilst in the latter, Hong Kong’s Jiang Tianyi and Japan’s Jun Mizutani occupy second and third places.
Meanwhile, in the Under 21 Women’s and Under 18 Girls’ Rankings the top two places on both lists are occupied by China’s Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia with Japan’s Ai Fukuhara at number three on the Under 18 list and Cao Zhen, also of China, at number three on the Under 21 list.
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