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It's that time of the year everyone! The January World rankings have been released by the ITTF and here are the listings below! The rankings were published by the International Table Tennis Federation on Wednesday 4th January 2012.
Similar to the December ITTF World Rankings in 2011, Ma Long and Ding Ning go into the New Year as number one in the World in their respective Men's and Women's categories. This is the sixteenth time Ma Long has been ranked at World number 1 with Ding Ning claiming the number one spot for a fourth time.
Who would have thought it, Ma Long's first major achievement was back in 2003 at the New Zealand's Junior Open in Wellington. Ma Long reached the semi-final stage of the Junior Boy's Singles event. Ma Long lost to Zhang Jike in the semi-final in Junior boys event and Zhang went on to win the event! Zhang Jike has retained his number 2 position from December 2011. Matt Hetherington did you watch this? Can you get any footage of these two sensational players when they played Wellington?
Ma Long Left - Photo by: Scott Heavey/Getty Images Europe
Ding Ning Right - Photo by: firstpost.com
The December period was very quite in terms of International Table Tennis, so there was not much change in the rankings with only a one change in the top ten World Rankings (Men and Women).
Mens World Rankings
1) Ma Long
2) Zhang Jike
3) Wang Hao
4) Timo Boll
5) Xu Xin
6) Wang Liqin
7) Ma Lin
8) Joo Se Hyuk
9) Jun Mizutani
10) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Full list of Men's World Rankings here
The Men's Top 10 World Ranking has only one change.
Wang Hao still keeps his third spot followed by Europe's super star Timo Boll. The Chinese gruesome threesome remain next in line with Xu Xin at fifth spot, Wang Liqin at sixth and Ma Lin at seven. Korea's Joo Se Hyuk swaps places with Jun MIzutani of Japan to take eighth spot. And the almighty two winged top spin attacker Dimitrij Ovtcharov retains inside the top.
Womens World Rankings
1) Ding Ning
2) Li Xiaoxia
3) Guo Yan
4) Liu Shiwen
5) Feng Tianwei
6) Guo Yue
7) Wang Yuegu
8) Kasumi Ishikawa
9) Ai Fukuhara
10) Yana Tie
Full list of Women's World Rankings here
Only one change in the women's top ten rankings. This was seen by Singapore's Wang Yuegu who swapped places with Kasumi Ishikawa to take seventh spot.
What a year 2011 has been! We are now in one of the most anticipated years of Table Tennis History! The 2012 season for table tennis will really take off, including the World Tour, World Team Championships, London Olympics and much more!
I wonder how much these rankings will change in 1 years time. 2013 January
Similar to the December ITTF World Rankings in 2011, Ma Long and Ding Ning go into the New Year as number one in the World in their respective Men's and Women's categories. This is the sixteenth time Ma Long has been ranked at World number 1 with Ding Ning claiming the number one spot for a fourth time.
Who would have thought it, Ma Long's first major achievement was back in 2003 at the New Zealand's Junior Open in Wellington. Ma Long reached the semi-final stage of the Junior Boy's Singles event. Ma Long lost to Zhang Jike in the semi-final in Junior boys event and Zhang went on to win the event! Zhang Jike has retained his number 2 position from December 2011. Matt Hetherington did you watch this? Can you get any footage of these two sensational players when they played Wellington?
Ma Long Left - Photo by: Scott Heavey/Getty Images Europe
Ding Ning Right - Photo by: firstpost.com
The December period was very quite in terms of International Table Tennis, so there was not much change in the rankings with only a one change in the top ten World Rankings (Men and Women).
Mens World Rankings
1) Ma Long
2) Zhang Jike
3) Wang Hao
4) Timo Boll
5) Xu Xin
6) Wang Liqin
7) Ma Lin
8) Joo Se Hyuk
9) Jun Mizutani
10) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Full list of Men's World Rankings here
The Men's Top 10 World Ranking has only one change.
Wang Hao still keeps his third spot followed by Europe's super star Timo Boll. The Chinese gruesome threesome remain next in line with Xu Xin at fifth spot, Wang Liqin at sixth and Ma Lin at seven. Korea's Joo Se Hyuk swaps places with Jun MIzutani of Japan to take eighth spot. And the almighty two winged top spin attacker Dimitrij Ovtcharov retains inside the top.
Womens World Rankings
1) Ding Ning
2) Li Xiaoxia
3) Guo Yan
4) Liu Shiwen
5) Feng Tianwei
6) Guo Yue
7) Wang Yuegu
8) Kasumi Ishikawa
9) Ai Fukuhara
10) Yana Tie
Full list of Women's World Rankings here
Only one change in the women's top ten rankings. This was seen by Singapore's Wang Yuegu who swapped places with Kasumi Ishikawa to take seventh spot.
What a year 2011 has been! We are now in one of the most anticipated years of Table Tennis History! The 2012 season for table tennis will really take off, including the World Tour, World Team Championships, London Olympics and much more!
I wonder how much these rankings will change in 1 years time. 2013 January