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Today the ITTF released the latest World rankings! The rankings were published by the International Table Tennis Federation on Thursday 5h April 2012.

Similar to the March 2012 ITTF World Rankings, Ma Long and Ding Ning remain number one in the World in their respective Men's and Women's categories. This is the nineteenth time Ma Long has been ranked at World number 1 with Ding Ning claiming the number one spot for a seventh time.

The team Liu Guoliang chose for the recent World Team Championships 2012 are all now ranked in the top 5 of the World. China won the World Team Championships without dropping a single match. In order, China’s Ma Long stands at no.1 position, followed closely by Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Xu Xin and Ma Lin.Ma Lin moved from position 7 to 5.

China claim top 5 spots in both Men's and Women's category

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Photo by: AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Korea’s Joo Se Hyuk had a splendid few months at the beginning of 2012 defeating World Champion Zhang Jike and was consistent throughout. Joo Se Hyuk however drops from his previous career high ranking of 5 to number 8.Timo Boll retains his 6th poll position with Japan’s Jun Mizutani jumping to number 7.

Wang Lqin was spotted supporting his Chinese Naitonal team in the crowd at the recent World Team Championships however he did not participate. The former World number 1 retains his number 9 position. Followed shortly is Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov at number 10 completing the top 10 list.

Mens World Rankings

01 (<<) Ma Long
02 (<<) Zhang Jike
03 (<<) Wang Hao
04 (<<) Xu Xin
05 (07) Ma Lin
06 (<<) Timo Boll
07 (08) Jun Mizutani
08 (05) Joo Se Hyuk
09 (<<) Wang Liqin
10 (<<) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
11 (<<) Chuang Chih-Yuan
12 (<<) Chen Qi
13 (<<) Vladimir Samsonov
14 (15) Oh Sang Eun
15 (14) Ryu Seung Min
16 (21) Gao Ning
17 (16) Hao Shuai
18 (22) Jiang Tianyi
19 (20) Niwa Koki Niwa
20 (17) Seiya Kishikawa
21 (18) Patrick Baum
22 (19) Lee Jung Woo
23 (26) Adrian Crisan
24 (<<) Adrien Mattenet
25 (22) Maze Michael
26 (25) Bastian Steger
27 (29) Seo Hyun Deok
28 (35) Chen Weixing
29 (49) Robert Gardos
30 (28) Bojan Tokic
31 (27) Kim Min Seok
32 (44) Panagiotis Gionis

Full list of Men's World Rankings here

Austria's Robert Gardos is now in the top 30 World rankings from a former position of 49. This is the second time in his career he has reached a top 30 ranking. Daniel Habesohn also from Austria defeated Joo Se Hyuk at the World Team Championships 2012 and only lost one match which was to Ma Long. Daniel jumped from 106 to 70.

Slovak Republic's Thomas Keinath jumped from 74 to 51. Sweden's Jen Lundqvist had a superb tournament at the recent World Team championships and moved from 50 to position 43.

Sweden's Par Gerell and Jorgen Persson both dropped places. Par droped from 57 to 71 and Jorgen dropped from 57 to 78.

april2012chinarankingwomen.jpg

Photo by: AFP photo

Womens World Rankings

1 (<<) Ding Ning
2 (03) Guo Yan
3 (02) Liu Shiwen
4 (<<) Li Xiaoxia
5 (07) Guo Yue
6 (<<) Kasumi Ishikawa
7 (08) Wang Yuegu
8 (10) Tie Yana
9 (05) Feng Tianwei
10 (11) Ai Fukuhara

Full list of women's World Rankings here

Ding Ning remains top spot of the World in the Women's category. Guo Yan and Liu Shiwen swap places with Guo Yan coming in at number 2 position. Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue follow closely behind. Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa is the highest non Chinese player coming in a no. 6. The Chinese Women's team take the full 5 top spots just like the men's.

Singapore's Wang Yuegu climbs one place to no.7. Tie Yana follows by at number 8 with Feng Tianwei falling from position 5 to no.9. Japan's Ai Fukuhara moves back into the top 10 coming in at no. 10 to complete the top 10 listings!

What do you all think of the new world rankings? Any surprises? What do you think of the rankings this period around.

The top 10 Men's/Women's World rankings are now displayed on our forum and home page for quick access of our player profiles and World rankings!

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Enjoy!


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Incredible how China can dominate top 5 on both Men and Women side!

I actually think that, if China sent all of their best players from all the provinces to all of the international tournaments, China could probably dominate the top 30-60 spots with only a few players making it higher in the ranks than 20. There are many really great players in China who you never get to see because their job is to clone another top player like Jun Mizutani or Timo Boll, or they have some other role in the training of the guys that get sent out on the World Tour.
 
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I actually think that, if China sent all of their best players from all the provinces to all of the international tournaments, China could probably dominate the top 30-60 spots with only a few players making it higher in the ranks than 20. There are many really great players in China who you never get to see because their job is to clone another top player like Jun Mizutani or Timo Boll, or they have some other role in the training of the guys that get sent out on the World Tour.

You can see this in the Superleague, foreign players don't get in that competition for the simple reason that they would get beaten by the majority of the players, with some exceptions of course. But I believe Boll had like a 50% win ratio, that says alot.
 
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Today the ITTF released the latest World rankings! The rankings were published by the International Table Tennis Federation on Thursday 5h April 2012.

Similar to the March 2012 ITTF World Rankings, Ma Long and Ding Ning remain number one in the World in their respective Men's and Women's categories. This is the nineteenth time Ma Long has been ranked at World number 1 with Ding Ning claiming the number one spot for a seventh time.

The team Liu Guoliang chose for the recent World Team Championships 2012 are all now ranked in the top 5 of the World. China won the World Team Championships without dropping a single match. In order, China’s Ma Long stands at no.1 position, followed closely by Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Xu Xin and Ma Lin.Ma Lin moved from position 7 to 5.

China claim top 5 spots in both Men's and Women's category

april2012chinaranking.jpg

Photo by: AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Korea’s Joo Se Hyuk had a splendid few months at the beginning of 2012 defeating World Champion Zhang Jike and was consistent throughout. Joo Se Hyuk however drops from his previous career high ranking of 5 to number 8.Timo Boll retains his 6th poll position with Japan’s Jun Mizutani jumping to number 7.

Wang Lqin was spotted supporting his Chinese Naitonal team in the crowd at the recent World Team Championships however he did not participate. The former World number 1 retains his number 9 position. Followed shortly is Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov at number 10 completing the top 10 list.

Mens World Rankings

01 (<<) Ma Long
02 (<<) Zhang Jike
03 (<<) Wang Hao
04 (<<) Xu Xin
05 (07) Ma Lin
06 (<<) Timo Boll
07 (08) Jun Mizutani
08 (05) Joo Se Hyuk
09 (<<) Wang Liqin
10 (<<) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
11 (<<) Chuang Chih-Yuan
12 (<<) Chen Qi
13 (<<) Vladimir Samsonov
14 (15) Oh Sang Eun
15 (14) Ryu Seung Min
16 (21) Gao Ning
17 (16) Hao Shuai
18 (22) Jiang Tianyi
19 (20) Niwa Koki Niwa
20 (17) Seiya Kishikawa
21 (18) Patrick Baum
22 (19) Lee Jung Woo
23 (26) Adrian Crisan
24 (<<) Adrien Mattenet
25 (22) Maze Michael
26 (25) Bastian Steger
27 (29) Seo Hyun Deok
28 (35) Chen Weixing
29 (49) Robert Gardos
30 (28) Bojan Tokic
31 (27) Kim Min Seok
32 (44) Panagiotis Gionis

Full list of Men's World Rankings here

Austria's Robert Gardos is now in the top 30 World rankings from a former position of 49. This is the second time in his career he has reached a top 30 ranking. Daniel Habesohn also from Austria defeated Joo Se Hyuk at the World Team Championships 2012 and only lost one match which was to Ma Long. Daniel jumped from 106 to 70.

Slovak Republic's Thomas Keinath jumped from 74 to 51. Sweden's Jen Lundqvist had a superb tournament at the recent World Team championships and moved from 50 to position 43.

Sweden's Par Gerell and Jorgen Persson both dropped places. Par droped from 57 to 71 and Jorgen dropped from 57 to 78.

april2012chinarankingwomen.jpg

Photo by: AFP photo

Womens World Rankings

1 (<<) Ding Ning
2 (03) Guo Yan
3 (02) Liu Shiwen
4 (<<) Li Xiaoxia
5 (07) Guo Yue
6 (<<) Kasumi Ishikawa
7 (08) Wang Yuegu
8 (10) Tie Yana
9 (05) Feng Tianwei
10 (11) Ai Fukuhara

Full list of women's World Rankings here

Ding Ning remains top spot of the World in the Women's category. Guo Yan and Liu Shiwen swap places with Guo Yan coming in at number 2 position. Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue follow closely behind. Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa is the highest non Chinese player coming in a no. 6. The Chinese Women's team take the full 5 top spots just like the men's.

Singapore's Wang Yuegu climbs one place to no.7. Tie Yana follows by at number 8 with Feng Tianwei falling from position 5 to no.9. Japan's Ai Fukuhara moves back into the top 10 coming in at no. 10 to complete the top 10 listings!

What do you all think of the new world rankings? Any surprises? What do you think of the rankings this period around.

The top 10 Men's/Women's World rankings are now displayed on our forum and home page for quick access of our player profiles and World rankings!

april2012rankingwidget.jpg


Enjoy!


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They (China) can claim the top 50 for Men and Women if they send all the top players to participate in any major tournament. No other country can do that.
 
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