Dimitrij Ovtcharov The New World Number 1!

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NEWS FLASH! Dimitrij Ovtcharov will be the World Number 1 table tennis player next month (January 2018) after his round of 16 victory against Koki Niwa at the World Tour Grand Finals today!

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What a year it’s been for Dimitrij Ovtcharov! Firstly, winning the China Open where he defeated team mate Timo Boll in the final. Dimitrij followed suit with this at the World Cup where he won his first major defeating Boll in the final.

A few weeks later Dimitrij took out China’s Fan Zhendong in the semi final of the German Open. In the final Ovtcharov was victorious over oncw again over Timo Boll!

These 3 major wins have put Dimitrij currently world number 3 on the December World Rankings behind Ma Long and Fan Zhendong. However, as of January 2018, the ITTF are implementing a new world ranking system whereby players are ranked on how far they reached in events. Here’s a video that the ITTF released on the new system:

What do you think of this new system? Leave your comments below.
 
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Ma Long has been the undisputed #1 for a long time. But the time has come for some new players to keep the throne warm for the ascension of Tomokazu in 2019. In Game of Thrones language, we could witness the start of a new dynasty. Dima is fully qualified and respectable. He's currently a cloud-walker, but all the cloud-walkers will give way to the close-to-the-table attackers soon. These Tomo types are learning the Bruce Lee method (close and quick). If Dima learns the Tomo approach and Tomo learns some cloud-walking, we are all in for an amazing decade, and Dima would be a major player. I will miss seeing the Chinese style of cloud-walking monsters who plant their feet to fire the rockets from 15 feet off the table. Congratulations to Dima who dared to join this gang!
 
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4-0 FAN Zhendong got his revenge from his "surprise" defeat at the German Open. He was very determined not only to win, but win 4-0. Ovtcharov choked in the last set when he got 2 set points. He wanted to win at least 1 game because well, its a bit an embarrassing result.

Dima played very well, but FZD played so much better. Well done !!
 
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4-0 FAN Zhendong got his revenge from his "surprise" defeat at the German Open. He was very determined not only to win, but win 4-0. Ovtcharov choked in the last set when he got 2 set points. He wanted to win at least 1 game because well, its a bit an embarrassing result.

Dima played very well, but FZD played so much better. Well done !!

I know people like the "choked" meme, but how exactly did Dima choke?
 
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