Tomokazu Harimoto breaks into the Top 10 World Rankings!

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Incredible scenes in the latest World Rankings as 14 year old wonderkid Tomokazu Harimoto breaks into the top 10! The May ITTF World Rankings are below!

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Harimoto victorious over Fan Zhendong | Asian Cup | Photo: kyodonews.net


What a fantastic year Harimoto has had, going from strength to strength impressively becoming the youngest ever ITTF World Tour winner defeating Timo Boll in the final of the Czech Open. The Japanese youngster has broken many records, one in which becoming the World Junior Champion at the mere age of 13 years and 163 days. Harimoto took out team mate Jun Mizutani to win the Japan Top 12 and recently defeated the World number 1 Fan Zhendong at the Asian Cup!

Here's the top 30 list below:


MENS WORLD RANKING

01) 1 Fan Zhendong
02) 3 Dimitrij Ovtcharov
03) 2 Timo Boll
04) 4 Xu Xin
05) 5 Lin Gaoyuan
06) 6 Ma Long
07) 7 Wong Chun Ting
08) 8 Lee Sangsu
09) 9 Koki Niwa
10) 13 Tomokazu Harimoto
11) 12 Hugo Calderano
12) 10 Simon Gauzy
13) 11 Jun Mizutani
14) 14 Kenta Matsudaira
15) 15 Marcos Freitas
16) 16 Chuang Chih Yuan
17) 17 Omar Assar
18) 19 Kristian Karlsson
19) 18 Jonathan Groth
20) 20 Mattias Karlsson
21) 21 Ruwen Filus
22) 26 Quadri Aruna
23) 25 Jin Ueda
24) 37 Vladimir Samsonov
25) 22 Maharu Yoshimura
26) 23 Bastian Steger
27) 24 Patrick Franziska
28) 27 Jeong Sangeun
29) 28 Emmanuel Lebesson
30) 34 Kou Lei


WOMENS WORLD RANKING

01) 1 Chen Meng
02) 2 Zhu Yuling
03) 3 Kasumi Ishikawa
04) 5 Wang Manyu
05) 7 Mima Ito
06) 6 Miu Hirano
07) 8 Cheng I-Ching
08) 9 Chen Xingtong
09) 4 Feng Tianwei
10) 10 Liu Shiwen
11) 17 Doo Hoi Kem
12) 13 Sato Hitomi
13) 12 Suh Hyowon
14) 15 Sun Yingsha
15) 18 Hina Hayata
16) 11 Ding Ning
17) 21 Sofia Polcanova
18) 25 Elizabeta Samara
19) 16 Lee Ho Ching
20) 19 Miyu Kato
21) 26 Zhang Mo
22) 14 Chen Szu-Yu
23) 22 Sakura Mori
24) 24 Saki Shibata
25) 20 Li Jie
26) 23 Honoka Hashimoto
27) 37 Matilda Ekholm
28) 35 Jihee Jeon
29) 36 Soo Wai Yam Minnie
30) 28 Yu Fu ^


A huge congratulations to Harimoto who breaks the top 10 barrier, we are pretty certain this was on his to do list. What do you think of the new World Rankings for this month?
 
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NEWS FLASH!

Incredible scenes in the latest World Rankings as 14 year old wonderkid Tomokazu Harimoto breaks into the top 10! The May ITTF World Rankings are below!

tomokazuharimotoworldnumber10.jpg

Harimoto victorious over Fan Zhendong | Asian Cup | Photo: kyodonews.net

What a fantastic year Harimoto has had, going from strength to strength impressively becoming the youngest ever ITTF World Tour winner defeating Timo Boll in the final of the Czech Open. The Japanese youngster has broken many records, one in which becoming the World Junior Champion at the mere age of 13 years and 163 days. Harimoto took out team mate Jun Mizutani to win the Japan Top 12 and recently defeated the World number 1 Fan Zhendong at the Asian Cup!

Here's the top 30 list below:


MENS WORLD RANKING

01) 1 FAN Zhendong
02) 3 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij
03) 2 BOLL Timo
04) 4 XU Xin
05) 5 LIN Gaoyuan
06) 6 MA Long
07) 7 WONG Chun Ting
08) 8 LEE Sangsu
09) 9 NIWA Koki
10) 13 HARIMOTO Tomokazu
11) 12 CALDERANO Hugo
12) 10 GAUZY Simon
13) 11 MIZUTANI Jun
14) 14 MATSUDAIRA Kenta
15) 15 FREITAS Marcos
16) 16 CHUANG Chih-Yuan
17) 17 ASSAR Omar
18) 19 KARLSSON Kristian
19) 18 GROTH Jonathan
20) 20 KARLSSON Mattias
21) 21 FILUS Ruwen
22) 26 ARUNA Quadri
23) 25 UEDA Jin
24) 37 SAMSONOV Vladimir
25) 22 YOSHIMURA Maharu
26) 23 STEGER Bastian
27) 24 FRANZISKA Patrick
28) 27 JEONG Sangeun
29) 28 LEBESSON Emmanuel
30) 34 KOU Lei


WOMENS WORLD RANKING

01) 1 CHEN Meng
02) 2 ZHU Yuling
03) 3 ISHIKAWA Kasumi
04) 5 WANG Manyu
05) 7 ITO Mima
06) 6 HIRANO Miu
07) 8 CHENG I-Ching
08) 9 CHEN Xingtong
09) 4 FENG Tianwei
10) 10 LIU Shiwen
11) 17 DOO Hoi Kem
12) 13 SATO Hitomi
13) 12 SUH Hyowon
14) 15 SUN Yingsha
15) 18 HAYATA Hina
16) 11 DING Ning
17) 21 POLCANOVA Sofia
18) 25 SAMARA Elizabeta
19) 16 LEE Ho Ching
20) 19 KATO Miyu
21) 26 ZHANG Mo
22) 14 CHEN Szu-Yu
23) 22 MORI Sakura
24) 24 SHIBATA Saki
25) 20 LI Jie
26) 23 HASHIMOTO Honoka
27) 37 EKHOLM Matilda
28) 35 JEON Jihee
29) 36 SOO Wai Yam Minnie
30) 28 YU Fu ^


A huge congratulations to Harimoto who breaks the top 10 barrier, we are pretty certain this was on his to do list. What do you think of the new World Rankings for this month?

Omar Assar is remarkable, steady at 17. Also: Calderano’s steady march forward, and the unbuckling resilience of Vladimir Samsonov.

Ding Ning on the decline is also noteworthy. She lost to an outstanding Soo recently, but all appearences I’ve seen I thought her solid regardless.

And I expected Bernadette Szocs there.
 
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ML has only 7, but wouldn't matter even if he had 8. He is too far away from the top of the pack.
 
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How many event results does Ma Long have? Anyone know if/when he will have 8 results? Is there anyone else in the top 10 with less than 8 results?

Strange that these data seem to be not easily available. A visualisation of that dataset of player results, perhaps using a sliding time window, does not look that hard.
 
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[h=2]9/2018 – General List – Men[/h]
RankingPreviousNameAssoc.Ranking Pts.
11FAN ZhendongCHN17001
22XU XinCHN15610
34LIN GaoyuanCHN15189
4 3BOLL TimoGER15025
55OVTCHAROV DimitrijGER14375
67MA LongCHN13950
78LEE SangsuKOR13374
86HARIMOTO TomokazuJPN13314
9 10WONG Chun TingHKG12969
109CALDERANO HugoBRA12815
 
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