August World Rankings 2017

[TableTennisDaily]

The ITTF has published the new world rankings! These were released on August, 2017

The event results included in this ranking are from the recent European Youths and Australian Open World Tour.


14 year old sensation Tomokazu Harimoto breaks world top 20 barrier!

Harimoto, World #20 in April 2017 - Photo by: ITTF Flickr


Notable changes

Men
10) 12 Vladimir Samsonov
20) 18 Tomokazu Harimoto
31) 37 Maharu Yoshimura
38) 48 Paul Drinkhall
53) 52 Robert Gardos
63) 89 Cho Seungmin
90) 110 Sathiyan Ghanasekaran


Men's World Rankings

Details coming soon...

Full rankings below:

01) 1 Ma Long
02) 2 Fan Zhendong
03) 3 XU Xin
04) 4 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij
05) 5 Zhang Jike
06) 7 Jun Mizutani
07) 6 Timo Boll
08) 8 Wong Chun Ting
09) 9 Koki Niwa
10) 12 Vladimir Samsonov
11) 10 Fang Bo
12) 11 Lee Sang Su
13) 13 Chuang Chih Yuan
14) 16 Simon Gauzy
15) 14 Marcos Freitas
16) 15 Kenta Matsudaira
17) 19 Yuya Oshima
18) 22 Masaki Yoshida
19) 17 Jeoung Youngsik
20) 18 Tomokazu Harimoto
21) 24 Mattias Karlsson
22) 19 Panagiotis Gionis
23) 21 Ruwen Rilus
24) 23 Stefan Fegerl
25) 24 Kristian Karlsson
26) 26 Emmanuel Lebesson
27) 27 Hugo Calderano
28) 28 Kou Lei
29) 29 Quadri Aruna
30) 30 Yuto Muramatsu
31) 37 Maharu Yoshimura
32) 31 Tiago Apolonia
33) 32 Bastian Steger
34) 33 Lin Gaoyuan
34) 34 Alexander Shibaev
36) 35 Jonathan Groth
37) 36 Liang Jingkun
38) 48 Paul Drinkhall
39) 38 Omar Assar
40) 39 Jeong Sangeun


Women's World Rankings

Full rankings below:

01) 1 Ding Ning
02) 4 Chen Meng
03) 2 Zhu Yuling
04) 3 Liu Shiwen
05) 5 Miu Hirano
06) 6 Feng Tianwei
07) 7 Kasumi Ishikawa
08) 8 Cheng I-Ching
09) 9 Han Ying ^
10) 10 Sun Yingsha
11) 11 Mima Ito
12) 12 Hitomi Sato
13) 13 Wu Yang
14) 32 Wang Manyu
15) 16 Honoka Hashimoto
16) 14 Shan Xiaona
17) 15 Mu Zi
18) 17 Zeng Jian
19) 18 Li Jie
20) 20 Jeon Jihee
20) 21 Yang Haeun
22) 22 Liu Jia
23) 23 Hu Melek
24) 29 Hina Hayata
25) 19 Kim Song I
26) 27 Sakura Mori
27) 24 Elizabeta Samara
27) 24 Petrissa Solja
29) 26 Hyowon Suh
30) 31 Miyu Kato
31) 28 Doo Hoi Kem
32) 30 Georgina Pota
33) 33 Yu Mengyu
34) 46 Maki Shiomi
35) 34 Matilda Ekholm
36) 36 Lee Ho Ching
37) 37 Yu Fu
38) 53 Saki Shibata
39) 38 Tie Yana
40) 52 Chen Xingtong

You can view the full World Rankings here.

What are your thoughts on the August World Rankings?

 

[WorkerBee]

Actually, the 13 year old Tomokazu Harimoto broke the world top 20 barrier at the China Open coming in 3rd on June 24, a day or two before turning 14. He actually went down this month! And if anyone was lucky enough to watch the T2 game with Timo today, you can see him creeping up on Timo week by week. And if you think Timo gave him a bunch of points to boost his confidence, watch closely.

 

[Tinykin]

Off-topic

Actually, t....

I just noticed that you use Spinspiel. That's a name from the past. I used that rubber 20 years ago

 

[Dan]

Does anyone know the youngest player to get into the top 10 World Rankings?

 

[rainneverever]

In the new century, I guess the youngest is Guo Yue. She was ranked #9 in Jan 2003 (DOB 1988/7/17). The second youngest perhaps is Mima Ito, #9 in Jun 2015 (DOB 2000/10/21).
For male player, maybe Fan Zhendong, #9 in July 2013 (DOB 1997/1/22).

Does anyone know the youngest player to get into the top 10 World Rankings?

 

[Baal]

Lilly Zhang 73

Mo Zhang 56.

Kanak Jha 45 in Under 21

So much for North America.

 

[Baal]

In the new century, I guess the youngest is Guo Yue. She was ranked #9 in Jan 2003 (DOB 1988/7/17). The second youngest perhaps is Mima Ito, #9 in Jun 2015 (DOB 2000/10/21).
For male player, maybe Fan Zhendong, #9 in July 2013 (DOB 1997/1/22).

Is that the real DOB for FZD or was he actually two years older? He already had legs like a T Rex by then. One of the things that amazes me about Harimoto is that he still looks like a little kid. It is going to be really interesting to see how his game changes as he gets bigger and stronger, which should start happening at a pretty rapid rate quite soon.

 

[rainneverever]

I don't know if it is FZD's real BOD or not, at least he celebrates his birthday on that day. On the other hand, Xu Xin celebrates his birthday on 8/16 (official DOB 1990/1/8; real DOB 1989/8/16), Fang Bo celebrates 11/16 (official DOB 1992/1/9), Li Xiaoxia celebrates 6/21 (official DOB 1988/1/16). While birthdays in Jan look suspicious

Is that the real DOB for FZD or was he actually two years older? He already had legs like a T Rex by then. One of the things that amazes me about Harimoto is that he still looks like a little kid. It is going to be really interesting to see how his game changes as he gets bigger and stronger, which should start happening at a pretty rapid rate quite soon.