International Table Tennis Federation corrects the world ranking to restore Fan Zhendong to be deducted from points

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) announced the latest world ranking on the 16th. Fan Zhendong, the number one Chinese athlete in the men's singles world, was restored to the 1400 points that had been deducted before, and continued to ranks first with 6900 points.

International Table Tennis Federation confirmed that due to the errors of the application management of the World Table Federation World Ranking Related Rankings, since the World Ranking released by the World Table Tennis Vocational Union (WTT) Singapore in 2022, there are wrong answers to ranking punishment rules The ranking points of a few players were deducted by mistake. The corresponding athlete's points have been restored in the World Table Tennis Federation World Ranking this week.

According to the World Table Tennis Federation World Ranking Rankings, in two cases, players will be punished with zero -score: in the WTT World Cup finals, WTT championships, and WTT Grand Slam events, or in other WTT/ITTF events (or more or more (more or more Time) Retreat. Zero -score punishment will be included in one of the highest scores of 8 times and retain 12 months, replacing the players with eighth results.

Because the world ranking of a few athletes is less than 8 times, the error execution of the punishment policy has affected them, and their minimum results are replaced. International Table Tennis Federation stated that 15 influential players and 1 mixed double player.

On March 20, Chinese player Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship in WTT Singapore Grand Slam. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Deng Zhiwei)

This week, there were no changes in the top ten men's singles in the World Table Tennis Federation. Fan Zhendong resumed 6,900 points, ranking first. Malone and Liang Jingkun ranked second and third, and Wang Chuqin ranked 10th.

The top ten of the women's singles are also unchanged. Chinese team players Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Wang Yidi are ranked among the top four.

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