The International Table Tennis Federation acknowledges the management errors of ranking rules, Fan Zhendong scored 1,400 points

On August 16th, the FIBI announced the ranking of the 33rd week. At the same time, the ITTF confirmed that due to the application of management errors in Article 4.2 of the World Table Federation World Federation Rules, from 2022, the world ranking released by the WTT Singapore Grand Slam in 2022 There are wrong answers to the ranking of ranking punishment, and the ranking points of a few players are deducted by error. The corresponding athlete's points will be restored in the World Table Tennis Federation World Ranking this week, and the ITTF has contacted all the players affected by this.

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 penalty will be included in one of the highest scores of 8 times and retains 12 months, replacing the best results of players ranked 8th.

Because the world ranking of a few athletes is less than 8 times, the error execution of the punishment policy has affected them (the 15 list players and a mixed double player), and their minimum results are replaced. For example: a player has three results and 1 penalty, and the result is only 2 grades, not to score 4 results (3 results and 1 penalty).

Based on this, the world ranking has been corrected, and the points that the corresponding athletes lose will be restored. The ITF will also establish corresponding IT and guarantee systems in the future to avoid similar situations.

This week, there were no changes in the top ten men's singles in the World Table Tennis Federation. The Chinese team player Fan Zhendong recovered the 1400 points that had been deducted before. After the recovery, the total volume was 6900, ranking first. Malone and Liang Jingkun ranked 2nd and 3rd, and Wang Chuqin ranked 10th.

The Federal Games Men's Singles Champion Salas Camar Achang Tower (India) ranked 38th in the rankings. Paul Kimlo (England) ranked 71st in this competition men's singles semi -finals. In terms of other Chinese team players, Lin Gaoyuan ranked 11th, Xiang Peng ranked 29th, Yuan Licen ranked 34th, Liu Dingshuo ranked 45th, and Lin Shidong ranked 49th.

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.

The Federal Games women's Single Single Army (Singapore) ranked 56th.

In terms of other Chinese team players, Fan Siqi ranked 20th, Zhang Rui ranked 21st, Liu Weishan ranked 23rd, Panman ranked 27th, and Chen Xing ranked 33rd.

Source: International Table Tennis Federation

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