HU Melek one step to World`s Top 10

January 5, 2017
1:48 pm
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New ITTF World Ranking list is released

The 2016 Women`s European Champion and current Euro Top-16 runner up HU Melek from Turkey made two more steps up on the January`s ITTF World Ranking list becoming world`s No. 11. This is her best ever position.

Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (GER) Vladimir SAMSONOV (BLR) and Timo BOLL (GER) are continuing as No. 6 No. 8 and No. 11 respectively. Both Olympic and World champion MA Long from China firmly holds the top spot.

HAN Ying from Germany world No. 7 is still best ranked women`s player from the Old Continent.

ITTF World Ranking list Men`s Top 10

1 (1) MA Long (CHN) 3430

2 (2) FAN Zhendong (CHN) 3272

3 (3) XU Xin (CHN) 3177

4 (4) ZHANG Jike (CHN) 3082

5 (5) Jun MIZUTANI (JPN) 2982

6 (6) Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (GER) 2913

7 (7) WONG Chun Ting (HKG) 2834

8 (8) Vladimir SAMSONOV (BLR) 2751

9 (10) JEOUNG Youngsik (KOR) 2729

10 (9) CHUANG Chih-Yuan (TPE) 2708

Europeans from No. 11 to No. 50: 11 (11) Timo BOLL (GER) 13 (12) Marcos FREITAS (POR) 14 (16) Simon GAUZY (FRA) 19 (20) Stefan FEGERL (AUT) 22 (22) Bastian STEGER (GER) 22 (22) Tiago APOLONIA (POR) 24 (24) Kristian KARLSSON (SWE) 25 (25) Andrej GACINA (CRO) 29 (28) Mattias KARLSSON (SWE) 30 (30) Emmanuel LEBESSON (FRA) 31 (32) KOU Lei (UKR) 32 (33) Joao MONTEIRO (POR) 33 (34) Alexander SHIBAEV (RUS) 35 (36) Jonathan GROTH (DEN) 35 (37) Panagiotis GIONIS (GRE) 37 (38) Par GERELL (SWE) 40 (40) Paul DRINKHALL (ENG) 41 (42) Jakub DYJAS (POL) 42 (43) Benedikt DUDA (GER) 43 (49) Bojan TOKIC (SLO) 43 (44) Robert GARDOS (AUT) 46 (47) Liam PITCHFORD (ENG).

ITTF World Ranking list Women`s Top 10

1 (1) DING Ning (CHN) 3474

2 (2) LIU Shiwen (CHN) 3385

3 (4) ZHU Yuling (CHN) 3233

4 (5) Kasumi ISHIKAWA (JPN) 3163

5 (6) FENG Tianwei (SGP) 3132

6 (7) CHENG I-Ching (TPE) 3106

7 (8) HAN Ying (GER) 3080

8 (9) Mima ITO (JPN) 3001

9 (11) Miu HIRANO (JPN) 2952

10 (10) CHEN Meng (CHN) 2940

Europeans from No. 11 to No. 50: 11 (13) HU Melek (TUR) 15 (18) Petrissa SOLJA (GER) 17 (21) LIU Jia (AUT) 20 (20) Elizabeta SAMARA (ROU) 21 (22) SHAN Xiaona (GER) 25 (27) LI Jie (NED) 29 (32) FU Yu (POR) 33 (38) LI Qian (POL) 34 (39) Georgina POTA (HUN) 35 (40) Matilda EKHOLM (SWE) 39 (45) Sabine WINTER (GER) 41 (47) SHEN Yanfei (ESP) 42 (48) Polina MIKHAILOVA (RUS) 43 (49) LI Fen (SWE) 44 (50) Daniela MONTEIRO DODEAN (ROU) 46 (53) Sofia POLCANOVA (AUT) 47 (54) Viktoria PAVLOVICH (BLR) 49 (56) Tetyana BILENKO (UKR) 50 (57) Kristin SILBEREISEN (GER).

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