The World Table Tennis Federation released the "Genius List", and the top spot is quite difficult to guess.
Recently, the World Table Tennis Federation released a new list, which is quite interesting. The content is about the youngest players who have entered the top ten in the world. In the top five of the women's list, there are three Japanese table tennis players and two national table tennis players.
Ranked fifth is Sun Yingsha. Sasha entered the top ten in the world when she was 16 years, 6 months and 18 days old. At that time, Sasha had just been promoted to the first team of the national table tennis team and was unknown.
But it only took her 21 days. , won the Japan Open championship, the runner-up in the Chengdu Open, and won four championships in the Asian Youth Championship, including women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles and team. With her explosive performance, Sun Yingsha went straight to the top ten in the world without any international points.
More importantly, at that time, the entire national table tennis team was immersed in the embarrassment of losing the Asian Championship championship to Miu Hirano. The appearance of young player Sun Yingsha calmed the public opinion of the national table tennis team. It can even be said that Sun Yingsha single-handedly stabilized the morale of the national table tennis team.
Ranked fourth is Miu Hirano. She entered the top ten in the world when she was 16 years, 6 months and 18 days old. Before Kohirano won the Asian Championships, she had already become famous in 2016. She won the women's singles championship in the World Cup that year. With this championship, she ranked among the top ten in the world for the first time. Although in that event, Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen, who were originally scheduled to participate, withdrew due to various reasons. But it is quite remarkable to win the World Cup at the age of 16. This is the first time that a player from a foreign association has won the World Cup since 1996.
With the continuous expansion of the World Cup participation quota, especially the increase in the number of national table tennis participants, it may be difficult for players from foreign associations to replicate the miracle of Hirano Miu in the future.
Ranked third is Miwa Harimoto, who entered the top ten in the world at the age of 15 years, 10 months and 7 days. The first time Zhang Benmei was ranked in the world was in March 2022. At that time, she was still an unpopular young player. However, in just two years, Miwa Harimoto has become the second main force of Japanese table tennis, and is on the verge of catching up with the first sister Hina Hayata, and has also reached eighth place in the world rankings.
If Zhang Benmeihe was still a little immature before the Macau World Cup, then the World Cup eliminated Wang Yidi and forced Wang Manyu to fight hard for 6 games before winning. Zhang Benmeihe, who is not yet 16 years old, has become the number one opponent of the national table tennis team in the future.
The second ranked player is still a Japanese player. We are more familiar with Mima Ito. Mima Ito reached the top ten in the world when she was 14 years, 7 months and 11 days old. To select the player who has the greatest threat to the national table tennis team from Japan in history, it must be Mima Ito. Although it is difficult for "Big Head Fuji" to regain his courage now, during the preparation period for the Tokyo Olympics, Mima Ito single-handedly changed the situation. It has changed the preparation pattern of the national table tennis competition and even changed the career trajectories of many players.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Mima Ito and Hayabusa Mizutani partnered to win the first mixed doubles gold medal in Olympic history. This is an indelible painful memory for the national table tennis team.
It’s hard to guess who ranks first. She is neither Mima Ito nor Sun Yingsha. She is Guo Yue, the former genius of the national table tennis team. Guo Yue entered the top ten in the world when she was 14 years, 5 months and 15 days old. When Guo Yue was growing up, she had two big devils, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, by her side. Even if she survived in the cracks, Guo Yue continued to create miracles. It's a pity that Guo Yue retired at the age of 26.
Otherwise, with Guo Yue's strength, she has the ability to change the pattern of the national table tennis women's team.
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