At this time Men's Singles officially started to draw lots for the group, and before the draw, the complete list of the latest world rankings also appeared on the big screen.
1. Huaguo, Sun Tianlong
2. Huaguo, Xiao Fei
3. Huaguo, Luo Jiu
4. Brazil, Hook. Calderano
5. Huaguo, Lin Li
6. Huaguo, Bai Feng
7. Deutschland, Hans. Bayer
8. Bay Island, Lin Zijun
9. Sakura Country, Mizutori Hato
10, England, Pike
11. Sweden, k. Michel
12. Minato District, Weng Chunting
13. Huaguo, Wang Chao
14. Deutschland, Sissifield. Patrick
15. Belarus, Ochomirov
16.Kimchi Country Zhu Shixian
17. Deutschland, Dimitri. Wolf
18. Sakura Country, Zhang Benkuang
19.Kimchi Country Li Zhengzhi
20, Huaguo, Yan Ping'an
Wang Chao looked up and saw that his name was firmly in the 13th place.
In fact, the further down the world rankings are, the smaller the points gap between players is. After entering the top 10, almost everyone is in the same bracket. Sun Tianlong hangs high at the top. No matter how the second place changes, there is still a huge gap with him.
Sun Tianlong is resting on his laurels, because his original points are too strong. Even though he has participated in very few events in the past year and won fewer championships, no one can shake his position after cutting back on the bar.
But Wang Chao is a typical leap forward.
After he won the championship at Hong Kong Open in February, he had already reached the 22nd place in the world rankings. Then in April, he took the place of Sun Tianlong at Swedish Open and won the championship again. This time, it was Platinum leg., has a lot of points, and because the world rankings are not very different in this ranking range, he jumped directly from 22nd to 13th, and he is only one step away from the three people Weng Chunting, Michel, and Pike above him.
Considering that Michel did not participate in the competition, if Weng Chunting and Pike cannot enter the top eight, Wang Chao only needs to enter the semi-finals at least to directly enter the top 10 in the world rankings. Once it enters the top ten, theoretically, this ranking and status are enough to match the title of "Main Chinese Table Tennis Player".
This ranking must be included in the assessment standards of Cai Guodong, and is a necessary condition for seizing class power.
And if Wang Chao wants to ensure that it is in the top 10, it is easy, just win the championship.
As long as he wins the championship, even if Pike takes second place, Wang Chao can steadily counterpress Pike by relying on the score difference between the first and second place.
In addition to Wang Chao, there have been many changes in the rankings of others.
Lin Zijun has been very diligent this year, registering for three singles events in succession: Hong Kong Open, China Open and Swedish Open. The results in each event were good. Today, he has successfully reached the 8th place in the world ranking. This ranking is the best result of Bay Island in the past ten years.
As for Hook, because he abstained from two consecutive races, he only stayed at the second position in the world for a short moment before falling again. Xiao Fei, who was originally third, returned to second place in the world, and Luo Jiu followed closely behind, rushing to third place.
So this world ranking looks very gorgeous. In the second half of last year, this list was continuously disrupted by Hook, Bayer and Pike. Now it is once again dominated by Chinese table tennis players. Looking at it, the top three are all Chinese table tennis players, and further down, except for Hook is still holding on, and Bayer, who has not competed for a long time, is also falling. On the contrary, Lin Li and Bai Feng, whose recent results are not very good, relied on the few points they got from participating in many consecutive races. One of them stabilized its fifth place, and the other rushed to sixth place.
In this way, Mizutori Hato is the only card that Sakura Country Men's Singles squeezes into the top 10, which seems a bit embarrassing.
Internally, although he ranks high, he is already a street rat in China. In addition to his own former fans who have turned against him, there are also a lot of Ichikawa Mima fans who hate him to the core. Externally, he can't beat him. The Sun Tianlong Luo Jiu at the top cannot beat the Wang Chao and Fan Xiaodong at the bottom, which is a typical false height.
To use an idiom, it's called being famous, but it's actually hard to live up to it.
As for the host country Germany, what caught the most attention of local fans was that the original number three character Sissifield surpassed Wolf and rushed to the second place.
Soon, according to the world rankings, the eight seeded players were determined directly.
Area 1/8: Hook
Area 2/8: Bayer
Zone 3/8: Lin Zijun
Zone 4/8: Weng Chunting
Area 5/8: Pike
District 6/8: Mizutori Hato
Area 7/8: Bai Feng
Area 8/8: Lin Li
The next step is interesting, because the one behind Weng Chunting happens to be Wang Chao, and he is the first player who needs to be drawn by lot to decide who will belong.
At this time, Wang Chao was already considered a giant in the minds of foreign fans. As soon as his avatar appeared on the big screen, the audience and media watching the lottery ceremony all exclaimed.
The media people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. They hold cameras and take pictures all over the field, trying to capture more of the expressions and body movements of the players at this moment.
The German fans at the scene began to shout chaotically, some shouted "District 7" and some shouted "District 8", all praying that Huaping had better settle down a civil war first.
Obviously, the mentality of the eight seeded players is different.
Hook and Pike showed some anticipation and nervousness. As European new generation seed players, they naturally have a fateful rival with Huaping's new generation seed Wang Chao. The only difference is that Pike had played against each other before but failed to win, while Hook did not even get in front of Wang Chao and lost to Fan Xiaodong in advance.
Weng Chunting smiled and waved his hands, making it clear that he did not want to fight Wang Chao.
Only Lin Zijun was the most determined, and even had some expectations, muttering to himself, hoping that Wang Chao could enter Zone 3, otherwise, he was afraid that the two of them would not be able to touch each other.
He knew that there was a high probability that he could not beat Wang Chao, but he was not afraid of losing to Wang Chao, because he had already created the best record in the history of the Bay Island Table Tennis Association. He was not under pressure from performance. On the contrary, he very much hoped to play a game that would go down in history with Wang Chao, and the outcome was irrelevant.
This probably belongs to the chuuni soul of the younger generation of players who grew up watching anime.
As for Mizutori Hato, he acted extremely calm and expressionless, as if it had nothing to do with him. But the more he acted like this, the more the audience who saw him through the camera wanted to laugh.
But none of these people could wait until Wang Chao.
Perhaps the host country was really protected by the goddess of luck, allowing Germany fans to get their wish. Wang Chao finally fell to the seventh district. If they want to enter the quarterfinals, they will most likely have to fight Bai Feng.
The director's camera instantly gave a close-up of Bai Feng. Many viewers watching the live broadcast found that Bai Feng was very excited at this moment. His eyes sparkled, showing his eagerness to fight.
This is the confidence and pride of being a veteran of the main force of Huaping.
Bai Feng will naturally not forget the game between him and Wang Chao inside the base last year.
He lost that time, he was dissatisfied then, and he is still dissatisfied now.
He naturally knows that Wang Chao is doing his best to compete for the Olympic Games singles match spot.
He also knew that Sun Tianlong was actively promoting this matter.
He also knows why his teacher Wang Lu has tried so hard to force him to change his thinking and habits since the spring.
Everything is preparing to deal with Wang Chao.
In fact, before July last year, Bai Feng always believed that the third spot of Olympic Games Men's Singles must be his.
In other words, he is the direct competitor of Wang Chao.
It's not a problem to miss him all the time, but it's not in line with Bai Feng's character to avoid him all the time.
Although he wants to win, he is not afraid of losing. He just wants to be happy.
It's good to have a fight in advance.
Men's Singles The positions of the top 16 main draw players were quickly determined.
Area 1/8: Hook, Zhu Shixian
Area 2/8: Bayer, Li Zhengzhi
Area 3/8: Lin Zijun, Sissifield
Area 4/8: Weng Chunting, Wolf
Area 5/8: Pike, Fan Xiaodong
Zone 6/8: Mizutori Hato, Zhang Benkuang
Area 7/8: Bai Feng, Wang Chao
Area 8/8: Lin Li, Qiu Shang
It is worth mentioning that among the 15-year-old players of Huaping, Lu Feiyang was obviously the first to debut, but in the end, it was Fan Xiaodong who came from behind in the world rankings and actually entered the 16-man main roster directly this time, avoiding the hardship of qualifying.
This is naturally because Fan Xiaodong has made gains in every battle since his debut.
He lost to Wang Chao on Swedish Open and won the runner-up position.
On Qatar Open, he was eliminated by Luo Jiu when he was eight in the fourth and ended up in the top eight.
Malaysia Open was eliminated by Xiao Fei in the semi-finals again, eventually finishing in the semi-finals.
In fact, he also set a small record. He is the only underage player in the history of Chinese table tennis who has participated in three consecutive world championships without losing in foreign wars. He died all at the hands of his own people. He is an extremely rare "expert in foreign wars and an outsider in civil wars."
This time, Fan Xiaodong went out again, and coincidentally was placed in the lower half with Wang Chao. In other words, if he can continue not to lose in foreign games, there is a high probability that the semi-finals will be another civil war.
Next, the mixed doubles draw was a bit tricky.
Because the rules of Mixed Doubles are that all points are calculated based on fixed partners. So, if Ichikawa Mima teams up with Mizutori Hato, she will have historical points. But now she teams up with Niuwa Xiaoxi, even if it is a new combination, there will be no points.
Therefore, the two pairs of Sakura Country are obviously very strong, but because their partners have changed, they have to start from the qualifying round.
Similarly, the two mysterious pairs of Daehan Minguk also have to start from the qualifying round.
So in the end we saw that among the eight district seed combinations, only Tang Dynasty Combination in District 1, Taiwan Island Combination in District 3, Hong Kong District Combination in District 7 and Germany Combination in District 8 are considered famous.
As for the remaining four seeds, England Combination in District 2, Peacock Country Combination in District 4, the Beautiful Country Combination in District 5 and French Combination in District 6, no one knows them at all and they don't pay attention to them.
After all, they were beaten violently in Qatar in May and in Malaysia in June.
There was nothing to say all night. From the next day, the Men's Singles qualifying competition took the lead. By the afternoon of that day, the dust settled. Huaping's Lu Feiyang and Liang Kunpeng successfully entered the main round, while Gao Mingyuan and Sun Zhongwen died in the dark night before dawn again.
Sweden's only solo player, k. Michel's brother m. Michel, also successfully entered the main draw.
Fans are not paying much attention to this. After all, after half a year of turmoil and ups and downs, the current situation in the table tennis world has gradually stabilized. Famous old players and popular new players have reached a new balance. Fans already have a rough idea of who is in which range of strength, who can and cannot beat.
In short, these few crooked dates from the qualifying rounds, regardless of whether they are famous or not, I am afraid they are not qualified to be dark horses for the time being.
But in the mixed doubles qualifying match that afternoon, big news came out.
First, the combination of Zhang Benkuang and Hayata Hannah successfully qualified and was divided into District 7.
Daehan Minguk's young pair of Xian Youwen and Che Songxin qualified next and were divided into Zone 3.
Next, Sakura Country's other pairing, Ichikawa Mima and Niuwa Xiaoxi, actually collided with Daehan Minguk's Asian Games champion pair Kim Bong Kim Jong in the qualifying round due to grouping reasons.
You know, because the number of registered teams for mixed doubles is far less than that for singles, each group in the qualifying round only allows one pair to qualify.
As a result, a real strong confrontation took place quietly without official live broadcast or commentary.
(Every time I write about the group drawing and formation stage, I have a headache. It is troublesome and thankless to write. The time spent writing this chapter can be written for two or three chapters. But I really don't know how to solve this problem. It is definitely not possible to just skip it, because there must be a lineup to have a list of the top eight. Is there any experienced friend who can give me some feasible suggestions? You can leave a message at the end of the chapter to tell me)