The International Table Tennis Federation announced the rankings: Hashimoto Honoka returned to 13th place, and Matsushima Teruko became the new second brother of table tennis

On April 15, the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) announced the latest edition of the world rankings. This week, the 2025 WTT Regular Challenge Taiyuan Station, which includes two singles titles won by Japanese players, has added ranking points for several competitions. In addition, the ranking points of the WTT regional tournament Düsseldorf held last year were invalidated, and the rankings of both men and women changed.

Hashimoto Honoka rose to 13th place again!

In Men's Singles, South Korea's Ahn Jae-hyun, who finished runner-up at the WTT 2025 Challenger Taiyuan Regular Challenger, moved up five places to No. 24. Japan's rising star Teruku Matsushima, who won the tournament, rose from 32nd to 23rd. So far, Matsushima Teruma has surpassed 3 Japanese men's singles players and has become the second brother of Japanese table tennis after Tomokazu Zhangmoto. In addition, Lin De (Denmark), Zhou Qihao (China), Lim Jong Hoon (South Korea) and others also improved their rankings.

In Women's Singles, Hashimoto, who won the WTT 2025 Challenger Taiyuan event, surpassed Miu Hirano (world No. 15) and Miyu Kihara (WR 19) to return to No. 13 when the world rankings were announced in November 2017. In addition, Zhu Yuling (Macau), the runner-up of the Taiyuan station, also rose from 24th to 18th. Hitomi Sato, who won the double at the WTT feeder tournament Havezhov, also moved up from 52nd to 45th.

In addition, the rankings of the top 300 Japanese players in the men's and women's singles world rankings are as follows (*The last ranking is in parentheses).

● Men's singles

Tomokazu Haramoto: 3rd (3rd)

Teruko Matsushima: 23rd (32nd)

Hayasuke Togami: 26 (25)

Shinozuka Daito: 29 (27)

Yukiya Uda: 30 (30)

Yutai Tanaka: 43rd (42nd)

Maharu Yoshimura: 45 (45)

Yuto Muramatsu: 71st (75th)

Kazuki Hiroda: 81 (96)

Ruiki Kagawa: 90th (89th)

Yoshiyama Keiichi: 117 (106)

Yufei Sakai: 157 (162)

Yokotani: 215 (215)

Kazuhiro Yoshimura: 255 (260)

Kazuki Yoshiyama: 273 (273)

● Women's singles

Miwa Zhangmoto: 5th (5th)

Hina Hayata: 6th (6th)

Satsuki Oto: 8th (8th)

Mimato Ito: 9th (9th)

Hashimoto Honoka: 13 (18)

Miu Hirano: 15th (14th)

Miyu Kihara: 19th (17th)

Miyu Nagasaki: 22nd (21st)

Sakura Yokoi: 34 (35)

Hitomi Sato: 45 (52)

Saki Shibata: 74 (82)

Asuka Sasao: 98 (102)

Yuina Koshio: 109 (109)

Anka Deizawa: 117 (119)

Chijiang Summer Star: 118 (123)

Akanon Uezawa: 120 (127)

Face Hands Rin: 165 (167)

Saki Aoki: 195 (197)

Miryo Takeya: 208 (212)

Nooda Saimi: 229 (327)

Kasumi Kimura: 245 (243)

Ai Takahashi Mori: 273 (270)