Despite picking some points at the last Hungarian Open in Budapest, Aruna Quadri has slided to 26 in the February 2017 ITTF ranking but the world table tennis ruling body attributed his drop to deduction of 2016 ranking bonuses.
For making it to the quarterfinal at the Hungarian Open, Quadri garnered some ranking points but the bonuses he got at the 2016 Hungarian and German Opens have been deducted from his latest points and this caused his drop from 25 to 26 in the world ranking.
According to ITTF ranking policy, every player that win each matches at any ITTF World Tour is entitled to a bonus which will last for a year while any upset cause by such players becomes his rating point.
Based on this, Aruna Quadri’s points rose after the quarterfinal berth at the 2017 Hungarian Open but the bonuses he got from 2016 Hungarian and German Opens were deducted from his ranking points for him to slide to 26 in the world.
With this rating, the Nigerian still remains the continent highest ranked player in the world and his 26th position still remains the best to have achieved by any African player in the history of ITTF.
Also, Italy-based Olajide Omotayo benefited from his performance at the Hungarian Open as the former Asoju Oba Cup champion rose to 532 from 599.
Meanwhile, in the Men’s World Rankings, China’s Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin continue to pursue Ma Long; Japan’s Jun Mizutani is now at no.4 followed by Germany’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting.
Korea’s Jeoung Youngsik advances two places to no.7; Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus remains at no.8 with Chinese Taipei’s Chuang Chih-Yuan, Germany’s Timo Boll and China’s Fang Bo all climbing one place to complete the top ten names.
Notably for Jun Mizutani, Wong Chun Ting and Jeoung Youngsik, it is the highest status of their careers. Likewise, on the Women’s World Rankings, it is one step higher. Zhu Yuling, like Ding Ning from China, is now in the no.2 position. Next on the list is Japan’s Kasumi Ishikawa followed by Chinese Taipei’s Cheng I-Ching, Germany’s Han Ying and Mimo Ito, also from Japan.