(By Steve Hopkins, photo WTT)
The surprises ended on the last day, because the higher seed won each of the last three games at the WTT Champions Series event in Macao. The pattern repeated himself in all three men’s singles matches on Sunday with Hugo Calderano with a high placed Hugo Calderano with surprise semi-finalist Anders Lind 4-0, the best remaining seed chuqin and then with surprise semi-finalist Jang Woojing 4-0, and then not to be surpassed, world Nr.
The implications cannot be greater for Wang Chuqin that $ 60,000 USD and 1000 ranking points Nets. The latter price is a difference of 825 points from Lin Shidong, which can be enough to jump over the world no. 1. Although there are some peculiarities in the points system, because pointed totals of earlier events deposit after about a year – it is reported that Wang Chuqin will be the new world number 1 when the following rankings will be published on Tuesday.
On the women’s side it was all of China in the last four slots with Sun Yingsha who have Kuai Man and Chen Xingtong face on Wang Manyu. That is of course World No. 1 versus World No. 4 and World No. 2 versus World No. 3, so this was a distribution precisely through the world ranking. That pattern was also on Sunday where, then World No. 1 Sun Yingsha won her semi-final 4-1, and World No. 2 Wang Wang won her semi-final 4-2, and then the best player in the world beat the world’s second ranked player with 4-3.
The next stop of the Pro Tour is Beijing, where the China Smash will be played from 25 September. Every player at the world top 33 will be present in Beijing, including Kanak JHA in the US. “Smash” events have the best of the best and with the event in Beijing, this is one of the largest stages for our sport for 2025.
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