Billiards》Lin Yunru reaches the top again! Returned to the top five in the world after 5 years

Lin Yunru returned to fifth place in the world rankings this week, tying his career best. (Taken from WTT official website)

[Reporter Xu Mingli/Taipei Report] "Silent Assassin" Lin Yunru lost to Japanese star Tomokazu Harimoto in 7 games of the men's singles semi-finals of the WTT Frankfurt Championship last night. He still scored 450 points. In the latest world ranking announced today, he rose from No. 6 to a career-best No. 5. This is also his return to the top five in the world for the first time in five years since September 2021.

Zhang Benzhihe reversed the landlord Franziska 4:2 in the final, scoring 1,000 championship points. The total points of 6,963 points also surpassed the 6,859 points of France's F. Leblanc, rising from 3rd to 2nd, tying his career best, and second only to world champion Teru Matsushima's 7,598 points; Wang Chuqin, who unexpectedly lost to his younger brother Wen Ruibo in the round of 16 in Frankfurt, is still ranked 4th. Lin Yunru's total points of 5870 points surpassed the Swedish brother Moregard who did not participate in the Frankfurt station. The two exchanged rankings. Xiao Lin returned to 5th. The 7th to 10th places were still Cardano, Zhang Yuzhen, A. Leblanc and Lin Shidong. Frangiska, who finished second in two consecutive championships, jumped from 15th to 11th.

The rankings of other Taiwanese players have not changed. Feng Yixin and Guo Guanhong are still ranked 31st and 32nd respectively, and Zhang Youan is ranked 94th.

In the women's group ranking, the top nine in the world rankings have not changed. They are Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Zhang Benmiwa, Kuai Man, Wang Yidi, Hayata Hina, Chen Xingtong, Chen Yi, Sato Hitomi. Japanese female player Saki Oto lost to her teammate Hayata 2:4 in the women's singles final of the Frankfurt Championship, but still climbed up one place to return to 10th. German sister Winter, who made it to the top four in Frankfurt, also rose from 13th to 11th.

In terms of Taiwanese female generals, the first sister Zheng Yijing still ranks 34th, Peng Yuhan 36th, Huang Yuyan 47th, Ye Yitian 49th, Jian Tongjuan 52nd, Li Yucheng 54th, and Cai Yun'en 87th. The 17-year-old Chen Yixin, who won the first ever Youth Olympic table tennis gold medal for Taiwan in the women's singles at the Youth Olympic Games in Dhaka, also scored 40 points, and her ranking improved from 145 to 135, the best in her career.