China's DING Ning, the reigning World champion retains her top billing on the Women's World Rankings, issued by the International Table Tennis Federation on Monday 4th February 2013, but for her compatriot and counterpart, ZHANG Jike, both Olympic and World champion, he falls one place.
Meanwhile, in the Women's World Rankings, the top six remain the same as one month earlier. DING Ning, the winner on the ITTF World Tour in Austria is followed by compatriots, LIU Shiwen, LI Xiaoxia and GUO Yan. Korea's KIM Kyungah remains in fifth place one spot ahead of Singapore's FENG Tianwei.
Next in the order of merit is SHEN Yanfei, the runner up in Spain; she changes places with Japan's Ai FUKUHARA, whilst Hong Kong's JIANG Huajun, the winner in Spain, moves back into the top 20; she is now at no.17, formerly she was at no.21.
