Por CBTM
Thiago Monteiro is again among the a hundred better table-tennis players of the world. The Brazilian won 15 positions and he appears in 89th in the listing of the International Federation of Table Tennis. The ascent is due spectacular victory on Chiang Peng-Lung, of
“I am happy in being top 100 again. I donnot hope to go up so many positions, but I believe that the good campaigns in the qualifyings of the Korea’s and Japan’s Open, besides reaching second round in the main stage of the Japanese tournament, they helped Thiago Monteiro says, detaching the importance of the ranking for the Pan-American Games: In Pan, the ranking is taken into account for the choice of the host
The eight times champion American pan Hugo Hoyama fell three placements and he appears in 125th, already Gustavo Tsuboi, silver medal in Santo Sunday's Pan won fourteen placements and it is in 186th.
Must underline the evolution of the Brazilian’s juniors. Eric Mancini, champion of South American went up 73 placements and it is the number 571 of the world, Humberto Manhani, Latin America runner-up, went up 125 positions and it is in 729th, already Fernando Yamazato won 296 positions and it is in 829th.
In the top of the table, we have a new leader, the Chinese Ma Lin. In second place his compatriot Wang Liqin comes, following for other Chinese Wang there are in third. Among the first ten, Ma Long won two positions and it is the seventh and Korean Ryu Seung Min lost two falling for ninth. Chinese naturalized Dominican Lin Ju stayed in the 52nd placement, while the china-Argentinean Liu Song went up seven placements and it is in 59th.
Check the Brazilians in the ranking.
89th - Thiago Monteiro (104)
125th - Hugo Hoyama (122)
174th - Cazuo Matsumoto (170)
186th - Gustavo Tsuboi (200)
368th - Bruno Anjos (365)
480th Rodrigo Kojima (480)
490th - Israel Barreto (492)
528th - Efraim Carvalho (526)
571st - Eric Mancini (644)
611st - Lidney Castro (606)
655th - Ricardo Kojima (645)
729th - Humberto Manhani (854)
829th - Fernando Yamazato (1125)
1043rd - Lucas Tatani (1036)
1123rd - José Barbosa (1087)
