The 2025 WTT Manchester Regional Tournament won the women's singles championship, and the Welsh Chinese teenager set a new high in the world ranking

The International Table Tennis Federation announced the world rankings for the 18th week of this year on the 29th, and the top 20 men's and women's singles world rankings have not changed. The biggest improvement in the women's group was 19-year-old Welsh-Chinese teenager Anna. Hersey, who defeated two Japanese players in succession at the 2025 WTT Regional Tournament in Manchester, England last week, defeated Spain's Raad in straight games to win her first WTT Senior Singles Title, earning 125 points and moving up from 101 to a career-best 77 in the world rankings.

19-year-old Welsh-Chinese teenager Anna. Hersey

Hersey's mother is Chinese and her father is British, she began to play table tennis at the age of 5, was sent to Harbin, China for professional training for 2 years at the age of 8, can speak fluent Chinese, and represented Wales in the European Table Tennis Championships at the age of 10, becoming the youngest participant in the history of the competition.

In the men's group, Japan's Daito Shinozuka reached the semi-finals at the 2025 WTT Tunis Challenger last week, ranking from 26th to a career-best 21st, and also surpassed 22nd place Matsushima Teruku to become the second brother of the new Japanese team, second only to the world No. 4 Tomokazu Haramoto.

Danish left-hander Linde defeated Falke and Carlsen in one fell swoop at the 2025 WTT Tunis Challenger, and it was not until the final that he lost 0:4 to the French "glasses brother" F. Lebrun and won the runner-up, and the ranking also rose from 32nd to 27th, squeezing Chinese Taipei teenager Gao Chengrui from 27th to 28th.