Iran’s Alamian up by 63 spots in ITTF Rankings
Iranian table tennis player Nima Alamian moved up by a remarkable 63 spots in the latest ITTF World Ranking – released on Tuesday.
The second-best leap among the top 200 players saw Alamian sit in the 153rd place in the Men’s Singles Ranking with 116 points – thanks to a last-four finish at the WTT Feeder Havirov tournament in Czechia earlier in the month.
Alamian defeated German world No. 69 Steffen Mengel in the quarterfinals but suffered a loss to Bahrain’s Ammirreza Abbasi in a five-game thriller.
Alamian’s older brother, Noshad, remains the highest-ranked Iranian in World Men’s Ranking, standing 54th with 525 points.
Navid Shams moved down by four spots to sit 165th, with Iranian prodigy Benjamin Faragi dropping by three places to the stand 178th – sixth in the boys’ singles under-17 ranking.
Lin Shidong retained the top spot in the ranking with 8325 points, followed by fellow-Chinese Wang Chuqin (6925pts) and Tomokazu Harimoto (4725) of Japan.