Chinese sweep top 4 in yearend table tennis rankings

Chinese swept the top four positions in the yearend men's world table tennis rankings which were released by the International Table Tennis Federation on Wednesday.

Xu Xin, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Olympic singles champion Zhang Jike are first to fourth as Chinese Wang Hao finished sixth, after Japanese Jun Mizutani.

The top European finisher is seventh-ranked Dimitrij Ovtcharov from Germany.

On the women's rankings, Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Li Xiaoxia, all from China, are first to third with Singapore's Feng Tianwei in fourth place.