Special report: 2008 Olympic Games

    BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Following are the top 20 world rankings of women's singles released by the International Table Tennis Federation earlier July, which will decide the seedings of the Olympic table tennis tournament to start a week later:

    1. Zhang Yining, China

    2. Guo Yue, China

    3. Li Xiaoxia, China

    4. Guo Yan, China

    5. Wang Nan, China

    6. Li Jia Wei, Singapore

    7. Wang Yue Gu, Singapore

    8. Jiang Huajun, Hong Kong

    9. Feng Tianwei, Singapore

    10. Tie Yana, Hong Kong

    11. Kim Kyung Ah, South Korea

    12. Ai Fukuhara, Japan

    13. Cao Zhen, China

    14. Lin Ling, Hong Kong

    15. Li Jiao, Netherlands

    16. Niu Jianfeng, China

    17. Liu Jia, Austria

    18. Liu Shiwen, China

    19. Sayaka Hirano, Japan

    20. Wang Chen, United States

    Note: The Olympic Games table tennis competitions, to be held at the Peking University Gymnasium from Aug. 13-23, will make the men's and women's singles draws on Aug. 11, as the seedings will be established on the basis of the ITTF July 2008 world rankings.