The new world rankings published by the International Table Tennis Federation once again proof the top form of the players of the Werner Schlager Academy. 12 athletes (men and women) of the WSA are ranked within the top 100.

With his best position in the men's world rankings, the Portuguese Marcos Freitas continues being on rank 12. Robert Gardos, Alexander Shibaev and defensive artist Chen Weixing keep their rankings. However, in the ranking technical breakthrough another player succeeded: The 25-years-old Stefan Fegerl, player of SVS Niederösterreich and in the Austrian table tennis national team, reached his best ever placing with rank 48. The 16 places jump is of course the result of his success in the recent past. The win against the top 10 man Chuang Chih -Yuan at the German Open in Magdeburg was one of the best moments so far.

"This is the reward for the hard and accurate work with the Werner Schlager Academy, the coaches (note: WSA head coaches and national team coach) and my wife (note: Li Qiangbing). However, one must not settle with the achievements and has to go forward." as to the euphoric Fegerl.

For the women of the Werner Schlager Academy the reigning European single champion and SVS Ströck anchor Li Fen still leads the field with number 27. Her team mates Daniela Dodean Monteiro (No. 53), Tetyana Bilenko (No. 72) and Petra Lovas (No. 76) follow. The WSA-coming talent Tamolwan Khetkuen reached with position 131 her best ever placing in the ITTF world rankings.

The rankings of the Werner Schlager Academy athletes at a glance:

 

12 Freitas Marcos

32 Gardos Robert

34 Shibaev Alexander

44 Chen Weixing

48 Fegerl Stefan

56 Monteiro João

61 Habesohn Daniel

 

27 Li Fen

53 Monteiro Dodean Daniela

72 Bilenko Tetyana

76 Lovas Petra

84 Li Qiangbing

 

Complete ITTF ranking men

Complete ITTF ranking women

 

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