BEIJING - China's Sun Yingsha has improved her own record for world ranking points to 12,200 following her triumph at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Europe Smash.

Sun's previous record was 11,900 points, set in May. With 2,000 points she earned in the Sweden event, which concluded last weekend, Sun continues to lead the women's singles world rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday.

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The ITTF applied changes to its world ranking regulations in 2022, as the world ranking of a player is essentially composed of the sum of the points of the best eight results achieved in the last 12 months.

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Sun is followed by compatriots Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Kuai Man and Wang Yidi. Japan's Miwa Harimoto and Zhu Yuling, now representing Macao, China, sit sixth and seventh, respectively. WTT Europe Smash semifinalist Chen Yi of China has climbed to a career-high eighth, while Japanese duo Mima Ito and Satsuki Odo round out the top 10.

China's Lin Shidong and Wang Chuqin remain as the men's singles top two. Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan and Brazil's Hugo Calderano place third and fourth, respectively, while Sweden's Truls Moregard, winner of the WTT Europe Smash, rises to fifth.

The sixth- to 10th-placed men's paddlers are Liang Jingkun of China, Frenchman Felix Lebrun, Germany's Benedikt Duda, China's Xiang Peng and Darko Jorgic of Slovenia.

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Meanwhile, Chinese duo Wang Manyu and Kuai Man lead the women's doubles rankings, Lin Shidong and Kuai Man sit top of the mixed doubles event, and French brothers Alexis and Felix Lebrun lead the men's doubles category.