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Californian’s Ariel Hsing Earns World No. 3 Ranking for Under-15 Girls

2010 U.S. Senior National Team member Ariel Hsing (San Jose, Calif.) earned the World No. 3 ranking for Under-15 Girls by the International Table Tennis Federation. Hsing, who was last rated No. 5, climbed up two position after winning the 2010 Italian Cadet Open for Cadet girl’s in late March.

Hsing, who will represent the United States at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, also turned strong performances at the Italian Open in team and doubles. Hsing is a two-time U.S. National Championships runner-up.

Bernadette Szocs of Romania and Yuting Gu of China are ranked No. 1 and 2 respectively. For complete rankings click here.

	Rank	Prior Ranking	Points	Name	Country
	1	(<<)	1976	SZOCS Bernadette	ROU
	2	(<<)	1857	GU Yuting	CHN
	3	(5)	1820	HSING Ariel	USA
	4	(3)	1807	MAEDA Miyu	JPN
	5	(6)	1801	JEGER Mateja	HRV
	6	(4)	1756	NG Ka Yee	HKG
	7	(<<)	1746	CIOBANU Irina	ROU
	8	(26)	1697	PANG Celine	FRA
*	9	(<<)	1621	LIU Xi	CHN
*	10	(<<)	1605	KIM Jisun	KOR

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