Table Tennis World Ranking In 1961

1960 YEAR 1962

The Top 10 of the 1961 World Rankings featured mostly Chinese and Japanese players. 21-year-old Chinese international Zhuang Zedong won the World Championships and secured the World Ranking leader spot. His compatriots Li Furong and Xu Yinsheng finished the year in Top 3. The highest-ranked European player was the Hungarian veteran – Ferenc Sido, who also added a bronze at the English Open.

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TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING

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Player
Zhuang Zedong
Li Furong
Xu Yinsheng
Zheng Xielin
Ichiro Ogimura
Hu Daoben
Tan Cho-lin
Keiichi Miki
Ferenc Sido
Conny Freundorfer
Hsueh Wei-chu
Teruo Murakami
Yang Ruihua
Gennady Averin
Wang Jiasheng
Ubiraci Rodrigues da Costa
Vojislav Markovic
Hans Alser
Miklos Peterfy
Jaroslav Štanek
Chu Jen-ling
Goro Shibutani
Wu Hsiao-ming
Ou Shen-lien
Wolfgang Prandke
Josip Vogrinc
Wang Chuanyao
Su Kuo-hsi
Ludvik Vyhnanovsky
Tsao Tzu-chiang