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The Japanese international Koji Kimura won the singles event of the Asian Championships and secured the #1 spot at the end of 1964. The rising Swedish star Kjell Johansson became the highest-ranked European player after he won his first European Championships title, overcoming the experienced Hungarian Zoltan Berczik in the final.
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TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING
| # | Player/Competition | EC | AC |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 1 |  Koji Kimura | x |  | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 2 | Kei Konaka | x |  | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 3 |  Kjell Johansson | | x | | x | x | x | x |  | x | x | x | |
| 4 |  Zoltan Berczik | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 5 | Hiroaki Ohhashi | x | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 6 | Hiroshi Takahashi | x | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 7 | Eberhard Schöler | | x | x | x | x | | | | x | x | x | x |
| 8 | Jaroslav Štanek | | x | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 9 |  Kim Chung-yong | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 10 |  Vojislav Markovic | 1/4 | x | | x | x | x | x | | | x | x | x |
| 11 | Hans Alser | 1/4 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | |
| 12 | Istvan Korpa | 1/4 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | | x | x |
| 13 | Peter Rozsas | 1/4 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | x |
| 14 |  Chuang Ching-ye | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 15 | Dorin Giurgiuca | R16 | x | | x | x | x | x | | x | | x | x |
| 16 | Vladimir Miko | R16 | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | x | | |
| 17 | Chester Barnes | R16 | x | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 18 |  Janusz Kusinski | R16 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 19 | Dmitriy Novikov | R16 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 20 | Zigmunds Kalniņš | R16 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 21 | Christer Johansson | R16 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 22 |  Bernd Pornack | R16 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 23 | Martin Ness | R32 | x | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 24 | Laszlo Pigniczki | R32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | x | x |
| 25 | Ernst Gomolla | R32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | x |
| 26 | Anatoly Amelin | R32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 27 | Carl-Johan Bernhardt | R32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 28 | Zbigniew Calinski | R32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 29 | Štefan Kollarovits | R32 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| 30 | Yoo Chin-kyu | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
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