YEAR 
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.
TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING
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Player
Koji Kimura
Kei Konaka
Kjell Johansson
Zoltan Berczik
Hiroaki Ohhashi
Hiroshi Takahashi
Eberhard Schöler
Jaroslav Štanek
Kim Chung-yong
Vojislav Markovic
Hans Alser
Istvan Korpa
Peter Rozsas
Chuang Ching-ye
Dorin Giurgiuca
Vladimir Miko
Chester Barnes
Janusz Kusinski
Dmitriy Novikov
Zigmunds Kalniņš
Christer Johansson
Bernd Pornack
Martin Ness
Laszlo Pigniczki
Ernst Gomolla
Anatoly Amelin
Carl-Johan Bernhardt
Zbigniew Calinski
Štefan Kollarovits
Yoo Chin-kyu
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EC
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x
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
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R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
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AC
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PRO TOUR
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Description
N – Nationality EC – European Championships AC – Asian Championships & other flags – Pro Tour events
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