YEAR 
Once again, the Japanese international Nobuhiko Hasegawa finished the year as the World Ranking leader after his gold medal run at the Asian Championships. The highest-ranked European player in 1974 was the Czechoslovak star Milan Orlowski, who won the European Championships and added a silver medal at the Europe Top 12 tournament.
TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Player
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Milan Orlowski
Xi Enting
Gabor Gergely
Li Zhenshi
Mitsuru Kōno
Dragutin Šurbek
Kjell Johansson
Stellan Bengtsson
Jacques Secretin
Tibor Klampar
Ingemar Wikström
Istvan Jonyer
Jaroslav Kunz
Antun Stipančic
Sarkis Sarhayan
Anatoly Strokatov
Janos Börzsei
Stanislav Gomozkov
Bagrat Burnazyan
Milivoj Karakaševic
Yujiro Imano
Denis Neale
Jochen Leiß
Wilfried Lieck
Laszlo Földy
Ulf Thorsell
Konstantinos Priftis
Bela Mesaros
Zlatko Čordaš
N
EC
x
x
x
x
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
R32
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
x
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
AC
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
E12
x
x
x
x
x
4th
x
8th
4th
x
x
6th
7th
x
9th
11th
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
PRO TOUR
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Description
N – Nationality EC – European Championships AC – Asian Championships E12 – Europe Top 12 & other flags – Pro Tour events
Table Tennis Media 