Table Tennis World Ranking In 1977

1976 YEAR 1978

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The Japanese veteran Mitsuru Kōno failed to win the final of the World Championships back in 1967. Ten years later, he finally won the title and deservedly became the World Ranking leader. The highest-ranked European of 1977 was the Yugoslav star Dragutin Šurbek, who also won a silver medal at the Europe Top 12 tournament.

TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING

#	Player/Competition	WC	E12
1	Mitsuru Kōno		x	x	x	x	x	x	x
2	Guo Yuehua		x	x	x	x	x	x	x
3	Liang Geliang		x	x	x	x	x	x	x
4	Huang Liang		x	x	x	x	x	x	x
5	Dragutin Šurbek	1/4		x	x	x	x	x
6	Gabor Gergely	1/4	5th	x	x			x	x
7	Tibor Klampar	1/4	x	x	x	x	x	x
8	Stellan Bengtsson	1/4	x	x		x	x	x	x
9	Milan Orlowski	R16		x	x	x	x	x	x
10	Wang Jianqiang	R16	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
11	Kjell Johansson	R16	x	x	x		x	x	x
12	Wilfried Lieck	R16	x	x		x	x	x	x
13	Jacques Secretin	R16		x	x	x	x	x	x
14	Patrick Birocheau	R16	x	x	x	x	x		x
15	Norio Takashima	R16	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
16	Antun Stipančic	R16	8th	x	x	x	x	x	x
17	Desmond Douglas	R32	x			x	x	x	x
18	Stanislav Gomozkov	R32	x		x	x	x	x	x
19	Christian Martin	R32	x	x	x	x		x	x
20	Istvan Jonyer	R32	4th	x		x	x	x	x
21	Anatoly Strokatov	R32	6th		x	x	x	x	x
22	Denis Neale	R32	x	x		x	x	x	x
23	Sarkis Sarhayan	R32	7th	x	x	x	x	x	x
24	Jochen Leiß	R32	11th	x	x	x	x	x	x
25	Masahiro Maehara	R32	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
26	Tetsuo Inoue	R32	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
27	Jaroslav Kunz	R32	10th	x	x	x	x	x	x
28	Li Kuang-tsu	R32	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
29	Lu Qiwei	x	x	x	x	x	x
30	Tokio Tasaka	R32	x	x	x	x	x	x	x