YEAR 
The rising Swedish star Mikael Appelgren led the World Rankings in 1982 after dominating the European Table Tennis Championships and Europe Top 12 tournaments, as well as winning the silver medal at the World Cup. By far – the most consistent player of the year. The Chinese international Cai Zhenhua finished the year at the #2 spot, while the leader of previous year – Guo Yuehua finished third.
TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING
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Player
Mikael Appelgren
Cai Zhenhua
Guo Yuehua
Xie Saike
Jan-Ove Waldner
Kiyoshi Saito
Gabor Gergely
Tibor Klampar
Milan Orlowski
Desmond Douglas
Jiang Jialiang
Istvan Jonyer
Jacques Secretin
Stellan Bengtsson
Engelbert Hüging
Zoran Kalinic
Josef Dvoraček
Andrzej Grubba
Leszek Kucharski
Park Lee-hee
Erik Lindh
Dragutin Šurbek
M.Karakaševič
Ulf Carlsson
Chiu Man-kuen
Wang Huiyuan
Teng Yi
Eric Boggan
Seiji Ono
Jindrich Pansky
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EC
x
x
x
x
R64
R32
x
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
R16
R16
R16
R16
x
R16
R16
R16
R16
x
x
x
x
x
R32
AC
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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
WC
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x
x
11th
x
12th
13th
x
4th
10th
x
x
x
x
14th
x
5th
x
x
x
x
6th
x
x
7th
8th
x
E12
x
x
x
x
x
11th
x
x
x
5th
4th
x
7th
9th
6th
10th
x
x
x
x
12th
x
x
x
x
x
8th
PRO TOUR
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x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Description
N – Nationality EC – European Championships AC – Asian Championships WC – World Cup E12 – Europe Top 12 & other flags – Pro Tour events
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