YEAR 
The 21-year-old Chinese star Jiang Jialiang won his first World Championships singles title and secured the World Ranking leader position in 1985. The highest-ranked and only European player in Top 10 was the Polish international Andrzej Grubba, who won the Europe Top 12 tournament and won the silver medal at the World Cup.
TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING
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Player
Jiang Jialiang
Chen Longcan
Lo Chuen-tsung
Teng Yi
Wang Huiyuan
Kim Ki-taek
Yoshihito Miyazaki
Xie Saike
Chen Xinhua
Andrzej Grubba
Mikael Appelgren
Erik Lindh
Dragutin Šurbek
Mariano Lukov
He Zhi Wen
Fan Changmao
Park Ji-hyun
Jindrich Pansky
Jan-Ove Waldner
Andrei Mazunov
Atanda Musa
Chih Chin-long
Massimo Constantini
Jörg Roßkopf
Andras Podpinka
Kim Wan
Ralf Wosik
Milan Orlowski
Cho Yong-ho
Janos Takacs
N
WC
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
R16
R128
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
R32
WCU
4th
5th
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x
6th
10th
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8th
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E12
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7th
8th
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5th
9th
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PRO TOUR
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Description
N – Nationality WC – World Championships WCU – World Cup E12 – Europe Top 12 & other flags – Pro Tour events
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