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• Where a player's position has changed, the previous ranking is shown in italic.
• Players enter the ranking lists as soon as they have had two wins and two losses against ranked players; newly ranked platers are marked 'nr'.
• All players who have had no results for 12 months or more have been removed from the lists. These players may automatically re-enter the lists if a result is entered for them in the future.
• Players marked # have had no results entered for 6 months or more. For each 6 months with no results, a player loses 20 points.
• After further analysis some adjustments to the starting values of players have been made (in accordance with point 8 of the explanatory document issued with the first computer rankings), and in the future such adjustments will be made more frequently.
• PLEASE NOTE: CURRENTLY WORLD RANKINGS ARE PUBLISHED PERIODICALLY AND NOT MONTHLY. THANK YOU FOR THE MANY SUGGESTIONS TO PUBLISH THE RATINGS ON A MONTHLY BASIS. THESE SUGGESTIONS HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO THE ITTF RATINGS COMMITTEE.

WORLD RANKING 10/97

Since the previous lists were published, results of the following tournaments have been received and entered:
(In quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals of Continental Championships and of official Open Championships the Weighting for wins is 1.50)
DATE	Weight	Event
12-Oct-97	0.5	19th South East Asian Games '97 - Team
15-Oct-97	0.5	19th South East Asian Games '97 - Qualification
18-Oct-97	1.0	19th South East Asian Games '97 - 1/2-F Draw
17-Nov-97	1.0	Manikchand 14th Asian Cup '97
04-Dec-97	0.5	French Open '97 - Qualification
05-Dec-97	1.0	French Open '97 - Main Draw
06-Dec-97	1.5	French Open '97 - 1/4-F Draw
09-Dec-97	0.5	Joola European Men's League '97-98 Superdivision
09-Dec-97	0.5	Joola European Women's League '97-98 Superdivision
18-Dec-97	1.0	ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals '97 - 1/8-F
19-Dec-97	1.5	ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals '97 - 1/4-F Draw
20-Dec-97	0.5	Joola European Men's League '97-98 Division 1
20-Dec-97	0.5	Joola European Men's League '97-98 Division 2
20-Dec-97	0.5	Joola European Women's League '97-98 Division 1
20-Dec-97	0.5	Joola European Women's League '97-98 Division 2

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• WORLD RANKING 1/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 2/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 3/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 4/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 5/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 6/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 7/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 8/97: MEN | WOMEN
• WORLD RANKING 9/97: MEN | WOMEN