Álvaro Robles (table tennis player)

Álvaro Robles
Other spellings:	Álvaro Robles Martínez
Nation:	Spain
Date of birth:	April 29, 1991
Place of birth:	Huelva
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	79 kg
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	72
Best world ranking :	37 (January 2018)
Clubs as active: AD Hispanidad 2012-2013 TTC drawbridge Grenzau 2013-2014 SpVgg Ottenau 2014-2017 ASV Grünwettersbach 2017– TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt

Álvaro Robles (born April 29, 1991 in Huelva ) is a Spanish table tennis player . He won silver with Ovidiu Ionescu in men's doubles at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest . He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand racket pose.

Career

Robles started playing table tennis at the age of 9. First he played for the Spanish club AD Hispanidad . In 2015 he was seen internationally for the first time, so he took part in the Zagreb Open , where he had to bow to Tan Ruiwu in the semifinals .

He was also seen in the German table tennis Bundesliga , playing for the ASV Grünwettersbach club until the 2016/17 season . In 2016 he was nominated for the European Championship , the final of the ITTF Challenge Series in the same year he was able to win against Can Akku . At the Qatar Open 2017 he met Fan Zhendong in the round of 16 , which he lost 4-0. In the same year he moved to TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt .

He also represented his country at the World Championships in Düsseldorf , where he defeated the duo Omar Assar and Dina Meshref in mixed with Galia Dvorak . The Qatar Open 2018 was not very successful for Robles, as he met top players in qualifying, including Wang Chuqin . In 2019 he was seen much more often on the international stage, including at the European Championships , a little unfortunate he was eliminated against Simon Gauzy . He also took part in the Korea Open , as well as in the Hainmaster Grand Prix , where the Spaniard Joo Se-hyuk beat.

In 2019 he became Spanish champion.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ESP	European Games	2015	Baku	Azerbaijan				9th place
ESP	European Games	2019	Minsk	Belarus	last 32	Quarter finals
ESP	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	Japan	no participants		last 128
ESP	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	Japan				17th place
ESP	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	People's Republic of China	last 128	last 32
ESP	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia				29th place
ESP	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	Germany	last 128	last 64	Quarter finals
ESP	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	Sweden				33rd place
ESP	World Championship	2019	Budapest	Hungary	last 128	silver	last 32
ESP	European Championship	2013	Schwechat	Austria	no participants	Agony
ESP	European Championship	2015	Yeketarinburg	Russia	last 64
ESP	European Championship	2016	Budapest	Hungary	last 32		last 32
ESP	European Championship	2017	Luxembourg	Luxembourg				9th place
ESP	European Championship	2018	Alicante	Spain	last 32	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ESP	European Championship	2019	Nantes	France				9th place
ESP	Youth World Championship	2008	Madrid	Spain	no participants	last 32	last 64
ESP	Youth World Championship	2009	Cartagena de Indias	Colombia	no participants	last 64
ESP	European youth championship	2007	Bratislava	Slovakia	last 128	last 16	last 64	19th place
ESP	European youth championship	2009	Prague	Czech Republic			last 64

Web links

• Álvaro Robles (German) player profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Ranking List (accessed December 24, 2019)
2. ↑ Alvaro Robles - TTBL. Retrieved December 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Alvaro Robles. Retrieved December 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ 2017 Qatar Open Highlights: Fan Zhendong vs Alvaro Robles (R16). Accessed December 23, 2019 (German). 
5. ↑ Alvaro Robles. Retrieved December 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/4 page 6
7. ↑ Robles, Alvaro. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .