Benedict Duda
Benedict Duda 
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| Date of birth: | April 4, 1994 |
| Place of birth: | Gummersbach |
| Playing hand: | Left |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Current world rankings : | 39 (April 2020) |
| Best world ranking : | 35 (July 2018) |
| Current continental ranking position: | 18 (February 2020) |
| Current national ranking: | 5 |
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Benedikt Duda (born April 4, 1994 in Gummersbach ) is a German table tennis player . He was German doubles champion in 2015, 2018 and 2019 .
Career
Benedikt Duda comes from a table tennis family. His father Heinz Duda - sports manager of the TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt - does this sport, as does his younger brother Frederik. All are active in the TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt association , in which Benedikt started table tennis in 2003. Benedikt Duda has been playing in the table tennis Bundesliga with TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt since 2014 .
He achieved his first successes in the youth field. In 2007 he became German youth team champion and in June of this year he won the individual B-student competition at the International Championships in Luxembourg. In 2010 he won the national ranking tournaments. In 2012 he was German youth champion in doubles with Florian Schreiner , in singles he reached the final. In the same year he won silver at the European Youth Championships in the team competition, at the Youth World Cup he made it to the quarter-finals in singles and doubles (with Frederick Jost).
In the run-up to the 2013 European Championship for adults, the sixth starting place for the German men was determined in a qualifying tournament. Here Duda, who is considered an outsider, prevailed against Ruwen Filus , Steffen Mengel , Ricardo Walther and Philipp Floritz . At the European Championships in Schwechat, he started in the individual competitions. In the qualifying group in the individual competition he was second after victories against Uros Slatinsek (Slovenia) and Magnus Magnusson (Iceland) and a defeat against the favored Poland Wang Zeng Yi and was therefore eliminated. He also failed in doubles at Patrick Franziska's side after victories over Marios Yiangou / Yiangos Yiangou (Cyprus) and Nicola Mohler / Lionel Weber (Switzerland) as well as the defeat against Oleksandr Didukh / Yevhen Pryshchepa (Ukraine) in the qualification. At the German Championships in 2014 he and his partner Steffen Mengel finished second in the double competition, and in 2015 they won the championship title.
2015 he was in Chemnitz winner in the national ranking tournament before Dang Qiu .
At the Qatar Open in March 2016 he defeated, among other things, the world number 14. Jung Young-sik , before he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Fan Zhendong , and was thus among the top 100 in the world rankings in April for the first time. With Bergneustadt he almost made it into the play-offs, but the club lost on the last day of the season against the table eighth from Mühlhausen and was overtaken by Borussia Düsseldorf . In September Duda played his first international match in qualifying for the 2017 European Championship , defeating the Swiss Elia Schmid . At the 2016 European Championships he was among the last 32 and narrowly failed 3: 4 against the reigning runner-up Marcos Freitas , at the Austrian Open he won his first World Tour medal by reaching the semi-finals. As he was also successful at the Swedish Open, he moved up from 101 to 43 in the world rankings within three months, his best ranking to date. In his first World Cup participation in 2017 , he was only used in mixed with Sabine Winter and was eliminated in the first game. In doubles with Dang Qiu he became German champion in 2018 and 2019 , together they also won silver at the Japan Open and German Open 2019, after they eliminated Chuang Chih-Yuan / Chen Chien-An and thus the 2013 world champions in both tournaments had. This qualified them for the Grand Finals , in which they were defeated by Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska .
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| GER | European Championship | 2018 | Alicante |
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Quarter finals | |||
| GER | European Championship | 2016 | Budapest |
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last 32 | last 16 | last 32 | |
| GER | European Championship | 2013 | Schwechat |
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Agony | Agony | ||
| GER | ITTF Challenge Series | 2020 | Granada |
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silver | |||
| GER | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Zagreb |
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Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF Challenge Series | 2018 | Zagreb |
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Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | Czestochowa |
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Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Budapest |
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Quarter finals | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Bremen |
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Agony | silver | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Sapporo |
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Agony | silver | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | New Delhi |
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last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Linz |
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Semifinals | Agony | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Doha |
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last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Spala |
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last 64 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Zagreb |
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Quarter finals | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Poznań |
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last 64 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Antwerp |
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last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Helsingborg |
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last 32 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2019 | Zhengzhou |
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Quarter finals | |||
| GER | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf |
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last 64 | |||
| GER | Youth World Championship | 2012 | Hyderabad |
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Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2012 | Cetniewo |
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Quarter finals | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2012 | Metz |
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Quarter finals | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2012 | Lignano |
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Quarter finals | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2011 | Hodonin |
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silver |
Course of the position in the world rankings
Status 04/2016
literature
- Marco Steinbrecher: Portrait Benedikt Duda - “The flipping has to get better” , tischtennis magazine , 2007/7 Regional West, page 6
- Lennart Wehking: The Greedy , table tennis magazine , 2013/2, pages 26–27
Web links
- Portrait on tischtennis.de (accessed on October 10, 2013)
- Report from the EM 2013 on tischtennis.de (accessed on October 10, 2013)
- Benedikt Duda Article about Benedikt Duda on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English) (accessed on 23 September 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt Association officials (accessed on April 9, 2016)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/10 page 10
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/11 page 25
- ↑ tischtennis.de - European Championship qualification: sovereign victories in front of full ranks in Merseburg (accessed on April 1, 2018)
- ↑ NDM 2018: Double Dang Qiu and Benedikt Duda at the top. tischtennis.de, March 4, 2018, accessed on March 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Japan Open: Duda / Qiu take silver - three titles for Xu Xin. mytischtennis.de, June 16, 2019, accessed on June 16, 2019 .
- ↑ German Open: Duda / Qiu's winning streak ends in the final. tischtennis.de, October 12, 2019, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Grand Finals: Boll / Franziska defeat Duda / Qiu in a high-class quarter-finals. tischtennis.de, December 12, 2019, accessed on January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Benedikt Duda Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 28, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Duda, Benedict |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gummersbach |