Bernadette Szőcs
Bernadette Szőcs 
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| Date of birth: | March 5, 1995 |
| Playing hand: | right |
| How to play: | Shakehand (attack) |
| Current world rankings : | 36 |
| Best world ranking : | 14 (Aug 2019) |
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Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs (born March 5, 1995 in Târgu Mureş ) is a Romanian table tennis player . She was European champion with the team in 2017 and 2019 and won the Europe Top 16 2018 .
Career
She came to table tennis at the age of eight and achieved several international successes at the European Youth Championships in her youth. In 2007 she was second in doubles (with Cristina Hirici), in 2008 second in singles (behind Petrissa Solja ) and winner in mixed as well as in 2009 winner in doubles (with Jana Noskowa (RUS)). From 2009 to 2013 she won gold three times at the European Youth Championships and the Europe Youth Top 10 and reached the quarter-finals three times at the World Youth Championships, just like at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games .
In the adult category, she has taken part in all world championships since 2010, without coming close to medal ranks. She plays in the European shakehand style . She trained intensively with her father Slawomir and her brother Hunor Szőcs is also a table tennis player. In 2011 she took part in the European Championship for the first time and made it into the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time . At the 2012 World Cup , she became the first Romanian table tennis player to beat the reigning individual world champion Ding Ning . 2013 she moved in a double with Iulia Necula semi-finals of the German Open and thus won their first medal at the ITTF World Tour , with the team they drew in the same year after a final defeat by Germany EM-Silver , reaching 2014 World Cup quarter-finals .
She was able to take part in the Europe Top 16 for the first time in 2015, but remained without a win. In both the team and the individual competition of the European Games , she was eliminated in the first round, at the 2015 World Cup in the second round against the later vice world champion Liu Shiwen . With the Romanian team, she won EM silver in 2015 after losing to Germany in the final. She also qualified for the U-21 Grand Finals competition , where she was eliminated in the group stage, and won bronze at the Universiade. In 2016 she took part in the team at the Olympic Games in Rio, Romania just lost 3-2 to South Korea in the first round. In the following year, Szőcs took sixth place in the Europe Top 16 , took bronze again at the Universiade and met Germany for the third time with the Romanian team in the European Championship final . Gold was won this time through a narrow 3-2 win. In 2017 she also took part in the newly started T2APAC league in Jörgen Persson's team. In the course of the league, she won against numerous top-seeded opponents and prevailed against Liu Fei in the semi-finals of the individual competition . She won the title in the final against long-time top 10 player Feng Tianwei .
In 2018, she surprisingly won the gold medal in the Europe Top 16 , seeded in 8th position, with a final victory over the defending champion Li Jie , who was seeded in position 1 , and only gave up one set in the final. As a result, she qualified for the first time for the World Cup , where she reached the round of 16. In the following year she also made it to the Europe Top 16 final , but lost to Petrissa Solja there. In April she was the top European in the world rankings for the first time. She also won the silver medal at the European Mixed Games and with the team with which she defended the European team title a few months later . In August it also reached number 14 in the world rankings and thus a new record.
Double partners
Listed only for at least three joint tournaments a year.
- 2009: Camelia Iacob
- 2009-2010: Irina Ciobanu
- 2015: Camelia Iacob
Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team | U-21 |
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Europe Top 16 | 2020 | Montreux |
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last 16 | ||||
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Europe Top 16 | 2019 | Montreux |
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silver | ||||
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Europe Top 16 | 2018 | Montreux |
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gold | ||||
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Europe Top 16 | 2017 | Antibes |
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6th place | ||||
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Europe Top 16 | 2016 | Gondomar |
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13-16 space | ||||
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Europe Top 16 | 2015 | Baku |
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13-16 space | ||||
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European Games | 2019 | Minsk |
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last 16 | silver | silver | ||
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European Games | 2015 | Baku |
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last 32 | last 16 | |||
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Olympic games | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro |
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last 16 | ||||
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European Championship | 2019 | Nantes |
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gold | ||||
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European Championship | 2018 | Alicante |
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Quarter finals | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
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European Championship | 2017 | Luxembourg |
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gold | ||||
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European Championship | 2016 | Budapest |
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last 64 | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
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European Championship | 2015 | Ekaterinburg |
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last 32 | silver | |||
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European Championship | 2014 | Lisbon |
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7th | ||||
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European Championship | 2013 | Schwechat |
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last 16 | silver | |||
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European Championship | 2012 | Herning |
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last 32 | ||||
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European Championship | 2011 | Gdańsk |
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last 64 | ||||
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World Championship | 2019 | Budapest |
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last 32 | last 16 | last 16 | ||
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World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad |
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Quarter finals | ||||
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World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf |
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last 64 | last 32 | last 32 | ||
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World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur |
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9-12 space | ||||
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World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou |
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last 64 | last 64 | last 32 | ||
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World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo |
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Quarter finals | ||||
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World Championship | 2013 | Paris |
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last 128 | last 32 | last 32 | ||
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World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund |
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12 | ||||
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World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam |
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last 128 | last 64 | last 32 | ||
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World cup | 2019 | Cheng you |
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last 16 | ||||
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World cup | 2018 | Cheng you |
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last 16 | ||||
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Universiade | 2017 | Taipei |
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Semifinals | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
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Universiade | 2015 | Gwangju |
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Semifinals | ||||
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ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | Almeria |
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Semifinals | ||||
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ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | São Paulo |
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gold | gold | |||
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ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Panagyurishte |
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last 16 | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Budapest |
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Quarter finals | Semifinals | Agony | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2016 | De Haan |
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Semifinals | Quarter finals | silver | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Stockholm |
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Agony | silver | |||
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ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Doha |
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last 32 | Agony | gold | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Warsaw |
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Agony | Agony | Semifinals | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Kobe |
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Agony | Agony | Semifinals | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2015 | De Haan |
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Quarter finals | silver | last 16 | ||
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ITTF World Tour | 2014 | De Haan |
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Quarter finals | gold | |||
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ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Bremen |
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last 64 | Semifinals | last 32 | ||
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ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2015 | Lisbon |
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Agony | ||||
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Youth Balkan Championship (U-15) | 2010 | Slatina |
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gold | ||||
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European Youth Championship (U-18) | 2013 | Ostrava |
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Semifinals | ||||
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European Youth Championship (U-18) | 2012 | Schwechat |
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gold | ||||
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European Youth Championship (U-18) | 2011 | Kazan |
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gold | ||||
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European Youth Championship (U-15) | 2010 |
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Europe Youth Top 10 (U-18) | 2013 | Terni |
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gold | ||||
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Europe Youth Top 10 (U-18) | 2012 | Buzau |
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gold | ||||
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Europe Youth Top 10 (U-18) | 2011 | Schwechat |
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4th Place | ||||
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Europe Youth Top 10 (U-15) | 2010 | Topolcany |
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gold | ||||
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Youth Olympic Games | 2010 | Singapore |
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Quarter finals | ||||
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Youth World Championship (U-18) | 2013 | Rabat |
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Quarter finals | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
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Youth World Championship (U-18) | 2012 | Hyderabad |
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Quarter finals | Semifinals | last 16 | ||
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Youth World Championship (U-18) | 2011 | Manama |
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last 32 | Semifinals | last 32 | ||
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Youth World Championship (U-18) | 2010 | Bratislava |
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last 16 | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
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Youth World Championship (U-18) | 2009 | Cartagena de Indias |
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Quarter finals | last 16 | last 32 |
Web links
- Results from the ITTF database (accessed February 27, 2017)
- Bernadette Szőcs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Bernadette Szőcs at the COSR (Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ Defending champions, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Li Jie fall one step short; titles for Timo Boll and Bernadette Szocs. ittf.com, February 4, 2018, accessed March 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Europe Top 16: First title for Petrissa Solja. ittf.com, February 3, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ World ranking: Qiu continues to climb, Filus and Steger fall behind. mytischtennis.de, April 2, 2019, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ History written in quick succession: Franziska / Solja win in Minsk. tischtennis.de, June 25, 2019, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ European Games: DTTB women and men get gold! mytischtennis.de, June 29, 2019, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ^ Romania restores power relations. tischtennis.de, September 8, 2019, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ World rankings: Mittelham and Dang Qiu with top marks. mytischtennis.de, August 1, 2019, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Szőcs, Bernadette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szocz, Bernadette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Târgu Mureș |