Engelbert Hüging

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Engelbert Hüging (born August 19, 1957 in Rheine ) is a former German table tennis player . In 1978 he was German individual champion.

Career

Hüging had his greatest sporting successes from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. During this time he took part in three world championships and four times in European championships . Between 1974 and 1985 he was invited to international matches 60 times.

At the EMs in 1980 and 1982 he reached the quarter-finals, but then lost to Jacques Secrétin and Tibor Klampár .

Hüging was considered uncomfortable because he expressed criticism without regard to the person. In addition, he was considered an individualist who was reluctant to subordinate himself. At the end of the 1980/81 season he stopped playing table tennis, but made his comeback a few months later. He designed this very successfully. He won the European Cup (table tennis) in 1984 with the TTC Simex Jülich alongside Ulf Carlsson and Michael Plum .

Style of play

Hüging was a pure defensive player . He used a table tennis racket with a grippy backside covering on the forehand side and a long pimple covering with a sandwich underlay on the backhand side (tackiness D 1.5 mm / Feint long 1.0 mm). By tactically turning the club, which at that time was still allowed to be of the same color on both sides, he produced changes of cut that tempted technically inexperienced players to make “slight mistakes”, but could also cause problems for good technicians. Because of this skill level, which some contemporaries attributed only to the material, he was also referred to as a "material player". After the introduction of the two-color rule in 1986, his playing strength sank so massively that he continued his career as a coach at VfB Lübeck - with occasional appearances as a player.

End of career

At the end of 1995, Hüging emigrated to Australia. Here he works as a national coach (not national coach) for the state of Queensland. There, too, he continued to play tournaments, for example the Brisbane Open.

successes

  • National German championships
    • 1978 Lübeck: 1st place singles, 4th place doubles (with Georg Nicklas)
    • 1979 Rüsselsheim: 2nd place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Georg Nicklas), 2nd place mixed (with Monika Stork )
    • 1982 Hanover: 4th place individual
  • Participation in 3 world championships
    • 1975 in Calcutta: 8th place with men's team
    • 1979 in Pyongyang: Round of 16 doubles, 11th place with men's team
    • 1985 in Gothenburg: Round of 16, doubles, 17th place with men's team
  • Participation in 4 European championships
    • 1978 in Duisburg: 8th place with men's team
    • 1980 in Bern: quarter-finals in individual, 2nd place with men's team
    • 1982 in Budapest: quarter finals in individual, 6th place with men's team
    • 1984 in Moscow: 9th place with men's team
  • International championships
    • 1976 Belgium: 2nd place team competition
    • 1977 Scandinavia: 2nd place team competition
    • 1978 France: 2nd place team competition
    • 1978 Germany: 2nd place team competition
    • 1983 USA: 2nd place singles
  • German team championships
    • 1987 in Hagen: 1st place with TTC drawbridge Grenzau
  • German cup championships
    • 1983 in Jülich 1st place with TTC Simex Jülich
    • 1987 in Bayreuth 1st place with TTC drawbridge Grenzau
  • Youth tournaments
    • 1975 European Championship: 2nd place mixed (with Marie-France Germiat, Belgium)
    • 1975 International Championship Germany in Dillingen: 1st place individual, 1st place with boys team
    • 1975 International Championship France: 1st place individual
  • Leaderboards
    • 1978 - 1979: 2nd place in the German ranking
    • 1980: 12th place European association ETTU
    • 1980: 22nd place in the ITTF world rankings

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG  European Championship  1982  Budapest  HUN   Quarter finals       
FRG  European Championship  1982  Budapest  HUN         2
FRG  European Championship  1980  Bern  SUI   Quarter finals      2
FRG  European Youth Championship (Cadets)  1972  Vejle  THE   silver       
FRG  EURO TOP12  1979  Kristianstad  SWE   12       
FRG  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   Agony  last 16  no participants  17th 
FRG  World Championship  1979  Pyongyang  PRK   last 32  last 16  no participants  11 
FRG  World Championship  1975  Calcutta  IND   last 128  last 32  last 64  8th 

literature

  • Rahul Nelson: cross head , bon vivant , individualist - or what: Engelbert Hüging , DTS magazine , 1986/11 pp. 36–39

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/19 p. 19
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/1, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Journal DTS , 1997/8, p. 24 + 2001/5, p. 25.
  4. ↑ About Table Tennis QLD: Brisbane Open. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 20160514 Brisbane Open - Open Single Final: Simon Gerada vs Engelbert Huging. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 8, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ittf.com
personal data
SURNAME Hüging, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine