Ruwen Filus

Ruwen Filus
German Open 2017, Magdeburg
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	February 14, 1988
Place of birth:	Buckeburg
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Defender
Current world rankings :	38 (February 2020)
Best world ranking :	18 (January 2018)
Current continental ranking position:	15 (February 2020)
Current national ranking:	8th

Ruwen Filus (* 14. February 1988 in Bückeburg ) is a German table tennis - national team .

Career

Filus is a modern defender . He started table tennis at the age of five. First he played at TuS Niedernwöhren and then moved to TSV Schwalbe Tündern . He was sponsored by Sabine Böttcher and Frank Schönemeyer in the Hanover regional center.

In 2003 he became European student individual champion in Novi Sad . He also won the title with the German school team, which he had already won in 2002. In 2004 and 2006 he won again with the youth team. He achieved bronze at the 2006 Youth World Cup with the German team. In the same year he finished third in the European youth ranking tournament.

In 2005 he moved to the second division team TTS Borsum, a year later to the Bundesliga for TTV Gönnern . Together with Steffen Mengel he made it to the final in doubles at the national German championship in 2009. At the European Championships in 2009 he made it to the quarter-finals after he had thrown some strong players, such as the Poland Lucjan Błaszczyk , out of the race.

In 2009 he moved to TG Hanau , 2010 to TTF Ochsenhausen , and in 2011 he returned to Hanau. In April 2010 he was in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time. On November 23, 2010 Filus played his first international match; in the fight against Belarus he won and lost one individual. Against Sweden on January 4, 2011 succeeded a victory in doubles with Patrick Franziska . In December 2010 he won the national ranking tournament . In 2011 he took part in a world championship for the first time , at the EM in the same year he won gold with the team. In the 2011/12 season he played for a year at TTC Grenzau . Since then he has been active at TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell , where he has now extended his contract to 2020.

WRL positions of the best 4 table tennis defenders

At the European Championship 2013 Filus reached the quarterfinals again, in which he lost to teammate Bastian Steger . He was also a member of the winning team, but was not used. In 2013 he won his first World Tour medal by reaching the semi-finals at the Czech Open and has been in the Top 100 since September of this year. In April 2015 he made it into the Top 50. At the 2015 European Championships , he won silver with the Team and came into the quarter-finals in the individual, which he lost 3: 4 to Tiago Apolónia after 3-1 lead , which he missed an EM medal. In 2016 he was able to participate in the Europe Top-16 for the first time , where he was eliminated in the group stage. In the same year he contested his first team world championship and was German champion in doubles with Ricardo Walther . They repeated this success the following year, when Filus was also runner-up in the individual and received a nomination for an individual world championship for the first time since 2011 . There he reached the last sixteen in the singles, which he lost 2: 4 to the second in the world rankings, Fan Zhendong . In July he reached a new personal best in the world rankings with 21st place, in September he again won gold with the team at the 2017 European Championships and was the best-placed defender in the world for the first time. In doubles with Ricardo Walther, he was also able to qualify for the Grand Finals , in which they could not take part due to an injury Walther. He won his first World Cup medal at the 2018 World Cup , in which Germany finished second despite numerous injury problems.

In January 2018, he achieved his best world ranking so far with rank 18. At the European Championships in 2018 he won the mixed title with Han Ying and the bronze medal in doubles with Ricardo Walther .

societies

• 2005-2006: TTS Borsum
• 2006–2009: TTV patrons
• 2009–2010: TG Hanau
• 2010–2011: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
• 2011–2012: TG Hanau
• 2012–2013: TTC drawbridge Grenzau
• since 2013: TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell

Equipment

The Filus racket supports his offensive all-round game. He uses a very fast attack blade with a butterfly long pimple rubber on the backhand and a butterfly rubber of maximum sponge thickness on the forehand.

Private

In June 2013, Ruwen Filus married Verena Petri. He has a son and two daughters, one of whom is severely disabled.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	European Championship	2018	Alicante	ESP		Semifinals	gold
GER	European Championship	2017	Luxembourg	LUX				1
GER	European Championship	2015	Ekaterinburg	RUS	Quarter finals	last 16		2
GER	European Championship	2013	Schwechat	AUT	Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	last 16
GER	European Championship	2011	Gdańsk-Sopot	POLE				1
GER	European Championship	2009	Stuttgart	GER	Quarter finals
GER	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	2003	Novi Sad	YUG	gold			1
GER	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	2002	Moscow	RUS				1
GER	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2006	Sarajevo	BIH	Semifinals			1
GER	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2004	Budapest	HUN				1
GER	Challenge Series	2019	Bangkok	THA	gold	gold
GER	Pro tour	2018	Olomouc	CZE	last 32	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2017	Linz	AUT	last 16	silver
GER	Pro tour	2017	New Delhi	IND	last 16	silver
GER	Pro tour	2016	Linz	AUT	Quarter finals	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2016	Zagreb	HRV	last 64	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2013	Spała	POLE	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2012	Ekaterinburg	RUS	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2012	Olomouc	CZE	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2012	Shanghai	CHN	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2012	Incheon City	COR	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2012	Santiago de Chile	CHI	Quarter finals	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2012	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2012	Doha	QAT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2012	Velenje	SLO	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2011	Schwechat	AUT	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2011	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2011	Władysławowo	POLE	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2011	Doha	QAT	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2010	Berlin	GER	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2009	Sheffield	CLOSELY	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2009	Minsk	BLR	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2009	Doha	QAT	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2009	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2009	Frederikshavn	THE	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2008	Berlin	GER	last 32
GER	Pro tour	2008	Salzburg	AUT	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2005	Velenje	SLO	last 64
GER	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				2
GER	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 16	last 64
GER	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				13
GER	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 64	last 32	last 64
GER	World cup	2011	Magdeburg	GER				3rd place
GER	Youth World Championship	2006	Cairo	EGY			Semifinals
GER	Youth World Championship	2005	Linz	AUT		Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2006	San Salvador	ESA	silver
GER	World Junior Circuit	2006	Cetniewo	POLE	gold
GER	World Junior Circuit	2006	Platja d'Aro	ESP	silver
GER	World Junior Circuit	2005	Platja d'Aro	ESP	Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2005	Casablanca	MAR	Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit Finals	2006	Vrsac	SRB	Quarter finals

literature

• Rahul Nelson: Ruwen Filus - The all-rounder , table tennis magazine , 2009/10 page 14
• Interview with Jörg Petrasch: It has to be right in the head, tischtennis magazine , 2009/11 pages 26–27
• Susanne Heuing: Everything under control , tischtennis magazine , 2015/9 pages 8–13

Web links

• Portrait on tischtennis.de (accessed on June 23, 2014)
• Ruwen Filus biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (accessed on June 23, 2014)
• Ruwen Filus Article about Ruwen Filus on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed on June 23, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ periodical table tennis , 2006/2 page 17 + 21
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 8, 2011 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 April 5, 2011) 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 30, 2010 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 November 24, 2010) 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 25, 2011 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 January 5, 2011) 
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/1 page 23
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/8 page 13
7. ↑ DTTB team in the semi-finals! Out for Japan! Sweden in a frenzy. mytischtennis.de, May 4, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 . 
8. ↑ biography_edit. In: www.ittf.com. Retrieved April 22, 2016 . 
9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/8 page 7
10. ↑ SH: Ruwen Filus became a father for the second time , report from August 8, 2018 on tischtennis.de (accessed on August 12, 2018)
11. ↑ Table tennis: hospital instead of sports hall - Filus father for the third time. Fuldaerzeitung.de , February 14, 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 . 
12. ^ Table tennis professional Ruwen Filus is fighting for the life of his daughter Südkurier.de, December 8, 2016.
13. ↑ Ruwen Filus results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 23, 2014)