Kanak Jha

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Kanak Jha Table tennis player
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Size: 172 cm
Weight: 62 kg
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Current world rankings : 27 (April 2020) Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 22 (September 2019)
Current national ranking: 1
Best national ranking: 1

Kanak Jha (born June 19, 2000 in Milpitas , California ) is an American table tennis player .

life and career

In 2014 he performed internationally for the first time. It was then that he won the North America Cup for the first time. In addition, after strong performances at the World Cadet Challenge, he qualified for the World Cup in Düsseldorf . At the age of 14 he was the youngest player ever to take part in this tournament. In the preliminary round he was able to beat Adrian Crişan , but failed in the further course of the tournament.

In 2015 he only took part in the World & Pan American Cup, where he won gold with the team. He was also able to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There he was able to reach the second round with the team, but had to admit defeat in the individual in the first round.

In 2017 he won the national championship. At the World Championships in Düsseldorf he was among the last 32 in singles, where he lost to Xu Xin . In 2018 he took part in the World Team Cup , where he reached the quarter-finals with the team.

In the 2017/18 season he played with the TTC Ruhrstadt Herne club in the 3rd Bundesliga North, after which he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga for 1. FSV Mainz 05 . In the 2019/20 season, he joined the Bundesliga team TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau , and in 2020 he was signed by TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen .

Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
BRA Pan American Games 2019 Lima BY Semifinals Semifinals 1
United States World cup 2019 Cheng you CHN Round of 16
United States World cup 2018 Paris FRA Round of 16
United States World cup 2017 Liege GER 17th to 20th space
United States World cup 2014 Dusseldorf GER 17th to 20th space
United States World Team Cup 2019 Tokyo JPN Quarter finals
United States World Team Cup 2018 London CLOSELY 9-12 space
United States World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN last 64 last 64 last 32
United States World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE 33
United States World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 64 Agony Agony
United States Argentina Open (Junior) 2017 Buenos Aires ARG gold
United States ITTF World Tour (U-21) 2018 Bremen GER gold

Equipment

Mention of Kanak Jha's material:

Wood forehand Backhand
Butterfly Timo Boll ALC Butterfly Tenerife 05 Butterfly Tenerife 05

Individual evidence

  1. Kanak Jha in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 28, 2018)
  2. Clip: The great adventure of Kanak Jha (14) begins. In: myTischtennis.de. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .
  3. Homepage of the TTC Ruhrstadt Herne (accessed on October 28, 2018)
  4. Grenzau signs great US talent Kanak Jha News from January 21, 2019 (accessed March 7, 2019)
  5. Patrick Wichmann: JHA CHANGES TO OCHSENHAUSEN , article of April 30, 2020 (accessed on May 1, 2020)
  6. a b Kanak Jha. Retrieved October 28, 2018 .

Web links

  • Kanak Jha in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 28, 2018)