Kohei Sambe
Kohei Sambe | ||||||||||||||||
Nation: | Japan | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth: | July 13, 1997 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Tokyo | |||||||||||||||
Playing hand: | right | |||||||||||||||
How to play: | Shakehand | |||||||||||||||
Current world rankings : | 233 | |||||||||||||||
Best world ranking : | 88 (April 2015, June 2016) | |||||||||||||||
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Last update of the infobox: January 24th, 2020 |
Kohei Sambe (born July 13, 1997 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese table tennis player .
Career
Kohei Sambe started playing table tennis at the age of 7. He is right-handed and attacking player with the shakehand stick position. He made his first international appearance in 2012 and played on the World Junior Circuit and the World Tour . At club level he was active for the German regional league team TTC Bietigheim-Bissingen in the 2012/13 season . From 2013 he played in the second Bundesliga for the second team of TTC Frickenhausen . This year he also achieved his first medal placements in the adult division on the World Tour: At the Belarus Open he came second in singles, at the Polish Open second in doubles with Masataka Morizono , who plays for the first team from Frickenhausen in the Bundesliga , with the he also won the double competition of the Japanese championship . They also played together in 2014, won the Japanese championship again and made it to the semifinals of several World Tour tournaments. This enabled them to take part in the Grand Finals , where Kohei Sambe was also represented in the individual and U-21 competition. In all competitions, however, he was eliminated in the first round. At the Chile Open, at the age of 16 years and 284 days, he had won his first gold medal in the adult area of the World Tour with a narrow 4-3 final victory. He had set a new record at the same time, the youngest World Tour winner had previously been Fan Zhendong , who won the Polish Open in 2013 at the age of 16 years and 292 days. In 2015 Kohei Sambe qualified again for the U-21 competition of the Grand Finals , but did not make it into the main round again. In April 2015 it moved up to 88th place in the world rankings and thus for the first time among the top 100. After two years at Frickenhausen II, in which he had achieved a total of 17: 1, he moved to the second division TTC Ober-Erlenbach for the 2015/16 season , for whom he scored 19: 9 in the front pair cross.
In 2016 he finally switched to the first division club TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau for one year , for whom he played in 2nd position and achieved a record of 6:11.
At the Japanese Championship 2019 he won the doubles title with Mizuki Oikawa .
Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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JPN | ITTF Challenge Series | 2019 | Bangkok | THA | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Budapest | HUN | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Incheon City | COR | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Sydney | OUT | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2014 | Santiago de Chile | CHI | gold | |||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Spała | POLE | last 64 | silver | ||
JPN | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Minsk | BLR | silver | |||
JPN | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2014 | Bangkok | THA | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
JPN | World Junior Circuit | 2012 | Örebro | SWE | Quarter finals | |||
JPN | World Junior Circuit Finals | 2012 | Mangilao | GUM | silver |
Web links
- Kohei Sambe Article about Kohei Sambe on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
- World rankings
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ Kohei Sambe. ttbl.de, accessed on November 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Wieland Speer: Kohei SAMBE from Japan // Profile and video of the new top player from TTC Ober-Erlenbach. July 22, 2015, accessed November 7, 2016 .
- ^ Ian Marshall: Kohei Sambe Wins Epic Final to Upstage Fan Zhendong, the Youngest Ever Winner. (No longer available online.) April 13, 2014, archived from the original on May 12, 2015 ; Retrieved November 7, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ New in the TTBL: Kohei Sambe. ttbl.de, August 27, 2016, accessed on November 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Grenzau obliges Sambe. ttbl.de, August 27, 2016, accessed on February 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Uda and Hayata are the new Japanese masters! mytischtennis.de, January 20, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Kohei Sambe results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 7, 2016)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sambe, Kohei |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1997 |