Liam Pitchford
Liam Pitchford 
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| Date of birth: | July 12, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Chesterfield | ||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | right | ||||||||||||||||||
| How to play: | Shakehand , attack | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current world rankings : | 15 (April 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best world ranking : | 12 (Aug 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Liam Pitchford (born July 12, 1993 in Chesterfield ) is an English table tennis player .
Career
Liam Pitchford started playing table tennis at the age of eight. Since 2010 , when he was part of the English selection for the first time, he has participated in all world championships . In 2012 he also received a wildcard for the World Cup , in which he was eliminated without a win.
In 2011 he moved to the German first division club TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen , with whom he reached the playoffs several times.
In 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games , where he came ninth with the English team. As of September 2013, he was the top-ranked English player in the world for the first time , a position that has since changed several times between him and Paul Drinkhall . At the 2014 World Cup , he and the English team managed to reach 25th place and thus promotion to the Championship Division. At the 2015 World Cup he was among the best 32 in singles - the best placement of an English player since 1999 -. In 2016 , the team surprisingly not only made it into the main round with victories against Germany, but even made it to the semi-finals, which was the team's first World Cup medal win since 1955 .
In 2016, for personal reasons, the contract with Ochsenhausen, which was actually still running for a year, was terminated and the move to the French first division club GV Hennebont . He also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he reached a place in the last 32. In 2017, after losing to Greece and Slovakia, the English team surprisingly failed to qualify for the Championship Division of the 2017 European Team , winning bronze at the Team World Cup in 2018 . The 2018 Team World Cup also got off to a successful start, in the group stage the favorite teams from Taiwan and Vice World Champion Japan were beaten - Pitchford achieved an 8-0 win over Chuang Chih-Yuan , Tomokazu Harimoto and Jun Mizutani, among others -Balance - but a defeat against Sweden in the quarterfinals meant the end. In July 2018, Pitchford announced to the public that he had suffered from depression for several years and was therefore on therapeutic treatment. From August he played successfully on the World Tour - among other things, he won the Bulgaria , Czech and Austrian Open against world champion Ma Long , World Cup winner Dimitrij Ovtcharov and European champion Timo Boll - and in December he moved up to the world rankings 16, which was a new record. This enabled him to take part in the Europe Top 16 for the first time , but was eliminated in the first round by Simon Gauzy .
In 2019 he moved to the Japanese league and also competed for the Danish club Roskilde on-board tennis. At the Qatar Open 2020 he won the silver medal in doubles with Paul Drinkhall and in singles, after beating world number one Xu Xin , among others .
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2019 | Nantes | FRA | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2018 | Alicante | ESP | last 16 | last 16 | last 16 | |
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2016 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | last 16 | Quarter finals | |
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2015 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | last 16 | last 16 | 20th place | |
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2014 | Lisbon | POR | 23rd place | |||
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2013 | Schwechat | AUT | last 64 | 19th place | ||
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2011 | Danzig | POLE | last 32 | last 32 | 11th place | |
| CLOSELY | European Championship | 2010 | Ostrava | CZE | last 128 | last 32 | 10th place | |
| GBR | European Games | 2019 | Minsk | BLR | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| GBR | European Games | 2015 | Baku | AZE | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | Europe Top 16 | 2020 | Montreux | SUI | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | Europe Top 16 | 2019 | Montreux | SUI | last 16 | |||
| GBR | Olympic games | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| GBR | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 16 | |||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2020 | Doha | QAT | silver | silver | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2020 | Budapest | HUN | Semifinals | Agony | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2018 | Linz | AUT | Semifinals | Agony | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2018 | Stockholm | SWE | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2018 | Olomouc | CZE | Semifinals | Agony | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2018 | Panagyurishte | BUL | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2015 | Bremen | GER | Agony | Agony | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2015 | Doha | QAT | Agony | last 16 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2015 | Kuwait City | KUW | Agony | Agony | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2014 | Stockholm | SWE | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2014 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2014 | Magdeburg | GER | last 64 | last 32 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2014 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2013 | Berlin | GER | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2013 | Spala | POLE | last 32 | |||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2013 | Olomouc | CZE | last 16 | |||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2013 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
| CLOSELY | World Tour | 2012 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | |||
| CLOSELY | Pro tour | 2011 | Schwechat | AUT | last 16 | |||
| CLOSELY | Pro tour | 2011 | Sheffield | CLOSELY | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| CLOSELY | Pro tour | 2008 | Daejeon | COR | last 64 | |||
| CLOSELY | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2011 | London | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | last 128 | last 64 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | Semifinals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | last 32 | last 64 | ||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo | JPN | 25th place | |||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 128 | Agony | last 64 | |
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 29th place | |||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | last 128 | Agony | ||
| CLOSELY | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 38th place | |||
| CLOSELY | World cup | 2012 | Liverpool | CLOSELY | 13-16 space | |||
| CLOSELY | World Team Cup | 2019 | Tokyo | JPN | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Team Cup | 2018 | London | CLOSELY | Semifinals | |||
| CLOSELY | Youth World Championship | 2011 | Manama | BRN | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | ||
| CLOSELY | Youth World Championship | 2010 | Bratislava | SVK | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Junior Circuit | 2011 | Cetniewo | POLE | silver | |||
| CLOSELY | World Junior Circuit | 2011 | Örebro | SWE | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Junior Circuit | 2010 | Örebro | SWE | Semifinals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Chungcheongnam-do | COR | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Hong Kong | HKG | Quarter finals | |||
| CLOSELY | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Platja d'Aro | ESP | Quarter finals |
literature
- Rahul Nelson: Love instead of money , table tennis magazine , 2016/4, page 27
- Susanne Heuing: I was no longer me , tischtennis magazine , 2018/12, pages 10–12
Web links
- Liam Pitchford Article about Liam Pitchford on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
- Liam Pitchford's world rankings
Individual evidence
- ↑ ettu.org: England announce 2017 World Championship team. (No longer available online.) March 23, 2017, archived from the original on March 25, 2017 ; accessed on March 24, 2017 .
- ↑ ttbl.de : Pitchford moves to France (accessed on March 29, 2016)
- ↑ tt-news.de : TTBL: Liam Pitchford moves to Hennebont (accessed on March 29, 2016)
- ↑ Pitchford speaks openly about past depression. mytischtennis.de, August 1, 2018, accessed on February 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Sensation at the Bulgaria Open: Pitchford throws Ma Long out! mytischtennis.de, August 17, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Czech Open: DTTB quartet eliminated in the quarterfinals. mytischtennis.de, August 25, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
- ^ Austrian Open: After defeating Zheng, Boll is subject to Pitchford in the quarterfinals. mytischtennis.de, November 10, 2018, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Simon Gauzy hits form, fortunes change. ittf.com, February 2, 2019, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/3 page 7
- ↑ T. League: Mizutani and Harimoto can cheer. mytischtennis.de, March 18, 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/7 page 6
- ↑ Qatar Open: Pitchford beats Xu Xin - Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng take gold. mytischtennis.de, March 8, 2020, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
- ^ Liam Pitchford results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed March 26, 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pitchford, Liam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chesterfield |