Matīss Burģis

Matīss Burģis
Nation:	Latvia
Date of birth:	August 31, 1989
Place of birth:	Priekule
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Best world ranking :	100 (November 2012)

Matīss Burģis (born August 31, 1989 in Priekule ) is a Latvian table tennis player . He participated in the 2012 Olympics.

Career

Matīss Burģis was 2004 youth European champion in doubles with the Czechoslovak Antonin Schwarzer. From 2004 to 2013 he was nominated for participation in nine world championships , but never came close to medal ranks. He also took part in several European championships .

In 2012 he qualified for participation in the individual competition of the Olympic Games. Here he defeated the Canadian Pierre-Luc Hinse, but then lost in the second round to the Russian Alexei Smirnow .

In the 2007/08 season he joined the Bundesliga club TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau . Currently (2013) he plays for the Thuringian club Post SV Mühlhausen in 1951 in the German table tennis Bundesliga . In the 2013/2014 season he played in second place, in the 2014/2015 season in third place. In 2015 he joined the TTC Wil in Switzerland.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
LAT	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	last 64
LAT	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	2004	Budapest	HUN		gold
LAT	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2012	Velenje	SLO	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2011	Schwechat	AUT	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2011	Almeria	ESP	last 32	Quarter finals
LAT	Pro tour	2011	Dortmund	GER	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2010	Budaörs	HUN	last 32
LAT	Pro tour	2010	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2010	Velenje	SVN	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	last 16
LAT	Pro tour	2009	Bremen	GER		last 16
LAT	Pro tour	2008	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
LAT	Pro tour	2008	Salzburg	AUT	last 32
LAT	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 128	Agony
LAT	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				54
LAT	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 128	Agony	Agony
LAT	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				43
LAT	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 128		last 128
LAT	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				48
LAT	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	HRV	Agony	Agony	Agony
LAT	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				52
LAT	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				51
LAT	Youth World Championship	2007	Palo Alto	United States			Quarter finals
LAT	World Junior Circuit	2007	Vern sur Seiche	FRA	silver
LAT	World Junior Circuit	2007	Ras-Al-Khaimah	UAE	Semifinals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World ranking history for Matīss Burģis (accessed on July 29, 2014)
2. ↑ DTTL magazine 2007/08, pages 30–31
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/8 page 39
4. ↑ Matīss Burģi's results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed July 29, 2014)

Web links

• Profile on sporto.lv (accessed on July 29, 2014)
• Matīss Burģis in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed July 29, 2014)