Matthew Syed

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Matthew Syed Table tennis player
Nation: EnglandEngland England
Date of birth: 2nd November 1970
Place of birth: Reading (Berkshire)
Playing hand: Right handed
How to play: Shakehand, defender
Best world ranking : 25 (late 1998)

Matthew Syed (born November 2, 1970 in Reading (Berkshire)) is a retired English table tennis player . He took part in the Olympic Games in 1992 and 2000. Today he is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

Career

Syed's father has Pakistani roots and his mother is from Wales. He attended Maiden Erlegh School in Earley, near Reading , and then studied philosophy, politics and economics at Balliol College , Oxford.

The right-hander won numerous table tennis titles and qualified for the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games .

Syed has worked as a commentator for the BBC and Eurosport, and since 1999 as a journalist for The Times . He is a regular commentator on radio and television in the fields of sport, culture and politics. He made the film China and Table Tennis for the BBC . This film was awarded a bronze medal of the Olympic Golden Rings Award of the International Olympic Committee IOC in Lausanne in 2008 .

He was named Sports Feature Writer of the Year by the British Sports Journalists' Association in 2008 and Sports Journalist of the Year in 2009 . In 2010 his first book Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success was published by HarperCollins ( ISBN 978-0061723759 ). In 2011 he won the title of Best New Writer in the "British Sports Books" category. In contrast, the satirical magazine Private Eye ridiculed the style of the book.

Syed is the managing director of a sports marketing company. Since 1999 he has been marketing for the English Table Tennis Association .

politics

Syed was a Labor Party candidate in Wokingham in the 2001 general election . In 2010 he won a place in the British general election , although Tom Blenkinsop was preferred.

Table tennis

successes

Matthew Syed achieved his first international success at the European Youth Championships, where he reached the individual final in 1985 and lost to Dmitri Masunow . In 1986 he was second in doubles with Michael O'Driscoll and first with the English team. From 1987 to 2000 he took part in six world championships , but never came close to medal ranks. He won the Commonwealth Championships in 1994, 1997 and 2000 with the English team and in 1997, 2000 and 2001 in singles. In 1992 he won silver in the team competition at the European Championships .

In 1992 he qualified for participation in the individual competition of the Olympic Games . Here he failed after victories over Nicolas Chatelain (France) and Ashraf Helmy (Egypt) and a defeat against Jörgen Persson (Sweden) in the preliminary round.

In 2000 he started again in the individual competition of the Olympic Games . Here, too, he did not survive the preliminary round: He won against Patrick Sahajasein (Mauritius), but lost to Peter Franz (Germany).

Four times (1997,1998,2000,2001) he was English champion .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 2001 New Delhi IND gold
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 2000 Singapore SIN gold 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1997 Glasgow SCO gold 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1994 Hyderabad IND Semifinals 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester CLOSELY 1
CLOSELY European Championship 1992 Stuttgart GER 2
CLOSELY European Youth Championship (Cadets) 1986 Louvin La Neuve BEL silver 1
CLOSELY European Youth Championship (Cadets) 1985 The hague NED silver
GBR Olympic games 2000 Sydney OUT immediately excluded no participants
GBR Olympic games 1992 Barcelona ESP immediately excluded no participants
CLOSELY Pro tour 2001 Farum THE last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 2001 Chatham CLOSELY last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 2000 Umeå SWE Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 2000 Rio de Janeiro BRA last 32 last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 2000 Fort Lauderdale United States last 32 last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 2000 Zagreb HRV last 32 Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Prague CZE last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Karlskrona SWE Rd 1 Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Lievin FRA Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Linz / Wels AUT last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Bremen GER Rd 1 last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Kobe City JPN Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Rio de Janeiro BRA Quarter finals Quarter finals
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Zagreb HRV last 32 Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Hopton-on-Sea CLOSELY last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 1999 Doha QAT last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Sundsvall SWE last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Belgrade YUG last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Courmayeur ITA last 16 last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Beirut LIB last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Ji 'Nan City CHN last 32 Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Melbourne OUT last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Zagreb HRV Quarter finals
CLOSELY Pro tour 1998 Doha QAT Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1997 Lyon FRA last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1997 Squid SWE Quarter finals last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1997 Zhuhai CHN Rd 1
CLOSELY Pro tour 1997 Chiba JPN last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 1997 Doha QAT last 32
CLOSELY Pro tour 1997 Kettering CLOSELY last 16
CLOSELY Pro tour 1996 Rio de Janeiro BRA Quarter finals
CLOSELY World Championship 2000 Kuala Lumpur MAS 26th
CLOSELY World Championship 1999 Eindhoven NED last 32 last 128 last 32
CLOSELY World Championship 1997 Manchester CLOSELY last 128 no participants no participants 14th
CLOSELY World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE last 128 last 64 no participants 12
CLOSELY World Championship 1991 Chiba City JPN last 64 last 32 last 128 10
CLOSELY World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND last 128 last 32 last 64 12
CLOSELY World cup 1992 Ho Chi Minh City VIE 13-16 space
CLOSELY WTC World Team Cup 1994 Nimes FRA 5
CLOSELY WTC World Team Cup 1991 Barcelona ESP 5

Private

Matthew Syed has a brother named Andrew who also participated in a European Youth Championship.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001. (Excel; 167 kB) In: ITTF.com. Retrieved December 29, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b DTS magazine , 1985/8 page 16
  3. ^ Ian Marshall: Thirty Years on Another Milestone for Matthew Syed at Oscars Celebration. In: ITTF.com. March 25, 2008, archived from the original on March 27, 2008 ; Retrieved December 29, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b S.CI News Flash Last Info. (PDF; 2.04 MB) In: Swaythling Club International News No. September 87 , 2009, p. 26 , accessed December 29, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Best New Writer: Bounce: The myth of talent and the power of practice. (No longer available online.) In: The British Sports Book Awards. 2013, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; Retrieved December 29, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britishsportsbookawards.co.uk
  6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/6 page 7
  7. ^ Vote 2001 - Results & Constituencies - Wokingham. In: BBC News. 2001, accessed December 29, 2013 .
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/10 page 11
  9. ^ Graeme Hetherington: Tom Blenkinsop, a campaign manager with steel union community, chosen. In: The Northern Echo . April 5, 2010, accessed December 29, 2013 .
  10. ^ Matthew Syed Findings from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed December 29, 2013)

literature

  • Dieter Steffen: Matthew Syed became the audience's favorite - Finally a defender with a future again , DTS magazine , 1985/8 page 16
  • Karin Sturm: The Englishman Matthew Syed surprised in Bolzano with his performance and the coach , DTS magazine , 1992/4 page 20

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personal data
SURNAME Syed, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player, reporter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading (Berkshire)