Mattias Falck

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Mattias Falck Table tennis player
Nation: SwedenSweden Sweden
Date of birth: September 7, 1991
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Current world rankings : 9 (April 2020) Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 7 (August 2019)
Current continental ranking position: 1
Clubs as active:
2016-2017 FranceFrance AS Pontoise-Cergy TT
2017-2018 SwedenSweden Halmstad BTK
2018-2019 FranceFrance AS Pontoise-Cergy TT
2019– GermanyGermany Werder Bremen

Mattias Falck (* 7. September 1991 as Mattias Karlsson ) is a Swedish table tennis - national team . He became in 2019 Vice World Champion in singles, won 2018 World Cup bronze with the team and in double with Kristian Karlsson at European Championships several silver and bronze medals.

Career

Mattias Karlsson achieved greater successes at the beginning of his career, especially in doubles, together with Robert Svensson he reached the quarter-finals at his first European championship in 2010 and the round of 32 at his first world championship the following year . He also won his first win that year on the Pro Tour when he won the Polish Open in doubles with Svensson.

From 2012 he competed with Kristian Karlsson , at whose side he won silver at the European Championships in 2012 and qualified for the Pro Tour Grand Finals. The duo also performed well at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships by reaching the round of 16. As a single player, Mattias Karlsson had not yet achieved any great success, but in September 2015 he was already 106th in the world rankings . This month he beat world number 14 at the Austrian Open. Jung Young-sik and was among the last 32 at the European Championships , so that he moved up to 74th place in the world rankings and thus for the first time into the top 100. At the Polish Open in October, he not only won gold in doubles with Kristian Karlsson - making him the first Swede with two Pro Tour double titles - but also beat the Chinese world number 13 among other things. Yan An , so that he made another big leap to 53rd place in the world rankings. In 2016, he was part of the Swedish team at the World Cup and the Olympic Games , which reached the quarter-finals and then lost to China and South Korea. In the 2016/17 season he played for the French first division club AS Pontoise-Cergy TT , with whom he reached the Champions League semi-finals .

At the 2016 Individual European Championships , he played in all three competitions. In the singles he was eliminated early on against the Olympian Vladimir Samsonov , in the doubles he won bronze with Kristian Karlsson, in the mixed he lost the final against Matilda Ekholm against the married couple João Monteiro / Daniela Dodean-Monteiro after a 2-0 lead still with 2: 3 and thus took silver. At the Swedish Open in November he defeated the top 20 players Kōki Niwa and Dimitrij Ovtcharov , so that he was finally able to win silver - his first individual medal on the World Tour. After the Qatar Open in February 2017, at which he beat Vladimir Samsonov, among others, he reached a new record in the world rankings with 24th place, becoming the best-placed Swedish player for the first time. At the 2017 World Cup , he was among the top 32, with the team he won bronze in 2018 , the first World Cup medal for Sweden since 2001 . In doubles with Kristian Karlsson, he was again vice European champion .

With his quarter-finals in the Europe Top 16 , he qualified for the first time for the World Cup in October, where he reached the main round and lost 3: 4 to Dimitrij Ovtcharov. At the Swedish Open he won against Lin Gaoyuan, third in the World Cup, and reached the semi-finals, in doubles he took silver. At the 2019 World Cup he surprisingly reached the final and won silver after a defeat against Ma Long , in June he came in the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time. For the 2019/20 season he moved to the Bundesliga for SV Werder Bremen , with whom he reached the play-offs, where the semi-finals were lost to 1. FC Saarbrücken .

Others

He is not related to his doubles partner Kristian Karlsson .

In contrast to most top players, he has been using a rubber with short pimples on the forehand of his table tennis bat since his youth , while on the backhand he has used a "normal, non-slip" backside rubber .

He married in mid-2018 and took Falck's name from his wife. He became a father in October 2019.

Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
SWE European Championship 2019 Nantes FRA Semifinals
SWE European Championship 2018 Alicante ESP last 64 silver Quarter finals
SWE European Championship 2017 Luxembourg LUX 5th place
SWE European Championship 2016 Budapest HUN last 32 Semifinals silver
SWE European Championship 2015 Ekaterinburg RUS last 32 Semifinals 5th place
SWE European Championship 2013 Schwechat AUT last 32
SWE European Championship 2012 Herning THE last 64 silver
SWE European Championship 2011 Gdańsk-Sopot POLE Quarter finals silver
SWE European Championship 2010 Ostrava CZE Quarter finals
SWE Europe Top 16 2020 Montreux SUI Quarter finals
SWE Europe Top 16 2019 Montreux SUI last 16
SWE Europe Top 16 2018 Montreux SUI Quarter finals
SWE Europe Top 16 2017 Antibes FRA 13-16 space
SWE Nth European & Nordic Championships 2010 Helsinki FIN gold gold gold
SWE Nth European & Nordic Championships 2008 Maribo THE gold gold
SWE Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA Quarter finals
SWE ITTF Challenge Series 2019 Muscat OMN silver
SWE ITTF World Tour 2019 Doha QAT Semifinals Quarter finals Agony
SWE ITTF World Tour 2018 Stockholm SWE Semifinals silver
SWE ITTF World Tour 2018 Olomouc CZE last 32 silver
SWE ITTF World Tour 2018 Budapest HUN last 32 Semifinals
SWE ITTF World Tour 2017 Doha QAT last 16 silver
SWE ITTF World Tour 2016 Stockholm SWE silver Quarter finals
SWE ITTF World Tour 2015 Warsaw POLE Quarter finals gold
SWE ITTF World Tour 2014 Yokohama JPN last 64 Semifinals
SWE ITTF World Tour 2013 Dubai UAE Semifinals
SWE ITTF World Tour 2013 catfish AUT Semifinals
SWE ITTF World Tour 2012 Olomouc CZE last 64 silver
SWE ITTF Pro Tour 2011 Władysławowo POLE last 64 gold
SWE ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2019 Zhengzhou CHN last 16
SWE ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2012 Hangzhou CHN Quarter finals
SWE World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN silver Quarter finals
SWE World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE Semifinals
SWE World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 32 last 16 Quarter finals
SWE World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS Quarter finals
SWE World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN last 128 last 16 last 32
SWE World Championship 2013 Paris FRA last 16 last 64
SWE World Championship 2011 Rotterdam NED last 128 last 32 last 64
SWE World cup 2019 Cheng you CHN last 16
SWE World cup 2018 Paris FRA last 16
SWE World Junior Circuit 2008 Vern sur Seiche FRA gold
SWE World Junior Circuit 2008 Valencia ESP gold
SWE World Junior Circuit 2008 Kecskemét HUN gold

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ittf.com - Winner in Australia and Korea, Jung Youngsik Departs in Round One ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 30, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ittf.com
  2. ↑ ittf.com - Swedes Capture Men's Doubles Crown, Host Nation's Hopes Dashed at Final Hurdle ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 30, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ittf.com
  3. ↑ ittf.com - Swede Causes Upset Beats Swedish Winner of Two Years Earlier ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed on August 30, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ittf.com
  4. ↑ ettu.org - TTCL Men 2016/17 - 16 clubs announced (accessed August 30, 2016)
  5. ^ Mattias Falck and Kristian Karlsson raise the roof, Swedish hopes alive. ittf.com, November 2, 2018, accessed January 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ma Long gets the triple! Gold for China duo in doubles. mytischtennis.de, April 28, 2019, accessed on April 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Falck is coming! Bremen finds a replacement for Steger. ttbl.de, January 17, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Franziska leads 1. FC Saarbrücken TT into the Liebherr TTBL final. ttbl.de, June 10, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ tabletennisdaily.co.uk - Thread: Ask Kristian Karlsson a question! (accessed on August 30, 2016)
  10. ↑ Thanks to Mattias Falck, Sweden is back in table tennis fever. tischtennis.de, October 22, 2019, accessed on April 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/8 page 6
  12. ↑ Work victory for Borussia. ttbl.de, October 22, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Mattias Falck Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on August 30, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Falck, Mattias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karlsson, Mattias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1991