Mihai Bobocica

Mihai Bobocica
Nation:	Italy
Date of birth:	September 8, 1986
Place of birth:	Craiova
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	99
Best world ranking :	55 (January 2015)

Mihai Bobocica (born September 8, 1986 in Craiova , Romania ) is an Italian table tennis player who has performed internationally since 2002. He took part in several European championships , nine world championships and two Olympic Games .

Career

Mihai Bobocica was five times Italian champion in singles and seven times Italian team champion.

He made his first international appearances in 2002 at ITTF Pro Tour tournaments. From 2003 to 2015 he took part in nine world championships , but never came close to medal ranks.

In 2008 Mihai Bobocica qualified for the first time to participate in the individual competition of the Olympic Games . After victories over Afshin Noroozi (Iran) in the preliminary round and Fyodor Kusmin (Russia) in the main round, he was eliminated against Bojan Tokič (Slovenia). He also survived the first round of the 2012 Olympics by beating Andy Pereira (Cuba). Then he lost to the Austrian Werner Schlager .

Mihai Bobocica played for the Sterilgarda Castel Goffredo clubs, until 2005 at Post SV Hagen , which he then left for Milan and in the 2007/08 season in the German Bundesliga with TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen . From the 2015/16 season he was active in the Austrian Bundesliga for the SPG Wels club before moving to the TTBL at the TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau in 2018 . After the 2020 season he left the club and wants to play in Italy in the coming season.

In January 2015 he was ranked 55th in the ITTF world rankings .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	De Haan	BEL	Quarter finals
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	Olomouc	CZE	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	Almeria	ESP	Quarter finals	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	Doha	QAT		last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	Kuwait City	KUW		last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2014	Szombathely	HUN	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2013	Stockholm	SWE	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2013	Minsk	BLR	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2013	Doha	QAT	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2013	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2013	catfish	AUT	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2012	Velenje	SLO	Quarter finals
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Schwechat	AUT	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Almeria	ESP	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Władysławowo	POLE	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Dortmund	GER	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Sheffield	CLOSELY	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 64	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Budaörs	HUN	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Berlin	GER	last 64	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Velenje	SVN	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2009	Bremen	GER	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2009	Doha	QAT	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2009	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2008	Salzburg	AUT	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2008	Daejeon	COR	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2008	Velenje	SVN	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2007	Toulouse	FRA	last 64	last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2007	Shenzhen	CHN	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2007	Chiba	JPN	last 32
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2007	Salwa Cup	KUW	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2006	Belgrade	SRB	Semifinals
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2006	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2006	Doha	QAT	last 64
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2006	Velenje	SVN		last 16
ITA	ITTF Pro Tour	2002	Courmayeur	ITA	last 64
ITA	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY	last 64
ITA	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 64
ITA	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				17th
ITA	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 64
ITA	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				26th
ITA	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 128	last 64	last 64
ITA	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 128	last 32
ITA	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				24
ITA	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 128	last 64	last 64
ITA	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				16
ITA	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	CRO	Agony	last 64	last 64
ITA	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ Brief portrait ( Memento of the original from October 26, 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 October 26, 2016) 
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2005/8 page 34
4. ↑ DTTL magazine 07/08, page 39
5. ↑ Bundesliga team of the SPG Wels ( Memento of the original from October 26, 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 October 26, 2016) 
6. ↑ Bobocica: “Have to be ready when everyday life returns to normal” - TTBL. Retrieved April 19, 2020 . 
7. ↑ World Ranking List (accessed on October 26, 2016)
8. ↑ Mihai Bobocica results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 26, 2016)

Web links

• Mihai Bobocica biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (accessed October 26, 2016)
• Mihai Bobocica in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 26, 2016)