Nina Mittelham

Nina Mittelham
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	November 23, 1996
Place of birth:	I want to
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	40 (February 2020)
Best world ranking :	38 (August 2019)
Current continental ranking position:	9 (February 2020)
Clubs as active: until 2006 DJK VfL Willich 2006-2009 SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen 2009-2010 TuS Uentrop 2010–2012 DJK Holzbüttgen 2012-2018 TuS Bad Driburg since 2018 ttc berlin eastside

Nina Mittelham (born November 23, 1996 in Willich ) is a German table tennis player . She has been playing in the 1st  table tennis Bundesliga at ttc berlin eastside since 2018 . In 2018 she became European champion in doubles.

Career

youth

Mittelham began playing table tennis at the club DJK VfL Willich , which she left in 2006 for SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen . For the 2009/2010 season she moved to TuS Uentrop and played there in the women's regional league. After a year, she switched to DJK Holzbüttgen in 2010 , where she served in the 2nd women's division until 2012. In the youth field, she celebrated various successes: In 2011 she became the German female student champion in singles, doubles (with Katja Brauner) and mixed (with Kilian Ort ) as well as second in the German championships for girls in singles and doubles the following year . In the same year she became European U15 champion in singles and doubles (with Trosman (Israel)) and achieved a 2nd place with the team at the European Championships. For the 2012/13 season she moved to TuS Bad Driburg . In the 2013/2014 season she became champion in the 2nd women's Bundesliga and rose to the 1st women's Bundesliga, in which she still plays in the upper pair cross. In 2013 she became European U18 champion in singles, doubles (with Theresia Kraft) and mixed (with Kilian Ort). In 2014 she lost the final of the European Championships against Chantal Mantz 4-1.

Adults

As of 2012, Mittelham also competed internationally in the adult division, in the world rankings she achieved a place in the top 200 for the first time in April 2013, and in December she made it into the top 100. At the Croatia Open 2015 she reached the semi-finals in the U-21 division and won her first medal on the World Tour . In the same year she took part for the first time in the World Cup, in which she reached the round of 64 in singles and the round of 16 in doubles. At the team World Cup the following year, she was part of the German team that was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Japan, but was only used in one group game. In 2017, she then played every game at the European team championships and finished second with Germany.

In 2018 she was signed by the Bundesliga club ttc berlin eastside for a period of three years. At the European Championships in 2018 she won the doubles title together with Kristin Lang , and in October she was among the top 50 for the first time in the world rankings. In 2019 she took part in the Europe Top 16 for the first time , where she reached the quarter-finals, and was both in Doubles with Franziska Schreiner as well as German champion in singles. In the team competition of the European Games , she defeated individual European champion Li Qian and thus contributed to winning the gold medal, but a few months later at the European team , Germany surprisingly dropped out in the quarter-finals.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team	U-21
GER	Europe Top 16	2019	Montreux	SUI	Quarter finals
GER	European Games	2019	Minsk	BLR				gold
GER	European Championship	2019	Nantes	FRA				Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2018	Alicante	ESP	last 16	gold
GER	European Championship	2017	Luxembourg	LUX				silver
GER	European Youth Championship (Junior)	2014	Riva del Garda	ITA	silver			silver
GER	European Youth Championship (Junior)	2013	Ostrava	TCH	gold	gold	gold	silver
GER	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	2011	Kazan	RUS	gold	gold		silver
GER	ITTF Challenge Series	2020	Granada	ESP	last 32	Semifinals
GER	ITTF Challenge Series	2017	Warsaw	POLE	Quarter finals				gold
GER	ITTF World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	Agony	Semifinals	Agony
GER	ITTF World Tour	2017	Olomouc	HUN	last 32				silver
GER	ITTF World Tour	2017	Budapest	HUN	Agony				Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2016	De Haan	BEL	Quarter finals				Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2015	Zagreb	CRO	last 16				Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Berlin	GER	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Zagreb	CRO	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Almeria	ESP	last 32
GER	ITTF World Tour	2012	Antwerp	BEL	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2012	Helsingborg	SWE	last 32
GER	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 64	last 32	last 32
GER	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				9-12 space
GER	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 128	last 32
GER	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 16
GER	Youth World Championship	2014	Shanghai	CHN	last 16	last 16	last 16
GER	Youth World Championship	2012	Hyderabad	IND		Quarter finals
GER	Youth World Championship	2011	Manama	BRN		Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2013	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	gold
GER	World Junior Circuit	2013	Władysławowo	POLE	Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2013	Metz	FRA	Semifinals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2012	Tata	HUN	Semifinals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2012	Metz	FRA	Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2012	Lignano	ITA	Quarter finals

Course of the position in the world rankings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mittelham. (No longer available online.) In: tischtennis.de. Archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . 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.  
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/4 regional West, page 4
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/4 regional West, page 4
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/4 page 6
5. ↑ Mittelham / Lang European champions in women's doubles! mytischtennis.de, September 23, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Europe Top 16: Mittelham puts Europe's number 1 in trouble. tischtennis.de, February 2, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Boll wins 13th title - Mittelham the Queen of Wetzlar. mytischtennis.de, March 3, 2019, accessed on March 5, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Strong Mittelham puts an end to Poland. tischtennis.de, June 28, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 . 
9. ↑ European Games: DTTB women and men get gold! mytischtennis.de, June 29, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 . 
10. ↑ EM: DTTB women eliminated in the quarterfinals! mytischtennis.de, September 6, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Nina Mittelham Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on January 9, 2015)
12. ↑ Results WTTC 2016

literature

• Rahul Nelson: Portrait - The Perfectionist, table tennis magazine , 2019/10 pages 10–16