Otto Tennilä

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Otto Tennilä Table tennis player
Nation: FinlandFinland Finland
Date of birth: March 20, 1993
Place of birth: Helsinki
Playing hand: Left
How to play: Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings : 509 Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 464 (May 2018)

Otto Tennilä (born March 20, 1993 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish table tennis player . He is left-handed, attacking player and uses the shakehand racket pose , which is particularly common in Europe . He uses a Rakza 9 as rubbers on the forehand, while he plays with a Rakza X on the backhand.

Career

Tennilä appeared for the first time in 2010 at the European Youth Championship, where he failed in the individual round of 64 and came in 30th with the team.

In 2011 he took part in the same event, but could not achieve any significant placements. In 2012 he played for the first time in a world championship . So far (2020) he has participated in two European championships and three world championships .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
FIN European Championship 2019 Nantes FRA 23
FIN European Championship 2016 Budapest HUN Agony last 64
FIN World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE 53
FIN World Championship 2013 Paris FRA Agony last 32 last 64
FIN World Championship 2012 Dortmund GER 45
FIN European youth championship 2011 Kazan RUS last 64 28
FIN European youth championship 2010 Istanbul DOOR last 64 30th

YouTube career

In 2012 Otto Tennilä and Emil Rantatulkkila and Miikka O'Connor, who also played in the national team, founded the YouTube channel Pongfinity . On this channel they publish table tennis entertainment videos with various trickshots. The channel currently has 1.7 million subscribers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tennila Otto: video, ranking. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Finns are the YouTube stars of table tennis. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tennila Otto's Equipment | Racket & Rubbers. Retrieved on August 19, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Pongfinity - YouTube. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tennilä, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki