Ovidiu Ionescu
Ovidiu Ionescu | |
Nation: | Romania |
Date of birth: | June 28, 1989 |
Place of birth: | Buzau |
Playing hand: | Right handed |
How to play: | Shakehand |
Current world rankings : | 46 |
Best world ranking : | 46 (Oct. 2018) |
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Ovidiu-George Ionescu (born June 28, 1989 in Buzău ) is a Romanian table tennis player . In 2018 he was vice European champion in singles, in 2019 vice world champion in doubles with Álvaro Robles . He plays in the table tennis Bundesliga at Post SV Mühlhausen .
Career
The top spin player Ionescu was drawn to Germany early on because of the training conditions and the opportunity for further athletic development. Before that, he collected laurels as a pupil and youth at his hometown club CSM Buzău and already internationally for his country, for example at a European pupil championship.
In 2005 he joined the regional league club TSG 1845 Heilbronn . A year later he moved to Ochsenhausen in the association and later the upper league . Since 2008 he played in the second Bundesliga, in the 2008/09 season at TSV Graefelfing , then until 2012 at TTC Weinheim .
With the second division Union Velbert he reached the quarter-finals of the DTTB table tennis cup in 2012. Here he defeated Torben Wosik ( SV Plüderhausen ) and in the semifinals Patrick Franziska from TTC Maberzell . In 2013 he moved to Bundesliga promoted TTC Hagen , for whom he achieved a record of 10:11 in 2014/15, and in 2015 to Post SV Mühlhausen , where he has since extended to 2020. In the course of the next season he continued to improve, so that he improved his record to 16:11 and in March 2016, after the World Cup, made it into the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time . This also made him the top-ranked Romanian player for the first time before Adrian Crişan . He qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and reached a place among the last 32. At the European Championship 2018 he defeated, placed 25th, among others the reigning champion Emmanuel Lebesson and in the end surprisingly finished second. From 2018 he formed a double with the Spaniard Álvaro Robles ; together they won silver at the China Open after eliminating the Ma Long / Xu Xin doubles, among other things , and at the 2019 World Cup after losing to Ma Long / Wang Chuqin in the final . With Mühlhausen, Ionescu also played in the Champions League in 2018/19 , where the quarter-finals were reached and only just lost to KNT UGMK .
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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ROU | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | last 64 | |||
ROU | Olympic games | 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | |||
ROU | Pro tour | 2013 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | last 16 | ||
ROU | Pro tour | 2013 | Olomouc | CZE | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
ROU | Pro tour | 2013 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | last 16 | ||
ROU | Pro tour | 2012 | Bremen | GER | Semifinals | |||
ROU | Pro tour | 2012 | Budapest | HUN | last 64 | |||
ROU | Pro tour | 2011 | Sheffield | CLOSELY | last 64 | |||
ROU | Pro tour | 2010 | New Delhi | IND | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
ROU | Pro tour | 2010 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
ROU | Pro tour | 2010 | Velenje | SVN | last 64 | |||
ROU | Pro tour | 2009 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
ROU | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | last 128 | silver | last 16 | |
ROU | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | 15th | |||
ROU | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | last 32 | last 64 | last 32 | |
ROU | World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 17th | |||
ROU | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | last 128 | last 64 | last 32 | |
ROU | World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo | JPN | 21st | |||
ROU | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 128 | last 64 | last 32 | |
ROU | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 26th | |||
ROU | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | last 128 | last 64 | last 32 | |
ROU | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 22nd | |||
ROU | World Championship | 2008 | Guangzhou | CHN | 8th |
Web links
- Ovidiu Ionescu on cms.donic.de ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Interview with Ionescu on ziaruldesport.ro (Romanian)
- Ovidiu Ionescu Article about Ovidiu Ionescu on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed on January 6, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change to Heilbronn ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 6, 2013).
- ↑ Match report ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 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. of the VfR Birkmannsweiler from October 1st, 2007.
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/8 page 44.
- ↑ Change to Graefelfing ( memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 6, 2013).
- ↑ Change to Weinheim ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 6, 2013).
- ↑ Match reports on WZ newsline from December 30, 2012.
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/8 page 12.
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/8 page 39.
- ↑ thueringer-allgemeine.de: Mühlhausen table tennis first division defeated Bergneustadt 3-0. January 15, 2018, accessed January 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Fan Zhendong and Lin Gaoyuan restore national pride, dream ends for European duo. ittf.com, June 3, 2018, accessed April 27, 2019 .
- ^ Ovidiu Ionescu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 26, 2014).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ionescu, Ovidiu |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ionescu, Ovidiu-George (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buzau , Romania |