Patrick Franziska
Patrick Franziska 
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| Patrick Franziska (German Open 2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nation: |
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| Date of birth: | June 11, 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Bensheim | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Right handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How to play: | Shakehand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current world rankings : | 16 (April 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best world ranking : | 13 (November 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current continental ranking position: | 4 (February 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current national ranking: | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last update of the infobox: January 10, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Patrick Franziska (* 11. June 1992 in Bensheim ) is a German table tennis national player . In 2016 he became European champion in doubles, in 2019 he won bronze and gold in the mixed World Cup at the European Games .
Career
Patrick Franziska started his career at TSV 1875 Höchst . He then moved to SV Mörlenbach and then played at TTC 1947 Elz. The right-hander was the 2007 European schoolchildren champion with the team and came second in the 2009 world championship with the junior team. In 2010 he was European Junior Champion in singles. He is also a multiple German junior champion.
In 2008, Franziska took part in the German Adult Championship for the first time in Hamburg . He was originally only intended for the individual competition, in which he was eliminated in the preliminary round. Due to the rejection of other players, he was able to start in the men's doubles with Kay-Andrew Greil from Hamburg . In the quarter-finals they managed to beat number three, Nico Christ and Lennart Wehking, after defending two match points, a close 4: 3 success and thus made it into the semi-finals, in which the later champions Patrick Baum and Dimitrij Ovtcharov were a size too big . This made Patrick Franziska the youngest medalist at these championships.
At the European Championship 2010 Franziska moved to Bastian Steger as a substitute in the national team. With the team he won the European title and was in the second round in doubles with Patrick Baum. At the World Youth Championship in Bratislava in December 2010, he won bronze with the team and with Arne Hölter in doubles.
From 2009/10 to 2011/12 he played for the TG Hanau in the 1st Bundesliga . In 2011 he was awarded the title Young Player of the Year 2010 . In 2012 it was placed among the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time, and has been there permanently since October 2012.
For the 2012/13 season, Franziska moved to league competitor TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell after his old club withdrew . Together with Timo Boll , he won the German Open 2013 in doubles. In October 2013 he was again European champion with the team . He won all of his four games. In the individual, he was eliminated in the second round. In 2014 he was runner-up with the German team in Tokyo . He only lost the game against world number one Xu Xin in the final . For the 2014/15 season he moved to the record champions Borussia Düsseldorf , with whom he immediately became champions and cup winners. At the German Open 2015 he won the double competition with Timo Boll again.
At the 2015 World Cup , among other things, he made it to the quarter-finals by defeating the top 10 player Marcos Freitas , where he was defeated by the later runner-up, Fang Bo , and thus reached a new record position in the world rankings with 28th place. At the European Championship he won silver with the team. However, due to declining individual performance since the World Cup, he gradually fell back in the world rankings and was therefore only nominated as a substitute for the 2016 Olympic Games . With Borussia Düsseldorf he was again German champion and cup winner. He moved to 1. FC Saarbrücken for the 2016/17 Bundesliga season , and the contract has now been extended to 2021. From May 2016, Franziska formed a double with the Dane Jonathan Groth, who also plays in the Bundesliga . They won the gold medal at the European Championships in October. In addition, they won the Croatia and the Austrian Open on the World Tour and reached the semifinals of the Czech and Swedish Open, whereby they qualified for the Grand Finals with the minimum number of four tournaments. However, due to an injury to Francis, they were unable to participate. At the Korea Open 2017, in addition to silver in doubles, he won his first individual medal on the World Tour after losing to Timo Boll in the final. At the 2017 European Championships , he again won gold with the team. Also in 2017 he qualified in doubles with Jonathan Groth for the Grand Finals , but they were eliminated in the first round. At the team World Cup , in which he, Boll and Ovtcharov were only available to a limited extent due to injury problems, he won silver again with the German team.
Franziska won three bronze medals at the 2018 European Championship : in singles, where he lost just 3: 4 to Timo Boll in the semifinals, in doubles, where he was defending champion with Jonathan Groth at his side with the same result to eventual winners Daniel Habesohn / Robert Gardos from Austria failed, and with partner Petrissa Solja in mixed. In November 2018 he reached his best world ranking position to date with 13th place. He also qualified again for the Grand Finals , both in doubles - he and Jonathan Groth did not compete for financial reasons - and in singles, where he was eliminated in the first round against the eventual winner Tomokazu Harimoto . At the 2019 World Cup , he won bronze in a mixed with Petrissa Solja, but his doubles partner Timo Boll fell ill after reaching the quarter-finals, so that the chance for another medal could not be used. A month later they won the double competition of the China Open by beating the world champion duo Ma Long / Wang Chuqin in the final. With Saarbrücken Franziska was also able to beat defending champion Borussia Düsseldorf in the Bundesliga play-offs and thus reach the final, which was lost to Ochsenhausen. At the European Games , he won gold with Solja in mixed and with the team with which he also won the European Championship in September . In July he beat world number three fan Zhendong and runner-up world champion Mattias Falck at the Australian Open, among others, and made it to the semi-finals, in which he lost 3: 4 to world number one and later winner Xu Xin after winning match point .
In the 2019/20 season he was German champion with 1. FC Saarbrücken table tennis .
successes
singles
- World Championship : quarter-finals 2015
- European Championship : Bronze 2018
- Korean Open: Second 2017
- Youth World Championship: 3rd place 2010
- European Youth Championship: Winner 2010
- European Schoolchildren: Winner 2007
Double
- European Championship : Gold 2016 , Bronze 2018
- German Open: Winner 2013, 2015
- Croatia Open: Winner 2016
- Austrian Open: Winner 2016
- China Open: Winner 2019
- Youth World Championship: Bronze 2010
Mixed
- World Championship : Bronze 2019
- European Championship : Bronze 2018
- European Games : Gold 2019
team
- World Championship : Silver 2014 , 2018
- European Championship : Gold 2010 , 2013 , 2017 , 2019 , Silver 2015
- European Games : Gold 2019
- German championship: Winner 2015, 2016, 2020
- German Cup: Winner 2015, 2016
- Youth World Championship: Silver 2009
- European Youth Championship: Winner 2010
- European Schoolchildren's Championship: Silver 2007
Awards
- Hesse athlete election - Newcomer of the year 2010, 2013
- Saar Sportsman of the Year 2018
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| GER | World Championship | 2018 | Halmstad | SWE | 2 | |||
| GER | World Championship | 2017 | Dusseldorf | GER | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| GER | World Championship | 2016 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | 13 | |||
| GER | World Championship | 2015 | Suzhou | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | World Championship | 2014 | Tokyo | JPN | 2 | |||
| GER | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 64 | last 64 | last 32 | |
| GER | European Games | 2019 | Minsk | BLR | gold | 1 | ||
| GER | European Championship | 2019 | Nantes | FRA | 1 | |||
| GER | European Championship | 2018 | Alicante | ESP | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | |
| GER | European Championship | 2017 | Luxembourg | LUX | 1 | |||
| GER | European Championship | 2016 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | gold | ||
| GER | European Championship | 2015 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | last 16 | 2 | ||
| GER | European Championship | 2014 | Lisbon | POR | 2 | |||
| GER | European Championship | 2013 | Schwechat | AUT | last 32 | 1 | ||
| GER | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | last 16 | |||
| GER | European Championship | 2010 | Ostrava | CZE | 1 | |||
| GER | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 2007 | Bratislava | SVK | silver | 1 | ||
| GER | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 2010 | Istanbul | DOOR | gold | |||
| GER | ITTF Challenge Series | 2017 | De Haan | BEL | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Budapest | HUN | last 32 | gold | silver | |
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Linz | AUT | last 32 | Semifinals | last 16 | |
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Geelong | OUT | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Shenzhen | CHN | Agony | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | silver | last 16 | |
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Olomouc | CZE | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Hong Kong | HKG | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Bremen | GER | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Olomouc | CZE | Agony | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Incheon | COR | silver | silver | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Linz | AUT | last 64 | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Olomouc | CZE | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2016 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2015 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Berlin | GER | last 64 | gold | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Spala | POLE | last 32 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Olomouc | CZE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Changchun | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2013 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Poses | POLE | last 32 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Bremen | GER | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Ekaterinburg | RUS | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Shanghai | CHN | last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Santiago de Chile | CHI | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour | 2012 | Velenje | SLO | last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF Pro Tour | 2011 | Rio de Janeiro | BRA | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| GER | ITTF Pro Tour | 2011 | Almeria | ESP | last 64 | |||
| GER | ITTF Pro Tour | 2011 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
| GER | ITTF Pro Tour | 2010 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF Pro Tour | 2010 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2019 | Zhengzhou | CHN | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| GER | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2018 | Incheon | COR | last 16 | |||
| GER | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2017 | Astana | KAZ | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | WTC World Team Cup | 2019 | Tokyo | JPN | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | WTC World Team Cup | 2018 | London | CLOSELY | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | WTC World Team Cup | 2013 | Guangzhou | CHN | 5th place | |||
| GER | Youth World Championship | 2010 | Bratislava | SVK | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| GER | Youth World Championship | 2009 | Cartagena de Indias | COL | last 16 | 2 | ||
| GER | Youth World Championship | 2008 | Madrid | ESP | last 16 | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2010 | Platja d'Aro | ESP | silver | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Władysławowo | POLE | gold | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Bratislava | SVK | Quarter finals | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Cairo | EGY | silver | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Tunis | TO DO | gold | |||
| GER | World Junior Circuit | 2009 | Tata | HUN | Quarter finals |
literature
- Susanne Heuing: Portrait. The sensitive head , tischtennis magazine , 2020/1 pages 16–21
Web links
- Patrick Franziska's homepage (accessed June 23, 2014)
- Patrick Franziska's biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed June 23, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tischtennis magazine , 2011/1, pages 24-25
- ^ Table tennis magazine, 2011/4 page 7
- ↑ Exchange list of the Hessian table tennis association
- ↑ Shaken, but not fallen: China becomes world champion again Tischtennis.de, May 5, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2014
- ↑ TTBL: Patrick Franziska signs in Düsseldorf , accessed on May 12, 2014
- ↑ Saarbrücken commits Patrick Franziska ttbl.de, December 18, 2015, accessed on December 19, 2015
- ↑ TTBL: Patrick Franziska changes to Saar tt-news.de, accessed on December 19, 2015
- ^ Tischtennis.de: Franziska extended in Saarbrücken. January 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Patrick Franziska also wins gold at the European Table Tennis Championships 2016 in the men's doubles with the Dane Jonathan Groth
- ↑ tischtennis.de: Grand Finals: Ovtcharov, Han, Shan and Solja in action at the 500,000 dollar showdown in Doha. December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ DTTB team in the semi-finals! Out for Japan! Sweden in a frenzy. mytischtennis.de, May 4, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Grand Finals: Boll and Franziska in Incheon the challengers. mytischtennis.de, December 10, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Gold: Boll and Franziska dismantle the world champion duo! mytischtennis.de, June 1, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Australian Open: Franziska only just fails to Xu Xin. mytischtennis.de, July 14, 2019, accessed on July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ 1. FC Saarbrücken TT is German champions for the first time. ttbl.de, June 14, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Patrick Franziska Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 23, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Franziska, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensheim |