Petrissa Solja

Petrissa Solja
Petrissa Solja (2016)
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	March 11, 1994
Place of birth:	Candelabra
Playing hand:	Left handed
Current world rankings :	19 (February 2020)
Best world ranking :	13 (March 2016)
Current continental ranking position:	2 (February 2020)
Current national ranking:	2
Best national ranking:	1 (March 1, 2019)
Clubs as active: ???? - ???? TTC Büchelberg ???? - 2007 BTTF Zweibrücken 2007–2012 TTSV Saarlouis-Fraulautern 2012-2014 Linz AG Froschberg 2014-2018 ttc berlin eastside since 2018 TSV Langstadt 1909

Petrissa Solja (born March 11, 1994 in Kandel ) is a German table tennis player . In doubles with Sabine Winter , she was German champion in 2013 and 2015 and European champion in 2013 , and in 2015 she also won the German championship in singles. At the European Championships in 2021 , Solja won the title in both singles and doubles with Shan Xiaona .

youth

Petrissa Solja started playing table tennis at TTC Büchelberg . She came to TTSV Fraulautern in 2007 through the BTTF Zweibrücken . Petrissa Solja already achieved national and international successes in her youth. From 2006 to 2009 she won the German School Championship in singles and - with the exception of 2006 - also in doubles. From 2008 to 2012 she was German youth champion in singles, and in 2012 in doubles with Theresa Kraft.

In 2008 she became European student champion in singles and with Nadine Sillus in doubles. She defended the individual title in 2009; In 2011 and 2012 she came second. In 2011 she won the doubles title with Romanian Bernadette Szőcs . At the World Youth Championships she came fifth in 2011 and third in 2012.

Adults

In 2009 Petrissa Solja was nominated for the European Championship . Here she came to her first international match on September 13th. In the game against the Netherlands, she was defeated by Elena Timina . In 2010 she was among the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time .

Solja played with the women's team of the TTSV Fraulautern club in the Bundesliga until 2012 and then moved to Austria to ASKÖ Linz Froschberg , with whom she won the Champions League in 2013. In 2014 she returned to the German Bundesliga and joined ttc berlin eastside .

In 2012 she was voted the best young German player and player of the year. In 2013 she won the German championship and the German Open in doubles with Sabine Winter . With her she also became European champion in the same year . In the final, Solja and Winter defeated the players Zhenqi Barthel / Shan Xiaona , another German duo, 4-2. She contributed to the German team's title win by winning a game in the semi-finals against the Czech Republic. At the German title fights in 2014, she and Sabine Winter lost to the duo Shan Xiaona / Kristin Silbereisen in the double final , and in 2015 she won both singles and, again with Sabine Winter, doubles.

At the 2014 European Championship , she won the title with the German team and won all of her five games. In the same year she took part in the World Cup for the first time and reached the round of 16. In doubles with Shan Xiaona, she also qualified for the first time for the Grand Finals , in which the two lost the decisive set in the first round and Solja reached the semi-finals in the U-21 competition. In February 2015 she was defeated by Liu Jia from Austria at the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-16 in the final . At the European Games in 2015 she won team gold, together with Han Ying and Shan Xiaona , a success that the team repeated at the European Championships in the same year. In her second World Cup participation, she was able to defeat the world number six, Feng Tianwei, and Ai Fukuhara , number 4, and finally won the bronze medal. Solja and Shan won the German and Austrian Open in doubles, but lost again in the first round at the Grand Finals at the end of the year .

In 2016, Solja reached the quarter-finals with the team at the World Cup and earned a 5-2 balance, with victories against Ai Fukuhara (number 4 in the world rankings), Kasumi Ishikawa (No. 5) and Yang Ha-eun (No. . 11). In March she reached a new record in the world rankings with 13th place. At the 2016 Olympics , she was eliminated in singles after her first game in the round of 32. With the team she won the silver medal after a 3-2 win against Japan in the semifinals and a 0-3 defeat in the final against the Chinese team. In the same year she became vice-European champion in doubles together with Shan Xiaona . In the individual, she was eliminated in the quarterfinals against the Portuguese Fu Yu . In the double competition of the Grand Finals , the first game was lost again. With her second place in the Europe Top 16 2017 , in which she had to give up injured against Li Jie in the final, as in the 2015 European Championship quarter-finals , Solja secured a starting place at the World Cup again . At the 2017 World Championships in Düsseldorf , she reached the semifinals with her Chinese partner Fang Bo , with which she won the bronze medal. There they were defeated by the later world champions Maharu Yoshimura / Kasumi Ishikawa from Japan. In the singles she was eliminated early against the Hungarian Szandra Pergel , in the doubles she reached the round of 16 with Sabine Winter . At the Czech Open in August, she was injured again, so that she could not take part in the European team and the World Cup. From autumn onwards she took a break of several months because she felt “physically and mentally exhausted”.

At the beginning of 2018 she competed in international tournaments again, but did not play for her club ttc berlin eastside again. In mixed doubles with Patrick Franziska , she reached the EM semi-finals in 2018 . For the 2018/19 season, she moved to Bundesliga promoted TSV Langstadt . At the Europe Top 16 Cup 2019 she defeated European champion Li Qian and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd seeded players Elizabeta Samara , Sofia Polcanova and Bernadette Szőcs and thus won the gold medal. Together with Patrick Franziska, she won bronze at the world championships a few months later . In the quarterfinals of the European Games, she lost to Fu Yu, but won gold with Patrick Franziska and with the team. At the European Team Championship , which took place in the same year , Germany was surprisingly eliminated in the quarter-finals against Portugal.

In November 2019, she climbed to 15th place in the ITTF world rankings , making her the best-placed European for the first time. In 2020 she won the Europe Top 16 for the second time .

Family and private

Petrissa Solja's mother Dagmar Solja-Andruszko (* 1955) played in the Bundesliga with ATSV Saarbrücken in the 1980s , father Pavel Solja has won the Palatinate Championship several times and sister Amelie (* 1990) is also a national player, playing for Austria since 2010. The other sister Susanne (* 1986) also achieved success in the school area and played in the 2nd Bundesliga from 2004 onwards.

Before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Solja had herself photographed for the German edition of Playboy with swimmer Isabelle Härle , rower Julia Lier , cyclist Nadja Pries and pole vaulter Katharina Bauer, who is not starting in Rio for reasons of injury .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	Europe Top 16	2020	Montreux	SUI	gold
GER	Europe Top 16	2019	Montreux	SUI	gold
GER	Europe Top 16	2018	Montreux	SUI	last 16
GER	Europe Top 16	2017	Montreux	SUI	silver
GER	Europe Top 16	2015	Baku	AZE	silver
GER	Europe Top 12	2014	Lausanne	SUI	4th Place
GER	European Championship	2019	Nantes	FRA				Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2018	Alicante	ESP	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Semifinals
GER	European Championship	2016	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	silver
GER	European Championship	2015	Ekaterinburg	RUS	Quarter finals	Quarter finals		gold
GER	European Championship	2014	Lisbon	POR				gold
GER	European Championship	2013	Schwechat	AUT	last 32	gold		gold
GER	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE		last 16
GER	European Championship	2009	Stuttgart	GER	last 128	last 64		5th place
GER	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2011	Kazan	RUS	silver	gold
GER	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	2009	Prague	CZE	gold	silver		gold
GER	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	2008	Terni	ITA	gold	gold
GER	European Games	2019	Minsk	BLR	Quarter finals		gold	gold
GER	European Games	2015	Baku	AZE	Quarter finals			gold
GER	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 32			silver
GER	ITTF World Tour	2020	Budapest	HUN	last 32		silver
GER	ITTF World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	last 16	Semifinals	Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2017	Incheon	COR	last 32	gold
GER	ITTF World Tour	2016	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2016	Berlin	GER	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2016	Budapest	HUN	last 64	Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2015	catfish	AUT	last 16	gold
GER	ITTF World Tour	2015	Bremen	GER	silver	gold
GER	ITTF World Tour	2015	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2014	Ekaterinburg	RUS	last 16	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour	2014	Olomouc	CZE	last 16	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour	2014	Incheon City	COR		Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2014	Magdeburg	GER	last 64	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2014	Doha	QAT	last 16	Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2014	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64	last 32
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Berlin	GER	last 64	Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Spala	POLE	last 32	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE	last 16	Semifinals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Las Vegas	United States	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Incheon City	COR	last 32	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Doha	QAT	last 32
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32
GER	ITTF World Tour	2013	catfish	AUT	last 64	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	last 32	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64	gold
GER	ITTF World Tour	2012	Olomouc	CZE	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Velenje	SLO	last 64	last 16
GER	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
GER	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 64	last 16
GER	ITTF Pro Tour	2009	Bremen	GER	last 64
GER	ITTF finals	2020	Zhengzhou	CHN	last 16
GER	ITTF World Tour Grand Finals	2016	Doha	QAT		Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour Grand Finals	2015	Lisbon	POR		Quarter finals
GER	ITTF World Tour Grand Finals	2014	Bangkok	THA		Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 64		Semifinals
GER	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				9-12 place
GER	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 64	last 16	Semifinals
GER	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 128	last 32	last 32
GER	World cup	2020	Weihai	CHN	17th - 21st place
GER	World cup	2019	Cheng you	CHN	Quarter finals
GER	World cup	2016	Philadelphia	United States	last 16
GER	World cup	2015	Sendai	JPN	bronze
GER	World cup	2014	Linz	AUT	last 16
GER	Youth World Championship	2012	Hyderabad	IND	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Semifinals
GER	Youth World Championship	2011	Manama	BRN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Youth World Championship	2010	Bratislava	SVK	last 16		Quarter finals
GER	Youth World Championship	2008	Madrid	ESP	last 32	Quarter finals		bronze
GER	World Junior Circuit	2011	Dinklage	GER	silver
GER	World Junior Circuit	2010	Seligenstadt	GER	gold
GER	WTC World Team Cup	2013	Guangzhou	CHN				Quarter finals

Course of the position in the world rankings

Web links

• Petrissa Solja at tischtennis.de (accessed on March 5, 2013)
• Player portrait Petrissa Solja at joola.de (accessed on March 5, 2013)
• Petrissa Solja in the Munzinger archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petrissa Solja for the first time single European champion in table tennis from sportschau.de
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2007/9 page 24
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/5 pages 25 + 35
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/4 page 31
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2011/8 page 20
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2009/10 page 33
7. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/4 page 50 + 2012/6 Regional Süd page 3
8. ↑ Winning the Champions League with Linz-Froschberg 2013 (accessed on March 26, 2013)
9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 page 23
10. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/2 page 7
11. ↑ Grand Finals in Bangkok: Peti Solja in the U21 semi-finals, but close out in the women's doubles with Shan Xiaona. tischtennis.de, December 11, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Europe Top 16: Petrissa Solja wins silver, Irene Ivancan wins bronze. tischtennis.de, February 8, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
13. ↑ German Open: Double double gold for Germany! mytischtennis.de, March 22, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
14. ^ Mizutani and Han winners of the table tennis Austrian Open. salzburg24.at, September 6, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Grand Finals: Ovtcharov and Han are in the quarterfinals. mytischtennis.de, December 11, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Table tennis women win silver. ZEIT ONLINE , August 17, 2016, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Grand Finals: Quarter-finals for doubles Shan / Solja / German singles on Friday. tischtennis.de, December 8, 2016, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Solja / Fang miss the final - gold for Ishikawa / Yoshimura. mytischtennis.de, July 5, 2017, accessed on November 10, 2019 . 
19. ↑ EM squad: Solja and Steger are not going to Luxembourg. mytischtennis.de, August 31, 2017, accessed on October 27, 2017 . 
20. ↑ "Physically and mentally exhausted": Solja takes a break. mytischtennis.de, November 2, 2017, accessed on November 10, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Dietmack Wenck: Solja's longing for normality. Morgenpost.de, February 25, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018 . 
22. ↑ JS: Transfer Coup : Petrissa Solja changes to Langstadt , article on mytischtennis.de (accessed on April 10, 2018)
23. ↑ Europe Top 16: First title for Petrissa Solja. tischtennis.de, February 3, 2019, accessed on February 5, 2019 . 
24. ^ WM bronze for Solja / Franziska - world champion too strong. mytischtennis.de, April 25, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Outstanding results for the DTTB at the European Games. mytischtennis.de, July 1, 2019, accessed on September 1, 2019 . 
26. ↑ EM: DTTB women eliminated in the quarterfinals! mytischtennis.de, September 6, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
27. ↑ World ranking: Solja best European, fan back on the throne! Article of November 4, 2019 (accessed November 5, 2019)
28. ↑ Europe Top 16: Gold twice! Boll and Solja cheer in Montreux. mytischtennis.de, February 9, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 . 
29. ↑ DTS magazine , 1984/2 regional section, page 15
30. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 regional Südwest pages 11–12
31. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 regional Südwest pages 11-12 + 2004/9 page 44
32. ↑ These German Olympic stars take off their clothes for "Playboy"
33. ↑ Petrissa Solja Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on March 22, 2015)