Philipp Floritz

Philipp Floritz
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	December 14, 1991
Place of birth:	Peissenberg
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	394
Best world ranking :	198 (Nov. 2012, Feb., April 2013)

Philipp Floritz (born December 14, 1991 in Peißenberg ) is a German table tennis player . He took part in the 2009 European Championships .

Career

Philipp Floritz, son of a ski instructor and a table tennis trainer, began playing table tennis when he was nine years old. He also played football on the side, but gave it up at the age of 13 in favor of table tennis. His first clubs were TTC Birkland and TSV Schongau, before he joined the SBDJK Rosenheim. In 2007/08 he played with the men's team in the league , in 2008 he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga for TV 1879 Hilpoltstein, and won bronze with the boys' team at European level. In 2009 he became German youth champion in doubles, and he also achieved his first international success when he finished second in singles at the European Youth Championships in Prague (behind Frenchman Quentin Robinot ). He won silver in the team competition at the 2009 Youth World Cup in Colombia.

In the same year he was nominated for the individual competitions of the European Championship for Adults . Here he won the singles against Garegin Mkrtchyan (Armenia) and then lost to Tomas Pavelka from the Czech Republic. He played doubles with the Latvian Matīss Burģis . After a first round win against Gordan Grozdanov / Vladimir Petkov (Bulgaria) it lost to the French Christophe Legoût / Abdel-Kader Salifou .

In 2010 he moved to the 1st Bundesliga for SV Plüderhausen . On November 23, 2010 he was nominated for an international match for the first time. Against Belarus he scored the decisive point for the team win in doubles with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth . He played his second international game on January 4, 2011 against Sweden. Again he won the decisive double, this time alongside Patrick Franziska . With Patrick Franziska he also reached the double final at the national German championships in 2011. For the 2012/13 season he joined the TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell . Since the 2013/14 season he played in the upper league for TSV 1860 Ansbach, then for TuS Celle 92 and since 2018 for third division Hertha BSC .

Floritz made six international matches for Germany. Due to a lack of prospects, he started internationally for Bulgaria in 2015.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	2009	Prague	CZE	silver
GER	Pro tour	2013	Zagreb	CRO	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2013	Doha	QAT	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2012	Ekaterinburg	RUS	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2012	Olomouc	CZE	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2012	Santiago de Chile	CHI	last 32	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2012	Almeria	ESP	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2012	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 64
GER	Pro tour	2011	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16	last 16
GER	Pro tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE		last 16
GER	Pro tour	2010	New Delhi	IND	last 32	last 16
GER	Youth World Championship	2009	Cartagena de Indias	COL	last 16			2
GER	World Junior Circuit	2009	Platja d'Aro	ESP	Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2009	Cairo	EGY	Semifinals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2009	Tunis	TO DO	Quarter finals
GER	World Junior Circuit	2009	Tata	HUN	Semifinals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Date of birth and change from Rosenheim to Hilpoltstein ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on February 23, 2012)
3. ↑ Portrait on the website of SV Plüderhausen ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 23, 2012)
4. ↑ Report from the European Youth Championship 2009 (accessed on February 23, 2012)
5. ↑ bayern table tennis , official notices of the Bavarian Table Tennis Association , December 2009 (No. 52) page 5
6. ↑ Change from Hilpoltstein to Plüderhausen ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on February 23, 2012)
7. ↑ First international match ( memento of the original from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 23, 2012) 
8. ↑ Second international match ( memento of the original from February 25, 2011 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. (accessed on February 23, 2012) 
9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2011 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. (accessed on February 23, 2012) 
10. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/8 page 13
11. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/5 page 7
12. ↑ Portrait on the DTTB website ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2012 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. (accessed on February 23, 2012) 
13. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2015/8 page 40
14. ^ Philipp Floritz results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 24, 2014)

literature

• Sandra Peter: EM in Stuttgart: Premiere for Philipp Floritz - The course gave the good news (interview), table tennis magazine , 2009/10 regional south page 2
• Susanne Heuing: Goodbye Germany , table tennis magazine , 2015/8 page 40

Web links

• Report in Merkur-online on August 25, 2010 (accessed on February 23, 2012)
• Portrait on the DTTB website (accessed on February 23, 2012)
• Portrait on the website of SV Plüderhausen ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 6, 2016)