Raphael Kandra

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Raphael Kandra Squash player
Raphael Kandra
Kandra at the European Championships 2017 (right)
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: October 29, 1990
Size: 182 cm
Weight: 81 kg
1st professional season: 2009
Playing hand: Left
Trainer: Tomi Niinimäki,
Thomas Prange
successes
Career record: 204: 119
Career title: 13
Career finals: 20th
Best placement: 13 (May 2019)
Current placement: 31
Last update of the infobox: April 1st, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Raphael Kandra (born October 29, 1990 in Fürth ) is a German squash player .

Career

Raphael Kandra started his professional career in 2009 and has so far won 13 titles on the PSA World Tour . He was also in seven other finals. He achieved his best placement in the world rankings with 13th place in May 2019. On the national level, Raphael Kandra made it into the final of the German championship for the first time in 2013, but failed there with 1: 3 to Simon Rösner . In 2018 he won the title for the first time after beating Valentin Rapp in the final . In the following year and also in 2020 he defended his title against Rapp. He is currently in the German national team and plays in the 1st Squash Bundesliga for Paderborner SC . With the German national team he took part in world championships in 2009 , 2011 , 2013 , 2017 and 2019 . In 2018 he was the first German to reach the semi-finals of the British Open . After several third places, Kandra became the first German squash player to become European champion in 2019 after beating Borja Golán in the final .

As a sports soldier, Raphael Kandra is a member of the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group with the rank of sergeant . He has been married to Sina Wall , who is also a squash player, since July 2017 .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elmar Neumann: Master without loss of sentence. In: westfalen-blatt.de. Westfalen-Blatt , February 10, 2018, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Frank beinke: Paderborn squash ace Raphael Kandra defends the DM title. In: nw.de. Neue Westfälische , February 11, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Frankbeinke: Paderborn squash aces get gold and silver. In: nw.de. Neue Westfälische , February 9, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 .
  4. Jump up ↑ Frank beinke: Paderborn becomes individual European champion in squash. In: nw.de. Neue Westfälische , September 8, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Elmar Neumann: Kandra makes the premiere. In: westfalen-blatt.de. Westfalen-Blatt , September 8, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kandra, Raphael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German squash player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth , Germany