Safa Saidani
Safa Saidani 
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 Tunisia
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| Date of birth: | May 26, 1990 |
| Place of birth: | Bizerte |
| Playing hand: | Right |
| How to play: | Shakehand , attack |
| Current world rankings : | 360 |
| Best world ranking : | 215 (May 2019) |
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Safa Saidani ( Arabic صفاء السعيداني, DMG Ṣafāʾ as-Saʿīdānī ; * May 26, 1990 in Bizerte ) is a Tunisian table tennis player . She took from 2013 to 2017 at three world championships and at the Olympic Games in 2016 in part.
Career
Safa Saidani was represented at the 2013 , 2015 and 2017 World Championships , but never came close to medal ranks .
In February 2016 she achieved a good placement at the African Olympic qualification tournament in Khartoum (Sudan) (5 wins, 1 loss). This secured her participation in the individual competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Here she was eliminated in the first round against the Egyptian Dina Meshref .
Safa Saidani had already qualified for participation in the 2008 Olympic Games in 2007 , but the National Olympic Committee of Tunisia refused a nomination due to a lack of prospects of success.
Web links
- Safa Saidani in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed December 22, 2019)
- Rio 2016 Olympic Games # TABLE TENNIS - PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES WOMEN , page 35 (W_Bio_Rio2016.pdf) (accessed December 22, 2019)
- Results overview (accessed on December 22, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saidani Safa: ranking history (ITTF) (accessed December 22, 2019)
- ↑ table tennis news No. 326, July / August 2007, page 14 Online (accessed December 22, 2019)
- ↑ Marius Widmer: Qualified Swedish Woman has to Watch Table Tennis from Home (accessed December 22, 2019)
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| SURNAME | Saidani, Safa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Al-Saidani, Safa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bizerte |