Samuel Walker (table tennis player)

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Samuel Walker Table tennis player
Nickname: Sam Walker
Nation: EnglandEngland England
Size: 171 cm
Weight: 69 kg
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand
Current world rankings : 94 Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 80 (January 2018)

Samuel "Sam" Walker (born May 7, 1995 in Sutton in Ashfield ) is an English table tennis player . He won bronze with the team at the 2016 World Cup . He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand grip .

Career

Samuel Walker first achieved international fame when he won gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2014. This success made him the third best English table tennis player behind Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall . In the 2014/2015 season he was with the ASV Grünwettersbach champion of the 2nd Bundesliga and rose. At the Team World Cup in 2016 he beat Poland and France with the English team , before he won bronze with the team after a semi-final defeat against Japan (1-3). It was the first time since 1983 that an English table tennis team had this success at all. Also in 2016 he reached the quarterfinals with the team at the Olympic Games , where the team lost to China . In 2018 he won bronze with the team at the Commonwealth Games .

successes

Main successes:

  • Bronze at the 2016 World Cup with the team
  • Winner of the Commonwealth Games 2014 in individual, plus silver with the team
  • Bronze at the World Team Cup 2018
  • Bronze at the Commonwealth Games 2018 with the team
  • Cup winner in the 2014/2015 season

Singles:

  • Last 32 at the Swedish Open 2018
  • Quarter-finals at the Austrian Open 2016
  • Round of 16 at the Slovenia Open 2016
  • Korea Open (U-21) 2016 winner
  • Last 32 at the 2017 India Open

Double:

  • Winner of the Polish Open 2015

Mixed:

  • Last 32 at the 2010 European Schools Championships

Team:

  • Bronze at the European Youth Championships 2011
  • Bronze at the World Team Cup 2018

societies

  • - ????: England FC Chealsea TTEnglandEngland 
  • –2014: Germany TTC SeligenstadtGermanyGermany 
  • 2014–2018: Germany ASV GrünwettersbachGermanyGermany 
  • 2018-2019: Istres TTFranceFrance
  • since 2019: GV Hennebont TTFranceFrance

material

Mention of the material from Samuel Walker:

Wood forehand Backhand
Crest OFF Bluefire M1 Bluefire M1

Web links

  • Samuel Walker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed November 10, 2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel Walker - TTBL. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Walker, Samuel. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  3. ^ Samuel Walker - TTBL. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Profiles. Retrieved November 10, 2018 (Australian English).
  5. ↑ SofaScore.com LiveScore: Walker S. live score, schedule and results - table tennis - SofaScore. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/9 page 26
  7. ↑ Walker, Samuel. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/7 page 6
  9. ↑ Table tennis Bundesliga - TTBL. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Walker, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Sam (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Sutton in Ashfield