Steffen Mengel
Steffen Mengel | |
Nation: | Germany |
Date of birth: | 2nd August 1988 |
Place of birth: | Wins |
Size: | 195 cm |
Weight: | 88 kg |
Playing hand: | right |
How to play: | Shakehand |
Current world rankings : | 133 (February 2020) |
Best world ranking : | 25 (January 2015) |
Current continental ranking position: | 62 (February 2020) |
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Steffen Mengel (* 2. August 1988 in Siegen ) is a German table tennis - national team . He played for Bundesliga club TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt until 2007 and again since 2014 , was German champion in singles in 2013 and doubles in 2015. Since the 2018/19 season he has been playing for the table tennis Bundesliga club Post SV Mühlhausen , with whom he reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League in the first season . They just failed at UTTC Yekaterinburg.
Career
Mengel, who grew up in Holzhausen (height 1.95 m, weight 88 kg) initially played table tennis on TV Holzhausen at home. Other clubs were VfB Burbach, DJK TuS 02 Siegen, TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt (until 2007) and TTV Gönnern , before he moved to the Hanau gymnastics community in 2010 . In 2012 he joined the TTC matec Frickenhausen , in 2014 he returned to TTC Bergneustadt, then switched to Post SV Mühlhausen 1951 in 2018 .
On March 2, 2010, he played his first international match: In Aalen he won two wins against Russia. This was followed by further appointments to the national team, for example in August 2012 against Serbia (one defeat) and in September 2012 against Spain (one win). On March 3, 2013 he became German champion. He defeated Timo Boll 4: 3 in the final after he had two match points. In the title fights in 2014 he and his partner Benedikt Duda lost to the duo Bastian Steger / Lars Hielscher in the double finals . In the world rankings of April 2014, Mengel made a jump from 102nd place to 49th place after advancing into the semi-finals of the German Open - among other things by beating Wang Hao . At the European Championships in Lisbon he won the silver medal with the German team. After various failures, Mengel played all games here.
Sporting successes
- European championship youth team (cadets) 2002 and 2003
- European Championship second boys team 2005
- European championship youth team (juniors) 2006
- Third boys' team at the World Cup in 2005 and 2007
- Winner of the national ranking tournament DTTB TOP-12 youth (11: 0 victories) 2006
- German youth champion in singles, second in doubles (with Konstantin Schröder) 2006
- 2nd place German Championship doubles 2009
- 3rd place German championship singles 2010
- National ranking tournament : Winner 2010, 2012
- German champion 2013 in individual
- 2nd place German Championship doubles 2014
- 2nd place team world championship 2014
- 2nd place European team championship 2014
- German champion 2015 in doubles
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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GER | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 2003 | Novi Sad | YUG | 1 | |||
GER | European Youth Championship (Cadets) | 2002 | Moscow | RUS | 1 | |||
GER | European Youth Championship (Juniors) | 2006 | Sarajevo | BIH | 1 | |||
GER | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2014 | Bangkok | THA | last 16 | |||
GER | Challenge Series | 2020 | Granada | ESP | Semifinals | |||
GER | Challenge Series | 2019 | Bangkok | THA | last 32 | gold | ||
GER | Challenge Series | 2019 | Guadalajara | ESP | Semifinals | |||
GER | Challenge Series | 2017 | Czestochowa | POLE | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
GER | Pro tour | 2015 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2014 | Magdeburg | GER | Semifinals | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2013 | Spala | POLE | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2013 | Olomouc | CZE | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GER | Pro tour | 2013 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2012 | Poznań | POLE | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2012 | Antwerp | BEL | Semifinals | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2012 | Shanghai | CHN | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2012 | Santiago de Chile | CHI | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
GER | Pro tour | 2011 | Stockholm | SWE | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2011 | Schwechat | AUT | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2010 | Budaörs | HUN | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2010 | New Delhi | IND | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GER | Pro tour | 2010 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 32 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2010 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2010 | Velenje | SVN | last 16 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2009 | Minsk | BLR | last 16 | last 16 | ||
GER | Pro tour | 2009 | Doha | QAT | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2009 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2009 | Frederikshavn | THE | last 64 | |||
GER | Pro tour | 2007 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
GER | Pro tour | 2007 | Belo Horizonte | BRA | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
GER | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 128 | last 64 | last 64 | |
GER | Youth World Championship | 2005 | Linz | AUT | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
GER | World Junior Circuit | 2006 | Cetniewo | POLE | silver | |||
GER | World Junior Circuit | 2006 | Platja d'Aro | ESP | Quarter finals | |||
GER | World Junior Circuit | 2006 | Örebro | SWE | Quarter finals | |||
GER | WTC World Team Cup | 2010 | Dubai | UAE | 3rd place |
literature
- Giant “Menczel” climbing higher and higher: Report in Westfälische Rundschau , Local Sport Siegen from January 8, 2011
- Rahul Nelson: Everything just for the cup , portrait in the magazine tischtennis , 2014/12 pages 8-14
Web links
- Website of the TG Hanau ( memento of September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 21, 2012)
- Portrait on tischtennis.de (accessed on October 21, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ World ranking
- ↑ Change of club from Bergneustadt to Gönnern ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 21, 2012)
- ↑ Change of club from patrons to Hanau ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 21, 2012)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 page 23
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/5 page 6
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/4 page 4
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/9 page 6
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/10 page 4
- ↑ a b Report on tischtennis.de ( memento of the original from March 5, 2013 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.
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/3 page 25
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/5 regional West page 3
- ↑ Steffen Mengel Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 23, 2014)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mengel, Steffen |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wins |