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)

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
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

1. ↑ World ranking
2. ↑ Change of club from Bergneustadt to Gönnern ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 21, 2012)
3. ↑ Change of club from patrons to Hanau ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on October 21, 2012)
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/6 page 23
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/5 page 6
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2010/4 page 4
7. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/9 page 6
8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/10 page 4
9. ↑ ^{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. 
10. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/3 page 25
11. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/5 regional West page 3
12. ↑ Steffen Mengel Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 23, 2014)