Tan Ruiwu

Tan Ruiwu
Other spellings:	谭 瑞 午
Nation:	Croatia
Date of birth:	June 30, 1983
Place of birth:	Shenyang
Playing hand:	left handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Best world ranking :	27 (late 1998, late 1999)

Tan Ruiwu ( Chinese譚 瑞 午 / 谭 瑞 午, Pinyin Tán Ruìwǔ ; born June 30, 1983 in Shenyang, Liaoning ) is a Croatian table tennis player of Chinese origin. He was European champion in doubles in 2013 and vice-European champion in doubles and with the Croatian team in 2007 .

Career

From an early age, Tan Ruiwu played excellent table tennis in his native China. In 2004 he came to Croatia, where he played at the table tennis club STK Večernji list from Zagreb . He later took on Croatian citizenship.

As a 15-year-old he took part in the World Youth Championships in Moscow , where he won the final against the eventual Olympic champion Ryu Seung Min . He was once a Chinese champion with his home club. In the juniors he won the Asian Championship.

For his new home country he won two silver medals at the 2007 European Championships in Belgrade, in doubles with Lucjan Błaszczyk from Poland and in the team competition with the Croatian team. 2012 Tan Ruiwu became vice European champion in singles; in the final he lost to Timo Boll . In 2013 he became European double champion with Poland's Wang Zeng Yi . In the final they defeated the Austrian defending champions Robert Gardos / Daniel Habesohn .

German Bundesliga

Tan Ruiwu played in the German Bundesliga for several years . In 1999 he was signed by SV Plüderhausen . In 2006 he moved from the Croatian club STK Večernji list Zagreb to Müller Würzburger Hofbräu , and in 2008 to TTC Frickenhausen . When he took on the Saudi Arabian club Al Ittihad Jeddah against the rules in 2010, for which Frickenhausen was almost punished with a point deduction, Frickenhausen resigned him without notice.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1997	Sanagi Goa	IND	silver
CRO	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	silver	last 32
HRV	European Championship	2007	Belgrade	SRB		silver		2
HRV	EURO TOP12	2009	Dusseldorf	GER	9th place
HRV	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	Quarter finals			7th
CRO	Pro tour	2013	Changchun	CHN	last 16	last 16
CRO	Pro tour	2013	catfish	AUT	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CRO	Pro tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64	silver
CRO	Pro tour	2012	Ekaterinburg	RUS	last 32	last 16
CRO	Pro tour	2012	Zagreb	CRO	gold
CRO	Pro tour	2012	Velenje	SLO	last 16
CRO	Pro tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 64
HRV	Pro tour	2011	Schwechat	AUT	last 32
HRV	Pro tour	2011	Kobe	JPN		last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2008	Yokohama	JPN	last 32			2
HRV	Pro tour	2008	Changchun	CHN	last 32
HRV	Pro tour	2007	Bremen	GER	last 32
HRV	Pro tour	2007	Toulouse	FRA	last 64	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2007	Nanjing	CHN	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2007	Salwa Cup	KUW	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
HRV	Pro tour	2007	Doha	QAT	last 32	Semifinals
HRV	Pro tour	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 64	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Warsaw	POLE	last 32	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Guangzhou	CHN	last 32	Quarter finals
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Kunshan	CHN	last 32	Quarter finals
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Kuwait City	KUW	last 64	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Doha	QAT	last 64
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Zagreb	HRV	last 32	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2006	Velenje	SVN	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2005	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2005	St. Petersburg	RUS	last 16	Quarter finals
HRV	Pro tour	2005	Yokohama	JPN	last 32
HRV	Pro tour	2005	Shenzhen	CHN	last 32	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2005	Harbin	CHN	last 32	last 16
HRV	Pro tour	2005	Zagreb	HRV	last 64
HRV	Pro tour	2005	Velenje	SLO	last 64
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Karlskrona	SWE	last 32	silver
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Lievin	FRA	last 32	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1999	Bremen	GER	Quarter finals	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	Quarter finals	Rd 1
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Belgrade	YUG	last 32	Semifinals
CHN	Pro tour	1998	Jinan City	CHN	last 32	last 16
CRO	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2012	Hangzhou	CHN	last 16
HRV	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				20th
HRV	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 64	last 16	no participants
HRV	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				17th
CHN	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 32	Quarter finals	Quarter finals

Web links

• Profile ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Tan Ruiwu biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed June 22, 2014)
• Tan Ruiwu in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed June 22, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB)
2. ↑ TT-Verband Württemberg-Hohenzollern issue 99 / 29-04 of July 7, 1999 - 1998/99 annual report, page 97 (accessed on January 17, 2016)
3. ↑ Change of club to Würzburg ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 15, 2014)
4. ↑ Change of club to Frickenhausen ( Memento from January 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 15, 2014)
5. ↑ René Adler: TTC Frickenhausen - Lifetime Achievement in Danger , table tennis magazine , 2010/2 page 32
6. ^ Tan Ruiwu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 22, 2014)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. The family name is the family name here, the first name is the first name.