Timo Boll

Timo Boll
Timo Boll at EURO-TOP 16 (2017)
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	8th March 1981 (age 40)
Place of birth:	Erbach
Size:	181 cm
Weight:	78 kg
1st professional season:	1997/98
Playing hand:	Left
How to play:	Shakehand (attack)
Trainer:	Jörg Roßkopf
Current world rankings :	10 (March 2020)
Best world ranking :	1 (Jan. – May 2003, Aug. + Sept. 2003, Jan. – March 2011, March 2018)
Current continental ranking position:	2 (January 2021)
Current national ranking:	1
Best national ranking:	1
Clubs as active: 1986-1994 TSV 1875 Höchst 1994-1995 FTG Frankfurt 1995-2006 TTV patrons 2006– Borussia Düsseldorf

Timo Boll (born March 8, 1981 in Erbach ) is a German table tennis professional and the most successful German table tennis player to date (2021). In 2003, 2011 and 2018, Boll was temporarily No. 1 in the ITTF world rankings . Since 2006 he has been playing for the German record champions Borussia Düsseldorf in the table tennis Bundesliga . He is considered one of the smartest tacticians in this sport and is also known for his fair play in all situations. In China , the country of table tennis world champions, he is one of the most popular Germans at all. He is left handed and uses theShakehand stick position.

successes

Timo Boll has won numerous international championship titles in his career to date. In 2003, he was for the first time world ranking first and took from there over fifteen years ranked among the top 15; In March 2018, he moved up to the top for the fourth time, making him the oldest world number one to date. His most significant successes were third place at the 2011 World Cup and winning the World Cup twice , where he also won four silver and two bronze medals. He won the European Championship eight times and the European ranking tournament seven times. In doubles he became vice world champion and five-time European champion. With the German national team , Boll won Olympic silver in Beijing in 2008 , bronze in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016 , seven times the European title and five times World Cup silver. He has also won the Champions League seven times with TTV Gönnern (two titles) and Borussia Düsseldorf (five titles). In 2014 he won the Chinese Team Championship with his team Shandong Luneng, but did not play in the final against Jiangsu Super Cable with Dimitrij Ovtcharov .

Athletic career

Childhood and adolescence

Timo Boll came to table tennis at the age of four and was trained by his father at the time. In 1986 he became a member of TSV 1875 Höchst and learned the basic practice of table tennis there. At the age of eight he was discovered by the Hessian national coach Helmut Hampl, who then promoted him. In 1990 he began to train at the Pfungstadt training center, four years later he moved to FTG Frankfurt , with whom he took part in the league, which made other clubs aware of him. So did the TTV Gönnern , who signed him up in 1995. In order to train daily with 14-year-old Timo Boll, the entire table tennis team was contractually obliged by patrons to move to Höchst , 170 km away . Timo Boll was placed fifth in the team, lost only one game in the entire season and thus contributed his part to the team's promotion to the first Bundesliga . Together with Frank Klitzsch, he is the youngest player in Bundesliga history. Contrary to expectations, patrons achieved relegation and did not relegate until the 2008/09 season .

Timo Boll celebrated his first international successes in 1995 at the European Schools Championships in The Hague , where he won gold three times. After finishing second in 1996 at his first European Championship in the youth class, he won the title in singles and other medals in doubles and with the team in the following two years. On September 9, 1997, he played his first international match with the adults. In the European league game against Poland in Warsaw he won singles against Lucjan Błaszczyk and Piotr Skierski and doubles with Steffen Fetzner against Błaszczyk and Tomasz Krzeszewski .

He finished school with secondary school leaving certificate .

At the top of the world (2002-2003)

In 2002 Timo Boll made it into the top of the world with his victory - as the first German - at the Europe TOP 12 tournament against Wladimir Samsonow and at the same time became the tenth best German in the ITTF world rankings by overtaking Jörg Roßkopf . At the European Championships in Zagreb in 2002 , he won the gold medal in singles and doubles with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth , the team was only barely defeated by the Swedish team in the final. By winning the 2002 World Cup in Jinan , during which he clearly beat world champion Wang Liqin and Olympic champion Kong Linghui , he laid the foundation for the first position in the world rankings, from which he ousted Ma Lin in January 2003. At the EM in 2003, Vladimir Samsonow was too strong for Timo Boll. After his elimination in the individual World Cup in the second round, he lost the first place in the world rankings again.

Injury and comeback (2004-2006)

The first half of 2004 was marked by back problems for Boll. This also hindered the preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games , in which he was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Jan-Ove Waldner . After a weaker period, Timo Boll was able to book international tournament victories again at the end of the year as well as the semi-finals at the Pro-Tour finals in Beijing, in which he was only slightly behind Ma Lin.

In 2005 Boll won the silver medal at the world championship in doubles together with Christian Süß . After correcting a wrong referee decision in favor of his opponent in the individual round of 16, in which he was eliminated, he received the fair play prize from the ITTF . Boll managed the rest of the year successfully. The highlight was winning the Champions League with patrons and the World Cup victory in Liège , in which he was able to defeat all three of the top Chinese players.

In 2006 he won the Europe TOP 12 tournament for the third time and defended the Champions League title with patrons.

In 2005 and 2006, Boll played in the Chinese Super League for the clubs Guangdong Baomashi (balance: 3: 2) and Zhejiang Haining Hongxiang (balance: 8: 5).

Moved to Borussia Düsseldorf

In December 2006, Timo Boll signed a three-year contract with Borussia Düsseldorf, the German record champions. The change was foreseeable due to the financial situation of Gönnern and the lack of top players and successes. Foreign clubs such as the Royal Villette Charleroi had tried to win him over, but Boll decided on Düsseldorf because of the good training conditions with a view to the 2008 Olympic Games and because of the possibility of being able to train there with his doubles partner Christian Suess. His three-year contract with Borussia Düsseldorf began on July 1, 2007, where he is contractually not used in every Bundesliga match in order to be able to concentrate more on international tournaments. The contract has now been extended to 2022.

Other great successes (2007-2011)

Timo Boll during the investiture for the 2012 Olympic Games in London

In 2007 he won the European title in singles, doubles and team competitions. As a guest player he was also active again in the Chinese Super League.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he reached the final of the team competition with the German national team after victories over Croatia, Canada, Singapore and Japan, which were lost 3-0 to hosts China. In the same year, he was the first player to succeed in defending his three titles from the previous year at a European Championship .

Timo Boll was unable to take part in the 2008 and 2009 World Championships in China and Japan due to back problems. At the 2008 World Cup in Liège, he won the silver medal after beating Ma Long in the semi-finals and defeating Wang Hao in the final .

Since the beginning of 2011, Timo Boll was back in first place in the world rankings after beating Ma Lin at the Volkswagen Cup. In April 2011, he was replaced by Wang Hao .

At the 2011 World Cup , Boll won his first individual medal. He had deliberately refrained from participating in the doubles competitions in order to concentrate exclusively on the singles. After victories over Kenji Matsudaira (Japan), Yang Zi (Singapore), Robert Svensson (Sweden), Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Germany) and Chen Qi (China), he reached the semi-finals, which gave him bronze. Here the future world champion Zhang Jike (China) showed himself to be superior and won with 4: 1. At the World Team Championships in Moscow in 2010 and in Dortmund in 2012 , Boll reached the final with the German team, but lost to the Chinese there. At the European Table Tennis Championships in 2009 , 2010 and 2011 he won another seven titles.

Decreasing activity (2011-2014)

At the same time, the number of Bolls tournament participation decreased. While he played an average of six World Tour tournaments per year between 2008 and 2010, in the six years that followed it was only two on average.

At the 2012 Olympic Games , he won the semi-finals of the team competition against the Chinese Olympic and world champion Zhang Jike and thus scored the only point for the German team against the Chinese team. In the final bronze match against Hong Kong, Boll helped the German team to win an Olympic medal again after Beijing in 2008 with two wins in singles. In the individual competition, Boll surprisingly did not get beyond the round of 16, in which he lost to the Romanian Adrian Crișan with 1: 4. At the World Cup in Liverpool he reached the final for the fourth time, but had to admit defeat to Ma Long 4-0. Also in 2012 he won his sixth individual title at European Championships . He defeated his London conqueror Adrian Crișan in the semifinals and Tan Ruiwu from Croatia in the final 4-1.

In 2013, Boll reached the quarter-finals at the World Cup , where he was defeated 2: 4 by Ma Long, who was second in the world rankings. After the first sentence was clearly lost, the other sentences ended closely. At the 2014 World Cup he lost the semifinals 3: 4 to Zhang Jike, but won the bronze medal against Jun Mizutani. At the Team World Cup in Tokyo , he won silver again with the German team. This year, however, he only played one World Tour tournament and fell back to 10th place in the world rankings for the first time in almost ten years.

Injury concerns (2015-2017)

In 2015 he became German champion for the tenth time, overtaking Eberhard Schöler and Conny Freundorfer , who had held the record with nine title wins. At the World Championships in Suzhou , when mixed-national doubles were allowed for the first time, Boll played with the Chinese world number one Ma Long . Due to an unfavorable position in the seeding list, they met the later world champion duo Xu Xin / Zhang Jike from China in the second round , against whom they lost 2: 4 after a 2-0 set lead. In the individual he reached the quarterfinals, in which he was eliminated against the Chinese Fan Zhendong . At the European level, however, he was absent from all three major tournaments in 2015: as a result of food poisoning at the European Games , because of a knee operation at the European Championships and at the beginning of the year at the Europe Top-16, which meant that no qualification for the World Cup was possible. Also due to declining international activity, it fell out of the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time since August 2004 in April 2016 (apart from the months in which it was not even included in the list).

Boll was chosen as the flag bearer of the German team for the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . While he failed prematurely in the individual on the Nigerian Quadri Aruna , he won the bronze medal with the team. In the game for third place against South Korea, he contributed to this with victories in singles and with Bastian Steger in doubles, although he had to be treated in between for a popped neck vertebra. At the European Championships in 2016 he was the only German player to reach the second round and made it to the semi-finals, where he had to give up due to an injury when the score was 1: 2 against Simon Gauzy because his neck was again causing him problems. Also against Gauzy, he was defeated in the quarter-finals of the Europe Top 16 quarter-finals in 2017 and ended up in fifth place.

Another comeback (since 2017)

In 2017 he won the eleventh German championship in singles; he is the oldest German champion to date. After remaining uninjured for a long time, he was able to improve his performance again internationally. With the Korea Open 2017, he won a World Tour tournament in singles for the first time since 2010. In the world rankings, he returned to the top 10, and at the World Cup he was the only European to reach the quarter-finals, which he lost 2: 4 to his doubles partner Ma Long, with whom he had previously defeated the Chinese duo Xu Xin / Fan Zhendong was hit and eliminated. At the China Open , Timo Boll reached the final after four wins, including against Jiang Tianyi and Tomokazu Harimoto, which he lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov after match points in the decisive set. At the European Team Championship , the German team with Boll won the title as the top player, after Austria and Portugal were most recently successful. With wins against Kou Lei , Bojan Tokič , Darko Jorgić and Marcos Freitas , he won his 17th European Championship title. At the World Cup he defeated Lin Gaoyuan and the reigning world and Olympic champion Ma Long 4: 3 - both after 1: 3 deficit and against Lin after defending numerous match points - but lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the final. In November it was back in fourth place in the world rankings, higher than it has been since the beginning of 2012. At the German Open he beat the top 10 players Simon Gauzy and Lin Gaoyuan, but lost a final against Dimitrij Ovtcharov for the third time this year. At the Grand Finals he reached the semi-finals, which were lost 2: 4 to Fan Zhendong.

His participation in the Asia-Pacific tournament series T2 APAC made Boll extremely successful with the title in individual and team competition. While he dominated the two finals with the team formed by coach Michael Maze , he defeated Dimitrij Ovtcharov 3-1 in the singles final. He had previously defeated Chuang Chih-Yuan 3-2 in the semifinals . The star-studded tournament is not played on winning sets, but on time. A game ends after 24 minutes, every set won counts.

With Borussia Düsseldorf he won his eleventh cup in 2018, making him the sole record holder (ahead of Jörg Roßkopf ). In February, Boll triumphed at the European Top 16 tournament in Switzerland, where he defeated last year's winner Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4-0 in the final. He won the annual European ranking tournament for the sixth time and moved up to first place in the world rankings in March as the oldest player to date. At the team World Cup , in which he, Ovtcharov and Franziska were only available to a limited extent due to injury problems, he won silver again with the German team. In May, the 37-year-old collected more titles with Borussia Düsseldorf . After winning the cup in the spring, Düsseldorf's number one ensured the Champions League success against Fakel Orenburg around Dimitrij Ovtcharov . A week later, Boll's team defeated TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen 3-1 and secured the triple. Boll remained undefeated in all six matches.

After a persistent cervical spine injury, Boll took part in the European Championships in Alicante with little training deficit. At first he seemed a bit handicapped, but increased after mixed performances against Lionel Weber (4: 1) and Can Akkuzu (4: 3). From the round of 16 onwards, Boll improved steadily and beat Liam Pitchford , Daniel Habesohn and his national team colleague Patrick Franziska , who was in good shape. After a hard-fought semi-final victory against Franziska, in which he made up a 3-1 set deficit, Boll defeated the Romanian Ovidiu Ionescu 4-1 in the final . This victory earned him his seventh title at an individual European championship. In October he won silver at the World Cup for the fourth time . In 2019 he was unable to win a title with Borussia Düsseldorf for the first time since 2006: In the Champions League and the TTBL play-offs , they were eliminated in the semi-finals, in the cup in the quarter-finals. At the World Cup he reached the eighth finals in singles and in doubles in the quarterfinals and, thanks to favorable draws, had a medal chance in both competitions, but then had to withdraw from the tournament due to illness.

In June 2019, with the gold medal at the European Games in Minsk , Boll won a direct starting place for the 2020 Olympic Games. He also won gold with the team, just like at the European Team a few months later. He won the Europe Top 16 for the seventh time in 2020 , drawing level with record holder Jan-Ove Waldner .

Technique and style of play

Timo Boll is left-handed and plays with the European shakehand stick position. He uses his aggressive-offensive topspin game both close to the table and from half distance. He is considered the player with the best and most variable spin.

He uses a Timo Boll ALC wood that was designed for him and that bears his name . Coverings: On the forehand Tenergy 05 on the backhand Dignics . Boll's excellent visual performance helps him to stay in control at the table: He uses the branding on the ball as a guide. "This is how I can tell what spin the ball is," says Boll.

Personal

Boll has been married since December 31, 2003. The couple have a daughter together. The family lives in Höchst in the Odenwald .

social commitment

Commitment to organ donation

Timo Boll has been available for charity events and exhibition fights for years to help people in need.

The core of his social activities, however, is his involvement in the associations “Athletes for Organ Donation” and “Children's Aid for Organ Transplantation”, where he campaigns for organ donation .

Timo Boll is also the patron of the Acción Humana Foundation from Hamburg. The foundation runs the Ahle Children's Village in San Francisco de Yojoa, Honduras , which gives street children a home and a perspective for their future lives.

Awards

• Bambi 2005 in the Sport category
• Fair Play Prize from the Federal Minister of the Interior 2007
• Silver bay leaf 2008
• Sportsman of the year : 2nd place in 2007, 2008, 2010; 3rd place 2005, 2011; 6th place 2018, 2019
• Felix  - NRW Sportsman of the Year: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019
• Player of the Year (ITTF): 2017

Overview of titles and successes

singles

• World Championship : Bronze 2011 , quarter-finals 2007 , 2013 , 2015 , 2017
• European championship : gold 2002 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2018 , 2021 , bronze 2003 , 2009 , 2016
• World Cup : Winner 2002 , 2005 , second in 2008 , 2012 , 2017 , 2018 , third in 2010 , 2014
• Pro Tour / World Tour : 19-time winner in singles at Grand Slams such as China Open, Japan Open, German Open (most recently in 2017 in Korea)
• Europe TOP-12 or TOP-16 : Winner 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2018 , 2020
• European Games : Gold 2019
• European Super Cup: 2007, 2008, 2009
• German champion : 1998, 2001–2007, 2009, 2015, 2017–2019

team

• Olympic Games : Silver 2008 , Bronze 2012 , Bronze 2016
• World Championship: silver 2004 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2018 , bronze 2006
• European Championship: Gold 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2017 , 2019 Silver 2000 , 2002 , 2003 , 2014
• European Games: Gold 2019
• German champion: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014–2018, 2021
• German Cup Champion: 1998, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013–2018, 2021
• Chinese champion: 2014
• European Champions League : Winner 2005, 2006 with TTV Gönnern and 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018 , 2021 with Borussia Düsseldorf
• ETTU Cup : 2012 winner with Borussia Düsseldorf

Double

• World Championship: Silver 2005
• European Championship: Gold 2002 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010
• German champion : 1999, 2005, 2007

miscellaneous

• As the first German number one in the world rankings (January 2003)
• Between September 2004 and March 2016 consistently in the top 10 of the ITTF world rankings

Course of the position in the world rankings

Timo Boll's placements in the ITTF world rankings from January 2001 to June 2020

It was world number one for the first time in 2003 from January to May and in August and September. At that time he was the first German to top the world rankings . From January to March 2011 he was again world number one. In March 2018, he became world number one again and set a record because he was the oldest world number one at the age of 37.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	European Championship	2019	Nantes	FRA				1
GER	European Championship	2018	Alicante	ESP	gold
GER	European Championship	2017	Luxembourg	LUX				1
GER	European Championship	2016	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals
GER	European Championship	2014	Lisbon	POR				2
GER	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	gold
GER	European Championship	2011	Danzig	POLE	gold			1
GER	European Championship	2010	Ostrava	CZE	gold	gold		1
GER	European Championship	2009	Stuttgart	GER	Semifinals	gold		1
GER	European Championship	2008	St. Petersburg	RUS	gold	gold		1
GER	European Championship	2007	Belgrade	SRB	gold	gold		1
GER	European Championship	2005	Aarhus	THE	last 16	Semifinals		Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2003	Courmayeur	ITA	Semifinals	last 64		2
GER	European Championship	2002	Zagreb	HRV	gold	gold		2
GER	European Championship	2000	Bremen	GER	last 32	last 32	Quarter finals	2
GER	European Championship	1998	Eindhoven	NED	last 32	last 32	last 128	Quarter finals
GER	European Youth Championship	1998	Norcia	ESP	gold	gold	Quarter finals	1
GER	European Youth Championship	1997	Topolcany	POLE	gold	silver	silver	1
GER	European Youth Championship	1996	Frydek-Mistek	ROU	silver	Quarter finals		1
GER	European Schoolchildren Championship	1995	The hague	NED	gold	gold	Quarter finals	1
GER	European Schoolchildren Championship	1994	Paris	FRA	last 16	last 16	last 64
GER	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	last 16			3
GER	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY	last 16			3
GER	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 16			2
GER	Olympic games	2004	Athens	GRE	Quarter finals	last 16
GER	Olympic games	2000	Sydney	OUT	last 16	immediately canceled
GER	European Games	2019	Minsk	BLR	gold			1
GER	European Games	2015	Baku	ASE	last 32			4th Place
GER	Youth TOP 10	1998	Ettelbruck	LUX	gold
GER	Youth TOP 10	1996	Brondby	THE	9th place
GER	World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	Quarter finals
GER	World Tour	2019	Shenzhen	CHN		gold
GER	World Tour	2017	Incheon	COR	gold
GER	World Tour	2015	Bremen	GER		gold
GER	World Tour	2013	Berlin	GER	gold	gold
GER	World Tour	2013	Changchun	CHN		gold
GER	Pro tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	gold
GER	Pro tour	2009	Bremen	GER	gold	gold
GER	Pro tour	2009	Doha	QAT	gold
GER	Pro tour	2008	Warsaw	POLE	gold
GER	Pro tour	2008	Berlin	GER	gold
GER	Pro tour	2008	Salzburg	AUT	gold
GER	Pro tour	2006	Guangzhou	CHN	gold
GER	Pro tour	2004	Leipzig	GER	gold	gold
GER	Pro tour	2001	Rotterdam	NED		gold
GER	Pro tour	2001	Chatham	CLOSELY		gold
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2019	Zhengzhou	CHN	last 16	Semifinals
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR	last 16
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2017	Astana	CAZ	Semifinals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2009	Macau	MAC	last 16	gold
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2007	Beijing	CHN	Quarter finals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2006	Hong Kong	HKG	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2005	Fuzhou	CHN	gold	gold
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2004	Beijing	CHN	Semifinals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2002	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals
GER	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2001	Tianjin	CHN	last 16	Semifinals
GER	World cup	2019	Cheng you	CHN	Quarter finals
GER	World cup	2018	Paris	FRA	silver
GER	World cup	2017	Liege	BEL	silver
GER	World cup	2014	Dusseldorf	GER	3rd place
GER	World cup	2013	Verviers	BEL	4th Place
GER	World cup	2012	Liverpool	CLOSELY	silver
GER	World cup	2011	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals
GER	World cup	2010	Magdeburg	GER	3rd place
GER	World cup	2009	Moscow	RUS	Quarter finals
GER	World cup	2008	Liege	BEL	silver
GER	World cup	2007	Barcelona	ESP	4th Place
GER	World cup	2006	Paris	FRA	last 16
GER	World cup	2005	Liege	BEL	gold
GER	World cup	2004	Hangzhou	CHN	Quarter finals
GER	World cup	2003	Jiangyin	CHN	Quarter finals
GER	World cup	2002	Jinan	CHN	gold
GER	WTC World Team Cup	2019	Tokyo	JPN				Quarter finals
GER	WTC World Team Cup	2007	Magdeburg	GER				Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 16	Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				2
GER	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	Quarter finals	last 16
GER	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				13
GER	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	Quarter finals	last 32
GER	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				2
GER	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				2
GER	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	Semifinals
GER	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				2
GER	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	HRV	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				3
GER	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 16	silver
GER	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				2
GER	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 64	last 16
GER	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	last 16		last 32	Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Quarter finals
GER	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 32	last 32	last 16
GER	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 128	last 32	last 128

literature

• Friedhard Teuffel: Timo Boll: My China - A journey into the wonderland of table tennis , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86265-063-7 .
• Manfred Schillings: The master of the balls. In: Journal of German Table Tennis Sport . 1997/10, pages 42-44.
• Susanne Heuing: The lightness of being. (Report on the 2011 World Cup), In: German Table Tennis Sport magazine . 2011/6, pages 10-12.

Web links

Commons : Timo Boll  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Timo Boll biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English)
• Videos by Timo Boll

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table tennis country China - Timo Boll Superstar , tagesspiegel.de.
2. ↑ A portrait of Timo Boll - A Sparkasse trainee as an enemy of the state Spox.com, July 28, 2011.
3. ↑ TTV Gönnern vor dem Aus Focus online, April 22, 2009, accessed on May 26, 2012.
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2014/5 page 45.
5. ↑ Timo Boll signs rp-online until 2010 , December 25, 2006.
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/2 p. 16
7. ↑ DTS magazine , 2003/1 p. 5.
8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2006/8 p. 4 + 2006/9 p. 23 + interview with Timo Boll in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 14, 2009 ( Memento from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ "Sensational training conditions" rp-online, December 14, 2006.
10. ^ Boll extended in Düsseldorf. ttbl.de, January 16, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2018 . 
11. ↑ SID: Table tennis: Timo Boll: Gala against Zhang "was the downfall". In: Focus Online . August 6, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
12. ↑ World Cup: Silver medal for Timo Boll and first title win for Ma Long ( Memento from October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) tischtennis.de, September 30, 2012, accessed on October 2, 2012.
13. ↑ Timo Boll is and remains European Champion FAZ.net, October 21, 2012, accessed on October 21, 2012.
14. ↑ Boll and Baum: Medal dreams burst Sport1.de, May 19, 2013, accessed on May 19, 2013.
15. ↑ NDM in Chemnitz: Boll's tenth title, a record for eternity / Solja overjoyed ( memento from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) message from March 8, 2015 on tischtennis.de (accessed on March 10, 2015).
16. ↑ Table Tennis World Championships: Boll dropped out surprisingly early with world number one, Spiegel Online, April 28, 2015, accessed on April 30, 2015.
17. ↑ Timo Boll wears the German flag sportschau.de, accessed on August 4, 2016.
18. ↑ Bronze for the DTTB men after thriller against Korea / Double tears at Boll ( memento from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) tischtennis.de, August 17, 2016, accessed on October 23, 2016.
19. ↑ EM in Budapest: semi-final task against Gauzy with neck problems / Boll: "Don't want to risk the World Cup" ( memento from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) tischtennis.de, October 23, 2016, accessed on October 23, 2016.
20. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2017/3 page 34.
21. ↑ https://www.mytischtennis.de/public/International/10402/china-open--nervenstarker-ovtcharov-gewinnt-finalthriller .
22. ↑ T2 APAC: Boll wins the team and individual title. In: myTischtennis.de. Retrieved December 20, 2017 . 
23. ↑ Timo Boll is now the sole record cup winner. wdr.de, January 7, 2018, accessed January 8, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Cora Finner: Boll wins German final against Ovtcharov. In: wdr.de. February 4, 2018, accessed February 4, 2018 . 
25. ↑ March world rankings: Timo Boll is the new No. 1 in the world! tischtennis.de, February 27, 2018, accessed on February 27, 2018 . 
26. ↑ DTTB team in the semifinals! Out for Japan! Sweden in a frenzy. mytischtennis.de, May 4, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 . 
27. ^ Table tennis: Third triple for Boll and Düsseldorf . In: FAZ.NET . May 26, 2018, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 28, 2018]).
28. ↑ Timo Boll before European Table Tennis Championships - "Not a favorite at the moment" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).
29. ↑ kicker, Nürnberg, Germany: Show of strength at 37: Bolls number seven . In: kicker . ( kicker.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).
30. ↑ 2018/19 season review Borussia Düsseldorf. borussia-duesseldorf.com, April 17, 2019, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
31. ↑ World Cup out: Timo Boll has to cancel singles and doubles due to illness! mytischtennis.de, April 25, 2019, accessed on April 25, 2019 . 
32. ↑ European Games: Timo Boll takes table tennis gold, Ying Han loses the final. In: sport1.de. Retrieved June 27, 2019 . 
33. ↑ Europe Top 16: Triumphs for Timo Boll and Peti Solja. tischtennis.de, February 9, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 . 
34. ↑ "Eye check". In: der-augenoptiker.de. November 28, 2007, accessed December 1, 2020 . 
35. ↑ Timo Boll became a father for the first time ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Tischtennis.de, December 4, 2013.
36. ↑ My favorite piece of Germany - DBMOBIL.DE. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
37. ↑ Timo Boll as the first German "Player of the Year" ( Memento from December 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Spiegel Online, December 14, 2017.
38. ↑ ^{a b} World ranking list since 2001 ( memento from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 10, 2015).
39. ^ ITTF website (accessed on July 5, 2017) ( Memento from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
40. ↑ Boll, Timo. Retrieved March 18, 2020 . 

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