Alexey Smirnov (table tennis)

Alexei Grigoryevich Smirnov (Russian: Алексей Григорьевич Смирнов, born October 9, 1977 in Tolyatti ) is a Russian tennis players. He is a five-time European Junior Champion and one won the European ranking tournament Europe TOP - 12th Currently (2013 ) he plays for Russian champions Gazprom Fakel Orenburg.

Youth

1992 Smirnov was European Champion Cadets with the Russian team. Two years later, he won the doubles event in Paris together with Denis Gavrilov. In the European Youth Championships 1995 he won three titles, namely the singles in doubles (with the Dane Martin Monrad ) and Mixed ( with Olga Kashulina ).

Adult

Since 1995, Smirnov takes part in all World Table Tennis Championships for Russia. He reached in 2006 with the team in sixth place. In 2003 he was European Vice Champion along with Dmitri Masunow in doubles. The following European Championships he reached the semifinals in each double and mixed doubles. In 2005 he won in Rennes, the European ranking tournament Europe TOP - 12th He turned off in the semifinals and defeated Timo Boll in the final Vladimir Samsonov.

2004 and 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games, where he has achieved in Athens in 2004 in a double with Dmitri Masunow 4th place.

National league

In 1997, Smirnov from the Russian club in the German Bundesliga Samara 1 FC Bayreuth. A year later he joined TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen. After a spell in the 2000 /01 season at TTC Rhön- bubble Fulda Maberzell he returned to Ochsenhausen. With Ochsenhausen he became German champion in 2000 and 2004 as well as 2002 and 2003 German Cup winner. In 2004, he went to Belgium Royal Villette Charleroi.

Private

His wife Natasha ( born March 27, 1977) is also table tennis player. In 2002 she moved from Moscow to ASV Otterswang ( 2nd Bundesliga ) and moved a year later to SG Schorndorf (Oberliga ). With her ​​Smirnov twins.

Results from the ITTF database

Swell

• René Adler: The end of the losing streak, magazine table tennis, 2005/2 p.15