Patrick Baum (table tennis)

Patrick Wood ( born June 23, 1987 in Worms ) is a German table tennis player. He was 2005 World Junior Champion and 2010 and 2011 Vice European Champion.

Career

Very soon came the left-hander Patrick tree to table tennis, certainly. Well as its equally successful older brother Björn tree and his father Arthur Tree, a former second-division player, who is also head coach in the Rheinhessen Tennis Association and to this day serves as his private trainer His mother Gabi tree had formerly Regional strength. After the eleventh grade Patrick Baum left school and embarked on a professional career.

Already in 1997 he reached a 5th place in the German Under-15 Championships at the age of 10 years. 2001 finally he was German student masters. In 2002 he won the age of 15, the German Youth Championship and the European Championship with the team. On 4 January 2005 Tree denied his first game in the national team. In the European Championship qualifier against England, he defeated Andrew Rushton 3-1.

His biggest successes celebrated Patrick Baum in 2005; by his final victory over Japan's Jun Mizutani he became junior world champion so far the only German player. With his former club Goennern he won the 2005 Champions League. The CL title he successfully defended in 2006 with patrons, in addition he won the German Top12 Tournament men's and was third. At the German Championships of Men In the election of Germany's Junior Athlete of the Year in 2006, he finished behind Amelie Kober and Magdalena Neuner third.

Since the 2006/07 season played tree while TTC Frickenhausen in the first table tennis league. In 2009 he joined the TTC BTA, 2010, the Borussia Dusseldorf. In 2008 and 2010 he became German champion in men's doubles with Dimitrij Ovtcharov. At the European Championship in the same year he came as a complete surprise to the finals after he had first and then turned Vladimir Samsonov Werner Schlager. There he lost but against his Düsseldorf teammate Timo Boll. In 2011, he moved into the European Championship Finals in Gdansk, where he again defeated Timo Boll. In both years he won the European title with the team.

2013 reached tree in the World Cup quarter-finals, where he lost to the Chinese defending champion and Olympic champion Zhang Jike after recovered first set 1:4. In the previous round he defeated Dimitrij Ovtcharov, with whom he has been friends since school days. In the same year he was with the team again European Champion, while he failed to Tiago Apolonia in the individual in the second round.

Previous clubs

  • TSV Florsheim -Dalsheim (1992-1993)
  • TV Dienheim (1993-2000), 2.Verbandsliga
  • FSV Mainz 05 (2000-2002), Regional
  • TTC Grenzau (2002-2003), 2nd Bundesliga
  • TTC Elz (2003-2004), 2nd Bundesliga
  • TTV RE -BAU patrons (2004-2006), 1st Bundesliga
  • TTC Frickenhausen (2006-2009)
  • TTC BTA (2009-2010)
  • Borussia Dusseldorf (since 2010)

Achievements

  • Vice World Champion Team 2012
  • European vice- champion in singles in 2010 and 2011
  • Quarter Finals World Cup 2013 in a single
  • European champion team in 2010, 2011, 2013
  • Winner of Korea Open 2010 men's doubles ( with Bastian Steger )
  • German champions in men's doubles 2008, 2010 ( with Dimitrij Ovtcharov )
  • German champions in mixed doubles in 2006 ( with Zhenqi Barthel )
  • Champions League winner with Borussia Dusseldorf 2011
  • Champions League winner with TTV RE -BAU -wishers 2005, 2006
  • ETTU Cup winner with Borussia Dusseldorf 2012
  • German champions Borussia Dusseldorf 2011, 2012
  • German champion with the TTC Frickenhausen 2007
  • German Cup champion with Borussia Dusseldorf in 2011, 2013
  • 1st place Junior World Championship 2005
  • 1st place DTTB TOP12 Men 2006
  • 3rd place German Men Championships 2006 Single
  • 3rd place in boys World Cup 2004 team
  • 1st place at the European Youth Championships 2002 in doubles (with Benjamin Rosner )
  • 3rd place in Boys 2004 European Cup in individual
  • 1st place in boys Euro 2004 team
  • 2nd place Europe Top -12 of the Youth 2005
  • 1st place at the Danish Open ( juniors) 2005
  • 1st place at the Polish Open (U -21) 2006
  • 3rd place at the Austria Open in Salzburg 2008
  • 2nd place at the Japan Open 2009

Honors

2006 Patrick Baum received in Worms the sponsorship of the Rotary Club.

Results from the ITTF database

European Champions League (table tennis) 2010 Table Tennis European Championships 2011 Table Tennis European Championships 2013 World Table Tennis Championships 2013 Table Tennis European Championships 1. FSV Mainz 05 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships
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