Petr Korbel
Petr Korbel ( born June 6, 1971 in Havířov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech tennis players. He plays the German first division TTC Ruhr city of Herne.
Career
His first major international success came Korbel in 1988 by winning the European Junior Championship. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he was fourth in the Table Tennis European Championships in Bremen in 2000 he won the bronze medal. In the Czech ranking he finished in March 2009 Course 1
Korbel played from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2008 with Borussia Dusseldorf, where he had been in 1993/94 a one-year contract; previously he played at Müller Würzburg Hofbräuhaus and made the quarter- finals of the German Open. He was with Würzburg Team Champion 2004/05. From 2008 to 2010 he played at the top Belgian club Royal Villette Charleroi, after which he returned to Germany and is now playing TTC Ruhr city of Herne.
Petr Korbel is 1,81 m tall and right-handed, he plays the wooden Butterfly Korbel OFF and the Butterfly Sriver G2 lining. He's since July 1995 Romana Kvapilova, who played in the 1990s in the 2nd Bundesliga, married and has a daughter.
Petr Korbel is coached by his father Karol Korbel, a former Czech first division, since his youth.
Career as a player
Tournaments
- World Cup: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
- Summer Olympics: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
- European Championship: 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005
- Europe Top 12: 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004-2008
Achievements
- 3rd place 1991 World Championships ( team)
- 3rd place Europe Top 12 2001 and 2004
- 1st place European Championships 1988 ( Youth Single)
- 5 times German team champion ( 1999, 2001, 2002 TTC Grenzau; 2005 Müller Würzburg Hofbräuhaus, 2008 with Borussia Dusseldorf )
Success in the ITTF Pro Tour
Success in the Japanese Super Circuit
- July 2002 in Aomori: 1st place
- September 2002 in Osaka: 2nd place
- August 2003 in Hiroshima: 2nd place
- January 2004 in Tokyo: 1st place
- May 2004 Osaka: 1st place
- May 2005 Osaka: 1st place
Attendance at ITTF World All Stars Circuit
- June 1994 in Malaysia: quarter final win against Koji Matsushita, semi-final defeat by Wang Tao
- June 1994 in Hong Kong: the quarter-finals losing to Johnny Huang
- October 1994 in Lisbon ( finals ): Lost in the first round against Wang Tao, Jean -Philippe Gatien and Zoran Primorac
More results
- 2001 China vs World: defeats against Wang Liqin (1:4) and Liu Guoliang ( 2:4 )
Clubs
- ?? -1990: Bratislava
- 1990-1991: Monpellier -Le Cres ( FRA )
- 1991-1993: TTC Altena
- 1993-1994: Borussia Dusseldorf
- 1994-1996: MTG Horst- Food
- 1996-1997: Post SV Mülheim Telekom
- 1997-2002: TTC Grenzau
- 2002-2004: Horni Sucha start (CZE )
- 2004-2006: Müller Würzburg Hofbräuhaus
- 2006-2008: Borussia Dusseldorf
- 2008-2010: Royal Villette Charleroi ( BEL)
- 2010-2012: TTC Ruhr city of Herne
- 2012 -: STEN marketing HB Ostrov (CZE )
Results from the ITTF database