Patrick Frnziska- German table tennis player

Patrick Franziska (born June 11, 1992 in Bensheim ) is a German table tennis - national player . In 2016 he was European champion in doubles.
Career
Patrick Franziska began his career at TSV 1875 Höchst . He then moved to SV Mörlenbach and then played in the TTC 1947 Elz. The right-hander became 2007 European student champion with the team and won in 2009 with the junior team the second place in the World Cup. In 2010 he became European Junior Champion in singles. Furthermore, he is multiple German Junior Champion.
In 2008, Franziska took part for the first time in Hamburg in the German Championships for adults. He was originally intended only for the individual competition in which he retired in the preliminary round. Due to the cancellation of other players, he was able to start but still in the men's doubles with the Hamburger Kay-Andrew Greil . In the quarter-finals they succeeded against the number three seeded Nico Christ and Lennart Wehking after defense of two match points a narrow 4: 3-success and thus the entry into the semifinals, in which the future champions Patrick Baum and Dimitrij Ovtcharovthen a number were too big. Thus Patrick Franziska was the youngest medal winner of these championships.
At the European Championships in 2010 Franziska moved for Bastian Steger as a substitute in the national team. With the team, he won the European title and was in doubles with Patrick Baum in the second round. At the Youth World Cup in December 2010 in Bratislava he won with the team and Arne Hölter in the double bronze.
From 2009/10 to 2011/12 he played for the TG Hanau in the 1st Bundesliga . In 2011 he was awarded the title of Junior Player of the Year 2010 . In 2012, he reached in the world rankings for the first time a placement in the top 100, since October 2012, he is there permanently represented.
For the season 2012/13 Franziska moved after the withdrawal of his old club to league rivals TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell . Together with Timo Boll , he won the German Open 2013 in doubles. In October 2013, he was with the team again European champion . He won all four of his games. In the individual he retired in the second round. In 2014 he was in Tokyo with the German team Vice World Champion . He lost only in the final game against world number one Xu Xin . For the 2014/15 season he joined the champions Borussia Dusseldorf , with which he immediately became champion and cup winner. At the German Open 2015 he succeeded again with Timo Boll in the double competition.
In the 2015 World Cup , he came through a victory over the top 10 player Marcos Freitas to the quarter-finals, where he lost to the eventual vice-world champion Fang Bo , and thus reached in the world rankings with 28th place a new record position. At the European Championships , he won silver with the team. By since the World Cup declining performance in the individual but he gradually fell back in the world rankings and was therefore only nominated as a substitute for the 2016 Olympics. With Borussia Dusseldorf he was again German champion and cup winner. For the Bundesliga season 2016/17 he moved to1. FC Saarbrücken , meanwhile, the contract was extended until 2021. As of May 2016 Franziska formed a double by also playing in the Bundesliga Danes Jonathan Groth . At the European Championships in October, they won the gold medal. She also won on the World Tour , the Croatia and the Austrian Open and arrived in the Czech and Swedish Open semi-finals, which they qualified with the minimum of four tournaments for the Grand Finals. However, because of an injury Franziskas they could not participate. At the Korea Open 2017 he won, in addition to silver in the doubles, after a final defeat against Timo Boll his first individual medal on the World Tour. At the European Championships 2017 , he won gold again with the team. Also in 2017, he qualified in the doubles with Jonathan Groth for the Grand Finals , but in which they retire in the first round. In the team's World Cup , in which he, Boll and Ovtcharov due to injury problems restricted were available , he won the German team again silver.
Franziska lives in Nieder-Klingen , a district of Otzberg .
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