Adrien Mattenet (born 15 October 1987) is a French
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player, currently playing for
AS Pontoise-Cergy TT
Association sportive de Pontoise-Cergy Tennis de table (commonly abbreviated AS Pontoise-Cergy TT or simply ASPCTT) is a table tennis club based in Pontoise, France. One of the top clubs in the country, it finished runner-up in the French top divi ...
.
His World Ranking is at number 19 as of December 2011, the best ranking for a French player since
Christophe Legout in 2001.
In May 2011, Mattenet was the first Frenchman to qualify for the
London 2012 Olympic Games
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
by beating
Singapore
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's
Gao Ning
Gao Ning (; born 11 October 1982) is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 34 as of August 2016. He was first in men's singles at the 2007 Commonwealth Tabl ...
to reach the Quarterfinals of the
2011 World Championships. At the 2012 Olympics, he lost to
Chen Weixing
Chen Weixing (Simplified Chinese: 陈卫星 Hanyu Pinyin: Chén Wèixīng, born April 27, 1972, Inner Mongolia, China) is an Austrian table tennis player of Chinese origin. He has played for SVS Lower Austria for several years.
Chen found i ...
in the fourth round.
In June 2015, he competed in the
inaugural European Games, for
France
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in
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
, more specifically, Men's team with
Simon Gauzy
Simon Gauzy (born 25 October 1994) is a French table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table ...
and
Emmanuel Lebesson. He earned a silver medal.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
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1987 births
Living people
French male table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for France
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
European Games silver medalists for France
Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Universiade medalists in table tennis
Mediterranean Games medalists in table tennis
Universiade silver medalists for France
Universiade bronze medalists for France
European Games medalists in table tennis
Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Val-d'Oise
21st-century French people