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

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by beating

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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

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, 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.

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mattenet, Adrien 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

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