Aleksandar Karakašević ( sr-cyr, Александар Каракашевић; born 9 December 1975) is a

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table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

player. His powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal at the 2011

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

. One of his greatest results achieved in USA is his victory at the US Open Championship in July 2007, where he established himself as a world class athlete, winning the tournament title for the 3rd time by defeating Kurashima Yosuke from Japan with the result of 4:0. In 2020 at the age of 45 he was still playing in German Bundesliga (first German division) representing

TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau Bundesliga（）is the top league in the German table tennis league system. The first Bundesliga was held in the 1966-67 season with 8 teams. Since then the Bundesliga has been held every season with a varying number of teams. In the 2024-25 seas ...

. Karakašević competed at the

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

, and

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

. On 20 November 2021 it was announced that Karakašević had joined the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...

. His father,

Milivoj Karakašević Milivoj Karakašević (30 July 1948 – 26 March 2022) was a Serbian international table tennis player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s. Table tennis career With the Yugoslav men's team, he won gold at the 1976 European Champ ...

was a Yugoslav table tennis player.

Career Highlights and Accomplishments

* Bronze medal at European Championship – Singles * European Champion – Mixed Doubles (four times) * US Open Champion – Singles (three times) * US Open Champion – Doubles * Second place in Europe – Mixed Doubles * Third place in Pro-Tour final – Men's Doubles- (twice) * German Open Champion – Men's Doubles * Brazilian Open Champion – Doubles * Brazilian Open Champion – Teams * Mediterranean games Champion – Men's Doubles * Second place in Mediterranean games – Doubles (twice) * Second place – Netherlands Open – Men's Doubles * Third place – Qatar Open – Men's Doubles (twice) * Balkan Champion (six times) * Second finisher in European Trials for the Olympic games * Third place in Junior Europeans (four times) * Yugoslavian Champion – Singles (three times) * Yugoslavian Champion – Men's Doubles (five times) * Yugoslavian Champion – Mixed Doubles (five times) * Yugoslavian Champion – Teams (four times)

Clubs

* STK Unirea Uzdin *

TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen Tischtennisfreunde Liebherr Ochsenhausen is a table tennis club based in Ochsenhausen, Germany. The men's team plays in the Bundesliga. The main sponsor is the company Liebherr Liebherr () is a German-Swiss multinational corporation, multinat ...

* SV Plüderhausen * STK Partizan * STK

Crvena Zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

* UCAM Cartagena TM *

Hertha BSC Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC () or Hertha Berlin, is a German professional football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football league system, German footbal ...

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