Table Tennis Academy

Name & Surname

Mario Genovese

Date of Birth:

22^nd November 1961

Profession:

Business Entrepreneur

Training since:

1973

Other Interests

Sailing, Running & Travelling

Favourite Music:

Sting, Dire Straits, Chris Rea

Ranking at end of 2007 season

First success at national level:

Under-14 National Championships, 1976

Local achievements:

Times

Event

Under-14

National Champion

Under-17

National Champion

Singles

National Champion

Doubles

National Champion

1^st Division

National Teams League Champion

Malta International Open Winner 2004

Resident Player:

1979	Norway	1983	Denmark played for BTK 61 in Roskilde on a professional contract
1980	English League	1984	Denmark / UK
1981	Sweden played National League for Jarna / Denmark	1985	UK played for Stiga Deptford Rams/ Tunisia played for Tunis in National League
1982	Denmark International Training opportunities Angby Stockholm club for Appelgren.

International achievements:

Denmark Sjaelland Championships Finalist 1984

3^rd division European Championships Gold Medal in Teams event, Guernsey

3^rd division European Championships Gold Medal in Singles event, Guernsey

Bronze Medal in Small Nations Games, Iceland

Finalist in Sony Pro Amateur Tournament, Hamburg 1986

Finalist in Tunisian Open 1988

Experience in European Championships:

Budapest, Hungary
Bern, Switzerland
Gothenburg, Sweden
Stuttgart, Germany 2009

Paris, France
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Zagreb, Croatia
Courmayeur, Italy

Junior European Championships Rome 1979
Junior European Championships Poznan Poland 1980

Participated in World Championships:

Spens Novi Sad Yugoslavia 1981
Tokyo Japan 1983
Gothenburg, Sweden 1985
New Delhi, India 1987M
Dortmund, Germany 1989
Chiba, Japan 1991
Gothenburg 1993

Tiantin, China 1995
Manchester, United Kingdom 1997
Paris France 2003
Doha Qatar 2004Shanghai, China 2005
Bremen, Germany 2006
Zagreb Croatia 2007
Guangzhou, China 2008
Yokohama Japan 2009

Participated in Open Games:

Meditteranean Games Messina Italy
Italian Open : Verona, Arezzo, Modena

English Open:
Birmingham

Welsh Open:
Cardiff

Norwegian Open:
Bergen

Training Camps Abroad:

Falkenberg (6 times)
Uppsala, Sweden (2 times)
Angby TT Club Training
Katrineholm Training as guest player1980
Danish Training camps in Brondby ( 3 times)
Gladsaxe ( 4 times )

Trainnig in Lund BTK
Hamburg INt Junior camp 1985
Portugal ETTU Training Camp
Guernsey Training Camp
Fiuggi, Italy (Italian CONI National Camp) attended 8 times as guest of CONI

Participated in coaching courses in China 1985
Trained in China for 3 months, Beijing 1982
Trained for 3 months in Japan Sakura

Style of play:

Constant tactical offensive changes with emphasis on spin variation

Coaching Qualification

International Table Tennis Federation approved coach
ETTU certified coach
MOC certified coach
MOC Coaching and administration certification
Coaching Experience
1984 appointed coach for Sjaelland Denmark Junior Nat Team
Malta National Team Coach
Head Coach for the Table Tennis Academy Malta since 2002

Preparation before a tournament:

4 times training weekly with special diet and mental preparation

Blade Used:

TIBHAR I.V.L.

Rubbers Used:

Forehand
Backhand

TIBHAR Nimbus 2mm
TIBHAR Nimbus 2mm

Most memorable Games

Winning 2-1 against Jonas Gustafson, that time Swedish National Junior Rank 3

Winning Norwegian 1b at age 18 in Trondheim Norway

Losing 3-2 against Marmourek (French No 3) in the Mediterranean open top-12 in Malta. After almost closing at 2-0. Marmourek was rated 88 World Rank at the time

Losing 2-3 against in Gothenburg World Singles championships

Semi Final in Roskilde Danish Open

Winning Danish 2nd Division League with Riskilde

Motto for success:

Hard training breeds success