| Name: | Jean-Michel Saive |
| Birthday: | 17.11.1969 |
| Height: | 181 cm |
| Weight: | 78 kg |
| Nationality: | Belgien |
| Nickname: | Jean-Mi, “the fighter” |
| Club membership: | Villette Charleroi |
| Which material did you use at European vice success? andro JM Saive Kinetic Off, Revolution C.O.R. |
Success Story: I was Belgian champion in women’s double “b category” when my mother was pregnant!!! |
| Strengths: FIGHTING SPIRIT | |
| Career highlights: no 1 in world for 515 days in 1994, 1995, 1996 European champion 1994, 1992 Vice European Champion 2005 Vice World champion 1993 Top 12 winner 1994 European Masters 1994 Qatar Open 1996, 2002 China Open 1993 US Open 1989, 1998 England Open 1997 Sportsman of the year in Belgium: 1991, 1994 17times Belgian champion men's single |
Hobbies: golf, tennis |
| How did you start to play table tennis? I started to play when I was 9 and my brother 7, because our parents were both table tennis players. My father was No. 10 in Belgium an my mother around No. 20. |
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| What is the fascination about table tennis? Table tennis is a combination of all characteristics you need in sport!!! Speed, endurance, technique, tactic, head, spin!!! |
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| What is your tip for successful training? To adapt table tennis exercises with interval way and athletic practice of the physique! |
