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.
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!!!
What is your tip for successful training?
To adapt table tennis exercises with interval way and athletic practice of the physique!
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