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10th February 1970 |
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Arcadia, California, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Michael Maze (born September 1, 1981) is a male table tennis player from Fakse, Denmark. He normally plays both in the men's singles and in men's doubles. As of 2005, he is one of the top five left-handed players in the world.
Career
Maze won the Europe Top 12 tournament in Frankfurt am Main in February 2004 and won the European Junior Championship in both singles and doubles. He reached the quarter finals in the European Championship for seniors in both series in 2003 playing doubles with Finn Tugwell. Tugwell and Maze participated as partners at the 2000 Summer Olympics where they reached the quarter finals. Maze participated both in men's singles and men's doubles in Table Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Maze lost his first match in men's singles but won bronze with his partner Finn Tugwell.
Maze's latest achievement was in reaching the semi finals of the 2005 world championship that took place in Shanghai, China, in which he was defeated by the home favorite, Ma Lin, in a swift 4-0 match. Nevertheless, he has managed to put up a memorable performance in the quarter finals of the competition, coming back from a 3-0 deficit to win 4-3 against another chinese, Hao Shuai, saving a match point.
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