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Timo Boll,a German professional table tennis player who currently plays with Borussia Düsseldorf, was born in Erbach im Odenwald, Hessen on 8th March 1981. Boll started playing table tennis at the age of four and his father was his first coach. In 1987, he became a member of TSV Höchst and played there at association level. At the age of 8 years, he was noticed by Helmut Hampel, a Hessian trainer who promoted him in the table tennis world. In 1990, he started to train at the Pfungstadt training centre and 4 years later changed teams to FTG Frankfurtwith whom he took part in the second division, at which time other table tennis associations became interested in him.
TTV Gönnern hired him in 1995. Timo Boll was put in position five on the team but, nevertheless, lost only one match in the whole season and thus contributed to the rise of the team in the table tennis national league
Timo Boll is ranked second in the German Table Tennis National League and He is currently 4th in the ITTF world rankings as November 2017, having previously been number one.
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