Patrick Franziska

Patrick Franziska (born 11 June 1992) is a German table tennis player. He is currently sponsored by Butterfly and plays with FC Saarbrücken-TT in the German Bundesliga (TTBL).

2010
In 2010, Franziska won the junior boys singles gold medal at the European Youth Championships. He also won the Europe Youth TOP 10 in Slovakia. In December, he won bronze medals in men's doubles and men's team at the 2010 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. In this year, he joined the German National Team to win the men's team gold medal at the 2010 European Table Tennis Championships.

2021
Patrick Franziska represented Germany at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal with the men's team. In March, he entered the WTT Star Contender event at WTT Doha, but lost 11–9 in the fifth to Sharath Kamal.

2022
Franziska won bronze at the Europe Top 16 Cup. He finished second at the WTT Contender Tunis 2022, losing against Anton Kallberg in the men's single's finals.

2023
He won a bronze medal together with Dimitrij Ovtcharov in men's doubles at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championship in Durban. At the European Games 2023, he won the men's team gold medal, together with Timo Boll, Dang Qiu and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, repeating their success of 2019 and again winning against Sweden in the finals.

2024
Franziska reached second place in the first-ever Saudi Smash tournament, losing only to Wang Chuqin, ranked no. 1 in the world. In the process he beat Fan Zhendong, then ranked 2.