Interview with Pradeeban Peter-Paul

Canadian National and Top Twelve Champion • North American Teams Champion
Dec. 6, 2005
By Larry Hodges

Hometown: Ottawa, Canada.
Home Club: National Training Centre in Ottawa
Age/Date of Birth: 28, May 17,1977
Height/weight: 5'11", 170 Lbs
Current rating: 2604
Sponsor: Butterfly/Martin Kilpatrick
Equipment: Peter Korbel Offensive, Bryce max and fair chack speed glue
Best titles:

·        2004 Canadian Men’s Singles Champion

·        Canadian Top Twelve Champion in 2000, 2001 and 2005

·        Won 5 Canada Cups

·        Canadian National Team since 1994

Where are you from originally? If not Canada, when and why did you move to Canada?
I’m from Sri Lanka and I moved at the age of 11 to Germany and then I moved to Canada at the age of 16. I speak Tamil, German and English.

How and when did you get started in table tennis?
I started when I was 11 in Germany at school.

Who are your coaches?
Wang Enlong and Dejan Papic.

Describe your playing style. What are the strongest parts of your game?
My strengths are my forehand topspin and my serves.

Where do you train, and with who? What is your training schedule?
I was training in Ottawa for the past ten years, but I was training in New York at the Wang Chen table tennis club for the past four months. I usually train in Canada with my team, Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi, Xavier Therien, and Faazil Kassam, but for the past four months I was training with Wang Chen, Paul David and Shao Yu. I was in China this summer for a training camp for a month. I always practice five times a week, and sometimes more if we have training camps.

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