European Youth champions 2021 Kay Stumper is the new star of Germany. Recently, Kay Stumper won the European Youth Championship 2021.
For Germany, the most recent junior boys’ singles winner was Patrick Franziska in 2010 in Istanbul. In 2009 the title was won by Emmanuel Lebesson of France, and in 2008 by his teammate, Lucas Corvee. In 2007 the title was won by Christian Süss of Germany.
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Kay Stumper is the best young player in Europe
Kay Stumper, a gold medalist at the WTT Youth Star Contender Tunis tournament in late May, was back in action on Monday, July 19th, in the junior boys’ team event at the Gazprom 2021 European Youth Championships in Varazdin, when he once again established his dominance.
Kay Stumper takes the first place of Tomokazu Harimoto
On the ITTF World ranking this month, Kay Stumper takes first place in the top World Ranking. He is now the best table tennis player under 19 years old.
Here are the top 30 U19 table tennis players in the world. Kay Stumper is ranked as #1.
| Rank | Name | Assoc | Points |
| 1
⇡1 |
Kay STUMPER | GER | 5833 |
| 2
⇣1 |
Tomokazu HARIMOTO | JPN | 5746 |
| 3
⇡1 |
Adrien RASSENFOSSE | BEL | 3756 |
| 4
⇣1 |
Truls MOREGARD | SWE | 3716 |
| 5 | Ivor BAN | CRO | 3549 |
| 6 | Darius MOVILEANU | ROU | 3365 |
| 7 | Eduard IONESCU | ROU | 3233 |
| 8
⇡1 |
Borgar HAUG | NOR | 3040 |
| 9
⇣1 |
Andrei Teodor ISTRATE | ROU | 3026 |
| 10 | Felix LEBRUN | FRA | 2951 |
| 11 | Vladimir SIDORENKO | RUS | 2558 |
| 12 | Payas JAIN | IND | 2508 |
| 13 | Louis LAFFINEUR | BEL | 2195 |
| 14
⇡2 |
Navid SHAMS | IRI | 2171 |
| 15
⇡2 |
Iulian CHIRITA | ROU | 2067 |
| 16
⇣1 |
Damir AKHMETSAFIN | RUS | 2046 |
| 17
⇡3 |
Angel NARANJO | PUR | 1987 |
| 18
⇣4 |
Samuel KULCZYCKI | POL | 1723 |
| 19
⇣1 |
Adam KLAJBER | SVK | 1610 |
| 20
⇡5 |
Andrea PUPPO | ITA | 1541 |
| 21
⇡5 |
Filip DELINCAK | SVK | 1453 |
| 22
⇡5 |
Nicolas DEGROS | BEL | 1403 |
| 23
⇡9 |
Simon BELIK | CZE | 1385 |
| 24
⇣2 |
Csaba ANDRAS | HUN | 1383 |
| 25
⇣1 |
Nikhil KUMAR | USA | 1309 |
| 26
⇡8 |
Ondrej KVETON | CZE | 1294 |
| 27
⇣8 |
FENG Yi-Hsin | TPE | 1292 |
| 28
⇡7 |
Alexis LEBRUN | FRA | 1276 |
| 29
⇣8 |
XIANG Peng | CHN | 1264 |
| 30
⇣7 |
Hiroto SHINOZUKA | JPN | 1247 |
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