Petrissa Solja
Petrissa Solja (born 11 March 1994) is a German table tennis player. Solja won silver in the team event in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She reached her highest world ranking of thirteenth in March 2016. Personal life Solja was born in Kandel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, into a table tennis-playing family; her mother, Dagmar Solja-Andruszko, played table tennis for ATSV Saarbrücken. Petrissa's two older sisters also play table tennis; her sister Amelie competed for Austria in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (qualifying for Austrian citizenship due to the Solja sisters' grandmother being from Austria). Before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Solja posed together with swimmer Isabelle Härle, rower Julia Lier, cyclist Nadja Pries and injured pole vaulter Katharina Bauer for the German edition of Playboy. Table tennis career Solja is coached by her father, Pavel, and plays left-handed with a shakehand grip. As a junior player, Solja had considerable success. She won the Cadet singles events at the 2008 and 2009 European Youth Championships, beating Bernadette Szőcs and Yana Noskova in the two finals, respectively. Although she lost twice in the Junior singles finals to Bernadette Szőcs in 2011 and 2012, she was the