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European Championship Tour
€ 100,000 CEV Polish Masters
July 19 - 24, 2011

(10) Thomas Kaczmarek/Alexander Walkenhorst, Germany

Thomas Kaczmarek
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jan 4, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Myslowice, Poland

Height:

191 cm (6'3")

Weight:

83 kg (183 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career CEV Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$69,483.83

Alexander Walkenhorst
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 30, 1988 (37 yrs old)

Home Town:

Essen

Height:

206 cm (6'9")

Weight:

98 kg (216 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career CEV Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$180,555.88

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	41	CQ	Money
CEV	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	US$29,539.85
CEV C&S	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	US$9,764.86
FIVB	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	US$0.00
Overall	16	4	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	5	US$39,304.71

Previous Niechorze Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
CEV	7/13-17/2011	CEV Serbian Masters	16	9th	240	€ 1,500.00
CEV C&S	6/16-19/2011	CEV Satellite Lausanne	2	1st	100	€ 2,200.00
FIVB	5/17-22/2011	Prague Open		Country Quota	0	US$0.00
FIVB	5/2-7/2011	Shanghai Open		Country Quota	0	US$0.00
FIVB	4/18-23/2011	Brasilia Open		Country Quota	0	US$0.00

CEV Polish Masters Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Fri, 7/22/2011	Winner 1	Piotr Kantor / Bartosz Losiak, Poland (23)	Won 21-19, 21-14	0:38
Fri, 7/22/2011	Winner 2	Rafal Szternel / Damian Wojtasik, Poland (7)	Won 21-15, 21-15	0:32
Sat, 7/23/2011	Winner 3	Jan Dumek / Martin Tichy, Czech Republic (15, Q5)	Won 21-17, 19-21, 15-10	0:53
Sat, 7/23/2011	Winner 4	Artis Caics / Toms Smedins, Latvia (14, Q4)	Lost 22-24, 21-15, 11-15	0:56
Sat, 7/23/2011	Contender 5	Dawid Popek / Tomasz Wieczorek, Poland (24, Q16)	Won 21-19, 21-17	0:39
Sun, 7/24/2011	Semi-Finals	Jon Stiekema / Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands (8, Q2)	Won 21-14, 21-12	0:31
Sun, 7/24/2011	Gold Medal	Emiel Boersma / Daan Spijkers, Netherlands (5)	Won 21-18, 21-19	0:39

Team Finishes By Tournament Type

Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
Confederation Championship	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	$4,500.00
Total	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	$4,500.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Thomas Kaczmarek												Alexander Walkenhorst
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$1,700.00	World Championships	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$3,500.00
20	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	$12,700.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	25	0	0	0	1	2	9	6	5	0	$105,200.00
29	0	0	0	2	1	4	4	4	0	$20,412.50	Challenge/Four Star/Open	14	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	2	0	$18,000.00
											Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	11	0	0	2	1	0	3	3	2	0	$11,300.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$600.00	Challenger
3	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	$1,500.00	Satellite
2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	$0.00	U21 World Championships	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	U18/19 World Championships
4	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	$4,250.00	Confederation Championship	10	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	3	0	$10,500.00
61	1	0	1	3	5	6	8	8	0	$41,162.50	Total	62	0	1	2	4	5	15	15	12	0	$148,500.00

Team Finishes by Season

			Results												Matches
Season	Assoc	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Won	Lost	Pct
2011	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	$0.00	0	3	0.0 %
2011	CEV	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$11,500.00	9	3	75.0 %
2011	CEV C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,200.00	6	1	85.7 %
Total	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	$0.00	0	3	0.0 %
Total	CEV	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$11,500.00	9	3	75.0 %
Total	CEV C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,200.00	6	1	85.7 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Thomas Kaczmarek													Alexander Walkenhorst
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	2002	CEV Under Age
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2003	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	2004	CEV Under Age
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$1,000.00	2005	FIVB
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2005	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2005	CEV Under Age
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2006	FIVB Age Group WC
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2007	FIVB
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$250.00	2007	FIVB C&S
2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	$2,375.00	2007	CEV
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2007	CEV Under Age
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	$3,500.00	2008	FIVB
2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$1,250.00	2008	FIVB C&S
											2008	FIVB Age Group WC	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00	2008	CEV
1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	2008	CEV Under Age
11	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	7	$7,925.00	2009	FIVB
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2009	CEV
											2009	CEV Under Age	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	$0.00	2010	FIVB
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$600.00	2010	FIVB C&S
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$750.00	2010	CEV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$750.00
4	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	$1,780.00	2010	CEV C&S
											2010	CEV Under Age	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	$0.00	2011	FIVB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	$0.00
2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$5,750.00	2011	CEV	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$5,750.00
2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$1,325.00	2011	CEV C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$1,100.00
52	5	0	4	2	5	7	4	3	22	$26,505.00	Total	Total	10	3	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	$7,600.00

Team Match Records

	Won 1st Set								Lost 1st Set								2 Set Matches		3 Set Matches		By Forfeit		All Matches
Season	Won 2-0		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Overall		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Lost 2-0		Overall		Overall		Overall		Won	Lost	Overall
Overall	14	77.8%	3	16.7%	1	5.6%	17-1	94.4%	1	14.3%	4	57.1%	2	28.6%	1-6	14.3%	14-2	87.5%	4-5	44.4%	0	0	18-7	72.0%
2010-2011	8	80.0%	1	10.0%	1	10.0%	9-1	90.0%	1	20.0%	3	60.0%	1	20.0%	1-4	20.0%	8-1	88.9%	2-4	33.3%	0	0	10-5	66.7%
Against the Field	10	83.3%	1	8.3%	1	8.3%	11-1	91.7%	0	0.0%	4	100.0%	0	0.0%	0-4	0.0%	20-0	100.0%	2-10	16.7%	0	0	11-5	68.8%

Team Match Records by Round

	Country Quota		Qualifier		Pool Play		Lucky Loser		Elimination Rounds		Semi-Finals		Bronze Medal		Gold Medal		Overall
Tournament Type	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Challenge/Four Star/Open	1	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6
Confederation Championship	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4
Total	1	5	2	3	3	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	12

Head to Head Results
Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst lead the series against the field 13-4 (Lead 8 Series, Trail 3 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Hordvik/Horrem, Norway 0-1
7/15/11	CEV	CEV Serbian Masters	Winner 2	Hordvik/Horrem	1	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	16	21-18, 14-21, 15-11	0:50
Trail the series against # 4 Babich/Ioisher, Ukraine 0-1
7/16/11	CEV	CEV Serbian Masters	Contender 3	Babich/Ioisher	6	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	16	23-21, 13-21, 16-14	0:54
Lead the series against # 5 Boersma/Spijkers, Netherlands 1-0
7/24/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Gold Medal	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	Boersma/Spijkers	5	21-18, 21-19	0:39
Series tied with # 6 Brouwer/Meeuwsen, Netherlands 1-1
6/19/11	CEV C&S	CEV Satellite Lausanne	Semi-Finals	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	2	Brouwer/Meeuwsen	10, Q7	21-17, 21-19	0:41
6/17/11	CEV C&S	CEV Satellite Lausanne	Winner 2	Brouwer/Meeuwsen	10, Q7	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	2	21-10, 21-23, 15-13	0:56
Lead the series against # 7 Szternel/Wojtasik, Poland 2-0
7/22/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Winner 2	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	Szternel/Wojtasik	7	21-15, 21-15	0:32
7/15/11	CEV	CEV Serbian Masters	Winner 1	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	16	Szternel/Wojtasik	17	21-14, 21-13	0:34
Lead the series against # 8, Q2 Stiekema/Varenhorst, Netherlands 3-0
7/24/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Semi-Finals	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	Stiekema/Varenhorst	8, Q2	21-14, 21-12	0:31
7/16/11	CEV	CEV Serbian Masters	Contender 2	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	16	Stiekema/Varenhorst	9	21-16, 21-12	0:33
6/19/11	CEV C&S	CEV Satellite Lausanne	Gold Medal	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	2	Stiekema/Varenhorst	11, Q9	21-19, 21-19	0:48
Trail the series against # 14, Q4 Caics/Smedins, Latvia 0-1
7/23/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Winner 4	Caics/Smedins	14, Q4	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	24-22, 15-21, 15-11	0:56
Lead the series against # 15, Q5 Dumek/Tichy, Czech Republic 1-0
7/23/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Winner 3	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	Dumek/Tichy	15, Q5	21-17, 19-21, 15-10	0:53
Lead the series against # 18 Sutter/Sutter, Switzerland 1-0
6/17/11	CEV C&S	CEV Satellite Lausanne	Contender 2	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	2	Sutter/Sutter	5	21-17, 22-20	0:43
Lead the series against # 23 Kantor/Losiak, Poland 1-0
7/22/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Winner 1	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	Kantor/Losiak	23	21-19, 21-14	0:38
Lead the series against # 24, Q16 Popek/Wieczorek, Poland 1-0
7/23/11	CEV	CEV Polish Masters	Contender 5	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	10	Popek/Wieczorek	24, Q16	21-19, 21-17	0:39
Lead the series against # Q6 Dollinger/Stiel, Germany 2-0
7/15/11	CEV	CEV Serbian Masters	Contender 1	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	16	Dollinger/Stiel	15	21-10, 21-13	0:35
6/18/11	CEV C&S	CEV Satellite Lausanne	Contender 3	Kaczmarek/Walkenhorst	2	Dollinger/Stiel	9, Q5	21-18, 21-17	0:44