Stefan Feth is a Head Coach at the World Champions Table Tennis Academy, Bay Area CA

Hometown: Lahnstein, Germany

Current Residence:  Bay Area, California

Home Club: World Champions Table Tennis Academy (WCTTA)

USATT National Level Coach

 Coaching timeline:

Full time coach in the Bay Area, California since May 2006

• 2006 – 2008 Coach Elite Junior Program Palo Alto TT Club
• 2008 – Present Head Coach at World Champions Table Tennis Academy (WCTTA)
• 2009 – 2021 US Men’s National Team Coach
• 2010 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Moscow
• 2011 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Rotterdam
• 2011 US Men’s Team Coach Pan American Games, Guadalajara
• 2012 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Dortmund
• 2012 US Men’s Olympic Team Coach, London
• 2013 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Paris
• 2013 US Men’s Team Coach World Team Cup, Guangzhou
• 2014 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Tokyo
• 2014 US Men’s Team Coach Men’s Singles World Cup, Duesseldorf
• 2015 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Suzhou
• 2015 US Men’s Team Coach Men’s Singles World Cup, Halmstad
• 2015 US Men’s Team Coach Pan American Games, Toronto
• 2016 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Kuala Lumpur
• 2016 US Men’s Team Coach Men’s Singles World Cup, Saarbruecken
• 2017 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Duesseldorf
• 2018 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Halmstad
• 2018 US Men’s Team Coach World Team Cup, London
• 2018 US Coach Youth Olympic Games, Buenos Aires
• 2019 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Budapest
• 2019 US Men’s Team Coach Pan American Games, Lima
• 2021 US Men’s Olympic Team Coach, Tokyo
• 2021 US Men’s Team Coach World Championships, Houston

Personal: Stefan Feth started playing table tennis in Germany and went on a Sports Boarding School, a special school for training future professional athletes. Every day, after academic classes, he would train for several hours. After being a former German National Team Member from 1991 – 2006 (Cadet, Junior & Men’s National Teams), Stefan moved to the US and started to work as a professional coach in the Bay Area.

Coaching Achievements:

• 2016, 2018 & 2019 USATT National Coach of the Year
• 2011, 2012 & 2013 USATT Development Coach of the Year
• 2013 USOC Top 3 Finalist for Development Coach of the Year
• 2012, 2015 & 2016 North American Team Champion with the US Men’s Team
• 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 US National Team Champion with WCTTA Junior Boy’s Team
• 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 US Men’s Singles Champion Kanak Jha
• 2018 Youth Olympic Games Bronze Medal Men’s Singles, Kanak Jha
• 2019 Gold Medal Pan American Games USA Men’s Team
• 2021 World Championships Men’s Singles Quarter finalist Kanak Jha

Playing Career Achievements:

• 1991-2006 German National Team Member (Cadet, Junior and Men’s Team)
• 1997 German Junior Champion
• 1997 European Junior Champion
• 2001 German Champion U21
• 2001 Slovenian Open – U21 Singles Champion
• 2002 German Nationals – Mixed Doubles Runner-up
• 2002 German Nationals – Men’s Singles Semifinalist
• 2002 German Champion 1. Bundesliga TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau
• 2003 US Open – Doubles Semifinalist
• 2004 German Nationals – Men’s Singles Semifinalist
• 2004 Golden State Open – Singles Champion
• 2005 Slovenian Open – Doubles Runner-up
• 2005 Golden State Open – Singles Champion
• 2005 Robo Pong – Singles Champion
• 2005 Western Open – Singles Champion
• 2005 Lafayette Open – Singles Champion
• 2006 US Open – Doubles Runner-up
• 2006 German Naionals – Men’s Doubles Semifinalist
• 2006 San Diego Open – Singles Champion
• 2006 Socal Open – Singles Champion
• 2006 Berkeley Open – Singles and Doubles Champion
• 2006 Western Open – Singles Champion
• 2007 US Open – Men’s Singles & Men’s Doubles Semifinalist
• 2007 Extravaganza Open – Singles Champion
• 2009 Butterfly Cary Cup Champion

What is your most memorable experience/result as a coach: Kanak Jha’s original coach from his very beginning in 2006 as a novice player.  In only 14 years, developed Kanak to become the 2016, 2017,2018 & 2019 US Men’s Singles Champion, Team USA’s youngest Olympian in the 2016 Rio Olympics and Bronze medalists in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Singles. After all the domestic success together with Kanak Jha, the most rewarding fact is that he is now pursuing a full time professional career with a Singles World Ranking high at # 22 in table tennis internationally.

Also helped develop many other young US players to become National Champions & Olympians.