table tennis player, born in Augerum outside Karlskrona in 1991. He received his pingisfostran in Lyckeby BTK and later moved to the west coast and Halmstad BTK. The past season he has been a professional in the French club Pontoise-Cergy, but by the autumn he will play for Werder Bremen in Germany.
Well, it is the same. Karlsson got married in the summer of 2018 and changed the name. In the team CHAMPIONSHIPS in Halmstad in may last year, he played as Mattias Karlsson, in the european CHAMPIONSHIPS later in the fall, he surfaced as Falck.
No, but you can almost believe it. The two 27-year-olds are similar to each other in appearance, have trained together since childhood and has achieved success in the double together. And Karlsson was the best man at falck’s wedding.
Well, many people probably thought it was Kristian Karlsson that would make the big breakthrough, but it is Falck who have taken the big step the last year. Much thanks to his mental strength. Pingislegendaren Jan-Ove Waldner says that he early saw falck’s ability to dare to play out in crucial situations, and win the regular set.
Before the world CUP, he was the number 16, as best he has been tolva. Now he will climb on the ranking.
In singles, yes. But there is a lot in medaljskåpet. The bronze in the team world CUP at home in Halmstad, sweden last year weighs heavily, the first Swedish lagmedaljen in 14 years. In doubles, he has EM-silver with Kristian Karlsson both 2012 and 2018, and EM-silver in the mixed with Matilda Ekholm 2016. Plus two additional EM-bronze in the doubles. Thus, it is the gold that is missing.
He plays with the studs outward on the forehand side, which makes him almost unique in the world. On the women’s side, it is more common with the need for a swift, but then on the backhand side. Falck will get less screw in its kind, but has instead a real weapon in his smash. The studs also facilitates in returtagningen.
Falck has methodically improved its weaknesses and can certainly be further developed. He is already one of Europe’s best players, but to repeat a similar performance at the world CUP is not something you do in order. It is still a bit left to toppkineserna. But Falck took now for the first time, a set of Ma Long, who has three straight world CHAMPIONSHIPS. It will be interesting to follow Sweden in the team context, with Falck in the lead and 17-year-old storlöftet Truls Möregårdh at the time.
