Petrissa Solja

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 (qualifying for citizenship due to grandmother

Table tennis career Solja is coached by her father, Pavel,

With Sabine Winter, she won the German national doubles championship in 2013 and 2014.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Solja won a silver medal in the women's team competition after being beaten, alongside partner Han Ying, by the Chinese team by 0 to 3. This result was the best by a European team in the women's team competition at the Olympics, and exceeded expectations given the team's third seed position. This was the first World Championship medal in mixed doubles for Germany since 1971.

Solja played for German club TTC Berlin Eastside from 2014, and signing for TSV Langstadt in 2018.

In 2019, Solja came back from 3 games down to win gold in the ITTF-Europe Top 16 against Bernadette Szőcs.