Benedikt Duda and TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt have agreed to a two-year contract extension, Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) announced on Friday.
This extension will keep Duda with his hometown team for his 12th and 13th seasons in the Bundesliga. The Bergneustadt native will remain with the club his brother trains, the same club his father once played for.
Duda began training with Bergneustadt in 2004, when he was just 10 years old. In the years since, Duda became one of Germany’s top players and a true Bundesliga superstar while wearing Bergneustadt's uniform.
Duda’s individual record of 12:5 (+7) this season makes him the Bundesliga’s No. 3 player as of this article’s publication. He has defeated Fan Zhendong, Jonathan Groth and Hiroto Shinozuka this season, among many other stars.
Duda ranks as the No. 12 Men’s Singles player in the world, which is the second-best ranking of any German player (Dang Qiu, No. 10). He won WTT Contender Skopje 2025 and finished the WTT Europe Smash 2025 as a semifinalist, two of the many accomplishments that earned him an invite to the prestigious WTT Finals Hong Kong 2025.
The hometown hero is one of the four players on Bergneustadt's roster, alongside Romain Ruiz, Adrien Rassenfosse and Leo de Nodrest. Those four players have willed their club to a 6-4 record and a 12:8 point differential, which makes them the Bundesliga's fifth seed.
Bergneustadt suffered one of 2025's biggest offseason losses when Kanak Jha transferred to Borussia Düsseldorf. With this extension, they do not have to worry about their longtime superstar doing the same for another two years.
Bergneustadt will play its next match against Bad Homburg on Saturday.
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