Mariusz Prudel (born 21 January 1986) is a male

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player from Poland. He competed in the

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with his partner

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. The other teams in their pool, group D, were Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Ruslans Sorokins (Latvia),

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and

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(USA) and the South African team of Freedom Chiya and Grant Goldschmidt. They lost to the Latvian team, but beat the South African and American teams. Next they played the Swiss pair of Sascha Heyer and Seba Chevallier in the last 16, winning two sets to nil. In the quarterfinals they lost to the Brazilian team of

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and

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. Prudel and Fijałek were considered to be medal contenders in the 2012 Olympics. He and Fijałek were ranked fifth before the competition began after placing 25th at

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, the pair's 2012 debut. However, the two placed seventh in the Olympic qualifiers. In July 2012, Prudel and Fijałek won a bronze medal at the Berlin Grand Slam. Prudel was born in 1986 in his hometown of

Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 mi) from the Czech Republic, Czech border. It i ...

, Poland. He is coached by Martin Olejnak and is married to Ani Prudel.

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