Dirk Desmet
Career
Ranking per season. The bigger the ball, the more games; the colour shows how often they were won.
Form
The Ppong rating after every match day. Beat stronger players and it rises, before your ranking changes.
Playing style
Often beats stronger players, but also often loses to weaker ones. Unpredictable: typical of pimples or an odd rubber.
- Against higher: 1.26 × the expected wins
- Against lower: 1.44 × the expected losses
- Based on 26–27, 25–26
Under pressure
How it ends when it gets close. the mark is what the rankings predict
37 of 63 won
won 4 of 87 after trailing 0–2
lost 6 of 46 after leading 2–0
Home and away
In the home hall versus on the road (league).
Against higher, equal and lower
Win rate against a higher, equal or lower ranking. The mark is what the rankings predict.
Position in the team
As player 1, 2, 3 or 4 of the line-up.
Through the season
Win rate per month, September to May. The mark is what the rankings predict.
Best wins
Wins against higher ranked players.
- D4→C2 François GoffeOostende 3–0 26/03/2026 · League
- D4→C4 Dries HouwenWesthoek 3–2 18/04/2026 · League
- D4→C4 Carl VerstedenOostende 3–1 24/01/2024 · League
- D4→C4 Karel DescheemaekerPaletje 3–2 21/10/2023 · League
- D4→C6 Frederic van PraetAtanis 3–1 28/03/2026 · League
- D4→C6 Joris GadeyneKoekelare 3–0 05/02/2026 · League
Opponents
Nemeses
- Stéphane Petiau
Oostduinkerke · C2 0–4 - Bjorn Saelens
Oostende · D4 0–4 - Stefaan Vanneste
De Woudpalet · C4 0–3 - Jacques Ingelbrecht
Zandvoorde · D2 0–3 - Joris Gadeyne
Koekelare · C6 1–5 - Geert Noppe
Oostende · D6 1–4 - Alain Hendryckx
Oostende · D0 1–3 - Stefaan van Parys
Brugge · D6 1–2
Favourites
- Sandra van Rompay
Knokke-Heist · E6 3–0 - Carl Commeene
Meulebeke · E0 3–0 - Omer Tylleman
Koekelare · E4 3–0 - Pol Vanalderweireldt
De Woudpalet · D4 3–1 - Eddy Maertens
Oostduinkerke · D4 3–1 - Manuel Lopes
Knokke-Heist · E2 3–1 - Didier van de Voorde
De Woudpalet · E6 2–1
Met most often
- Joris Gadeyne
Koekelare · C6 1–5 - Geert Noppe
Oostende · D6 1–4 - Wim Devloo
Sobeka · E0 2–2 - Manuel Lopes
Knokke-Heist · E2 3–1 - Stéphane Petiau
Oostduinkerke · C2 0–4 - Eddy Maertens
Oostduinkerke · D4 3–1 - Alain Hendryckx
Oostende · D0 1–3 - Bjorn Saelens
Oostende · D4 0–4
Against clubs
Clubs with at least three games.
Most often in the same team
- Filip Holvoet 31 team matches
- Dirk Van Respaille 24 team matches
- Kürt Devrieze 13 team matches
- Ahmed Hammad 9 team matches
- Ronny Lazou 8 team matches
- Vick Vanhoutte 7 team matches
- Carl Lombardo 6 team matches
- Wouter Delouw 6 team matches
Doubles partners
- Filip Holvoet 4 of 19 won
- Kürt Devrieze 6 of 10 won
- Ahmed Hammad 2 of 8 won
- Dirk Van Respaille 0 of 2 won
- Vick Vanhoutte 1 of 1 won
- Mario Bruneel 1 of 1 won
- Wouter Delouw 0 of 1 won
- Dariusz Sawala 0 of 1 won
Milestones
- First game 21 September 2023
- First win against a C player 18 October 2023 against Johan Lefere (C6)
- 100 games 8 February 2025
- 50 wins 22 February 2025
- 7 × every game won on a match day 30 September 2026
- 6 wins in a row 8 October 2026