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SPECIAL FEATURE:

2001 U.S. Open/ITTF Pro Tour ............ 34-5

by Lizin Hodges, Tim Boggan and Alan Williams.......................................

FEATURES:

11 Point Games Are Here! b.j· Lci,·ry Hodges .............................................................

Interview with Joe Krzys of "AmericasTeams" M·Am·n' Hodges.........................9

¥irstTime attheWorlds by USA Tectin Member Ashu Jain. 1

Changing Table Dimensions b j Tim Boggan 8

Germany's Olga Nemes by Tim Boggmi..................................................................8

Book Review: ITTF 1926-2001 : Table Tennis Legends Revieu· br Tim Boggan......8.......................................

TOURNAMENTS:

Special Feature: Tournament Row!

·$20,000 St. Joseph Valley Open by Dan Seemiller 6•Meiklejohn National Senior Open br Thn Boggan..............................................6

·NATT Tour Stop#2: Matthew Murad Memorial Open bv Alan Williams.....6·NATT Tour Stop#3: Eastern Open b.yA/an Williams. 6•CancerQ Garden State Open by Larn· Hodges............................................6

•Coral Springs CCA U.S. Open Warm-up /n· LarrY Hodges.......................6

•Dave Ramsey Memorial Open by Kamran Azimradeh.............................7

•Golden State Open bvDennis Lui„ 1

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Zhang Yining: Time for Anticipation

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Executive Director's Report /n' Dwight Jo/un·,m 12Netserve bv Tim Titrud 12

They Said It! b.v luirn· Hodger 12Letters (including letter from ITTF President Adham Sharara) ........................20

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11-POINT GAMES ARE HERE!By Larry Hodges

As USA Table Tennis Magazine was about to go to press, the USATTBoard of Directors voted to adopt the new ITTF 1 1-point game

rules as of Sept. 1. The motion allows a grace period through Dec.31 where tournament directors may use either format (11-point or

21-point games). It also states that the U.S. Nationals in Decemberwill use 11-point rules. The motion passed was as follows:

"All USATT-sanctioned tournaments played after Janu-ary 1,2002, shall follow the ITTF 1 1-point game rules.From September 1 to December 31, 2001, tournamentsmay utilize either 1 1-point or 21-point games, with thenumber of games per match (best of five, seven, etc.)

specified for all the events listed on the entry form. The2001 USA Table Tennis National Championships shall

use 11-point games."

Summarv of the new 11-point rules• Games are to 11 points; you still have to win by 2 points.• Players alternate serves every two points until deuce (10-all).· Tournament Directors may decide whether matches shall be

best of five, seven, or whatever else they choose (just as theycurrently decide between best of three or best of five).

• Players may take a one-minute break between games (com-

pared to the current two minutes)

• Players may towel off every six points (compared to the cur-rent every five points)

WHITNEY PING AWARDED TRAINING GRANT

Whitney Ping. of Beaverton. Oregon. wasrecently awarded a Women's Sports Foundation

Travel and Training Grant, A maximum of $20()0can be awarded per individual. To qualify for the

grant. the individual or team must demonstrate

regional. national or international ranking or thepotential for such a ranking. Whitney is currentlyranked #2 in the U.S. in Under 16 Girls. She was

among 38 athletes and 15 teams from 31 sportsthat were awarded grants this Spring. In the past 17 years over $ 1.1 mil-lion have been awarded to more than 240 teams and 890 individuals.

Applications for the 2001 fall grant program are available nowby calling the Foundation at HOO-227-3988 or online at

www.WomensSportsFoundation.org.Founded in 1974 by Billie Jean King. the Women's Sports Founda-

tion is a charitable educational organization dedicated to increasing theparticipation of girls and women in sports and fitness, and creating atieducated public that supports gender equity in sport. The Foundation kParticipation, Education, Advocacy, Research and Leadership programsare made possible by individual and corporate contributions.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE U.S.?

At the recent U.S. Open in Ft. Lauderdale, preliminary Nteps wei-etaken to bring the 2005 or 2007 World Championships to the UnitedStates. USATT President Sheri Soderberg Pittman, Dave Sakai andDan Seemiller met informally with representatives of the ITTF to

discuss our desire to host the Worlds. and were favorably received.The USATT Executive Board has given verbal approval for Dave Sakai

to head up the task force.

THE NEW RULES11-Point Games (Sept. 1, 2001 - Now!)New Service Rule (Sept. 1, 2002 - Next Year)

11-Point Game Rules (effective Sept. 1, 2001)2.11 A Game

2.11.1 A game shall be won by the player or pair first scoring 11

points unless both players or pairs score 10 points, when

the game shall be won by the first player or pair subse-quently gaining a lead of 2 points.

2.12 A Match

2.12.1 A match shall consist of the best of any odd numberof games.2.13 The Order of Serving, Receiving and Ends

2.13.3 After each 2 points have been scored the receiving player

or pair shall become the serving player or pair and so onuntil the end of the game. unless both players or pairs score10 points or the expedite system is in operation, when thesequence of serving and receiving shall be the same but

each player shall serve for only 1 point in turn.2.13.6 The player or pair serving first in a game shall receive first in

the next game of the match. and in the last possible game ofa double match the pair due to receive next shall change their

order of receiving when first one pair scores 5 points.2.13.7 The player or pair starting at one end iii a game shall start

at the other end in the next game of the match and in thelast possible game of a match the players or pairs shallchange ends when first one player or pair scores 5 points.

2.15 The Expedite System

2.15.1 Except where both players or pairs have scored at least 9points, the expedite system shall come into operation if agame is unfinished after 10 minutes play or at any earliertime at the request of both players or pairs.

2.15.3 lf the expedite system is introduced, or if a game lasts

longer than 10 minutes, all subsequent games of that matchshall be played under the expedite system.

3.4.4 Intervals

3.4.4.1 Play shall be continuous throughout a match except thatany player is entitled to

3.4.4.1.1 an interval of up to 1 minute between successive games ofa match;

3.4.4.1.2 brief intervals for toweling after every 6 points from thestart of each game and at the change of ends in the lastpossible game of a match.

New Service Rule (Effective Sept. 1, 2002)(The wording was only recently finalized)The New Rule

2.6.5 When the ball is struck, no part of the body or clothing of

the server or his doubles partner shall be within or abovethe triangular area formed by the net and imaginary linesbetween the ball and the tops of the net posts, at a heightwhere it could hide the ball from the receiver, 0

ORLOWSKI-PANSKY LOOKING TO TOUR USA

By Tim Boggan

Former European Champion Milan Orlowski and his 1985 WorldDoubles finalist partner Jindrich Pansky for years now have had asuccessful Exhibition Tour. They're looking to bring their sophisticatedshow (thal might also involve local players) to the States in the spring of2002. Anyone interested in details please contact their Manager DanielSuchanek. Here's how he can be reached: Address: Pfurrer-Huber-Str.

24,85456 Wartenberg, Germany. Phone: 087 62/72 10 17. Fax: 08762/

72 10 18. E-mail: [email protected]

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ptes@ent S #UpottBy Sheri Soderberg Pittman

Tournaments such as the U.S. Open present a wide

range of opportunities to our members. Most participants

enjoy the chance to prove themselves at the table, to watch

the elite players in action and to catch up with old friends

while making new ones. It is my duty and honor to rep-resent our association. This month's "association primer

series" focuses on the behind-the-scenes work that I typi-

cally do as USATT president.

TOURNAMENT MANAGEMENT

It is my responsibility to see that alllogistics are del-

egated properly so that the event runs smoothly and re-flects positively on our association. Thanks to the greatcooperation by everyone - including the tournamentstaff, the USATT participants and the Pro Tour players- all went well. We especially appreciate the extraordi-nary support by the 20+ Japanese umpires.

Because our staff and volunteers handled the event L-]

so professionally, my direct intervention was not neces- Men'

sary on most matters. However, at one point a questionarose as to whether Wang Chen should be allowed to rep-

resent USA in the ITTF Pro Tour. The evening before the prelimi-naries began, Yu Bin, a Chinese Table Tennis Association Vice Presi-dent, and I were in the lobby when a fax arrived from the CTTA

protesting her participation. On the morning of the preliminaries,the question was still unsettled. ITIF Competition Manager ZlatkoCordas was exchanging e-mails with ITTF's Executive Director JordiSerra; Yu Bin and I were similarly engaged in discussions. Within ashort time, taking all of the relevant details into account, they agreedto allow her to play as a USA-designated player.

I regularly touched base with Zlatko and other tournament offi-cials. When Zlatko spoke at this year's tournament party, he de-clared that our ITTF Pro Tour is "among the top four in the world."

SPONSORSHIP RELATIONS

The U.S. Open is also a showcase event for our sponsors. Theirproducts are seen and used. I need to ensure that our sponsors arepleased with their investment decision.

Earlier this year, the Board opted to go with Buttertly as our newtable sponsor. Through its many years as our table sponsor, Stiga hadpreviously set the standard regarding service expectations. Martin-Kilpatrick's Chris Burner deserves credit for making this transitionseamless. He personally oversaw every detail of the tournament set-up. He was also instrumental in upgrading Butterfly's sponsorshipafter the U.S. Open. With the support of Martin-Kilpatrick's ownerBowie Martin and Butterfly's representative Hideko Konishi, Butter-fly has since invited USATT to send up to 4 juniors every year to theworld-famous Butterfly Dohjo training center for one month. Thankyou, Martin-Kilpatrick and Buttertly, for the wonderful job you did atthe U.S. Open and for your generous sponsorship!

USATI' Executive Director Dwight Johnson and I formally metwith Mitch Rothfleisch of The Table Tennis Pioneers, our Stigaclothing sponsor. I have accepted Mitch's invitation to meet againat the Stiga Western Open in San Diego in September to discussfuture joint USATT/Stiga activities. The presidents and otherexecutives from Escalade Sports, Sweden Table Tennis and The TableTennis Pioneers will attend the meeting.

Awarding prizes at the U.S. Open ITTF Pro Tour.

Et: Miguel Delgado { ITTF Vice President for Latin America),s Singles Champion Liu Guozheng, Runner-up Johnny Huang,

USATT President Sheri Pittman.

I entertained Mr. Hirose and Nittaku's special guests at the U.S.Open on two occasions. Mr. Hirose expressed deep satisfuctionwith our association and with Paddle Palace, their US distributor.

USATT'S CONTRACT WITH "AMERICASTEAMS"

Over the past 12+ months, USATI' has signed a series of Internetcollaborative agreements with a company now known as

AmericasTeams. Those legal documents ranged from promises ofconfidentiality, to exclusive negotiating agreements. to an actualagreement. I encouraged Joe Krzys, the originator of the masterplan,to attend our Board meeting. Since he was unable to travel at thelast minute, he agreed to be teleconferenced into the Board meet-ing. Joe gave our association permission to divulge news of thedeal. Through our AmericasTeams contract, our association will havea financial backer supporting our market niche as the unequivocalwebsite for US table tennis information. For more details, see theinterview with Joe Krzys on page 22.

NATT'S PROPOSED NEW TOURNAMENT& RATINGS SOFTWARE

I attended a software demonstration by Fong Hsu and RichardLee of North American Table Tennis. The software - which fea-

tures tournament processing. ratings recalculations and ratings his-tories - is currently being beta-tested. If it is adopted as USATT'sofficial software, tournament directors will have an easier time run-

ning events and everyone will benefit from more timely and accu-rate ratings updates.

ITTF RELATIONS

Unfortunately for us, ITTF President Adham Sharara was unableto attend this year's event. After the tournament, I received this e-mail from him, "Congratulations on a successful U.S. Open. I heardfrom all that it was the best organized U.S. Open so far. Again, I amsorry I missed it ....

For the first time, the ITTF sent its own press person. ITTFMedia & Communication Manager Peter Jensen prepared regular

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feature news items about tile event on the ITTF's official website,

www.itti.com. I hosted Peter and Zlatko at a small 4 of July gathering.

ITTF Continental Vice President for Latin America Miguel Delgadoagreed to he recognized as the ITTF's representative when we learned that

Adham could not attend. Miguel spoke botli at the tournament and at USATT's

Board of Directors meeting. Miguel and I continued to discuss the possibili-

ties of a USA-held Pan American Youtli Championship as well as ati ITTF-

recognized training center in the U.S.

FUTURE USATT-RUN ITTF EVENTS

Dave Sakai ix heading up a task torce to put together a USATT bid to

host the world championships before the end of the decade. 1 an-anged fur us

to meet with Zlatko and Peter to help him get stalled.As a prelude to that bid, 1 have initiated talks with the ITTF about host-

ing the ITTF Pro Tour Final in 2002 in conjunction with our U.S. Nationals.

Compared to regular Pro Tour events. the Pro Tour Final requires much lessof a financial investinent on our part, yet virtually guarantees the woild's toppool of athletes. The primary financial requirements for the host association

are to assume players' hospitality and event facility fees. For once the stars

are aligned in our favor. Hotel rooms are inexpensive. And, in an ironic twistof fate, the convention center has already told us that our complimentary spaceusage will end after this year's Nationals unless we can promise televisioncoverage. This solution would also mean that USATT would continue to belisted as the host of an ITTF Pro Tour (an important objective for the ITTF).and would give us flexibility regarding next year's U.S. Open. USATT hasalready reseived Las Vegas convention center space for the December 14'11weekend in 2002.

At my request, ITTF President Sharara has promised to lend us the assis-tance of ITTFs Marketing Director Anders Thunstrom to advance USATT'smarketing strategies.

PREPARATION FOR THE 2008 OLYMPICS

The U.S. Open concluded just prior to the IOC's vote to award the 2008

Olympics to Beijing. We prepared ourselves for that outcome. Prior to the

U.S. Open. Dwight and I wot*ked together to impress upon the CTIA and theUSOC the importance of meeting in Foit Lauderdale. We are delighted thatthis meeting occurred. Since then Blair Tripodi. the USOC NGB Marketing

Director has followed up with Yu Bin to begin discussing some proposedevents [ending up to tile 2008 Olympics. The USOC/CTTA meeting has al-ready boosted our image within the USOC and among many of its affiliatednational governing bodies. Most important. though. these efforts to increasefunding, add press exposure and expand our accessibility to China's trainingtechniques will directly benefit our 2008 Olympians.

USOC RELATIONS

Besides meeting with Yu Bin. Blair Tripodi and I discussed pmposedjoint USATI'/LATTU itiitiatives with Miguel Delgado.

Dwight Johnson reported to the Board the progress we've made toward

completing our USOC-mandated strategic development plan. Since the U.S.Open, I have drafted our international relations portion of the plan in keepingwith USOC President Sandy Baldwin's vision of adopting a global approach

in our association's development strategies. 1 have also informed AdhamSharara that we will forward the plan to the ITTE As he himself wrote (Mee

page 20), the ITTF could be another willing investor in our future.

USATT ELECTIONS

The current Board has restored the right of the membership to choose yourassociation officers. As Ive previously reported, we are transitioning into aquadiennial election cycle. Please exercise your right to vote! The successful

candidates will attend the next Board meeting in November. ITTF PresidentAdham Sharara has accepted an invitation to attend the meeting and will also be

available to nieet separately with USOC representatives at that tinie.

USATT Board of Directors

President: Sheri Soderberg Pittman

1520 Dale Lane • Delray Beach, FL 33444

(561) 276-4615 • [email protected]

Executive Vice President: Bob Tretheway

RO. Box 2138 • Colorado Springs, CO 80901(719) 339-2519 • [email protected]

Treasurer: Tong Lee

1295 Quandt Court • Lafayette, CA 94549-2624


Secretary: Dennis Taylor

2821 N. Westmoreland St. • Arlington, VA 22213


Vice President: George Brathwaite580 Main St., Apt. 756 • Roosevelt Island, NY 10044


Vice President: Khoa Nguyen

3286 Pappanni Way • San Jose, CA 95148


Vice President: Barney D. Reed6826 Wertzville Rd.

Enola, PA 17025


Vice President: Dr. Jiing Wang

11511 E. Garvey Ave. • El Monte, CA 91732(626) 443-8891

Vice President & Foundation

Representative: Jimmy McClure

4226 Country Club Blvd. • Cape Coral, FL 33904

(941) 945-1718 (ph) • (941) 945-6448 (fax)

Interim Group B Vice President: Henry McCoullum

320 Tofttrees Ave., Apt. 142State College, PA 16803

(814) 238-7962 • hwmt @psu.edu

Olympic Athlete Representative: Li Ai500 Eldorado Blvd • UBRM03-191

Broomfield, CO 80021


National Athlete Representative: Todd Sweeris740] Westlake Terrace, #312 • Bethesda, MD 20817


National Athlete Representative: Tawny Banh31 South 5th St. #A • Alhambra, CA 91801


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L.-21--JThis month 1 will profile the website of

the National Collegiate Table TennisAssociation (NCTTA). www.nctta.org.NCTTA is a student-run organizationdedicated to promoting competitive tabletennis at the collegiate level. NCTTA wasestablished iii 1992 as the League of NortheastIntercollegiate Table Tennis (LNITT). Thename was changed in 1999 to reflect thegrowth of the league to schools throughoutthe nation.

NCTTA-member schools compete iiiregional divisions throughout the academicyear. with the winner of each divisioncompeting in the NCTTA ChampionshipFinals in the spritig. In the 20()O-01 season,there were 40 schools competing in 9divisions. from as far south as Florida and as

far west as Oregon.Table tennis is one of the least developed

sports at the collegiate level. NCTTA takesthis as a challenge; their goal is to make tabletennis a competitive sport and to somedayhave table tennis be in the NCAA. Being astudent-run organization, the NCITA's budgetis very small. and so the website is a valuabletool for the organization.

I myself became involved in NCTTAthrough the web site. In Oregon, we had fourcolleges with table tennis programs. but withno formal organization. While I was surfingtable tennis sites. 1 come across the NCTTA

website, and I found it to be quite professionaland informative. The site gave me the clearly-defined rules of the organization, informationon how to join, contacts, and a list of all theteams. What I found most interesting is that thesite has a list of all the matches of every player.

The website inspired me with the resultthat last year the Northwest division was born.with me as the first Northwest RegionDirector. Next year we will expand from fourto seven schools with the addition of three

schools from Washington state.Check out their web site and find out how

you can support college table tennis in your area.Let's make the dream of the NCTTA to make

table tennis an NCAA sport a reality. I ,

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Lcecatioe 9bitectot s K.pottBy Acting Executive Director Dwight Johnson

I was recently asked by someone outside the sport,

"What do you do as the Executive Director of USA

Table Tennis?" That got me to thinking that many of you

do not know what we do here at USATT Headquarters. Sowith that said let's explore what each person does here atthe Headquarters for you, the membership.

Dawn Simon is our Ad- ministrative Coordinator. She

is responsible for maintaining and updating the membershipdatabase, club affiliation, coaching activities, processingAtournaments, and the mail. , .- Dawn is the one you want tocontact if you have any questions about membership,clubs, coaching, and tournaments.

Fran Boardman is our Ratings Coordinator. Her main focus, although not limited tothis, is updating ratings and processing tournaments. She also investigates discrepancieswithin the tournaments to ensure that the ratings are as accurate as possible. So if you havea question about your rating, call Fran.

Al Prast is our Financial Manager. He is responsible for the finances within USATTHe does all invoicing, billing. and accounts receivable. He also interfaces with our bankand auditors.

Margaret Smith is our Operations Director. She is the backbone of this organization.Margaret oversees all the activities above and more, She runs all the USATT sponsoredtournaments, elections, national team activities, officials activities, board votes, interna-

tional relations and competition, elite youth activities, web activities, and interfacing withthe editor of the magazine. Margaret is busy all the time but always trys to find the time totalk with you the member.

Debbie Doney is our Program Director. She is responsible for all the programs through-out USATT, such as grassroots programs. corporate sponsorship, membership drives, clubideas, coaching programs, communications and media liaison, and many others too numer-ous to mention here. If you have an idea please contact Debbie and I know that she will helpdevelop or let you know what is going on with USATT Programs.

As the Executive Director I am ultimately responsible for all the above. I also interactwith the Executive Directors of other USA sports and the U.S. Olympic Committee. Corpo-rate Sponsorship is another activity that demands a lot of attention. So does internationalrelations with other countries, the ITTF, and other sports bodies throughout the world. Ialso set up contracts for our national tournaments, making sure that we get the biggest bangfor the buck.

Running this organization is easy when you have busy and productive people like wehave here at headquarters. So the next time you have a question or issue. don't hesitate tocall or e-mail us. Until next time keep the ball on the table.

They Said It...By Larry Hodges

'Every year the U.S. Open gets better and better. This year was the best yet - everything wasscheduled. on time. and well organized," -Johnny Huang, newly crowned North AmericanMen's Singles Champion and ITTF Pro Tour Men's Singles Finalist.

'20-all. and people have to walk in late like that!" -ITTF Pro Tour Competition ManagerZlato Cordas. when a group of relatively loud spectators came into the arena during the WernerSchlager-Allan Bentson third-game deuce battle at the U,S. Open ITTF Pro Tour.

Werner Schlager is always coming back." -USA Women's Coach Doru Gheorghe, whenSchlager was behind 20-18 in third game against Johnny Huang in the 8ths of Men's Singlesat the U.S. Open. He won the next four points. The round before. Schlager had lost the firsttwo games to Allan Bentson. and fell behind 16-11 in the third - and came back to win in five.

-Ohh, don't write that. 1 11 read it - and it' 11 make me sick." -Parviz Mojaverian. to writer TimBoggan, about writing about his 24-22 in the third loss to George Brathwaite at the MeiklejohnSeniors. (George had been up 20- 17 triple match point before Parviz deuced it.) Tim did.

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In the Upcoming Election, Please Vote For the Team Of

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Sheri Pittman

Incumbent President

Tim BogganFor Secretary

Robert MayerFor Vice President

Dr. Jiing WangIncumbent Vice President

Residence: Delray Beach, Florida Residence: Mei-rick. New York Residence: Houston. Texas Residence: El Monte. California

Occupation He has done... EVERYTHING! • USATT member and player OccupationSpecial Projects Manager. Palm 1993-2001 ITTF Vice President/ since 1983 . President and physician, DukeBeach County Sports Institute Council Member for North • Tournament Director since Medical Clinic

(flexible schedule) America. Three-term USATT 1989. including the last three • Part owner and general manager,Previous Professional Work President, 2-term Vice-President. Southern Opens North America Television

• Lawyer-·Lobbyist in MN 13-year Editor of USATT Inaga- • South Central Regional Tourna- • Board of Directors. Health & Life• Peace Corps Volunteer. (1985- zine. USATT Historian. Member ment Coordinator Found., Pacific Times Newspaper

1987) Gabon, Africa of ITTF Media Committee. Mem- • Board of Directors, Houston Education

Education ber of 1971's "Ping-Pong Diplo- Table Tennis Association, Inc., • M.D., Taipei Medical College

• JD, Georgetown University Law macy" Team. Captain of U.S. a non-profit organization Table Tennis ExperienceCenter. Washington, DC (1991) Team to Calcutta World's. Tech- • Computer software developer • Founder/owner of San Gabriel

• BA, Santa Clara University. CA nical Director/ITTF Presidential Main areas of USATT interest Valley U Club, open 7 days a

Table Tennis Experience Liaison for Havana/Winnipeg 1. Exploring new ways to attract week with a full-time coach

• USATT President (since 1999) Pan-Am Games. U.S. Open or recreational players (Grace Lin. rated 2495), 14 jun-

• ITTF Executive Board Member/ Closed 40's, 50's, 60's. 70's 2. Developing aplan to reduce at- iors and 30-40 adults

North American Continental Vice Champion. Director of Press trition among our most talented • USATT Board Member, 1995-

President (since April, 2001) Corps at 1990 World Veterans/ young players present, Executive VR 1995- 1998

• USATT Board Member (1993- U.S. Open Championship. Jour- 3. Automating and improving • Former Chair, USATT Youth1996, didn't seek re-election. nalist for '96 Olympics, Regular the USATT web site, includ- and Club Committees

1998-present) contributor to USATT Magazine ing an enhanced Ratings • Team Leader & Sponsor, 1994-· Author of numerous USATT and web site. Author of several Search feature 1996 U.S. Junior Teams to Taiwan

magazine features books, including History of U.S. 4. Assisting inthedevelopment of • Raised over $65,000 in sponsor-• US Women's Team Leader, Table Tennis - Vol. I. Longtime USATT Club Programs Direc- ship for 1994 & 1995 U.S. Opens

1994 World Team Cup in France member of USA Table Tennis tor Larry Hodges' Club League • Major sponsor for Chinese New• USATI' Member since 1972 Hall of Fame. Program Year Tournament, 1991- 1995

Open Elections ...First=elass lagazine ...Club & Junior Programs1 Team that Fulfills its Promixes!

It's taken us years to finally get a board that will work together and unite behind the twinUSATT goals of grassroots and elite development. We made club & junior programs top

priority, but are working on both ends, especially with our elite juniors.We brought you a first-class magazine.

We promised you a lot when those on the "Pittman" slate first ran for office. You will notethat you are now voting for the USATT President - which you would not be doing if we had

not fulfilled this campaign promise to bring this vote back.

On these five pages (which we paid for), we'd like to show you what we've accomplishedthese past two years (promises kept), and what we plan. Sheri Pittman and Dr. Jiing Wangare running for re-election; we'd like to welcome Robert Mayer & Tim Boggan to the Team!

From USATT Board Members/Candidates: Sheri Pittman, liing Wang, Robert Al•ver,Tim Boggan, Barneu D. Reed, Khoa N,uuen, Hank McCoultum, Tong Lee and Dennis Tautor

Ads on this and following four pages paid for by the Committee to Elect Pittman, Wang, Mayer & Boggan: Tong Lee Treasurer

lf You like what we've done, Vote for Shbri Pittman,Members of USA Table Tennis were startled by two major Board decisions 31/2 years ago:

• the cancellation of the membership's right to select its own officers;• the in-house magazine that resulted in low-quality, late magazines.

Then-USATT Executive Vice President Dr. Jiing Wang set out to reverse those decisions byrecruiting a new team, one committed to returning your vote and your magazine.

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In 1998, you began electing that new team onto the Board. Last year, we reached the2/3 majority required to amend the By-Laws to bring the vote back to you. We succeeded. 1

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The Board twice appointed Sheri Pittman USATT president. Since then, the Board hasfulfilled our team's pledges and reconnected with the USOC and the ITTR With the USOC's

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participation, we crafted a new High Performance Plan to plan out our future. Now, in 2001,we seek your support in our ongoing efforts to shape the New Millennium USA Table Tennis. 3

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1. We've returned the vote to you, our members, as promised.

------2. We've made Youth & Club Development a TOP priority,as promised, with four PAID staff working on developmental programs:• USATT Programs Director Debbie Doney

• USATT Club Programs Director Larry Hodges 11, • USATT Coaching Development Director Dan Seemiller• USATT Touring Coach Doru Gheorghe.

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3. We've laid the groundwork for Regional Training Centers, as promised, and listed

the bid specifications on the USATT website.

4. We've provided you with a greatly improved, on-time magazine, as promised,

along with online coverage of major tournaments and web-based availability ofvirtually every association publication.

5. We've turned our nationally-run tournaments over to experienced professionals,as promised, with internationally-acclaimed results.

6. We've made our sponsors a top priority, as promised, and negotiated cash

payments from each one of our supplier sponsors, with upgraded levels of sponsorship in each area.

7. We've reinstated the right to purchase Life Memberships, as promised.

8. We've restored regional diversity in our committees, as promised, with 11 statesrepresented in the 15 different committees.

9. We've stopped the decline in USATT membership, as promised.

10. We've communicated to you about important USATT, USOC and ITTF topics 1through the President's Report/association primer series, as promised.

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Other Challenges Pursued...1. Develop 01¥mpic & World Championship Medalists

• Achieved first-ever junior player on OlympicTeam, Michelle Do. while another, Mark Hazinski,finished second at the U.S. Team Trials

• Co-developed and implemented the $50,000 EnronMillennium Friendship Tour of China

• Took U.S. Juniors on a tournament tour and train-

ing camp in Europe

• Supported Whitney Ping's successful Women'sSports Foundation grant request

• Sent Jasna Reed and Tawny Banh to Women'sWorld Club Championships

• Finished in the Women's Team First Division at the

World Championships· Funded 5th place team players to 1999, 2000 and

2001 World Championships

2. increase Funding Sources

. Produced over $ 1.1 million in revenues, exceeding$1 million for the first time ever

• Negotiated cash payments in each of our suppliercontracts for the first time ever

• Signed Internet contract that will give us at least$124,000/year when fully executed

• Established an Audit Committee to propose newinternal financial procedures

• Working on joint marketing projects with theUSOC and the Chinese TT Association

3. Create a Professional Structure for Domestica14-Held Events

• Negotiated ITTF-assistance for, and oversawmanagement of, 2 ITTF Pro Tours

• Negotiating with NATT to conduct USATT beta-testing of newly-developed software that processestournaments, ratings and ratings histories. Willsupply tournament directors with this tournamentsoftware, if it is adopted

• Provided support to Richard Lee's NA Tour 4-startournaments and NA Teams championships thatpromote participation, membership growth, and

spectator interest among the general public, andsigned four-year contract for the NA Teams

• Recruited Fran Boardman to rejoin the staff as the

Ratings Coordinator

4. implement a National Schools Progmm

• Signed contract with the Warren Company to

develop the national schools program

• Initiated pilot program in New York (in 13 SchoolDistricts in 9 counties)

• Designing National Association for Sports &Physical Education funded and certified elemen-

taiy/middle/high school curriculums

• Co-developing USATT-branded school equipmentkits

• Expanding program into Texas, California andIllinois in 2002

5. Establish a High Level of involvement & Visibilit¥

within the International Communit¥

• Accepted responsibility of ITTF Continental VPposition. poising our association for a run at thenewly-designated female ITTF Executive Commit-tee seat in 2003

• Rejuvenated alliance with the Chinese Table TennisAssociation begun by Ping Pong Diplomacy

• Discussing establishment of a US -based, Pan-American ITTF-recognized international trainingcenter and future US-held Pan-American Youth

Championships with Latin America TT Union

6. Foster an Environment in which USE[Tr-Affiliated

Clubs Can Grow and Prosper

• Set up a nationwide Junior Training and BeginningClasses program

• Holding Coaches Clinics at every US Open and USNationals

• Developed criteria for Touring Coach Program,

currently evaluating applications• Reactivating the early-1990s Club Catalyst &

Creation Program

• Starting a National Club League and a RegionalLeague this fall

If you agree we've madea pretty good start ...

please vote for us!www.NewMillenniumUSATableTennis.com

Vote Sheri Pi#man, Tim Boggan,

for Robert Aaver and Dr. Jiing WangFull Testimonials at our web page: www.NewMillenniumUSATableTennis.com

Most people who know us are aware that we have dedicated ourlives to coaching and developing juniors. Sheri Pittman has beena welcome change from the endless parade of USATT presidentswho give lip service to supporting junior programs when they're

running for office but whose help and interest disappear oncethey're elected. Sheri's help and support have been greatly

appreciated for our junior program here in South Florida. It'snice to have a president who actually cares about kids and iswilling to do what she can to further help junior programs.

Marty Prager & Terese Terranova, Ft. Lauderdale, FLProfessional Coaches

Sheri Pittman and Dr. Jiing Wang have helped USA TableTennis tremendously. They have made junior development a

priority. As table tennis coaches who would like to see the sportcontinue to grow in this country, we urge you to re-elect Sheri,

Jiing and their team, Tim Boggan and Robert Mayer, so that theycan continue to work on the priorities they've set.

Cheng Yinghua & Huang Tong "Jack" ShengHead Coaches, Maryland Table Tennis Center

As president of USAIT, Sheri Pittman is dedicated todeveloping the sport and making table tennis first-class in the

U.S. Please vote for Sheri and her team of Dr. Jiing Wang, TimBoggan and Robert Mayer.

Gao Jun, Galthersburg, MarylandUS Women's Champion & U.i #1 Woman

I've known Sheri for over 20 years, Sheri has demonstratedstrong leadership during her first term as President of USATE

She will continue to bring integrity and openness that are criticalto the growth of USA Table Tennis.

Khoa Nguyen, San Jose, CaliforniaMember, USA Olympic Team & USATT Board of

Directors

Sheri does not earn her livelihood from table tennis, so she isfree from conflicts of interest. She was elected in a very difficult

political climate, yet she has managed to make importantprogress for our association, I would like to see her return to

office so she can continue her agenda. I urge you to join me invoting for her in the upcoming election.

Ross Brown, Athens, Georgia, Regional Umpire

1 am pleased to write this letter in support of Mrs. Sheri Pittmanand her team. Mrs. Pittman is highly motivated, optimistic, anda hard worker. She has dedicated much of her time and energy

in making table tennis grow in the U.S. and has established goodrelationships with the ITTE China, North/South/Latin America.

I believe Mrs. Pittman possesses the necessary leadershipqualities to continue to take us into the 21ht Century. She should

be re-elected as President of USA Table Tennis.

Coach Tang Gao Un, Monterey Park CaliforniaProfessional Coach

Please support the Team of Sheri Pittman, Tim Boggan, RobertMayer and Dr. Jiing Wang in the upcoming election!

Jerry Wartski, New York CilyOwner, Manhattan Table Tennis Club

I am proud to support Sheri Pittman for president. She under-stands the path friendships must play if the USATT wants toproduce quick results that will also be long-lasting. She hasobviously found a very powerful friend in the Chinese TT

Association! Please join me in voting for her and her team.Coach )Un Peng, Augusta, Georgic

Please let the team of Sheri Pittman, Tim Boggan, Robert Mayerand Dr. Jiing Wang continue the work they have started !

Sol Schiff, New Ybrk CityFormer US and World Champion & USATT President

Table Tennis Legend

Sheri may not have been a top table tennis champion at the tablebut is a fantastic world-class table tennis champion away from

it. Sheri has given thousands of hours of her time voluntarily tothe sport of table tennis and, over the years, has championed the

sport of table tennis more and better than anyone I know,Sheri has a total commitment to the betterment of the sport, she

is a very bright woman with excellent ideas, and she is anexcellent communicator and delegator. Sheri has my vote for

USATT President.

Rich Sinykin, Minneapolis, MNFormer Minnesota State Doubles & Junior Champion

Three years ago, this administration made promises to themembership. Among them were remrning the vote for officersand Regional Training Centers. Regional Training Centers areabout to become a reality, and you can now vote for President -two resounding examples of why we are tetter off now than we

were two years ago. There are many more.Peter Chamberlain, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

International Umpire ki

Sheri knows our sport very well, but best of all she knows mostof the players by name. She has been invo[ved with our sport inmany ways through the years, and has the all-around experience

it takes to make things happen. Sheri has both the legal andpolitical background to protect and promote our association. Wecan be assured that Sheri cares about our sport and also has no

conflicts of interest that could jeopardize our organization.Homer Brown, Birmingham, AlabamaPresident BumperNets Table Tennis

Thumbs Up on the 2001 U.S. Open in Ft. Lauderdale.There was a very professional atmosphere during the entire

event. It was fun, entertaining and competitive. I think it wasthe best I've attended."

Pete May, Augusta, Georgia, Boos Brother

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Sheri Pittman injects a much-needed dose of professionalisminto the executive committee of USA Table Tennis. She is

organized and well prepared for meetings and special events.She understands the importance of presentation and her role in

representing USATII And she sincerely wants to work withanyone who is willing to contribute their time or talent to

improving table tennis in the United States. Sheri came to herposition with the intention of moving the organization forwardand a set of detailed plans for how to do it. I would like to see

that she gets a chance to realize her vision.Mitch Seidenfeld, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Professional Coach & League Director

1 feel our sport was at a very important crossroads when yougave the membership back the vote. Keep up the good work,

and THANK YOU !

Dave Sakai, Bowie, Maryland

I have known Sheri since the early 19708. It is a very easydecision to endorse her candidacy for USATT President

for a number of reasons:

• Integrity• Lack of a conflict of interest

• Proven administrative skill

• Dedication to table tennis in the U.S.

Houshang Bozorgmdeh, Independence, IowaUSA National Team Coach for 14 years

Please vote for Sheri Pittman. Robert Mayer, Tim Boggan andDr. Jiing Wang in the upcoming election. They're the team!

Brian Pace & Rafael Flores, Florida

I supported you before and I will support you again this time. Ithink you are doing a good job as president of USATI'. That is

also the consensus in the Schaumburg Table Tennis Club.Primo Madrigal, President

Schaumburg Table Tennis Club, Illinois

Since you have become president, I have noticed a greatimprovement in how national tournaments are run. I am sure thata lot of credit for the improvement is due to the people runningthe tournaments; but the tone for this comes from the top. You

deserve credit for creating these conditions.Robert Burke, Aurora, Colorado

As a regular tournament player, I am grateful for the improve-ments in our sport that Sheri and her team have begun. We seemto expect our sport to fix itself overnight, but that won't happen.

Sheri and her group have started the process to develop oursport; don't vote them out and make us start all over again.

Bruce Uu, Santa Clara, Califomia

Sheri, I'm definitely supporting you!USATT Vice President George Brathwaite

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7EU[jDear Sheri: Congratulations! The 2001 U.S.

Open was one of the best I've ever seen!Your quiet. meticulous, behind-the-scenesmanagement - especially your fine instinct

for delegating authority to the right people - 7 0.••-----was apparent throughout. The same

congratulations, I feel, are also due you for your assiduous.forward-looking management of our sport. I'm sure that all of uswho love it. and are addicted to it, will make certain that you'll

continue to lead us for at least another term, or, if we're lucky, ten.Dick Miles, New York City

10-Time US Open Men's Singles ChampionTable Tennis Legend

Sheri Pittman's accessibility, openness, energy. and enthusiasm forgrowing our sport impresses me. President Pittman has an

unwavering focus on laying the foundation for allowing tabletennis to flourish. Visibility on an international level, nurturinggrassroots and club growth, and ensuring the professionalism toattract the best players are just some of the objectives that we

share. It is no surprise to me that the top officials in the ITTF haveplaced their confidence in her and the goals of her administration. I

look forward to creating and growing these future exchangeprograms with President Sheri Pittman to promote the sport of table

tennis in the US and in the global community.Qiumars Hedayatian, Boston Table Tennis Center

Over the 27 years I have known Sheri Pittman, I have observedher hard work and dedication in supporting and promoting tabletennis in the USA and abroad. It was a great pleasure working

directly with her on getting the USA Olympic Table TennisTeam, the USATT Annual Board Meeting and the USA TeamTrials to San Diego in the past year. She also has given her fullsupport in our newly formed USA Olympic Development Teamhere in San Diego, and I look forward to working with Sheri in

the futui*e for the betterment of table tennis overall.

Pam Ramsey,Member, San Diego TTA Board of Directors

California Table Tennis Hall of Fame, Board of Directors

Re-Elect Sheri Pittman as USATT President. Sheri is reallymoving our sport upward to success in all areas - both on thenational and international scene, especially with the ITTF and

China. You'll be backing a real winner!Stan Robens, Scottsdale, Arizona

USA Table Tennis is fortunate that Sheri has "found her niche"as USATT President

Sheila O'Dougherty, Minneapolis, MNFormer USATT Treasurer and National Team Member

Sheri Pittman and her team have my complete support!Please vote for them!

Marly Reisman, The Money PlayerTable Tennis Legend

Please vote for Sher Bittman, Tim Boggan, Robert Mayer and Dr. Jiing Wang.We need a unified Board to finish what we've started. Don'telit the board in half!

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Letters ...

Dear USATT Members,

Although Table Tennis has traditionallybeen popular in Asia and Europe. we must re-member that our sport is also popular in manyother parts of the World. Since joining the ITTFExecutive Committee several years ago. I havediscovered many places where table tennis iseither very popular or gaining in popularity.Unfortunately. I have also discovered other partsof the world where our sport has been relegatedto third-class status,

The role of the ITTF is to help develop oursport all over the world. However, this is an un-realistic task if we cannot count on the help andenthusiasm of local associations. The ITTF can-

not by itself popularize the sport within each ofthe 187 member associations. We must focus our

attention to those areas where our contribution

will have the most effect. We must also respondto initiatives launched by some of our memberassociations. In other words, our choices aremade in the same manner that investors choose

their investment portfolio. Which investmentwill provide the best return? And which partner(association) will be the most cooperative andeager to develop our product?

In my opinion, the USA is the one of thecountries that has the potential to transform oursport into a "big league" sport. It is a difficulttask but one that, if implemented properly, wouldprovide the best return on investment. The ITTFis willing to invest; but the desire to succeed.the passion to perform and the commitment toengage belongs to USATT, its membership andits leadership. The ITTF can only act as the cata-lyst for success. but the dynamo must be USATT.When I say USX[T I mean every member, ev-ery official and every parent. In fact, all thosethat have chosen table tennis as an activity havealso chosen to develop the sport.• Do not ask why we do not have enough table

tennis on TV. Call the TV stations yourselfand ask them to put table tennis on TV.

• Do not ask where the nearest club is. Form

a club yourself on your own block.• Do not ask how much money you will re-

ceive for coaching. Start coaching and begood at it and the money will come.

• Do not ask how much prize money will beoffered at the next tournament. Use what-

ever connections you have and find a spon-sor to put up prize money.

Do not ask. Do./ These sentences should

Dear Dr. Ping Pong,

I am a regular table tennis player and read asmuch as possible about this fabulous sport. I haveto say the advice you give each week in the column"Tip of the Week by Dr. Ping Pong" atwww. usatt.org has been helping me a lot, for bothits clarity and efficacy. Each piece stands alone andcould be as short as 80 words! By the way, do youhave a book with a collection of these valuable

pieces of advice?James Shu, Houston, TX

Dear James,

The exact origin of Dr. Ping Pong's weekly tips,and in fact the very identity of Dr. Ping Pong, remaina mystery. Theorists theorize that a Mrs. Ping Li mighthave married a Mr. Steve Pong, and then received aPh.D, however, this is pure speculation. All we knowis that these tips of gold are read worldwide: it isrumored that the Chinese national team ritually readsthese tips each Monday morning while chanting self-talk encouragement to themselves.

There is no book as of yet with these nuggets,but you can read all past ones. as well as the Photo ofthe Week and Tournament of the Week, at the USAIT

Home Page at www.usatt.org. The weekly items allgo up on Mondays, but all past ones (going back toDecember, 1999) are online for your reading pleasure.Larry Hodges, Editor, USATT Magazine

Dear Friends,

Thank you all from the bottom of my heartfor your donations to aid in my health expenses.Many thanks to Ed Ball.My Love, Bob Gusikoff

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the six priorities and preparing a club leaguesystem so USATT-affiliated clubs could growand prosper.

Our Roanoke club is a small club (4-6

regulars and 5-8 others) with a wide range ofratings. Our league was extremely successful, i fyou use turnout and enthusiasm as the judge.We had 12 people showing up regularly for hoursand hours.

Our secret was that we made it a

"handicapped" league, meaning we used theofficial point handicap system in the USATTtournament guide to level the playing fieldbetween the 1900 player and the 900 player. Insome cases, the lower level player was getting16 points ! Everybody liked it. The higher ratedplayers were forced to play their "A" game ratherthan get slacker. so it helped them maintain anedge. In fact. they say it heightened it becausethey were forced to play from a "come frombehind" position. Of course. the lower levelplayers loved it because it gave us a chance.

Our league lasted six weeks, with apossible adjustment at three weeks. We did thisbecause we had some unrated players atdifferent levels and wanted to recreate balance

i f someone's handicap was out of whack. Prizeswere awarded at the end. and interestingly, alllevels got in on it. A lower-level player got thefirst prize, a mid-level player got third. and twoupper-level players got second and fourth. Itwas great fun !

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Interview with Joe Knys of

"AMERICAS

The following is the first in a series ofinterviews introducing our members tothe Internet Collaborative agreementreached between USA Table Tennis and

AmericasTeams.

What was the premise that you sought topromote in the initial stages of what wasthen-called the Internet Collaborative

Agreement? How did you anticipate youcould help NGBs like USA Table Tennis?

The premise for the Internet Collaborativewas that small NGBs would not have the

resources, staff, or expertise to build an Internetsite that could raise funds for the NGB, be

constantly changing to attract high viewer

activity, and would provide all the businessfunctions that would minimize labor costs for

the NGBs. We anticipated that the NGBs in a

collaborative would have the potential forbecoming one of the most valuable sportswebsites on the Internet and could attract

significant funds to attain such a goal.We felt we could help the NGBs by

facilitating a process in which the NGBs wouldunderstand their worth on the Internet and would

have options to select the most beneficial NGBstrategy possible on the Internet.

TEAMS"By Larry Hodges

How does AmericasTeams relate to the sportsexpansion contract USA Table Tennispreviously signed with the Warren Companyand what is the status of that program?

AmericasTeams is an independent

company that is working with The WarrenCompany on the sports expansion. Theexpansion of Table Tennis (and five otherNGBs) has had several positive milestones:a. It has developed a model for in-school

and after-school programs that is highly

desirable by school districts and city/town recreation programs.

b. It has secured the endorsements for the

program by the New York StateAssociation of Health. Physical Education,Recreation and Dance and by the New

York State Recreation and Parks Society,and the American Alliance for Health,

Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.c. It has created a partnership with the

National Association of Sports andPhysical Education to developcurriculum for schools that would giveteachers academic credits for training

provided by The Warren Company/NGB.

d. It has created age-appropriate equipmentkits to be sold to schools by Sportstime,the largest seller of Physical Educationequipment to schools, with a royaltygoing to USATT

e. It has programs in 13 school districts in NewYork State with about 1,5 million students.

f. It has been invited to expand into Texas.g. It has plans to expand into California,

Illinois and North Carolina in the next year.

From the market research that was

conducted as part of this effort, what are

the specific opportunities that USA TableTennis will benefit from this alliance?

USATT will benefit by increasedmembership, increased revenue, moreinstructors, more information to members, more

exciting website activity, events being videostreamed (in the future), less administrative costs

over current costs, many business functions being

done on-line versus manually as now occurs,

among numerous other benefits.

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The project has now taken on the formalname "AmericasTeams." What phase are

you in regarding securing NGBs, investorsand finalizing aillegal arrangements?

To date, 32 of the original 33 NGBs have

signed documents committing them toestablishing a for-profit company utilizing theInternet for marketing, revenue creation,

simplified business functions, NGB

expansion, education, video streaming ofevents, and numerous other benefits.

We have secured an investor to put in$30 million in equity. They are completingtheir due diligence on the signed NGBagreements. Their funds are from a bond that

must be sold. The sales process for the bonds

is in effect and it is anticipated that funds, by

agreement, will be available in about 60 days.

What are the projected timelines over thecourse of the next year?

When the funds arrive for

AmericasTeams, there will be about 3-6

months of upgrading of the NGB sites inpartnership with the NGBs and with technical

support provided by AmericasTeams. TheNGBs will also receive a minimum of

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Let us celebrate a successful, smooth

running Pro-Tour Championship. The level ofplay was superb and the performance wasexcellent. The #37 ranked player on the worldwomen's list defeated the #2. Most of the

matches lasted five games. Johnny Huang onthe men's side gave the audience a treat till the

last point of the fifth game of the final match.

Moving to the officials' side, an added

flavor was the highlight of the presentations.

The idea was thought up and implemented

by Aly Salam, with the cooperation of Richard

McAfee and Allen Watson. Umpires andofficials marched between the matches on the

final day, surprising the audience by tossing

them balls signed by the Pro-Tour players.

Acknowledgment for the success of the

tournament goes to the efforts and dedicationof many individuals. The president, the Boardmembers, the Directors, Referees, the Chief

Umpires, the Umpires, the managers, the staff,

the volunteers, etc. An acknowledge should goto the unknown soldiers. The Norm Chouinards,

who stay on the computer 18 hours a day. Theone who has to be the first individual in the

arena, and the last one to leave. The one who

wrote up what happened and fed the world, live,news from the tournament.

A few players registered with the Pro-

Tour as USA players, while the World

Ranking by the ITTF had them under otherAssociations. Discussing the issue led to a lotof confusion. Some thought that they cannotplay. This misunderstanding was due to aproposal which was introduced in Osaka by

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the 1TTF Executive Committee, "A playershall not represent different associationswithin a period or 3 years, unless bothassociations (last association represented andcurrent association) agree to reduce or waive

the waiting period. This proposal did NOTpass. Margaret Sniith, the tournament

manager, emailed the ITTF and the response

was very clear. The rule applies only to team

events. Therefore, all players were allowed

to play in the Pro-Tour events.Our Officials seminar took place on

Wednesday night. It was well attended due to

the eagerness to learn about the new rules:

the 11 point games and the new service rule.Both issues were covered at the seminar and

are covered in the last issue of the USATT

Magazine under the Officials View. Anotherdimension was added to the seminar, the

interpretations of several rules.

Conceding a Game: Although not

specifically forbidden by current rules, it wasgenerally accepted that a player could not

concede a game without conceding the match.

Racket Changing: There was no

guidance in the regulations on the action tobe taken if a player was reported to have

changed an undamaged racket. It was agreed

that normally the player should be disqualifiedbut that the referee should have the discretion

to give only a warning on the first occasion.When changing a damaged racket, it has tobe with identical specifications. It is advisablein the players packets to include a statement

asking players to come to the table with twoidentical rackets.

Authority of the Umpire: it was agreedthat players should be regarded as being under

the authority of the unipire from the time atwhich they arrived at the playing area until thetime at which they leave it, and that the unipire'sauthority should cover the playing area and itsimmediate surroundings (three meters).

Authority of the Referee: 1t was agreedthat the referee's authority covered the whole

of the playing and practice areas but the extentto which it applied to other areas are still underfurther discussion.

Obstruction Rule: A player obstructsthe ball if he, or anything he wears or carries,touches it in play when it is above or travelingtowards the playing surface and has not passed

beyond his end line, not having touched hiscourt since last being struck by his opponent.

The main controversy is "Traveling

Towards." Sometimes the ball may betraveling away from the table, however, it maycurve back toward the table. That means if it

was obstructed while it was traveling awayfrom the table, it is NOT an obstruction, but

if it is obstructed after it curved back towards

the table then it is an obstruction. Also if the

ball is obstructed while traveling iii a straight

line besides the table and did not pass thereceivers' end line, it is NOT an obstruction.

Good Serve: When a player clearly does

not comply with the rule of a good serve, NOWARNING shall be given and the receivershall score a point. This is contrary to the

common belief of many players and some

umpires that a warning should be given forbad serves.

Procedures of Racket and DrugTesting: The tests are administered after thematch. The reason is that when it was

administered before the match, the rest of the

players, who are not included in the test, knewin advance and did whatever they pleased.

With the new rule, nobody will know whowill be tested. During the WorldChampionships in Osaka, even the umpiresdid not know in advance which players wouldbe tested. The information was given to them

after they arrived at the table. What will

happen if the test proved a violation'? Theplayer will lose the match, and could facefurther disciplinary actions. What will happenif this is the last match of the event or the

tournament? Information will be submitted to

his association and the ITTF for further action.

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In Memoriam

JOE BLATT (1912?-2001)By USATT Historian Tim Boggan

Joe Blatt was one of the stars of Parker Brothers'

American Ping-Pong Association. At the 1932 APPANationals, held in the swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New

York City, Joe forced the winner, Coleman Clark, into hisonly 5-game match of the tournament. In that pioneeringWestchester, N.Y. area, where there were many good players,including 1933 APPA Chanip Jimmy Jacobson, Joe was

the 1933 Mt. Vernon City Champ, and had a standout victoryover Jacobson in winning the New Rochelle Open. Also, inAugust of that year, with his unusual shovel grip, using onlyone side of the racket, he won the Men's Singles at the firstannual Provincetown, Massachusetts tournament, a

prestigious event that offered unique fish-shaped trophies

to the vacationing winners.Joe's father was a launderer, and after graduating from

Long Island University in Brooklyn, Joe went to a laundryschool in Joliet, Illinois, and, as he was serious about a

profession, that ended his vigorous competitive play. That

is. until 1980 (!) when, after playing socially. he began

participating in U.S. National Senior Sports Organization(USNSO) tournaments. I note, too, that in 1982 he was

runner-up to Ulpiano Santo iii the U.S. Open Over 70's. Iii

1995 his love for the Game was still strong - he wrote me

that he spent "8 hours a week instructing ancl coaching t.t."iii the Upper Arlington Senior Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Joe's many friends in the table tennis world extend theirsympathy to his sister Florence. daughter Elaine, son Mort,

and grandchildren Robert, Michael, Sheri, and Wendy.

In Memoriam

JACK LOTH (1918-2001)By Nicolette Loth

Jackwas born Dec. 26, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois. where he grew up.During World War 11, he served with the Army Air Corps. While he was on

active duty. one of his assigned posts was the Lowery Air Force Base in Denver,Colorado. There he met his wife. Gerry McDaniel. They were married on Nov.2.1942, and had four children - Michael, Nicolette. Rodger. and Patrice. Gerrydied on Mar. 23,1997.

After the War Jack returned to Chicago to pursue a career as an electrician.When he retired he moved to Colorado where three of his four children had

moved.

His first exposure to table tennis started during his military service. Iii theearly 1960's, looking for a leisure activity, he took up the sport and thereafterwent to many tournaments. Our mantel was lined with trophies.

USATT Historian Tim Boggan speaks of several of his meinorabletournaments. At the 1984 National s, he was a finalist in the Over 60's to 1942

U.S. Open runner-up and Hall of Famer Chuck Burns. In 199(), iii the semi's ofthe U.S. Open 70's, Jack was beaten by George Hendry, that year's World Over7() Champion. Five years later, at the U.S. Closed, in the final of the 75's, he

again lost to George. All this of course was a very good showing, for if Jack

wasn't a superstar, he still had his shining moments.

One of these. Tim remembers. was his indignation on receiving his "A"

(for Award) after bravely contesting that '95 final with Hendry. "An 'A!'" he

said. A show and tell certificate! "What are we'? Little kids in a playground

tournament! This is a National Championship!"

Feisty Jack died June 16,2001. doing whathe loved - playing table tennis.He was always actively promoting the sport as a great way to stay fit and meetpeople.

In addition to his four children, he has six grandchildren and one great

granddaughter. We will all miss him.

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Reasons for running for USATT Vice President:./&#- h

1. Table Tennis is and has been my life long passion. , 25 43 €

2. I want to volunteer my time energy and experience to the sport re FAaof Table Tennis on a National Level. .Ag//00//*I-1 .....

3. I think the sport of Table Tennis has great potential to succeed :Ililliimis.*mal"<gloo /'izzlip'Mi'/04and I am already working very hard towards that goal.

4. Being a Vice President of USATT will give me the credibility that businesses and organiza-tions want when introducing the great sport of Table Tennis to them for sponsorships,leagues and other events.

Qualifications:

1. Life Member of USATT

2. Athlete Representative to the USATT Board of Directors3. Past/Current Member of USATT committees (Officials Selection, Elite Athlete, Hall of

Fame Committee and Hard Rubber Committees)

4. USATT Certified National Coach

5. YMCA Table Tennis Coach

6. Two Time US Olympian for Table Tennis

7. Nine years as a member on the National Team8. 1991 and 1995 Pan American Games Gold Medallist.

9. Coached and developed from ground zero, two national junior champions and many top

level junior players within the last four years.

10. Ran many successful Table Tennis clinics in NJ with many satisfied students11. Ran two successful four star USATT Sanctioned Tournaments with a total of over 450

players and raised more than $10,000 from sponsorships.

Goals:

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and Department of Parks and Recreations Centers

2. Increase sponsorship of USATT from the business world

3. Increase Publicity for Table Tennis through TV, newspaper and magazines4. Increase Communications from the Board of Directors to the members

5. Push for better management of the USATT yearly budget

I have done these things on a local level and look forward to having the opportunity to get

them accomplished on a National Level.

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the highest level possible. At first, thisxemed a fantasy. but this year the dream came

true. At first, it seemed very unlikely and 1was not even considering trying out, I thenfound out that the field would not be as com-

petitive as in the past. and that I could try' outfor the U.S. National Team, to be held iii mid-

February in San Diego. However, the TeamTrials was right in the middle of my last se-

mester at the University of Michigan. where Iam majoring in Engineering Physics. Goinginto the trials, I thought 1 had little chance,

not being in practice and from concentratingon school instead. However, with the unfor-

tunate luck of Todd Sweeris dropping out dueto a back injury, and winning two crucial

matches, I succeeded with the improbable task

of making the U.S. National Team.

Once I made the team, I knew I needed

to practice and train, just to be able to make

a respectable appearance at the World

Championships. Therefore. I withdrew

from my final semester in college (the fi-

nals were at the same time as the Worlds),

because I knew it was either one or the other.

School, I could alway.s return and finish, but

this may be a once in a lifetime opportunityfor me to represent the U.S. and to meet

and play against the best players in theworld! Therefore. I made the difficult de-

cision to take a leave of absence from mysenior year in college to prepare for the 46thWorld Championships. 1 only had a coupleof weeks, and I used them to train with

Coach Danny Seemiller and Mark Hazinski,

and even went to Canada for ten days totrain with the Canadian National Team.

This was the first tillie I had formallytrained ever, and it was clear that my game

had improved. My strokes were smoother andmy shots were more consistent. However, only

three weeks of training was not going to be a

match for the 15 years others had put in!We arrived in Osaka, Japan on Friday,

April 20th. From just making the team, I was

not as enthused as expected. My friends andfamily were in much higher spirits than I, butI knew that making the team alone means very

little unless 1 would represent my country well.This was no easy task, and once we arrived inJapan, I felt butterflies in my stomach think-

ing of the matches ahead. However, I was notthe only person with ambitions o f"doing somedamage." One could see the look of focusand concentration in all the other team mem-

ben' eyes. Either that, or the fatigue and jetlag from the 16-hour time difference !

Osaka is a beautiful city. Leaving theairport, which was built on a man-made is-

land, we were able to see much of the city.

Iths amazing: all of the highways in the city

were built above ground, and there were very

few traffic janis even with the high volume

of vehicles. We stayed in nice hotels as well,

but the rooms were quite small. There were

four hotels for the Worlds; we stayed at the

Miyako Hotel, along with the Korean teamand some other lower-ranked teams. Each

hotel had a frequent shuttle service to andfrom the venue site, which was less than a

half hour away.The first sensation of being at the Worlds

was when I sat next to Kim Taek Soo and Oh

Sang Eun on the bus ride over to the venue. I

have seen the top players up close in the pastbut only as a fan and an admirer, never as apeer! The Koreans looked at the American

team, and gave a little acknowledging smile!It was a strange feeling, to be at the saine level(not really, of course) as the rest of the topathletes there.

Once we got to the venue, just our firstlook said that this was no ordinary tout-na-

ment. We were in a large dome-arena, and I

can easily say that I have never seen the ballso clearly ! Every table was matted (even thepractice tables) and we had bright blue tables

with excellent white lighting. The conditionswere literally perfect; the tables were all woodeven, so the bounce was pure and consistent,

every time.

We practiced for about two hours or sothe first day, just to get a feeling of the envi-ronment. We were all tired, however. and afl

ter a nice dinner, we all went back to the hotel

and relaxed. The first few nights everyone

had a tough time adjusting to the 13-16 hourtime difference; I woke up at 3am the first twonights and was unable to go back to a deepsleep. However, this did not last too long, andwe all quickly adjusted.

The Japanese people were extremely hos-pitable. Everything that we needed was givento us promptly. We each had daily meal tick-ets and credentials that allowed us into the

appropriate sites and events. Everything wasdone extrentely efficiently and accurately and

there were no complaints! They also hadample volunteers and guides everywhere to

answer any questions we had and immediatelyassisted us.

Our Team draw included playing Nige-ria and Indonesia. Indonesia being the #1 team,

and Nigeria the third in the 3-team round robin.

Nigeria was our first match, and they were hot,coming into the tournament as the Common-

wealth champions just a week before. Indo-

nesia was also a tough team; however they did

not send their number one player. Anton

Suseno, which made them a little bit easier.

We played oiir top three players: DavidZhuang, Eric Owens, and Mark Hazinski. The

Nigerians, however, were too strong and ex-

perienced and were able to take us down.

After losing to Nigeria, we knew we had todefeat Indonesia; otherwise, we may drop intothe third division. With this in mind. we did

not let the earlier defeat bring us down; in-stead we scoped out Indonesia as they played

Nigeria, and they looked pretty impressive.They actually had Nigeria on the ropes in afew matches, but couldn't hang on. We knew

the next day we would need to play our best,as Indonesia was tough. In this tie, David andEric stepped up their play and won toughmatches. Barney played well, but was not ableto pull out the win; we came out 3-1 vs. Indo-nes i.1.

After coming in second. we competed forthe 25[h- 48'11 spots, where each win or losswould completely change our outcome. This

second division looked very tough though,with Denmark, Nigeria, Finland, and othertough teams in it. But then again, this is the

World Championships, and there are no easymatches out there ! Our next tie was againstFinland. and we beat them 3- 1, so we now

moved into the 25'11-40th bracket. By this time,I was getting very excited, and could not wait

till I got to play. Watching other people playand getting involved in the match only inspiredme to play more.

Danny Seemiller finally gave me thegreen light and put Mark, Barney, and myselfagainst a very strong, fast, and all-lefty Viet-namese team. Mark and Barney both lost their

matches in a good fight, but 2-0. Both theplayers had excellent serves and great open-ing shots. And the balls that we thought were

impossible to get to. they got toi not only didthey get to them, but they made excellent shots

on them! When I got up to play, the third

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player looked just the same as the first two; Iguess the coach taught them all the same style

of play. This was my first match at the WorldChampionships, and even though by now I hadseen a few matches, I still did not know what

to expect going into the match myself. Myopponent, Tuan Quynh Tran, on the other hand,knew exactly what he had to do; I could see itin his eyes ! I felt very nervous at first, butwhat was worse was that I did not have anyrhythm. I never felt comfortable or confidentin my shots, and my opponent just kept onblowing shots by me. The first game the only

thing that kept me in the game was my serves;the guy must have missed about 10 serves in

that game, but I still lost the game at 17.Coming back to Coach Danny at the end

of the game, he could easily see that I was per-plexed out there and basically told me to relaxand take my time, and just let the game flow. Idid this the second game, and won it. How-ever, the third was again his turn, ripping win-ners back and forth, and giving me great dis-

guised serves. Welcome to the World Cham-pionships ! He took a big 14-5 lead in the third,when we called a time out. I came back into "The Chinese Team 1

the match, thinking positively, and just started Barney J. Reed. Yesto put the shots on. I started to come back, and Team at the Worlds.

the next score was 20-17, his serve. At this J. Reed, Ashu Jain atime, I was very excited, and saw that I couldmake this comeback. My teammates were also getting very energized,as I would often see them jump in excitement. At 20-17, my opponentgave me a bad serve, one that came up high and short to my backhand.I saw this opportunity, and got overexcited, rushing into the shot, andwent for the winner on a flip. The ball hit the top of the net and endedup going just an inch long.

I was very disheartened about this match because I did not play tothe best of my best ability. At this level, with this opportunity, one hasto put out his best, which I was not able to do. At this time, the rest ofthe team lifted me up and appreciated the fight, which made me feelmuch better. But I promised myself that next time I would do better.

We now had 2 ties left: Luxembourg and Brazil, Luxembourg had astrong team, alllefties again, who were able to defeat our young team, 3-1. Coach Danny decided to give us the chance to experience more matches.which would hopefully lead to something better in the future.

After losing to Luxembourg came our final team match vs. Bra-zil, for the 3gth or 40111 position. This one we wanted to win, so we putin our strongest player David. Barney played second, and I playedthird. Brazil's #1 player, Hugo Hoyama, about a 2800-level lefty, andthe others were also very tough competitors. David won his first matchvs. their #2, Thiago Monteiro, and Hoyama beat Barney. Then camemy match against Thiago Takayama. I won the first game close, andlost the second close. In the third, again I started off slow, and wasdown 17-11 before calling a time-out. This changed the momentum abit, and I came back fired up and won 21-19! This win put us incharge, thinking that Barney and David would have a good chance ofwinning their matches. However, the Brazilians played too tough, andended up beating us 3-2.

This was it for the team competition. We finished 40th; last timewe finished 36th, but this year we had a much younger team and Dannytook out David in many of the later ties to give the rest of us a chanceto play. So comparatively, it was not that bad, although we had hopedto do a lot better.

During the team tournament, we heard some very disappointingnews about the upcoming individual events. Usually there is a conso-lation round for the players that do not come out of the qualifiers (amajority of the players), and the qualifiers are 3 out of 5 in a round

takes a back seat to the Americans," said U.S. Team Member, that's Kong Linghui and Ma Lin sitting behind the U.S. Men'sL-R: David Zhuang, Coach Dan Seemiller, Eric Owens, Barney

nd Mark Hazinski.

robin format. Well this year, they made the qualifiers single elimina-tion, 2 out of 3, and NO CONSOLATION round ! That meant that the

first player you play is about 2600 level, second 2700, and the thirdabout 2800, before even making it into the main draw; so presumablya player can play only one match, and that's it! Most players wereirate at this decision. But the individual event didn't start for another

few days, so we had time to prepare and scope out our opponents. Inthe meantime, we had the chance to watch other team ties, and saw

perhaps the greatest tie in the history of table tennis ! After the bigupset of the Swedish men's team by Belgium, everyone had expectedChina to win it all without any fight. But no one ever thought Koreawould have given them such a fight! It started out with the new "Ti-ger" as I call him, Liu Guozheng. He took out Oh Sang Eun prettyeasily in the first match. Kim Taek Soo played Kong a tough match,and pulled out an impressive win. The third match was crucial, whichwent to Ma Lin of China. At this time, most had given up hope on theKoreans, as Kong was heavily favored against Oh in the fourth (andthe probable final) match. However, very few people expected Oh toplay as well as he did, and just go "hotsie." Now matter what Kongdid, Oh had an answer, with a rip, right off the bounce. During thismatch, the crowd started getting involved in the match, hoping thatOh would be able to take down the legend, as his teammate did earlier.

Who knew it...Oh defeated Kong 2-0! I certainly wanted Koreato win this tie; I love Oh and Kim's games, and wanted to see someoneelse win for a change. By the time Oh defeated Kong, the wholecrowd was up on their feet, and I could feel the excitement. (As anote, and to rub it in, Coach Danny left the building, thinking thatthere would be no competition once Ma won the third match ... boydid he miss out!) By the time Kim stepped out on the court againstLiu, the tie had changed. and now the match favored Korea - Kim, avery strong, experienced player, versus Liu Guozheng, a younger, lessexperienced player. This match was so huge, especially since the win-ner of this semifinal match would be a heavy favorite versus Belgiumin the final. In the first game. Kim did as expected, and won. In thesecond, he was up 9-3, when Liu called a time-out. The next scorewas 12-12, and now you can start to see the pressure felt by each playerin front of 4,000 fans going crazy. perhaps more so than the seventh

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game in an NBA final. It was electric. and beyond beliel. The secondgame went neck to neck, and Kini was up 20-18, but Liu held iii tough,and fought through three match points to pull out the huge second

game. At this time, the only thing that woiild get us more excited

would be a third game deuce. At 19-16 Kim, serving, we thought it

was going to end right there. I mean, how can such a young playerhold up to this type of pressure? (We could see the stress on the play-

ers faces. and literally see the hands shake before the point started!)However once again, the young tiger fought back to make the third

game deuce.The crowd was into the game as if they wei-e playing themselves. I

renieniber Kim hitting an edge, and Eric said -SORRY !" thinking that itwas he that was playing the point! I was jumping up and down in theseats. because 1 could not take this excitement sitting down ! The wholecrowd was going insane! I remember one huge point at deuce. whereKim missed a counter-loop after a GREAT point: 1 thought he was goingto put that shot for a winner but he missed. Ijumped up to see him make

the shot, and as he missed, 1 came down ... but not on my feet. It was ok,I did not feel the pain. I was too much into the match. (Yes, this tie wasTHAT exciting') After another couple of match and championship pointsby Kim, that darn Tiger just kept on fighting back, and pulled out with theHUGE impressive win over Kim.

After the match, for the next few days, that team tie was the onlything on everyone's minds. Never has there been anything so exciting

in table tennis (not that I can recall at least). That evening, we xaw theKorean team coming into the dinner room, and as they walked iii.

everyone stopped their conversations, andjust kept their heads down.We could not even start to imagine the pain they felt. even though theyfought their hardest, this must have been avery painful loss. We shouldhave stood up and clapped for the 111, for putting on such a good fight.but at that time we didn't know what to do. The Koreans' loss was felt

by each and every one of the athletes at the World Championships!After this match, anything else that we watched seemed boring.

This experience alone was worth going to the tournament. But soonafter. we regained our locus, and prepared for the singles event. 1watched my opponent, Sergly Nigeruk of the Ukraine, and he lookedimpressive: probably 2650 or 2700 level. He was a strong looper fromboth sides, and seemed to have very good control of the ball. When I

played him, I was able to get through him with the big shots, but it was

the small points that he always won, with simple strategic plays. Iplayed him close the first game. but he pulled out a few big shotshimself, and continued playing very well the second game. So thatwas all for me ... done for the tournament, having played only onematch in the singles event. We still had one full week left in Japan, so

I wanted to make something out of it. and perhaps learn something.

My final record was 1-3, and I was rather disappointed that 1 did

not make a better appearance at my first World Championships. How-

ever, as a great team captain, David came up to me and congratulatedme on my only win. He told nie how difficult it is to win, iii such Lin

environment, and it takes time to adjust and get used to. to be able to

play your best. That along with some other things that he said. liftedme up some, and that was a nice thing of him to do.

So back to watching the players. one thing I noticed was the men-tai play of the players. Everyone has full control of their shots, andrarely ever go for winners early in the point. Especially when it isclose, they will play a very sale and mature game. Once they are in

the point ind loosen Lip, then the big shots come out. But just about noone lost easy points. The good players always put the first ball on the

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Mentally. each player was like a tiger, getting ready to hunt downIiis prey. Nothing else was on the players' minds other than how to

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win the next match, and giving one hupercent on every' point. The difference 1tween the others and myself was clear:

when waiting to play my nextmatch, I felt nervous, beset,

and mainly just wanted to tryto win, somehow. Quite

frankly, I did not know what

to expect, and had no plan go-ing into the match. My oppo-nents, however were zoned,

like they were in another

world; they were strategizing each point in theupcoming match. Coming into the match theyknew exactly what serves to use, which shots

to use, and just demonstrated that they had aplan for every point in the match. This was asign of experience and maturity.

Also, the physical fitness of these athleteswas just incredible. There were shots thatplayers would hit. and no one would expectanyone to be able to touch the ball, but these

players were able to cover the table so fastand make a counter-loop on just about every-thing. They moved faster than my eyes couldfollow, and most of the time I was just left inawe observing their footwork, balance, andjust overall quickness.

I always knew one had to be fit tcat table tennis, but nothing to this de

The focus and ability to "step itanother thing I noticed in the topplayers. Many times I saw a goodplayer was down towards the end ofa game, but they always seemed topull out the win. with composure andconfidence. Instead of going for bigshots, they made smart shots, plac-

ing the ball well, regulating the spin,and staying close to the table. Theyare able to see when things weren't go-ing their way, and changed the gamearound very quickly. It takes us almosta whole game to recognize the strateg)and what to do, and what not to do. I

takes them less than five points to dthe same !

The inexperienced players havetendency to overplay the point, or 1the excitement dictate the play. Tgood players treat each ball differenand always stay focused on playing eiball well and making sure it goesSometimes if I see a slow ball, I sin

go for a winner, instead of going fsmarter set-up shot by spinning and Iing the ball. At the higher level, Ithat there is no such thing as a shotcan't be returned. Therefore it is im

tive to place the ball and keep the bthe table. Also, in general the peop]stay close to the table tend to win the ]

The 2700 or even 2800 playersaren't more powerful or spinnier tha2500 players, but they can put those s9 out of 10 times, where they want t,

and put the spin they want to put. In I

I can hit the ball as fast as any-one and make spectacular

shots, but the consistency is

low. This is a losing game!After the tournament, on

Monday night, Mr. JerryWartski of New York took us all

out to dinner. He invited the

whole U.S. team and contin-

gent, and about 12 showed up.

It was a nice evening, and a toastto the World Championships.

Once the tournament was over (in the

playing sense) the rest of the time was spentwatching matches and meeting players fromother countries. I made a lot of friends there,

and got a chance to hang out with a lot of thefamous players, which finally started to feelnormal after a while! I had a chance to talkto

players from the Swedish, French, Romanianand German teams. It was just like living in adream world. Many of the top players knewme by my first name (which knocked me for aloop), and we went out to night clubs together.danced, and just had a great time. It was truly

a unique and wonderful experience. I had thechance to chat with Badescu, Persson, Legout,Karlsson, Fetzner, Steff, Saive (just to men-

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past. They treated me as a peer and we hadsome fascinating conversations !

At first I felt that it was a waste for the

USATT to send five players to the tournament;all that money, and I played only four matches.Also, if there were four players on the team,then each one would have played more, and per-haps been better overall for the team. WhenUSATT President Sheri Pittman asked me

whether it was worth it to send the five players,I actually replied "No!" However, since I havebeen back, and especially from talking with my

peers, I am beginning to realize just how muchthose four matches affected me. It was the envi-

ronment in which we were, and watching thetop players up close for two weeks that reallyaffected the way I now play. Before when some-one would loop, my first instinct was to block,and now, I would go for a counter-loop. If some-one served a ball a half inch long. 1 would push,instead of going for a spinny open-up. Therewere many little changes to the way I now think

and play, and in the long run I know they willhelp me a lot. At first. it hurt my performance.since I am trying to change the way I play, but

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seen me play in a while, they will definitely seea difference in the style of play, which Nhouldsoon start increasing my level.

I did, however, gain tremendously from

this experience; I met many wonderful people,learned a lot about table tennis, and to even a

grander scale I learned a little bit about hu-

manity and myself! The Japanese were suchhonorable people. extremely polite, respect-

ful, efficient, and just good-natured. On thestreets the vendors would leave their merchan-

dise open in front of thousands of people, and

no one would steal. At nighttime, the cars inthe front row of intersections would turn off

their headlights so that they would not blind

the pedestrians crossing! The taxi drivers didnot even accept tips when we tried to show agesture of appreciation!

As the time approached to depart Japan,

a feeling of nostalgia came over me. But wewere al] pretty much ready to leave at this time,

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to return to a well-known en-

vironment and eat regular foodand come back into the normal

lifestyle. The trip, however.was definitely a worthwhile

experience. Before 1 even left,

I knew I would miss that place

and all the people I met. And

finally the best outcome of this

trip was the inspiration it gave

me to continue to develop my

table tennis game. As gradua-

tion was approaching, I did not

know where my table tennis '3

career would go, but after this Table Tell

tournament. I know that I am Uzorinac

going to continue table tennis history 01

lind try to become a much bet- Volume I

ter player.

To go to this tournament, I

gave up a year's worth of salary and job. with-drew from school with less than two months to

graduate. and spent a lot of time preparing; andat first, I did not think it was worth it. As time

goes on, and I think more about the experience I

had and the people [ met, 1 now look at it as it

once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But this experi-

ence will not be left as only a once-in-a-lifetime

occurrence. I plan on being there again, and this

time 1 know whitt to expect and what to do go-

ing into the best tournament in the World!

1 want to especially thank Mr. JerryWartski, a man of true character, who sup-

ported the U.S. team and showed his enthu-

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e ITTF is on page 85. Tim is working on' his History of USA Table Tennis.

siasm. ] also want to thank the USATT, its

officials and volunteers, who gave me a

chance to experience this truly great event. 1

want to thank Coach Danny Seemiller and

my fellow Team members who not only

shared my dream with me, but also inspiredand supported me. I finally w·anted to thank

Stiga and CancerQ. for supporting me, and a

special thanks to all the people at the New

Jersey Table Tennis Club (Westfield). whichwas a second home to me. and where I learned

everything (the little) that I know.

Look out for me again, because this wasnot just a ONCE in a lifetime experience. 0

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U.S. Open ResultsITTF PRO TOUR EVENTS

ITTF Pro Tour Men's Singles- Final: Liu Guozheng(CHN) d. Johnny Huang (CAN), -12,9,18,11; SF: Liud. Jean-Michel Saive (BEL), -12,9,18,11; Huang dChuan Chi-Yuan (TPE), -15,-19,17,12,12; QF: Liud. Lucjan Blaszczyk (POL), -23,20,11,17; Saive d.Jorg Rosskopf (GER), 15,-14,19,17; Huang d. OhSang Eun (KOR), -16,28,16,5, Chuan d. ChiangPeng-Lung (TPE), -16,19,21,9; 8ths: Liu d. Trinko

Keen (NED), 21,19,8; Blaszczyk d. Danny Heister(NED), 17,-15,-15,14,17; Rosskopf d. Ryo YuzawaCIPN), 20,13,16; Saive d. Toshio Tasaki (JPN),15,14,13; Huangd. Werner Schlager (AUT),11,14,-20,-19,21; Oh d. Timo Boil (GER), 14,16,-18,13;Chuan d. Kalinikos Kreanga (GRE), 15,25,-20,10;Chiang d. Lee Chul Seung (KOR), 10,9,9; 16ths:Liu d. Jaromir Truksa (SVK), 18,14,9; Keen d. ChetanBaboor (IND), 49,12,17,10; Heister d. AleksandarKarakasevic (YUG), 21,8,16; Blaszczyk d. Yang HeeSuk (KOR), 12,10,22; Rosskopf d. Marc Closset(BEL), 11,14,-20,11; Yuzawad. Torben Wosik (GER),

-20,18,9,13; Tasaki d. Ilija Lupulesku (YUG), 9,-15,19,18; Saive d. Martin Bratanov (BEL), 20,-19,11,15; Schlager d. Allan Bentsen (DEN), -20,-17,20,12,16; Huang d. Robert Gardos (AUT), -15,18,14,-17,22; Oh d. Gareth Herbert (ENG),10,18,21; Boil d. Liu Song (ARG), 15,7,17; Kreangad. Joo Se Hyuk (KOR), 19,17,13; Chuan d. ChangYuan-Su (TPE), 13,14,9; Lee d. David Zhuang(USA), -9,16,16,-21,17; Chiang d. Slobodan Grujic(YUG),10,-16,16,13.ITTF Pro Tour Men's Doubles - Final: ChiangPeng-Lung/Chang Yuan-Su (TPE) d. LucjanBlaszczyk/Kalinikos Kreanga (POL/GRE), 14,16; SF:Chiang/Chang d. Lee Chul Seung/Oh Sang Eun(KOR), 4,-14,18; Blaszczyk/Kreanga d. ToshioTasaki/Ryo Yuzawa (JPN), 16,15; QF: Chiang/Changd. Danny Heister/Trinko Keen (NED), 14,17; Lee/Oh d. Slobodan Grujic/Aleksandar Karakasevic(YUG), 16,19; Tasaki/Yuzawa d. Jorg Rosskopf/Torben Wosik (GER), 18,17; BlaszczyWKreanga d.Morten Knudsen/Mads Sorensen (DEN), -13,14,13.ITTF Pro Tour Women's Singles - Final: NiuJianfeng (CHN) d. Aya Umemura (JPN), 11,13,2, SF:Niud. Ryu Ji Hye(KOR),13,15,5; Umemurad. OlgaNemes (GER), 16,18,-13,17; QF: Nemes d. ZhangYining (CHN), 17,15,-20,-7,18; Umemura d. Ni XiaLian CLUX), -12,21,17,13; Niu d. Fu Yu (CHN),7,15,12; Ryu d. Wang Tingting (CHN), 18,17,21;8ths: Zhang d. Bai Yang (CHN), 15,19,-11,11;Nemes d. Csilla Batorfi (HUN), -15,11,19,7;Umemura d. Jia Bei Bei (CHN), 20,-19,15,8; Ni d.Lee Eun Sil (KOR), 15,8,-11,16; Niu d. Chang JunGao (USA), 11,15,-20,19; Fu Yu d, Yuka Nishii (JPN),12,18,-6,18; Wang d. An Konishi (JPN), 20,11,13;Ryu d. Asa Svensson (SWE), -10,-18,18,17,17;16ths: Zhang d. Kim Kyung Ha (KOR), 21,11,18;Bal d. Kim Bok Rae (KOR), 11,15,13; Nemes d. PiaFinnemann (DEN), 14,13,-20,16; Batorfi d. Yoon JiHye (KOR), -9,16,-13,14,21; Jia Bel Bei d. KrisztinaToth (HUN), 15,13,-18,17; Umemura d. Kim SoongSil (KOR), 11,11,17; Leed. Tawny Banh (USA),18,-17,14,13; Ni d. Tanja Hain-Hofmann (GER),10,11,12; Niud. Petra Cada (CAN),15,13,12; Changd. Fabiola Ramos (VEN), 18,16,12; Fu d. Elke Schall(GER), def.; Nishiid. Guo Yan (CHN),19,17,-17,21;Konishi d. Shin Soo Hee (KOR), -19,-20,14,15,7;

Wang d. Lee Hyang Mi (KOR), 15,13,14; Svenssond. Virginia Sung (USA), 17,12,17; Ryu d. JasnaReed (USA), 13,12,13ITTF Pro Tour Women's Doubles - Final: Bai Yang/Niu Jianfeng (CHN) d. Lee Eun Sil/Ryu Ji Hye (KOR),10,15; SF: Bai/Niu d. Csilla Batorfi/Krisztina Toth

(HUN), 9,15; Lee/Ryu d. Shin Soo Hee/AyaUmemura (KOR/JPN),17,-18,13; QF: Lee/Ryu d. AnKonishi/Yuka Nishii (JPN), 14,17; Shin/Umemura d.Olga Nemes/Asa Svensson (GER/SWE), -12,15,17;Batorfi/Toth d. Fu Yu/Wang Tingting (CHN), 14,12;Bai/Niu d. Tanja Hain-Hofmann/EIke Schall (GER),11,19

NORTH AMERICAN

CHAMPIONSHIPS EVENTS

North American Men's Singles - Final: JohnnyHuang (CAN) d. Pradeeban Peter-Paul (CAN),19,8,14; SF: Huang d. Bence Csaba (CAN),10,12,18; Peter-Paul d. David Zhuang CUSA), -12,18,-14,18,12; QF: Huang d. Eric Owens (USA),19,8,14; Csabad. Barney J. Reed (USA),15,-18,19,-16,12; Peter-Paul d. Mark Hazinski (USA), 13,11,6;Zhuang d. Faazil Kassam (CAN), 16,15,14.North American Men's Doubles: 1st David Zhuang/Eric Owens (USA), 2-0 (d. Csaba/Kassam, 20,10;d. Reed/Hazinski, 18,13); 2nd Bence Csaba/FaazilKassam (CAN), 1-1 (d. Reed/Hazinski, 12,12); 3'dBarney J. Reed/Mark Hazinski (USA), 0-2. Fourthfinalist, Johnny Huang/Peter-Paul Pradeeban,defaulted)

North American Women's Singles - Final: ChangJun Gao (USA) d. Jasna Reed (USA), 7,16,17; SF:Chang d. Virginia Sung (USA), 11,12,8; Reed d. SimoneYang (USA), -19,14,-15,7,12; QF: Chang d. Jackie LeeCUSAA), 16,13,7; Sung d. Petra Cada (CAN), -20,14,14,-19,19, Reed d. Wennin Chiu (CAN),9,15,10;Yang d. Chris Xu (CAN), -15,21,24,-13,13.North American Women's Doubles: r Chang JunGao/Jasna Reed (USA), 3-0 (d. Banh/Sung, 11,12;d. Xu/Cada, 12,18; d. Roussy/Chiu, 18,11); 2nd ChrisXu/Petra Cada (CAN), 1-2 (d. Roussy/Chiu, 7,15);3, Tawny Banh/Virginia Sung CUSA), 1-2 (d. Xu/Cada, 17,-19,18); 4th Marie-Christine Roussy/WenninChiu (CAN), 1-2 (d. Banh/Sung, 12,-15,13).

U.S. OPEN EVENTS

Senior Events

Over 30 Men's Singles - Final: Atanda Musa d.Abass Ekun, 17,13; SF: Musa d. Brian Masters,13,18; Ekun d. Alexis Perez, 19,-19,8; QF: Musa d.Roberto Brito, 14,15; Masters d. Hui Yuan Liu, 16,19;

Ekun d. Derek May, 16,14; Perez d. Sean O'Neill,18,18.

Over 30 Women's Singles - Final: Chris Xu d.Simone Yang, 14,10; SF: Xu d. Lily Yip, 18,15; Yangd. Bik-yin Lai, 6,8.

Over 40 Men's Singles - Final: Atanda Musa d. HuiYuan Liu, 13,20; SF: Musa d. Barry Dattel, 15,20;Liu d. Keith Evans, 13-16,13.

Over 40 Women's Singles - Final: BarbaraKaminsky d. Mahin Roufeh, -19,18,17; SF: Kaminskyd. Luydmila Vysotskaya, 11,8, Roufeh d. DonnaSakal, 13,-20,24.

Over 50 Men's Singles - Final: George Brathwaite& Dave Sakai split, SF: Brathwaite d. Richard Hicks,-15,7,16; Sakai d. Henry McCoullum, 16,19; QF:Brathwaite d. Steve Federico, -16,13,8; Hicks d. Jim

McQueen, 18,18; McCoullum d. Bohdan

Dawidowicz, 16,10; Sakai d. Nick Mintsiveris, 19,17.

Over 50 Women's Singles - Final: BarbaraKaminsky d. Suzanna Sanders, 11,16: SF: Kaminskyd. Danuta Andrzejewska, 18,-17,19; Sanders d.Mahin Roufeh, 12,19.

Over 60 Singles - Final: George Brathwaite d.Elman Concepcion, 12,11; SF: Brathwaite d. PeteMay, 16,18; Concepcion d. Nick Mintsiveris, 15,-13,11; QF: Brathwaite d. Marvin Leff, 17,12; May d.Lynwood Smith, 19,-19,11; Concepcion d. BohdanDawidowicz, 21,-16,16; Mintsiveris d. Richard Hicks,18,19.

Over 70 Singles - Final: Tim Boggan d. GradyGordon, 17,-20,16; SF: Boggan d. Leon Ruderman,19,15; Gordon d. Arthur Chase, 13,18.

Over 75 Singles - Final: Grady Gordon d. HeliosBezerra; SF: Bezerra d. Joe Baltrus, 15,18; Gordon-ByeOver 80 Singles: Louis Radzeli d. Arthur Chase,-17,10,15.Over 40 Men's Doubles - Final: Hui Yuan Liu/Dave

Sakai d. Barry Dattel/Dickie Fleisher, 5,-19,4; SF:Sakai/Liu d. Richard Hicks/Nick Mintsiveris, -15,15,13; Dattel/Fleisher d. Brown/Evans, 16,16.

Over 50 Doubles - Final: George Brathwaite/DaveSakal d. Richard Hicks/Nick Mintsiveris, 11,11; SF:Brathwaite/Sakai d. Jose Cortes/Steve Federico,

12,13; Hicks/Mintsiveris d. Pete May/Jim McQueen,15,14.

Over 60 Doubles - Final: Richard Hicks/Nick

Mintsiveris d. Bohdan Dawidowicz/Marvin Leff, 22,-

16,15; SF: Hicks/Minsiveris d. Concepcion/Cortes,7,10; Dawidowicz/Leff d. George Brathwaite/PeteMay, 18,16.

Over 70 Doubles: Tim Boggan/Leon Ruderman d.Stanley Kahan/Walter Witkowski, 5,16.

Junior/Youth Events

Under 30 Men's Singles - Final: Pradeeban Peter-Paul d. Razvan Cretu, 18,19; SF: Peter-Paul d.

Michael Oyegobe, 12,14; Cretu d. Freddie Gabriel,17,7, QF: Peter-Paul d. Han Xiao, 18,13; Oyegoked. Keith Alban, 17,15; Gabriel d. Randy Cohen,17,21; Cretu d. Yu Shao, 10,20.

Under 30 Women's Singles - Final: Petra Cada d.Jackie Lee, 9,11; SF: Cada d. Renata Peluchova, -12,18,15; Lee d. Kibibi Moseley, 17,14; QF: Cada d.Whitney Ping, 12,9; Peluchovad. Angela Sun, 7,21;Lee d. Boglarka Masters, 13,19; Moseley d. MimiBosika, 18,18.

Under 22 Men's Singles - Final: Jose MiguelRamirez d. Ashu Jain, -19,12,17; SF: Ramirez d.Santiago Gabriel, 16,14; Jain d. Arturo Pan Shiu,8,-15,16.

Under 22 Women's Singles- Final: Marie-ChristineRoussyd. Mimi Bosika, 18,14; SF: Roussyd. JackieLee, 19,13; Bosika d. Wennin Chiu, 14,15.

Under 18 Boys' Singles - Final: Bence Csaba d.Faazil Kassam, -20,10,20; SF: Csaba d. SantiagoCoste, 15,17; Kassam d. Han Xiao, 5,10.

Under 18 Girls' Singles - Final: Wennin Chu d.Jackie Lee, 10,16; SF: Chiu d. Elaine Kwok, 18,9;

Lee d. Emily Ping, 11,19.Under 16 Boys' Singles - Final: Ka Chun Tse d.Santiago Coste, 18,18; SF: Tse d. Adam Hugh, 11,11;Coste d. Han Xiao, def.. QF: Xiao d. Ramy Shola,10,10; Coste d. Nicardo Clarke, 8,10; Tse d, Yin

Wang, 16,11; Hugh d. Kevin Farley, -15,12,14.

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Under 16 Girls' Singles - Final: Jackie Lee d.Whitney Ping, 12,9; SF: Lee d. Laura Leach, 12,13;Ping d. Judy Hugh, 12,12.Under 14 Boys' Singles - Final: Adam Hugh d.Daniel Toadjer, -18,10,25; SF: Hugh d. WalterAlomar, 11,14; Toadjer d. Misha Kazantsev, 11,15.

Under 14 Girls' Singles - Final: Karen Ma d. JudyHugh, -15,18,17; SF: Mad, Sherrice Felix, -22,13,13;Hugh d. Jerica Marrero, 18,16.Under 12 Boys' Singles - Final: Sherif Shola d.Lorencio Lupulesku, 16,16; SF: Shola d. Jorge Pujo,21,8; Lupulesku d. Andrew Lin, 15,16.Under 12 Girls' Singles - Final: Judy Hugh d.Jessica Yick, 7,12; SF: Hugh d. Diana Li, -16,15,9;Yick d. Emilia Santos, -13,11,14.

Under 10 Boys' Singles - Final: Marcus Jacksond. Roberto Zevallos, -18,15,16; SF: Jackson d.

Shelby Lane, -22,15,18; Zevallos d. Preston Chin,13,14.

Under 10 Girls - Final: Linden Li d. Amy Huang,14,18; SF: Li d. Gillian Wu, 1,4; Huang d. VivianaRubio, def.

Under 18 Boys' Doubles - Final: Rommel Farley/Dyson Benskin d. Adam Hugh/Yin Wang, 20,22; SF:Farley/Benskin d. Samson Dubina/Howard Lamb,18,17; Hugh/Wang d, Doughlin/Bascombe, 18,13.Under 18 Girls' Doubles - Final: Maria AlejandraSolares/Maria Jose Solares d. krystle Harvey/Sabrina Worrell, 18,-9,13.

Under 16 Doubles - Final: Howard Lamb/Yin Wang

d. Waltz/Waltz, 12,14; SF: Lamb/Wang d. RamyShola/Sherif Shola, 17,15; Waltz/Waltz d. Poon/

Runyan, 12,17.

Under 14 Doubles - Final: Daniel Toadjer/LorencioLupulesku d. Atha Fong/Judy Hugh, 9,13; SF:Toadjer/Lupulesku d. Corona/Santos, 8,13; Fong/Hug d. Yepez Mora/Crespo Ca, 13,17.Hardbat Events

Hardbat Singles - Final: Lily Yip d. Alexis Perez,11,15,18; SF: Yip d. Freddie Gabriel, 19,11,18; Perezd. Hoff 14,18,9; QF: Gabriel d. Steve Berger,16,13,17; Yip d. Larry Hodges, -22,8,16,14; Hoff d.

Rudy Miranda, -20,-15,14,19,10; Perez d. JohnJarema, 10,11,10.

Hardbat Doubles - Final: Larry Hodges/Ty Hoff d.Steve Berger/Tahl Leibovitz, 19,-17,19; SF: Hodges/Hoff d, Tim Boggan/Lorin Benedict, 17,15; Berger/Leibovitz d. Don Varian/Berndt Mann, 17,13.Under 2000 Hardbat - Final: Lorin Benedict d.

Simon Jacobson, 17,22; SF: Benedict d. HoushangBozorgzadeh, 18,-17,13; Jacobson d. AllenMcDermott, 12,-9,23.

Rating Singles EventsUnder 2600 - Final: Atanda Musa d. Sasa Drinic,

19,-19,19; SF: Musad. Keith Evans, 14,12; Drinicd.

Yu Shao, 12,16; QF: Musa d. Freddie Gabriel, def.;

Evans d. Sean O'Neill, 20,-18,19; Shao d. SantigoCoste, 10,-16,16; Drinic d. Santiago Gabriel, 6,14.Under 2400 - Final: Sasa Drink d. Alexis Perez,

11,9; SF: Drinic d. Derek May, 21,16; Perez d. Luis

Ruiz, -19,9,12; QF: Mayd. Jacques Casas, -9,12,16;Drinic d. Randy Cohen, 17,17; Perez d. SamsonDubina, 15,8, Ruiz d. Jean-Francois Roussy, -18,9,12.

Under 2300 - Final: Sasa Drinic d. ChristopherMarsh, 9,13; SF: Drinic d. Misha Kazantsev, 12,19;

Marsh d. Adam Hugh, 16,16.

Under 2200 - Final: Santiago CosteKazantsev, -21,12,15; SF: Coste d. Maximo

13,15; Kazantzev d. Samuel Smith, 20,13

Under 2100 - Final: Ka Chun Tse d. Daryl e13,12; SF: Tse d. Whitney Ping, 10,11; St

Nigel Webb, -21,20,19.Under 2100 Women - Final: Whitney PincPing, def.; SF: W.Ping d. Alina KhasanopE.Ping d. Mahin Roufeh, 20,16.Under 2000 - Final: Hector Berrios d. 12

10,17; SF: Lynch d. Ernest DeLosReyeBerrios d. David Strachan, -18,13,19.

Under 1900 - Final: Alphanso Murray d,Haynes, 18,-18,16; SF: Murray d. Walter10,18,19; Haynes d. Hector Berrios, 17,-1Under 1800 - Final: Geraldo Gandia d

Maisonet, 17,16; SF: Gandia d. Anthony18,20; Maisonet d. Evan Momios, -18,12,

Under 1800/Over 40 - Final: Lon Dear

Kobernick, 22,13; SF: Dean d. Fank GiglioKobernick d. Raphael Francois, 14,20.Under 1650 - Final: Hector Berrios d. I

17,17; SF: Berrios d. Peter Tsang, 8,16; LFong, 17,10.Under 1500 -Final: Matt Despathy d. Ranc12,13; SF: Despathy d. Robert Simmo

Yocum d. Anna Stolyarova, 19,-23,20.Under 1350 - Final: Jerica Marrero d. And

19,18,9; SF: Marrero d. Kevin Pollard, 11,

Kevin Lam, 13,13.

Under 1175 - Final: Andrew Lin d. Pres

9,16; SF: Lin d. Adam Gussow, 15,13; Chin

May, -15,19,19.

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lili. Multiple Winners

Triple Winner!Atanda Musa: Over 30 and Over 40 Men's Singles, Under 2600

Double Winnersl I *912 - 1- - 1%

Niu Jianfeng: ITTF Pro Tour Women's Singles & Doubles

Chang Jun Gao: North American Women's Singles & Doubles

Dave Sakai: Over 40 Men's Doubles, Over 50 Doubles

(Also: Split Over 50 Men's Singles Final.)

George Brathwaite: Over 60 Singles, Over 50 Doubles.

(Also: Split Over 50 Men's Singles Final.)(18,3-: *,44¥

Tim Boggan: Over 70 Singles & DoublesBarbara Kaminsky: Over 40 and Over 50 Women's Singles

Sasa Drinic: Under 2400, Under 23004.

Ka Chun Tse: Under 16 Boys' Singles, Under 2100 &..€6 "

Hector Berrios: Under 2000, Under 1650

Andre Scott: Men's Wheelchair Singles, Classes 1-5 and 4-5

Tahl Leibovitz: Men's Standing Disabled,

Men's Standing Disabled Classes 8-10

d, Misha Under 1000 - Final: Evan Ng d. Preston Chin, 19,10;Vasquez, SF: Ng d. Charles Lin, 13,-16,15; Chin d. Derrick

Poon, 16,-17,14.

Strachan, Under 800 - Final: Tony Titrud d. David Alboukrek,rachan d 14,14; SF: Titrud d. Derrick Poon, 11,-19,21;

Alboukrek d. Katie Poon, 15,15.

1 d. Emily*a, 15,10; Rating Doubles Events

Under 4200 Doubles: McQueen/Robertshaw d.

in Lynch, Haynes/Wang, 21,20.s, 15,21; Under 3700 Doubles: Newton/Thomas d. Cochran/

Leach, 18,11.

Thomas Under 3200 Doubles: Vysotskaya/Gudzenko d.Alomar, - Theuber/Tumer, 18,17.1,12.

. William Paralympic EventsMaharaj, Men's Wheelchair Singles, Class 1-5 - Final: Andre

12, Scott d. Mike Dempsey, 20,25; SF: Scott d. Michaelid. Mark Lo Russo, 5,20; Dempsey d. Fabrizio Bove, 4,13.

tti, 16,19; Men's Wheelchair Singles, Class 1-2: 1st MichaelLo Russo; 2nd Barry Butler; 3rd David Wagner.

Hugh Lu, Men's Wheelchair Singles, Class 4-5: 1 st Andre.u d, Atha Scott; 2nd Mike Dempsey; 3rd Bove Fabrizio.

Men's Standing Disabled - Final: Tahl Leibovitz d.

ly Yocum, Ashraf Mostafa Ali, 18,-15,17; SF: Leibovitz d. Johnns, 7,15; MacPherson, 20,-20,13; Ali d. Wayne Lo, 21,19

Men's Standing Disabled, Class 6-7: 1 st Norman

Irew Lin, - Bass; 2nd Wayen Lo; 3rd Odalis Gomez,12; Lin d. Men's Standing Disabled, Class 8-10 - Final: Tahl

Leibovitz d. Ashraf Mostafa Ali, 21,14; SF: Leibovitz d.

ton Chin, Michiya Suzuki, 16,19; Alid. Martin Pelletier, -14,19,12.d. Patrick Women's Wheelchair Open: Jennifer Johnson d.

Miho Iwakuma, 9,13.

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2001 U.S. Open/Fort Lauderdale, Florida • July 4-8, 2001There were actually four tournaments:

• The ITTF Pro Tour

• The U.S. Open

• The North American Championships

• The Paralympic International Championships

So you were/weren't there? Then you can read about what you

did/didn't see, and relive/live it again/for the first time! You'll see

Canada's Johnny Huang pulling out one close one after another

(two deuce in the fifths -down match point both times!).,. Austria's

Werner Schlager coming from behind over and over ... Taipei's

Chuan Chi-Yuan. the "forgotten" Taiwanese, beating his

countrymen and almost taking it all ... China's Niu Jianfeng, now

a confirmed star ... Japan's Aya Umemura, the Brazil Pro Tour

Women's Champion, going for two in a row... and the rest!

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40 ................ Number of staff

55 ................ Number of umpires55 ................ Number of Countries taking part81................ Number of tables being used

$66,000 ....... Value of the tables being used$660,000 ..... Estimated economic impact on Ft. Lauderdale100 dozen ... Number of balls that were used

93 ................ Oldest player, Ulpiano Santo of Virginia

Youngest player, Adrian Lam of Florida

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For those interested in USA results, there weir USA players in ev-ery group except groups 2 and 8. Especially see group 12 to read of themany match points of USA's 16-year-old Mark Hazinski - and the finalconversion of one! -in the most contested group.Group One: World #1()9 Finn Tugwell of Denmark easily advanced. win-ning 011 three matches 2-0. His only close match was with USA's MichaelOyebode. a former member of the Nigerian team, now living in Atlanta.Tugwell won that match at 20 & 19.Group Two: World #110 Michel Martinez of France advanced with 3-0record, losing a game to Greece's Konstantinos Lagogiannis. world #397.Group Three: USAN Fan Yiyong. with no world ranking (hell get onenow!) dominated the group, winning his three matches by scores of11.13.14.8.17.11. against players ranked (respectively) 434.395 and 121.The poor opposition probably never knew what they were iiI) against!Group Four: While Japan'>, Muneaki Mitaniura (world #124) easily wonhis three matches all 2-(). USA's Abass Ekun (w·orId #388) came in sec-

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ished third.

Group Ten: This group came down to a showdown between World #\11

Terry Young of England, and unranked Yang Hee Suk of Korea, withYang winning, -15,11,18. USA's Santiago Gabriel (from Puerto Rico)lost all three matches.

Group Eleven: World #171 Cedric Mirault of France dominated, althoughhe lost a game to Korea's unranked Kim Seung Hwan, 18.-16,14. USA'sRazvan Cretu played well, winning a game against Hwan (16,-18,13),losing to Mirault (13 & 14) and to world #239 Marc Closset of Belgium.12 & 20

Group Twelve: This was by far the most contested group. with all fourplayers (including USA's 16-year-old star Mark Hazinski) roughly equal.At the start, most feared China's unranked Guo Keli would dominate -

until he lost his first match, to world #229 Raymond Gonzales of Nor-way, at -12.17,11.

In the same round, Mark played world #189 Kunihiko Tasei of Ja-pan. a pips-out penholder. Down 9-16 in the third. Mark went on an 11-2binge, and served with a 20-18 match point lead ! But Tasei deuced it. At20-21 match point for Tasei. they played a furious point, with each hittingover ten counters or loops - and Marks continuous power loops finallydeuced it, 21-all. Then Mark made a strong opening loop - and Taseiblocked on the edge ! A moment later. it was match to Tasei. 17.-11.21.

In the second round, Mark played Gonzales. He won the first at 16.but was down 12-16 in the second - and then scored eight in a row !Down 20-16 match point. Gonzales scored four in a row - was Markabout to blow another match after multiple match points? Not this time:he pulled it out. 23-21. While this match was going on, Guo was busybeating Tasei, deuce in the third.

At this point. all four are 1 -1 , so anyone can win. However. in thelast round, Mark falls to China's Guo, 16 & 6, while Tasei defeats Gonzales.12,-10,12. Tasei and Guo both finish 2-1, with Guo coming out first dueto his head-to-head win over Tawei.

One side result - Mark defeated a world-ranked player at the recentWorld Championships, so this is his second one. To get a world ranking.you have to beat two world-ranked players - so Mark should have a worldranking as soon as this tournament is processed.Group Thirteen: World #193 Mads Sorensen of Denmark dominated,winning his three matches by scores of 14,22,17.19,17,9. USA's KeithAlban. not really in practice since going into semi-retirement a year ago,lost all three badly.

ROUND ONE (ROUND OF 64)

Three USA players made it to the Main draw: David Zhuang and EricOwens were seeded out of the Qualifier, and Fan Yiyong made it throughthe Qualifier.

Jaromir Truksa (SVK) d. Fan Yiyong (USA), -16,17,17,6. Fan was thehope of U.S. fans - if he got hot (as he had been in recent U.S. tourna-ments), who knows how far he might have gone? But against world #104Truksa (who many have seen in the U.S. a number of times at the NorthAmerican Teams), Fan just made too many mistakes. The two play sur-prisingly similar styles, considering Truksa is about 6 inches taller - bothare powerful two-winged loopers, looping mostly from close to the table.They had a lot of incredible counter-looping points - including manybackhand counter-loop points. After winning the first two games, Fanspent the next two games mostly a few points behind, not quite able topull off a comeback - and a red-hot Truksa pulled off winner after win-ner. matching Fan shot for shot. In the fourth it was all Truksa. 6-5,9-6.14-6,18-7,21-7.

Chetan Baboor (IND) d. Eric Owens (USA). -18,15,17,-19,10. It was agreat match with great counterlooping and loop versus block rallies be-tween two of the best pure athletes here. Both can cover an awful lot of

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scores five straight to win.Ilija Lupulesku (YUG) d. AbassEkun (NGR), 5,20,12. On the

draw. Abass was listed as Nigerian.and Lupulesku as Yugoslavian.Both are living in the U.S. For allintents and purposes, it was USAvs. USA, with USA winning.Other matches:

• Aleksandar Karakasevic (YUG) d. Michel Martinez (FRA), 11.-17,18.20

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• Ryo Yuzawa (JPN) d. Guo Keli (CHN), 13,8,-15,14• Martin Bratanov (BEL) d. Mads Sorensen (DEN), 15,13,-15,11• Allan Bentsen (DEN) d, Cedric Mirault (FRA), 10,19,-20,17• Robert Gardos (AUT) d. Hugo Hoyama (BRA),14,13,16• Gareth Herbert (ENG) d. Eric Varin (FRA), 14.17.19• Liu Song CARGO d. Stefan Feth (GER), 17,15,13• Joo Se Hyuk (KOR) d. Finn Tugwell (DEN), 15,-15,-19,18,12• Chang Yuan-Su (TPE) d. Panagiotis Gionis (GRE). 11,16,17• Slobadan Grujic (YUG) d. Muneaki Mitamura (JPN), def.First round byes: Liu Guozheng, Trinko Keen. Danny Heister, LucjanBlaszczyk, Jorg Rosskopf, Torben Wosik, Toshio Tasaki, Jean-Michel Saive.Werner Schlager,Johnny Huang, Oh Sang Eun, Timo Boll, Kalinikos Kreanga,Chuan Chi-Yuan. Lee Chul Seung and Chiang Peng-Lung.

ROUND TWO (ROUND OF 32)

Lee Chul Seung (KOR) d. David Zhuang (USA), -9,16,16,-21,17David Zhuang almost pulled off the day's top upset - he was 13-all in thefifth with world #43 Lee, an all-out forehand penhold looper (but with asurprisingly good backhand - including a penhold backhand loop). Afterwhitewashing Lee 21-9 in the first, a large USA crowd had gathered,cheering David on. in the third game, with the match tied one game each,David goes up 3-0. At 3-1, Lee pulls off what probably is the shot of thetournament, one that will be tough to top, David does a sidespin block toLee's extreme backhand, with the sidespin making the ball break evenwider. Lee had already started to step around to loop his forehand, and heends up going all the way over to where the scorekeeper is. and rips aforehand loop around the net, below net level, so it hits the table andbarely bounces ! Possibly shaken by this shot. David falls behind 5-14 -and then scores eight in arow to get to 13-14! But Lee responds by scor-

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[Con't from page 46]ing five in a row and won easily. In the fourth, David goes up 7-3, but Leeties it up at 12-all. David goes up 18-16. then loses three in a row. 18-19.At 19-all. David blocks off. and yells, "Stupid! What are you doing!" Hethen surprises Lee by serving and backhand hitting. and Lee blocks off.20-all. David goes up 21-20. then it's 21-all. Lee flips into the net. 22-21:then David blocks Lee around, and forces Lee to try an off-balance loopthat misses. 23-21. In the fifth. at 13-all. Lee takes over, scoring six in arow on his way to winning 21-17, to the groans of the crowd. The lastUSA player is out of the event.

Werner Schlager (AUT) d. Allan Bentsen (DEN), -20,-17,20,12,16World #50 Bentsen is a lefty power looper. with a spectacular backhandloop that he was unafraid to use at any time. After winning the first twogames. Bentsen led 16- 11 in the third - and then Schlager (world #7) tiedit up at 19-all! Then, with his usual fearlessness, Bentsen absolutely ripsa backhand loop off Schlager*s slightly long serve - but it goes just off.20-19 Schlager. Undaunted, Bentsen absolutely rips another backhandloop - this one hits. deuce. Then Bentsen serve and backhand rips again- but whiffs the ball! Schlager goes up 21-20. They then have the point ofthe tournament - a vicious counterlooping point. with a mixture of powerloops. soft topspin returns, and backhand counterloops, and full-courtcoverage. It finally ends with Bentsen backhand chopping into the net -game to Schlager, 22-20. (Immediately afterwards, a spectator was ask-ing if he could buy a tape just so he could see this point again!) Schlagerthen wins the next two relatively easily.

Johnny Huang (CAN) d. Robert Gardos (AUT). -15,18,14,-17,22What a match. and what a way to finish - with Huang (a shakehanderwith pips on both sides, world #38) winning on a net ball at 24-22 in thefifth (aftering being down match point). against world #142 Gardos !Other matches:

• Liu Guozheng (CHN) d. Jaromir Truksa (SVK). 18,14.9• Trinko Keen (NED) d. Chetan Baboor (IND), -19.12,17.10

· Danny Heister (NE) d. Aleksandar Karakasevic (YUG), 21.8.16• Lucjan Blaszczyk (POL) d. Yang Hee Suk (KOR). 12,10,22• Jorg Rosskopf (GER) d. Marc Closset (BEL). 11.14:20,1 1• Ryo Yuzawa (JPN) d. Torben Wosik (GER), -20.18,9.13• Toshio Tasaki (JPN) d. Ilija Lupulesku (YUG). 9.-15.19,18• Jean-Michel Saive (BEL) d. Martin Bratanov (BEL), 20,- 19,11,15

· Oh Sang Eun (KOR) d. Gareth Herbert (ENG). 10.18.21• Timo Boll (GER) d. Liu Song (ARG), 15,7,17• Kaliniko Kreanga (GRE) d. Joo Se Hyuk(KOR). 19.17.13• Chuan Chi-Yuan (TPE) d. Chang Chi-Yuan (TPE), 13,14,9• Chiang Peng-Lung (TPE) d. Sobadan Grujic (YUG), 10.-16.16,13

ROUND THREE (ROUND OF 16)

Liu Guozheng (CHN) d. Trinko Keen (DEN), 21,19,8Left-handed Trinko Keen has very fast reflexes. and seemed able to react toanything top-seeded Liu sent to him. In the first, Keen took an 18-14 lead.However. he then put Liu's serve into the net three straight times ! Whateverserves Liu had held back on and unleashed had done their job. Liu scored thethree in a row as well(six in a row total), and led 20-18, finally winning 23-21. When Liu won the second one. another close one at 21-19, it pretty muchended Keen's chances - and Liu killed him in the third.

Chiang Peng-Lung (TPE) d. Lee Chul Seung (KOR), 10,9,9Second-seeded Chiang could do no wrong, and poor Lee absolutely had noanswers, That's why penhold looping & jabbing Chiang is fifth in the world.Jean-Michel Saive (BEL) d. Toshio Tasaki (JPN), 15,14,13This was your usual. spectacular display by Saive, who roved the court[obbing. fishing, and racing around his backhand to loop forehands. Tasakiplayed with more discipline. stayed at the table. smashed efficiently. andgenerally had difficulty scoring against Saive's acrobatic style. Saive isprobably the most entertaining of players. and he uses more of the courtthan anybody. One worrisome note - Saive has been struggling with armproblems recently. but seemed all right here - so far.Johnny Huang (CAN) d. Werner Schlager (AUT), 11,14,-20,-19,21This was the best match of the round. At the start, Huang was killingSchlager - basically killing everything Schlager could loop, Huang wonthe first two games, and led 20-18 match point in the second. However -USA Coach Doru Gheorghe said, "Schlager is always coming back. Nevercount him out!" Schlager won four in a row to win. In the fourth. it isr

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Huang's turn to come back. Down 15-1%. Huang scores four in a row -but once again, it is Schlager who comes back, winning the next threepoints to win - including the point at 19-20 where Huang smashed allout. and Schlager looped back a winner. So the match went into the fifth- and Huang takes an immediate 5-0 lead on Schlager's serve, then 6-0.But Schlager ("Never count him out!") ties it at 11-all. Down 17-14,Schlager tiesit at 17-all. Then hegoes up 20-18 match point! But again.it is Huang's turn to come back from this score, just as Schlager had ingame three. Schlager has another match point at 21-20, but Huang winsthe next three in a row. winning 23-21 in the fifth. in a match where thetide turned faster and more often then a ping pong ball. It was Huang'ssecond straight deuce-in-the-third win.

Chuan Chi-Yuan (TPE) d. Kalinikos Kreanga (GRE), 15,25,-20,10Chuan. a close to the table two-winged looper (who looks younger thanhis 19 years, and small for his age), won the first. and led 20-16 in thesecond. But Kreanga's two-winged looping scored four in a row to reachdeuce. Then Chuan served into the net! Soon, Kreanga seems to win, 25-23 - only Kreanga tells the umpire the ball hit the edge. and the point isChuan's (who didn't seem to notice either). So much for nice guys -Chuan wins the game. 27-25. and after losing the third at deuce. easilywins the fourth.

Other matches

• Jorg Rosskopf (GER) d. Ryo Yuzawa (JPN), 20,13,16• Oh Sang Eun d. Timo Boil (GER). 14.16.-18,13· Lucjan Blaszczyk (POL) d. Danny Heister (DEN), 17.-15,-15,14,17

QUARTERFINALS

Johnny Huang (CAN) d. Oh Sang Eun (KOR), -16,28,16,5Oh won the first. and led 20-18 in the second - but Huang deuced it.helped by Oh's missed backhand smash at 20-19. (How many timeshave players blown 20-18 leads today already?) It took 58 points. butHuang finally pulled this game out. 30-28. and he dominated the rest ofthe way. In game four, Huang led 8-5 - and scored the next 13 in a rowto win 21-5 !

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Korea's Park Kyung Ae is a well-known star, ranked 85th in theworld (in new rankings just out). When she was entered, she wasseeded out of the qualifier, as is due to someone of her ranking...only, she wasn't one of that ranking ! It turns out there are two ParkKyung Ae's - Korea neglected to anyone that the Park entered wasnot the Park who was ranked 85[h in the world ! According to ITTFPro Tour Director Zlatko Cordas. this is the first time this has everhappened in the Pro Tour.

According to Tim Boggan, this happened in golf as well. How didthey handle it? The two Gordon Brand's - who are not related - are calledGordon Brand Sr. and Jr., which is somewhat confusing to those whothink they must be father and son.

Even worse, a little investigation revealed ... that the Park KyungAe who was ranked 85th in the world... had recently died in childbirth.

IN ... OUT ... IN ...

THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF WANG CHEN

Wang Chen, the former World #4 woman from China now living in NewJersey, had her ins and outs. As the preliminary round robins got under-way, at one point Wang Chen's name was removed from her qualifyinggroup due to a protest lodged by the Chinese Association. However, af-ter a huddle between USATT President Sheri Pittman, CTTA's Vice Presi-dent Yu Bin, and ITTF Competition Manager Zlatko Cordas, her namereappeared on the drawsheet. She quickly won her three qualifier matches(she no longer has a world ranking, and so was unseeded) and advancedto the main draw.

WOMEN'S ITTF PRO TOUR QUALIFIER

27 women were entered in the Qualifier, placed in six groups of fourand one of three.. (three didn't show.) The top two finishers in each groupwould all advance to the main draw, along with two #3 players, whowould be selected at random, to fill out the main draw.

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USA players were in six of the seven groups, all but group four(with two USAers in group five).It was a bad time to be top seed - only one of the seven top seeds finishedfirst. In fact, of the seven #1 seeds, one finished first; three finished sec-ond; two finished third; and one finished fourth.Group One: World #201 Pia Finnemann of Denmark won both hermatches easily (11&14 and 11&9), and received a default from USA'sAngela Sun. She would be the only #1 seed to win her group. Coming insecond and advancing was Ruth Alvarez of Guam.Group Two: First she's in ... then she's out (and marked so on the drawsand online)... then she's back in again! But all this controversy didn'taffect her play - Wang Chen (listed as USA) dominated her group byscores of 11&12 and 7& 11. Top-seeded Natalia Tzygankova ofBelarus(world #202) was a no show. Also advancing in second was MarianaGuanchez of Venezuela.

Group Three: In this group of three, Korea's unranked Kim Bok Raedominated, defeating USA's Virginia Sung (the group's top seed at world#202 - tied with Tzygankova above) at 11 & 8. However, Virginia de-feated second-seeded N.R. Indu of India (world #338) at 8 & 16, and soadvanced along with Kim.Group Four: Another unranked Korean, Yoon Ji Hye, won all threematches in straight games without being seriously challenged. Coming insecond and advancing was India's Poulomi Ghatak (world #217).Group Five: This group had two USA players (top-seeded world #224 SimoneYang and #4 seed Mimi Bosika), while group four had none. The group alsohad the strangest results. For one thing, only two matches were played. Sec-ond-seeded Annadilia Chakraborty of India (world#297) didn't show. Simonewas told by someone that she played at 11AM - which was 45 minutes afterit started, so she was defaulted in her match with Mimi Bosika. So the onlymatches played were between China's unranked Fu Yu and the USA players.Fu defeated Mimi at 18 & 13, and Simone at 13 & 15. Yet, Mimi, losing heronly match, came in second and advanced, while Simone, also losing heronly match, came in third, and was in the running to advance as one of thewild cards. (Nope, she didn't get it.)Group Six: With one close game and five one-sided wins, China'sunranked Jia Beibie easily won her three matches In the original results,

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Women's Singles SemifinalistOlga Nemes of Germany

Barbados/USAs Kibibi Moseley was listed asdefeating top-seeded Mantu Ghosh of India(world #250) at 14 & 13. It ended in a three-way tie for second (between Kibibi. Ghosh andLuisana Perez of Peru, world #308), going topoints - with Kibibi coming out! She wasplaced in the draw, and Ghosh was listed ascoming in last in the group. However. after thewomen's draw was made. it was discovered that

it was all an error (Good Gosh!) - that Ghoshhad defeated Kibibi ! So Ghosh finished sec-

ond, and Kibibi, going 0-3, came in fourth.Ghosh was placed in the main women's drawin place of Kibibi.Group Seven: Another unranked Chineseplayer, Li Qiangbing. won both her matches eas-ily to advance in first. She received a defaultfrom USA's Mahin Roufeh, who lost her first

match to top-seeded Fabiola Ramos of Venezu-ela (world #251), but for reasons unknown, de-faulted the other two matches Coming in sec-ond and advancing was Canada's junior starMarie-Christie Roussy - who plays with the"Seemiller" (windshield wiper) grip.

ROUND ONE (ROUND OF 64)Kim Bok Rae (KOR) d. Wang Chen (USA),19,7,14

Although still a citizen of China. and despitethe controversy regarding her being allowedto play. Wang was allowed to play as a "USA"player. However. it didn't la.>t long. Formerly#4 in the world. she lost to the unranked Ko-

rean player.Jasna Reed (USA) d. Li Qiangbing (CHN),16,-12,-22,10,14

This was a banner match, with Jasna playingone of her best matches in coming back, win-ning the last two games easily against theunranked Chinese.

Tawny Banh (USA) d. Marie-ChristineRoussy (CAN), 9,15,12Virginia Sung (USA) d. Chris Xu (CAN),11,14,14

In these two matches. USA picked on Canadianwomen with contrasting styles. Tawny's all-outtwo-winged attacking (looping forehand, pips-out hitting backhand) was too much for the"Seemi]Ier" gripped Roussy. and Virginia wonthe battle of the choppers.Other matches:

• Pia Finnemann (DEN) d. Mimi Bosika

(USA), 16,18.19

Kim Kyung Ha (KOR) d. Ruth Alvarez(GUA), 19,7,14

Olga Nemes (GER) d. Park Kyung Ae(KOR), 12,14.16

Yoo Ji Hye (KOR) d. Eldijana Aganovic(CRO), -10,18,19,-19.18

Jia Bei Bei (CHN) . Peggy Regenwetter(LUX). 18.6,21Petra Cada (CAN) d. Mariana Guanchez(VEN). 10.11.15

Fabiola Ramos (VEN) d. Lin Xiu Zhen(USA). def.

Fit Yu (CHN) d. Das Mounia (IND),14.14,7

• Yuka Nishii ( JPN) d. Mantu Ghosh (IND).10,12,8

• Shin Soo Hee d. Chiu Wennin (CAN).15,17.17

• Lee Hyang Mi (KOR) d. Poulomi Ghatak(IND),9.12,17

First Round Byes: Zhang Yinging, Bai Yang.Csilla Batorfi, Kristtina Toth, Aya Umemura,Lee Eun Sil. Ni Xia Lian, Niu Jianfeng, ChangGao Jun, Elke Schall, Guo Yan, An Konishi,

Wang Tingting, Asa Svensson, Ryu Ji Hye.

ROUND TWO (ROUND OF 32)Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. Fabiola Ramos(VEN), 18,16.12

Chang blocked & hit through the strong tw'o-winged looper from Venezuela. ranked #251 inthe world.

Lee Eun Sil (KOR) d. Tawny Banh (USA),18,-17,14,13Asa Svensson (SWE) d. Virginia Sung (USA),17.12,17

Ryu Ji Hye (KOR) d. Jasna Reed (USA),13,12,13End of the road for the rest of the USA Team.

Tawny looked like her match was going to beclose, but Lee pulled away the last two gaines.,]ia Bei Bei (CHN) d. Krisztina Toth (HUN),

15,13,-18,17Csilla Batorfi CHUN) d. Yoon Ji Hye (KOR),-9.16.-13,14.21

Played side-by-side. these were two of the mostspectacular matches - with Batorfi (world #21)pulling out the deuce-in-the-fifth win against theunranked Korean, while Toth (world #22) be-

coming the first highly seeded player to lose,going down to the unranked Chinese.Fu Yu (CHN) d. Elke Schall (GER), def.World #56 Schall defaulted due to a back in-

jury, deciding to focus on doubles only, where,with a first-round bye and a second round win,she would advance into the quarterfinals (withpartner Tania Hain-Hol-mann).

Other Matches:

• Zhang Yining (CHN) d. Kim Kyung Ha,21.11,18

• Bai Yang (CHN) d. Kim Bok Rae (KOR),11,15,13

• Olga Nemes d. Pia Finnemann (DEN).14,13.-20,16

• Aya Umemura (JPN) d. Kim Soon Sil(KOR). 11.11.17

• Ni Xia Lian (LUX) d. Tanja Hain-Hofmann(GER). 10,11.12

• Niu Jianfeng (CHN) d. Petra Cada (CAN).15.13.12

• Yuka Nishii (JPN) d. Guo Yan (CHN),19,17,-17.21

• An Konishi (JPN) d, Shin Soo Hee (KOR).-19.-20.14.15.7

• Wang Tingting (CHN) d. Lee Hyang Mi(KOR)

ROUND THREE (ROUND OF 16)Niu Jianfeng (CHN) d. Chang Gao Jun (USA),11,15,-20,19

USA's Gao admitted before the match that she

wasn't very confident about this match, tipagainst the world #19, It wasnt the ranking thatbothered her - she just knows how hard theChinese team trains (she was one of their starsbefore moving to the U.S.). ancl so knows whatshe's up against - and she no longer trains serbously. However. after losing the first two gamespretty badly. Gao began to get back some of herformer world #3 abilities. She makes it to 19-all

(smashing Niu's loop over and over) - and then.when Niu pops the ball up, Gao disastrouslyxmashes into the net! However, she wins the next

three points (smashing Niu s loop at 20-20). andwins. In the fourth. Gao goes up 6-1, Niu ties itat 10-all, then Gao goes up 19-1 8, with Niu serv-ing. Niu serve and loops three straight times,and wins 21-19. USA is out of the event.

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Ryu Ji Hye (KOR) d. Asa Svensson (SWE), -10,-18,18,17,17

Although Ryu, in the new rankings just out. haddropped from 88 to ll'h. she was still well aheadof Svensson's world #52 ranking. But Svensson,looping aggressively from both wings, won the firsttwo against the forehand looping, backhand hit-ting Ryu. They are 17-all in the third, then 17-19:Svensson fishes Ryu down to get to 18-19, but losesat 18. Svensson stays with Ryu for much of thefourth as well, but Ryu pulls away at the end. Inthe fifth, there is a point at 8-10 where Svensson isback lobbing, counterloops suddenly, gets back intothe point, and is forced to lob again before losingthe point! Ryu gradually pulls away to win.Zhang Yining (CHN) d. Bai Yang (CHN),15,19,-11,11

This was a battle of very tall and thin women -which seemed to describe a number of the mem-

bers of the Chinese National Team, which seems

to be a head taller than their teams of the past.Zhang. now ranked #2 in the world in newrankings just out, pulled out the close secondgame, and romped in the fourth.Wang Tingting (CHN) d. An Konishi (JPN),20,11,13

Konishi is known for her vicious counterdriving -but against chopper Wang, she seemed barely ableto score after the first game. Wang put on a chop-ping show with her nearly impregnable defense.Other Matches

• Olga Nemes (GER) d. Csilla Batorfi(HUN). -15.11,19,7

• Aya Umemura (JPN) d, Jia Bei Bei (CHN),20,-19.15,8

• Ni Xia Lian (LUX) d. Lee Eun Sil (KOR),15.8.-11.16

• Fu Yu (CHN) d. Nishii Yuka (JPN),12,18,-6.18

QUARTERFINALS

Olga Nemes (GER) d. Zhang Yining (CHN),17,15,-20,-7,18

Who would have believed it! World #38 won the

first two against World #2 Zhang! In the third,Zhang led 18-13 -but Nenies scored five straight(Zhang takes it timeout), and then goes up 20-19match point. Zhang blocks six in a row. and fi-nally deuces it - and wins, 22-20. Zhang takescomplete control in the fourth ... 21-7. However,Nemes takes the fifth, 21-18 - and the #1 seed isout! (See profile of Olga in this issue.)Aya Umemura (JPN) d. Ni Xia Lian (LUX), -12,21,17,13

After a slow start against the penholdflipping Luxembourger (who uses in-verted and long pips, but favors thepips and dead blocks), Aya pulled outthe second, and got stronger and stron-ger as the match went on. At the end,she was dominating.Niu Jiangfeng (CHN) d. Fu Yu(CHN). 7,15,12

In this all-Chinese match. Niu showed

why she was world #19.Ryu Ji Hye (KOR) d. Wang Tingting(CHN), 18,17,21

Ryu shows how to play choppers - butstill has her hands full, unable to pullaway in any game here.

SEMIFINALS

Aya Umeniura (JPN) d. Olga Nemes (GER),16,18,-13,17

World #39 Olga Nemes has been the sensa-tion of the women's singles so far, with winsover top-seeded and world #2 Zhang Yining,and world #21 Csilla Batorfi. Now she's upagainst world #90 Aya Umemura - at least,in the ratings on hand. One week before, Ayahad won women's singles at the BrazilianOpen, so you can junk that #90 ranking. She'sa very powerful two-winged looper - she ba-sically plays a "man's" power game, with feetwide, and threatening to loop winners fromboth wings off anything, In contrast, Olgaloops her forehand, but hits her backhand -and the result was that Olga spent most of thematch blocking while Aya tied her up withone loop after another. Aya won the first tworelatively easily. Olga ran away with the thirdwhen Aya's loops became erratic, and Olga'shard-hitting backhand kept going throughAya. In the fourth, Olga continues to pressthe backhand hitting attack, and leads 14-11.But at 15-13. Aya scores four in a row. Olgacalls a timeout, but it doesn't help. Aya winsand advances to the final.

Niu Jianfeng (CHN) d. Ryu Ji Hye (KOR),13,15,5

This match-up was similar to the Umemura-Nemesmatch-up, in that Ryu plays somewhat like Olga(looping forehand, hitting backhand), while Niuplays somewhat like Aya (looping from both sides).In both matches, the player with controlling back-hand loop controlled play and won. In this case.Niu, laughingly ranked #21 in the world to Ryu's#9. dominated from start to finish, In the third

game, she led 9-0 and 16-1.

FINAL

Niu Jianfeng d. Aya Umemura, 11,13,2Here we have two players ranked #21 and #90 inthe world in an ITTF Pro Tour Final! However,the #21 really should be somewhere in the top fiveor better, while the #90 probably should in the toptwenty or better. However, in this match, there wasno contest. Niu so controlled play that it was as ifno match was being played, they were just rally-ing until Niu looped a winner or Aya missed. Inthe third game, Niu led 11-0 and 19-1, and won at2. China's Niu Jianfeng is the 2001 U.S. OpenITI'F Pro Tour Women's Singles (and Doubles,with Bai Yang) Champion.

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She only lost one game along with the way,to this writer in the quarterfinals, in compiling a15-1 game record. In the final, she defeatedNorth American Hardbat Champion AlexisPerez, who she had lost to in the final last year,11,15,18. She defeated Freddie Gabriel in thesemifinals (who'd knocked off National Cham-pion Steve Berger in the quarters), 19,11,18.

Ty Hoff, who in recent years has dominatedthe event (winning the 1999 & 2000 U.S, Opens,and the U.S. Nationals in 1998 and 1999) lostto Perez in the semifinals, 14,18,9. Ty has neverseemed quite as strong since the introduction ofthe 40mm ball- he used to pin players down ontheir weaker side, but the 40mm seems to giveopponents more time to react.HARDBAT DOUBLES

However, Ty and this writer did win Open Doubles, for the tlird straight year in a 19-in-the-third thrillerg (19,-17,19) against Tahl Leibovitz and SteveE Berger. After the doubles final, Ty and Steve gave4= a hardbat clinic to promote hardbat and as a fund-C raiser for the hardbat committee.3 HARDBAT UNDER 2000

Lorin Benedict kept the title in Northern Cali-2 fornia. "as God intended," wrote Scott Gordon,0 the winner at the Nationals (but not present to fight for this title). In the final, Lorin defeatedE Simon Jacobson. 17.22.

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World #4 Chiang Peng-Lunglost in the quarters, but won

Men's Doubles.

[Con't from page 48]Chuan Chi-Yuan (TPE) d. Chiang Peng-Lung(TPE), -16,19,21,9Several years ago, the ITTF stopped using geo-graphical separation in the draws, supposedly soChinese players wouldn't be spread out. and endup taking up all the final spots. (Much better tohave them knock each other out, right?) So notonly did Chuan have to play teammate ChangYuan-Su in his first match, he had to play his otherteammate - the Taipei #1 - Chiang in thequarterfinals. (These were the only three playersfrom Taipei.) Against the world #5 player, Chuanshould have little chance... right? But teammatesget comfortable with each other. and using hisbackhand loop to pin Chiang down on his back-hand, Chuan relentlessly looped his was to vic-tory, taking out the tournaments second seed. Inthe third, Chiang had a 21-20 ad, but pushedChuan's serve into the net. In the fourth. Chuan

was playing so well that even Chiang was smilingand shaking his head in dist:elief.Liu Guozheng (CHN) d. Luejan Blaszczyk(POL), -23,20,11,17

The big point in the first game was at 23-all.whenLiu looped, and stepped around his backhandto loop again - only Blaszczyk quick-blockedto the open forehand for an ace that Liu didn'teven try for. Blaszczyk follows with a rippingbackhand loop to win that game. In the second.you can see the frustration in Liu as he fulls be-hind 11-4 and 16-10. However, he graduallycomes back, and pulls to 17-18. Then Blaszczykis up 20-18 (how many times already today haveplayers blown that lead? Here we go again!) Yes.Liu wins four in a row to win. The rest of the

match is all Liu, as he dominates with his fore-

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Jean-Michel Saive (BEL) d. Jorg Rosskopf(GER), 15,-14,19,17

Another entertaining performance from the

counterlooping. fishing and lobbing Saive. withthe shot-making Rosskopf as his comic relief.The key to the match was the third game, whereRosskopf led 19-16, with Saive serving. Saivescored at] tive to win the game. 0SEMIFINALS 4Liu Guozheng (CHN) d. Jean-Michel Saive(BEL), -12,9,18,11

Liu Guozheng has a reputation of being a slowstarter, but a fast finisher. In this match, he was

true to form - he got creamed by a red-hot Saiveiii the first game (wherehewasdown 16-5),butfrom there on. it was mostly all Liu. Saive tooka 15-9, then 16-12 lead in the third, but Liuscored seven in a row to take the lead, with Saive

missing his serve three times in a row from 16-all (looping one into the net, the next two off).Up 19-18. Liu mis-hit and popped a serve up inthe air - but Saive missed a loop kill that wouldhave tied it. Liu won that game at 18. Saive,who had been having arm problems recently,grabbed his arm a number of times in the fourth(woneasily by Liu at 11), and it was obvious hewas having problems with it, although it didn'tseem to affect him much until late in the match.

Johnny Huang (CAN) d. Chuan Chi-Yuan(TPE), -15,-19,17,12,12

This would be an interesting contrast of styles:Johnny's pim;-out on both sides shakehands grip,with an all-out close to the table hitting style.against Chuank acrobatic two-winged close-to-the-table looping style.Let's look at Johnny's "march" to the final:• Defeats Robert Gardos, -15.18,14,-17,22

(down match point. wins on a net ball)• Defeats Werner Schlager. 11.14,-20,-19,21

(down 20-18 and 21-20 in fifth)

• Defeats Oh Sang Eun, -16,28,16,5 (down2()-18 in second after losing first)

• Defeats Chuan Chi-Yuan.-15.-19,17.12,12

(down 13-7 in third after losing first two)He's like an escape artist, isn't he?Once again. Johnny "escaped." this time

after losing the first two games. Down 9-5 inthe third. Johnny takes a timeout. but it doesn'tseem to help. He falls behind 7- 13. Chuan isable to play at Johnny's relentless pace.. He'smaking powerful backhand loops even off ofJohnny's best backhand hits. and seems relent-less in his attack. He's just come off beatingworld #4 Chiang Peng-Lung, and he's up 2-0and 13-7 on Johnny.

So Johnny scores six in a row, and it's 13-all.Down 13-15, Johnny scores five iii a row

again. 18-15. A few points later. and Johnny hassurvived. 21-17-but he's still down 2-1 iii games.

At 2-2 in the fourth. after a great rally ofJohnny smashing Chuan's loops, and Chuanlooping them right back, Chuan misses a shot.He then asks Johnny if the ball hit his shirt dur-ing the rally. In answer, Johnny walks over tothe scoreboard and Ilipx the score to give Chuanthe point. 3-2 Chumn. However, it would be thelast lead Chuan would have this match as Johnnyran away with the last two games. both at 12.Chuan seemed to get more erratic as the matchwent on - or was he getting tired from all theacrobatic play'? There wasn't much for Chuansfans to cheer for in the rest of this match. except

perhaps for the spectacular catch by a camera-man of a ball Chuan mishit off his racket edgeand out of the court.

FINAL

Liu Guozheng d. Johnny Huang, -13,17,-17,14,17

Most thought Liu would win this easily-heis ranked #4 in the world, to Johnny's 38th How-ever, Johnny, the 1992 U.S. Open Men's SinglesChampion, has been ranked in the top 20. and hisall-out hitting style, when on, gives nearly every-one trouble. Liu's spectacular two-winged loop-ing game - similar to Chuan's, but more powerful- seems invincible to all but the best. The pointswere sensational. but can't be adequately describedin print. However, none of the first four games were

Men's Singles SemifinalistJean-Michel Saive of Belgium

spent a lot of time at the barriers.

particularly close. There were times when either

player became so hot there was nothing the otherplayer could do except wait for him to cool down,or match him in hotness.

In the fifth, Huang takes an 11-7 lead, andLiu takes a time-out. The transition was immedi-

ate - Liu scores 9 of the next 12 points, and leads16-13. At 18-15, Liuwins a point ona net. 19-15.Johnny then hammers three backhand kills to scoreone point, 19-16, and is serving at the end.

He' 11 remember the next point for some time.He launches a tricky serve that Liu pops up - butHuang, with one of the best smashes in the game,misses! So instead of 19-17, it's 20-16 match point.You can see the utter disgust in Johnny's face. Asif to make up for it, Johnny gets a net ball to winthe next point (20-17). but Liu loops in Johnny'snext serve to win the point. game. match and theMen's Singles crown. Liu Guozheng, the hero forChina at the recent World Team Championships,is the 2001 U.S. Open ITTF Pro Tour Men'sSingles Champion.

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Championships By Larry Hodges

USA NORTH AMERICAN QUALIFIER

Winning the North American Championships is more than just atitle - the winner represents North America at the World Cup - and eventhe last-place finisher there gets several thousand dollars. So it's a hotlycontested title.

Every year, USA and Canada negotiates the format of the NorthAmerican Championships. This year, the agreement was that there wouldbe four USA players and four Canadian players, so the event would startwith the quarterfinals. The USA's thinking was that the top four playersfrom the U.S. World Team Trials would be the four USA players. How-ever, since this was not made clear to players before or during the teamtrials, a number of players protested - with the result that a qualifier washeld the day before the U.S. Open.

The North American Men's Championships would now have three parts:Part 1: USA Men's Qualifier. (Canada didn't need one as they al-

ready had their players set.) This would be a round robin of four players(Jim Butler, Keith Alban, Brian Pace and Ashu Jain), with only the topfinisher to advance to Part 2. This took place on Tuesday. July 3, the daybefore the U.S. Open/ITTF Pro Tour began.

Part 2: The top USA man and top Canadian man (David Zhuangand Johnny Huang, respectively) were seeded out of this round. The #2,3and 4 players from USA and Canada, and the qualifier would play tworound robins of four, with the top three from each group advancing toPart 3.

Part 3: This wouId be single elimination, with eight players - thesix who advanced from Part 2, and the two who were seeded out (Zhuangand Huang).

USA MEN'S QUALIFIER

The Jim Butler of the past might have won this easily, but he's justcoming out of retirement, and Brian Pace's overpowering forehand loopwas too much for him. He also struggled with Keith Alban. winning -19,13,22 after serving himself back into the match from down 16-19 inthe third.

But Brian is on fire, and it comes down to his final match with AshuJain. If Brian wins, he advances. If he loses...it could go down to pointsbetween Brian, Jim and Ashu. And it looks like Ashu will win, as he leads18-13 in the third against Brian....• Brian serve and 100mph rips. 18-14!• A rally, 18-15!• Brian serve and flip kills, 18-16!• Ashu flips to Brian's wide forehand, Brian misses, 19-16!

(We take a breather as Ashu gets set to serve....)

• Ashu serves, Brian 100mph loop kills it, 19-17!• Ashu serves and loops, Brian 100mph counter-loop kills it. 19=18!• Ashu serves short. Brian 100mph forehand flip kills it. 19-19!• Ashu calls a timeout, and talks to coach John Jarema. How do I stop

this???

• Ashu serves short to Brian's backhand, Brian 70mph backhand killsit! (OK, he played it safe this time, and Ashu almost blocked it back!)19-20!

• Ashu serves and quick-pushes - and Brian 100mph loop kills it -off! 20-20!

• Brian serves and quick pushes, Ashu pushes, and Brian 100mphloop kills it. 20-21!

• Ashu serves - and Brian I 00mph loop kills the serve ! 20-22!

So Brian wins 16,-17, 20, and advances.Results forthe Qualifier: 14 Brian Pace, 3-0 (d. Butler, 19.12; d, Alban,

18,13; d. Jain, 16,-17.20); 2nd Jim Butler, 2-1 (d. Alban, -19,13,22; d. Jain.14,15),3rd Ashu Jain. 1-2 (d. Alban, -16,9.18),4'h Keith Alban, 0-3.

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MEN'S SINGLESPreliminaries

Group One

Eric Owens (USA), USA junior star Mark Hazinski and Canada's juniorstar Bence Csaba all finished 2-1 - but Csaba had beaten Hazinski 2-0(7,15), while losing deuce in the third to Owens (-14.15,20). Hazinskihad beaten Owens 2-0 (19,7). When it went to games to break the tie,Csaba came in first. Hazinski second. Owens third. However, the topthree all advanced (but with a better draw for coming out higher), withCanada's Jean-Francois Roussy finishing ()-3 and not advancing.Group Two

Canada's Pradeeban Peter-Paul had to w'ork hard, but he managed to win allthree matches: -19,19,12 over Brian Pace(USA), 19,16 over Faazil Kassam(CAN). and -19.17,13 over Barney J. Reed (USA). Reed, Pace and Kassamall finished 1-2. (Reed d. Pace, 13,18; Paced. Kassam, -15,18,21; Faazil d.Reed, -17,10.16.) In the tie-breaker that went to games, Reedcame in second.Kassam third, and Pace fourth, so Pace did not advance.

QUARTERFINALS

USA's David Zhuang had little trouble with Kassain, winning at 16.15,14.Peter-Paul had even less trouble with Hazinski, winning at 13,11,6. Thebig battle was Csaba's 15,-18,19,-16.12 win over Reed. The fourthquarterfinal. between Canada's Johnny Huang and Eric Owens, was re-scheduled for Saturday morning (the other matches were on Friday night).since Huang had ITTF Pro Tour matches on Friday night, when the otherquarterfinal matches were playing. He defeated Owens at 19.8.14 (withOwens leading 19-18 in that first game)¤

SEMIFINALS

As expected, Huang had no trouble with Csaba, winning at 10,12.18. Itwas also expected that Zhuang would win relatively easily against Peter-Paul. It was not to be - the Canadian was able to rally everything Zhuangthrew at him. and ended up winning, -12.18.14,18,12.

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FINAL

The long-delayed final got underway at 8PM onFriday night, after most players and fans had al-ready left. It was not expected that Peter-Paul couldput up much of a fight against Huang, but after hiswin over Zhuang, anything was possible, especiallysince Huang, like Zhuang, uses short pips. In thefirst game, Peter-Paul does take a 19-181ead. Fromthere on, it's all Huang.

WOMEN'S SINGLES

Preliminaries

Group OneUSA's Jasna Reed completely dominated thegroup, not losing a game. Coming in second wasUSA's Virginia Sung. with a -15,14,19 win overteammate Simone Yang. Simone came in third,and so advanced, by defeating Canada's Marie-Christine Roussy, 13,18, who did not advance.Group TwoUSA's Tawny Banh was sick and defaulted out,so the other three advanced. Canada's Petra Cada

easily won her two matches, and Canada'sWennin Chiu defeated USA's Jackie Lee at 20,-13,14 to get the third spot.

Senior EventsOver 30 to Over 80 By Tim Boggan

It used to be that the average age of a WorldChampion was 23; after that, the athlete beganhis gradually perceptible decline. As this is anarticle about U.S. Open Age Events (thenoticeably Aging?), I'll start by mentioning thenew (for the event is new) Under 30 holders.Both are Canadian Internationals - provenveterans (small "v," though, for at least one ofthem must wait - and good luck to him - formore than 40 years of victories yet before hereaches the official big "V," the USATT's"Veterans"). The Men's winner: PradeebanPeter-Paul; the Women's, Petra Cada.

Peter-Paul is an emigrant who follows theSri Lankan custom of using his father's firstname as his last. His Under 30 final (18,19)

opponent was the Romanian-trained, formerU.S. World Team member Razvan Cretu. who'd

earlier downed Latin American U-21 ChampJose Ramirez after Jose had knocked out USA

hope Ashu Jain. Cada, a Czech emigrant,overpowered California's Jackie Lee in the final,but had 23-21 2nd-game trouble with formerCzech star Renata Peluchova in the semi's. "A

bad day," said Renata. I did everything wrong, Ibeat myself,' But as a friend of Renata's toldme. it didn't help that just last week she had tohave an infected wisdom tooth pulled.

In the 30 and Over event, as in the 29 andUnder, both winners - AtandaMusa for the Men,Chris Xu for the Women - didn't drop a game.

Er. wait, check that. Musa, who managesand coaches at Jerry Wartski's NYC BroadwayClub, did lose one 19 game to Barry Dattel who.barely avoiding an international incident withan officious umpire, had to admit that, for themoment of his triumph, he was "awesome." The42-year-old Musa. with his scimitar cheek scars

QUARTERFINALS

Chang Jun Gao (USA) had no trouble with JackieLee (USA), winning 16,13,7. Jasna Reed (USA)also has no difficulties, defeating Canada'sWennin Chiu at 9,15,10. The other two matches

here were much tougher: Virginia Sung (USA)barely chopped down Petra Cada (CAN), -20,14.14.-19.19, while Simone Yang (USA)played the longest match of the event in defeat-ing Chris Xu (CAN), -15.21.24,-13,13. It's anall-USA semifinals !

SEMIFINALS AND FINAL

Chang continued to dominate the event. Shedefeated teammate Virginia Sung in the semifi-nals, 11,12,18, On the other side, Jasna had a

surprising difficult semifinals struggle withteamn-late Simone Yang, going five games be-fore winning, -19.14,-15,7.12. In the final.Chang had little trouble with teammate anddoubles partner Jasna Reed. 7,16.17.

MEN'S DOUBLES

Men's doubles was dominated by David Zhuang/Eric Owens (USA). but helped in part by the

that help to differentiate his native Yoruba tribewithin a tribe (Nigeria has literally thousands ofdifferent dialects), also did away, not with aferocious scowl but with his usual amiability.Roberto Brito, the Dominican Republic'sCaribbean Champ. Roberto, having found himselfone of the 17 needing to qualify forthe event, hadadvanced past Puerto Rico's Luis Ruiz, last year'sfinalist to China's Wang Tao. The honor of beingMusa's 6th and last opponent fell to New Yorkplayer/coach Abass Ekun, who was initiallypressed in the semi's by another Wartski Clubhabitue, Hardbat finalist Alex Perez.

Chris Xu, also an emigrant to Canada, andanother of their Internationals (with a 2469rating), had little challenge, either in the semi'sfrom t.t.'s rising entrepreneur and Hardbatwinner Lily Yip. or from U.S. World Teammember Simone Yang. given free entry ( 10,5...6,8) to the final when California's Xiu-Zhen"Grace"Lin. the #1 seed. didn't show.

Musa also won the Men's 40's - this time

really without dropping a game, though pressedto deuce by both Datte] and finalist Hui YuanLiu, Manager/Coach at the N.Y. Table TennisClub in Flushing (see forward-looking map onthe back of his business card for directions to

his Club). Liu had beaten native Jamaican KeithEvans in the semi's in 3 after Keith had repelledan earlier onslaught by Abass, 1 st-round victorover U- 1800 Over 40 winner Lon Dean.

Liu and Dave Sakai won the 40 Doubles -

but hack in their opening match, down 18-11,20-18 in the 3rd to Hank McCoullum and BarneyReed, they looked to be losers ... until Liu smackedin those match-turning, mind-numbing winners.

The 40 Women's featured the usual

suspects - with U.S. Hall of Famer BarbaraKaminsky outlasting Iranian-born MahinRoufeh, 17 in the 3rd, in the final. Roufeh's pipsconfused Barbara ("I couldn't hit off her red side

- or maybe it was the black side," she said afterthe match). As for Kaminsky's husband/coach

default out of the event of Canada's #1 team,

Johnny Huang/Pradeeban Peter-Paul (due toJohnny's many ITTF Pro Tour matches).Zhuang/Owens came in first. defeating the Ca-nadian junior team of Bence Csaba/FaazilKassam at 20 & 10. Csaba/Kassam defeated

Barney J. Reed/Mark Hazinski (USA) for sec-ond place.

WOMEN'S DOUBLES

As expected, USA's Chang Jun Gao/JasnaReed dominated, winning all three matcheseasily. The other three teams finished in athree-way tie:• Tawny Banh/Virginia Sun (USA) defeated

Chris Xu/Petra Cada (CAN), 17,-19,18• Chris Xu/Petra Cada (CAN) defeated

Marie-Christine Roussy/Wennin Chiu(CAN). 7,15

• Marie-Christine Roussy/Wennin Chiu(CAN) defeated Tawny Banh/Virginia Sung(USA), 12.-15,13

In the tie-breaker, which went to games. Xu/Cada

came in second, Banh/Sung third. .

Over 70 Doubles ChampionsLeon Ruderman & Tim Boggan.Tim also won Over 70 Singles.

("You can't sit there," said the umpire to Bob,stationed alone a few seats from Barbara's court,

"if you're her coach. you have to move overhere"), be assured he wasn't confused, for hetold Barbara, who plays best by following herown instincts, that she should push to Mahin'sforehand - "That's the red side, Barbara, youpick balls off that." Oh. well. If it's any solaceto Roufeh. she should win the SportsmanshipAward for calling a point against herself that noone else saw. No consolation for Mahin's semi's

opponent, Donna Sakai, though. Down 1 -0 andat deuce in the 2nd, she persevered into the 3rd.Then. behind 20-18 double match point, sherallied to 21-20 .,. only to be later victimizedby an edge and eventually lose 26-24.

Did Dave have time to shed a tear for Donna?

Afraid not. Both he and "The Chief," GeorgeBrathwaite, had so many matches to play in somany events, and had so stumbled their way intothe 50's final - Dave wrenching 21-19 games fromprevious winner Nick Mintsiveris and last year'srunner-up McCoullum, George being forced into

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the 3rd by Steve Federico and DefendingChampion Richard Hicks - that they decided tosplit the prize money, and move on ,,. to hurry,uncontested, through the 50 Doubles. A word ofsympathy from me, though. for Allen MeDermott.Federico, down match point to MeDermott, scoredwith what he called a "flying armpit" shot thatallowed him to survive and win. while poor Allenhad to endure a query from me about his U-2000Hardbat semi's loss to Simon Jacobson after he'd

led 20-15 in the 3rd. Friendly knock-ups. as theEnglish say. but hard knocks, in this Sport.

In the Women's 50's, Barbara Kaminskywas again the winner - this time over SuzannaSanders who, with day in, day out practice-partner/husband Bob. kept fit and busy off courtby bicycling about in the heat outside. and doingStaff Operations air-conditioned work inside the81-table Convention Center. Sanders (rated

1640) scored two big upsets (in each case afterlosing the opening game badly) - first. overSakai (1817) though Suzanna started this matchby serving her first three serves off, and thenover Roufeh (1948), who couldn't adjust toSanders 9 increasingly more aggressive play.Kaminsky, meanwhile, breathed a windfall sighof relief to get by Danuta Andzejewska who wouldhave played Barbara in the 40's had her opponentnot insisted on being given a default when. asDanuta said, she was 15 minutes late for the match.Kan-insky, down 6-0 but up 20- 19 in the 3rd, wonwhen Danuta, hoping to surprise Barbara with aforehand slice-serve she hadn't used before.

surprised herself by ... whiffing the ball.Brathwaite easily took the 60's, downing

in the final Floridian Elmer Concepcion who'dknocked out former winner Nick Mintsiveris and

Junior EventsBy Alan Williams

There is nothing more impressive to add toyour resume than a U.S. Open Title, proofpositive that you know the importance ofexcellence and how to achieve it. For the juniorplayers who competed at the U.S. Open. it wastime to put their hard work to the test. For thewinners there would be impressive hardware toadd to their luggage, and for the rest, incentiveto prepare harder for next year.BOYS UNDER 10: Roberto Torres Zevallos

of Peru made the final, leaving in his wakeMichael Chen, Hari Seshadri, and Preston Chin,all in straight game victories. His final opponent,Maryland's Marcus Jackson, advanced pastManuel Adorno, Hector Vila, and then passed atough Semifinal with Tennessee's Shelby Lane.-22,15,18. Zevallos continued his winning ways,taking the first game against Jackson at 18. butMarcus turned the tables and handed Zevallos

his only loss, 15,16 in the decisive games.GIRLS UNDER ZO: Virginia's Linden Limade short work of Gillian Wu in her semifinal,1.4. while Florida's Amy Huang drew a toughermatch. Peruvian Viviana Rubio. At 17,15.Huang advanced to the final. where. ratings tothe contrary, it was Linden Li grabbing the bigtrophy in straight games, 14.18.

last year's runner-up Bohdan Dawidowicz.Mintsiveris, despite having been out of practicedue to a bout with the flu. had what he said was

a rare win over Defending Champion Hicks -and with a hard bat yet. "Dick," he said, "bringsback balls when you're not looking" - i.e.. whenyou think you' ve won the point and are no longerlooking outward to see the unexpected returnbut are inwardly foolishly congratulatingyourself on the shot you've just powered in.Before losing to Brathwaite. Pete May(chopping) was extended by Lynwood Smith(backhand rolling) who earlier inapipof a matchhad 19-in-the-3rd escaped Leon Ruderman.

May, who was accompanied by his familyand at times by a mysterious. dark-haired ladyfriend who drew everyone's attention. was allexcited about his much looked-forward-to playin the upcoming World's. No, not in Paris in2003, but in Minneapolis this Aug. 4. That's theChampionship the Professional Disc GolfAssociation M putting on. Petes been frisbee-practicing his dogleg drives, upshots, and puttsuntil he's almost a whirl-a-round basket case - sayshe can fling a disc farther than I, in my best yearsand with my adrenalin up, could throw a racket ata faraway wall. With Pete preoccupied so. it wasunderstandable that he and "The Chief" didnt win

the 60 Doubles -lost to Dawidowicz and a hobbled

Marv Left who in turn, though given the red carpettreatment. a Pro Tour court, to ease Marv's bruisedfoot, were beaten in the final in 3 by the DefendingChamps Hicks and Mintsiveris.

In the 70's, having 1 9-all-in-the- [st gottenby my winning Doubles partner Ruderman inthe semi's. I managed to struggle to victory overperennial past Champion Grady Gordon. Would

GIRLS UNDER 12: No doubt that New

Jersey's Judy Hugh (1815) was the favorite inthis event, but an International field and ahandful of unrated and under-rated youngwomen would put that theory to the test. Firstup on Hugh's dance card was the U-10 Champ.Linden Li. Judy cruised to a 21-8 win in thefirst game, but Li fought to 20 in the second.Next up was yet another Li. young Diana Li ofFlorida (1129) who stunned Hugh with a 21-16win in the first. Judy steadied and took the nexttwo at 15 and 9 to advance to the Final. JessicaYick (584!) of California passed Florida's KellyHuang, 14,16, and then met the Dominican'sErcilio Santos in the semifinals. Yick won that

seesaw match. -13.11.14 for the right to meetJudy Hugh. The girl from New Jersey had toomuch for Jessica, and salted away the title.AllBOYS UNDER 12:Almost two dozen entrantscrowded this bracket, strewn with Internationalsand Unrateds Unknowns. Top Seed Set-gyGutkin (1770) of California found his first match

to be his last match when he was paired withYugoslavia's Lorencio Lupulesku (a cousin offormer Yugoslavian Ilija Litpulesku. now livingin Chicago). At 17,9, perhaps he can forgivenfor believing that a top seed should be shownmore respect. Under 10 Champion MarcusJackson was the next to fall to Lupulesku, 14,15.Andrew Lin was impressive in his quarterfinalwin over Peru's Francisco Rubio Angeles, 19.12,

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Over 50 and Over 60

Women's Singles ChampionBarbara Kaminsky

you thinkthat up 1 -0 and 20-15 match point I'dlose 7 straight? Well. I did - and if Grady hadn'tbeen doing double duty as an Umpire he mighthave been more focused so as not to have to tryto rally again from 20-15 down in the 3rd.

Of course Gordon. a spry 74-year-old who hasracket in hand five days a week-"keeps me limber.he says - was eligible for and won the 75's over theunderrated Brazilian entry from the Sao Paulo SantosClub. Helios Bezerra. who'd eliminated veteran-Veteran Joe Baltrus in the semi's.

The Over 80's final was a replay of lastyear's - except this time Defender Louie Radzeliwas forced to give up the opening game to formerNational 80's Champ Arthur Chase. Louie. 1have to say, is often a hoot, especially when in aclose game he snaps in a winning backhand,repeatedly flutters hand to mouth, doffs hisplaying cap, lind in asides to the audience triesto get into his opponent's head. A Game-Player.the archetypal Hustler - that's Louie ... less anexemplar, more an example. for all. -

Florida's Under 10 Girls ham it up!

but became yet another notch on Lupulesku'sbelt in the semifinals, 15,16. The other half ofthe draw was a showcase for Egypt.s SherifShola. who allowed only 18 points TOTAL onhis way to the semifinals. Ecuadorian JorgeAlberto Minu Pujo gave him his first seriouschallenge, a deuce game in the semifinal, whichShola took 21,8. Lupulesku could not shakethe spectacular Shola, whowonthe Final. 16.16.The seven American boys were not onlyoutnumbered; they were outgunned in this event.BOYS UNDER 14: Adam Hugh (2299) soughtto avoid Sergy'sfate. He breezed pastGuatemala's Miguel Delado 2,10 and then faced

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the U-12 Champion, Sherif Shola. Shola managed a more respectable 14,10against the New Jerseyan. Sergy Gutkin fought to the quarterfinal, whereAdam eliminated him, 12,13. That led to Jamaica's Walter Alomar, who hadnot yet dropped a game on his way to the semifinals. But Adam won, 11,14.In the other half, Eric Finkelstein's strong run (winning over the skilledJamaican, Kanu Watson, 19,15 in the Round of 16) was stopped decisivelyby #27 seed Daniel Toadjer of Yugoslavia, 7,7, in the quarterfinals. Against#2 seed Misha Kazantsev in the semifinals, Toadjer was all business anddispatched the Californian, 11,15. Hugh and Toadjer for all the marbles wasone of the best junior matches of the tournament. Daniel broke out early at18, then an energized Adam leveled the match with a 21-10 second gamewin. Toadjer refused to collapse and took the third and deciding contest todeuce, double deuce and triple deuce. The noise that rocked the hall wasAdam's event-winning 'CHO!' that signaled his 27-25 third-game win. Ofthe 41 players who entered, Adam Hugh was 'King of the HilI.'GIRLS UNDER 14: Adam's sister Judy tried to pull offa family 'doubledip' in the distaff counterpart. The top seed, she marched to the final bydefeating the U-12 finalist Jessica Yick, 12,8, and dispatching PuertoRico's Jerica Marrero, 18,16. The second-seeded Karen Ma had a rockierroad to the final, winning her opening round -20,6,15 over Karen Rivera,beating Alma Maldonado 17,8, and nudging out Sherrice Felix -22,13,13in the semifinals. Judy won the first game at 15, but Karen Ma is adetermined young woman and leveled the match with a 21-18 win in thesecond. lt was a jubilant Karen Ma who prevailed on this day, 17 in thethird, winning her first national title.GIRLS UNDER 16: Top seeds Jackie Lee and Whitney Ping are nostrangers to each other. and neither encountered a serious challenge en-route to an All-West Coast final. Lee rolled past Sherrice Felix (11,7),Lisa Diaz (8,10), and Laura Leach (12,13) to claim her berth. On anequally tranquil path, Ping passed Jeannette Mota (7,7) and Diana Viet(10,4), and met Judy Hugh's challenge 02,12) in the semifinals. Judydid have the satisfaction of reversing her U-14 final with Karen Ma (-19,14,20) in the quarters. But it was all Jackie Lee in the final, quickwork at 12,9 over Whitney in a gracious and well-mannered match.BOYS UNDER 16: Neither Han Xiao nor Adam Hugh. the top seeds,would reach the final in this event, which was less about upsets thanabout new discoveries. Santiago Coste is no stranger to the U.S. Open,giving a good account of himself in previous years. The Puerto Ricancame in as the #4 seed, and made his path with exciting and hard-foughtvictories over Anderson Carrington (16.19), Daniel Toadjer, the U-14finalist, (-20,17,15), and Nicardo Clarke. (8,10). Set to meet Han Xiaointhe sernifinals, Coste caught a breather when Han was defaulted. Theshuttle just wasn't fast enough to allow Han to retrieve his cold remedyfrom the hotel. Discovery #1: showing up is half the battle. With aUSATT rating of 1602, Ka Chun Tse of NY was seeded 21st out of the 59entrants. He showed the inaccuracy of that number (based on threeprevious matches) by ripping through Walter Alomar (15,14) HowardLamb (-18,8,12) and the 2124 rated Yin Wang (16,11). Adam Hugh wona big quarterfinal from Barbadosian Kevin Farley, -15,12,14. Leading toDiscovery #2 when Ka Chun Tse, late of Hong Kong. demolished Adam.11,11 in the semifinals. This kid can play, and he resisted the best effortof Santiago Coste in the final, 18,18, to win the event.BOYS UNDER 18: More than 60 entrants made this bracket one of the

most hotly contested events at the U.S. Open. Canadian Bence Csaba(2554) did not drop a game on his way to the semifinals, moving pastHector Gatica (14,13) and Jared Lynch (15,15). Santiago Coste postedan impressive 17,14 win over U-14 Champion Adam Hugh, and he foughthard against Csaba in the semifinals but was unable to match the Canadian'sattack, 15,17. In the other half of the bracket, Han Xiao looped pastShannon Doughlin (20,15) and Terence Kalicharan (16,14) to reach thesemifinals. Samson Dubina lost to Aluko Bascombe ( 13,19), who in turnbowed out to Faazil Kassam (8,13). Han was completely overwhelmedagainst Kassam, 5 and 10 in the semifinals, leading to a final betweencountrymen, teammates and friends, Bence Csaba and Faazil Kassam.Typical of practice partners, they were closely matched, but Csaba emergedwith the goods, -20,10,20. The Canadian pair are well ahead of theircontemporaries, with neither dropping a game until they met each other.GIRLS UNDER 18: The angel-faced Jackie Lee breezed to her final berthwhere she looked for a repeat of her U- 16 title. A string of would-be challengers- Sabrina Worrell (11,10), Marie Solares (11,11) and Emily Ping (11,19) -

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were derailed behind her. Similarly, the tall, willowy Canadian Wennin Chiudominated the upper bracket. leaving Maria Solares (10,10), Alina Khasanova(9,10). and Elaine Kwok (18.9) behind her. In {he final, the impassive Chiuremained cool as a cucumber. Quickly deciding that backhand to backhandexchanges were not to her liking, she repeatedly scored with backhands downthe line to Lee's forehand corner. After a first game win at 10, she survived alate rush by Jackie to close the match at 16. "She's gotten quicker!" Lee observedbefore hurrying off to her next match in a busy schedule.WOMEN UNDER 22: The four semifinalists dominated the event, withU-18 Champ Chiu eliminating Maria Alejandra Solares (15,9) and agamely fighting Whitney Ping (23,12) to punch her ticket, Her opponent,Mimi Bosika, had no struggles with Maria Jose Solares (5.7) and KrystleHarvey (8,5). Mimi did have the answer to Wennin's quickness and madethe final with a 14,15 decision. Jackie Lee went through Rebecca West(14,9) and Johana Garcia (9,10) to make the semifinals. There she foundCanadian star Marie-Christine Roussy, a 9,10 winner over Laura Leachand the conqueror of Enerya Garcia (9,13). The Seemiller-style Roussywould not retreat and maintained her position at the table's edge ineliminating Jackie 19,13. Bosikawas also atalossin trying to dislodgethe energetic Canadian, and it was Roussy's title, 18,14.MEN'S UNDER 22: There was no easy route through a thicket of 50players which included many former titlists, a field so strong that currentU.S. Team member Ashu Jain was relegated to the #5 seed. But the ratingsand seeding mean nothing when play begins, as reality is established byresult. Thus #42 seed Jose Miguel Ramirez of Guatemala came forwardto the senlifinals. He had beaten four successive opponents to arrive atthis doorstep, including Freddie Gabriel (seeded third), -17,10,17, andthe U-16 Discovery, Ka Chun Tse (-18,10,19) to meet the redoubtableSantiago Gabriel. Santiago had defended his first-position seed againstRobert Andersson (10,15) and Jean Francois Roussy (16,10). But thereality is that the #12 beats the #1 in the semifinals, Ramirez over Gabriel,16,14, and he seems to be gathering momentum.

Things are no cakewalk in the other half, either. Samson Dubina scoresperhaps his biggest victory, beating TJ. Beebe, -18,13,19, which earns him adate with Arturo Pang Shiu in the quarters, where Shiu advances, 14,16.Meanwhile, Ashu Jain overcomes a first-game loss to Keith Alban (-19,18,6)and then faces Arturo. The first is all Ashu, at 8, but Shiu wins the second

game at 15 to knot the match. Jain fights off the spirited Shiu at 16 in thethird and now faces Ramirez in the final. Ashu's fans feel good about hisfirst game win at 19, but Ramirez didn't come this far to quit now, Hedominates the middle game at 12. And when he finishes the match and theevent with a 21-17 win, there is no doubt he has earned his prize.

The players, their parents and the paraphernalia are all gone now.the hall is devoid of tables until next year. But the lasting value of victory,a National title from the U.S. Open, will stay with these young people forthe rest of their lives.

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TDay weekend at the University of- Notre Dame Joyce ACC Center.he 37th Annual St. Joseph Valley Open was held on Memorial

I he Joyce Center is a spectacular venue that easily held 50 tablesand had excellent lighting for the 252 competitors. A total of $20,000 inprize money and trophies for 4 places per event were awarded.

NEWMAR, INC., a motor home manufacturer, was the major sponsorof the tournament. Virgil Miller, president of NEWMAR, and his wife SarahMiller are great supporters of table tennis as well as a participant in thistournament. Other tournament sponsors were: BUTTERFLY Table Tennis(supplied 30 tables and 300 barriers), Newgy Robots, Paddle Palace. T.G.Enterprises and Table Tennis International. We thank them for their support.

On to the tournament: Age events - Juniors. In the boys U-12 itwas Joe Cochran of South Bend winning in two close games over WinstonKalicharan of Toronto. In the Boys' U-15 Han Xiao (Maryland) wasdominant over the field defeating up-and-coming John Leach of Coloradoin the final. In the Boys' U-18 we had a great matchup of U.S. #1 juniorMark Hazinski against Canada's Bence Csaba, with Hazinski prevailingin a spectacular Saturday evening match at 19.-14,17. In the girls' eventsit was Jennifer Mast (Ohio) over Esther Gusov (MO) two straight. In theU- 15 girls, Laura Leach (CO) defeated Nicole Lynch (IN) in straight games,and the U-18 girls was won by Marta Bastrzyk (Chicago) over LauraLeach at 19. I 6.

On to the Senior events as Randy Seemiller won the O-40 eventdefeating Dave Sakai in the semifinal and receiving a default in the finalfi-om Cheng Yinghua. The O-50's saw #2 seed Paul Lamse upset defendingchampion Dave Sakai in the final at 17,17.RATING EVENTS

In the U-2550. Michael Hyatt won over Sasa Drinic 2-1 in a highlycharged topspin battle. The semifinalists were Shao Yu and Keith Evans.Keith Evans, continuing his winning ways, won the U-2400 final overfellow left-hander Idan Levi. Randy Seemiller and Han Xiao lost in thesemifinals. Tai Long Tey from Memphis won the U-2300 2-1 over OrigeneNyanguile. Goran Panic (St. Louis) defeated Don Hamilton 2-1 to winthe U-2200. Pretrap Arangil defeated Adrian Rosu in the U-2100 final.In the 74 player U-2000's. it was Aaron Avery (Milwaukee) over JundaoZhao at deuce in the 3rd. In the U-1900 Joe Yoon (Chicago) won 2-0over Nick Snider and Meng Yang (Milwaukee) won against John Yoon inthe 80-playei· U-1800 final. In the U-1675 final. Gerry Miller defeatedTomasz Jablonski 18 in the 3rd. Ivan Popov defeated Jacek Wisniewski2-0 to capture the U-1550 event. in the U-1400 event. Winston Kalicharandefeated Azrai Ali 2-1. Jeff Smith (South Bend) won the U-1200 overGuy Thostenson (MN). Guy won the U-1000 over Wayne Liu (SouthBend) and the U-800's was won by Joel Christo over Francesca Hartop.

OPEN SINGLES

The feature Open Singles event awarded $13,000 in cash prizes, with$5.()00 going to the chanipion. The top four seeds of Fan Yi Yong. ChengYinghua, David Zhuang, and Ilija Lupulesku seemed to be a leve[ above thecompetition as they all moved easily into the semifinals for the showdown atSouth Bend. Other Open matches of note - Mark Hazinski defeated fellowU.S. team member Ashu Jain 3-0 in the round of 16 then lost 3-0 to U.S.Champion David Zhuang in the quarters. Bence Csaba, the junior sensationfrom Canada. gave Cheng a scare before losing 3-1 in the quarterfinals,

Semifinal #1: #1 seed Fan Yi Yong versus #4 Ilija Lupulesku. Ingame one, Fan doesn't have his timing right and in a sloppy game Ilijaleads 20-17. Fan has the serve and hits two outright winners and after amistake by Ilija. it's deuce. The all important 1st game between these twogoes to Fan as he scores 5 in a row to win 22-20. If you remember the - 9Buckeye Open in March, Fan defeated Ilija 31-29 in the fifth. So, you ,*can see the importance of every point between these two evenly matchedplayers. As is usually the case, Fan keeps the momentum and wins gametwo at 17. In the third game. Ilija, more relaxed now, plays steady topspinall over the table and Fan loses concentration early. 21-14 for Ilija, but kstill a 2- 1 game lead for Fan. When Ilija is down it is hard for him to play 1his relaxed topspin game and in game four he goes all-out power topspinand loses 21-13 as Fan moves on to the final. In retrospect the I st game"was" the match and when Ilija lost from 20-17 ahead it was uphill therest of the way for the Yugoslav star. Fan's fighting spirit and quickbackhand made the difference in this semifinal.

Semifinal #2: #3 Cheng Yinghua versus #2 David Zhuang. Daviddefeated Cheng in this year's Closed final 3-2 and David has had a spectacularyear with the 40mm ball. Cheng has slowed a step but is always a formidableopponent. This would be the first time that David could be considered the jfavorite over Cheng and that alone changes the psychology of the match.Sure enough, Cheng, playing relaxed and looping everything, wins a big first .92game at deuce. After that David just couldn't stop Cheng's topspin onslaught ..,0*€and Cheng wins with surprising ease, 3-0. ,3:F,1,

Open Final: Fan Yi Yong versus Cheng Yinghua. In their last two -1-1 0+ ,matches. they split. but Fan looks faster and more powerful than Cheng iN,2this time. In game one, Fan's quick backhand loop controls play. Cheng

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makes a strong run at the end but loses 21-18. Fanistoofastatthe tablethis time and Cheng looks bewildered as game two and three are easilywon by Fan. Fan wins the championship and the $5,000 first prize. ChengYinghua has to settle for runner-up and $2.500.

In the Open doubles final [lija Lupulesku and Sasa Drinic win a hardfought 2-1 match and $500 over Fan Yi Yong and local star and nationalteam member Mark Hazinski.

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Special thanks to our tournamentcommittee of Phil Schmucker, Brad Balmer,

Jason Denman, Jim Lynch, Jerry Goeller, Matt& Pam Hazinski, Dan & Mary Cochran, Mike& Kay Edgerton. Paul George and to refereeChris Williams. Also, thank you to the manyindividuals who made donations to the South

Bend Junior Table Tennis Program and themany club members who gave their time andtalents to make this event a success.

Open Singles - Final: Fan Yi Yong d. ChengYmghuit 18,12.11; SF: Fand. IkiaLupulesku, 2().17,-14.13; Cheng d. David Zhuang, 20,14,14; QF: Fand. Wang Chen, 7,21,7; Cheng d. Bence Csaba, -18,9,13.17; Lupulesku i Razvan Cretu. 1-0, ret.:Zhuang d. Mark Hazinski, 11,15,12.Open Doubles: Ilija Lupulesku/Sasa Drinic i FanYi Yong/Mark Hazii·ski. -21.10,16; SF: Fan/Hazinskid. Cheng Ying[iua/Han Xiao, 4,-15,8, LupuleskulDrinic d. David Zhuang/Yao Shu, 19,19.Women'stingles:WangChend.CuiLingChen.8,15Hardbat: Dart Seemillerd. Roy Schiabach,-10.17.19.Hardbat U2000: JohnOros d. Don Varian, 11,15.U2550: Michael Hyatt d. Sasa Drinic, -10,21,16.U2400: Keith Evans d. 1dan Levi. 19,-17. [ 7.U2300: TaiLong Tey d. OrigeneNyiuiguile, 7,-14,17.U2200: GoranPanicd. DonHamiltion, 19,-12,18.

U2100: Pratap Arangil d. AdrianRosu, 19.13.t-J2000: Aaron Avery d. Junduo Zhao, - 19,19,20.U1900: Joe Yoon d, Nick Snider, 10,13.U1800: Meng Yang d. John Yoon, n.s.1-}1675: GenyMillerd.Tomasz Jablonski, 15,-13,18U1550: Ivan Popovd. JacekWisniewski, 13,16.U1400: Winston Kalicharan d. Azrai Ali. -19.19,21.U1200: Jeffrey Smith d. Guy Thostenson, -19,13,17.U1000: Guy Thostenson d. Wayne Liu, 18,15.U800: Joel Christo d. Francesca Hartop, 2-1.Over40: Randy Seemillerd. Cheng Yinghua, def.Over 50: Paul Larnse d. Dave Sakai, 17.17.

Under 18 Boys: Mark Hazinski d. BenceCsaba, 19,-14.17.

Under 15 Boys: Han Xiao d. John Leach. 2-0.Under 12 Boys: Joe Cochran el Winston Kalicharan,15,21.

Under 18Gids: MartaBastzykd LauraL£ach, 19,16,Under 15 Girls: LaulaL.each d. Nicole Lynch, 2-0.Under 12 Girls: Jennifer Mast d. Esther Gusov, 2-0.U4000 Doubles: Lim/Ellis d. Hamilton/Hamilton, 14,-

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T his year's 26-event Bill MeiklejohnNational Seniors Tournament, with

Treasurer Walt Wehrli prepared to doleout over $14,000 in prizes. had reached a record-setting 207 competitors when Chair Julius Margolisand Director Olga Feingold-Kahan finally had tosay "Enough !" and cut off entries. Fortunately,Marilyn Miller and a dozen or so experiencedCalifornia Control Desk operators, includingShonie Aki, walking spryly now after his secondsuccessful hip replacement, were able to move thethree full days of matches along rather quickly.

Dominating the Senior Elite/Men's Over40's field, as expected, was the former Nigerianstar Atanda Musa, who, for six straight years inthe 1980's was a fixture at the prestigious WorldCup. Today, he lives in New York, is sponsoredby the peripatetic player/patron Jerry Wartski,and manages Jerry's Broadway Club.

In the Friday Senior Elite (for which playershad to have at least a 2000 rating), Musa,continuing to give up on the average only 13points a game, easily defeated his final opponent,Francisco "Cisco" Mendez, now a green-cardDenver resident after 22 years on the MexicanNational Team. Musa's semi's opponent was ReyDomingo, who says he can't range as far backfrom the table as he used to, for the big ball dropssooner. Rey feels his game is too soft and in aneffort to regain his former control has switchedto a carbon blade.

Both Mendez and his semi's opponentGeorge Brathwaite were hard-pressed toadvance. Cisco barely outlasted 2452-rated HuiYuan Liu, manager of the N.Y. Flushing Club,27-25 in the 3rd, and George, after being uptriple-match-point on Parviz Mojaverian. shakilysurvived, 24-22 in the 3rd. ( 'Ohh," said Parviz,'don't write that. I'll read it - and it' 11 make me

sick.") Also, in another tension-filled match,Mark Wedret, before losing to Brathwaite (deucein the 2nd), scored a -20,20,18 win over formerIranian National Alireza Hejazi. Ali, who,though out of practice, was up 1 -0 and 10-3 inthe 3rd, lamented that "When you don't play,you may stilI win lots of points in a row, but forsure you can also lose lots of them the same way."

Christian Lillieroos, Musa's victim in thequarter's, at the well-attended California Hallof Fame Banquet Friday evening, paid apthomage to the multi-time World DisabledChampion Mike Dempsey. (Other honoredinductees were Attila Malek and Don Gunn.

Among the attendees I was surprised anddelighted to see, for the first time in decades,both looking etemally young, Milla Boczar, onceowner of the famous Hollywood Club, and theformer Priscilla Resek, one-time U.S. OpenWomen's finalist.)

In the Sunday Men's Over 40's, featuringthe same notables that were in the Elite, Musa'sfinal opponent was Hui Yuan Liu, who, afterlosing back-to-back deuce games in the Elite toMendez, and the first, 23-21, here in his repeatmatch with him in the 40's, went on, undaunted,

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architecture, courtyard. gardens, and paviliongalleries (in one of which you could view astriking Rembrandt self-portrait).

I wasn't there to see it, but no way couldPeng's prominence in the Hardbat event beignored - he just 8, 9...6, 8...10, 5...10, 12brushstroked some artwork of his own. The $150

runner-up prize was won by Miranda over RalphStadelman, -16,19,15. Ralph, whoplays hardbatexclusively, made me believe he wasn'tdisappointed at losing so close a match.

Disappointment was obvious, however, inthe Friday Women's Over 50's. Not for winnerBella Livshin, who arrived in the U.S. from theUkraine in '93. As a strong playerin the Crimera,Bella had stature - the more so becausebeginning in '68 she worked as a successfulcoach at a sports school in Yalta. Today sheenjoys coaching more than playing - especiallycoaching beginners, for. as she says, bothaspiring player and coach can clearly see thebenefit of their work, and then both are happy.Nor could runner-up Donna Sakai bedisappointed, for she hadn't contested the final.and, indeed, had come perilously close to losingan early-round match.

Downright upset was the greatly improvedIrina Borisova. She'd come into this event much

underrated at 1499, but with a table at home andplaying three times a week she'd increased herstroke speed, and this was evident in the vigorouscounter-exchanges she'd thrilled the spectatorswith in her self-berating -18, 19, -20 loss to1817-rated Donna. Also wanting another chancewas Sakai's semi's opponent, Roufeh, whoinstead of beating Donna 2-0, as she had in theirprevious encounter at last year's VegasNational's, here 17, 14 rather docilely lost toher. Donna's sister, Barbara Kaminsky, waslikewise more than a mite disturbed on losing

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to an $800 recovery. knocking out Mojaverianin a 4-game semi's. Said Rudy Miranda, who'dlost to Liu earlier, "I never played against anyonewho could serve down my backhand white lineso consistently. Then, when I moved over, hebegan serving down my forehand line. It wasuncanny." In the other semi's, Musa lost his onlysingles game of the tournament to Domingo. Allin all, including a Draw Doubles win with LeeSwander, The Champ went home with more than$2,000 in prize money.

The Saturday Men's Over 50's was won byAugusta penholder Xin Peng over Domingo in asurprising 10,12 final, for Rey had eliminated himin three in the Elite. "Ibeat him every year - easy,"said Rey, emotion in his voice rising, as if anyonewould think otherwise. But, he confided, he washaving trouble with his knees, and just couldn'tmove, Dave Sakiti, who, after losing badly to Pengand his troublesome serves in the Elite. said he'ddo better against him in the 50's, and he did-tooka game. Hejazi, too, improved his play. Starting21-18 slowly against current U.S. Over 40 and 50Women's Champion Mahin Roufeh ("In Iran, Iused to give her 14 points a game"), Ali thenoverpowered Bohdan Dawidowicz, and went onto a 19 game with Domingo. Later, on Sunday, inthe 2300's, he bested Stan Tang in a -19, 20, 20$100 match.

"You look comfortable," said Re feree TomMiller to Bohdan's wife, who, feet up, wasrelaxing in a chair. "I'd rather be at work," shesaid. My wife sympathizes - as does my sisterwho on recently moving into this Laguna Woodscommunity (average age of the residents? ... 78)was given a very friendly welcome by PresidentArt Wirtschafter. The three of us found time over

the weekend to visit the famed Getty Center anhour away - to absorb as much as we could ofthe unique and quite beautiful promontory

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early to unranked Pui Har So. -19, 16. -21 -especially as she was leading 10-5 in the 3rd."Barbara hit too much." said husband/coach/

critic Bob, "lind she didn't have presence of inindto realize that So's racket was causing the ballagain lind again to go long."

The Women's Over 40 was won with equalease by another expatriate - the youthful-looking. Chinese-trained penholder Hong Zhao.With her long-pip dead balls and flat-hitforehand she also took both the U-4800 Doubles

with Peng and the U-4500 Doubles withMiranda. Kaminsky was the losing 40 finalist,and from her earlier play against So you mighthave thought that she and Bob, having alreadybeen to the Nixon Museuni at Yorba Linda,

might be finding time for some more touring.But in the quarter's, against Sakai, after

losing the first, Barbara found herself up 15-5in the 2nd. Perhaps Donna's mind hadmomentarily wandered to that Las VegasCountry Club condo she and Dave were in theprocess of moving into? After all, it was her job.while Dave was at the tables. to deal with the

contractors - floors had to be fixed, bathroom

renovations made. the painting completed, thefurniture bought. Anyway. on into the 3rd, thesisters played, as they have against one anothernow for 40 years, both warily pushing to theforehand, Barbara waiting to pick-hit hard,Donna prepared to counter. This time it wasBarbara's 21-19 endgame.

Then, in the semi's against Roufeh, withBob off somewhere visiting a friend andBorisova taking over as coach. Barbara. down15-10 in the 3rd after splitting the first two atdeuce. thought she had to win this one for Donnawho, as she'd beaten Roufeh in the 50's. mighthave done it again were it not for Barbara. So.though she'd had trouble pick-hitting the rightshots against Marin's long pips, Barbara decidedin a match-turning move to all-out attack. Forgetthat old upright salute stroke - you' re not playingagainst hard rubber chop now. Coach JackHuang had told her back home. "Go forward!"And that's just what she did. Having pulled to15-all, she went onto win- again 19 in the 3rd.

There was no Women's Over 60 in these

National's - though Bob Kaminsky for one, andBetty McCloskey for two, routing off toRiverside in her powerful Gold Wing touringbike, thought there sure ought to be. Splittingthe Men's Over 60's prize money after a longday were finalists Nick Mintsiveris and GeorgeBrathwaite. Nick continues to coach and sell

equipment to the Laguna players (300 or morestrong) most Monday nights, while George isagain preparing to do a series of Health Exposhows in San Diego, Dallas, and Seattle, andplans on promoting Double Fish productsthrough "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" exhibitions inChina with Lily Yip.

Splitting the final seemed almost de rigueurfor some weary, multi-event players. In theSaturday 2400's, Bay Area buddies AvishySchmidt (who'd beaten Sakai) and Voltaire Trillo(who'd beaten Brathwaite) called it quits 10hours after the event started. And in the Sunday2300's. worn out and anxious to head for home,

Avi and Dave settled for a shake-hands $3()0

apiece. Bill Ukapatayasakul, who with VernBoyce took the U-3400 Doubles. scored twogutsy wins in the U-2400's - first. -10.22, 18avoiding an upset by Dave Rubin, then 22,20knocking off 2240-rated Hank McCoullum.Hank. USATT Grassroots Collegiate CommitteeChair and USATT Group B Vice President, andU-2050 winner Barney Reed. USATT VicePresident. both visited the Chula Vista OlympicTraining Center and have reason to believe apermanent Table Tennis Training Program mightbe established there.

Inthe Over 70's, #2 seed Hiep Hua Cung, whopia> s unchallenged at the Langley Senior Center,had to go three to down Danny Kim. In the quarter's,Kim defeated Leon Ruderman. who's seen his ratingfall but. thanks to arthroscopic surgery on hisdamaged kneecaps, not his stand-tall self. Then. inthe semis, Kim, down 10-3.20-18, and 2!-20 in

the 3 rd. rallied grittily to do away with me. Runner-up was Ivan Slade who, after losing the lst game ati whittled out a 27-25 in the 3rd win over D. G.Van Vooren. Turns out that D. G. ("Want a red fish?

A feathered trumpeteer swan? ... AMichelangeloT) has another hobby - wood carving.'You can't play table tennis all the time," he says.

And. finally. in the 3-man round robinfinish of the 80's, Arthur Chase prevailed 19 inthe 3rd over Harry Ehrmantrant and runner-upSlade, 18, -20, 15. Arthur's heart bypass hasgiven him better circulation. and new lenses haveopened his eyes to vistas of NationalChampionships. As for Slade. who's just beenthrough another colon operation. he seems noworse for wear. "As long as they take out aninch at a time, I' m o.k.," he says.Senior Elite - Final: Atanda Musa d. Francisco

Mendez, 10,13. SF: Musad. Rey Domingo, 10,17; Mendez d. George Brathwaite, 16, 17. QF:Musad. Christian Lillieroos, 13.13: Domingod.Xin Peng, 12,-16,16, Mendez d. Liu Hui Yuan, -18,20.25: Brathwaite d. Mark Wedret. 14.20.

Over 40 Men - Final: Atanda Musa d. Liu Hui

Yuan. 16,11.6.SF: Musad. Rey Domingo, 15,-17, 14,16. Liu d. Parviz Mojaverian, 13.11 -16.15.

Over 40 Women - Final: Hong Zhao d. BarbaraKaminsky. 11, 17. SF: Zhao d. Bella Livshin,14,1 0, Kaminsky d. Mahin Roufeh, -21,21,19.Over 50 Men - Final: Xin Peng d. ReyDomingo. 10, 12. SF: Peng d. GeorgeBrathwaite. def.: Domingo d. Parviz Mojaverian,16.14.

Over 50 Women - Final: Bella Livshin d.

Donna Sakai, 16, 10. SF: Livshin d. Pui HaiSo, 8.7. Sakai d. Mahin Rouieh, 17.14.

Over 60 - Final: Nick Mintsiveris and GeorgeBrathwaite split. SF: Mintsiveris d. Peter Chen,16,17; Brathwaite d. Bohdan Dawidowicz, 11,19.Over 70 - Final: Hiep Hua Cung d. Danny Kim.11,-l 6,9. SF: Cong d. Ivan Slade, 18,18; Kimd. Tim Boggan. 18. -13.21.Over 80: Ist Arthur Chase; 2nd Ivan Slade; 3rd:

Harry Ehrniantrant.Hardbat - Final: Xiii Peng d. Rudy Miranda,10.12. SF: Peng d. D. G. Van Vooren. 10,5.Miranda d. Ralph Stadelman. -16.19,15.U2400 - Final: Avishy Schmidt and VoltaireTrillo split. SF: Schmidt d. George Brathwaite,18.12, Trillo d. Dave Sakai. 20. 13.

U23()0 - Final: Avishy Schmidt and Dave Sakaisplit. SF: Schmidt d. Alireza Hejazi. 6.15: Sakaid. Christian Lillieroos, 14.- 15, 12.U2050 - Final: Barney D. Reed d. Lou Dean,14,14. SF: Reed d. Neil Kuluva, 12.15; Dean

d, Joe Tran. 11.17.

U1900: Khosrow Roy Prom d. Randy Mullins,12.12.

U1800: Lou Dean d. Wilfredo Escobar, 12, I 2.

111600: Suresh Kanekar d. Tong Lai Yu. 17, -21.15.

U1500: Louis Montes d. Ronald Lew, 18.9.

U1400: Richard Lee d. Winston Ngai. 10. 13.U1300: Winston Ngai d. Julian Gonzales. -18,14,15.

U1200: Anthony Quintana d. Thomas Koziol,15.-17.9.

U1100: Valiant Chou d. Wayne Bowers. 14,15.Draw Doubles: A. Musa/L. Swander d, V.

Trillo/H. De Los Santos, 14,16.

U4800 Doubles: X. Peng/H. Zhao d. A. Musa/H. Grossman. 21,-2(). 9.U 4500 Doubles: H. Zhao/R. Miranda d. A.

Schmidt/V. Trillo. 15.15.

U4200 Doubles: V. Trillo/J. Tran d. M. Wedret/

J. Schneider, 18.-19,13.

U3400 Doubles: B. Ukapatayasakul/V. Boyced. A. Musa/J. Dweck, def.

U28()0 Doubles: R. Lee/H. De Los Santos d. A.

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Werner Schlager (AUT) d. LucjanBlaszczyk/Trinko Keen (POL/NED), -19,15,18: SF: Jindrak/Schlager d. ChuanChi-Yuan/Liu Song (TPE/ARG), 16,12;Blaszczyk/Keen d, Timo BolUZoltan Fejer-Konnerth (GER), -17,11,16.Women's Doubles - Final: Lee Eun Sil/Shin

Soo Hee (KOR) d. Kim Soong Sil/LeeHyuang Mi (KOR), 13,-12.17; SF: Lee/Shind. An Konishi/Yuka Nishii (JPN), 13,14;Kim/Lee d. Tanja Hain-Hoffmann/AyaUmemura (GER/JPN), 19,16.

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A t Towson State University on June16'hand 171140 players brought theirbest game to the table in memory of

Matthew Murad, The second stop of the 2001Stiga North American Tour was played inhonor of the young man, whose tragicautomobile accident shocked the MarylandTable Tennis community in November of1999. Matt's parents, Ronald and Gloria,were pleased to see a great field of players,especially in Open Singles, where 13 U.S.Men's Singles Titles were represented. Butin the end, the winner in that star-studded fieldwas not an Olympian, not a U.S. Men'sSingles Champion, and not a member of theU.S. Team.

With the sponsorship of Stiga, TableTennis Pioneers and About.com, the

tournament was played on 22 new StigaExpert Rollers, forming a field of blue in thebannered hall. Burdick Hall featured wooden

floors, good lighting and no air conditioning.Naturally the Baltimore weather brought near90 degree temperatures and swelteringhumidity for Saturday. Towels were at apremium and the floor fans resembled alaundry line as the entrants battled their waythrough 24 event categories.

The Barbour family certainly left with noregrets, when twin brothers Tim and Tom metiii the Finals of the Novice (U-800) and fatherBob won the U-1850 category. Similarly, youngBarbara Wei was a happy lady, finishing secondto Elaine Kwok in the U-16 Girls, and winningthe 'Junior Sportsmanship Award' of a year'sUSATr membership, unanimously. Disregardher sub-1500 rating! Barbara consistentlypushed 2000 level players to deuce games andthree-game matches. But win or lose, herpleasant demeanor gave no sign of her fate. Asmile factory !

Regrets abounded, however, in the OpenSingles. In the North American Tour format,the top 12 players are given seeds that placethem directly in a 'Second Stage RR' onSaturday afternoon. The other 17 entrantsformed four groups for the 'Qualifying RR'on Saturday morning. Only one player wouldadvance from each Qualifying group to meet'the big dogs' later that day. So why wasMichael Oyebode playing a Qualifier?

Despite being undefeated on Americansoil and holding wins over Mark Hazinski,Michael Hyatt and Sean O'Neill in a recentNashville tournament, Oyebode still sporteda USATT rating of 0. NATT policy of notawarding a seed based on an estimated ratingwas going to make life very tough in theQualifier for someone. Oyebode, of course,advanced from the bracket, along with localheroes Qassim Aziz, John Wetzler and Vijay

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Madhavan. They became the 'D seeds' forthe afternoon 'Second Stage.'

Each of the four 'Second Stage' roundrobins would see two players advance to theSingle Elimination Quarterfinals. Thesematches all went off side by side on tables 1through 4 in a spectacular display of table tennistalent. No matter where you looked, you sawan intriguing match-up and a great story.

In RR#1, U.S. #1 Fan Yi Yong wasthrown into the mix with Wang Chen of New

"Threshing Machine.Fan Yi Yong just mowed

'em down."

Jersey, the former #4 Woman in the world.Young hot shots Lee McCool and QassimAziz completed the quartet. Fan defeated agamely fighting Wang (the U-2500 champion)16,18. She then defeated bearded Lee

McCool handily, 5,10. So what's this?McCool wins the first game against Fan YiYong at 18, and the spectators are buzzing.His pride stung, Fan finishes the match 8 and9. After dispatching Aziz 11, 13, Fan isassured of his #1 slot in the Quarters.

When McCool makes a third gamecomeback against Aziz, 15,-15,15. the group

is all but set. Seeing no future for himselfand suffering leg cramps, Aziz defaults toWang Chen, placing her second.

In RR#2, Vijay Madhavan find himselfgrouped with Shao Yu, Sean O'Neill andCheng Yinghua. Notbad! At 10,19, heknowshe was 'in it' against Cheng. The hungry-eyed O'Neill manages to fend off Vijay'sblocks and touch game, 14,16. Madhavanmanages a game from Shao, 16,-16,19, andnearly pulls off the upset. When Cheng beatsShao Yu at 12 and 16, Shao's fate hangs onthe match with O'Neill. Earlier in the day,Shao had beaten Sean in the U-2500

semifinal, so extra motivation for O'Neill, ifany is needed! At 12,18, O'Neill wins andthe field is set with one match left to play.Cheng and O'Neill hold eight U.S. Men'sSingles Titles between them. From theintensity of play, this seems anything but a'meaningless' match. In the first game,O'Neill consistently attacks with backhandsmashes thatechoin the hall 'THWACK.' But

Cheng hangs in with his service game andwins at 18. In the second, Cheng denies thebackhand opportunities and takes the #1position with a win at 8.

In RR#3, the big story was the man whofinished fourth. Last year John Wetzler beatTodd Sweeris at the Sun TV Open. 'Fluke!'the knowing fans of table tennis whispered.But anyone who has ever met Wetzler shouldknow better. No one ... no one plays withmore intensity or focus than thisPennsylvanian. Twiddling his longpips/inverted combo, John has a 'never say die'attitude and fights for every point. Thatmorning, he was one point, one measly pointfrom defeating O'Neill in the U-2500 QEHere, he pushes David Zhuang to a 15,15result. Is that a 2300 player? Against the 'Cseed,' rising junior Han Xiao, Wetzler loses19,20. Against U.S. Team member BarneyReed Jr., Reed wins 17, -18,19, leaving John0-3. But what an 0-3 !

Zhuang, the current U.S. Men'sChampion clinches a spot by beating HanXiao 15,15. When Han loses to Reed 6 and6, Barney is in the QFs and his 15,15 loss toZhaung loses its sting.

As exciting as the preceding groups were,RR#4 took the cake. Here were Michael

Oyebode, the Nigerian, veteran of the ItalianLeagues, undefeated on U.S. soil, placed asthe 'D seed' from the Qualifier, Above him,Patrick Mualem. Above him, the Meiklejohnfinalist and Manhattan's pride, Atanda Musa.And sitting on top of the group, in his firsttournament appearance in more than twoyears, two-time Olympian and three-timeNational Champion, Jimmy Butler.

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We hope that Mr. Mualem felt he got hismoney's worth! Patrick went O-3, losing toOyebode, 15,15, to Butler 11,12 and to Musa15,20. When Oyebode defeated Butler 10,16and then dispatched Musa 15,15, he assuredhimself the #1 position. And that left Butlerand Musa to decide their fates head to head.

What impact would his long layoff have forthe former champ? And what a way to findout! Musa breaks way out in front in the firstgame, but Butler closes late to lose at 15. Inthe second game, Jimmy is fighting for hislife. Again, Musa opens a mid-ganie lead offour or five points. Butler gets the servetrailing 16-19. Four points later, he leads 20-19. He seems to have found his game, butMusa gets the deuce. Two points later, thematch is tied. Distraught over his meltdown,and Butler hitting his stride, the deciding gamegoes to Butler at 10. What a group that couldleave Musa behind at 1-2!

The quarterfinals began Sundayafternoon at 1PM. Sean O'Neill is paired withMichael Oyebode, Cheng with Wang, Fandraws Reed and Zhuang plays Butler. Thoseplayers not advancing got $50 for their efforts.Those advancing had their eye on the $1500First Place prize.

O'Neill had lost to Oyebode in Nashville,and Michael displayed no weakness in his 3-O 'Second Stage' advance. So what a shockerwhen O'Neill becomes the first player to beatOyebode on American soil, 17,9. "My serveswere working better this time," n. Neill said,

"and I think Michael got down on himselfafter the first game." For his part, Oyebodesaid, "I don't get mad anymore when I lose atsports. I am only a small part of a GreaterPower. Victory is here, in my heart." A greatplayer and pleasant competitor, Oyebode is awelcome addition to USATT. "A solid 2600"

according to Butler.Cheng Yinghua has to contend with the

tall and powerful Wang Chen, and barelycomes through, 19,16. He works the cornersand sends a hard-working Chen back and forthacross the court, winning by controlling thetone of the match.

Butler and Zhuang in a quarterfinal...does that indicate a strong field? Jimmytakes a long solitary walk after thehandshake, 17,18, Zhuang. "I can feel therust coming off my game. David was betterthan I was today. But 1 know it won't belong for me. I'll be playing every tournamentfrom now on."

Is Fan still steamed about losing a gameto Lee McCool? He must be, because there

is no possibility fur Barney Reed Jr. to getinto the match. Fan YiYong advances with ahumbling 6,8 result. This is Fan, as I havenever seen him. He's always impressive, butin this match... flawless, simply flawless.

The Semifinals bring together O'Neill andFan Zhuang and Cheng. Two will advance andtwo will pocket $250 checks. Umpires TerryBell and Fong Hsu have the best seats in thehouse for these 3 out of 5 contests. But theydon't get to keep their seats for long.

Just as he did at the St. Joe Valley Open,Cheng makes it straight games past DavidZhuang. This time the scores are 13,18, and8. Apparently David's victory over Chengfor the U.S. National title in December did

not redefine their standing. Cheng is a tacticalwizard, playing smart when he cannot playyoung. Whatever the hole he discovered inZhuang's game after Vegas, he has used ittwice, now. David's bid to retain his Murad

title is dashed. There will be a new champthis year.

On the other table, O'Neill looks foranswers no one has found all weekend. Would

that determination counted for points ! "FanYi Yong is Chinese for 'Threshing Machine,"someone whispers iii my ear. At 10,8,7 youwill just have to take my word for it thatO'Neill fought hard on every point, right tothe end.

The Finals place $1,500 with the winnerand $750 for the runner-up. We are all set foranother 'classic match-up' between Fan andCheng, the archrivals who never speak toeach...but wait. This is different now. Fan

and Cheng warmed each other up before theSemis and have laughed together and lookedlike old friends all weekend. No icy stares,no avoidance of each other. Cheng has, inhis words, 'semi-retired' and will spend theU.S. Open week coaching in Gaithersburg.Not that Cheng won't try his best to win, butthere seems to be (Fan at 7) a new recognition,a new (Fan at 13) order of things in U.S. TableTennis and (Fan at 18) a new Champion ofthe Matthew Murad Memorial Open.

Ronald and Gloria shake the Champion'shand and the spectators head for the exits. FanYi Yong not only won, he won soconvincingly that you have to wonder ifanyone else ever had a chance. He beat a fieldthat held four Olympians, a Pan-Am GoldMedallist and 15 U.S. Men's Singles Titles.He dispatched a member of the U.S. Team byscores of six and eight. In fact for the entiretournament, Fan Yi Yong outscored hisopponents 312 to 173. His 6-0 Match recordwas built on a 14-1 Games record against thebest players in the country and he only allowedan average of 11.5 points per game.

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Open Singles - Final: Fan Yi Yong d. ChengYinghua, 7,13,18, SF: Fan d. Sean O'Neill,10,8,7, Cheng d, David Zhuang 13,18,8, QF:Fan d. Barney Reed Jr., 6,8, Cheng d. WangChen, 19,16. Zhuang d. Jim Butler, 17,18,O'Neill d. Michael Oyebode, 17,9.Open Doubles: l' O'Neill/Butler, 2"dParehd

Lanis.

U2500: Wang Chen d. Shao Yu, 19,13.U2375: Han Xiao d. Vijay Madhavan, -21,16,16.

U2250: Qassim Aziz d. Nazruddin Asgarali,17,11.

U2125: Larry Bavly d. Paul Lamse. -15,10,11.U2000: Handsome Mike Zheng d. Pat Lui, -22,17,18.

U1850: Bob Barbour d. Nirav Parekh, 11,13.

U1700: Ivar De Jong d. Anton Bekkerman,15,-15,15.

U1550: Saibal Chakraborty d. MileddyGarcia, 15,16.

U1400: Saibal Chakraborty d. Rick Martin,23,6.

U1200: Roger Chou d. Mark Coleman, 14,-24,11.

U1000: David Terao d. Malcolm McDonald,

19,20.

U800/Novice: Tim Barbour d. Tom Barbour,

-16,23,8.

Hardbat Singles: Ty Hoff d. Larry Hodges,15,19.

Over 40: Cheng Yinghua d. Atanda Musa,13,17,16.

Over 50: 1' Paul Lamse, 2"d Patrick Lui.

Over 60: 1¤ Su Feng Liu, 2nd Irving Goldstein.U22 Men: 1 Ernesto Ebuen III, 2 Han Xiao.U16 Girls: Elaine Kwok d, Barbara Wei,20,16.

U16 Boys: Khaleel Asgarali d. EricFinkelstein, 16,22.

U13 Boys: Marcus Jackson d. Martin Qian15,-16,17.

U10 Boys: P Marcus Jackson, 2 Joseph Wang.U3200 Doubles: 1-'t Zheng/Huff, 2ndKostkowski/Lord. ..)

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n July 21 and 22. in the Sonny WerblinRec. Center of Rutgers University, 186entrants contested the Eastern Open

Table Tennis Championships. The third stop ofthe 2001 STIGA North American Tour featured

great play. an enthusiastic crowd, many inter-esting matches and another smoothly-run tour-nament from NATT.

The support of Escalade, Table Tennis Pio-neers, About.com and Senoda, Inc. helped makethe tournament a glowing success. The air-con-ditioned hall had wooden floors and good light-ing. Tournament Director Fong Hsu and Tour-nament Referee Terry Bell reviewed the drawson Friday night, and managed to make severallast-minute changes to accommodate late en-trants. On Saturday Morning at 9AM sharp, playbegan on 25 STIGA Elite Rollers.

It did not take long for a tone of enthusi-asm to show itsel f. when Alexis Perez and WangChen met in the final of the U-2500. Nearly 70non-playing spectators were treated to an 'artis-tic display' of table tennis talent, as the two play-ers went at it on Table One. Perez

won the first game at 22. and thenWang turned the table and prevailed14,19. Cheers for each player andtheir high-level play got the tourna-ment off to a rousing start.

[t proved to be a 'tough day'for many of the hometown New Jer-sey favorites. Adam Hugh lost toShannon Doughlin of Barbados inthe U-18, and to Han Xiao in the U-

22. Shannon went on to the finals of

both the U-22 and U-18 Men, los-

ing twice to Han Xiao, 19.[9 in theU-22 and in a three-gamer in the U-18, 21,-19,-17. Adam extracted ameasure of satisfaction when he

bounced Han from the U-2375 and

then defeated Don Hamilton. 1 [,-20,19 to takethe event.

Young Karen Ma showed continued im-provement in her play and made her family proudwith first-place finishes in the Girls' U-13 andU-16 and victory in the U-1700. William Ma'scontingent went home with trophies and the re-spect of the competitors for their strong play andgood sportsmanship.

Likewise, father and son Asgarali.Nazruddin and Khaleel, had good tournaments,with Khaleel playing deep into several eventsand winning the U-16 Men, 13,13 over EricLeventhal. Father Nazruddin held up his endwith a -14.12,6 victory over Igor Kulyba in theU-2250. "It is good to know that when you driveso far and invest so much that a well-run tour-

nament awaits you." Nazruddin told us as heleft on Sunday. He knows the way to a Tourna-ment Director's heart.

For Wang Chen, it was the best of timesand the worst of times. On Saturday. she wonthe U-2500 in that impressive match with Perez.

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But on Sunday. her day started with a second-place finish in the Open Doubles, as she andpartner David Zhuang went down to the pair ofAtanda Musa and Barney Reed. Jr. Visibly tired,she met Renata Peleuchova of Manhattan in the

Women's final, and could not find her groove.Peluchova won. -13.15,19. in what amounted

to a contest of wills. Wangs tournament hadanother disappointment, as you will see below.

An extreniely strong Open Singles field wason hand to go for the 'big bucks' of $1,500 forfirst and $750 for the runner-up. With the top12, (Fan, Zhuang. Peter-Paul. Musa, Oyebode.Ekun, Shao. Wang, O'Neill. Reed, Hyatt andPerez). seeded out. nearly 32 players contestedthe remaining four spots for the Open Qualifier.The winners of 8 round robins met in a singleelimination match that produced the 'LuckyFour,' Ashu J:tin, Han Xiao, Paul David andSharad Pandit.

This produced the Final Stage Open RR offour strong groups that began play on Saturdayat 4PM. Only two would emerge from each

group to Sunday's Quarterfinal and the begin- 69ning of the prize money. EGROUP h Fan Yi Yong, Wang Chen, Sean #O'Neill and Ashu Jain E

To no one's great surprise, Fan continued q

his 2()01 success with straight game victories, ::defeating O'Neill 8.10. Ashu 11.14 and accept- &ing Wang's default. After all. Wang may have (3reasoned, why waste the energy when the out- Ecome seemed so certain? It proved to be a glar- ging mental mistake. Wang downed O'Neill, 14.16, and only needed a win over Jain to ad-vance to the money. But Ashu had other plans.and dropped Wang. -14. 13, and 14. When Seanthen toughed it out over Ashu. 16. 20, it left athree-way tie of players with I -2 records. WangChen would advance by virtue of a three gameloss to Jain. Or would she? No. there was a two-

way tie, pointed out Referee Terry Bell. Lossesearn a point and defaults get none. So onlyO'Neill and Jain were I -2, four points each.Wang Chen was 1 -2 with only 3 points. By beat-ing Ashu head to head, O'Neill had advanced.

Unable to undo her default, jgWang had missed the chance to add ;to her winnings and badly miscal- <Fculated her position. Had she as- rsumed that she would beat Ashu? N

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GROUP 2: David Zhuang, Barney ¥Reed, Jr.. Shao Yu, Han Xiao -

Barney was bound and deter-mined to make a better showing thanhe had at the Murad, and as his 2-1

record in the group indicates, he did.Reed lost a three-gamer to Zhuang,but dispatched Shao, (19.6) and Xiao(-20.5.12) to come second. David

Zhuang, as expected, beat Han Xiao (14,11) butthings stayed interesting when he lost to Shao Yu.18,12. Shao could not force his way into a three-way tie, losing to Han, 14,-18,18. David andBarney readied for Sunday.GROUP 3: Pradeenban Peter-Paul, MichaelHyatt. Abass Ekun. Paul David

The Canadian Olympian Peter-Paul assuredhis place with a 3-0 record, two straight overHyatt, -13,10,15, with Abass and dispatchingDavid, 10.15. Abass knew his fate rested withthe Hyatt match, and he came through a toughtest. 16,-18.17. Paul David eliminated Hyatt.18,18, and Abass nailed down the second slot

by beating Paul David two straight.GROUP 4: Atanda Musa. Michael Oyebode.Alexis Perez. Sharad Pandit

Musa put together the 3-0 record. aveng-ing his loss to Oyebode in Towson last month.Atanda was in high spirits and did not drop agame in the RR. Oyebode decked Pandit (14.11)and Perez ( 1 3,16) to earn his slot, Seeing nofuture for themselves, Pandit defaulted to Perez.

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QUARTERFINALS

At the request of the players. these matcheswere expanded to best of five games. Startingside-by-side, a scoreboard shortage hurt the pre-sentation, but the play continued to improve asthe field narrowed.

Abass Ekun vs. David Zhuang: Abasscouldn't climb the hill against David playing onhis 'home turf' and was left with $50 for hiseffort, 13,14.16.

Pradeenban Peter-Paul vs. Barney Reed,Jr.: As noted, Barney had his 'game face' on,and dug in harder with each succeeding game.But in the end. Peter-Paul. fresh from his im-

pressive North American Championshipmatches, advanced, 9,12,22.

Atanda Musa vs. Sean O'Neill: Musa is

a wonder, a hard-hitting and well-conditionedveteran who was having the best tournament he'dhad in a while. He made conditioning the issueas he advanced over the former Olympian.18,13,4. When asked, Sean says he is playingfor 'fun and exercise,' but you can't take theinstinct out of the horse when the bell rings. Hewants more, you can tell.

Fan Yi Yong vs. Michael Oyebode: Thiswas the best of the QF matches. Oyebode isamazingly quick, and in this, his first encour.-ter with the top-rated U.S. player, he was notgoing to be intimidated by reputation. Fan takesthe first game at 17, but he is forced to fight forevery point. His hands go through his tousled 'black hair as he searches for the answers to

Oyebode's persistence. Oyebode strikes backin the second game, beating Fan at 13 ! For thefirst time in weeks, we see a player who is notforced to retreat and give ground before Fan'swicked over-the-table game and backhandopeners. In the third game Oyebode draws ayellow card from Umpire John Jarema andwalks wickedly close to a red one. A wide re- 'turn of the ball to Fan drew some muttered re-

mark along the lines of 'go get it yourself'prompting the normally mild-nianneredMichael to boil over. 'Frank Chu Too!' or

something similar is repeatedly heard fromOyebode. Heat of combat? Or calculated dis-ruption by Fan? Michael can't bring his headback into the match and loses the third and

fourth, 14,18, despite a late run in the fourth.

SEMIFINALS

Fan vs. Peter-Paul: It's the

threshing machine iii action as Fanmows through the Canadian, 8.10,13.Pradeenban is never in it, but gets$250 for reaching the semifinals.

Zhuang vs. Musa: Atanda ixplaying better than I've ever seen,squeezing the Over-40 Final overAbass (16,21) between the Quartersand this match. How much steam can

the New Yorker have left? David is

on his home turf, but it's Musa who

breaks open early, building a 20-17lead. When Zhuang catches him atdeuce, the loyal faiis erupt. But Musacorks the bottle and wins the first

game at 20. When David takes theinada

next two at 17 and 15, perhapsMusa's steam has run out. But the

winner here is guaranteed a $750 payday and theloser a third of that amount. Musa breaks back in

the fourth at 17 and a fi fth game is assured. Musais serving short and allowing David to 'make himwork.' But Musa is also snapping backhands intoDavid's elbow and hip, pushing him very wide andopening up the cross-court kill. David goes up 11-6 in the fifth game, but Musa yields nothing, WhenZhuang fiat-creams a screaming winner, Musa isright there and flat-creams it back in an exchangeof lightning bolts. David cannot bring the matchhome. Manhattan fans erupt when Musa climbs toa 21-19 victory at the end. The best match of thetournament is lustily applauded.FINAL: Fan vs. Musa

Musa is ready to go in minutes after theSen-ifinal. Fan plays like a man with a 6PM flight.You can see the fight go out of Musa early iii thesecond game. Fan is unstoppable, and Musa nolonger has Oyebode's quickness to stay with him.Fan makes short work of his opponent, 13,7,6, andtakeN his second straight STIGA North AmericanTour title, Eastern Open Champion.

As the event winds down and the shrink-wrapgoes on the boxes of rubber and net sets, we areleft with many highlights and memories. It's on toSan Diego for the Western Open, but more thanone player asks, "Back here again next yeatRight?" Yes. It seems the Eastern Open has founa home in the great state of New Jersey.

North American Tour Point Leaders

1. Han Xiao 494 6. Howard Lamb 335

2. Sean O'Neill 426 7. Nazruddin Asgarali 329

3. Wang Chen 391 8. Randy Hou 306

4. Taju Oshodi 391 9. Atanda Musa 304

5. Khaleel Asgarali 355 10. Paul Lamse 300

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Open Singles - Final: Fan Yi Yong d. AtandaMusa. 13.7,6; SF: Fan d. Pradeenban Peter-Paul,

9,12,22; Musa d. David Zhwang, 20,-17,-15,17,19; QF: Fan d. Michael Oyebode, 17,-13,14,18; Peter-Paul d. Barney J. Reed, 9.12,22;Musa d. Sean O'Neill. 18.13,4; Zhuang d. AbassEkun, 13,14.16.

Open Doubles: Atanda Musa/Barney J. Reed d.David Zhuang/Wang Chen, 14.15.Women's Singles: Renata Peluchova d. WangChen. -13,15,19

Hardbat: 1 ' John Jarema (1-1)/3-2); 2nd LarryHodges (1-1/3-3); 34 Ashu Jain (1-1/2-3)Over 40: Atanda Musa d. Abass Ekun, 16,21.

Over 50: Pan/is Mojaverian d. Dave Sakai, 18,-16,19.

Over 60: 1* Gary Gudzenko; 2,id George Aitken, Sr.Under 22 Men: Han Xiao d. Shannon Doughlin,19.19.

Under 18 Boys: Han Xiao d. Shannon Doughlin.21,-19.17.

Under 16 Boys: Kahleel Asgarali d. EricLeventhal, 13,13.

Under 13 Boys: Patrick Wu d. Arjun Kaushal.9,6.

Under 10 Boys: 1' Allen Shih; 2nd ZachMcLaughlin.

Under 13 Girls: 17 Karen Ma; 2"d Judy Hugh.Under 10 Girls: 1' Jenny Shih: 2 Gauri Samant.U2500: Wang Chen d. Alexis Perez, -22,14,19.U2375: Adam Hugh d. Don Hamilton, 11,-20,19.U2250: Nazruddin Asgarali d. Igor Kulyba,-14.12.6.

U2100: Rich DeWitt d. Ed Watts. 18,19.

U2000: Alex Mayzlin d. Huang Wenchao, 19,-14.19.

81850: Ronnie Cruz d. Nirav Parekh, 13,13.

U1700: Karen Ma d. Douglas Agard, -11.20,18.U1550: Craig Sental d. Saibal Chakrahorty, 3,11.U1400: Rick Martin d. Wally Narcum. -8,14.18.U1200: Mark Coleman d. Yuliya Lisova, 5,16.U1000: Yuliya Lisova d. Charles Lin, 19.20.U800/Novice: Charles Lin d. Gizella Hajduk,14,16.

U3200 Doubles: Art & Chip Saxe d. EricFinkelstein/Robert Lendvai, 12,19

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second annual CancerQ Garden Statenear-record 282 players entered the

Open, the second most entries ever in a4-star tournament, Play was on 28 tables.Sponsors were Cancel-Q.com, Lily Yip Sports,Double Fish and Kong Kee Foods.

In the Open Preliminaries (round robin stage),13-year-old Under 14 and Under 18 ChampionAdam Hugh (rated 2295) upsetjust-back-from-the-Worlds USA Team Member Barney J. Reed (2529),14 & 17. (Barney would get his revenge in theUnder 2550 quarterfinals, 12 & 6.) Also just-back-from-the-Worlds Ashu Jain was upset by AlexisPerez (who also made the final ofhardbat, splittingthe final with Lily Yip). Later. Adam would upsetAshu as well(in Under 22), making it a two-USA-Team-Member tournament for him. But provingthat the Worlds wasnt adisease (although there isquite a letdown afterwards), our final just-back-from-the-Worlds contestant, Virginia Sung, upsetAbass Ekun, who's not the best against chop.(Virginia also made the final of Under 2375. losingto Pat·viz Mojaverian in the final, 17 & 15.)

All four quarterfinal matches in the Openwere one-sided and two straight, with the closestmatch being Virginia over Adam, 15 & 14(which took the place of the "expected" BarneyJ. Reed vs. Abass Ekun match, and kept Adamfrom beating a third USA team member). Top-seeded Fan Yiyong defeated Tahl Leibovitz, 8& 11 (Tahl scored a lot of serve & follows, but

Fan pretty much scored every point on his serve);Wang Chen (U.S. #2 woman) defeated De Tran,14 & 14; and second-seeded Atanda Musadefeated Alexis Perez in a counterlooping duel,10& 14.

The semi finals were also one-sided, withMusa winning an "exhibition" match withVirginia, 17,8,19, and Fan defeating WangChen (looping winners at will from bothsides), 14,9,9. So the women were out, but

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egos. (And who was the tallestquarterfinalist? Wang Chen.)

With the quarterfinals and semifinalsbeing a 14-0 sweep for the winners (averagescore: 21- 12.6), would the final be another

quick sweep? No - the exact opposite. Thiswas a match-up of two shot-makers, andshot-making is what we got.

Close your eyes; imagine AndreAgassi smacking his hardest forehands andbackhands. Now imagine two of himplaying each other. Now imagine both ofthem standing by the net. still smackingballs back and forth as hard as they can,but from 12-20 feet apart. Now replace thetennis net with a ping pong table. That isFAN VS. MUSA

1n the first, Fan leads 20-18 - but Musa

wins four in a row to win, 22-20. The

partisan crowd of mostly Musa fans (Musalives in nearby New York City) erupts.

In the second. Fan immediately goesup 5-0 - then it's 6-all, then 12-15, 15-all, 17-ali, 20-17, 21-18 for Fan.

In the third, Fan again takes a quick 4-0lead, then falls behind 7-9. then goes up 14-11,then it's 14-all. At 18-all, Fan serves, Musa popsit up - and Fan misses! Then Musa loops in theserve. a net-ticker that Fan blocks back. but Musa

rips the follow - 20-18 Musa. But Musa flip;the next serve in the net. and then pushes thenext one in the net (these things happen whenyou're trying to stop Fan's attack!), and it'sdeuce. Fan goes up 21-20 and 22-21, but in theend, it's Musa. 24-22.

In the fourth... the disgusted Fan tees offon everything. (Musa chips in, missing his ownserve twice at the start.) 0-1. 7-1, 12-2, 15-5,19-6,21-9.

In the fifth, down 5-6, Fan calls a let when a

ball rolls by. but pops the ball up, Musa creamsit - off - and thanks Fan. But Fan wins the

next four (9-6). and leads 10-8 at the switch.Finally, at 13-12. Fan makes his move - andfrom there on, he pulls away, 15-12.15-13,18-13, 18-14. 20-14,21-15. Final scores for$700 winner Fan: -20,18, -22,9, 15.

"The best player I usually get to practicewith is 2100." said Fan afterwards. "I'm not

used to having to loop over and over. In thefifth game, I just had to play my level."

Musa gave a special thanks to hissponsor, Jerry Wartski, who pays his way tomost tournaments. Musa would also make

the final of Over 40, splitting the final withAjayi Ohore, and would win Under 4200doubles with Jonathan Talley.

In the semifinals of Women's Singles,Renata Pelachova won the first, and led 17-

13 and 19-14 in the second against VirginiaSung. However, Virginia won the nexttwelve in a row to win that game and go up5-0 in the third. Renata won the next five (5-

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all- that's 15 in a row for the server). From there

on. it was all Virginia, 9-6 (at this point, the serverhas won 19 of the last 20 points), 21-13, In theother semifinal. Wang Chen defeated Wang Li Jun(no scores available); in the final, Wang (formerworld #4) won all& 12. Wang also won Under2550 over Abass Ekun, 15 & 12.

Also doing well this tournament wasGeorge Brathwaite, winning Over 60. splittingthe Over 50 final with Parviz Mojaverian. andteaming with Lily Yip (who co-directed thetournament with Y.C. Lee, with Chris Lehmanthe referee) to win "Over 90 Doubles" - whereyour combined age had to be over 90.Open Singles - Final: Fan Yiyong d. AtandaMusa, -20.18,-22,9,15; SF: F'an d. Chen Wang,14,9,9; Musa d. Virginia Sung, 17,8,19; QF: Fand. Tahl Leibovilz, 8,11; Chen d. De Tran. 14.14;Sung d, Adam Hugh, 15,14; Musa d. AlexisPerez, 10,14.

Women's Singles - Final: Wang Chen d.Virginia Siing. 11,12; SF: Sung d. RenataPelachova, n.s.; Chen d. Wang Li Jun, n.s.U2550 - Final: Chen Wang d. Abass Ekun,15,12; SF: Chen d. Lee McCool, 18,14; Abassd. Barney J. Reed, 19,18.U2375 - Final: Parviz Mojaverian d. VirginiaSung, 17,15; SF: Mojaverian d. Ajayi Ohore,20,18; Sung d. John Wetzler, 11,11.132200 - Final· Igor Kulyba & OlusholaKashimaro split; SF: Kulyba d. Hing Wong,16,15; Kashimaro d. Wally Green, -16,13,18.U2000 - Final: Olushola Kashimano d. Svetlana

Panich, 16,17; SF: Kashimano d. Alex Mayzlin,11,-19,11; Panich d. Edw·ard Mordecai, -16.12,i7.

U1850: Adam Jackovino d. Judy Hugh, 16,16.U1700: Chee Kwan Yeung d. Zhi Wei He, 17,12.U1550: Subhash Samant & Kant Li split.U1400: Vincent Wisniewski & Kant Li split.U1200: Li-kang Chen d. Mark Coleman, 10,17.U1000: Yuliva Lisovad. Justin Green, -19,18,17.

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Novice/Beginner: Gizella Haiduk d. KevinWilliams. 15.21.

Hardbat- Final: Lily Yip & Alexis Perez split;SF: Yip d. Larry Hodges. 20.-18.15; Perez d.Boris Rabinovich. 16.12.

Over 40 - Final: Atanda Musa & Ajayi Ohoresplit; SF: Musa d. Parviz Mojaverian. 14,17;Ohore d. Abass Ekun, def.

Over 40/U2100: Santos Shih d. Ajayi Ohore. n.s.Over 50 - Final: George Brathwaite & ParvizMojaverian split; SF: Brathwaite d. SimonShtofmakher. 22,15. Mojaverian d. DanielGreen. 12.7.

Over 60 - Final: George Brathwaite d. GaryGudzenko, 6,16: SF: Brathwaite d. Colin

Mallows, 14,7, Gudzenkod. R.N. Palmer, 15,16.

Over 70 - Final: Szu-Huang Shieh d. TimBougan. def: SF: Shieh d. Colin Malows. 17.4.

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Under 22: Adam Hugh d. Ashit Jain. n.s.: SF:Hugh d. Pan Lin. n.s.; Jain d. Yin Wang, n.s.Under 18- Final: Adam Hugh d. Pan Lin. 10.-120,6. SF: Hugh d. Roger Abbott, 9,14: Lin d.Yin Wang. -25,9,18.

Under 14 - Final: Adam Hugh d. Alden Fang,10.8. SF: Hugh d. Yuliya Lisova, 10,9. Fang d.

Jay Samant, 7,- 17.2(1

YMCA Under 12: Jenny Shih d. Huan Nguyen.-18,16,21.

Under 10: 1 " Allen Shih: 2'"1 Wesley Fang. 34Jennie Liu.

Special Olympics: Matthew Conway d. WilliamGraham. 3,9.

Over 90 Years Doubles: George Brathwaite/LilyYip d. Barry Dattel/Dan Green. -19,15,13.t.14200 Doubles: Alanda Musa/Jonathan Talleyd. Wang/Gil. 15,15.

U3000 Doubles: Yeung/Li d. Green/Green, 14,-19,19. .

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n Sunday afternoon. the tournamenthalted for 20 minutes for a Chinese

"Lions Dancing Show." put on by thesponsoring Coral Springs Chinese CulturalAssociation (CSCCA). and featuring two boysand two girls in two traditional lion outfits (twoin each outfit). Dozens of players in greenCSCCA outfits - mostly juniors - took part inthe tournament, mostly students of local coachesMarty Prager and Terese Terranova (who weregiven a special award by CSCCA at the end ofthe tournament. for their contributions. and who

also ran the tournament).

Recently. Fan Yiyong has been dominatingUSA tournaments. A new opponent showed, thenewly unretired 3-time U.S. Men's SinglesChampion Jim Butler. A new threat. or fresh meat?

31 players were entered in the Open. Iii thefifteen first-round matches, and in the eight 8thsmatches. the higher rated player won them all2-0! (There wasn't even a deuce game.)

The first serious matches were in the

quarterfinals. Finally. there were two minor"upsets": 2435-rated local star Bnan Pace defeated2485 Barney J.Reed. 19 & 18. and 2522 MichaelOyebode defeated 2545 Razvan Ci·etu, -17,16,18.This last match was the only match in the entiredraw (30 matches in all) that wasn't 2-0!

Jim's first serious match was his quarterfinaimatch with Ashu Jain (who won the hardhat event

and swept the Under 2500 and Under 2400 events- what was this USA team member doing in Under2400?) in a battle of serving experts. Jim pulledout two straight close ones, 19 & 23. The last pointof the match was the point of the tournament - avicious counterlooping duel that would not end.And Fan Yiyong rolled along. defeating JacquesCasas at 16& 17.

Jim had a battle with Michael Oyebode inthe semifinals. In the first. Michael served from

up 20-16 - but Jim scored six straight to win! At20-all. Michael looped Jim's serve. but Jim blockedit back on the edge. At 21-20. they had a wildbackhand to backhand counter-killing rally - butthat's Jim's game. First game to Jim. 22-20. In thesecond, it was Jim's turn to serve .it game point.

leading 20-18 match point - but Michael deuces

it. Michael leads 21-20 and 22-21 - but Jim

prevaib to win 24-22. He's now in the final. by

pulling out four straight nail-biting games, fromAshu and Michael, by scores of 19, 23,20,22.

Meanwhile. Fan defeated Brian Pace in the

other semilinals (13 & 15) in a powerloopingbattle between Fans forehand and backhand

loops vs. Brians forehand loops. Brian wasoutgunned, two to one. (However, he had enoughguns - cannons, really - to powerloop his wayto winning Under 2400.)

The final was all Fans - 16 & 8. Jim can

play at Fan's level for stretches. but Fan justkeeps pulling offshots, and Jim makes too manymistakes. "I need to be faster. and more

consistent with my backhand." Jim said

afterwards. But it was a pretty good start. after athree-year layoff.

Keith Alban. still in semi-retirement. won

Under 18 Boys. He had lost to Oyebode in theOpen Kths. 19 & 16.

Others having good tournaments includedDiana Li. who won Under 15 and Under 12 Girls;Sheri f Shola. who won Under 12 Boys and madethe final of Under ! 5 Boys. Ramy Shola. who wonUnder 15 Boys and made the final (against KeithAlban) of Under 18 Boys; Michael Chen. who wonUnder 600 and made the final of Under 800; and

Kibibi Moseley, who won Under 2200. made thefinal of Under 2400, and made the semifinals of

Under 2400 (and would have won WomensSingles. if there were ()tie).

Open Singles - Final: Fan Yiyong d. Jim Butler,16,8; SF: Bittler d. Michael Oyebode, 20,22: Fan d.Brian Pace. 13.15: QF: Fan d. Jacques Casa, 16.17:Pace d. Barney J. Reed. 19.18, Oyebode d. RazvanCretu, -17.16.18: Butlerd. Ashu Jain, 19,23.

U2500 - Final: Ashu Jain d. Brian Pace. 18,

19. SF: Jain d. Jacques Casas, 17.-20.18. Paced. Kibibi Mosely, 15.16.tj2400 - Final: Ashu Jain d. Kibibi Mosely.17,16. SF: Jaind. Jacques Casas, 17,1 6; Moseleyd. Donovan James, 15,17.

0224)0: 1 " Kibili Moseley. 2",1 Alex Aponte.U2000: 1 ' Richard Bowling; 2"w Georges Edouard.U 1900: 1 v Aron Friedman; 2"" Wesley Greaves.U1754): 1" Bruno Rainire/.. 2"d Andrew Williams.

U4()00 Doubles Champions Andrew Linand Barney J. Reed show off their

winnings - a pair of $100 bills!

U1600: P Arturo Redlich: 24 Juan Flores Sr.

U1450: 1' Sug Chan. 2"' Ran Tang.U1300: 1" Leon Liebman: 2a Philip Wong.U1175: 14 Mike Osbun: 2«Jason Zeller.

Ull)00: rt Brian Cheng. 2'"' Anders Truelson.U800: 1 " Richard Wu: 2d Michael Chen.

U600: 1" Michael Chen; 2"J Kevin Chiu.

Under 18 Boys: 1 * Keith Alban, 2'd Ramy Shola:3'u Bruno Ramirez.

Under 15 Boys: 1 v Ramy Shola; 21'd Sherif Shola.Under 12 Boys: 1 ' Sherif Shola; 2"d AndrewLin, 3'a Kevin Chiu.

Under 15 Girls: P Diana Li; 2nd Jane Li; 3rdAmy Huang.

Under 12 Girls: 1 v Diana Li: 2nd Amy Huang.Over 40: 1' Donovan James: 2'"1 Steve Federico.

Hardbat: 1 ' Ashu Jain, 2"' Larry Hodges.U4000 Doubles: 1 ' Barney J. Reed/Andrew Lin;2, Dwight Newton/Chi-Kin Chan.U280() Doubles: 1" Lellett/Lessering 2"1Huang/Wu

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Mothers Day weekend. What made it sospecial was the celebration of the memoryof David Ramsey. David was the SDTTATreasurer for many years and contributed agreat deal to our club. So when I was askedto plan and run a tournament to honor him.considering that I am the current SDTTATreasurer, it was an honor to do so.

We anticipated the usual crowd ofbetween 110 and 120 participants but theentry forms kept coming and coming. Inthe end. there were 182 participants. Iwonder how many more would havesigned up if the tournament had not beenheld on Mothers Day weekend. Of

Open Champion Fan Yi

course, 120 free T-Shirts, beautifullydesigned and handed out by Pam Ramsey, the honorary daughter, couldhave been a major contributor to the influx of participants.

In San Diego, we have been proud of running on-time tournaments, sowe had reasons to be worried when all these players signed up. Fortunately,thanks to Raphael Ahmed and Mike Dempsey. who assisted me in runningthe control desk, all went well. Special thanks also goes to Gary Hranek fordesigning magnificent tournament signs throughout the building.

Special appreciation goes to Pam Ramsey and Clark Mitchell for helpingin every aspect of this tournament, Last but noltheleast, thehardwork of EddeLeeuw in checking iii the players and collecting monies is commendable. Iappreciate everything that this fine group of volunteers did in orderto have asuccessful tourney. I could not have run this one without the efforts of thesefriends. Also, on behal f of Pam Ramsey and myself, I would like to conveyour full gratitude to those who donated to the David Ramsey Memorial account.Most of the money was used to design and purchase the tournament T-Shirts,and some funds were added to increase prize monies. Finally, we thank Newgyand Paddle Palace for sponsoring the tournament.Open Singles

Like any other table tennis tournament. this was our main event ... andmain event it was. Many players participated in this event, but when the battlewas almost over. there were four fine players still on their feet. Two were Dr. Lefrom the Los Angeles area and Deszo Racz, who flew in from Germany. (He isoriginally from Hungary but resides in Germany and plays in the Germanleagues.) The third player was Zoltan Varga, another Hungarian who had flownfrom Hungary three days prior to our tournament. The fourth was the numberone U.S, player, Fan Yi Yong. Fan flew froni Seattle and arrived from theairport two hours before the start of the Open S ingles event.

Semifinal matches were completed without any upsets. Fan defeatedDeszo in three straight games: 3,11.13. Zoltan went through Dr. Tuan Le,

MARylAND CIRCUIT

Eldersburg, MDJune 9-10, 2001

Open: P' Dominique Mantelli 2nd Steve HochmanU3000 Doubles: 1st Thomas Huff & Mark Cohen 2nd Al Whitney &William VanWrightUnder 18: 1' Jeremiah bang 2.d Jesse Wasserman [3] Thomas SunU2100: 1. Steve Hochman 2nd Dominique MantelliU1900: 1St Steve Hochman 2nd Ray ChenU1700: 1 " Ray Chen 2nd Phil Van DusenU1500: Pt Rick Martin 2nd William VanWrightU1300: 1' Rick Martin 2nd George WilliamsUlloo: r Thomas Huff 2•, Gary McConeNovice/U900: l' Ian Dew 2nd Sujay Deb

10.11.7. Now. the final was between two

old friends and teammates. No matter what,

it was a battle. Fan prevailed in the firstgame. 21-16, but Varga was not going tothrow in the towel yet. He used his strongloops to his advantage and held Fan to 11points in the second game. That might havecaused Zoitan to consume most of his

energy because the ]ast two games endedin Fan's favor, 21-14 and 21-12.

The same Fan and Zoltan had also

defeated Deszo Racs and Fran Remenyiin the Open Doubles final,

When two and a half days of battleended. 28 eventful events were played,$1,345 in prize money was awarded, and

)ng, Pam Ramsey (Dave 42 trophies were handed out. Everyonewent home full of memories from this

memorable tournament.

SINGLES EVENTS

Open Singles: 1 ' Fan Yi Yong. 2nd Zoltan Varga: 3-4: Deszo Racz & Tuan Le.Women: 1' Priscilla Umel; 2'd Alina Khasanova.

Over 40: 1" Wen Tsay; 2"l' John Schneider.Over 50: 1" Bill Ukapatayasakul: 2nd Bernard Savitz.Over 60: 1' Ragner Fahlstrom: 2'd Suresh Kanekar,Over 70: 1. Chason Koh; 2nd Leon Ruderman.

Under 18· 1 ' Miguel Salcido: 2nd Peter Randall.Under 14 1 v Wendy Eav: 2nd Earl James Alto.6-2350: 2 Ramin Samari & Rudy Miranda (split).U2250: 1 v David Umel Jr. : 2nd Oziel Sujo.U2150: 1 v John Schneider: 2 Harold Gomez.

U2050: 1 v Harold Gomez; 2"1 Lon Dean.U1975: 1 v Lon Dean: 2nd Kamal Farah,

U1900: i ' Lon Dean; 2nd Ky Nguyen,U1800: F Priscilla Umel; 2nd Kenneth Grady.U1800 Over 40: 1 Lon Dean: 2nd Behnam Kazemi,

U1750: I't Lon Dean; 2nd Philip Vandewiele.U1650: 1 ' Philip Vandewiele; 2 Ira Framo.U1550: 1 ·t Ira Framo: 2nd Larry Beatty.l'1450: 1,1 David Ostrowski; 2"d Danny Diaz.U1300: 1" Winston Ngai; 2 Alex Crane.U1200: 14 Anthony Quintana; 2nd Todd Crane.DOUBLES EVENTS

Open: 1' Fan Yi Yong/Varga Zoltan; 2™' Remenyi/Racs.U4200: 1' Nguyen/Dinh: 24 Harold Gomez/John Schneider.U3900: V Nguyen/Lee; 2'"' Ernie DelosReyes/Rodel Valdoria.U3600: PClark Mitchell/Christian Lillieroos; 2'ld Chua/Nguyen,U2800: i John Funderberg/Ira Framo; 2nd Frisbee/Vern Boyce.

MARYLAND CIRCUIT

Eldersburg, MDJuly 14-15, 2001

Open: 1" Jason Cao; 2nd Steve Hochman.3000 Doubles: 11 Steve Hochman/Sujoy Deb; 2" Roger Dickson/Dan Barnes,Under 18: 1' Josh Jackson; 2nd Jeremiah Tsang; 3rd Jesse Wasserman;48 Jimmy Pappadeas.Over 40: F Donnie Lee; 2"d Aggelos Astasidis.Under 1900: Ist Jason Cao; 24 Nobuhiko Koyama.Under 1700: 1",Saibal Chakraborty; 2d Donnie Lee.Under 1500: Pt George Williams; 2nd Rick Martin.Under 1300: 1" Rick Martin; 2Rd Hugh Barton,Under 1100- l' Hugh Barton; 2'4 Sujoy Deb.Under 900/Novice: 1' Anthony Lee; 2'd John Zydell,

Ramsey's daughter), Director Kamran Azimzadeh

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®016¢11 5£,te opellWAI,NUT CREEK, CAI.IFORNIA • MAY 26-27,2001 • BY DENNIS LIli

For one ilay. the Bay Area was treated to a little Alice of Europeanshowmanship in the classic Americansetting of the suburban highschool gymnasium. It wax the professional. overseas factor on

display during the second day of the 27th Annual Golden State Open.hosted by the Concord Table Tennis Chib. Having just won the Lone StarOpen in Texas a week earlier. Hungarian player Dezso Racz didiAdisappoint in his role as favorite to win the Open. dropping only onegame (6-1 ) in the final round robin matches and outplaying German playerChristian Grund (4-2). who placed second. Filling out the final roundwere southern Californian Tuan Le for third place (2-5). with the BayArea's own Freddie Gabriel taking fourth (2-6). The 2-Star tournament.which featured 23 events. drew 220 players and broke the record for moctparticipants in tournament history.

Asked who his toughest opponent was in winning the title, Racz(speaking through friend and interpreter Frank Remenyi) responded. 'ChristianGrund. He plays adifferent style. Plays with his head." Ract. 27. made hisappearance at the tail end (,fa two and a half week visit to the United St litex.und currently lives in Germany where he is a prolessional league player.

Grund 8140 commented about his match with Racz. 1 think I had a

pretty good chance in the first set," he said. "But his serve was reallygood." Grund. 29, plays in a league in Gerniany as well. and is actuallyfrom there. but is currently doing academic work at Stanford University.Posed with the hypothetical question of how he would have done if hewere in 'league shape.' Grund replied. "I don't know. Hard to say. It'snot so much different. i played pretty good.'

It was one ofthe highlight mate·heq of the lournament. as Racz. at anestimated 2600 rating. usea deceptive serves and strong. efficientcounterdriving to pick apart the fourth-seeded Grund's constantly mobile,and long-distance looping game. winning the match 18,13. Grund comein as an estimated 2400 player. and wasperi'erming to at least that level,its he took the Under 2450 event handily

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the weekend came with the upset ofnational team member lind second seed Barney Reed Jr. (rated 2529). by 36year old Tuan Le (rated 2358). in the quarterfinal round ofthe Open. Le won15.-10.16. Before the last-minute entries of the two European finishers. itwas expected that Reed would likely he fucing off with local favorite. eighteen-

2001 KANSAS EARLY SUMMER CLASSIC

Wichita, Kansas

June 23, 2001Class A: 1' Christian Lillieroos: 2* Yufei Xiao: 34 Dennis Prather; 4lhRichard Catlin.

Class B: 1' Guy Hendrickson; 2'd Les Ruthven.Class C: 1" Nancy Hill. 2" Kasey McDowell.Class D: I w Vladimir Obrosov; 2'ld Charles Rucker.

Class E: 1 w Steve Stark; 2nd Peter Chung.U3600 Doubles: 17' Christian Lillieroos/Steve Stark: 2nd GuyHendrickson/Aaron Hendrickson.

U3600 Doubles Consolation: 1. Dennis Prather/John Miller; 24 GeorgeTaplin/Aaron Whaley.

BIGGEST LITTLE RENO-SPARKS OPENReno, NevadaJune 16, 2001

Open Singles: 1" Steve Varela; 2"d Ralf Stadleman.U2000 Singles: iw Mike Lee; 2.d Billy Fu.

U1800 Singles: 1,1 Billy Fu: 2"d Stephen Adams.U1550 Singles: 1" Alex Paras; 2.d Carlos Ortegon.U1300 Singles: r Derrick Poon: 2 Steve Garretson.U1000 Singles: 1' Debby McCaffrey; 2nd Manny Scud(lenU3000 Doubles: rt Sipaila/Varela: 2.d Collins/Ortegon.

year-(ild Freddie Gabriel. for top honors. Of course, most spectators for thefinal event were here to cheer Gabriel on against all comers. The third-seeded

Gabriel (rated 2470). is arguably the most talented player to come outof hostConcord Table Tennis Club's program in its 29 years.

Sti]L it could be said the thenie of this yeark tournament had verymuch to do with the new: the sparkling and newly renovated gym ofNorthgate High School, complete with shiny new hardwood floors, andbrand new bleachers. So it seemed fitting that its two big winners were71*0 new faces from overseas. That, along with the presence of Reed,2()()() Sydney Olympian Michelle Do, 17, and former Shanghai club teammember Angela Sun, 24, lent an international air to the proceedings thatmay not have been seen in these parts since 1988. the year table tennisfirst became an official Olympic sport, and the yearwhen the entire NorthAmerican Olympic team came by invitation to the tournament.Open: 1 ' Dezso Racz; 2' Christian Grund: 34 Tuan Le: 4,I' Freddie Gabriel.Open Doubles: 11).Racz/F.Remenyi, 2"' H.Hikawa/C.Grund.Women: P' Michelle Do: 2"' Angela Sun.U245(): 1 ' Chi-istian Grund: 2'd De Tran: 34 Tuan Le; 4*" Ramin Samari.I }2300: 1 v Ramin Samari; 2"d Peter Zajac: Ird Him Hikawa; 4'11 Angela Sun.U2150: P' Angela Sun: 2"11 Hai Lin Dong. 3'1 Tony Tam: 4"' GeorgeSangoinetti.U2000: 1' Kevin Zhang. 2"' Bruce Liu: 3rd Kenny Chen; 411 Nelson Yu.U185(): rt Kevin Zhang: 2' Bruce Liu.U 17(10: 1 v Johnny Wong. 2"' Wesley Lee.IJ1550: 1 v Toni Evans: 2"" Trevor Runyan.U1400: I' John Springer; 2™' Sultan Aziz.81250: 1' Paul Villicarlos. 2"d Tu Huynh.Ulloo: 1" Daniel Marinas: 211" Eric Lee.

1]800: P Yuan-Kwei Liu: 2"d Colin Hwang.U50(1: 1 ' Tina Chan; 21"' Benjamin Chung.Over 40: 1 ' Voltaire Trillo: 2'"' Steve Varela.

Over 50: 1 v Peter Chen. 2"1 Thomas Yeh.

Over 60: 1 Peter Chen: 2"" Toon Siong Mao.Over 70: 1 ' Weiqing Luo: 24!ackie Honda.Under 18: I w Misha Kazantsev:

2"' Auria Malek.

Under 12: P' Sergy Gutkin: 2'd Jessica Yick.1;3400 Doubles: rt B.Wong/J.Ogunleye;2" B.Baird/D.Smith.

U2800 Doubles: 1" B.Hu/W.Lee: 2rdOpen Singles &

Doubles ChampionN.Chung/L.Chung.

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Over 50: 1' Neil Myers; 2'id Steve Slaback.Over 60: 14' Neil Myers; 2'Id Al Fish.Under 16: 1 v Michael Mast;

2nd Amanda Dubina.

Hardbat: r John Tannehill;

2rd Roy Schlabach Jr.U1900 Hardbat: PAlan Millett: 2nd Al Fish.

U2250: Samson Dubina d. Roy Schlabach Jr., Ohio Champion

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U2050: 1 Jim Repasy; 2,id David Berenson.U1900: Pt Nick Snider; 2'd Eric Leventhal.

U1750: 1 ' Chris Burch; 2'd Paul Miller.U1600: Pt Bill Lisboa; 2"d Bob Haverstraw <*i*U1450: 1' Amanda Dubina; 2nd Michael Mast. 1 -14-

U1300: 1'Soren Tannehill; 2nd Jennifer Mast.

U1150: P John Ginther; 2"d Rina Singh.U1000: rt Steven Freetage; 2nd Don Mussawir.U3000 Doubles: Pt Takigami/Epstein; 2'd Berenson/Marquette.

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2. MD 2768 Cheng, Yinghua3. NJ 2729 Zhuang, David

4. IL 2713 Lupulesku, Ilija5. TX 2638 Owens, Eric6. NV 2630 Racz Dezso7. GA 2588 Oyebode, Michael8. NY 2582 Musa, Atanda

9, IN 2569 Hazinski, Mark10. GA 2555 Hyatt, Michael11. IL 2551 Drinic, Sasa

12. TX 2533 Subonj, Viktorian13. FL 2516 Pace, Brian

14. PR 2492 Gabriel, Santiago15. IN 2488 Seemiller, Daniel

16. FL 2476 Alban, Keith

17. NY 2471 Ebuen Ill, Ernesto L

18. VA 2470 O'Neill, Sean19. NY 2464 Shao, Yu20. NY 2462 Aronov, Nison

21. NY 2455 Tse, Ka Chun

22, CA 2452 Gabriel, Freddie

23. TX 2445 Oshodi, Taju24. NJ 2444 Jain, Ashu

25. GA 2439 Reed, Barney J.26. NY 2437 Ekun, Abass27. GA 2431 Masters, Brian28. PA 2429 Pandit, Sharad

29. NJ 2422 Domingo, Rey A.30. PR 2420 Coste, Santiago31. GA 2412 Evans, Keith32. NY 2411 Liu, Hui Yuan

33. IL 2403 Shiu, Arturo Pang34. GA 2402 Peng, Xin35, FL 2394 Cubillo, Minor Vindas36. GA 2387 Beebe, I J.

37. PA 2384 Seemiller, Randy Lee38. IN 2383 Cohen, Randy H.39. CO 2383 Mendez, Francisco J.

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8. NY 2324 Peluchova, Renata

9. NY 2289 Wang, Li Jun10. NJ 2274 Yip, Lily

11. CA 2251 Moseley, Kibibi12. CA 2239 Sun, Angela13. CA 2238 Do, Michelle14. CA 2231 Zhao, Hong

15. CA 2217 Lee, Jacqueline16. PR 2155 Garcia, Enerys17. IL 2144 Kretschmer, Maria

18. OR 2091 Ping, Whitney19. MD 2049 Wu, Katherine

20. OR 2022 Ping, Emily21, IL 2004 Bastrzyk, Marta22. MD 1986 Kyakobye, June23. CO 1971 Leach, Laura

24. CT 1960 Li, Yongmei25. FL 1955 Wronska, Beata

26, VA 1941 Wang, Chao27. PR 1931 Garcia, Johana

28. CA 1928 Livshin, Bella29. VA 1927 Kwok, Elaine

30. CA 1907 Milacic, Neda31, NY 1907 Panich, Svetlana

32. KS 1899 Hill, Nancy

33. CA 1899 Huynh, Tram34. NY 1886 Kaler, Natalie35. CA 1872 Seibel, Allison36. CA 1865 Khasanova, Alina

37. VA 1864 Kaminsky, Barbara38. CA 1859 Smallwood, Barbara

39. TX 1855 Routeh, Mahin40. PR 1837 Rosario, Sarida

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Over 30 Men Over 30 Women Under 18 Girls Under 18 Boys

1, WA 2825 Fan, Yi Yong 1. MD 2611 Chang, Jun Gao 1. CA 2217 Lee, Jacqueline 1. IN 2569 Hazinski, Mark

2. MD 2768 Cheng, Yinghua 2. IL 2497 Reed, Jasna 2. OR 2091 Ping, Whitney 2. FL 2476 Alban, Keith

3. NJ 2729 Zhuang, David 3. OR 2333 Yang, Simone 3. MD 2049 Wu, Katherine 3. NY 2455 Tse, Ka Chun

4. IL 2713 Lupulesku, Ilija 4. NY 2289 Wang, U Jun 4. OR 2022 Ping, Emily 4. PR 2420 Coste, Santiago

5. NY 2582 Musa, Atanda 5. IiI 2274 Yip, Lily 5. IL 2004 Bastrzyk Marta 5. MD 2377 Xiao, Han

6. GA 2555 Hyatt, Michael 6. CA 2231 Zhao, Hong 6. CO 1971 Leach, Laura 6. NJ 2342 Hugh, Adam

7. TX 2533 Subonj, Viktorian 7. IL 2144 Kretschmer, Maria 7. VA 1941 Wang, Chao 7. FL 2259 Maldonado, Fernando

8. IN 2488 Seemiller, Daniel 8. MD 1986 Kyakobye, June 8. VA 1927 Kwok, Elaine 8. CA 2251 Kazantsev, Misha

9. VA 2470 O'Neill, Sean 9. CT 1960 Li, Yongmei 9. CA 1899 Huynh, Tram 9. GA 2242 Strachan, Daryl

10. NY 2462 Aronov, Nison 10. CA 1928 Uvshin, Bella 10. CA 1872 Seibel, Allison 10. IN 2213 Lynch, Jared

11. TX 2445 Oshodi, Taju 11. KS 1899 Hill, Nancy 11. CA 1865 Khasanova, Alina 11. TX 2196 Lamb, Howard

12. NY 2437 Ekun, Abass 12. VA 1864 Kaminsky, Barbara 12. KS 1816 Xiao, Laura 12. PR 2174 Berrios, Hector

13. GA 2431 Masters, Brian 13. TX 1855 Roufeh, Mahin 13. NJ 1759 Hugh, Judy 13. PR 2162 Fort, Carlos

14. PA 2429 Pandit, Sharad 14. PR 1837 Rosario, Sarida 14. PR 1728 Diaz, Lisa M 1 14. NY 2162 Lili, Yang

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2. NY 2582 Musa, Atanda 2. CA 2231 Zhao, Hong 2. OR 2091 Ping, Whitney 2. PR 2420 Coste, Santiago 2. PR 2492 Gabriel, Santiago

3. IN 2488 Seemiller, Daniel 3. IL 2144 Kretschmer, Maria 3. MD 2049 Wu, Katherine 3. MD 2377 Xiao, Han 3. FL 2476 Alban, Keith

4. NY 2437 Ekun, Abass 4. CA 1928 Livshin, Bella 4. CO 1971 Leach, Laura 4. NJ 2342 Hugh, Adam 4. NY 2471 Ebuen Ill, Ernesto L

5. PA 2429 Pandit, Sharad 5. VA 1864 Kaminsky, Barbara 5. VA 1941 Wang, Chao 5. CA 2251 Kazantsev, Misha 5. NY 2455 Tse, Ka Chun 6. NJ 2422 Domingo, Rey 6. TX 1855 Roufeh, Mahin 6. VA 1927 Kwok, Elaine . 6. TX 2196 Lamb, Howard 6. CA 2452 Gabriel, Freddie

7. GA 2412 Evans, Keith 7. FL 1805 Sanders, Suzanna 7. KS 1816 Xiao, Laura 0 7. PR 2174 Berrios, Hector 7. NU 2444 Jain, Ashu8. NU 1759 Hugh, Judy 'I

8. NY 2411 Liu, Hui Yuan 8. MD 1778 Sakai, Donna9. NY 1685 Ma, Karen 8. MA 2134 Wang, Yin 8. PR 2420 Coste, Santiago i

9. GA 2402 Peng, Xin 9. FL 1727 Andrzejewska, Danuta 10. NY 1674 Zalesskaya, Tatyana9. NJ 2064 Un, Pan 9. IL 2403 Shiu, Arturo Pang

10. FL 2394 Cubillo, Minor 10. AZ 1698 Fuschino, Huiping 11. CA 1664 Nguyen, Minh 10. MD 2044 Shao, Michael 10. GA 2387 Beebe, T. J.

11. PA 2384 Seemiller, Randy 11. NJ 1688 Cheung, Wan Yee 12. PR 1640 Garcia, Darilyn 11. NH 2020 Haynes, Thomas 11. MD 2377 Xiao, Han

12. CO 2383 Mendez, Francisco 12. NJ 1686 Shtofmakher, Irina 13. CA 1626 Viel, Diana 12. PR 2011 Alomar, Walter 12. NJ 2342 Hugh, Adam

13. FL 2323 Fleisher, Dickie 13. CO 1644 Altamirano, Sandra 14. CA 1588 Fong, Atha 13. NJ 1987 Davis, Antwain 13. MD 2317 Aziz, Qassim 9

14, NJ 2313 Dattel, Barry 14. IL 1629 Popiel, Barbara 15. MD 1543 Geng, Sherri 14. MD 1971 Asgarali, Khaleel 14. GA 2301 McCool, Lee

15. CT 2311 Virgo, Ernest 15. IN 1627 Wilson, Sharlene 15. FL 1543 Zheng, Sarah 15. WA 1960 Lei, Oliver 15, TX 2284 Wang, Jiachen David

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1. NJ 2422 Domingo, Rey 1. CA 1928 Livshin, Bella 1. KS 1816 Xiao, Laura 1 NJ 2342 Hugh, Adam 1. CA 2238 Do, Michelle

2. GA 2402 Peng, Xin 2. VA 1864 Kaminsky, Barbara 2. NJ 1759 Hugh, Judy ' 2. CA 2251 Kazantsev, Misha 2. CA 2217 Lee, Jacqueline

3, PA 2278 Mojaverian, Parviz 3. TX 1855 Roufeh, Mahin 3. NY 1685 Ma, Karen 3. WA 1960 Lei, Oliver 3. PR 2155 Garcia, Enerys

4. NY 2263 Brathwaite, George 4. FL 1805 Sanders, Suzanna 4. CA 1664 Nguyen, Minh 4. MD 1897 Xu, Yao 4. OR 2091 Ping, Whitney

5. IN 2174 Hicks, H. Richard 5. MD 1778 Sakai, Donna 5. CA 1588 Fong, Atha 5. CA 1866 Viet, Jimmy 5. MD 2049 Wu, Katherine

6, MD 2172 Sakai, David 6. FL 1727 Andrzejewska, Danuta 6. FL 1543 Zheng, Sarah 6. NJ 1856 Finkelstein, Eric 6. OR 2022 Ping, Emily

7. CA 2170 Chen, Peter 7. IL 1629 Popiel, Barbara 7. MD 1493 Wei, Barbara 7. CO 1758 Leach, John 7. IL 2004 Bastrzyk, Marta

8. TX 2153 Pang, Chian 8. IN 1627 Wilson, Sharlene 8. FL 1463 U, Diana ,- 8. CA 1724 On, David 8. CO 1971 Leach, Laura

9. FL 2134 Concepcion, Elman 9. NY 1567 Leonhardt, Eleanor 9. CA 1428 Eav, Wendy 9. CA 1696 Guikin, Sergy 9. VA 1941 Wang, Chao

10. CA 2134 Hejazi, Alireza 10. NC 1558 Salzgeber, Susan 10. OR 1265 Qu, Tiffany 10, CA 1651 Phung, Kevin 10. PR 1931 Garcia, Johana 11. NY 2130 Shaw, Lavar 11. MD 1557 Kronlage, Yvonne M. 11. MD 1246 Wu, Rita 11. FL 1640 Santos, Juan 11. VA 1927 Kwok, Elaine

12. TX 2126 Hou, Randy 12. NY 1493 Rugar. Karen J. 12. OH 1147 Mast, Jennifer Mae 12. KS 1639 Hendrickson, Aaron 12. CA 1907 Milacic, Neda 113. CA 2126 Yeh, Thomas „ *„ 13. CA 1492 Bloom, Violet 13. CA 1104 Flores, Susana 13. IN 1623 Cochran, Gordon 13. CA 1899 Huynh, Tram 14. NJ 2124 Wong, Hing Sing 14. CA 1434 Borisova, Irina 14. NY 986 Lisova, Yuliya 14. IN 1610 Cochran, Joseph 14. NY 1886 Kaler, Natalie I

15, MA 2123 Hlava, JiM 15. NJ 1319 Miller, Joyce 15. FL 984 Li, Jane 15. PR 1606 Marrero Morales, Jerical 5. CA 1872 Selbel, Allison VOver 60 Men Over 60 Women Under 12 Girls Under 12 Bovs Over 75

1. NY 2263 Brathwaite, George 1. FL 1805 Sanders, Suzanna 1. NJ 1759 Hugh, Judy 1. FL 1588 Lin, Andrew 1. TX 1976 Gordon, Grady Cox

2. IN 2174 Hicks, H. Richard 2. FL 1727 Andrzejewska, Danuta 2. FL 1463 Li, Diana 2. MD 1531 Jackson, Marcus 2. CA 1831 Kim, Danny J3. CA 2170 Chen, Peter 3. IN 1627 Wilson, Sharlene 3. OH 1147 Mast, Jennifer Mae 3. PR 1 520 Rodriguez,Miguel 3. CA 1730 Slade, Ivan j4. FL 2134 Concepcion, Elman 4. NY 1567 Leonhardt, Eleanor 4. NY 986 Lisova, Yuliya 4. CA 1504 Chan, Steven 4. OH 1721 Radzeli, Louis 5. CO 2110 Dawidowicz, Bohdan 5. MD 1557 Kronlage, Yvonne M. 5. FL 935 Huang, Amy 5. PR 1354 Reyes Velez, Javier 5. FL 1674 Baltrus, Joe M.6. CA 2108 Mintsiveris, Nick 6. CA 1492 Bloom, Violet 6. VA 918 Li, Linden 6 IN 1335 Pommer, Chris 6. TX 1636 Chase, Arthur B.

7. CA 2099 Grossman, Howard 7. NJ 1319 Miller, Joyce 7. CA 795 Yck, Jessica 7. GA 1333 Chin, Preston 7. CA 1623 Butler, Wiley M.

8. FL 2085 leif, Marvin A 8. CA 1318 Beach, Carolyn 8. TX 691 Wong, Jessica 8. OH 1305 Mast, Michael 8. NJ 1614 Kanuga, Krishna

9. NY 2030 Reisman, Marty 9. CA 1295 McCIoskey, Betty 9. FL 658 Huang, Kelly 9. NC 1276 Pomer, Zach 9. CA 1611 Skrbec, Karol

10. GA 2020 May, M. M. Pete 10. CA 1246 Fischer, Bony 10. PR 559 Rubio Santiago, Viviana 10. TX 1249 Ohara, Senri 10. CA 1602 Forsberg, Byng

11. CA 2010 Bass, Norman 11. IN 1242 Marcum, Cindy 11. AL 521 Nguyen, Kim Ann 11. TX 1228 Wang, Timothy 11. CA 1557 Smyth, Cornelius E.

12. CA 2009 Hauer Jr.,Leonard 12. OH 1189 Fish, Anne 12. FL 495 Ng, Halona 12. TN 1207 Lane, Shelby 12, CA 1524 Bloom, Harry

13. CA 1988 Mao, Toon Siong 13. FL 1167 Cline, Jan 13. CA 474 Lee, Colleen 13. MD 1155 Ma, Kevin 13. FL 1472 Carlson, David

14. TX 1976 Gordon, Grady Cox 14. AZ 1144 Magras, Jane 14. GA 441 Liu, Megan 14. CA 1151 Crane, Jeff 14. CA 1458 Badger, Richard Earl

15. TX 1976 Roufeh, Jalil 15. WA 1113 Parker, Mary Ann 15. MO 319 Gusov, Esther 15. VA 1149 Qian, Martin 15. OK 1419 Collins Jr., Wallace H.

Over 70 Men Over 70 Women Under 10 Girls Under 10 Bovs Over 80

1. NY 2030 Reisman, Marty 1, NY 1567 Leonhardt, Eleanor 1. FL 935 Huang, Amy 1. MD 1531 Jackson, Marcus 1. CA 1730 Slade, Ivan 4' 2. TX 1976 Gordon, Grady Cox 2. CA 1295 McCloskey, Betty 2. FL 280 Wu, Gillian 2. GA 1333 Chin, Preston 2. OH 1721 Radzeli, Louis ,

3. CA 1966 Cung, Hiep Hoa 3. NY 1059 Amoury, Gloria 3. NJ 273 Shih, Jenny 3. TX 1249 Ohara, Senri 3. TX 1636 Chase, Arthur B.

4. FL 1949 Smith, Lynwood J, 4. TX 940 Thomas, Patricia L 4. NJ 261 Liu, Jennie 4. MD 1155 Ma, Kevin 4. NJ 1614 Kanuga, Krishna

5. NJ 1947 Shieh, Szu-Huang 5. TX 906 LeGros, Kathy 5. FL 248 Lin, Andrea 5. CA 939 Chen, Joanthan Y. 5. CA 1524 Bloom, Harry

6. NY 1929 Boggan, Tim 6. FL 872 Hann, Dorothy J. 6. FL 177 Lam, Adrian 6. CA 931 Flores, David 6. FL 1472 Carlson, David

7. TX 1882 Van Vooren, D.G. 7. TX 792 Krellwitz, Ilse 37. CA 905 Alto, Don James 7. CA 1458 Badger, Richard Earl

8. CA 1831 Kim, Danny 8. LA 734 Coulon, Shirley C. 3 8. CA 794 Law, Albert 8. CA 1362 Borges, Fred W.9. IN 1774 Boyle Sr., John 9. FL 717 Loewy, Ruth .9 9. TX 741 Migliaccio, Tommy 9. CA 1339 Gilbert, Herbert B.

10. CA 1768 Luo, Weiqing 10. MD 687 Kostkowski, Betty C' 10. CA 641 Law, Alexandre 10, OR 1333 Ehrmantraut, Harry

11. CA 1760 Ruderman, Leon 11. MD 619 Sachs, Genie 3 11. FL 621 Chen, Michael 11. OK 1316 Deschner, Phil H.

12. CO 1758 Silver, Norman H. 12. TX 521 Tait, Doris N. CC 12. MD 519 Wang, Joseph 12. VA 1306 Santo, UlpianoR

13. WI 1743 Peregrine, Dick : 13. VA 510 Ning, Vincent 13. CA 1299 Margolis, Julius14. CA 1730 Slade, Ivan Florida's Andrew Lin, ; 14. VA 499 U, Janiel 14. CA 1043 Jacques, Michael

15. CA 1728 Koh, Chason S. 15. IN 485 Schaefer, Daniel 15. OH 1019 Lawrence, James#1 in Boys' Under 12.

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1672 Adewop, Ademola NC947 Adibu,Emmanuel NY2310 Adini, Eval vID274 Adorno Caraballo, Manuel A. DA1539 Adrian, George John AZ

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I168 Kahan, Stanley WH 245 <uzia, ElizabethI 381 Kahn, Carl tl 1529 <uznetzow, Irving768 Kahn, Eli VA 1927 <wok, Elaine'99 Kahn, Ulf DA 2043 <wok, Sai'843 Kaiagher, Christopher R vID 1986 <yakobve, June230 Kalb, James DH 1715 -acey, Jason886 Kaler, Natalie =L 1570 -ai, Bik-yin820 Kam, Davis \IJ 801 .ai, Peter864 Kaminsky, Barbara NY 1972 -alvani, Michael958 Kan, Heno-Chuan 'L 177 -am, Adrian683 Kanekar, Suresh DA 573 -am, Alexander362 Kantor, Vladimir AZ 1321 -am, Anthony Kiet Quoc614 Kanuga, Krishna 'L 1077 -am, Brian310 Kapsalakis, Dean IY 1623 -am, Duc201 Karande, Samir tl 1257 -am, Ed

864 Karkamkar, Abmijeet rL 1054 _am, Harvey

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CA 369 u, Crystal 4 1412 Markiewicz, DavidIL 1283 u, Daniel T VII 1013 Markus, DanielGA 2047 u, Guojun )H 807 Marquette, BrooksNY 2411 u, Hui Yuan DA 1272 Marquez OscarNJ 261 u, Jennie DR 1606 Marrero Ilorales, JericaCA 2047 u, Johnny VY 2337 Marsh, ChristopherTX 2149 u, U Feng N 1082 Marshall, AntonGA 441 u, Meaan BL 2010 Marshall, DavidMO 1217 u, Padl /A 1829 Marshall William MCA 1154 u, Simon DA 1351 Martin, ired J.WA 1036 u Stan VID 1328 Mar'tin, RickMD 1524 u Su Feng DA 1689 Martinez FernandoNY 1566 u, Thomas L 531 Mason, tliotCA 1956 u, Wallace VIO 1110 Mason, Hugh A.IN 1101 u, Wayne Z. NA 1587 Mason, Wilfiam M.CA 2031 u, Willam VIA 1829 Massarsky, LevNY 2162 u, Yang 3 2074 Mast, IvanMI 1992 u, Yi )H 1147 Mast, Jennifer MaeCA 1236 u, Yong Chao 3 1305 Mast, MichaelCA 1031 u, Yuan Kwei 3A 2431 Masters, BrianCA 1459 verato, Juno =1 392 Masters, CraigTX 1504 vings, David vID 2067 Masters, MichaelCA 1928 vshin, Bella ST 737 Matcheson, NathanCA 2109 vshin, Boris VIA 434 Matcheson, NickNH 876 zotte, Tom VH 1349 Mathews, MattNJ 1265 Lo Russo, Michael A. TX 1171 Mathis, StevenCA 2024 Lo, Wavne K.W. vID 1657 Matkovic, PaulWA 208 Lock, Curtis N 1329 Mation, FrankWA 1906 Lock, Raymond \IC 1953 Matthews, RickWA 1501 Lock, Rodney 2142 Mau. JavWA 1467 Lock, Roscoe WY 780 Mauk, VernPA 1376 Locke Delmar WY 1892 Maxwell, BrianCA 1960 Loe, Kock NA 1284 Maxwell, FrankFL 717 Loewv, Ruth VY 1827 Maxwell, Melvyn DouglasCA 2052 Loi, Guc GA 2374 May, Derek J.MI 1204 Long, Dana GA 2020 May, M. M. PeteCA 877 Longee, Jinny 3A 1301 May, PatrickNY 1208 Longworth, Kevin VY 1193 Mayer, JaredFL 1710 Look, Raymond TX 2091 Mayer, RobertOH 1614 Lopez, Vern 00 1149 Mayfield, LarryAZ 1816 Lorene, Mario 21 1870 Maynard, TerrenceMO 656 Louvier, Andrew 1 1022 Mayo, DavidOH 1553 Lovalenti, Greg ]A 957 Maywalt, JosephWA 765 Lovell, Wendy NY 1985 Mavzlin, AlexAL 1305 Lowder Mike 3A 1966 McAfee, RichardPA 2172 Lowry, Ateven VY 1060 McBath, KevinCA 1819 Lu, Hugh VY 1111 McBath, NancyAZ 1502 Lu, Lin VV 953 McCaffrey, DebbyTX 730 Lu, Patrick L 1901 McCartney, MarlonAZ 2044 Lucas, Leo DA 1295 McCloskey. BettyTN 821 Luck, Benjamin vID 1371 McCone, EricCA 1426 Luechinger, Hermann vID 948 McCone, GaryCA 1129 Lui, Dennis 3A 2301 McCoot, LeeTX 1490 Lui, Eddie L 1102 McCormack, ThomasvID 1911 Lui, Patrick Kin Luen ]A 2098 McCoullum, HenryDA 1768 Luo, Weiqing TX 1163 McCoy Jr., Billie'A 1841 Luo Zhanjian PA 1858 McCoy, James VictorWV 1185 Lupkey, Brian CO 1854 McDermott, AllenL 2713 Lupulesku, Ilija TX 1188 McDougal, RogerDA 1813 Lutin, Juan KS 1607 McDowell, KaseyL 1386 Luu, Roaer SC 1727 McEIveen, CoreyNA 2171 Ly, Randall R. FL 1818 Mcfarland, Michael/A 1699 Ly, Xenq MA 1159 McGee, Travis1 2019 Lynch, lin WI 952 McGivern, TomN 2213 Lynch, Jared NV 1070 McKee, BillN 1704 Lynch, Jim TX 1306 McKeever, HarryN 1208 Lynch, Nicole NJ 1754 McKnight, Brian KeithDA 1159 Lyons, William FL 1670 Mcleod, CaseyVID 1442 Ma, Eric OR 499 McMahan, BoazDA 824 Ma, James AL 1238 McNeal, Robert E.NY 1685 Ma, Karen \IC 2061 McQueen Jr., James A.VID 1155 Ma, Kevin DA 2106 McQueen, LloydNA 2058 Ma, Steve MI. NA 1255 McRae SteveWY 1934 Ma, William VID 589 Mead, tddle08 1308 MacFartane, H. Jim L 1523 Meade, Lee£ 982 MacKenzie, David <Y 1738 Meade, MarkNA 1103 Mach, Justin TX 1908 Medcalf, RandallrL 2040 Mader, Olivier IL 2044 Mehrabian, Alexanderil 564 Madera, Jorge It 1749 Mehrabian, Andranik

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el, Jianglineimban, June J.eleshenko, Alexemon, Abdulendez, Francisco Jendez, Frankendez, George M.endez, Gerardoendoza, Neilenn, Jonathanentash, Ahmedercado, Richarderchant, Ayazerchant, Shaaneyer, Josephao, Lilyao, Williamchel, Adrianchelson, Timcka, Diagerddlecoff, Jackddleton, Chrisescke, DaveJIiaccio, Thomas]Iiaccio, Tommy<esell, Karlchlin, Aleksandrcula, Cvrilacic, N'edamovka Sr., Alexler 11 Carl C.ler, Adamler, Alan L.ler, Edwardler, Gerryler, Gregler, Jason T.ler, John R.ler, Joyceler, Markler, Pauller, Samueller, Virgillett, AlanIman, Joelntsiveris, Nickntz, Jerryranda, Ffildy X.ron, Eugeneron, Jantchell, Fredtchell, Jordantchell, Kennethtchell, Lloydtchell, Odingotchell, Roberttroi Stefan

Ruskin, Kimo. David Nei-Yu

IL 2018 Nazar Naved CA 1630 Pelaoz Oscar CA 1824 Ramirez MichaelNY 1091 Neal, torn WI 1089 Pell(y, 8rian TX 2121 Ramos Aarahona, NelsonNC 1669 Needham. Winston NY 1624 Pelshe, AndY TX 1291 Ramos, Mario

TN 1802 Neely, Bill NY 2324 Peluchova Renata CA 1790 Randall, PeterTN 794 Nelson, Evan NY 366 Penell, Cofette MI 1147 Rankin, RomanTN 1094 Nelson, Gene GA 2402 Peng, Xin NC 1067 Rannow. Robert L

GA 1612 Nenavath, Vijay Nail( MI 1886 Peradotio, Dave MI 1617 Rapoport, DaniilPA 1504 Newcomer, Nancy WI 1743 Peregrine, Dick OH 524 Ratcliff, Derek

FL 2020 Newton, Dwight L IL 1373 Perelmuter, Joe IN 673 Ratermann, DaleFL 1835 Newton, Wendell L NY 2178 Perez, Reynaldo VA 1808 Ratner, BarryNY 1246 Ng, Evan FL 1424 Perlmutter, Jerome MD 1767 Ratner, Mark J.

FL 495 Ng, Halona AL 1895 Peters, Dr. Ronald W OK 1430 Raunikor, John

NY 1424 Ng, James IN 1736 Petersen. Dirk TX 2012 Rautis, James A.NY 2039 Ng, Peter K. IN 1798 Petty, Bobby J. MO 1122 Ray. ClarenceFL 497 Ng, Sutton IN 1061 Petty, John D. CA 1912 Raynor, DowenCA 1429 Ngal, Winston IN 1961 Petty, Tyrone GA 480 Reames, Johson

CA 1847 Ngo, Ken MA 857 Pfei[,Arlene FL 1562 Redlich, Arturo

CA 2270 Nguyen, Anh Tuan MA 989 Mei!, Michael CO 939 Redman, Jon

AR 1494 Nguyen, Danny CA 986 Pham, Alvin PA 2055 Reed. Barney DavidCA 1759 Nguyen, Du WA 1688 Pham, Cuong GA 2439 Reed, Barney J.CA 1687 Nguyen, Hal CA 1510 Pham, Jonas H. IL 2497 Reed, JasnaCA 1672 Nguyen, Hiep VA 1295 Pham, Quan TX 1456 Reese, Eric

CA 1999 Nguyen, Hung Quoc AZ 1827 Phan, Hao TX 1551 Reoev, Niv

WA 1729 Nguyen, Kevin FL 1320 Phan, Sam IL 874 Relimani, Faisal

CA 1746 Nguyen, Kevin K TN 1512 Phelps, David FL 724 Reilly, RickAL 521 Nguyen, Kim Ann IL 1379 Phongkusolchit, Kiattisak CA 1723 Reising, BobCA 1840 Nguyen, Ky CA 1217 Phung, Karen NY 2030 Reisman, MartyCA 1579 Nguyen, Minh Chau CA 1651 Phung, Kevin NV 2115 Remenyi, FrankCA 1664 Nguyen, Minh Thanh CA 395 Phung, Robert IL 1852 Remtula AmanoDE 1515 Nguyen, Minh-vu IL 1808 Piekosz, Waclaw OH 1144 Rendel, NogerGA 632 Nguyen, Phi OR 2022 Ping, Emily OH 1929 Repasy, James E.TN 1405 Nguyen, Quynh-Thu OR 1938 Ping, Ken NJ 1129 Reuveni, Reuven

AL 916 Nguyen, T.J. OR 2091 Ping, Whitney NY 1587 Revai, Joe

CA 1788 Nguyen, Tai T. FL 1396 Pinnock, Latees IN 1210 Rey, WalterAL 957 Nguyen, Thanh CA 1376 Pintado, Arthur PR 1354 Reyes Velez. JavierNC 1128 Nieves, Orlando NY 2035 Pirzada, Shahid FL 1587 R gynolds, JoshuaIN 1579 Nimtz, Branden CA 1652 Pisa, Ketthong NY 824 Riett, TerenceVA 510 Nina, Vincent CA 2158 Plaisted, Thomas TX 777 Riodes Jeff

CO 2147 Nis6et Ben J. CA 128 Plake, Anthon TX 2174 Raza, Carlos A.OH 570 Noel, Arik CA 1502 Plake, Jeff FL 1218 R beiro. JunioOH 597 Noel Rick PA 1811 Plevinsky, Mar·vin TX 1674 Rce. DavidIN 1549 Noelker, David A CA 1510 Plost Martin CO 1713 Rce, David E.

PA 1056 Nogle, Justin OH 1739 Podis. Gary NY 1876 R chards, Gemmel

IL 2215 Nordby, Mark Andrew MN 1333 Podvin, David FL 1378 R chards, Ransom BlairNY 1057 Noriega Mario MN 2029 Podvin, Joseph CA 1034 R chardson, DanVA 1306 Norton, bonald F NY 1229 Polinski, Larry OH 592 R elage, ToddNY 1924 Novak, Ross AR 1333 Pollan, William D. IN 1842 R ley, John R.IL 1342 Nowak. Marek NY 1715 Pollard, Brian ME 874 R pley, DiannaGA 1999 Nunes, Thomas TN 999 Pollard, John OH 804 R tter Jr., Daniel

MD 2252 Nyanauile, Oriaene IA 1530 Pollard, Kevin M. CA 1867 R tz, JamesVA 2470 0 Neifi, Sean Patrick CA 1309 Pollock, Dave PR 1265 R vera Esquilia, Karen MLA 918 O'Young, Andrew NC 1276 Pomer, Zach NJ 2166 R zvi, Shahid SyedCA 1186 Oasan, Aleiandro V, IN 1335 Pommer, Chris NY 1892 Ro Kuang-HsiungKS 1468 Obrosov, Vladimir MD 749 Ponczak, Brian WA 1578 Roberson, KyleWA 1883 Ochsner, John PR 1768 Pons, Kelvin CA la Roberson, SamuelCA 1624 Oaunleve, John CA 1149 Poon, Derrick CA 1539 Roberts, BobbyTX 2138 Ofiara, Kazuhiro CA 1547 Poon, Eric CA 2197 Roberts, CourtneyTX 1249 Ohara, Senri CA 821 Poon, Katie CA 2206 Roberts, David1 Roberts, Edwin

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DA 1585 Savage JefDA 1949 Savitz, emardDA 1880 Saxon, AllanNI 1597 Scanlan, Thomas N.'L 1806 Scarlett TerrenceNY 1404 Scavo, Bruce AN 485 Sciaefer, DanielN 480 Sciaefer Ted

DA 1244 Sciafer, hhilip J.OH 2188 Scilabach Jr., RoyNY 1078 Scilemitzater, William

oc, Manh Locohamed, Haneefolaverian, Parvizokaddem, Amineolchanov Nikolayolenda, ¢doler, Donaldolinari, Carlosomios, Evanonajjed, Nabilongeon, Bradonroe, Kevinonteon Larryontes, Louis F.ontoya Leoneloon, Warren Henryoore, Gary E.orales, Omaroreno, Danny G.organ, Gregorrar, Nidaiorris, Rickoscoti, Michaeloseley, Kibibi loneoumen, Iyadowa, Venkateshowrey, Richard

ozur Josephracek, JiMualem, Patrickueller, Rickuessig, Dennisuhich Johnui Mikeulins, Randall M.undy, Rickunoz, Davidunroe, Chedyurakami, Noriyukiummoto, Ralph M.urphy, Timothyurray, Alphansourray, Methuselahusa, Atanda Ganiyuusker, Jacksonusker, Johnusker, Patrickussawir, Don

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VY 2119 Ohore, Aiayi IL 1629 Popiel, Barbara FL 1062

NH 1157 Olapurath John IN 1599 Popovt Ivan CA 1294

DA 1538 Olelnick, Joseph CT 1905 Popovich, Victor NC 2115

TX 1423 Oliphant, Wilfred MA 802 Poppler Michael R KS 627

KS 1935 OIMer, Paul CA 1288 Porter, 6on OH 1883

NY 882 Olmstead, Edward CA le Portillo, Christopher MI 1480NA 1131 Olson, Eric CA 1581 Portuoal Larry PA 1315

NY 1601 Oluobile, Michael CA 1496 poted[, Aober PR 1520

CA 1724 On,tavid MA 1008 Pourali, Ramin TX 1448

TX 1219 Opp, Frank TX 1479 Powell, Jaime FL 2122IL 1813 Oros, John OH 2196 Powell, Robert Lee FL 1404

ST 2032 Ort, Valery TX 2012 Prather, Dennis TX 1002

NV 1358 Ortegon, Carlos CO 2169 Preiss, Scott Matthew CA 1741

NY 1461 Ortiz, Eyleen GA 1451 Presley, Aldis R VA 1208

PR 1370 Ortiz, Gilberto Feliciano GA 416 Presley, Corderio IL 974IL 1441 Osborne, John GA 211 Presley, Donnivan C. WA 1885

FL 1076 Osbun, Mike GA 621 Presley, Micah CA 1256

TX 2445 Oshodi, Taju GA 1774 Presley, Ralph L. MO 774NA 1164 Osier, Daniel NY 1442 Preston, Michael PR 2018

CA 1321 Ostrowski David MO 1277 Preuss, Eugene R. PR 1837

AZ 1276 Oswald, Evan GA 1161 Pritchett, Willie LA 1691

NY 1420 Ow, Soon-Guan CA 1856 hai Khosrow Roy FL 959

WA 1241 Owen, Bud VA 1861 Provenzano, Tony NC 1480

TX 2638 Owens, Eric MD 1424 Pruce, Alain PA 1914

GA 2588 Oyebode, Michael RI 1895 Przybylko, Kr'ystian PA 558

CA 1249 Ozment, John C. NY 1318 Puding, Hank PA 1810

FL 2516 Pace, Brian AR 852 Pulliam Jeffrey CA 849NC 836 Pahl, Jesse MD 1480 puls, Chris TX 1976

NC 1508 Pahl, John AL 1787 Putman, Barry TX 1855

FL 1194 Palumbo. Alfred IA 1820 Qian, Jin MA 1512

PA 2429 Panda, Sharad VA 1149 Qian, Martin MA 1586

TX 2153 Pang. Chian OH 1520 Qian, Tony MD 1329

MO 2254 Panic, Goran NJ 1643 Qiu, Dick NV 1949

NY 1907 Panich, Svetlana OR 1265 Qu, Tiffany PR 559

CA 1613 Papp 111. Albert L. NY 1844 Quach, Toan (Kenny) KS 1311

M D 546 Pappadeas, Jimmy TX 1738 Quan, Kevin CA 1760

TN 1626 Parakh, Neville MA 2103 Quaye, Solomon CA 2064

CA 1508 Paras. Alex MO 640 Queensen, Marge NY 1493PA 1773 Parekh, Nirav FL 1919 Quesada, Alvaro PR 2083

KS 1622 Paretsky, Jonathan PA 862 Quesenberry, Benjamin PR 2379

FL 2160 Parham, Dale GA 1138 Quillian, E Wylie CA 879

TX 1980 Park, Chan H. GA 346 Quillian, Mall CA 220

NJ 1196 Parker, Greg NJ 966 Quinones, Giovanni CA 1557

WA 1211 Parker, Kirby CA 1343 Quintana, Anthony MD 1139

WA 1113 NY 1680 Rabinovich, Boris M. TN 808

CA 1285 FL 1051 Rackard, Dennis KS 1741TX 1007 NV 2630 Racz, Dezso CA 1244

CA 1344 Partridge, Robert C. MD 1297 Radhakrishnan, Guruprakash TX 2013TX 1861 Passard, Xavier OH 1721 Radzeli, Louis MA 806

IL 1711 Patel, Tez WI 1076 Raaunathan, Kasthuri MD 619

TX 1531 Patil, Nirmal NY 2046 Ralial, Safi PA 1169

PA 1891 Patton Jr., Charles Richard OR 1604 Rahman, Rezaur FL 1503

NY 1764 Paul, Don TX 1072 Raines, Gary W FL 1596

NC 1641 Paul, Douglas A. CA 1401 Rajaratnam, Samuel M D 560

IN 1142 Pay, Mark IN 988 Raiendran, Balamurugan OH 1289

AR 745 Payne, Mack MA 1405 Raiu, Balasundar MD 2172

TX 1622 Payne, Robed RI 1878 Raky, Haig M D 1778

IN 1890 Pease, Stan W. PA 2372 Ramanathan, Srinivasan MD 1072

FL 1848 Peek, Charles PA 2041 Ramirez, John C, FL 1527

Parker, Marg AnnParrish, KathyParsons. Neil

Roberts, Roy 30 1738 Scimidlen, Mark Shawn

Robertshaw Gregg DA 2299 Sc imidt, AvishyRobertson, 6en N 1332 Sc imidt, SteveRobinson, Carlton vIA 1477 Scimitt, HelmutRobinson, Terry N 1730 Scimucker, PhilipRoden, Casey vID 1364 Scineck, James RobertRodriguez Caraballo, Miguel DA 2086 Scineider, JohnRodriguez, Dan rL 758 Scioepp, ChristianRodriguez, Hector N 1205 Sciopp, J. MichaelRodriguez, Kevin 40 1512 Scireuders, GerardRodriguez, Naida NI 1355 Scirimpf, Paul ThomasRodriguez Roben N 1248 Sciroder, GaryRoesell, Alex iJ 1944 Sciroder, VolkerRogers, Justin WY 1217 Sciroeder, GaryRomanosky, Joe vii 1683 Sciroeder, GuentherRonin, Michael NY 1666 Sciwartz, DavidRoper, Max DA 1174 Scommodau, StevenRosano, Robert 00 1714 Scott Md., Earl DavidRosario, Sarida IY 1662 Scott, Albert

Rosby, Raphye VID 1938 Scott, AndreRosenthal, Ronald DR 1945 Scott, James H.Rosinski, Ray AL 1718 Scott, LamarRoskos, Ken DA 1001 Scott, LarryRossman, Ben WV 1094 Scudder, EmmanuelRoth, Frank A. WY 1620 Seaman, MikeRothwell, Bart NY 2153 Sebastian, GaryRoufeh, Jalil L 1667 Sebastian, SteveRoufeh, Mahin N 2488 Seemiller, Daniel RobertRouzeau, Guy Gerard ]A 2384 Seemiller, Randy LeeRouzeau, Jean-Robert DA 1872 Seibel, AllisonRozanski, George DA 955 Seibel, JeffRubin, David I. VIN 2207 Seidenfeld, Machell

Rubio Santiago, Viviana 0( 1234 Seifert Robert

Rucker, Charles 00 519 Seller|It EricRuderman, Leon vIO 560 Seller, datthewRudesill, David 110 2040 Seller, Rick

Rugar, Karen J. DA 1827 Senter AlbertRuiz, Hector M. Rivera )H 1406 Sepahbodi, TeymourRuiz, Luis E L 892 Serota, DeborahRunyan, Jim 4 614 Sewati. Michael

Runyan, Sondra DA 1082 Seshadri, HariRunyan, Trevor VID 1560 Seto, AndyRussell Orlando E. £ 1805 Settle Jr DonaldRutherford, Mary ]A 299 Sewell, HakimRuthven, Les JA 1399 Shabazian, HalkRyan, Anthon¥ WH 1074 Shackett, RobertRyan, Scott M DA 1882 Shafai, Ali

Rymer, Tony /A 1485 Shah, ParagSachs, Genie CA 1719 Shahnazari, RobertSaeed, Zeeshan CA 1728 Shamseldn, SamSaenz, Eduardo MD 2044 Shao, MichaelSaenz, Oscar NY 2464 Shao, YuSahu, Amaresh CA 1927 Shapiro, AharonSajovec, Robert CA 1561 Shapiro, Dennis LSakal, David OH 1799 Shapiro, MarkSakai. Donna CT 1408 Shapiro, MarlinSakian, Misha WA 1190 Shapiro, MikeSalajai, Billy CA 1224 Sharg, Vladimir

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CA 549 S erle, Dr David E FL 1192

VA 1722 S erling, David L. CA 1514KY 1217 S evenson, William FL 829NY 1532 S ewart, Everton WA 2149LA 1419 S ewart, Kenny CT 1610

NJ 1146 S ewart, Reginald OR 1699MI 1618 S ewart Sioney OR 1053PA 282 S icca, Natasha TX 1567Wl 1802 S impert, Kirk VID 594CA 1414 S ockhausen, Derrick VY 1544

GA 1537 S olyarova, Anna 'A 1837CA 860 S one. Philip vID 1143FL 1724 S one, Robert E. VIN 1130WA 1297 m 1499KS 1928 DA 1058TX 1618 S ory, Jim DA 1607TX 1249 Sout, Albert L 590TX 1518 S ovall, John DA 1732

GA 2242 S rachan, Daryl L 1028GA 1970 S rachan. David DA 1963WA 899 S reano, Vince 3A 1484

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TX 2533 Subonj, Viktorian N 2174WA 1032 Suckow, Dan AZ 1811CA 755 Sudzin Jeffrey VIN 824NY 1899 Suen, dmund VIN 2178WA 1749 Suen, Edward \ID 1966CA 2136 Suio, Oziel NA 999

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Heavyweight Table Tennis -Playing over 2000 over 250 lbs By Larry Bavly

Do you begin to breathe heavily duringthe first 10 points of your match? Doyou find bending over to pick up the ball

the most difficult part of the game? Are tabletennis shorts not an option? Do long pips makeyou think of a big helping of spaghetti? Whenyou attempt to do footwork drills. does itmeasure on the Richter scale? If you answeredyes to any of these, this article may be for you.

I would like to share with you sonic tipsand strategies that have allowed nie to play at acompetitive level while being overweight. Mycurrent playing level is around 2200 and I weighwell....um....over 250 lbs. Let me begin bystating that I do not advocate playing overweight.A 1950-rated player who weighs 15()lbs strivingto break the 2000 barrier should not react to this

artie le with "Hey ! l' Iii going to gain 100 lbs andbecome a 2000 player!" Certainly. with all elsebeing equal, the physically fit table tennis playerhas an advantage over the heavyweight player,With that being understood. lwill mention someof the inherent disadvantages and offersuggestions how to best cope with them in orderto get the most out of your heavyweight game.

THE FOREHAND SERVE -SUCK IN YOUR STOMACH

The forehand pendulum motion serve ix aneffective technique that can produce high andvarying degrees of spin. This serve works bestwhen your arm is loose. hangs directly downfrom your shoulder. and you contact the ballclose to your body. As heavyweights, ourstomach gets in the way when our arm hangsstraight down. If we contact the ball close to ourbody, we still need to put our arms out forwardto toss the ball in an uncomfortable position justto clear our stomach.

If you can suck in your stomach to the extentthat your arm can hang freely and swing side toside in front of your body. I recommend theforehand pendulum serve. Just keep a consciousreminder that you suck in your stomach beforeattempting the serve. The closer the contact is tothe body the better the serve. This is a tip I had todiscover for myself. I ve had several lessons anddiscussed technique with some highly regardedcoaches over my career. lt's amazing that they don'trealize how vitally important it is to suck in yourstomach for the forehand serve.

DEVELOP A RELIABLE BACKHAND

The most critical strategy for heavyweighttable tennis is to minimize the need to move so

that one can conserve energy. A reliablebackhand will help you achieve this status. Theclassic attacking style table tennis playerpositions himself well over to one side so thathe can attack most balls with his forehand. As

heavyweights. we don't have the luxury ofcheating to one side - one stiff push to our wideforehand and the point is over. I still positionmyself to the left of the middle line, but onlyslightly. Try not to leave two thirds of the table

open. Also. avoid backing up as much aspossible. It increases the area you need to cover.Your opponent will most likely have the mindsetof "make him move." If you position yourself tocover corner to corner, you don't have to move.Proper footwork should be avoided if possiblebecause it is much too strenuous.

Depending on your skill level. your backhandmay or may not be a weapon to hit winning shots. Itwill. however. keep you in a rally while minimizingyour need to move. An important tip: Don't attempta forehand when the ball is in your middle or left ofmiddle. When faced with a ball to my middle in mylighter days. I would apply a swift rotating footworkmovement to myleft opening up my forehand and Iwould absolutely blast the ball forawinner. I mightbe able to pull that off now, but I've realized thatits not worth it because even if I make a winning

shot the energy required to do so will certainly makeme lose the next four points.

Here's the key to handling a ball to yourmiddle. Keeping your left foot planted(remember it's all about minimizing movement)take one big step right (with your right foot. ofcourse). Now you can make a safe backhandstroke without getting tired, If you have apractice partner. have him feed balls to themiddle and practice this shot. I admit you won'tgenerate much power, but it's a matter ofsurvival. There are two ways your opponent willtry to move you - playing wide angles and toyour middle. With good positioning and areliable backliand you don't have to move much.Instead. make your opponent do all the work.

DESPERATE MEASURES FORDESPERATE TIMES

Although the reliable backhand strategy willkeep the ball in play and conserve energy, you willsometimes face an opponent who is too strong todefeat without moving. That's when you getdesperate and actually move. apply footwork. bend

CHANGING TABLE DIMENSIIBy Tim Boggan

In a recent ITTF paper, George Segun andAbel Toriola concluded that a LONGER

rather than the standard 9'x 5' - table tennis

table would promote more rallies and betterphysical fitness in South African players. Theysuggested that the ITTF ought to experimentwith such a table "to test its suitability for TVcoverage and public appeal."

Interestingly, it's not only the length ofthe table that's been discussed among pocketsof players and officials but also its HEIGHT.

ITTF Sports Science Committeeman Dr.Michael Scott (USA) has long felt that the tableought to be higher. and has brought with himto Osaka an article from a U.S, newspaper thathe thinks will rationally support his view.

Turns out that U.S. bathroom cabinet

makers, to satisfy customers who are tired ofstooping to wash their face or brush their teeth,

Heavyweights Larry Bavly (rated 2124)and John Andrade (2046).

your knees, etc. If you honestly believe you canbeat your opponent. than make the effort five pointsat a time. Towel offbetween every service change

not to wipe your sweat but to get back your wind.[Editor's note: With the new 1 1-point rules, makeappropriate adjustments.]

Here are some situations when it's

acceptable to tire yourself out using properfootwork: Near the end of a close game. Apotential last match in a tournament - lose andyour tournament is over. A finals match for prizemoney or a trophy.

Dont tire yourself out too much in practice.A heavyweight can play friendly matches for acouple of hours, but can't do footwork drills forfive minutes. The two hours of "fun" matches

will help you more than five minutes of "real"practice. By all means avoid the multiball drill.It may be the best drill for a physically fit playerbut ith not for us. The overweight player candevelop quick retlexes by playing video gamesas asxistance training.

There may never be an obese finalist in OpenSingles at a 4-star tournament. However, if youunderstand your limitations and play accordingly,you can increase your level of competitiveness andachieve respectable tournament success. ,

ONS

are now raising their vanity cabinets from astandard 30 inches - the exact height of a tabletennis table - to as much as 36 inches.

These cabinet makers have become aware

that the average height of people not only inthe U.S. but other parts of the world hassteadily been increasing. In 1851. the heightof an average American man was 5' 50.Seventy-five years later, in 1926. when theITTF was founded and the dimensions of the

first World Championship tables were official,the height of the average American man was5' 7". Today, in 2001, it's 5' 9".

lt therefore might not be stretching apoint to say that the ITTF ought to begintesting not only longer but also higher tablesin preparation for the gangly six-footers thatwithout such a change will be towering overthe tables at the ITTF's second 75th

Anniversary Championships.

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€he laculnner'* Serial:Part Iv: The Block

By Larry Hodges, USATT Certified National CoachEdited by Dan Seemiller & Mark Nordby

Right: 5-Time U.S. Men's Singles Champion Dan Seemiller and

USATT Coaching Chair Mark Nordby demonstrate the forehandand backhand blocks.

This is the fourth in a series of articles for beginning players. More ad-

vanced players can learn as well - even advanced players need to periodi-

cally review their basic techniques.

A block is a simple way of returning a hard drive. It is simpler than adrive, and many coaches teach it first for that reason. However, one of the

worst habits a player can get into is blocking too much.A block can be done with either the forehand or the backhand. The

stroke is similar to a drive except that there is no backswing and very little

follow through. There is also no weight shift. A block is best described as

just that - a block. Just stick the racquet in the way of a hard-hit ball. If theracquet angle is correct, the ball will go back low and with good pace.

Another difference in the block is that you should contact the ballearlier. Take it right off the bounce. The block is most effective as a way to

return an opponent's drive as quickly as possible so as not to give him a

chance to keep attacking.

In many table tennis drills, one player blocks while the other does

attacking and/or footwork drills.

BackswingVery little backswing. Just get the racquet into position so that the

incoming ball will contact it.

Forward SwingVery little, except on an aggressive block.

Contact

The key to blocking is to use the opponent's speed and spin to return the

ball. Contact should be made right after the bounce. Quickness is the key -

you don't want to give your opponent time to make another strong shot.

Hold the racquet firmly and let the ball sink into the sponge and trampoline

back. At contact, move the racquet forward some, more so against a slow

ball than against a fast one.

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contact, you do have to follow through. Just move the racquet forward,

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Zhang Yining is the first successful Chinese player usingnew Chinese shakehand techniques to join the Chinesewomens team. She is the first one who started out without

tiny vestiges of the traditional Chinese penhold game - athoroughbred shakehander. Her footwork is more square to thetable than her predecessors, and she truly liar; no preference onwhether to play a forehand or a backhand. Also. unlike penholdstrategy, placement is not her primary focus, but equal inimportance to power. This is a reflection of the Chinese coaches'decision to emulate the men's game in their up-and-coming femaleplayers. The distinct difference between this style and the European

loopers is that it allows aggressive counterlooping from closer tothe table. opening up wider angles and putting more time pressureon their opponents.

Once iii a while someone will appear like Waldner and Kong.who <erm: to he bom with the complete package - mentally and

physically. Zhang Yining impressed me as such a person when I mether the first time. I trained with the Beijing Team before the 1996Olympics. The then 14-year-old was quiet. unassuining. yet had atremendous dogroo of confidence. She wa,; already #2 or #3 on theBeijing team. and while that would be an accomplkhment formost to

be proud of. she was already restless. asking me whell I thought it

would finally be her turn to make it to the top - not questioning if orhou·. but merely when. I had seen her play. and there was no doubt inmy mind that it wouldn'tbe long. So, mirroring her confidence. I told

her it would be soon. but that she needed to be mentally ready whenthe time came so she could deal with it. A few months later she proved

to be ready when she reached the quarterfinals at the Chinese NationalChampionships. That qualified her for the National Team. At age 17,she reached the final at the 1999 World Championship. losing to herelder teammate Wang Nan. This year, at the World Championships inOsaka. she said to me that she had come to win the title. because she

felt good enough to beat everybody. The only other player with thisextreme degree of confidence I have ever spoken to was Deng Yaping,It was not to be, though. since Wang Nan defeated her in the sen-ifinals.

Her technique is very simple. without unnecessary movement.

One of her strongest points is her unfailing anticipation. A bit likeWaldner. it allows her to wait for a long time before committing toher shots, so she never seems hurried.

The picture sequence illustrates the current Chinese backhandlooping technique. which is played closer to the table than theEuropean style. Rather than backing up to make room for a big

stroke. Zhang steps in with her right foot (Row 1. Frame 2-4). Herstroke doesn't require that much space. She adjusts her positioningby stepping out a little with her left foot, and starts twisting herbody to her left (R 1.F7). She tracks the ball until it bounces. andthen drops her right shoulder and pulls her wrist back. While the

ball is still bouncing upward. she quickly whips her racket into it,holding it with a firm grip. and pushes off with her right foot. Sheclearly hops off the ground to get the necessary lift (R2, F3,4).This extra lift makes her early timing possible. In order to getsufficient drive, she extends her arm almost completely.

Now comes a phase that is often left c„It by other players. butmight be one of the keys to Zhang's success: As she lands fromherhop. she has an "assessment" phase. In real time it is very brief andeasy to miss, but on video it becomes clear: The time between thetwo loops is one second. The first 1/3 of that she spends completingher stroke. Then there is a clear "resting phase," while she absorbsher landing from the hop. Her hand stays high. and she is completelyfocused on the other side, almost as though shes taking a break(R2. F6.7 ). This is the time - short as it may be at 1/5 sec - whenshe studies and computes the events that affect her next shot. andthe accuracy of that assessment is what results iii her excellentanticipation. With this much inforniation, she now can comfortablymove exactly to the correct place - no more adjustments needed, no

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happens very early in the ball's trajectory, which puts great pressureon her opponents.

After that "assessment phase," she ad justs her position witha small hop backwards and starts the second loop. Again. shetracks the ball until it bounces and then pulls her wrist back toprepare for the whipping motion. On this shot she needs less of ahop because the ball already carries topspin. and she canemphasize the forward motion even more.

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Germany's //*61 97(8/0/Olga made it to the Semifinals of the U.S. Open ITTF Pro Tour by upsettingtop-seeded Zhang Yining of China By Tim Boggan

T met Olga Nemes almost 15 years ago when

she came to the U.S. for the first time on-a.holiday. She'd known my sons Scott and Ericfrom their play in the Bundesliga. and through a

connection with Annagret Stefilen of Schildkrot,Eric's sponsor. She was our welconie house guestfor several days - slept, in Scott's absence, inhis room, perhaps thinking of how, as she'd comeinto her teens. she'd quite liked this young man.

Of cou rse m y wife and 1 were privy to Olga'sprecocious table tennis successes - how. playingfor Romania. she'd won the European Top 12 whenshe was just 14. and had then gone on, in novelfashion, to expatriate to Germany, and become oneof the world's best players, Europe #1 in fact.

An adventurous move she'd made - and a

much desired one, for Life in Romania was not

Lifu in Germany. While playing in Switzerland.her tournament unfinished, she took a life-

changing chance. Helped by we'll call him AgentX, Olga, since she hadn't a passport, and entryfrom one country to another in those Iron Curtain

days was difficult enough anyway. agreed to besmuggled into Germany. She hid in the closed

trunk of a car that pulled up to a border checkpoint. Although she couldn't see, she could hear... what she didn't want to hear. That the driver

of the car iii front of her had been asked to open

his trunk. My god, I'm caught. she thought. But

Agent X was no dummy. He'd brought along

his mother. And now as the car made its approach

he got out and. showing his passport, walked

through the check point - leaving his

courageous. aging mother, alias Agent M, to

drive up alone to ... proceed unhindered.

Naturally on discovering that Olga wasnowhere to be found. the Romanian Coach was

worried ... and embarrassed. But of course the

police coulcint help him - Olga was,

mysteriously. a missing person. Then. for a time.

a wanted fugitive ... but a safe one. After her

"disappearance," it'd be 3 and 1/2 years before

she'd see her parents again. Since it was her

father. Josef. who'd encouraged her to develop

into a player. it was he. rather than her mother.who had the least difficulty acclimating to her

absence, Meanwhile, young Olga would win the

first of her German National Championships. as

well as the European Ladies Grand Prix. and

would maintain a high world ranking (an

incomplete check of which shows that as early

as Aug.. 1982 she was World #27 and as late as;

July. '86 she was World #14).All this I heard about in detail, not when

Olga visited us for a few days during those 10

months or so when a thyroid condition was

preventing her from playing in the '87 Worldsand other tournaments. but when [ interviewed

her this July at the ITT'Fs Pro Tour U.S. Open.

On graduating from her teens. Olga

continued her strong play. In 1990 she wasEuropean Top 12 runner-up. and then would goon to have successes in other tournaments and

in her Bundesliga matches. As expected. shemade technical advances over the years -learned. for exampie. a chop/block, and to bettermix the pace of her blocks. In time she married- Istvan was his name, he was a Hungarian (butnot a table tennis player) - and in 1995. on takinga break from Open tournaments, she gave birthto her husband's namesake son. Steven (that

being the English equivalent of the Hungarian

Istvan). Ten days later she was back practicing.and inside of two months, after wins over

Internationals Nicole Struse and Jie Schoepp,

she was again the German National Champion.

"I have good staying power," she says. "1 have to

because I'm always on the run." The more so nowsince she's divorced from Istvan, who continues

to share a genial relationship with their son. Right

now six-year-old Steven wants to play soccer, andthat s fine with Olga - she herself enjoys tennis

and roller skating. "Ilike it that Steven's interested

in some sport, it doesn't have to be table tennis -I'm not pushing him to get into that.-

"When I was pregnant and had that lay-off," Olga says, "I saw how much I needed to

play - realized how much I appreciated theGame. Before. I'd played for everybody else:

from then on I began playing for me." Still, upuntil recently she was a member of the GermanNational Team. but now, at 33, and by her own

choice, has at least temporarily relieved herself

of that responsibility.Her way was paid to Fort Lauderdale. not

by the Deutscher Tischtennis-Bund (none of the

Germans playing and vacationing here were

funded by their Association). but by her Tus Bad

Driburg Club's #1 sponsor, Wadther Glas, who

pays her expenses to Pro Tour events.

Ordinarily, as World #39, she would have

drawn a first-round bye in this Open. But by a

quirk of Fate. the World #85 South Korean

player. Park Kyung Ae. whom the Tournament

Committee thought was entered, had not come

to the States at all (and unfortunately never

would, for back in Korea her heart had stopped

inchildbirth and she had died). In her place was

a lesser. unranked player with the exact same

name, Park Kyung Ae, who became Olga's first

losing opponent. Then. showing what fast hands

she still had, regardless of the fact that she was n't

practicing so much, and certainly not training -

running in the morning heat like her Swedish

doubles partner Asa Svensson - she defeated

Danish qualifier Pia Finnemann. Then followed

by eliminating Hungary's World #16 Csilla Batorfi.

That brought her - the only non-Asian - to

the quarter's and the #1 seed. Chinas World #3

Zhang Yining. Up 2-0 anc! creating quite a stir

among the spectator-players, Olga rallied in the

third. came from 18- 13 down to go 20- 19 match-

point up. Then, as one fellow said. "She made

the only mistake of the match." She served long- and Zhang ripped it cross-court in. After which

Olga lost two long bjocking points. Then in the

hb

fourth she was behind 8-0 - a hopeless situationDown 3-0 in the fifth, Olga had to be "toast."asthey say - or 90 everyone, almost everyone.

thought. But Olga did have staying power... and

up 20-18 >he served, as one observer said. "heronly high toss of the match." looped a follow,

and Zhang, out of position. spun a forehand long„The USATTs Richard McAfee (who not

long ago had conducted an Olympic Solidarity

Coaching Course in the West Indies) was

watching this upset. "A classic counter-driver.'

he called Olga. who'd been streaking backhand

exchanges through her opponents. "And what'sso noticeable, so effective. to me," he said. " is

her ability to backhand-stroke from what foi

many would be an awkward position. Most right-handers make that counter stroke from their mid-

section and often have to move left to do it. thus

leaving their forehand side more open. But Olga

can initialiy reach further to her left than most

and still smoothly make the speedy counter -

that's a definite advantage."

In the semi's, against the previous week'sunexpected Brazilian Open winner, Japan's AyaUmemura. Olga Ca bit irritated after initially

being faulted three times - "her serve," said the

umpire. "went up two inches and back four"]was down 2- I and at 15-all in the fourth. Then.

on losing two points, as she had no one in hercorner, she called Time herself. but couldn't

come back to reach the final (litter won by

China's Niu Jianfeng).

Still. combining business with outdoor hot-

tub pleasure. she picked up $2,250 for her singleseffort. 'Table Tennis is my job," she says. "1 prefer

playing to coaching - but I like to help young

players. I helped my Romanian friend. Mihaela

Steff, come to my Bundesliga Club. When my

playing days are over. if I dont coach, Ill do

somethingelse. I am not afraid of the future."Who.seeing in the minds eye, that trunk door

closing in on her, could ever think Olga would be

afraid to meet her future - then or now.

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TABLE TENNIS LEGENDS

he 75th anniversary of the ITIT, the Croatian Historian and formern compiling this unique compendium of table tennis lore in celebration of

Yugoslav International Zdenko Uzorinac (abetted by English translatorJanko Paravic) devotes himself primarily to profiles of the World's most

famous players (of one Champion, he says freshly, she was "round-faced,with glasses such as worn by old ladies playing dominoes"). But since the

"Legends" is also an eight-decade summing-up of our Sport, it's necessaryfor Zdenko to at least briefly discuss the origin and development of Table

Tennis (with special emphasis on the evolution ofthe racket). to pay homageto outstanding officials. to show how table tennis has been organized on the

various continents (Japan played in a tournament iii Shanghai as early as

1927), and to detail the considerable advances of the ITTF (as well as give a

nod to the 1967-formed Swaythling Club International).

Moreover, he intersperses his text with hundreds of photos, any

number of them stiiking, two of which Ill mention here - one, in color,

of Sweden's Jorgen Persson serving, lib; eyes focused on the white ba]1which seems to be centered on his forehead, while, below. the ball's shadow

creeps like a brown malignancy across his nose; the other. in stark black

and white, of Germany's Jorg Rosskopf as a sleight-of-hand magician,black curtain, as it were. behind him, his face framed by his ten farned

out fingers each separated by taut-gripped, white table-tennis balls.

Any reader can see that this ambitious book is a labor of love, and

that, though the writer feels he must adopt a more or less formulaicthumbnail approach to acquainting us with all these Champions - where

and when they were born, how they first became seriously interested intable tennis, their major accomplishments, and their off-court and/orafterlives, so to speak - he always tries hard for readability.

And, despite some difficulties in translation. Zdenko CAN write„ He

talks about the Yugoslav star Anton Stipancic early in his career. in 1968.bringing back "a cup to his native Duga Resa, a cotton industry town. to amagnificent welcome." Then he follows with the line, "Thus, the Duga Resa

spindle spun the finest yarn, equal to the finest Chinese silk." And so findsthe literate transition sentence that enables him to move on to when in Munich

in '69 Stipancic will beat Japan's Defending Worid Champion Nobuhiko

Hasegawa, while at the same time he reminds us of the dominating ChineseChampions of the '60's, who will soon return to competition.

Hasegawa, I might add, who at the Osaka World s looked the fittest54-year-old I've ever seen, is said by Zdenko to have trained with "lead

weights round his waist and sandbags round his wrists in order to improve

Book Review:

ZDENMO UZORINAC'S LEGENDS-

By Tim Boggan, USATT Historian

his footwork and the strength of his arms." Heavy, huh?

I'd be ashamed to nit-pick about any proofreading errors in this

wonderful book. for as a Historian myself I know how easy it is. despiteone's scrupulous attention. to still make mistakes. Let me be specific,

though. in telling you what most engaged my imagination in these pages- and that is of course the anecdotal.

Gently humorous is Jean-Michel Saive's account of how he won his

first title. Iii Belgium's National Class B Doubles. Women's Doubles. 1n hiswinning pregnant mother's womb.

Of course that's stretching it. Also humorous, but not gently so, is

Zdenkos little story about Hungary's "Enfant Terrible," Tibor Klampar.

The Hungarians are having a practice session when Klampar tells his no-nonsense Coach, Zoltan "Zoli" Berczik, that he wants to leave to go to a

Western movie - his girlfriend's waiting for him. Naturally, Berczik says,

Forget that. But, says Klampar breaking his racket, I've nothing to play

with. Right, says Berczik. so jog 5-times round the stadium. "So, Tibor

jogged...to the next pastry shop. The incorrigible Klampi bought fifty

pastries and smeared all the glasses of Berczik's car...and deflated its

tires....They say that Zoli went mad."

Ah. well, suspended Klampar's World Champion teammate Istvan

Jonyer did say, "...cheek which may borderon overbearing behavior...drives

you to play a crazy. risky game at some point."

Doubtless. Champions do take calculated risks. The great French player

ofanearly era.Michel Haguenauer. in 1944. on being taken to a concentration

camp by the Germans managed to escape by jumping out of the running train.

Of course. as Zdenko points out. Haguenauer always was his own man - had

a unique hammer grip. swore profusely on court, smoked three packs ofcigarettes a day, had three wives, and never gave in to age.

In bygone days, as the Sport was developing. there were more

"characters" than athletes. Yugoslavia's Dragutin Surbek. locked in an

embrace with fellow World Doubles Champion Zoran Kalinic 40 years

after Haguenauer's leap for life, never smoked or drank - though some

might have thought his hotel-room "gymnastic exercises" and use of"Chinese ointments and jotions" excessive.

Whacky. but not as whacky as Klampar, was Surbek's Team

Psychologist who had a tape made for 'Surba" and earpliones at the ready.

"You are the winner. Surbek," it kept saying. "The opponent is strong,

but you are stronger. He will play the way you want him to....You are the

winner, Surbek. The opponent is strong. but you are stronger..."

A little strange. you think? But not as strange as what Japan's Kimiyo

Matsuzaki said she saw in a climactic Corbillon Cup tie with the SouthKoreans at the 1959 World's. "The coach of the Korean team first took

his player ICho Kyung Choi aside and hypnotized her. She came back tothe table and played as if in a trance...and won the first game. After each

point won Cho would look at her coach. who gave her a penetrating gaze.

his arms outstretched towards her." But eventually "the telepathic link

began to grow feeble." and Japan won that particular match and the title.

Coaches do have their special methods. Zilenko says that Hungary'sCsilla Bator fi's father used to yell out to her during matches, "13-2" or

"G-6" or whatever - coded service commands they'd worked out during

her practice of "tip to 300 (!) serves a day."And speaking of serves, China's World Champion Jiang Jialiang says

that at the 1982 Yugoslav Open he finally "just helplessly spread his arms,unable to return Kalinic's services: not one or two but seventeen (!) missed

services in two games." The problem was of course - and tell it to those

who 20 years later in Osaka were still loath to vote for the new service

rule - that Kalinic was "hiding the ball with his body while serving," and

Jiang 'couldn't see the rotation imparted to it."

Who says History doesn't repeat itself?

And how important IS the past anyway? We] 1, without it, we wouldn't

have this fuct-filled. entertaining book to read in the present - a book thatserves as a source of inspiration to allow us to continue to care passionatelyabout Table Tennis in the future.

Well done. Zdenko - and Thank You.

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