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Hitting It out of the Garage THIS WEEKEND IT IS TIME TO DOMINANT ON SPRING FORWARD Don’t forget 12 to move your 1 clocks one hour HOME FLOOR 2 ahead Sunday Warriors defense smothers Mavericks; at 2 a.m. as 3 daylight saving Curry, Green lead way in 104-89 win SPORTS time begins. 4 BAY AREA NEWS GROUP 100 $1.50 2.7 MILLION BAY AREA READERS IN PRINT AND ONLINE Saturday, March 7, 2015 24/7 NEWS COVERAGE ON WWW.MERCURYNEWS.COM I REVISED CALIFORNIA FIGURES TABLE TENNIS TAKES OFF IN BAY AREA HITTING IT OUT Gusher OF THE GARAGE of jobs Pingpong champions are bred in hothouse of Milpitas, Fremont, San Jose marked 2014 Experts anticipate Bay Area report next week to be equally impressive By George Avalos [email protected] California’s employment picture was far more robust during 2014 than initially estimated, accord- ing to a report released Friday, a surge of strength that bodes well for next week’s release of updated 6.9% fi g ures for the Bay Area job mar- California’s ket. unemploy- California also posted strong ment rate in job gains during January, the state January Employment Development Depart- Business: ment reported, adding 67,300 jobs. For a report That helped drive the statewide un- on national employment rate down to 6.9 per- jobs numbers cent in January compared with 7.1 see B7 NHAT V. MEYER/STAFFPHOTOS percent in December. The last time Aarsh Shah, 16, serves at the India Community Center TableTennis Center in Milpitas. California’s jobless rate was below 7 percent was in May 2008, when the mark was 6.6 percent. “This was a blowout report,” said Steve Levy, di- By Mark Emmons rector of the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing [email protected] MILPITAS — For most See JOBS, Page 8 Americans, pingpong is the fun game played in a basement or garage, often accompanied by frosty beverages. Well, at least until some sore loser breaks the TECH ON WALL STREET eggshell white ball. But in a southern corner of the Bay Area, pingpong has become serious sport. In the past decade, a cluster of competitive clubs has opened to launch a pingpong revolution. That’s why, as the country’s best paddlers are com- peting in Texas through Sunday at the 2015 U.S. World and Pan- Am Team Trials, 18 players, or Aarsh Shah , left, plays against coach Wang Jinxin at the India one-third of the field, either live Community Center Table Tennis Center in Milpitas. or train in Milpitas, San Jose or Fremont. RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS “The Bay Area is one of the TABLE TENNIS Serious sport: China dominates A trader works at the post that handles AT&T great table tennis ecosystems History: Originated in the international table tennis, an Olympic on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. in the U.S.,” said Gordon Kaye, 19th century in England as event since 1988.Other top table ten- an after-dinner parlor game nis countries include Taiwan,Germany, See PINGPONG, Page 8 among the aristocracy. Austria, Sweden and South Korea. Apple nudges aside AT&T for a spot on ENVIRONMENT Dow Jones index By Patrick May and Jeremy Owens China pollution inspires Staff writers Already the most highly valued company on the planet, not to mention one of the most culturally cool Stanford team’s air filter and technologically sexy, Apple now has another claim to corporate fame: It will soon join the Dow By James Urton with Stanford University researcher Jones industrial average, the iconic if somewhat [email protected] Yi Cui, who makes frequent trips to dated measure of America’s economic prowess. STANFORD — In 1999, then- China. In the first reshuffling among the Dow’s 30 com- Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji said “The air pollution there is terri- panies since 2013, Apple will soon take the place of that Beijing’s pall of smog “would ble,” Cui said. “I decided we needed AT&T, which was removed because the 119-year- shorten my life at least five years,” a to do something about it.” KARL MONDON/STAFF old blue chip index was too telecom-heavy. hazard level scientists affirmed two He didn’t realize it at the time, Stanford researcher Yi Cui, center, “This is reflective of the times,” analyst Van years ago with a study of China’s air and graduate students Chong Liu, pollution . That reality did not sit well See FILTER, Page 8 left, and Po-Chun Hsu, show the filter. See APPLE, Page 7 INDEX Horoscope...... B10 Opinion........... A11 BAY AREA NEWS APPS WEATHER PAGE B12 SUBSCRIBE » 800-870-6397 or www. SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS DAILY Download Bay Area News to Business........... B7 Lottery.............. A2 People ..............A2 Mostly sunny mercurynews.com/subscriber-services your smartphone or tablet for Classified ......CA3 Movies............. B5 Puzzles...... B5, C7 H: 63-76 Comics ...........B10 Obituaries ....... A9 Television .......B10 news from across the region L: 39-48 A NEWSPAPER Copyright 2015 San Jose Mercury News Online, mobile and right here. MercuryNews.com | All Access. Subscribe today. Available at iTunes A8 BAY AREA NEWS GROUP 811 EARLY SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2015 But Zhang, 17, a Palo Pingpong Alto native who attends UC Berkeley, is the reign- Continued from Page 1 ing national champion and a favorite this weekend. CEO of USA Table Ten- On the men’s side, a pair nis. “It has become this of local 15-year-olds are amazing incubator of both rising stars. Kunal Cho- elite and regular players. dri, of Fremont, lost in De- It’s reached a critical mass cember’s national finals. there, and demographics Kanak Jha, of Milpitas, re- play a big role.” cently won two events at a The region’s growing tournament in Sweden and embrace of a sport requir- represented the U.S. at the ing cat-quick reflexes and World Cup in Germany chess-like strategy not only last October. is broadening what it means On Friday, the opening to be an athlete, it highlights day of this event, Jha and the diverse nature of our Fremont’s Jiaqi Zheng se- melting pot community. cured the first berths for According to the U.S. this year’s U.S. national Census Bureau, 37 per- team. cent of Santa Clara County Every player reached residents and 31 percent of Texas this weekend the people living in Alameda same way musicians, ac- County are foreign-born. So cording to the old joke, it shouldn’t be surprising would get to Carnegie Hall: that the gusher of top local p r actice, practice, practice. players primarily are first- Earlier this week at the generation Americans who ICC, four players — Zheng, have adopted a sport their Shah, Prachi Jha and Krish parents brought with them Avvari — were getting in from countries like ping- a final workout. Zheng, pong-mad China. 25, a native of China who On any given Saturday, recently became a U.S. 200 kids cycle through the citizen, grimaced when a 22 tables at the India Com- smash cracked the ball. munity Center in Milpitas. NHAT V. MEYER/STAFF “Three dollars!” Sheth “The parents largely are Jiaqi Zheng returns the ball at India Community Center in Milpitas. Eighteen athletes who train in the South shouted. from China and India, and Bay are competing in Texas this weekend to represent the U.S. in the upcoming World Championships. That’s the cost of a ball they’re high-tech folks like used by elite players. And software engineers,” said Jose. “Now, it’s becoming heard of somebody suffer- 2015 U.S.WORLD AND PAN-AM TEAM TRIALS you don’t buy these paddles Rajul Sheth, the center’s mainstream. And the South ing a concussion?” Eighteen athletes who live or train in the South Bay are at the local sporting goods director. “The kids were Bay is very, very hot.” But you can get a head- competing in Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend to represent the store, either. They can start born here, but their parents For the record, if you ache trying to following the country at the upcoming World Championships and Pan-Am around $300. encouraged them to play a say “pingpong” to a serious blur that is the ball when Games.Four women and three men will qualify for the world Pingpong in Silicon Val- sport from their home coun- aficionado, they may wince. top players are relentlessly event in China in late April and early May. Three men and ley also isnot just about try. They don’t want them Sheth even looked like he batting it back and forth three women will earn berths at the Pan-Am Games, which teenage prodigies or base- playing football.” was poked with a sharp over the 9-foot-long table. will be held in Toronto in mid-July. ment games. Tables are It’s impossible to say stick. Anyone who thinks ping- Local athletes competing becoming a more common just how many people are “When you’re playing pong players are not “real” sight at tech companies, playing in Silicon Valley. in the garage, pingpong is athletes needs to spend a India Community Center of Milpitas: Krish Avvari, Nikhil amid the other perks like But about a dozen Bay a good word,” said Sheth, little time at the ICC. Kumar, Aarsh Shah, Aashay Patel, Timothy Wang, Ishana Deb, on-site gourmet meals and Area clubs are registered who competed in his native “I don’t even know if I’m Lily Zhang, Jiaqi Zheng. free dry cleaning.
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