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PUBLISHER: USA Table Tennis Magazine USA Table Tennis S P R I N G 2 0 1 4 4065 Sinton Road, Suite 120 Volume 85, Number 2 Colorado Springs, CO 80907 FEATURES Kanak Jha by Sheri Cioroslan...... 14 TeamUSA...... 19 Bobrow...... 31 Tim Boggan on Yvonne Kronlage...... 72 Obituaries (Gary Gresher)...... 74 Wally...... 78 FEATURED VIDEOS by Jimmy Butler...... 81 COACHING Tips of the Month by Carl Danner...... 34 Tips for Seniors by Yang Yu...... 35 Changeup by Samson Dubina...... 36 Shadow Practice by Larry Hodges...... 37 Tournaments Cary Cup...... 42 Swiss Open...... 46 Local and National Tournamnets...... 48 USATT AND OTHER NEWS Editors...... 8 Chairman’s Report...... 10 USATT Annual Giving Campaign...... 13 USATT National Rankings ...... 60 USATT Ratings ...... 62 USATT Tournament Schedule ...... 68 * US OPEN ENTRY INFORMATION ON PAGE 29 ON THE COVER: 2013 Nationals Semifinalist Kanak Jha Photo by Diego Schaaf. Design by Steve Hopkins.

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Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 13 Kanak Jha: Feeling Lucky at 13 By Sheri Soderberg Cioroslan Thirteen-year-old Kanak Jha, currently ranked 8th in the ITTF World with his family. And, if they have questions, I have been there with some Cadet U15 age division, surely felt lucky upon being named to USATT’s advice. Kanak also spent time in Sweden to prepare for the World Junior Men’s Team, which will compete in Japan at the World Championships Championships and the U.S. Nationals last year. I am relieved that it in April. went well! It was a tough thing for him to do, from a mental point-of- His table tennis career, one might say, got started serendipitously view, for a thirteen year-old. Maybe that is what I like most about him. when his parents were working on their own conditioning goals at the This is a tough little guy with an excellent knowledge of international India Community Center (ICC) in Milpitas, California nearly a decade table tennis. You can see it in his eyes. There is no difference between ago. Mom, Karuna, was taking fitness classes and playing table tennis him and Michael Maze or any of the other superstars. They know what recreationally. Dad, Arun, who had captained his badminton and cricket they are looking for.” teams back in India before moving to the United States, was intent on Mikael has gone so far as to dub Kanak the “Tiger Woods of table maintaining his athleticism. He played our sport a little more seriously tennis.” Mikael confidently asserted, “And I stand by that. He can be a and competitively than his wife. They enrolled daughter Prachi, then 8, game changer and the best U.S.-born player that ever played the game.” in the ICC’s table tennis camps. Rajul Sheth echoed a similar sentiment. “Kanak has potential to win a And then there was 5-year-old Kanak. “What to do with him,” Karuna medal for Team USA at the Olympics. His parents have sacrificed a lot laughed, looking back at that time in her family’s life. “That was the to bring him to this level.” question. We couldn’t leave him at home!” So he tagged along. Little The coaching staff at the World Champions Table Tennis Academy did they know how pivotal that moment would be. (WCTTA) in nearby San Jose are optimistic about Kanak too. U.S. Kanak was already following in the family’s athletic footsteps. He’d Men’s Coach Stefan Feth, former U.S. National Coaches and former been playing soccer since he was 2 ½. “He was always interested in all world champions and Chinese superstars Li Zhenshi and Zhang Li, along the ball sports,” said his mom. “But he especially loved soccer. And, of with their accomplished daughter, Coach Nan Li, issued joint comments course, that lead to his dream of becoming a professional soccer player about Kanak. one day.” They noted, “He has a strong passion for the game. You basically have Mom and Dad, in addition to all of their own activities and to kick him off the table. Otherwise he could play 24 hours a day. He responsibilities, were accustomed to shuttling him around town for has great footwork, very good touch, and anticipation for the ball. He is soccer matches between their own, and Prachi’s, ICC activities. When a relentless fighter. He has a great work ethic. That enables us to push Kanak wound up at the ICC, he didn’t grumble or fidget. He got excited him to the limit during every training session. He is 100% committed to and exclaimed, “I want to play too!” the sport. He has the potential to become a full-time professional player.” That’s how Rajul Sheth, the Bay Area uber-promoter and enthusiastic Kanak has been training with the WCTTA staff for eight years already supporter of youth development, began working with him. Rajul and they remain his primary coaches. They stated, “This is a very special commented, “I am proud to have been Prachi and Kanak’s first coach. relationship, as it takes more than just training and hitting the ball to be There was something extraordinary about the 6-year-old Kanak. I had successful in the long run. Overall, Kanak is a very talented and complete always seen him, even at that young age, enjoying his introduction to player, physically and mentally.” the sport at the ICC. He would try to balance a ball on his paddle, or All of those adulatory comments and remarks lead me to wonder: how repeatedly bounce the ball on his racket, or hit against the wall all of the can someone who’s only recently become a teenager himself not only time.” deal effectively with so many expectations, but more importantly, learn Kanak was simultaneously excelling in both soccer and table tennis. to continue to thrive personally under such pressure? In tournaments, he had already begun collecting national titles. At the The WCTTA staff responded, “With Kanak’s future in table tennis 2009 U.S. Open, Kanak was the Boy’s 9 & Under Champion. Later in looking very bright, it is also not easy for this young boy to carry these high the year, and again in the following year, at the U.S. Nationals, Kanak expectations. Expectations can be both motivational and burdensome. won the Boy’s 10 & Under division. Bowie Martin extended Kanak a Kanak needs to continue to stay grounded and remain hungry for ‘higher coveted Butterfly sponsorship. and better.’ He constantly needs to compete against himself, measure As his first decade of life was concluding, and the schedules of everyone his abilities against his own higher standards, and stay true to his innate in the family became busier and more hectic, Kanak’s parents told him passion for this great sport. This, in turn, can help him find balance in that he really needed to choose between the two sports. He opted for handling the pressures that come with these expectations.” table tennis. “With Kanak,” Mikael Andersson weighed in, “perhaps you are right. Karuna, for one, was happy with his decision. Not only had the family Any article or positive comments may raise the expectations, but this is already received positive feedback about his potential, but also this what any top athlete will have to live with anyway, so I think it is good enabled everyone to keep the ICC as a center of family activity. Karuna to address this issue.” attributed Kanak’s decision in part to the bond between him and his sister Carl Danner, the chair of USATT’s High Performance Committee, chimed Prachi. “Those two are very close. She has been his biggest mentor. in, “So far Kanak has done very well with pressure and expectations. He follows her in everything. So, when we decided to get her private Part of this is that he is young and fearless – and fear is the biggest coaching, Kanak wanted it too.” issue that can hold someone back emotionally. As well, I think Kanak Some years earlier Kanak had already made an unusually strong and and his family see him as possibly becoming a top-level international favorable impression on Mikael Andersson, the ITTF’s Senior Consultant professional. We have had a few U.S.-trained players do that before, but on Education and Development. Mikael recalled, “I came across Kanak it has been a while. To aim for that level clearly means moving beyond for the first time back in 2006 when I visited the Palo Alto TTC for a what has recently been ‘normal’ for most other developing players. Thus, clinic together with Dennis Davis. I was there on an inspection visit for while charting a relatively new path is always challenging, it also comes the 2007 World Junior Championships. And there he was – very small, with the benefit of fewer established expectations to worry about.” but eager to play.” While all of those important issues get sorted out at the USATT level, Mikael continued, “He then came up again in the ITTF World Hopes there is the “urgency of the present” to contend with. Logistically, on a program. He did very well.” day-to-day basis for Kanak, he trains in separate but tandem programs, Kanak did, in fact, better than very well. In 2011, Kanak’s first year continuing at the WCTTA and, as of March 2014, the ICC, for a few more on the ITTF’s World Hopes Team, the ITTF’s youth talent identification hours of table time. According to Rajul, “The ICC has already designed a program, Kanak won bronze medals in both the Hopes Challenge and three days a week high-level training opportunity for seven top Bay Area the World Cadet Challenge. In 2012, Kanak took gold in the Hopes juniors in preparation for the 2016 Olympics. Kanak is the youngest Challenge. and most talented player in that group. If we get additional sponsorship “From that point,” remarked Mikael, “I have always kept in contact support, we will definitely extend this program to 14-16 hours per week.”

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That is the kind of news Mikael Andersson liked to hear. “Lots of good huge financial and time commitments to help their kids succeed at the things are happening in the Bay Area. For some reason, I have just felt highest levels of the sport. We absolutely must find some ways to return involved there ever since the 2007 World Junior Championships were the favor in terms of support for the very best as they move further into held at Stanford. That was very special. Dennis Davis and Anne Cribbs their teen years, and beyond.” did such a great job pulling the event through. I kind of feel that by In the meanwhile, the sponsorship from Butterfly serves as both a keeping an eye on Kanak, I also maintain contact with that area.” tangible reward and a source of motivation for Kanak to realize that his For all the positives, Mikael warned that there are some concerns actions can inspire others. Bowie Martin credited Kanak not only for going forward. “Many huge challenges remain for him to be able to fly his achievements, but also for his behavior. “Butterfly is proud to have internationally and it’s only going to get tougher and tougher. If we can sponsored Kanak since he was nine years old. It’s been fun watching him pull together and start supporting the young talents a little better it would improve each year and reach Top 10 in the ITTF Cadet ranking. Kanak be great. It is true that Kanak cannot do this alone. The table tennis has been a terrific role model for other young players, with his positive community in the USA and, more specifically, in the Bay Area, need to attitude on and off the court. Though only 13, Kanak is a true gentleman start thinking bigger and with more international focus. With a unique and an excellent ambassador for table tennis.” kid like him, he may inspire us to have all kinds of ideas.” For example, Prachi, who is a member of the U.S. Women’s Team, is also sponsored according to Mikael, “We need to feed off his energy and start thinking by Butterfly. Proud parents, Arun and Karuna, expressed their gratitude things like Pro Leagues in the USA and why not a U.S.-hosted World on behalf of the whole family. “We want to thank Butterfly for their Championships in 2020 or something of that nature?” continued backing for several years. Bowie Martin has always been a But first things first and back to Kanak. great supporter and guide. And, for the last year or so, Butterfly Japan Carl Danner explained the role USATT is assuming in Kanak’s has been helping us, too.” high performance training. “USATT is doing fairly well at providing They hope they will get the chance to visit the Butterfly headquarters, opportunities for international competition for Kanak, just as it did for factory and museum in Tokyo during their trip to the World Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang, and is doing for the other high-level juniors. Championships. For his part, Kanak is “so happy” and “super excited” to Where USATT is struggling is in coordinating its efforts with the ongoing be going to Japan as a member of the U.S. Men’s Team. He is preparing training and domestic competition on which Kanak and the other kids hard, playing six days a week. spend most of their time; we need to get better at that.” Kanak expressed gratitude for his “great coaches.” And he appreciates, Carl elaborated on the task he and his committee members have in front on an ongoing basis, having the chance to train with fellow aspiring of them as to how USATT can best position and support our talented juniors in the Bay Area. “They help me work harder,” Kanak said of his generation of juniors. “A related issue is developing a forward-looking peers, who are both his friends and his rivals. program through which kids like Kanak can see a path through early Naturally Kanak’s final compliments and words of appreciation went to adulthood (at least) that involves significant financial support in return his family, “My mom, who is a hypnotherapist, has helped me a lot with for full-time commitment and extraordinary accomplishments. This is in strategies. My sister Prachi and I sometimes practice together. It’s great part a matter of money, but also a policy decision as to how USATT wants that she’s there. My dad is very supportive. He helps me with my fitness. to focus its limited resources.” He’s always encouraging me. My family is a great help to me as I pursue He continued, “The Jha family is the exceptional example with both my dream of becoming a professional table tennis player.”

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Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 15 BUT HERE WE MEET AGAIN; late in to become something more than 2013, almost to the day twenty years just the average athlete. since our paths crossed for the first Kanak JHA – the American super time, to share one day of Table Tennis, talent stands up well in the exercises the sport that has stayed with us and Mr. Maze, the mentor for the over the years. Michael had committed day, is generously complementing training time with the vastly his much younger partner: “ Very talented thirteen year old American good – excellent change of rhythm Kanak JHA staying in Sweden at the and adjustments in the block”. Two time and he also promised to show hours of Table Tennis is gone and me around in his secret haven, next stop is the physical conditioning training setup in Amager, just south studio owned and operated for of Copenhagen where he the last a selected group of Danish Top Athletes four months had set up his private by Thomas Macon – a sought camp with access to his own venue after physical conditioning guru in and his physical conditioning coach Denmark. Thomas Both players are guided through the physical work out. Again the THE TWO PLAYERS JOINING ME young American manages to hold this day, Kanak JHA and Michael fort. Maze, are separated by time; 20 “I have to say that it is not every day you meet years, but also glued together in a thirteen year old that can terms of determination and desire. do the things this guy can do. Impressive We are talking almost instant connection stuff, said the two Danes. between the two players. You can see it in their eyes – the will

16 TABLE TENNIS Excerpts from Maze - Back from the Deep End written by Mikael Andersson and produced by Edgeball Media, Butterfly, and ITTF. http://elevenpoints.files.wordpress.com/ 2014/02/maze_article-1.pdf

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 17 18 TABLE TENNIS Timothy Wang Jimmy But- ler Yahao Zhang Adam Hugh Timothy Wang Jimmy Butler Yhao Adam Hugh Timothy Wer Yahao Zhang Adam Wang TEAM USA Bios 2014 US Team Trials Coverage Lily Zhang Prachi Jha Eria Wu Lily Zhang Crystal Wang Prachi Jha Erica Wu Lily Zhang Crystal Wang Prachi Jha Crys- tal Wang Erica Wu Prachi Jha Eria Zhang Click on the Player Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 19 2014 US Team Trials Team USA

The format of the 2014 US Team Trials was three single-elimination tournaments. The four spots on the US Men’s Team and the four spots on the US Women’s Team would go to (1) the Friday Event Winner, (2) the Saturday Event Winner, and (3)&(4) to the two Finalists in the Sunday Event. The event was held at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas on March 7-9, 2014. USATT would like to thank Texas Wesleyan Universtiy and Jasna Rather for their great hospitality throughout the event. Additional thanks to USATT Staff, Referees, Umpires, Commentators, Volunteers and David Del Vecchio for making the web stream possible. Congratulations to 2014 US National Team Members: Lily Zhang, Prachi Jha, Crystal Wang, Erica Wu, Timothy Wang, Adam Hugh, Yahao Zhang, Jimmy Butler.

FRIDAY RESULTS (MEN) On the first day, the men’s event progressed almost by seeding. Kanak Jha defeated Jim Butler to advance to the final four. He was joined in the semifinals by Cory Eider (who had defeated Samson Dubina), Adam Hugh (who had defeated Yahao Zhang), and Tim Wang (who had defeated Kunal Chodri). Kanak Jha then defeated Eider 4-0, and Timothy Wang defeated Hugh 4-0. That pitted the top two seeds in the event, Jha and Wang. Timothy Wang closed out the Final quickly 4-1 to take the first spot on the US Team.

FRIDAY RESULTS (WOMEN) In the Ladies’ event, Tina Lin upset Prachi Jha and then pushed top seed Lily Zhang to 7 games in the semifinals. On the other half of the draw, Erica Wu emerged with a 4-1 win over Judy Hugh. Lily Zhang then defeated Erica Wu 4-1 to take the first women’s spot on the US Team.

20 TABLE TENNIS SATURDAY RESULTS (MEN) Shao Yu may have been the top story of the second day for the men. He upset Kanak Jha in the opening round, then upset Yahao Zhang in the second round, then defeated Chodri Kunal in the third round. However, Yu’s run ended when he met a sharp Adam Hugh in the final. Hugh swept through his side of the draw with 4-1, 4-0, and 4-0 wins before closing out Yu in the final 4-2 to take the second spot on the Men’s Team.

SATURDAY RESULTS (WOMEN) The second day for the ladies included an upset in the semifinals. The top seed of the day, Erica Wu, fell to Angela Guan 4-1. In the other half of the draw, Judy Hugh fell to Prachi Jha 4-0. Prachi then closed out the final 4-1 over Guan to take the second spot on the Ladies’ Team.

Photos (left to right): Lily Zhang, Timothy Wang, Prachi Jha, and Adam Hugh. Hugh photo by Diego Schaaf, other photos by Grant Bergman

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 21 SUNDAY RESULTS (MEN) The final two spots were decided in the Sunday event, so making the Finals was the real goal for the competitors. Shao Yu again upset Kanak Jha to advance to the semifinal. He faced Yahao Zhang who had defeated Cory Eider. Jim Butler held off Samson Dubina 4-2 to take his place in the semifinal against Billy Ding who had defeated Chance Friend. Yahao Zhang outlasted Shao Yu in a seven game nailbiter to claim his spot on the US Team. And Jim Butler defeated Billy Ding 4-1 to claim his spot on the US Team. Yahao Zhang then defeated Jim Butler in a match between team members to decide who was No.3 and who was No.4.

SUNDAY RESULTS (WOMEN) The final four on the last day for the ladies was Angel Guan, Crystal Wang, Erica Wu, and Judy Hugh. Crystal Wang and Erica Wu each won their match convincingly (Wang over Guan and Wu over Hugh) to take the final two spots on the Women’s Team. Wang then defeated Wu 4-2 in the match to decide the No.3 and No.4 positions on the Team.

TOP MEN TOP WOMEN 1. Timothy Wang 1. Lily Zhang 2. Adam Hugh 2. Prachi Zha 3. Yahao Zhang 3. Crystal Wang 4. Jim Butler 4. Erica Wu

Photos (left to right): Yahao Zhang, Jim Butler, Crystal Wang, Erica Wu photos by Grant Bergman

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In the seventh, with Crystal up 8-5, it looked magnet program at Roberto Clemente Middle School, where she’s like she was going to win and finish second on the team, but Prachi a six grader. Other times she goes straight to a practice session. won the last six points to win the game and advance. She would But it’s going to be a long afternoon and night at the club, as she go on to clinch the #2 spot, winning 4-0 against Judy Hugh in the practically lives there. Sometime later that night, after perhaps two semifinals and 4-1 over Angela Guan in the final. Crystal could only training sessions, service practice, lots of practice matches, and a put aside what might have been and focus on the final day. jump rope session, she’ll go home. But it’s all paying off. It was on Sunday that Crystal went on a rampage. She won 4-0 in On Sunday, March 16, Crystal made history by becoming, at the first round over Tia Hsieh; 4-1 over Tina Lin (and her ferocious 12 years and 14 days, the youngest member of the USA National backhand smash) in the quarterfinals; 4-0 in the semifinals over Team, according to USATT Historian Tim Boggan. That was at chopper Angela Guan (having 2600 chopper Wang Qing Liang as a Texas Wesleyan University in Ft. Worth, Texas. Less than 24 hours practice partner and coach at the Trials helped), and 4-2 in the final later and 1400 miles away, Crystal arrived at MDTTC at 3PM after over Erica Wu, thereby clinching the #3 spot on the team, with Erica school on Monday, as usual, and was all set to continue her training, getting the #4 spot. even after three days of grueling play. We had to order her to take a She’s a bit excited these days, not just about making the U.S. day off – she wants to practice. It’s a habit. Crystal trains seven days National Team, but about upcoming travel. She’s going to the a week, an idea that’s foreign to much of western civilization but is Canadian Junior & Cadet Open in Toronto, April 10-13. Then she’ll normal for many Chinese players. I asked her when she takes days be going to Tokyo for a training camp (April 24-27) and then the off, and she said, “When I’m sick. But only if I’m really sick, like World Team Championships (April 28 -May 5). with a fever.” It may seem that all Crystal does is table tennis and school. She does admit to being tired sometimes, and that’s when training But that’s not quite true, even if she seems perpetually at a table is hard. But it’s what she needs to make the USA Olympic Team, the practicing something. “I like shopping, skiing, and ice skating,” she shining goal in the sky she is aiming for. If she does that, then the said. In fact, it was just a couple of months ago that she and other goal is to medal. If she does that, then the goal is a gold medal. If she top MDTTC juniors went on a joint skiing trip, much to the horror does that, well, then she can take a few days off. Perhaps. of some of us, who debated which one would return with a broken Crystal went into the USA Team Trials with a rating of 2395 – she’s leg. (All came back healthy and ready to practice.) She also likes just turned twelve, think about that for a moment – which would have Korean Drama, and is a big fan of the Hunger Games (both books seeded her third, two points behind #2 Judy Hugh. But because they and movies). She also likes to watch and draw anime. were using slightly older ratings she was seeded 7th at “only” 2304, School is also important to her, and she’s a dedicated student, and so she faced #1 seed and 2012 USA Women’s Singles Champion which is why she’s in a magnet program despite all her table tennis Lily Zhang in the quarterfinals on Friday, losing 4-1. Lily went on to hours. She has straight A’s, with one exception. “I have an 89.4% clinch the #1 spot, with a 4-3 battle over Tina Lin in the semifinals, average in English,” she laments, “just 0.6% from an A!” and 4-1 in the final over Erica Wu. (The Trials were run as three She also goes to Chinese School on Saturdays, which she described single elimination tournaments, with the USA Team consisting of as “Really boring.” She added, “But I get bored easily. We have the winners on day one and two, and the two finalists on day three.) a drawing class afterwards which is more interesting. Right now

Photo by David DelVecchio 24 TABLE TENNIS we’re doing cartooning.” She’s not Miss Perfect either. “I used to play piano but wasn’t very good. I got frustrated and finally quit.” She can also get moody at tournaments, which affects her play, sometimes leading to uncharacteristically poor play. She was born in the U.S., and has been playing since she was five and a half. She’s tall for her age, 5’5”, something she sometimes laments about, but her parents are tall as well. She is sponsored by Butterfly, and uses a Mizutani blade, with Tenergy 05 onthe forehand, Tenergy 64 on the backhand. From the beginning her primary coach has been Jack Huang, a full-time coach at MDTTC since it opened in 1992. He’s a former Chinese team member (1976-83), a National Coach (highest USATT certification level), and was the 1998 USATT National Coach of the Year. Before coming to the U.S. in 1989 (where he was the #1 player in 1990), he was the head coach for the Guangxi Province of China. He also holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Sports from the Guangxi Sports Institute. He has coached countless top players, with Crystal the latest – and perhaps, someday, the greatest. They have four sessions every week. Crystal also trains with the other coaches and top players at MDTTC, including Wang Qing Liang (who coached her at the Team Trials), Chen Bo Wen, Chen Ruichao (a new MDTTC coach/practice partner, about 2650), Han Xiao, Raghu Nadmichettu, Harold Baring, Heather Wang, and Derek Nie. (I used to train with her, but alas, I can no longer keep up with her. But we talk tactics often.) What is she focusing on right now? “Mostly forehand and footwork,” says Coach Huang. “More snap, more spin.” It’s been the focus for much of the past year. Over the next year they’ll also be focusing on serve and receive. “She needs more variety on her serve,” says Huang. “Also more aggressive on receive.” “When she’s tired she sometimes doesn’t want to train,” continued Huang. “But she does since she wants to reach a high level. So I keep pushing her. When you push her, she works very hard. Mentally, she’s getting stronger. She knows how to change strategies if one doesn’t work.” Previous generations of top junior girls in the U.S. were often Schlager Academy in Austria. While there she won the training hitter/blockers. It was a great way to make the U.S. team. However, tournament, and in the tournament held at the end of the week she at the higher levels, it was somewhat of a backwards style. Crystal made the final of Girls’ Singles, losing the final to Hong Kong’s is the complete opposite, a two-winged looper who loops nearly Lee Ka Yee and making the ITTF World Hopes Team (top four 11- everything off the bounce. Spectators, even experienced players, and 12-year-old girls in the world). Outside of perhaps a few girls often don’t realize until they watch closely – or play her – that most in Asia, Crystal is almost for certain the top player her age in the of her apparent countering and blocking aren’t counters or blocks world. – she’s looping off the bounce, but she does it so quickly that it Now ratings are not that important, but they are fun to look at, often goes unnoticed. Her off-the-bounce topspinning backhand especially when they go up. So it’s fun to look at rating records. is especially good. Add to that great ball control, especially when Crystal and California’s Kanak Jha (who turns 14 in June) keep returning serves, and it’s murderous playing her. I know, because setting new ones. Crystal has set records for the highest rated 9-, I’ve faced her many times. Crystal also has a knack for attacking 10-, and 11-year-old in history (boys or girls) at 2150, 2355, and an opponent’s middle (the playing elbow), something they drill on 2402. (Kanak’s highest ratings at those ages were 2017, 2265, and specifically. 2366.) However, Kanak has since set lofty records for 12- and Becoming the youngest USA team member isn’t the first time 13-year-olds at 2468 and 2635 – and that last one will be incredibly Crystal has set age records. At the USA Nationals in December, at difficult to break; he’s a tough act to follow. Crystal is already by the age of 11, she became the youngest player ever to win Under far the highest rated girl in history for each of these ages, though 22 Women, defeating top seed Ariel Hsing of California in the technically she’s got nearly a year to go before she becomes a semifinals (who would go on to win her third Women’s Singles teenager next February. However, she’s also being pushed to excel title), and Angela Guan in the final. In Women’s Singles, Crystal by others near her age, especially Amy Wang of NJ, who’s a little lost in the quarterfinals 4-0 to Erica Wu. younger and who would be breaking these records herself if not for Crystal is now the #1 ranked girl in the U.S. in Under 13, 14, 15, Crystal breaking them first.It’s fun to watch, even though the players 16, and 17 Girls. She is also ranked #1 in Under 13 overall, girls or themselves are largely oblivious to it – they are focused on winning boys. She has already achieved the highest rating in history, boys titles and making teams, not on numbers. Those are for the fans. So or girls, for ages 9, 10, and 11, and is well on her way to doing so forget the ratings, what’s next for Crystal Wang? for age 12. “Now that she’s made the U.S. team,” said Coach Huang, “she She was a member of the U.S. Junior Team at the 2012 World needs to go for the Olympic Team. She works very hard, but if she Junior Championships in Hyderabad, India, and at age 10, was not wants to go to the Olympics, she’ll have to work even harder.” I just the youngest on the team by several years, but the youngest can’t imagine that, but I know Crystal is up for the challenge, and I in the tournament. The International Table Tennis Federation did can’t wait to see the results.

a feature on Crystal in December, 2012, after she won the North American Hopes Trials and attended Hopes Week at the Werner

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by Andy Kaningiser and Willy Leparulo The 2014 TMS College Table Tennis Championships and Razvan Cretu teamed up together to play in what the was a tournament of firsts all around as Teams and play- Texas Wesleyan camp would call their #2 doubles team. ers alike picked up top honors for the first time. The Col- Cretu, a lefty, is made for the doubles set up and as one lege Table Tennis Championships was hosted by the Visit spectator noted “he is a beast”. Yes, Razvan was a force Monroeville Convention Visitor’s Bureau and sponsored to be reckoned with and Zhedi cleaned up any loose ends. by TMS International, Newgy Industries, Butterfly and A great partnership and one that was a FIRST this year was played at the Club Sport and Health in Monroeville, for each of them as they have never teamed up in dou- PA (also for the first time). Also for the first time we were bles. They beat a determined Mississippi College team, able to utilize rubber flooring graciously donated by Kill- but experience does have its benefits. Mississippi College erspin through Ed Hogshead. players are on the rookie stage of their careers in College Women’s Doubles was a great event featuring several Table Tennis, so experience is an intangible that does not top school pairs, but one wiley veteran in Vivien Zhou need to be understated. Texas Wesleyan has plenty Raz- who previously won Women’s Doubles in 2012 with then vanCretu is no stranger to College Table Tennis finals in Partner Pei Pei Zheng. Vivien and XiXi are owners of doubles as he participated in the 2012 and 2013 Cham- little pimples called Medium pips and in addition Vivien pionships in that event and Zhedi Bai can also hold his brought her Lion sized personality as exhibited by the own on the Championship court was the finalist in Men’s way she pumps herself up. All of these factors led to this singles in 2013 among other accolades. powerful University of Toronto duo winning the Women’s Another first for NCTTA was the number of powerhouse Doubles tournament over Sylvan Guo and Ellen Hwang women’s singles players that qualified for the event. Never of California (Berkeley) who actually unseated the #1 before in NCTTA’s history have so many talented wom- doubles duo from Princeton, Olympian Ariel Hsing and en’s players come to the forefront. This year, Olympian in teammate Shirley Fu. 2012, Ariel Hsing is a Freshmen at Princeton University; Men’s Doubles featured a first as well as Zhedi Bai also at Princeton arrived Shirley Fu ex Canadian junior international as well as a plethora of other noted stars from around the country (Berkeley- Ellen Hwang); (Northeast- ern-Li Yuhua); (Western Ontario- Ronnge Zhang), (Texas Wesleyan- Claudia Ikeizumi). These young ladies have brought a new trend to College Table Tennis proving that the men aren’t the only ones to watch! Ten out of an almost full field of women’s players were over 2000 in rating. Ariel Hsing faced off in the TMS 2014 College Table Tennis Championships vs #2 seed Li Yuhua from North- eastern University. Two newcomers to College Table Tennis and the #1 and 2 seeds. Li a southpaw and Ariel handling her bat from the right side showed off impressive shots and gave the College TT populace a chance for ovation after ovation as Ariel Hsing picked up her first piece of College Table Tennis hardware as the Women’s Singles Champ. Men’s Singles featured a toe to toe competition between two teammates from the same school specifically Missis- sippi College. Small religious college out of Clinton, MS featured Cheng Li and teammate Yichi Zhang. The 6’ 3”

Ariel Hsing won Women’s Singles and helped bring the Women’s Team Title home for Preinceton University as well. Photo by Grant Bergman.

26 TABLE TENNIS native, Cheng Li, of the Yunan Province of China beat his The proof was evident Sunday afternoon at the 2014 TMS MC teammate Yichi Zhang, who ended up No. 2 in the Collegiate Table Tennis Championships in Monroeville, all-MC finals. A first again for the Mississippi College Ta- Pennsylvania when the Texas Wesleyan Rams captured ble Tennis team picking up both the Men’s singles cham- their 11th consecutive coed team title. A FIRST for any pion trophy and 2nd place trophy. Collegiate team in most probably any Collegiate sport! Women’s Team event featured a first time winner in For the third straight year, the awesome coed team from Princeton University led by Ariel Hsing and Shirley Fu. Fort Worth withstood a mighty challenge from Mississippi Princeton came into the event ranked #2 overall behind the College to take home a first place trophy on April 6. California (Berkeley) team. California on paper was prob- Powerful TWU table tennis stars like Emil Santos of the ably the most solid women’s team in the field. They easily Dominican Republic, Yahao Zhang of Denver, Zhedi Bai of dispatched their opponents, but the showdown came when China and Razvan Cretu formally of Romania, brought their they faced Princeton women’s team with Ariel at the helm. “A’’ games to the table for the three-day NCTTA event. In The women’s final featured a showdown in doubles where the collegiate table tennis world, their names shine bright. Ariel and Shirley were able to enact revenge and defeat Following a four-match split with some potent MC Sylvan Guo and Ellen Hwang (who previously beat them players seen by audiences from the USA to China on the in the Women’s Doubles competition) for the win in the NCTTA’s live streaming, TWU turned up the heat. It came Women’s Team event. Welcome Princeton women to the down to the wire in a doubles match, and TWU’s Santos Championships as a new school team winning it on the first and Zhang prevailed over MC Choctaws standouts Cheng try! Li and Yichi Zhang. In Pittsburgh Steelers Country, Texas Wesleyan Univer- Plenty of hugs, high fives, and joy on the faces of the sity showed their collegiate table tennis dynasty is in the TWU players, coaches and fans followed moments later. same league with one of the NFL’s greatest teams. It’s become an all too familiar scene every spring for TWU

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 27 table tennis supporters. “Honestly, it was unexpected,’’ said TWU Coach Jasna Rather. “On paper, MC has two stronger players and they EVENT WINNERS: are good at doubles. But our players always push themselves beyond their ratings.’’ Coed Team - Texas Wesleyan University It’s never easy for anybody going up against Cheng Li, Women’s Team - Princeton University 1st 22, who on Saturday battled his way to become the 2014 Men’s Singles - Cheng Li, Mississippi national collegiate men’s singles champion. In fact, Rather College salutes Cheng Li, the No. 1 seed heading into the Monro- eville tourney, as “one of the best players in the USA,’’ and Women’s Singles - Ariel Hsing, Princeton University noted that goes beyond collegiate circles. But TWU’s Santos, the 2013 NCTTA singles champ, and Men’s Doubles - Razvan Cretu & Zhedi Yahao Zhang, who’s bound soon for World Table Tennis Bai, Texas Wesleyan University competition in Japan, were aggressive with their attacks and Women’s Doubles - Vivien Zhou & returned some spectacular shots against their MC opponents. Xixi Guo, University of Toronto NCTTA President notes, “NCTTA brings the best in Col- Men’s Consolation - Peng Peng lege Table Tennis together and we are super enthused at the Women’s Consolation - Xiaohaun Zhu top notch final, congratulations to all for an amazing final.” Kudos to the NCTTA and its sponsors TMS International, Newgy Industries and Butterfly.

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MONROEVILLE, PA: The Texas Wesleyan Univer- The win ran Texas Wesleyan’s streak to eleven sity table tennis team faced one of its toughest chal- consecutive national championships. The Rams first lenges at the 2014 TMS College Table Tennis Na- became eligible to play for the team championship tional Championships. However, the Rams were up in 2004, and they have never been defeated. The to the task extending their streak to eleven consecutive 2014 team title along with the win in men’s doubles national championships. gives the Rams a total of 55 championships since the program’s inception in 2001. The Rams entered the competition as the top seed, but second seeded Mississippi College had served In the women’s team competition, the Lady Rams had notice in Saturday’s competition that they were a won five titles in the last seven years. However, the force to be reckoned with. Saturday’s men’s singles 2014 squad was seeded fifth. The Lady Rams took a final was an all MC affair with Cheng Li defeating his 3-1 win over NYU to reach the semifinals where they teammate Yichi Zhang. In men’s doubles, the Rams were defeated 3-2 by the eventual champion Princeton. and Choctaw’s had battled it out with each program putting two teams in the final four. Texas Wesleyan’s 2014 TMS College Table Tennis National Champions second ranked duo of Zhedi Bai and Razvan Cretu defeated MC’s second ranked combo of Junyu Xiao Coed Team: Texas Wesleyan and ZeshengHuang for the title. Women’s Team: Princeton Men’s Singles: Cheng Li, Mississippi College The team competition was tied 2-2 entering men’s Women’s Singles: Ariel Hsing, Princeton doubles which would decide the title. Team USA Men’s Doubles: Zhedi Bai / Razvan Cretu, member Yahao Zhang and 2013 men’s singles Texas Wesleyan champion Emil Santos took to the table for Texas Women’s Doubles: Vivien Zhou / Xixi Guo, Wesleyan against Li and Zhang and the Rams came Toronto away with a thrilling victory.

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many people that I talk to about this stopped playing but when they play for a minute or two remember how much FUN they used to have. So why not make some time to play?!?! Is playing only for kids??? Of COURSE not. Even if there were NO exercise involved, just playing would be healthy because of all of its creative aspects and the fun factor alone. Maybe if there were more tables around, people would be playing more often. “If you build it… they will come.” A quote so great that I don’t even have to mention that it was from Field of Dreams. How many people got really into table tennis because they had a table at work, or in their dorm… or just somewhere convenient and accessible? And how many people stopped playing because there wasn’t a table around anymore? Well… it’s getting out there… but if I weren’t related to someone who knew about organized table tennis… I might never have discovered how amazing it is and how much fun it can be or that there are other places to play outside of my home. And since not everybody has a family member who’s connected to places Your Kid to play… it would be great if this information was out there and available for anyone interested in By Adam “Chicken Soup for Your Face” Bobrow getting back into what they played as a kid. Of course, there are priorities and those are Don’t have kids???? I don’t think I do either. yours. Who’s to tell you what your priorities This article is for you too. We’re getting older. should be? DEFINITELY not me. But I WILL say Every year. Every day. Every second. Before we that it’s way too easy to get caught up in being finish reading this sentence, we’ve gotten older. busy, being productive and to simply forget And that sentence was pretty short for me. So about making time for the things you enjoy the what? What does that mean? More responsibility? most. And whatever those things are… they Maybe we run around slightly less or not quite as might not include playing table tennis(but since fast… maybe our bones sound like Rice Crispies you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance when we walk??? That’s all part of the game. But that you’re really into table tennis), we would enough of the UPLIFTING content. probably feel better if we include them in our Whether it’s at SPiN, in an elevator or in a life fairly often. room filled with only sleeping people… I tend to As I get older, I am constantly reminded of ask people if they play ping pong (I usually don’t how I still feel like a little kid. It’s interesting to ask sleeping people). And a LARGE percentage know that many people I’ve talked with, from of the people I ask tell me they “used to 93-year-olds to 72-year-olds, young parents and play.”Naturally, I follow that with “why’d you professionals just out of college still feel like kids stop?” The most common response I get is “I inside. So was this article about your child? Well, just got too busy.” That’s closely followed by “I I understand that having a child is a HUGE factor don’t have a table anymore” or “sorry, this is in how you spend your time, but this article is my floor… have a nice day.” less about being a parent and more about being Just got too busy??? We all have our priorities, good to yourself and letting your kid, your but one thing that makes us healthy is being INNER kid, live… play and without being terribly happy and one thing that makes us happy, is irresponsible… be free and have fun. No matter doing what we love. Therefore, through the how long you’ve been alive, don’t get old. Stay transitive property (if I remember my math young at heartand please don’t ignore… “your terms), being healthy = doing what you love. So kid.” 8>)

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COACHING

Tips of the Month by Carl Danner Paying Attention (Tip of the Month: March) One of my coaching emphases is on behaviors of top players that you can copy, but which most players don’t.

Top players pay intense attention to each and every point, to the extent that a break in concentration is usually enough to lose a game. They scramble for every ball, and give up on very few shots (if any). Their superior concentration also allows them to cruise by many lesser players who have the strokes to compete, but who can’t help but suffer letdowns that consistently provide the few points needed as a margin for victory.

You can concentrate more, too. The next time you see some top players in a serious match, notice their mental and emotional effort level and try to copy it. It’s not as easy to maintain as you may think, but it will pay dividends if you can do so. Shot Sequences

(Tip of the Month: April) For many players just starting out in the sport, The same thinking can help you defend it is not too difficult to get the hang of some against winning shot sequences, when you of the strokes in a club environment. Game feel compelled in rallies to give your opponent tactics can be another matter, however, as just the ball he wants to pounce on. Take a opponents combine shots into point-winning moment and think about what type of shot sequences the newbies haven’t seen before. you are being encouraged to hit (and to where), and try to deliver something else -- To understand these sequences requires almost anything else, in fact. For example, appreciating how each stroke naturally feeds rather than stroking a topspin into the wrong into the next. The key is to encourage your corner, try chopping the ball in the opposite opponent to provide the kind of return you direction even if your chop is pretty weak. want to attack, in a location that is convenient Just having to change direction and stroke for you. For example, a crosscourt push will slow your opponent down, and may even is usually pushed back crosscourt among win the point outright if he was moving early beginners, and if the push is deep then the to anticipate his favorite return. A lob can be return will also be deep. If you can attack another surprise tactic, as your opponent will a deep push successfully, you have the not only have to move sideways but back to makings of a winning shot sequence just handle it. A further benefit is that once you do by pushing deep crosscourt, and moving surprise your opponent a few times, he will into position to attack the return. Another grow more cautious and hesitate to trust his common approach is to anticipate a return to sequences. the middle of the table if you can angle your shot off to one side. Many players will return Understanding how one return naturally sidespin serves to one side of the table only, follows another is a key to your development creating a further opportunity. If the return as a competitive player. Start looking for is predictable enough, you can even move these patterns now, and you will soon see ahead of time to be waiting in place when the results! ball arrives back.

34 TABLE TENNIS Tips for Senior Players By Yang Yu, Austin Table Tennis Association Bio: Mr X I’m 66 years old, and I suffer from the following physical ailments, which hamper my ability to play table tennis: The most serious problem is degenerative osteoarthritis in both knees, but much worse in the right knee. It is weak, somewhat stiff, and painful to bend. The weakness makes me slow to get into best position to make a shot, and, once I get going in one direction, my knees can’t stop and reverse me until I reach the barrier. I also have bursitis in my shoulders and epicondylitis in my playing elbow, so I can’t generate much power. I’m a 1200-rank player, and I just want to get to 1300 right now.

Training Suggestion: 1. To change to being a long-pips player. Because of his knee problem, and to avoid too much movement during a game, I suggest that he play with long pips on his backhand side and develop into a blocker rather than an attacker. However, my suggestion was rejected, and he wants to attack and does not like the pips style, feeling that it’s awkward and uncomfortable. 2. To develop a heavy side-spin serve. In order to avoid long rallies during a game, I believe that he needs to try to end the point ASAP. The fastest way to do that is to develop a heavy side-spin serve and attack the third ball. Serving a heavy side-spin serve will be more effective, in my opinion, than serving as he currently does; that is, to varying areas of the table and low over the net. Most 1300 players do not have good judgment of spin, and they do not know how to return sidespin, especially heavy sidespin. 3. To develop a heavy back-spin, or under-spin, push. Most 1300 players do not have a consistent loop against underspin and have much trouble returning heavy backspin/underspin. The heavy back-spin push is not a difficult shot to master, and it is very useful in a match, especially for low-ranking players. 4. To improve the form of his forehand and backhand smash shots. These shots are the weapons which make the third-ball attack possible. I suggest that he practice smashing dead balls or balls with a little bit of backspin. The reason is that most 1300 players return sidespin by pushing the ball, most of time hitting the ball off of the table or on the table , but with just a bit of backspin. Opportunities to smash these kinds of returns occur often in a game.

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 35 COACHING Change-Up The Missing Key in Table Tennis Footwork By Samson Dubina Most club players are unable to excel in table About 90% of the time, the angle is correct. Players tennis because of their poor footwork. Many usually don’t double-fake you. If their angle is players blame their beer belly or their age or their showing that they are hitting to your forehand, then footwear or their training partners. However, the usually they truly are hitting to your forehand. aspect of footwork that I will be describing in this In order to practice this second aspect, I would short article is an aspect that every player can recommend learning how to watch the ball as improve upon, regardless of their age, rating, or it approaches you, then learning how to watch physical condition. Today, I want to show you the your opponent’s racket after your hit. Warm-up importance of anticipation as it relates to footwork forehand to forehand with your training partner. in table tennis. There are three elements that I Ask your training partner to occasionally switch want you to remember. your backhand. You should be able to see his First, move into position based on your hit. If you angle change prior to contact. If you can see the are positioned at your forehand corner and you hit angle change and are able to adjust, then you are cross court, you are probably in a good position on the right tract. If your training partner hits the for the next hit. If your opponent decides to hit ball to your backhand… the ball is crossing the down-the-line, then you can adjust your position. net… then suddenly you realize that he switched, But covering the cross court ball will force your then you have not properly been watching his opponent to hit the more difficult ball or to hit the angle. Start with simple drills like this, then get easy ball to your position. From your forehand more advanced as you perfect this new skill. corner you hit to the middle, you then need to move Third, be ready to make small, split-second to the middle of the table. From your forehand adjustments with your feet. The anticipation based corner you hit down-the-line to your opponent’s on your hit and the anticipation based on your backhand, you then need to shift your feet to the opponent’s angle are very general. You might backhand corner in anticipation of the next ball. think that your opponent is placing the ball to your Again, there is no guarantee that the ball will go middle-forehand, but in fact, he placed the ball to cross court. The only thing that you are trying to your wide forehand. In order to maintain balance accomplish in this first element is that you cover and control, you must make the final adjustment the easiest and deadliest hit from your opponent with your feet. – cross court. In order to practice this third aspect, ask your In order to practice this first aspect, I would training partner to block for you in the forehand ½ recommend starting simple and perfecting the table. You hit everything to his forehand while he first ball first. Start by serving to the corners and moves you slightly. Your feet should be making preparing with your body position for the cross court 1-2 micro moves before every hit. The world’s best return. You can do the same with serve return. players usually take about 2-3 mini-steps between Have your training partner serve short backspin, hits. you push deep to either corner, then prepare cross Remember the three aspects – your hit, your court to block his loop. opponent’s racket, and your final adjustment. If Second, adjust your position again based on you can master these three aspects, then table what you see. If you have moved into position on tennis will seem easier, you will seem to have more the backhand side of the table but your see your time, you will be reading the ball better, and the opponent’s racket angled toward the middle, then game will flow much easier. re-adjust your position based on what you see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDY_tmfBw8I 36 TABLE TENNIS Shadow Practice for Strokes and Footwork By Larry Hodges, TableTennisCoaching.com A great way to improve the sharpness and steadiness of explained for advanced players.) your shots is to shadow practice them. This means practicing For Advanced Players: At this point, your shots are your shots without the ball. One of the best things that ever consistent and powerful. You should continue to do the happened to me when I was a beginner was when I was told shadow practice as explained for intermediate players. to shadow practice my forehand and backhand drives and However, now you should add randomness. As you shadow loops, and side-to-side footwork, one hundred times a day. practice, imagine you are playing a real match. Imagine a This was a primary reason why I went from beginner at age specific opponent, and play out the rallies--except now you 16 to 1900+ in about two years. are playing at whatever level you hope to attain. Want to be a For Beginning Players: focus on the basics. You want to world-class player? Then shadow practice rallies as if you are develop smooth, repeatable shots and footwork. You might world-class! Instead of alternating forehand loops from side to want to have a coach work with you first, so you aren’t side, add randomness - imagine your opponent spraying the practicing bad habits. Once you know what to do, do perhaps ball all over the court. For example, after looping a forehand fifty to a hundred forehand and backhand drives, and fifty to from the backhand court, your “opponent” might put one to a hundred forehand and backhand loops. Then go side to the wide forehand, which you then cover; or he might block side fifty to a hundred times, stroking each time (either all one right back to your backhand again, which you’ve vacated forehand, or alternate forehand and backhand). after the previous shot to get back into position, and so you One key thing: remember that strokes have three parts: either step around again for the forehand, or play a backhand backswing, forward swing, and back to ready position. Many attack shot. players tend to just go back and forth (going directly from You can also practice receive techniques - imagine an forward swing to backswing), which you never do in a game. opponent’s serve, read it, and return it. You might step in, The stroke should go through a triangular motion (dropping drop a ball short or flip it, then step back and attack the next down to ready position), not just a back and forth motion. ball. Or you might shadow practice looping the deep serves. For Intermediate Players: Focus on improving the speed, Think of what happens in a real match, and play out those crispness and power of the shots and footwork. Think about points. the type of specific movements you do in a game, and For All Players: You can practice everything this way, except mimic them. For example, if you want to develop a powerful for the actual timing of hitting the ball - and you can do that forehand loop that you can use from all parts of the table, later at the table, with much faster, stronger and crisper shots then shadow practice powerful forehand loops, from both because of the shadow practicing. And the nice thing is you the wide forehand and wide backhand, as well as from the can shadow practice anywhere - at work, at home, on the middle, and practice moving from one spot to another. (Note-- subway. (Okay, that last might get you strange looks--but I’ve intermediate players should also use some of the techniques done it before!)

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Michael J. Scott, Jr., MD USATT Certified Coach, Umpire World Championships Michael J. Scott III, DO, MD

This article will stress how table tennis athletes in general have been well educated on the physical aspects of training but are often undereducated on the mental aspects. This imbalance has often resulted in some very frustrated athletes who, after devoting tremendous amounts of time physically training their bodies, achieve only mediocre results in competition. They are not obtaining their ExternalMotivation maximum potential because although they spent months or years All coaches are familiar with external motivation. For example, some physically training their bodies they devoted only seconds preparing athletes need a carrot or stick approach to get motivated. If the athlete the mental aspects in table tennis. It’s ironic that many fail to see the does what is expected, he/she is rewarded. If he/she doesn’t do what inequity. is expected he/she is punished. The reward may be psychological or Today sports psychologists, coaches, and athletes are aware that materialistic. A psychological reward could merely be a pat on the training the mind and body together is essential for optimal results. back, a smile for a job well done, verbal praise or even just a friendly It is imperative to emphasize that the athlete’s mental state is just as approving nod. Materialistic awards could vary from just another star adaptable to training as his or her physical skills. Utilizing both to on the amateur player’s helmet to a financial award. maximal effectiveness will result in the highest level of performance. The negative or stick approach to motivation is an attempt to eliminate To achieve optimal results the emotional and mental skills must be unsatisfactory physical or mental reactions in athletes through the use trained and developed just as the physical skills. To train or program of criticism or punishment. An example would be making an errant the mind in athletics is a detailed variable process that must be learned athlete run laps around the field or assessing a fine for some physical or and then faithfully followed. Athletes must practice mental training mental lapse or error. Combining the positive and negative approach just as they practice physical skills. may be preferred by some coaches. In general a positive approach is This article will discuss some of the techniques we find effective preferable since it creates a more enjoyable climate for sports activity in the mental training of table tennis players to help avoid choking instead of an atmosphere of prevailing fear that a negative approach during tournament play. tends to precipitate. Compared to many sports table tennis is not primarily about physical strength; it is a game of skill that combines physical and mental Internal Motivation aspects. In the final analysis, the will to win is often more crucial Internal motivation is the most desirable and effective of all. than the skill to win. Sports psychologists, coaches, and athletes People with intrinsic motivation are average people who accomplish are beginning to realize this fact and are placing more emphasis on outstanding things. They get a dream. They set a goal. You are what the mental aspects in sports.The mind and the body work as a unit you go for. Bob Richards, the World Champion pole vaulter, often and cannot be separated into distinct entities. Whatever affects one, personally stressed this psychological aspect to us. affects the other. It is important that we make some sort of commitment to what we Often a player’s motivation, determination, concentration, and would like to achieve in our life, as well as in sports. Concentrate all confidence decide the winner or loser. An athlete must not only battle your efforts on achieving your goal. Be prepared to try again if you an opponent, he/she must also conquer complexities and conflicts in fail the first time.Goals must be realistic, but high enough to create his/her own mind. He/she must confront such obstacles as self-doubt, challenge. Make them specific but obtainable. Long-term goals are nervousness, lapses of concentration, and similar distractions which reached by accomplishing several short-term goals. prevent optimal performance. He/she must learn “selectiveattention,” Become positive and believe you can do it. It’s important that athletes which is the ability to focus on a specific task; thereby eliminating develop a positive self-image. For instance, if you don’t think you can extraneous factors. win you probably won’t. Thinking you’ll win doesn’t guarantee that you Sports psychology is not a quick fix and must be individualized. will but a least you have abetter chance to do so. You must overcome What works for one may not work for another. Techniques we have yourself before you can overcome others. Any person entering sports is found effective in the mental training of athletes include: immediately challenged. In both team and individual sports the athlete • Motivation is challenged by an opponent. We all have a vast reservoir of untapped • Visualization talent. Your capacity is only determined by challenge. • Biofeedback Four other techniques we find effective in the mental training of • Cybernetic Training athletes are: • Hypnosis Visualization, biofeedback, cybernetics, and hypnosis. They sound like separate entities but basically they are intrinsically entwined. For These are not the only techniques, but are the ones we found very instance visualization is a basic concept utilized in hypnotherapy. effective if properly utilized. There is nothing mystical about any of these techniques.

Motivation Visualization: We prefer to classify motivation into two forms. One is of external You are all familiar with visualization. origin, and the other of internal origin. The same parts of the brain are activated by imagining an athletic

38 TABLE TENNIS performance as actually doing it. Therefore, visualizing yourself to many individuals. performing the various strokes in table tennis is very effective but Many individuals, essentially those with little or no experience, make them vivid and realistic as possible. unhesitatingly condemn it. However hypnosis applied in athletics Visualization has been well-publicized and accepted in our sport has proven highly successful in carefully selected cases. The era of superstition towards hypnosis in sports is gradually being eroded by Biofeedback: an awareness of its therapeutic values. Biofeedback uses instrumentation to give an athlete immediate Hypnotherapy can effectively neutralize adverse stimuli of continuous signals of change in their body. It is gaining popularity in extrinsic or intrinsic origin. Athletes can learn to control their Sports Psychology to decrease stress, anxiety, and muscular tension emotional level and mentally block-out adverse emotional stimuli. during competition. Numerous electronic devices can be utilized in Hypnosis is a cooperative undertaking between the hypnotist and the biofeedback therapy. With modern biofeedback the body’s abnormal athlete. During hypnosis the athlete is more receptive to acceptable electronics can be modified.The object of biofeedback is to increase suggestions. A hypnotized person will not accept any idea or the voluntary control over physiological processes that are otherwise suggestion that is against their morality, religion etc… The higher outside conscious awareness. It is a noninvasive method of training the intelligence the easier it is to do hypnosis.Hypnosis can help an the brain to work more efficiently and the ability to self-regulate. athlete overcome issues of self-doubt which may be preventing him/ Many devices can be used in biofeedback to document and her from progressing to a higher level of performance. Visualization record changes in respiration, blood pressure, pulse rate, skin and certain aspects of Yoga are actually forms of self-hypnosis. temperature, surface electromyography, and other physical Hypnosis is not a panacea, but often a valuable technique in functions. In more advanced procedures such as neurofeedbackand athletics. electroencephalography, electrode leads can be placed on the scalp The three basic techniques we primarily used with hypnosis are: to measure activity of the brain. This information can be fed to a 1. Direct Suggestion computer and shown on a screen. Such information obtained can be 2. Symptom Substitution used to influence the efficiency and effectiveness of performance. 3. Hypnoanalysis By looking at the screen, while concentrating and relaxing, an athlete can visually observe how they can alter physiological activity. Direct Suggestion: Many Olympic and professional athletes have credited biofeedback Suggestions given in a hypnotic trance are far more effective than training as a key factor in their success by increasing their ability to suggestions given in the conscious state. For example, let’s assume focus under stress giving them the edge they need to win. you go to your dentist and he says “I am not going to use Novocain Anxiety and stress can cause many athletes to “choke” in clutch or any anesthetic while extracting your infected tooth so you will situations. By learning to alter their mental and physical state with feel pain but I am sure you will be able to tolerate it.” In the average a few simple relaxation techniques they decrease tension and stress patient the chances of that working is quite slim. In contrast, the and their performance improves. Biofeedback devices are excellent ability to produce anesthesia by hypnotic suggestion alone has tools for achieving such results. gained great notoriety. Were it not so time consuming in certain patients and if all patients could be hypnotized deeply enough, it Cybernetics: would be the ideal anesthetic. Brain surgery, thyroidectomies, Cybernetics is the study of control processes in the biological hysterectomies, tooth extractions, etc… have all been done with system.Cybernetics ismentally training the mind to focus for direct suggestion alone in a hypnotic trance. Direct hypnotic extended period of time on a chosen goal and thereby eliminating suggestion has been proven effectivein athletics. In many instances extraneous factors. Such selective attention leads to athletic success. it is used primarily to obtain physical and mental relaxation and to With selective attention an athlete can mentally block out distractions relieve tension and stress. or taunts from a hostile crowd such as disparaging comments about the athlete’s physiognomy, his/her race etc… Symptom Substitution: Yoga is one example of cybernetic techniques utilized to obtain Another method of reconditioning or re-educating the subconscious these results. Yoga, as used in sports, is not a religion or cult. Yoga through hypnosis is replacing one habit pattern with another more is a mind and body discipline developed in India 2,000 years ago constructive pattern. The new pattern must be logical enough to which focuses on conscious breathing, calm state of mind, and deep destroy the earlier pattern in the patient’s mind. In symptom stages of relaxation. Such concentration can lower the heart rate, substitution some undesirable mental or physical outlet is replaced the blood pressure, the respiratory rate, decrease stress, and increase with a more acceptable one. For example, instead of being distracted muscular strength, flexibility, improve balance, and relaxation. After by inadequate lighting, an obnoxious opponent, or spectator etc… learning Yoga techniques an athlete can, prior to a match,utilize this a player can instead be directed to concentrate on the table tennis cybernetic ability to obtain relaxation and “selective attention.” ball. In other words “selective attention.” As stated previously, a Similarly during the actual match a trained athlete can also obtain suggestion given in the hypnotic situation is far more effective than beneficial results despite stressful conditionsusing visualization, one given in the usual normal state. biofeedback, and hypnotic training. Yoga is now being used in hospitals for the treatment of many Hypnoanalysis: disorders such as muscular dystrophy.Many professional athletes In this procedure hypnosis is combined with an analytic method including golfers, such as Tiger Woods, attribute some of their of psychotherapy.Each of us is a maze of conflicting desires and success to Yoga exercises. impulses which subconsciously influence our actions. Repressed fear, hate, love, anxiety, anger, painful experiences, frustrations, etc… Hypnotherapy: may consciously be forgotten but forever remain in the subconscious Hypnosis has been increasingly accepted as an effective modality where they are capable of producing conflicts which may manifest in sports. Hypnosis is a fascinating topic often clouded by themselves in functional disturbances.Obscure underlying causes of misconceptions, mysticism, and neglect. Hypnosis for entertainment neurotic behavior may come to the surface in one or two sessions. and amusement has no more relationship to hypnosis in medicine Conscious awareness of such underlying suppressed causes may or sports than astrology to astronomy; nevertheless the very word completely disintegrate undesirable behavior characteristics. hypnosis conveys obsolete prejudices, taboos, and misconceptions

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Major sponsor Butterfly’s Bowie Martin, Jr., Newgy Robo- Clinic for more or less (I would say “more”) beginners, and Fourth-Place Pong’s Joe Newgarden, and local supporters such as NC Communications finisher Dmitri Moundos. No Final Four for Larry this year, but never and the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance had to be pleased that the many mind, though a Hall of Famer, he has quite a life outside of his player/ spectators were so responsive to the high-quality competition, particularly coaching awards and (yes, you need to count them) his 1334 published t.t. that of the dominating Chinese-trained players. articles; in recent years he’s sold no less than 70 sci-fi or, well, call them The weekend’s gigantic 144-entry Cary Cup Round Robin was preceded weird tales, and also two fantasy-imbued novels. Moundos, who learned by five satellite events played at various times Friday, all of them offering the game in strange-to-most-of-us Siberia, now plays with a three-ply prize money and the special coveted cups associated with this tournament Hock bat and sports black knee-support patches he has to have and a red (all Final Four participants in all events would receive a cup). The opening shirt that says “USA” on the back he doesn’t have to have. event was called “Classic” Hardbat because, as in the pre-sponge era, In the Final Four grouping, Butler continued his run-away play, again games were played to 21 and the “small” 38 mm balls (circa 1959) t.t. not losing a game in taking home $400 for his easy efforts. Second-Place collector Babuin had acquired were used. Mike, who’s on his way to ($200) went to Xin Peng. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Xin came to being a great caretaker of our sport’s historic items, has been abetted by Minnesota from China, was helped by USTTA Executive Vice-President U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame President Dick Evans (Chief Umpire Gus Kennedy to get a visa, was befriended by the Truelson family, and for this tournament), Committee Chair to establish a HOF Museum site welcomed at Charlie Disney’s Table Tennis Club. He then accepted an Dean Johnson, and USATT Historian Tim Boggan. Tim’s just contributed, invitation from Pete May to coach at his club in Augusta, Georgia. Now among other treasures, what may be the only extant set of the USTTA’s 64, Peng is still in Augusta, and still coaching which helps him to keep in beginning (1930’s) Table Tennis Topics. great shape for his age. His fitness he attributes to his early table tennis The Friday Hardbat event was won, as expected, by 43-year-old Jim training and his continued exercise of essential fundamentals he’d learned Butler, former two-time Olympian and three-time U.S. Men’s National as a teenager then further developed as a 22-26-year-old member of the Champion. Butler, playing with the same racket Marty Reisman specified Chinese National Team. In decisively defeating Chu Bin Hai (both players he use in their celebrated 1998 money match, won seven in a row in his were loath to throw the ball up even slightly on serve, but no one seemed Group A round robin to reach the Final Four—all without dropping a to care), Xin avenged his loss to him in the final of the Over 60’s at the game. Runner-up in this Group was 62-year-old, stamina-strong Chu Bin 2012 U.S. Open. Chu, however, did win a tough 19, -19, 18 match for the Hai who 20 or so years ago came from China on a working visa to settle $100 Third-Place prize from Carney who at least received a trophy others in Miami and now is an habitué of the Broward Club in Fort Lauderdale. were sure to admire. “A.J.” coaches in nearby Raleigh and hopes to find a Aside from being beaten by Jim, he didn’t lose a game. However, in their niche for himself in what many, including U.S. Hall of Famer Diana Gee final Group A match, with both players undefeated, Jim, behind 15-8 in McDonnell who’d come to see matches here at this Bond Park venue, was the first to Chu, was asking, “Does this match count?” Comes the answer, looking forward to, the soon to be established 30,000 sq. ft. Triangle Table “No,” because, as was the case last year, there’s no carry over to the Tennis Center in Morrisville, a town adjacent to Cary. Final Four. So, players asked again, “Why, Mike, are we playing such a The results of the Final Four in the Friday Open, played simultaneously meaningless match?” Not that it made any difference to Jim—he rallied to with the Hardbat event and sharing the same four ($400, $200, $100, win that game 21-17. The Group’s Third-Place finisher was Scott Butler. Trophy only) prizes, saw First-Place winner John Mar (2241) score an He induced mid-match smiles from Jim who was struck by the fact that 8, 10, -6, -4, 8 upset over runner-up Yu Di (2438), a recent arrival from Scott, though he wasn’t playing seriously anymore and had only played China who in advancing hadn’t lost a game in his Group. Third-Place went sparingly, if at all, with a hard bat, was trying his best against his brother. to Xie Tianming (2149) who earlier in his round robin had been extended (And why shouldn’t he? Wasn’t he playing out of that North Carolina only by 38-year-old credit company executive Seemant Teotia (1971), town, Advance.) “Crazy”—that was the one line written on the back last year’s Intermediate event (1500-1900) winner (and this year in that of the Fourth-place finisher’s shirt—apparently enough information to event the only Group player to take a game from Butler). The Fourth- identify Chris Obrian. Place Trophy was won by James Wang (2161), thanks to his Group win In Group B, Alec (“A.J.”) Carney, 26-year-old lefty two-wing attacker over Carlito Almirol, originally from Manilla but based now in Houston, (“BAZINGA!” yelled his playing shirt), advanced to the Final Four Texas, and, though not entered in the tournament, the delighted recipient 42 TABLE TENNIS (left) Kewei and (right) Mingyu photos by Paul Derby of a well-wisher’s surprise all-expense invitation to attend it…and then, an U-2250 event, lost a match or two, and his rating as Huang Zesheng fell when a spot opened, play in it. 300 points. So, instead of the 2075 opponent Roy expected, he got stung The U-1500 event winner ($250 first prize) was Li Shuxin—7-0 in his with this “ringer” and, disgusted, didn’t even play in the B’s. Later, Huang Group round robin with wins over Ronald Yorgason (6-1) and Sabrina would show how capable he was when in Group A play he forced 2598 Li Zhu (5-2). Li might have lost his 12, -11, 4, -7, 8 match to Zhu, but even Cheng into the fifth. if he had he still would have advanced out of a three-way 6-1 tie. Top seed Before I continue now with Round Two Group A round robin play that will Richard Perez was Runner-up ($100). Randy Massey, after advancing produce the money winners, I’m going to give you the Final Four results with a four-game (15-13 in the first…13-11 in the fourth) Group win over from Groups B, C, and D. In Group B, T.J. Beebe, 32, having been ousted Ken Chia, finished Third ($50). Christopher Kartawira reached the Final in his opening round robin by John Wetzler (“Old Guys Rule” John’s shirt Four with a five-game win over Moustapha Nasser, after which, despite proudly proclaimed), downed Maria Costillo, #2 finisher with three five- defeating Li in straight games but losing to Perez and Massey, he was at game wins, then survived 2002 Cary Cup Champion Gregg Robertshaw, least a Trophy winner. to reach the Final Four. There T.J. was the winner over Runner-up John In the Intermediate event (prizes matching those in the U-1500’s), Steve Mar who’d struggled earlier with both Rich Burnside (16-14 in the fifth) Hamilton (1880) came First in the Final Four competition, but he wouldn’t and Don Settle. Michael Whitmeyer’s upset wins over Jia Zhen and James have gotten there and pocketed $250 if in Group play Tony Murnahan Wang allowed him to finish Third over Carlito Almirol. (1689), who’d beaten Hamilton, had also held his 2-0 lead and taken out In Group C, David Albright (1939—that’s his rating not the year of Mossa Barandao (1788). Runner-up “ringer” Lu Jian (1642) had the most his birth; he’s a young 55) repeated his last year’s win. But because startling advance: seeded fifth in his Group, he finished with a 7-0 (21-1) had to go five in preliminary round robin play with Brendon Mrzlak record—knocking off Liang Huigang (1879) and Ron Weber (1804), then and David Li, and was then 7, 10, -8, 11 pressed by Final Four Fourth- in the Final downing in straight games Tony Yeap (1896) and Ayan Bagchi Place finisher Edem Komlanvi (who earlier had escaped the ubiquitously (1785). pestering Seemant Teotia), he was hardened to his First-Place challenge. The remaining Friday event was the Advanced (over 1900) Round Robin That was from 12-year-old Emilie Lin. Emilie, coached by 37-year-old and here the Final Four seeking the $600, $500, $200, $100 prizes were Yang Shigang at the Atlanta Table Tennis Academy, had lost a five-gamer well over 1900. The winner was again Jim Butler, playing his 20th match to Olufemi Ogundipe but had offset that with upset wins over Richard of the day, or rather not playing it when Yu Di couldn’t continue because Johnson and Jason Lu. After losing two 12-10 games to this precocious of cramps. The outstanding match of the event was Butler (2557) over grade-school girl, Albright found himself again at 10-all in the fifth...but the U.S.’s #1-rated player Shi Mingyu (2796), 12-10 in the fifth. Shi, 20, this time, surely to an ohhh! from the spectators, he won. Seyed Saadat who’d been a member of the Chinese National Team from 2010-2012, is advanced over three of the four players seeded ahead of him (Brandon now based in Atlanta and needs to acclimate to his new surroundings. He Koh, Joey Drolet, and Lee Barbour—only he who wore the shirt “Vote for misses his friends back in China and the Chinese food he was used to. But Jim McQueen” was spared), then 7, 10, -8, 11 he took Third-Place over he’s ready to coach “anybody.” Certainly he needed to acclimate himself Komlanvi. to Butler’s game—and didn’t. After advancing from his preliminary In Group D, top seed Mossa Barandao, once in the Final Four via a 14- Group—7-0 (21-0, giving up no more than five points in any match)— 12 in the third/12-10 in the fifth win over Ivan Kartawira, had little trouble he played Jim in his first Final Four encounter and won the initial game with the other advancers allowing them on the average little more than 11-5. But then, oh, oh, something of a shock after all those easy wins, seven points a game. Runner-up in a three-way 1-2 tie-breaker was Albert when Butler took the second at 11-9. Shi saw he wasn’t prepared for Jim’s Senter, able to 7-1 advance when 1972-rated Kevin Lu somehow gave at-the-table backhand attack, was confused as to how to play him, lost Senter-stopper 1458-rated Charles Xiao his second preliminary loss, 14- confidence and the third game as well. Then, though Shi would outscore 12 in the fifth. Third-Place went to Tony Murnahan, thanks to his earlier Butler 49-43 in the match, in the fifth it could have been anyone’s game down 2-0 (12, 8, 10) rally over Kyle Moyart. Fourth, though he beat and Butler prevailed. “This win was the highlight of my first two years Murnahan in five, was Sam Berry who’d gotten by Chris (Zhuoqun) Xiao back,” Jim said. 11-9 in the fifth, and also had scored a notable 19-in-the-fourth endurance Butler also defeated Shi’s friend, Feng “Tom” Yijun (2580), the win over Baik Yeu Jin. personable 17-year-old Atlanta high schooler who speaks English and Back now to the four Cary Cup round robins (nine players each, four Chinese with ease, excels at the saxophone, and is good at golf. Tom, advance) beginning with Group A-1. The #1 seed here was the Cary Cup $200 Third-Place winner, was also, despite being a penholder, holding his own in backhand play in a 15-13 second-game win against Butler and was -11, 12, -9 hangin’ right in there with Yu before Di cramped to finish Fourth. Earlier, Di had 6, 3, -9, -9, 7 upset 36-year-old Gao Yanjun, Cary Cup winner in 2010 and finalist in 2009 and 2011. Saturday, the 144-entry main event, the Cary Cup, got underway with Round One that emphasized the advance of winners from 36 carefully seeded round robins of four. These 36 winners (that would form Group A) would then be divided into four seeded groups of nine players, out of each of which would come the top four finishing players who would then advance to a Sunday 16-player Single Elimination draw—eighth’s, quarter’s, semi’s, and final. Those who finished second, third, and fourth in their Round One play would go, respectively, into Groups B, C, and D where they too would form four nine-player groups, out of each of which would come a single advancer to play a Final Four round robin for trophy prizes. The seedings to produce the 36 Group A advancers were so accurate that in every round robin but one the higher-rated player was still at least theoretically eligible for the prize money available to the 16 Sunday qualifiers (Eighth’s: $300; Quarter’s: $500; Semi’s: $1,000; Runner-up: $2,000; Winner: $3,500). The one upset (and it wasn’t much of one) was when 40-year-old Carlos Garcia Ramirez (2205), a lefty stop-stroke blocker/attacker newly arrived from Spain, interrupted his smoke breaks to beat John Mar (2241) and advance from Group 35. Also, as I’m sure Roy Ke and family would have me note, Roy (2333), last year’s B winner, went down three straight to Huang Zesheng (2153). Turns out, however, this couldn’t really be considered an upset because Huang playing in an earlier NCTTA tournament had established a rating of 2470. Then, however, two months later under a different name, he entered Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 43 over Fifth Place finisher Behram Jamaspi before defaulting his last match to Shi. The matches he lost to Tong and Xie gave them 5-3 records, so had Jim beaten Chu for his own 5-3 record he couldn’t have advanced. It was clear, as he said, he was just too tired to continue with spirit. Quite possibly Scott Butler would have something to say about Jim’s conscious or unconscious choice to opt for play in Sunday’s FASTT Sandpaper event. (Go to see Scott at Wells Fargo—he’s in Wealth Management—but if you want his services make sure you’ve at least a $1,000,000 in liquidity.) “Hey,” Scott might have counseled, “in the $400 First Prize Sandpaper event, if you beat Xin Peng and Chu Bin Hai, as you did in the Hardbat, that’s almost what you’d get if you weren’t tired and reached the quarter’s of the Cup. And presumably it’s a lot safer route to the money.” As would happen, Jim would win the Sandpaper event, though it was harder to do than he might have thought. Against Xin Peng, Jim rallied from 1-1 and down 10-4 in the third to win in four; and against Chu Bin Hai he was forced into the fifth before taking the money. Call Jim’s three wins a “Hat Trick,” would you? In Group A-3, no surprise that Li Kewei, last year’s runner-up, 8-0 led the field (no one took a game from him except Third-Place finisher Yu Di who went five with him). And, as anticipated, Feng “Tom” Yijun, 7-1, took Second Place. What wasn’t expected was Gao Yanjun’s very bad day, three five-game losses—to Feng, Yu, and the surprise Fourth advancer, 13-year-old lefty, Jack Wang, who, at the South Shore Sports/Butterfly Open in October at the Highland Park, Indiana Fieldhouse, topped a field of 29 players to win the $500 First Prize in the 15 & Under event—part of the Junior and Cadet competition sponsored annually by Hall of Famer Si Wasserman in remembrance of his brother Nate. A key match for Jack’s advance was his five-gamer with Lindenwood’s Gabriel Skolnick. Had Gabe won this match, creating a three-way tie-breaker (but he didn’t Champion the last two years, Canada’s #1, and the current U.S. Open win, wasn’t at all aggressive enough in the end-game fifth), Gao would Champion, Wang “Eugene” Zhen (called familiarly not “Eugene” or have advanced, not Jack. Lindenwood College, in St. Charles, Missouri, “Gene” but “Wang”). Rated 2822, he 8-0/24-1 surprisingly lost a game offers table tennis scholarships and doesn’t hesitate to send its players, all and was pressured to 10-all in the fourth by Lindenwood College student expenses paid, off to play. Here in Cary—it’s their fifth straight tournament Austin Preiss (2258), often thought of as a budding golf pro and already weekend—a team of nine players competed. a professional t.t. entertainer in tandem with his father Scott. Advancing In Group A-4, the only one where all four top seeds advanced, Li Cheng too, as expected, was Maryland T.T. Center’s teenage chopper/attacker (2598) finished First over lefty two-wing looper and the Group’s #1 seed Wang Quinliang (2573) who lost only to the more prominent Wang, as he Chen Ruichao (2600). Third was Yue “Jennifer” Wu (2495), former had at the 2012 Badger Open, but dropped games to ex-Israeli defender member of the Beijing Team, and in 2012 a member of the winning Asaf Azarsky and the unheralded ninth seed in the Group, Preiss. Third Women’s Team at the Baltimore North American Team Championships. was 6-2 Jiaqi Zheng, 25 and playing out of Fremont, CA, the 2011 U.S. Fourth was Seattle-based lefthander Wang Bao (2505) who, though she Open runner-up, the 2012/2013 NCTTA Women’s College Champion, defeated Li in five, says she prefers to play women rather than men. and twice the Top Woman $300-award winner here at the Cary Cup. The Prior to Sunday’s Single Elimination play, there was a problem with the fourth advancer was the eighth seed in this Group, Xiao Junyu (rated only draw. Turns out, an eighth’s match paired two Group winners, and Chief 2261). Again Preiss was central to the action, for had he beaten Xiao, Referee Larry Kesler, realizing that wasn’t right, at first tried to make a instead of losing to him 11-9 in the fifth, Xiao would have had a 3-5 not minor adjustment with a new draw, but then decided that wasn’t right the 4-4 record that had given him a tie-breaker advance over 27-year-old either, and so started over with newly redrawn matches. However, trying Mexico’s #1 woman, Yadira Silva, and Silva, mother of two, would have to avoid any further delay, Larry didn’t tell the players the entire draw had advanced to have become—had this ever happened anywhere in the U.S. been reworked, as later he admitted he should have, and some complained before?—the fifth woman in the elite 16-player field. they hadn’t the “lead” time to prepare themselves for the unexpected As Jim Butler was telling me, U.S. women have relatively strong men player they were to face. to play against to possibly become world-class like Jiaqi Zheng, but U.S. Preparing themselves for a Butterfly-sponsored video taping of Sunday’s men haven’t got the competition, and since the USATT seems to have play wasn’t a problem for a Barbara Wei/Scott Butler team, and they soon little or no interest in trying to produce even a decent World Men’s Team, got help from Jim Butler as well. Jim was telling me how important it he thinks the ITTF ought to help us. A Champion like Wang Zhen feels is for every tournament to have such a taping. Tournament sponsors and he must train in Germany. He can practice at the Saarbrucken Bundesliga directors should always insist on such coverage and provide for it in their Club, but he’d like to be in Dusseldorf where the German National Team budgets. Table Tennis, says Jim, is one of the best sports to show not dull is based. He feels at 29 he’s “old,” that so many players are better, that he’s play after dull play but vibrant highlights of matches. “Tournaments die,’ “not good enough.” And Sean Barkume’s Cary Cup Program lists him as he says, “but videos of them don’t die.” World #65. Where are the best of our U.S. men ranked? The Eighth’s are played in two waves, four tables at a time. Spectators In Group A-2, Shi Mingyu 8-0 advanced without losing a game. Second try to position themselves close to the players they most want to watch was Zhao “Anthony” Xinxu (2573) who, in addition to losing to Shi, also and the matches they feel will be most contested. Wang Zhen vs. Xie lost to Jim Butler, 11-9 in the fourth. Butler, seeded third in this group, was Zhiqiao (2311) is 2, 4, 6 not one of these. In a not exactly vicious Battle of obviously irritated when he lost to Tong Fei Ming, formerly formidable the Sexes, Wue Yue against “Tom” Feng, Wu wins the first when at 9-all Taiwan’s #3, who finished Third. After whiffing a ball to lose a game he “Tom” tries to backhand in her serve, then misses a loop. But, righting loudly dropped his bat on the table, then early in the next game when Tong himself, he wins the next three, always holding 7, 7, 8 end-game steady. In got a net he whacked the ball away. Tong good-naturedly smiled and said the Zheng Jiaqi-Zhao “Anthony” Zhao match, it’s the woman who wins— to Mike Babuin who was watching, “You need a yellow card.” Mike, who the first at 6, then up 8-7 she runs out the second and takes a 6-1…9-3 was wearing a yellow shirt, just smiled back. lead in the third. But “Anthony” is not easily done in, at times he can But after that loss Jim seemed to recover with his (“YES!”) satisfying match Jiaqi’s furious double-wing attack—indeed, from triple match- win over Zhao. It was then, though, that he was scheduled to play Chu Bin point down, he goes up 11-10 on a Zheng mishit…only to falter with a Hai and defaulted. After that he played on to a 13-11 loss in the fourth to crucial backhand miss. Other misses follow by both players until Jiaqi Fourth-Place finisher, Mississippi College student Xie Zhiqiao, and a win 14-12 prevails and so, as this round of play unfolds, assures herself of the (left) Wang and (right) Jiaqi photos by Paul Derby 44 TABLE TENNIS $300 Top Women’s Award. spurred on by Wang’s powerful serve-and-follow play. From 6-5 up, he The remaining match of the first wave pits Li Ching (2598) against 11-6 almost runs out the game. 13-year-old seventh grader Jack Wang (2330). Hardly seems fair, huh? In the third game, however, Jiaqi’s matching Eugene point for point with The more so when in the first from 4-4 Li spurts to a 10-5 lead and an sustained attacking off-the-bounce returns of whatever he can throw at opening win. But young Jack who likes to watch basketball and hears the her. Amazing how she anticipates where the ball will be and how fast she fans, as he does the players themselves on the t.t. courts, has learned from slings it back. She wins this third game 12-10. In the fourth, Eugene gets his elders…learned how to make noise exhorting himself to action—he off to a 5-2 lead, but can’t hold it because unbelievably Jiaqi’s outslugging wins the second, 11-5. In the third, it’s 7-all—and they do seem more him with her counter hits. I can scarcely believe my eyes. Does the ball evenly matched than expected. Li, himself vocally aggressive, at 9-all gets really touch her side of the table before it comes low, laser-like hurtling a shot in and, down 10-9, Jack doesn’t. The bigger, older, much-higher- back, repeatedly forcing Eugene to retreat from the table and lob? He rated guy is up 2-1. Jack needs outside help? At 7-all in the fourth, Li lobs high and well but invariably not good enough to win most such winds up, misses. But then he’s up 9-8, and down 10-9…when Jack gets points. Of course this is the current U.S. Open Men’s Champion, World a winning back edge. In the deciding fifth, back and forth they go—3-all, #65, Jiaqi’s battling. The crowd loves her intensity. But can she keep her 4-all, 5-all, 7-all and now Li gets a break with a net ball. Chance balances. strength, keep up the pressure? She can. Down 10-8…10-9 her all-out But then there’s no balance at all. Li mis-serves, fails to return serve, fails super-swift attacks tie up the game, tie up Eugene’s usually overpowering to return serve again, serves and fails to return Jack’s return of serve. aggressiveness. On they go, deuce after deuce, the spectators enthralled, O.K., second wave. First up: 33-year-old Li Kewei (he’ll be showing by a low attack and high defense they weren’t used to seeing. Jiaqi, still off that very striking large yellow/green butterfly on the back of his black zoned in, eventually wins this game 17-15. In the fifth, it’s Jiaqi up 2-0… shirt?) vs. Wang Bo. She’d rather be playing a woman—especially when but then what mysteriously she was given was mysteriously taken away. she starts off 5, 2. But, as with Anthony, give her credit where credit’s due. She would win only two more points this game, would even find herself Before losing in the fourth, she stubbornly takes the third game 12-10. back lobbing, closing off the fun by losing the last seven points of the Now a real, unflagging Battle of the Sexes—18-year-old Wang Qingliang, match. Maryland TT Center Player/Coach extraordinaire who’d trained at the Naturally, Li Kewei’s win over Shi Mingyu, though holding our attention, elite Shandong Luneng Table Tennis School in China, against, well, couldn’t compare with the excitement we felt watching that other semi’s. older than 18, Tong Fei Ming, former World #38 and more than 15 but Shi started 8-2 strong to win the first, but play soon reversed itself and Li not yet 20 years ago the English Open Champion. Who do you like?... took the second 21-3, then (though it was a little thrill to see chopper Li Who can decide, because none of the first four games are contested. The curve a ball in around the net) rather routinely finished off Shi, 8 and 8. fifth game, however, is 8-all close. Wang attracts because he’s not only a The match between Wang and Li, said to be once a Chinese National defender (always welcome) but an equally strong looper. Tong shows a Team member, would be a replay of last year’s final. Sort of. Last year very effective high-toss serve and has such professional poise on court Wang opened with an 11-1 win. This year defender Li, passing Wang with that you have to realize she’s a much experienced, savvy player. However, forehands along the way, took the first 11-8. Last year Wang won their at 9-all Tong repeatedly had a ball to hit, but didn’t, whereas Wang went second game 11-6. This year an error by Wang caused him to lose their all out and won the point. Did her reluctance lose the match for her? No, second game 11-9. What’s made the appreciable difference? Was Wang her control was there: 10-all. And now she took the forehand and it went thrown off by the very different games of his back-to-back opponents? in. But Luck wasn’t with her—Wang got an 11-all net. Then an acrobatic Had his unexpected struggle with Jiaqi taken away his confidence? return and a forehand winner won the match for him. Last year, after being down 2-0, Li found his game. So it was now In the Chen Ruichao-Yu Di quarter’s match, Yu’s loss of the first from with Wang when from 6-5 down he turned in an 11-7 winner. Last year up 10-8 set the pattern of play. In all three games, Yu (-10, -9, and -12, Li, though losing, put up strong fourth-game resistance. So it was now whiffing at the end) just fell short. The Shi Mingyu vs. Xiao Junyu with Wang—except the ending play is not good. Both players make quarter’s was no contest. Xiao, getting off to such starts as down 6-1 in the mistakes. Wang pops up two balls, mishits, gets an edge for game-point first and 10-2 in the second, didn’t inspire confidence. but can’t take advantage—he finally loses 14-12. It was an unexpected In the quarter’s, against powerful Defending Champion Wang, “Tom” poor performance from him. Today, as the afternoon progressed, he did Feng could not compete until the third game where twice down match- seem “old,” wasn’t “good enough.” point (9-10…10-11) he staunchly resisted, until, with a whiff of a chance, he went down again…and this time out. Nor in the remaining quarter’s could Jack, the Giant Killer, take a game from Jiaqi. Still, how did this just- turned-teen Wang get so good? His mother said, “My husband played a lot with him at home.” Oh? But then it turned out, good players, sometimes a coach, joined them, and then, also, every year the family went to China. Yep, that would help. The Shi Mingyu-Chen Ruichao quarter’s had an unusual start. Shi took the first at 7—no, that wasn’t unusual, but then he was down 10-1 in the second, which was. Chen, a friend of Tong Fei Ming, reportedly had played in the Chinese Super League, and had a good chance here for a win. He was up 2-1 and at 9-all in the fourth, but Shi’s hard counter into Chen’s turn led eventually to a 12-10 loss for the Super Leaguer. Then in the fifth it was quickly all over—from down 3-2 Chen lost six of the next seven points. The Li Kewei—Wang Qingliang match, won by Li, figured to be more exciting than it was, though I heard towards its finish some involved spectators batting fervidly together those elongated sausage-like rubber balloons one generally sees and hears at World Championships. Though both Li and the bouncy, noisy Wang had great attack and defend abilities, no games were closely contested. The play itself was generally predictable with Wang driving and Li defending, enjoyable enough to watch but void of the desired tension. One of the semi’s had to be the most entertaining match of the weekend not only for me but for a number of others. This was the one between Jiaqi and I’ll call him “Eugene” (for this match he had to be viewed differently). In their earlier Round Two play the somewhat burly Wang had been 6, 6, 9 dominant over the 95-pound Zheng. Had we any reason to expect a different result here? Especially when Wang opens with a devastating 6-1…9-2 attack. Brute. Be chivalrous. In the second it’s more of the same,

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 45 INTERNATIONAL SWISS OPEN Swiss Table Tennis Open Lausanne DHS Europe Cup, February 7-9, 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland by Dr. Costel Constantin The Swiss Table Tennis Open Lausanne organized this year the DHS Europe Cup to replace the European Top 12. Lausanne city located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland was hosting this tournament that started on 02/07/2014. Known for its stature as an Olympic city, Lausanne has some unusual attractions which allows a glimpse of another dimension. Although there are many other unusual attractions, I would like to point out the Naive Art Collection which is a dedicated museum to works created by marginalized people such as prisoners, and psychiatric patients (it is definitely worth visiting if you plan to travel in Switzerland!). Getting back Photo of to table tennis, at this tournament came many known players including Marcos Freitas Timo Boll who is the 2012 European Champion, Dimitrij Ovtcharov who is courtesy of the 2013 European Champion, veteran Michael Maze who returned after a ITTF hip surgery, and Adrien Mattenet who reached the Quartefinals of the 2011 World Championship to name a few. With such great elite squad, this assured Viktoria advance to the final. tournament is bound to generate a lot of “best rallies of 2014” videos on In the second semifinal, Li Jiao (NED) lost against Liu Jia (AUT) in youtube! six games (4-11, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 4-11). In the first game, Jia was using her high toss serve and BH topspin attacks to create a 6-point gap Men’s singles (score 10-4). Another high toss underpin serve from Jia helped her win In the first semifinal, Michael Maze (DEN) won against Dimitrij this game with 11-4. In the second game, Jiao was able to play with more Ovtcharov (GER) in six games (7-11, 11-7, 11:8, 11-7, 11-13, 11-3). The control and she reached a gap of 4 points (score 5-1). It seemed like Jia first game was mainly based on serve-and-serve return techniques and Dima was able to use her BH topspin very well and she managed to close the won this game by 11-7. For the next three games, Michael quickly adjusted gap at 6-6. Jia continued to use her BH against Jiao’s BH and she was to Dima’s third ball attacks and, as a response, he started attacking more able to win the with 11-7. The third game, Jiao was able to use her FH aggressively to Dima’s FH/BH wide angles which game Michael wins at more and she managed to win the game with 11-8. In the fifth game 11-7, 11-8, and 11-7. Dima knew he needed to get the fifth game in order to Jiao was using more aggressive blocks on Jia’s BH and FH which helped stay in the game…With a lot of encouragement from fans, Dima was able to Jia win the game with 11-7. In the last game of the match, Jia showed win it with 13-11. The sixth and the final game of the match was very easy superior defense and attack strategies. This superiority was demonstrated for Michael, he essentially tried to attack with less power while he increased at points 6-3 and 7-3. Jia continued this trend until she beat Jiao with 11- ball consistency. The score gap started widening from 5-2 all the way to 4. This win assured Jia the opportunity to play the final against Belarusian 10-2. It seemed like Dima was out of power giving Michael the opportunity Pavlovich Viktoria. to win the match with 11-3. This victory slingshotted the Dane to the final! In the final, Liu Jia (AUT) won against Pavlovich Viktoria (BLR) six The second semifinal was played between Mattenet Adrien (FRA) and games (11-9, 6-11, 7-11, 11-5, 14-12, 11-7). Their playing styles couldn’t Freitas Marcos (POR). Adrien lost this match in four straight games (9-11, be more different. Viktoria is a master of defense and tactics, while Liu 1-11, 1-11, 6-11). This match was interesting, because judging by the score is an all-around attacker. Liu started this match as an underdog. The it seemed like is was a very easy game for Marcus. Marcus’ soft serve first game was very close, but Liu was able to win with 11-9aftera returns and extremely powerful forehand attacks worked very well against great exhibition of great rallies. The next two games were dominated by Adrien’s two-wing defense/attack style. This match propelled Marcus to Viktoria who showed experience and authority. Somehow in the fourth the final! game, Viktoria started breaking apart giving Jia the opportunity to nail this In the final Marcos Freitas (POR) won against Michael Maze (DEN) in four game with the score 11-5. It looked like the fifth game was the deciding straight games (11-6, 11-6, 11-8, 11-7). In the first game, Michael missed one, because Viktoria started really strong with a 5-point lead (score 9-4), a couple of balls due to timing and this gave Marcus the opportunity to win but (eventually) she lost with 12-14. Viktoria did not give up easily which with 11-7. In the second game, Marcos was able to build up a 3-point gap was shown by the strong beginning of the sixth game (i.e., a 5-point lead (score 9-6) at which point in time, it seemed like Michael started breaking until the score of 6-1). At this point in time, Viktoria became impatient down mentally. At 10-6 Michael started attacking furiously, but Marcos and she started to make errors. The score was 6-3 and it was clear that was able to block them all, which gave him a 11-6 win. The third game, Viktoria’s mental toughness weakened. She knew that Jia would close the was probably the closed game played between them. Michael used every gap soon and she could not be stopped anymore. A very interesting rally trick he had, but he was not able to stop Marcos from winning it with 11-7. to watch was at score 7-7, Jia was control-attacking with her FH all over In the fourth game, Marcos started stepping around and attacking more of the table while Viktoria was nervously defending. At some point within Michael’s serves and he managed to win this one with 11-7. Marcus’ victory the rally, the roles reversed, Viktoria started attacking while Jia did a great was celebrated with a Brazilian jujitsu style roll over with his trainer! job defending those topspins coming from the Belarusian. It seemed like the more nervous Viktoria got, the calmer Jia become. Finally, Viktoria Women’s singles lost this game with 7-11, giving the gold medal away to Jia. It was a great In the first semifinal, Solja Petrissa (GER) lost to Pavlovich Viktoria match worth watching. (BLR) in four straight games (5-11, 8-11, 8-11, 8-11). In the first game of the match, Viktoria was able to provide a strong defensive play which There were many interesting things I could have discussed in this article created a 5-point gap (score 10-5) and finally a win at 11-5. In the second about this tournament, but that would have taken days and due to lack of game, Petrissa started playing smarter which included a combination time [and journal space :)] I would only mention a few things that stood of offensive FH topspin and defensive BH underpin techniques. This out to me. I was amazed as to how the 32-year-old Michael Maze (back adjustment closed the 4-point gap from 1-5 all the way to 5-6. However, from a myriad of injuries) was able to display such a high class of table this smart play did not help Petrissa win the game… Viktoria won with 11- tennis! He eventually advanced to the finals to honorably lose against 8. In the third game, Viktoria started using extreme underpin shots against Marcos Freitas. Also, if you are interested in watching great rallies, you Petrissa and although the game was very close, Viktoria won with 11-8. In have to watch the match between Tiago Apolonia (POR) and Gionis the fourth game, Viktoria even started using BH topspin attacks (score 4-3) Panagiotis (GRE), or between Liu Jia (AUT) and Pavlovich Viktoria which threw Petrissa off her game. This last game victory (score 11-8) (BLR). Congratulations are in order to undefeated Portugal’s Marcos Freitas and Austria’s Liu Jia who remained unbetean to claim gold at this 46 TABLE TENNIS wonderful tournament. 2014 YOG World Trials in Portugal by Lily Yip Our US Players Kunal Chodri and Tina Lin played very well but unfortunately did not qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in China this summer. The Tournament was very well run, the food was excellent and the organizers tried very hard to please. This was a first class event. The tournament playing hall is a brand new stadium with lots of bleachers and will be used as a National Full Time Training Center. The Europeans Boys are still very strong as they (Hungary’s Adam Szudi, Germany’s Killian Ort, Czeckoslovakia’s David Reitspies) won 3 of the 4 qualification positions with the 4th going to Taiwan’s Yang Heng-Wei. Unfortunately our own Kunal Chodri was paired up in the same group with the German and Taiwanese players. All of Kunal’s opponents including Brian Afanador from Puerto Rico are Professional Full Time players playing in Sweden. The fundamentals of these Professional Players are stronger then our US Players. On the girls side Asia still dominates. Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi Kem finished first and Taiwan’s Chiu SSu-Hua was second, 3rd and 4th went to Romanian’s Adina Diaconu and Japan’s Miyu Kato. Tina Lin lost to the Romanian and to Thailand’s Tamolwan Khetkhuan 2 games to 3. Of course all the girls are Professionals as well and train many hours every day. As a player from North America, Tina has a very fast all around style which helped her do well against the Europeans, but not as much spin variation or consistency as the Europeans. The European girls are also very strong physically. For World Junior Circuit Final, Ariel Hsing fought very hard played well even though she is now a full time Student at Princeton University and only practiced a couple hours after Nationals due to school obligations. The conclusion is that if we want to be competitive with the Europeans and Asians we need to practice a minimum of twenty hours per week and have weekly competitions.

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 47 TOURNAMENTS USA Tournament Results

Joseph Bae Open Feb 15, 2014 Santa Ana, California Under 2000 RR: Thong Nguyen, Amanda Malek Under 1500 RR: Anh Quoc Duy Nguyen, Charles Kim Under 1200 RR: Tim Stephens, Xuanthai Huynh Under 1850 RR: Quyen Ly, Brian Bui Under 2400 RR: Attila Malek, Robert Shahnazari Under 1700 RR: Syed Amjad Naqvi, Qui Le Under 1600 RR: Stanley Gene Frisbee, Qui Le Open RR: Zaman Molla, Zihao (Justin) Huang Over 40 U/1850 RR: David Bui, Thomas Ha A full house at the 2nd Annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Tournament LATTA Open February 22, 2014 Open RR: Xiang Jing Zhang, Theodore Under 1100 RR: Loc Vo, Siming Zhang Tran CT2: Greg Lukens, Michael Green- Under 1750 RR: Tony Lai Yu, Peter Under 3800 Doubles RR: Quoc Bao baum, Joann Kay Fechner Ian Mc- Bunya Nguyen / Tri Phan Thanh Hoang / Quyen Granaghan Under 1300 RR: Victoria Brigitt, Ming Ly CT3: Wayne Steffens, Jim B. Hicks Chan Thomas Nam, Frank Lackie Under 2150 RR: Qing Michael Shi, Ron- Bill Mason Memorial CT4: Mark Rea, Todd Meng ald Arellano March 15, 2014 Yevgeniy Mayevskiy, Alex Van Steen Under 1400 RR: Maxwell Yao, Xuanthai Beaverton, Oregon CT5: Jane Parrish Sofiya Mayevskiy Huynh ClassA RR: Hao Guo, Jimmy Guo, Phil Paige Burns, Franklin Wang Under 1900 RR: Craig Burton, Alex Schock Wan Suwito Melekhov ClassB RR: Michael Groom, Kyle Lake Newgy Akron Open Under 2350 RR: Jiaming He, Zhongtang Yun Fan Jian Xin Guo March 21-22, 2014 (kevi Li ClassCRR: Leezan Da, Ian Mc- Akron, Ohio Under 1600 RR: Yi Zheng, Maxwell Yao Granaghan, Jim B. Hicks Alex Van Open Singles RR: Zhen (Eugene) Under 2250 RR: Jiaming He, Joey Kuok Steen Wang, Cheng Li, Yi Chi Zhang Under 2050 RR: Joe Tran, Luis Reyes AT1: Hao Guo, Maoxi George Wang Samson David Dubina Ryan Hoarfrost, Brian Chia Under 2100 RR: Burak Cevik Laguna Hills High School Open AT2: Roger Castle, Valeri Kim Aleksandr Itunin March 1, 2014 Jimmy Guo, George Yang Under 1700 RR: Marijo Letic Laguna Hills, California AT3: Vince Mioduszewski Phil Schock Edward A Zadrozny, Raymond John- Under 2000 RR: Thong Nguyen, Phuong- Sophal Pouv, Travis Eiles ston, Michael Wilke Tram Lu AT4: Tod Kaiser Alan Bi Scott Lip- Under 1300 RR: Mike Burchfield Under 1500 RR: James Basiao, Michael scomb, Max Keswani Anwen Harris, Daniel Waugaman Vaden BT1: Zhongwei Gao, Michael Groom Richard G. Beer Under 1200 RR: Rogelio Cisneros, Eric Fountain, Zhongkai (John) Xu Thomas Nam BT2: Kyle Lake, Ting-Chung Cheng Her- LATTA Thanh Banh Memorial Under 1850 RR: Quyen Ly Behnam, man Pandana, Nha H. Nguyen March, 29, 2014 Kazemi BT3: Grant Brown, Mengjin Su Los Angeles, California Under 2350 RR: Shivam Kumar, Vic Peng Yan, George Teodorescu Under 1150 RR: Victoria Brigitt, Sim- Truong BT4: John Peng, Paul Shih Jeffrey Jin, ing Zhang Unrated RR: Tony Kovacs, Chris Gail Jian Xin Guo Under 1750 RR: Eugene Brigitt, Jer- Under 2150 RR: Sherwin Afshar, Fred- BT5: Ethan Du, Bob VanSlyke Phil emy Winton rick Tio Goldsmith, Haohan Wang Under 1350 RR: Ming Chan, Charles Under 1700 RR: Syed Amjad Naqvi, CT1: Kahea Hendrickson, Pete Chra- Kim Arthur Campos miec, Jamo Parrish, Ron Skowronek

48 TABLE TENNIS Under 1950 RR: Craig Burton, Ronald 2014 Butterfly MDTTC April Open 13th Butterfly Cape Fear Open Yu April 5, 2014 April 5, 2014 Under 3650 Doubles: Willy Hwa-Fang Gaitherburg, MD Cape Fear, North Carolina Liang / Gabriel Espinosa, Grace Zhou / Open Singles RR: Ruichao Chen, Bo Wen Open Singles RR - Group 1 : Zhen Jia Jeremy Winton Chen Gregg Robertshaw, Paul Elliott Open RR: Zaman Molla, Zihao (Justin) Under 2400 RR: Bojun Zhangliang Ly Le Huang Nathan Hsu Open Singles RR - Group 2: Scott Under 2350 RR: Guo Hui Lu, Diane Under 2250 RR: Lixin Lang, Zibing Badillo Fred Van Nynatten Dongye Chen Wang Francisco Kuilan Xingchu Li Under 1500 RR: Ronald McPherson Under 2050 RR: Yunhua Gong Loc Vo Ryan Dabbs Holland April Club Tournament Under 2200 RR: Adam Bobrow, Under 1900 RR: Justin Bertschi April 12, 2014 Amanda Malek Darwin Ma Holland, Michigan Under 1650 RR: Winston Ngai, Ken- Under 1650 RR: Daniel Yang Under 1100 RR: Lex Khuzor neth Seiple Chanakya Anne Chris Anton, Rob Michaud Tony Under 1400 RR: Adam Kandel Draper 2014 BTTC Spring Open Daniel Gong Under 1500 RR: Thomas Manett March 29-30, 2014 Under 1150 RR: Daniel Sofer, Callie Dylan Yancey Bellevue, Washington Xu Under 1800 RR: Thomas Manett O- 55 years RR: Howard P. Grossman Age U-13: Benjamin Clark Callie Xu Justin Heslinga Raymond Lock, Mariano Ortiz Emily Z Yuan, Emily Wu Open Doubles RR: William Thompson Larry S. Chinn / Brian Fowler, Brad Overbeek / Brian Under 1000 Singles RR: Shavkat Aurora Spring Open Helander Vivek Singh / Joe Maher Karimov, Alex Van Steen, Alexei April 5, 2014 Dylan Yancey / Kelsey Fitzgerrel Mardari Aurora, Illinois Open Singles RR: Vivek Singh Under 2800 Doubles SE: Larry S. Giant Round Robin - Group 1: Wojciech Brian Fowler William Thompson Chinn / Donna Wilder, Ying Zhao / Wolski, Artur Kurek, Janusz Franeczek Brad Overbeek Akiko Bishop, Mariano Ortiz / Renee Dariusz Wolski Sayatovic Giant Round Robin - Group 2: Bogdan Dana Point Open Giant Round Under 2150 Singles RR: Brian Chia Plugowski, C. T. Pham, Jan Bogdan Robin April 13, 2014 John P. Ochsner Steven Claflin Dana Point, California Under 1450 Singles RR: Hyun Ook Giant Round Robin - Group 3: Bun-Hiong EUnder 1800 RR - Group 1: Arthur Ryu, Michael Greenbaum Carls Chua, Henry Polecki Ken Oh Campos Cole Riel, Paul Nguyen Under 1850 Singles RR: Umar Mbow Keith Offord Kenneth Seiple Chad Su Giant Round Robin - Group 4: Robert Under 1800 RR - Group 2: Steve Galm Under 1200 Singles RR: Shavkat Kari- Douglass Simon Liang, Stanislaw Micha- Steven Anderson Michael Chang mov, Alexei Mardari, Renee Sayatovic, lak, Peter Gerard Falcis Henry Wong Charles Schaaf Giant Round Robin - Group 5: Jang Won Open Singles RR - Group 1: Zaman 30 + Under 1650 RR: Yakov Zubarev Kim, Jeffrey Liao, Subba Parvathaneni, Molla, Tung Huy Pham, Tuan Dai Le Mariano Ortiz Hui Lin MD, Amanda Malek Under 2350 Singles RR: Wucheng Tao Giant Round Robin - Group 6: Jerry Dy- Open Singles RR - Group 2: Luis Brian Chia dynski, James Madrid, Robert L. Tysl Reyes, Behnam Kazemi, Karolina BTTC Special Singles RR: Christian Mike R. Baldwin Lira, Micah Lim Solomon Howard P. Grossman Giant Round Robin - Group 7: Kevin Hoang Ngo, David Ye Swan, Don Dyer, William Goodfellow Under 850 Singles RR: Akiko Bishop Kevin Colombo Renee Sayatovic Tomoko Takemura Giant Round Robin - Group 8: Advitheey Kareem Shehab Chelikani, Samuel Kim Nicolae Cio- Under 1350 Singles RR: Michael fiac, Marek Sypolka Greenbaum Larry S. Chinn Giant Round Robin - Group 9: Zexin Jiang, Carlos J Lara, Zsolt Keszthelyi Open Singles RR Bernardo Iturriaga Kaibai Liu Reda Ali Giant Round Robin - Group 10: Zita Bayr, Under 4200 Doubles RR: Gregory J. Frank Aguilera, Tim Szot Madison DiMarco / Christian Solomon Chao Hung Ho / Arthur Chan Giant Round Robin - Group 11: Danesh Under 1700 Singles RR: Ting-Chung Badlani, Aarish Lakhani, Armaan Rehm- Cheng Mingrui Wu ani Mark Derecho Under 1550 Singles RR: Mariano Ortiz Haohan Wang Under 1950 Singles RR: Tigran Gyon- jyan Vince Mioduszewski

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 49 Second Annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Team Tournament By: YijunFeng, Betty Yu, Ethan Jin To say that The Second Annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Team Team (Betty Yu, Sean Chua) advanced. In the semi- Team Tournament was a success is an understatement. finals,Team Robert Chen defeated James Wang/Tina Qin, Thanks to the support of the many parents and sponsors, and Albert Zhang/Eric Xie defeated Nigeria. The final this tournament was phenomenal. As tournament was highly anticipated. Both teams havejuniorswith very organizers, Ethan Jin, Betty Yu, and Iworked extremely high potential who have been training seriously for many hard to make the tournament competitive and enjoyable years. In the end Team Robert Chen finished in first place for all the participants. In addition to our intentions on over Albert Zhang/ Eric Xie. promoting the sport in Atlanta, another purpose of this Four extra awards to 4 special players were also tournament was tofundraise for USATT and JTTF (Junior given based on the performance of the juniors. Sabrina Table Tennis Foundation). Zhu received the Star Award for her outstanding overall On February 23, there were 24 teams (48 juniors) from play at such a young age, David Wang received The all over the Atlanta area to compete for many prizes. The Motivational Award for his high-spirited performance, tournament had two divisions. Division A consisted of Eric Xiereceived The Most Improved Award, and Alex all the teams with a combined rating of above 2500, and Yu received The Best Performance Award. Division B consisted of all the teams with a combined All in all, the 2nd annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis rating of 2500 or below, including all the beginners and Team Tournament was one of our best outcomes by far. unrated juniors.After a long day of competing, the wining Not only did we double the amount of teams we had the team of Division A was Team Robert Chen (James Du, last tournament, but we also gained more confidencethat Jason Zhang), and the winning teamof Division B was table tennis is growing more and more popular in Michael Fu and Kevin Zhao. the Southeast. We would like to thank Coach Wang Division A was divided into 3 round robin groups with Hui(Atlanta Table Tennis Academy), Coach Jie Chang, 2 teams advancing from each group. In group 1, Team AGTTA, and Butterfly for supporting this tournament. We Robert Chen (James Du, Jason Zhang) and Albert Zhang/ would also like to thank the parents who have provided all Eric Xie advanced. In group 2, James Wang/Tina Qin and the financial support to JTTF. Without you, JTTF would Double Happiness(David Wang, Jeffery Ma) advanced. never have the success that we have today. In the third group, Nigeria(Jerry Yao, Robert Chen) and

50 TABLE TENNIS Newgy Akron Open March 21-22, 2014 by Samson Dubina The 3-Star Newgy Akron Open set the record for the largest tournament in NE Ohio during the last 10 years. Leading the pack of 96 players was Wang Zhen (rated 2822) who just return from training in China and Germany. The 2-day event began on Friday with warm-up events and concluded Saturday with the Giant Round Robin events. The handicap event began first – one game to 31 points with the lower player receiving a “handicap” by starting with a lead in points. Cheng Li (rated 2598) spotted nearly everyone 25 points and still took home the first place cash! Finishing second was Daniel Waugaman and the semifinalist were Ron Martin and Gary Hobrath. Next up were the junior recreational and adult recreational. Andrew Heiser beat Noah Sussman in the junior Our Sponsors: Newgy, Wil-Cut, Clear Choice, Simplex Creative, final for the first place prize and Stephen Faulstich beatLee Paddle Palace, and CLJ Studios Szwast in the adult final for the first place prize. In theOpen doubles, Samson Dubina and Shreyans Bafna (Samson’s student) Our Staff: Greg Thompson, Perry Wilson, Pierce Scott, Sam surprised the spectators with 2 major upsets – first over Zhiquiao Dubina, Nancy Dubina, Cathy Steele, Raymond Johnston, Xie/Keith Pech in the semis 3-2 then over Cheng Li/Yi Chi Zhang Orlando McEwan, Karen Pon, David Bussey, and Ron Arcaro 3-1 in the final. The Saturday events were all giant round robins of 8 players Our Photographer: Chris Jordan from CLJ Studios with the top 4 players from each group advancing to the next round. In the open round robin groups, lobber Don Hamilton Our Host: Pastor Jimmy Taylor (2155) nearly caused the upset of the tournament losing a nail- bitter to Yi Chi Zhang (2584) 16-14 in the 5th game. After the Our Chefs: Heather Dubina, Rachel Detwiler, Cathy Steele, and top 4 finishers advanced from the 4 groups, they played a final Calvin Detwiler 16 single elimination. In the semifinals, Yi Chi Zhang played a very high-risk game against Wang Zhen and managed to squeak Results: out one game. In the end Wang was too consistent and was able to counter all of Zhang’s power shots. In the other semi, Samson Open Giant Round Robin: 1st Wang Zhen (rated 2822), started off well against Cheng Li by winning the first and up 6-2 2nd Cheng Li (rated 2598), 3rd Yi Chi Zhang (rated 2584), in the second. After a few tactical changes, Cheng Li was able 4th Samson Dubina (rated 2497), 5th-6th Nachiket Joshi and to adjust and win 4-1. In the start of the Open final, Wang Zhen Junyu Xiao, 7th-8th Seyed Hesam Hamrahian and Keith Pech was so steady from both sides – able to be consistent and still rip winners. Cheng Li was left shaking his head in shock that Under 2100 Giant Round Robin: 1st Burak Cevik, 2nd Wang could play at such a high level. The 150 spectators were Aleksandr Itunin, 3rd-4th Roger Liu and James Hamilton delighted to see Cheng win the 4th game and thought they might 5th-8th Rick Akers, Bob New, Shreyans Bafna, and Harsh see a comeback. Wang stepped up his level and won the 5th, 11-7 Khandelwal and took home the $1000 check. The other giant round robin events featured the same format. Under 1700 Giant Round Robin: 1st Mario Letic, 2nd Ed In the u2100 final Cincinnati’s Burak Cevik looped and smashed Zadrozny, 3rd Raymond Johnston, 4th Mike Wilke, 5th-8th his way to a $200 victory over lobbing and fishing Aleksandr Ashwin Turakhia, David Sommers, Joe Ciarrochi, and Itunin. The semifinalist Roger Liu and James Hamilton with also Richard Beer awarded with cash winnings for their valiant efforts. In the under 1700 final, the top seed Mario Letic got his revenge against Ed Under 1300 Giant Round Robin: 1st Mike Burchfield, 2nd Zadrozny. Ed had beaten him in the group, but Mario had the Anwen Harris, 3rd Daniel Waugaman, 4th Richard Beer, 5th- last word winning 3-0 in the final. The semifinalist were Mike 8th Dick Bennett, Jeff Shiff, David Sommers, Ron Martin Wilke and Raymond Johnston. The last event was the u1300. Two young players fought against the older crowd to come out on Open Doubles: 1st Samson Dubina/Shreyans Bafna, 2nd top – Mike Burchfield beat Anwen Harris in the final with Richard Cheng Li/Yi Chi Zhang, 3rd-4th Zhiqiao Xie/Keith Pech Beer and Daniel Waugaman losing in the semis. Congrats to all and Hesam Hamrahian/Ali Khatami the players for their fighting efforts throughout the tournament! Our next Akron tournament will be September 26-27 featuring Handicap: 1st Cheng Li, 2nd Daniel Waugaman, 3rd-4th the giant round robin format, excellent playing conditions, great Ron Martin and Gary Hobrath prize money, and free food for all the players. The entry form is now available atwww.samsondubina.com. I would like to send Junior Recreational: 1st Andrew Heiser, 2nd Noah Sussman out a special THANK YOU to all 96 players who attended our 3rd-4th Annie Liu and Sarah Sommers tournament. I would also like to send a THANK YOU to our tournament sponsors who made this event possible. See you in Adult Recreational: 1st Stephen Faulstich, 2nd Lee Szwast September!

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 51 Sacramento Winter Open March 1, 2014 Inderkum High School Sacramento, California by James Therriault. With U.S. Champion Timothy Wang on hand to battle the talented Jiaqi Zheng to capture the Open; and along with 165 other participants who went at it of all ages, sizes, and levels, this was truly an amazing tournament! Matches started at 9:45am and continued through-out the day on 36 tables in the 22 different round robin divisions of play! Many had a breakout day: Sergey Tsvor was on his game in winning the U-2100 and reaching semi’s in U-2250. Tian Xie won both U-1950 and U-1825! Pranav Tatravahi took the U-1575 and then the U-2800 Doubles with Sruti Raman! Pruthvi Innamuri placed 3rd in U-1325 and also won the U-1450! Sky High January Open But maybe even more impressive was the play of a couple of our -Sponsored by Joola smallest/youngest players like Jonathan Kong who won U-825 and By: Richard McAfee U-550, Stacy Nguyen who won U-400 and got 2nd in U-250, while On Sunday, January 26, 2014, the Sky High Table Tennis Aneesh Raghaven did just the opposite in taking the U-250 and plac- Club (Aurora, CO) held its first USATT Sanctioned Tourna- ing 2nd in U-400. ment in over 2 years. Forty-eight players from Colorado, A determined Kai Zarabin won the U-1200 and U-700 even if it Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah took part. Fourteen of meant playing late into the night! these were playing in there very first USATT Sanctioned Thanks to all players for a full day of great play and excitement! Tournament. Sky High Tournaments are sponsored by Joola Look for our Spring Open on Saturday May 10, where we may hold a and the Joola Super 3-Star Yellow ball was the official “tour- team or giant rr event! nament ball”. Here are all the 1st-4th results below: Matches started promptly at 10am and finished at 6pm. Each participant played a minimum of eight matches with a total of 185 matches being played. All the players enjoyed Event, 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd & 4th place: the free pizza lunch that was provided along with free sodas Open: Timothy Wang, Jiaqi Zheng, Huaiyu Chen & Shashin Shod- and water throughout the day. There was a lot of exciting han play to watch. 2400, Jordan Yee, Zheng Yu Sun, Hiromasa Takemura & Opendro The Sky High Tournaments feature the very popular Thouraojam “Giant” Round Robin Format. This format allows players 2250, Olaf Surmann, Nelson Yu, Sergey Tsvor & Wai Wong to play against other players of all levels during the morn- 2100, Sergey Tsvor, Nelson Yu, Arun Sharma & Tian Xie ing round robin. Each player is then placed into a Division 1950, Tian Xie, Tarun Tandon, Aziz Mugren, & Joshua Cheng for the afternoon round robin based on their results in the 1825, Tian Xie, Joshua Cheng, Nick Zavastitsa & Wendy Chen morning. 1700, Alex Yuen, Radu Licea, Ryan Chen & Jaideep Singh The finals of the A Division featured two of Sky High’s 1575, Pranav Tatravahi, Jaideep Singh, Nick Zavastitsa & Wendy own, Phong Pham #1 seed and Basil Ibegbu seeded #3. This Chen match was played at a very high level with Phong’s strong 1450, Pruthvi innamuri, Shiju Tharun, Sahil Jain & Navid Afrah topspins barely edging out Basil’s athletic returns. Here is 1325, Tharun Shiju, Andrew Streng, Pruthvi Innamuri & Chris the list of our Division Winners and Runner-ups: Ziyalin 1200, Kai Zarabin, Jonathan Kong, Craig Mitchell & Navid Afrah Division Winner Runner-up 1075, Evan Chen, Nelson Cortez, Navid Afrah & Mike McRitchie A Phong Pham Basil Ibegbu 950, Ethan Chen, Abhinav Gunda, Chinmay Gharpure & Nathan B Jerry Mao Dean Dingyl Chen Lee C Bryon Kipschull Mike Mui 700, Kai Zarabin, Jonathan, Faith Tung & Chinmay Gharpure D John Lau Marilyn Feinstein 550, Jonathan Kong, Rachel Cheng, Emily Yang & Nathan Lee E Trevor McCord Ray Vincinoni 400, Stacy Nguyen, Aneesh Raghaven, Ethan Liu & Aarushi Bajpai 250 Aneesh Raghaven, Stacy Nguyen, Alice Fu & Michelle Lin Division finalists received beautiful trophies and the A Divi- 100,Amir Dhami, Avery Chan, Joseph Zou sion finalists also received cash prizes of $125 and $50. High School, Nick Horn, Kenny Rollins Conducting a Sanctioned Tournament takes a lot of work by 3300 Dbls, Stephen Alfred/Craig Mitchell, Howard Lindo/Angel our dedicated Tournament Committee. A special thank you Soltero to: Joyce McCready, Josh Harris, Kyle Angles and Diane 2800 Dbls, Pranav Tatravahi/Sruti Raman, Stephen Alfred/David McAfee. We also want to give a big “Thank You” to Ron Webb Lusk and Dennis Driggs for assisting with the physical set- 2300 Dbls, Ken Sandberg/Yung Ma, V. Alamuthu/ Akash Alamuthu up of the venue. Richard McAfee served as the Tournament Referee.

52 TABLE TENNIS The Early Spring Games At NYITTC

by Jean Sze It was already early spring, the spring rain continued. Occasionally, the rain became snow falkes. The weather was wet and cold. NYITTC 2014 March Open tournament was held in this wet season. In the early morning, in NYITTC the floor was cleaned and more chairs were set for players and audience. There were hot, cold drinks and snacks in the lounge. In the court, 8 tables were occupied by the practicing players. Some athletes were busy to sign in, others were cleaning the paddles or putting on sneakers, preparing for the matches. The tournament director, Sky High January Open NYITTC head coach, Coach Yuxiang Li, was helping athletes and parents to fill out the forms and writing documents. Parents and players were chatting and exchanging information with different languages. There were warm and friendly atmosphere in the lounge. The junior’s events were held in the morning. Junior under 11 event final attracted attention. One side, David Orloff was tall young athlete. His forehand attack had very strong explosive power. The other side, Kenneth Lee was a very small boy with glasses, not much taller than the table. He ran fast and with good block skill. Both athletes played with great courage. Since Kenneth had less mistake, he won the 1st place. David won 2nd. In the afternoon, started the high rating events. There were all kind playing styles, include pen-hold, shake-hand hold, attack and chop style. A senior athlete was using anti-spin rubber which made the game very interesting. Under 2200 event finals were between Zhenmo Zhou and MIn Xin Guo. Mr. Zhou with a pen-hold paddle, ran around and attacked very actively. Mr. Guo blocked every fast ball with shake-hand paddle, and smash back when he got a chance. Audience applaud very loudly to encourage both athletes. The cheering and the applauding sound filled the whole gym. People praised both athletes outstanding skills and great courages. Finally, Min Xin Guo got the champion and Zhenmo Zhou was runner-up.

The final results of all the events are following:

U2200-1st: Min Xin Guo; 2nd: ZhenmoZhou; 3rd: Alec Coiro, Jianglin Mei U1900-1st: Yun Ying; 2nd: Junjie Gao; 3rd: Mark Berg, Rafi Hosein U1700-1st: Rafi Hosein; 2nd: Jign2shkumar; 3rd: Roy Li, Li Wang U1400-1st: Paul Gregor; 2nd: Wolfgang Busch; 3rd: James Yen U1100-1st: David Orloff; 2nd: James Danziger; 3rd: Krithik Kannan, Kenneth Lee Junior U14-1st: James Yen; 2nd: Abe Gold; 3rd: Gabriel Kahane, Abe Benjamin Liu Junior U11-1st: Kenneth Lee, 2nd: David Orloff; 3rd: Krithik Kannan, James Danziger

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 53 2014 Butterfly Aurora Cup by Swavek Lorenc Organizing your first 4-star tournament presents many challengesand this proved true for the 2014 Butterfly Aurora Cup which took place in Aurora, IL on January 18 & 19, 2014. The venue was chosen from 12 different sites in the city of Chicago and the suburbs. The new, more rigorous and perhaps fairer USATT tournament sanctioning process required the installation of additional lights over the show courts to meet the minimum standard of a tournament of this rank. And finally, the sunlight streaming into the venue through the narrow windows located 40 feet off the ground needed to be blocked. This last obstacle was removed by hoisting 450 feet of black plastic sheeting which took several volunteers and a few nights to install. Fortunately, tournament director Swavek Lorenc was able to Krzysztof Szostak and Henry Poleckiand a pair from Fox to excite the Chicagoland area players and especially several Valley Table Tennis club,Matthias Stender andBun–HiongCarls members of his local club Fox Valley Table Tennis Club to pitch Chua. in during preparations and a new, 4-star tournament was born. The Women Open Singles event attracted 10 players, From the start, Swavek set the bar high for this tournament,with considerably fewer than was hoped for. Perhaps offering the goal of attractingover 200 players from Illinois and other another rated women’s event would attract lower rated players states. Much effort was put into preparing and executing a who might have been too intimidated by top seeded Yue Wu high-quality online and print marketing campaign and building (2533) and Yitong Liu (2393). As expected, the event ended an awards ceremony area with a podium large enough to fit a with first place going to Yue Wu and second place to Yitong doubles team. Liu (3, -9, 10, 4, 2). Third place went to local players Maria Butterfly, the official equipment sponsor, pulled out all the Kretschmer (2233) and Barbara Wei (2206). stops to make the tournament a success. They brought 38 brand The tournament director collected informal feedback during new Centerfold and Europa tables, 400 barriers and streamed and after the tournament via e-mail. While most of the feedback feature matcheslive on the web on both days. They also brought was positive, the more seasoned players who attended many inDanny Seemiller, who provided insightfulcommentary about events of this rank recommended several improvements that the various techniques and tricks employed during matches at will be considered for next year. feature tables. Infogix, Inc.,an enterprise software company, In the end—despite early challenges with getting the tournament was an early supporter and anotherkey sponsor. The provided off the ground, all of the hard work paid off and the plans for their expertise in marketing, contributed to the prize money next year’s tournament are already underway. pool and provided additional chairs for the event. Finally, the Aurora Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fox Valley Park District worked with the organizers to bring this Under 1900 RR: NarasimhanTigeRamakrishnan, Joseph event to Aurora. Masminster 264 players entered the tournament, making it the 5th largest Under 1400 RR: Sid Naresh, AdvitheeyChelikani tournament in the USA in the last 12 months. While almost Under 18 Youth: Nathan Hsu, TapabrataDey 70% of players were from Illinois, guests from 20 other states Open Singles RR: Mingyu Shi, Cheng Li also participated. The top players included former Chinese Under 1700 RR: Deepak Somarapu Josh Chung National Team memberMingyu Shi (2794), Diwei Shi (2627), Under 1200 RR: Kyle Hess, ZigmasVievesis Cheng Li(2582), Yi Chi Zhang (2582), Yue Wu (2533), Jim Under 2000 RR: Xiaoming Zhang, Ken Oh Butler (2554) and Samson Dubina (2515), just to name a few. Under 800 RR: Suraj Menon, Omar Salas-Lieves The Open Singles event received entries from 48 players. It Recreational: Kei Wai Lai, Lawrence Tran started at 11 am on Saturday and ended around 6 pm. Mingyu Under 2300 RR: ArturKurek, Maria Kretschmer Shi took first placeand Cheng Li second (9, 7, 4, 6). Third place Under 1800 RR: Joseph Masminster, Mansoor Ali went to Yi Chi Zhang and Jim Butler. Fifth, sixth, seventh, Abdulrasool and eighth place went to Micaiah Skolnick, SamehAwadallah, Open Doubles RR: Mingyu Shi / Diwei Shi, Yi Chi Zhang / Diwei Shi and Fernando Yamazato respectively. Cheng Li The Open Doubles and U-3800 Doubles attracted 12 and 16 Under 2500 RR: Fernando Yamazato, SamehAwadallah teams respectively, giving hope to the tournament director that Under 1600 RR: Deepak Somarapu, Hui Lin the art of playing doubles will be kept alive despite so much Under 1000 RR: Danny Sternfield, Thomas P. McCormack focus in this sport on individual ratings and achievement. Under 14 Youth: LavanyaMaruthapandian, David Sun The Open Doubles first place prize was won by Mingyu Shi Women Singles RR: Yue Wu, Yitong Liu andDiwei Shi after a four game match in which they defeated Yi Under 2400 RR: Nathan Hsu, Gabriel Skolnick Chi Zhang and Cheng Li (5, 8, 2, 0). The third places were won 40 and Over: Don R. Hamilton, Spenser Minh Lam by Fernando Yamazato and Felipe Morita along with Samson Under 2200 RR: Nathaniel Ming Curran, Arkadiusz Dubina andSamehAwadallah. The U-3800 Doubles held Zyworonek on Sunday ended with a victory by a pair from Lindenwood Under 1750 RR: Vidhan Chandra, LavanyaMaruthapandian University (Gabriel Skolnick and Luke Reft) who defeated Under 3800 Doubles RR: Gabriel Skolnick / Luke Reft, Marcel Borceanand Gabriel Bardan (7 8 11). Third place went Marcel Borcean / Gabriel Bardan

54 TABLE TENNIS 2014 Missouri Winter Games by Bill Lewis A total of 233 matches were completed on 12 tables during the ninth edition of the Missouri Winter Games Open. The ball sponsor for this tournament was ButterflyOnline.com. This tournament was held March 1, 2014 at the O’Reilly-Tefft gym in Springfield, MO and there were 54 players in attendance from five mid-western states. The day’s preeminent player was Russ Hamilton from nearby Bentonville, Arkansas who sported a stylish 2256 USATT rating. Hamilton’s ability to throttle each of his championship finals opponents doomed many a would-be challenger. Hamilton, though he possesses exceptional crosscourt hitting, combined this honed nuanced skill with his precise ability to accurately place last millisecond hits. The end result for those who played him: A loss for them - a victory for him. The Open Round Robin event had 24 competitors play through his own enabler and won the Under 2200, claiming stake to $75 six round robin groups. A total of 47 matches would ultimately dollars and winning the 1st place alloyed medal. be decided. The top two finishers from each round robin yielded 12 finalists: Russ Hamilton and Jim Zhang from Lawrence, KS in Open Round Robin group 1; Richard Martin from Kansas City and Bill Kindig from 1st Place: Russ Hamilton, Bentonville, AR $150.00 Alton, IL from group 2; Chunyen Liu from Overland Park, KS 2nd Place: Jeff Johnston, Smithville, MO $100.00 and Alex Larson from Rogers, AR in group 3; Jeff Johnston from 3rd Place: Richard Martin, Kansas City, KS $50.00 Smithville, MO and Cal Bayer from Lawrence, KS from group 4; Open Singles Dale Boswell from Springfield, MO and James Chambers from 1st Place: Russ Hamilton, Bentonville, AR $100.00 Garfield, AR from group 5; and Terry Brecheisen from Kansas 2nd Place: Richard Martin, Kansas City, MO $75.00 City, KS and Robert Johnson from Springfield, MO in group 6. Open Doubles When the resulting single elimination winnowing was sifted four 1st Place: R.Hamilton/T.Umebayashi AR $100.00 semifinalists emerged. One semifinalist consequently defaulted 2nd Place: D.Chu/J.Zhang, Lawrence, KS $ 50.00 which left Richard Martin sole possessor of 3rd place. The finals match then saw Hamilton go up against Johnston. Though neither Under 2200 man is by any stretch height deprived it would be Hamilton who 1st Place: Jeff Johnston, Smithville, MO $75.00 would be the more aggressive. True to Hamilton’s nature he 2nd Place: Richard Martin, Kansas City, MO $50.00 characteristically lost the first game then stormed back to win Under 2000 three successive sets thereby capturing the signature $150 prize 1st Place: David Chu, Lawrence, KS $75.00 and coveted 1st place medal. Hamilton was the new Open Round 2nd Place: Dale Boswell, Springfield, MO $50.00 Robin champion. Under 1800 The Open Singles drew 8 players through two round robins 1st Place: Nik Terzic, Ballwin, MO Medal which yielded a total of 13 matches. Russ Hamilton would win 2nd Place: Terry Brecheisen, Kansas City, KS Medal his initial group 1 round robin while Richard Martin would win 3rd Place: David Chu, Lawrence, KS Medal group 2. Each of these players would set down their respective Under 1600 round robin opponents though Martin would need a game four 1st Place: Jim Zhang, Lawrence, KS Medal to accomplish this task against one very determined St. Louis, 2nd Place: Bill Kindig, Alton, IL MO opponent: Herschel Tian. Getting off to another slow Medal start Hamilton would allow Martin to win the psychologically 3rd Place: Alex Larson, Rogers, AR Medal enhancing game one of their 1st place finale. Hamilton would then stave off this challenger and sweep through the next three games Under 1400 for a three sets to one victory. Hamilton would thus secure the 1st Place: Marko Terzic, Ballwin, MO Medal $100 prize as the principal and prime beneficiary in Open Singles. 2nd Place: Cal Bayer, Lawrence, KS Medal The Under 2200 elicited seven competitors and they clashed and 3rd Place: Randy Liu, Battlefield, MO Medal clanged through 10 matches. When the combatants were finally Under 1200 disarmed and the flying 40mm ordnance had all safely landed the 1st Place: Cal Bayer, Lawrence, KS Medal smoke cleared to reveal two players still standing: Richard Martin 2nd Place: Jiawei Huang, Lawrence, KS Medal who came from group 1 and Jeff Johnston from group 2. Doing it 3rd Place: Tom Jourdan, Vinita, OK Medal the old fashioned hard way, Johnston dropped the critical first two Novice Singles games of their Under 2200 finals match at 11 to 2 and 13 to 11. 1st Place: David Houchens, Springfield, MO Medal The tough part was front and center: How to win the next three 2nd Place: Ty Walters, Springfield, MO Medal games. Was he to play it safe on each and every hit and possibly win by outlasting his opponent, or, go for the gusto and not hold Hardbat Open back? As a past Over 40 national hardbat champion, Johnston 1st Place: Jeff Johnston, Smithville, MO $75.00 doesn’t know the meaning of the words ‘to hold back.’ He threw 2nd Place: Ben Lewis, Springfield, MO $50.00 the obligatory caution to the wind and opted for the latter. With seasoned and timely hitting Johnston won his next three games by scores of: 11 to 5; 11 to 8 and 11 to 9. Johnston was himself

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 55 Unveiling of the ITTF’s Quad Goal: Reach Top 5 in Every Criteria

By Sheri Soderberg Cioroslan In January the ITTF Executive Committee hosted approximately 80 guests (“table tennis volunteers and experts”) at a dinner in Dubai to roll out the ITTF’s quadrennial goal of reaching a top 5 rank in every criteria in international federation (IF) rankings. ITTF President Sharara explained that a few years ago, he was delighted to discover that the ITTF’s website, as measured by objective criteria, was about #3 in popularity, compared with all IFs. That piqued his interest and he began searching the Internet quite prodigiously. His mission was to answer the question, “How are we perceived?” His searches revealed several studies and surveys of the top sports in the world. At least 12 of them had table tennis listed in the without knowing two factors: 1) the human resources/skill set top 10, but never in the top 5. Football/soccer usually scored #1. available and 2) how much money can be directed toward achieving the desired objectives. A good analysis leads to “success, success, success” whereas a poor understanding of those two factors leads to “failure, failure, failure.” (His emphasis.) Our tool for moving forward is the codename: DBI. It stands for Data-Base Intelligence. DBI will be utilized to develop a “Human Resources Data-Base,” a summary of skills and areas of expertise that exist within the not only roughly 25 professionals already on staff, but also within the entirety of our global table tennis family, friends and even neighbors. Always keeping in mind the overall goal “in every criteria, move up to the top 5,” the ITTF will then solicit strategic input for goals and objectives from elected volunteers, officials and experts at international and continental levels as well as national associations and ITTF staff. The meeting in Dubai started the clock ticking on setting the plans in motion. All initial input will be sought between now and Cricket appeared in the top 5 in 50% of the surveys. Swimming also approximately March 15. In Tokyo, the ITTF’s EC will finalize the consistently was ranked higher than table tennis. professional staff structure for 2014-2016. These findings stirred the president to set a clear objective for this Addressing the financial side, the ITTF will strive to forecast quad: in everything we do, be in the top 5! This starts with our within 5% how much revenue it will generate for the quad. After website, our World Championships, and our development program. ensuring that the ITTF’s reserve will be equal to one year of After his re-election in Paris, President Sharara approached the operational expenses, the ITTF’s newly-formed Finance Committee IOC to gather more information. The IOC already conducts its own will allocate the spending on this “top 5 in all we do” initiative assessment of sports in the Olympic program. About 17 categories to an amount that neither overspends nor underfunds the ultimate with numerous subcategories (adding up to approximately 40 criteria objective. That analysis is slated to be determined by June. in total) are measured. While it once released its conclusions more Merging all of the information gleaned from the steps described openly, the IOC now limits the information it releases to IFs. Each IF above, the ITTF will then announce in September its short-term is entitled to know only its own assessment by the IOC. (2015-2016), medium term (2017-2020) and “flex-time” (ongoing) President Sharara shared his objective and asked the IOC where we goals and objectives. By year-end, 2014, the ITTF will establish are strongest and where we are weakest in comparison to the other performance indicators to measure progress and success of the plan. IFs. He learned that we already are in the top 5 in terms of tv viewers Looking at this from a yearly perspective, it will look like this: during the Olympics and also percentage of seats filled/attendance (99.2%) at the Olympics. A weak area, conversely, was print media, 2014: Activate Design Action Plan based on DBI and P5 where the ITTF ranked #17. 2015: Implement P5 Plan, using DBI This revelation, combined with his own admission that even as 2016: Review of P5 Plan / Refine DBI Process / Review the ITTF president, he might not even be aware of 40% of our own Performance Indicators Olympic development activities, led him to the frank conclusion that we don’t promote our sport enough. We need to be bolder. We have What this will mean for the ITTF is change. It’s another step to mention what we do well. If we are a sport of introverts, we have toward modernizing our federation and embracing a call for new to overcome that barrier. We have to, in a good way, be willing to ideas. Keeping in mind that some “crazy” ideas of the past are now boast and be arrogant. We need to promote our sport! And, that considered to be the norm, all ideas are welcome. “P” for “promotion” fit in nicely with President Sharara’s previously The crowd endorsed the president’s presentation with loud espoused “P4 Plan,” dating back to his original election in 1999. (P4 applause, indicating their enthusiastic willingness to participate in = Popularity, Participation, Profit, & Planning) the “Top-5 in Sports” ITTF initiative. President Sharara closed by With the newly expanded, “P5 Plan Priorities” in mind, President saying that follow up will be conducted through emails. Sharara determined that it is not acceptable for an IF to set objectives photos courtesy of ITTF 56 TABLE TENNIS Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 57 58 TABLE TENNIS Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 59 RANKINGS US National Trial Rankings 2014 US Team and 2014 US Entry to the World Team Championships in Tokyo, Japan The US National Team is composed of the Top Four players as they finished at the trials. The next finishing players are alternates (in the order in which they finished). The Top Ten players are listed on this page. If a player is unable to compete, then the next alternate is chosen to compete in their place. The U.S. entry to the 2014 Worlds will include the US Team plus one additional player selected by the coaches and approved by the USATT High Performance Committee. This year, the additional players selected for each team are Kanak Jha for the men’s team, and Angela Guan for the women’s team. TOP MEN TOP WOMEN 1. Timothy Wang 6. Shao Yu 1. Lily Zhang 6. Angela Guan 2. Adam Hugh 7. Kanak Jha 2. Prachi Zha 7. Diane Jiang 3. Yahao Zhang 8. Chance Friend 3. Crystal Wang 8. Tina Lin 4. Jim Butler 9. Samson Dubina 4. Erica Wu 9. Laura Huang 5. Billy Xu Ding 10. Cory Eider 5. Judy Hugh 10. Joy Li

60 TABLE TENNIS USATT National Rankings TOP MEN TOP WOMEN 1 GA 2796 Shi, Mingyu 1 CA 2660 Gao, Jun 2 CA 2711 Zhou, Xin 2 PA 2609 Zhou, Xiao (Sophia) 3 GA 2711 Li, Kewei PRESENTED BY 3 WA 2574 Tang, Li Ying 4 CA 2709 Zhang, Xiang 4 CA 2566 Zheng, Jiaqi 5 NY 2704 Zhang, Kai 5 CA 2529 Li, RuiNi 6 CA 2679 Liang, Yonghui 6 CA 2528 Zhang, Lily 7 PA 2649 Li, Bochao 7 CA 2527 Tian, Maggie 8 NY 2647 Provost, Damien 8 NY 2512 Ooka, Hiroka 9 VA 2641 Kim, Jang Ho 9 CA 2495 Hsing, Ariel 10 CA 2639 Yuan, Xiao Jie 10 NJ 2495 Wu, Yue 11 TX 2636 Wang, Timothy 11 NJ 2472 Zhao, Jing Yi 12 NJ 2629 Zhuang, David ENJOY THE ULTIMATE 12 TX 2461 Chih, De-Rong 13 NJ 2614 Hugh, Adam PRECISION-SHOT-MAKING 13 NY 2445 Wang, XinYue 14 GA 2607 Shi, Diwei 14 WA 2399 Zhang, Bijia 15 CA 2594 Liu, Dan EXPERIENCE! 15 MD 2396 Wang, Crystal 16 NY 2594 Liang, Jishan 16 CA 2392 Tong, Fei-Ming 17 MS 2590 Li, Cheng 17 NJ 2385 Yip, Lily 18 CA 2588 Jha, Kanak 18 NJ 2384 Hugh, Judy 19 MD 2587 Zhang, Jake 19 CA 2383 Wu, Erica 20 MS 2583 Zhang, Yi Chi 20 VA 2378 Li, Tao 6. Angela Guan 21 CA 2582 Zhang, Weijian 21 CA 2377 Jha, Prachi 22 GA 2582 Li, Hangyu 22 GA 2375 Liu, Yitong(Wantong) 7. Diane Jiang 23 CA 2581 Han, Zheng 23 TX 2352 Hazinski, Shu Fu (Sara) 24 GA 2580 Feng, Yijun 24 TX 2345 Lee, Sumi 8. Tina Lin 25 TX 2579 Hazinski, Mark 25 TX 2332 Li, Yawei 25 CA 2576 Kashyap, Anal 25 CA 2330 Chen, Diane 9. Laura Huang 27 NJ 2575 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony) 27 CA 2327 Guan, Angela 28 NY 2573 Shao, Yu 28 NJ 2325 Wang, Amy 10. Joy Li 29 MD 2573 Wang, Qing Liang 29 CA 2323 Jiang, Diane 30 CA 2567 Guo, Hao 30 NJ 2321 Lin, Tina 31 CA 2547 Nguyen, Khoa 31 MO 2317 Fukushima, Karin 32 TX 2543 Zhang, Yahao 32 NJ 2293 Peng, Ying 33 MA 2540 Li, Grant 33 IL 2261 Kretschmer, Maria 34 TX 2538 Butler, Jim 34 CA 2245 Yang, Grace 35 CA 2533 Huang, Jeff 35 GA 2235 Zhang, Yi 36 NJ 2533 Eider, Cory 36 AZ 2231 Jing, Wenchan 37 NJ 2532 Yang, XinYang 37 WA 2225 Ma, Lucy 38 CA 2529 Chen, Yu-heng 38 CA 2222 Zhang, YiYun 39 NJ 2528 Zhong, Zongqi (Henry) SPONGE SOFT SPONGE MEDIUM SPONGE HARD 39 MD 2218 Wei, Barbara 40 GA 2528 Chen, Zihao 40 NJ 2213 Wang, Mendy (Ke) OPTIMAL BALL CONTACT 41 CA 2524 Tan, Peng SUPER MATTED SURFACE 41 TX 2211 Ikeizumi, Claudia 42 MD 2523 Xiao, Han 42 AZ 2210 Sipos, Renata 43 MD 2522 Chen, Bo Wen 43 OR 2206 Hui, Jingwen 44 NY 2516 Gao, YanJun 44 TX 2204 Huang, Laura 45 CA 2516 Chodri, Kunal PaddlePalace.com 45 MD 2202 Wang, Heather 46 UT 2513 Najem, Alfred 800-547-5891 b 503-777-2266 46 NC 2200 Jia, Zhen 47 NY 2512 Landers, Michael Paddle Palace: North American Sole Distributor for STIGA 47 MA 2200 Liu, Shuhan 48 MO 2512 Yamazato, Fernando 48 CA 2196 Yang, Michelle (Min) 48 CA 2512 Wang, Rui 48 FL 2196 Charoenmit, Chanya 50 MD 2511 Li, Peter 50 PA 2179 Xiao, Claire

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Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 61 NATIONAL RANKINGS OVER 80 MEN OVER 60 WOMEN OVER 30 MEN UNDER 18 GIRLS NC 1950 Diwakar, Madhu MD 1993 Liu, Charlene GA 2711 Li, Kewei CA 2528 Zhang, Lily MD 1648 Greenberg, MortonNJ 1929 Alvarez, Ann NJ 2629 Zhuang, David MD 2396 Wang, Crystal MO 1605 Sokol, Stanley TX 1928 Roufeh, Tahereh (Mahin)CA 2576 Kashyap, Anal CA 2383 Wu, Erica TN 1598 Kitchel, Dwain CA 1918 Livshin, Bella NY 2573 Shao, Yu CA 2377 Jha, Prachi FL 1590 Palumbo, Alfred NC 1916 Fan, Ling CA 2547 Nguyen, Khoa CA 2327 Guan, Angela NJ 1549 Sheng, Tan Tsu CA 1902 Cheung, TingNing TX 2538 Butler, Jim NJ 2325 Wang, Amy OH 1531 Myers, Neil CA 1898 Xianyu, Hui NJ 2533 Eider, Cory CA 2323 Jiang, Diane TN 1506 Neely, Bill CA 1856 Suzuki, Chiyako NY 2516 Gao, YanJun NJ 2321 Lin, Tina FL 1490 Cincotta, Joseph MD 1799 Sakai, Donna UT 2513 Najem, Alfred CA 2245 Yang, Grace HI 1486 Lum, Bill CA 1778 Sung, Monica WI 2501 Barsoum, Emad WA 2225 Ma, Lucy UT 1462 Mathis, John CT 1774 Choi, Eun Sun NY 2494 Awadallah, SamehNJ 2213 Wang, Mendy (Ke) CA 1453 Hartmann, Rudy CA 1736 Martinez-Simons, PattyOH 2489 Dubina, Samson TX 2204 Huang, Laura CA 1444 Miller, Al VA 1697 Kaminsky, BarbaraMD 2473 Baring, Harold FL 2196 Charoenmit, Chanya CA 1441 Olson, Richard CA 1695 Chan, Yude TX 2464 Cretu, Razvan PA 2179 Xiao, Claire CA 1372 Kanekar, Suresh CA 1679 Tsung, Julian IN 2448 Seemiller, Daniel CA 2173 Chu, Isabel OVER 75 OVER 50 MEN OVER 30 WOMEN UNDER 16 BOYS UNDER 12 BOYS CA 2071 Tay, Chong NJ 2629 Zhuang, David Yong-XiangCA 2660 Gao, Jun CA 2588 Jha, Kanak CA 2225 Kumar, Nikhil NY 2058 Braithwaite, GeorgeIN 2448 Seemiller, Daniel NY 2512 Ooka, Hiroka NJ 2532 Yang, XinYang MN 2176 Tran, Michael IN 2055 Hicks, H. NY 2432 Boggan, Eric CA 2392 Tong, Fei-Ming MD 2522 Chen, Bo Wen CA 2173 Gong, Steven NC 1950 Diwakar, Madhu TX 2416 Schwartzberg, PerryNJ 2385 Yip, Lily CA 2516 Chodri, Kunal CA 2083 Chen, Pin-Chung NJ 1929 Alvarez, Ann NY 2375 Tran, De TX 2345 Lee, Sumi CA 2439 Avvari, Krishnateja IN 2026 Luo, Henry WA 1904 Grossman, HowardGA 2364 Xin, Peng TX 2332 Li, Yawei CA 2381 Cheng, Newman CA 2024 Bai, William WA 1821 Wolfe, Wes NY 2355 Li, Yu Xiang CA 2330 Chen, Diane CA 2356 Shah, Aarsh MA 2008 Cui, David AL 1801 Peters, Ronald NJ 2348 Osmanov, Roman NJ 2293 Peng, Ying NY 2352 Wu, Tinglei NJ 2002 Chen, Alan NY 1777 Nazarbechian, TomasNY 2318 Henry, Michael IL 2261 Kretschmer, Maria TX 2351 Zhai, Hao IL 2001 Pardeshi, Akash NC 1756 Guillory, Ralph MA 2314 Shapiro, Vladimir GA 2235 Zhang, Yi NJ 2345 Alguetti, Gal NY 1977 Feng, Yihao (John) CA 1747 Fahlstrom, Ragnar VA 2310 Doverman, RichardAZ 2210 Sipos, Renata CA 2343 Liu, Victor CA 1972 Puri, Sahil FL 1732 Shultz, John CA 2306 Baddar, Mohamed A.MD 2202 Wang, Heather MD 2333 Ke, Roy PA 1960 Parthsarthy, Prasiddha CA 1730 Lu, Yueh Yun FL 2305 Fleisher, Dickie NC 2200 Jia, Zhen CA 2332 Kumar, Shivansh CA 1956 Yung, Timothy CA 1716 Kuluva, Neil MI 2301 Xu, Xuan Steve CA 2130 Dole, Gina NJ 2332 Wang, Jack NJ 1930 Lu, Matthew FL 1710 Holck, Bruce CA 2297 Schmidt, Avishy MI 2099 Murakami, Tamaki NJ 2329 Chen, Timothy MD 1916 Lu, Jason OVER 70 MEN OVER 50 WOMEN UNDER 22 MEN UNDER 16 GIRLS UNDER 12 GIRLS NV 2175 Resek, Errol NJ 2385 Yip, Lily GA 2796 Shi, Mingyu MD 2396 Wang, Crystal NJ 2325 Wang, Amy IL 2170 Inui, Tadao (Tom) IL 2261 Kretschmer, Maria CA 2709 Zhang, Xiang CA 2327 Guan, Angela TX 2027 Hsieh, Tia CA 2106 Ukapatayasakul, BillCA 2130 Dole, Gina NY 2704 Zhang, Kai NJ 2325 Wang, Amy CA 1933 Wu, Youruo FL 2075 Concepcion, ElmanCA 2010 Nguyen, Thuy CA 2639 Yuan, Xiao Jie CA 2323 Jiang, Diane CA 1930 Sung, Rachel CA 2071 Tay, Chong MD 1993 Liu, Charlene GA 2607 Shi, Diwei NJ 2321 Lin, Tina VA 1870 Lu, Jie NV 2063 Von Schimmelmann,NJ Ron 1929 Alvarez, Ann CA 2594 Liu, Dan CA 2245 Yang, Grace TX 1834 Zhao, Kelly CA 2061 Leung, Che-Him TX 1928 Roufeh, Tahereh (Mahin)MS 2590 Li, Cheng WA 2225 Ma, Lucy MD 1825 Ke, Tiffany NY 2058 Braithwaite, GeorgeCA 1918 Livshin, Bella CA 2588 Jha, Kanak NJ 2213 Wang, Mendy (Ke) FL 1808 Barvie-Perez, Sherlyn IN 2055 Hicks, H. NC 1916 Fan, Ling MD 2587 Zhang, Jake TX 2204 Huang, Laura CA 1787 Yang, Rachel CA 2007 Chau, Y.C. CA 1902 Cheung, TingNing GA 2582 Li, Hangyu PA 2179 Xiao, Claire TX 1787 Gao, Katie NC 1950 Diwakar, Madhu CA 1898 Xianyu, Hui GA 2580 Feng, Yijun TX 2146 Li, Joy KS 1782 Maruthapandian, Lavanya MD 1910 Lonergan, Terry FL 1867 Hu, Yanju NJ 2575 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony)CA 2129 Deb, Ishana CA 1730 Tan, Angie WA 1904 Grossman, HowardCA 1856 Suzuki, Chiyako MD 2573 Wang, Qing Liang CA 2126 Huo, Luvena MA 1711 Zhang, Angela WA 1893 Lee, Joseph NJ 1850 Tang, Suyan CA 2567 Guo, Hao NJ 2124 Hu, Xiyue CA 1612 Chen, Wendy NY 1876 Gudzenko, Gary MD 1799 Sakai, Donna TX 2543 Zhang, Yahao TX 2027 Hsieh, Tia CA 1596 Sung, Joanna OVER 70 WOMEN OVER 40 MEN UNDER 22 WOMEN UNDER 14 BOYS UNDER 10 BOYS NJ 1929 Alvarez, Ann NJ 2629 Zhuang, David Yong-XiangCA 2529 Li, RuiNi CA 2588 Jha, Kanak GA 1763 Ng, Daniel CA 1778 Sung, Monica NY 2573 Shao, Yu CA 2528 Zhang, Lily NJ 2345 Alguetti, Gal TN 1745 Khan, Mohammed VA 1697 Kaminsky, BarbaraCA 2547 Nguyen, Khoa CA 2495 Hsing, Ariel CA 2343 Liu, Victor CA 1657 Li, Ted MD 1480 Kronlage, Yvonne TX 2538 Butler, Jim NJ 2472 Zhao, Jing Yi NJ 2332 Wang, Jack WA 1526 Du, Ethan CA 1464 Hellwig, Irina IN 2448 Seemiller, Daniel TX 2461 Chih, De-Rong NJ 2324 Alguetti, Sharon NJ 1526 Zhou, Jayden NV 1381 Arpon, Joyce NY 2432 Boggan, Eric WA 2399 Zhang, Bijia CA 2301 Tio, Nicholas VA 1518 Zhang, Bowen TN 1333 Gove, Ruth TX 2416 Schwartzberg, PerryMD 2396 Wang, Crystal CA 2294 Gong, Renny CA 1487 Gao, Patrick CO 1327 Longee, Jinny TX 2415 Oak, Niraj CA 2383 Wu, Erica CA 2294 Gao, Felix VT 1356 Tomas, Marijan FL 1320 Williams, Nahed TX 2414 Subonj, Viktorian CA 2377 Jha, Prachi MD 2293 Nie, Derek MD 1353 Chen, Ronald CA 1316 Do, Linda MA 2389 Chui, Chi-Sun GA 2375 Liu, Yitong(Want CA 2277 Kumar, Shivam WI 1270 Bedi, Kabir MO 1291 Davis, Rosemary GA 2383 Ko, Carlos CA 2327 Guan, Angela TX 2256 Li, Jonathan CA 1246 He, William FL 1237 Cline, Jan NY 2375 Tran, De NJ 2325 Wang, Amy CA 2229 Tong, Howard TX 1155 Mu, Kevin CA 1229 Quon, Harriet CA 2373 Jafar, Shuja CA 2323 Jiang, Diane CA 2225 Kumar, Nikhil MI 1152 Hammond, Jacob CA 1222 Ho, Laura MD 2366 Abass, Larry NJ 2321 Lin, Tina OH 2222 Hamrahian, Seyed MD 1149 Sofer, Daniel CA 1143 Brin, Harriet GA 2364 Xin, Peng CA 2245 Yang, Grace CA 2194 Chang, Matthew NJ 1137 Zhang, Richard OVER 60 MEN OVER 40 WOMEN UNDER 18 BOYS UNDER 14 GIRLS UNDER 10 GIRLS GA 2364 Xin, Peng CA 2660 Gao, Jun NY 2704 Zhang, Kai MD 2396 Wang, Crystal CA 1933 Wu, Youruo CA 2291 Malek, Attila CA 2392 Tong, Fei-Ming GA 2607 Shi, Diwei NJ 2325 Wang, Amy CA 1930 Sung, Rachel KS 2259 Mojaverian, Parviz NJ 2385 Yip, Lily CA 2588 Jha, Kanak CA 2245 Yang, Grace MD 1825 Ke, Tiffany TX 2259 Hou, Randy TX 2345 Lee, Sumi GA 2582 Li, Hangyu CA 2129 Deb, Ishana CA 1730 Tan, Angie TX 2258 Chan, Henry CA 2330 Chen, Diane GA 2580 Feng, Yijun CA 2126 Huo, Luvena CA 1596 Sung, Joanna OH 2248 Tannehill, John NJ 2293 Peng, Ying CA 2567 Guo, Hao TX 2027 Hsieh, Tia CA 1170 Yin, Emilie FL 2248 Chu, Bin Hai IL 2261 Kretschmer, Maria NJ 2532 Yang, XinYang MD 2023 Lu, Amy CA 1150 Chen, Tina NV 2175 Resek, Errol CA 2130 Dole, Gina MD 2522 Chen, Bo Wen CA 1933 Wu, Youruo TX 1103 Lan, Ellen NJ 2175 Shtofmakher, SimonMI 2099 Murakami, Tamaki CA 2516 Chodri, Kunal CA 1930 Sung, Rachel NJ 1028 Chen, Katie IL 2170 Inui, Tadao (Tom) CA 2057 Leitman, Marina CA 2512 Wang, Rui NY 1927 Ackerman, Estee CA 1022 Giri, Swathi CA 2163 Kim, Jin Up CA 2010 Li, Tzu-Ying CA 2486 Tran, Theodore GA 1877 Lin, Emilie TX 787 Chen, Maggie MA 2158 Hlava, Jiri CA 2010 Nguyen, Thuy NJ 2468 Wang, Allen VA 1870 Lu, Jie OH 782 Khatami, Sarveen CO 2148 McAfee, Richard MD 1993 Liu, Charlene CA 2460 Ren, Ruqin TX 1834 Zhao, Kelly NJ 778 Fong, Molly TX 2137 Tran, Minh NY 1962 Drabkina, Olga CA 2439 Avvari, Krishnatej MD 1825 Ke, Tiffany FL 729 Ruiz, Mylin NV 2137 Chan, Ming NM 1938 Gresham, Toni CA 2436 Lin, Bryant FL 1808 Barvie-Perez, Sherlyn CA 715 Srivastava, Saanvi NATIONAL RATINGS LIST (The Most Recent 3200 Tournament Players In Alphabetical Order by Last Name)

LA 1900 Abadie, Spencer OH 1677 Asare, Francis IL 598 Berger, Jennifer WV 1641 Butts, Mike GA 328 Chen, Ben CA 1036 Cisneros, Rogelio MD 2366 Abass, Larry MD 2242 Asgarali, Nazruddin NY 1186 Bergman, Jim MA 1357 Bychkov, Vladimir NJ 1140 Chen, Bin FL 2323 Ciz, Richard NY 957 Abouelardat, Ziad NC 790 Ashkin, Jeffrey CA 1374 Bergman, Neal OH 1382 Byler, Erwin FN 2736 Chen, Bob IL 2004 Claflin, Steven FL 1914 Abril, Ricardo CA 1289 Athalye, Rohan TX 1214 Bergmann, Grant OH 663 Byler, James CA 976 Chen, Christopher NY 2119 Clang, John OH 741 Accursi, Christopher MO 1400 Atmaca, Cagatay MN 1957 Berman, Anton OH 1359 Byler, John NY 115 Chen, Claire CA 1113 Clark, Barbara NY 2094 Acharya, Rahul PA 1101 Attenberger, Mark NC 1980 Berman, Charlie TX 2167 Byles, Roberto CO 1733 Chen, Dean NJ 739 Clark, Barry NY 1639 Acharya, Rohan CA 2338 Au, Kevin CA 1403 Bernstein, David TX 2035 Byles, Roger TX 439 Chen, Dennis IL 1505 Clark, Robert OK 1668 Ackart, Stephen NC 1636 Auerbach, Craig VA 1656 Berry, Sam MO 760 Cai, Alice CA 2330 Chen, Diane NY 1077 Clarke, Glenroy NY 1927 Ackerman, Estee NC 1156 Augustine, Patrick TX 1666 Bertschi, Justin NE 1892 Caines, Devon TX 613 Chen, Emma AZ 1139 Clavijo, Deborah NY 1172 Ackerman, Glenn CA 1634 Aung, San CO 1823 Betancur, Ann Marie CA 230 Cajigas, Alberto CA 900 Chen, Ethan AZ 1204 Clavijo, Sergio MN 1381 Ackerman, John CA 936 Avarell, Kim IN 1669 Betts, Steve KY 1804 Calipo, Willians CA 1051 Chen, Evan IN 2263 Clyde, Stephen NV 1559 Acopiado, Rodil OH 2014 Averin, Alex CA 1285 Bhachawat, Yash CA 1916 Calvert, Thomas CA 2431 Chen, Huaiyu MI 2057 Cobb, Dennis CA 1682 Adachi, Ryousuke WI 2116 Avery, Aaron CA 1163 Bharadwaj, Sudhanva VT 1939 Cameron, Ken MA 324 Chen, Jasmine MI 2142 Cobb, Dennis GA 1218 Adams, Billy CA 2439 Avvari, Krishnateja TX 1223 Bhardwaj, Nishant CA 1117 Campbell, Dan MA 587 Chen, Jason IN 2400 Cochran, Joseph CA 1629 Adams, Steve NY 2494 Awadallah, Sameh CA 1769 Bhartia, Saurabh CA 1611 Campos, Arthur GA 603 Chen, Jesse CA 1576 Cohen, Ed OK 2159 Addy, Winfred CA 2089 Awale, Sandesh NJ 1335 Bhatia, Pravir FL 1640 Canepa, Felipe OR 2095 Chen, Jia Feng (Jason) NJ 2253 Cohen, Randy NJ 1623 Adebayo, Vincent IN 2168 Ayangade, Oluwole NJ 1225 Bhatia, Viren FL 1559 Cao, Tan TX 1756 Chen, Judy NY 1855 Coiro, Alec TX 1008 Adeyinka, Oluwatobi CA 1719 Azimzadeh, Kamran TX 1551 Bhatnagar, Neeraj WA 1392 Cao, Tao TX 1661 Chen, Justin FL 1341 Cole, Ryan CA 68 Adi, Sarah AR 1234 Collins, Fred CA 2225 Kumar, Nikhil CA 1869 Aziz, Sultan MA 1432 Bhobe, Rahul FL 1571 Cao, Thang NJ 1028 Chen, Katie NY 2108 Adini, Eyal TX 1952 Babalola, Wole CA 1281 Bhutkar, Aishwarya MN 1965 Cao, Trac TX 1209 Chen, Kuei-Mei NV 1046 Collins, Jeff MN 2176 Tran, Michael CA 2134 Aebersold, Charles NC 1678 Babuin, Mike WA 1898 Bi, Alan CT 1468 Capasso, Anthony MN 1590 Chen, Leon MI 521 Collins, Michael CA 1216 Afrah, Navid CA 2173 Gong, Steven MA 1149 Backus, Rodman NY 699 Bianchi, Ettore NV 1286 Caples, Buddy TX 787 Chen, Maggie IL 1310 Colombo, Kevin CA 1994 Afshar, Sherwin ME 1235 Bacon, Jerry AZ 1540 Bill, Joe NY 1463 Caplin, Glenn FL 1770 Chen, Michael CA 1502 Colter, Gerald CA 2083 Chen, Pin-Chung OK 1300 Agbasi, Sam WA 855 Bacon, Neil MA 682 Billmers, Meyer FL 1594 Caplin, Stuart MD 1411 Chen, Patrick TX 1698 Compton, Robert IN 2026 Luo, Henry CA 1048 Agpaoa, Anthony MI 1435 Badillo, Scott NY 1249 Billow, Brian FL 1313 Capo, Enrico GA 1378 Chen, Patrick AZ 1944 Cone, Derrick MN 1853 Aguila, Gaylord IN 328 Baer, Alexis CA 504 Bilotta, Ryan CA 1070 Caraco, Derol OH 2134 Chen, Po Hsu MI 1028 Conklin, Scott CA 2024 Bai, William IN 683 Aguilera, Frank IN 1004 Baer, Brittany NJ 1030 Birenbaum, Andrew FL 1120 Cariglio, Joseph MD 1353 Chen, Ronald GA 1385 Conn, Elijah MA 2008 Cui, David LA 1314 Ahmad, Toysir MO 1846 Baez, Alfredo GA 943 Bires, James FL 1214 Cariglio, Michael CA 1644 Chen, Ryan CA 1650 Connell, Grant CA 887 Ahmed, Raeed OH 1869 Bafna, Shreyans WA 904 Bishop, Akiko LA 1762 Carlisle, Billy MD 1523 Chen, Spencer NC 1831 Connelly, Tim NJ 2002 Chen, Alan OH 1817 Akers, Richard W. VA 1785 Bagchi, Ayan AL 1361 Bishop, Donald WA 789 Carlson, Harold CA 1246 Chen, Stephanie VA 1964 Constantin, Costel IL 2001 Pardeshi, Akash TX 1713 Alamina, Louis FL 1202 Bahr, Michael FL 1004 Blass, Juli MI 1381 Carmean, Rick NY 1591 Chen, Steven TX 2087 Cook, Grayden CA 1391 Alamoudi, Yazan CA 766 Bai, Edwin CT 1021 Blauvelt, Tim NY 2293 Carney, A.J. NJ 1514 Chen, Timmy GA 1751 Cook, Joshua NY 1977 Feng, Yihao (John) CA 482 Alamuthu, Akash CA 2024 Bai, William AZ 1926 Block, Adam FL 2124 Carra, Robert NJ 2329 Chen, Timothy AR 811 Cook, Tanner CA 1972 Puri, Sahil NY 1824 Alaua, Luis TX 1489 Baig, Saqib PA 1152 Block, Eli IN 1585 Carrillo, Jose Arturo CA 1150 Chen, Tina MD 1508 Cooke, Peter CA 823 Alban, Jonathan NY 1613 Baik, Yeu Jin CA 1410 Blyth, William TX 550 Carroll, Brandon TX 956 Chen, Vincent GA 1917 Cooper, George PA 1960 Parthsarthy, Prasiddha IL 1645 Alberski, Tadeusz MA 1580 Baird, Jim CA 2118 Bobrow, Adam NJ 1571 Carroll, Gregory CA 1940 Chen, Wei CA 930 Copeland, Mark CA 1956 Yung, Timothy VA 1939 Albright, David Wesley CA 1633 Baird, Will FL 1485 Bocanegra, Jose MI 1811 Carter, Barry CA 1612 Chen, Wendy NC 1361 Corbett, Tilden NY 2149 Alegue, Alejandro CA 585 Bajpai, Aarushi OK 1648 Correa, David NJ 1930 Lu, Matthew MA 2198 Bockoven, Chase MI 1325 Casey, William CA 1634 Chen, William LA 1184 Alfaro, Manuel CT 1453 Baker, Chuck MA 2235 Bockoven, Connor TX 800 Cashin, Bill CA 2053 Chen, YingZhao (Anthony) HI 1579 Correa, Frank MD 1916 Lu, Jason NY 189 Alger, Griffin WA 1347 Baker, Darryl MA 2012 Bockoven, Ralph CO 1536 Casi, Trent GA 2207 Chen, Zhicong CA 1034 Cortez, Nelson NJ 2221 Alguetti, Adar TX 1441 Baker, Derek FL 2007 Bogavac, Svetislav IL 1333 Cassidy, Ronald CO 1894 Chen, Zhimin(Jimmy) 1993 Cote, Alicia NJ 1767 Alguetti, Eyal TX 567 Baker, Hayden IL 2031 Bogdan, Jan IL 830 Casstevens, Rex NY 1802 Cheng, Chen OH 1780 Cottrell, Blake NJ 2325 Wang, Amy NJ 2345 Alguetti, Gal OH 1304 Baker, John CT 1404 Bogie, Marvin TX 1589 Castillo, Alann CA 2043 Cheng, Emmy PA 2192 Coulter, Chip NJ 2324 Alguetti, Sharon TX 2027 Hsieh, Tia IL 1282 Baker, Quinn WI 1611 Boldon, Kyle FL 437 Castillo, Daniela WA 1706 Cheng, Gang NE 1757 Cowles, Rod IL 160 Ali, Ashmal OH 545 Baker, R. Brett NC 1564 Bolling, Erik MO 2159 Castillo, Maria CA 2124 Cheng, Horace WA 1216 Cox, Brian CA 1933 Wu, Youruo IL 372 Ali, Faraz WA 1477 Bakke, Douglas VT 1432 Bolton, John TX 1015 Castillo, Richard CA 1821 Cheng, Joshua PA 1699 Cox, Robert CA 1930 Sung, Rachel WA 2015 Ali, Reda CA 1944 Balakrishnan, Rishi CA 1565 Bookey, Justin TX 1035 Castillo, Ron CA 2381 Cheng, Newman TN 1126 Craighead, Kevin NY 1531 Alic, Emir CA 484 Balasubramanian, FL 1755 Borges, Jose OR 2049 Castle, Roger CA 410 Cheng, Rachel MI 951 Craw, Stephen VA 1870 Lu, Jie TX 1552 Alirezaei, Reza Balakumaran MO 1766 Boswell, Dale CA 1574 Cavazos, Anthony WA 1687 Cheng, Ting-Chung IN 1211 Creel, Claude TX 1834 Zhao, Kelly 1705 Allaire-Bourgie, Laurent CA 1664 Balderama, Jason WA 1761 Boudour, Yazel RI 1627 Cavicchio, Charles CA 842 Chennu, Bala IN 1670 Creel, Stephen NJ 566 Allan, Ahmad CA 1764 Baldonado, Eugene CA 831 Bourgeois, Tim CT 1703 Cedro, Chris TX 1032 Cheong, Henry CA 1432 Crescitelli, Luis MD 1825 Ke, Tiffany NY 1255 Allen, Gregory CA 1191 Baldonado, Thomas MA 1538 Bourget, Stephen AZ 980 Cejudo, Jesse MD 1619 Cheong, Si TX 2464 Cretu, Razvan FL 1808 Barvie-Perez, Sherlyn KY 1891 Allen, Jack IL 1456 Baldwin, Mike MA 1579 Bourque, Matthew VA 1531 Cerrato, Ezio MA 2013 Cheung, Kevin MN 461 Crist, Anthony KY 2030 Allen, John NC 1047 Bales, Nathan CA 1933 Boyko, Yuriy OH 2010 Cevik, Burak TX 1948 Cheung, Michael Latyan VA 1372 Cristofaro, Frank CA 1787 Yang, Rachel TX 2193 Almirol, Carlito CO 1919 Ball, Kevin CA 1488 Boyle, Mickey MN 1293 Cha, Sonny NY 2170 Cheung, Ming NY 2366 Croitoroo, Mark TX 1787 Gao, Katie TX 1435 Almogela, Alan AZ 1649 Balmer, Brad VA 1656 Bragg, Lewis NY 1109 Chafetz, Harry CA 1902 Cheung, TingNing CO 1178 Crozier, Bruce MO 658 Al-Ramis, Mohammed CA 1996 Baltaxe, Michael MN 1346 Braianov, Todor TX 1504 Chai, Andrew IN 918 Chhatiawala, Harin MA 2008 Cui, David KS 1782 Maruthapandian, Lavanya FL 1377 Alter, Ron AZ 1487 Bandapally, Sunil NC 1863 Brain, Simon CA 2054 Chai, Jim OR 2070 Chia, Brian WA 2230 Cui, Jie CA 1730 Tan, Angie KS 2096 Altman, Vladimir NY 1418 Banfield, Vaughan NY 2058 Braithwaite, George TX 1882 Chai, Ryan MD 1420 Chia, Ken IL 1342 Cumby, Chad CA 2409 Alto, Earl CA 1700 Banh, Dalton MN 2180 Curran, Nathaniel MA 1711 Zhang, Angela IL 1806 Brandt, John CT 849 Chakraborty, Debraj CA 1160 Chillara, Rishi TX 2006 Alvarez, Nicolas NC 1539 Banks, Tee FL 1654 Brantley, Barry AR 1223 Chambers, James GA 1547 Chin, Kingsley IN 1447 Czarnecki, Scott CA 1612 Chen, Wendy TX 1333 Aly, Adam MA 833 Bannister, Ramon FL 1137 Brenner, Bard AR 881 Chambers, William IL 1253 Chin, Ron CA 1776 Da Vee, Mark NJ 149 Amarnath, Shashank GA 1486 Banot, John OR 1225 Da, Leezan CA 1596 Sung, Joanna OH 1953 Brewster, Keith CA 208 Chan, Avery FL 1389 Chin, Samuel CA 1772 Amatya, Pradyumna GA 1156 Banot, Supakan(Jeed) NY 598 Briggs, Brendan IN 1720 Chan, Barry NY 1975 Chin, Wayne Ming MD 1755 Dabbs, Ryan CA 1427 Amayo, Ricardo NJ 2217 Bao, Larry CA 1540 Brigitt, Andrew NV 2105 Chan, Benjamin(Tian) WA 1229 Chinn, Larry IN 1293 Dagher, Charles IL 1504 Ameen, Michael NC 1642 Dahake, Nikhil GA 1763 Ng, Daniel NY 2097 Baptista, Joseph CA 1577 Brigitt, Eugene PA 2383 Chan, Calvin FL 1712 Chirinos, Veronica FL 1550 Ameris, Paul IL 1777 Baran, Karol CA 1141 Brigitt, Victoria CA 2265 Chan, Chi Wing (Felix) TX 1110 Chirkli, Abdul GA 1405 Dale, Gardner TN 1745 Khan, Mohammed MO 850 Ami, Arnold AZ 588 Barber, Wally CA 1143 Brin, Harriet FL 2126 Chan, Chi-Kin MN 1977 Chirmule, Shardul NC 1317 Dalton, Rufus CA 1657 Li, Ted NY 1559 Amin, Ashesh SC 1864 Barbour, Lee NJ 1266 Brissett, Luz TX 2258 Chan, Henry CA 376 Cho, Rachel MN 2111 Damyanov, Veselin NY 1804 Amstislavskiy, Eric IL 1832 Bardan, Gabriel NJ 1733 Brito, Ricardo CA 1935 Chan, Jason CA 749 Cho, Stephen MD 1096 Dancis, Barry WA 1526 Du, Ethan NY 1533 Amstislavskiy, Mark IL 1194 Bardoczi, Bill 1541 Brockmann, Andrew MA 606 Chan, Jessie CA 2035 Chodri, Aditi MD 601 Dancis, Elaine NJ 1526 Zhou, Jayden WI 1933 An, HaiQi VA 1689 Barnes, Hal AR 1365 Brooks, Charles CA 1312 Chan, Joaquin CA 2516 Chodri, Kunal NJ 368 Dang, Alyssa CA 1505 Anand, Gautam AR -13 Barone, Mia MS 868 Brookshire, Bruce CA 1385 Chan, Long-Hin CA 1159 Choe, Timothy NJ 636 Dang, Sarah VA 1518 Zhang, Bowen PA 1800 Andrade, John AR 2040 Barone, Scott UT 1460 Brown, Dan CA 1266 Chan, Ming NJ 898 Choi, Changhyeon FL 953 Danielson, Lee CA 1487 Gao, Patrick CT 1314 Ang, Ernest AR 325 Barone, Sharon OR 1702 Brown, Grant NV 2137 Chan, Ming CA 1550 Choi, Han Pyo IN 1830 Dannenfelser, Tom CO 1976 Angeles, Kyle AR 1512 Barone, Shelby NC 1512 Brown, James CA 1695 Chan, Yude NJ 809 Choi, Jacob NY 799 Danziger, James VT 1356 Tomas, Marijan UT 1573 Angstadt, Patrick FL 1384 Barrau, Carmel IN 952 Brown, Larry MN 1744 Chandra, Vidhan IL 738 Choi, Kevin AK 1293 Darnall, Diann MD 1353 Chen, Ronald IL 975 Anklewicz, Andrzej TX 1049 Barrera, Christian GA 1708 Brown, Luke CA 1820 Chandrashekaran, Shreyas CA 823 Choi, Ruby CA 1238 Dart, John MD 1543 Anne, Chanakya IN 1278 Bartling, George AL 1803 Brown, Sean NM 888 Chang, Chi-Hsin NY 429 Choi, Sky CA 2082 Darukhanawalla, Malcolm WI 1270 Bedi, Kabir WA 1191 Ansari, Irfan NJ 1722 Barton, Hugh VA 1351 Brown, Steve AZ 1413 Chang, Chung-Fu CA 1164 Choi, Ungsam CA 1967 Darukhanawalla, Nash CA 1246 He, William FL 1550 Anumulapally, Pranav VT 1892 Barucic, Asmir CA 1020 Bruckel, Jane CA 1925 Chang, Dylan WA 1784 Chou, Bertha NY 2146 Dassonval, Philippe CA 1846 Apostol, Von Erick VT 1196 Barucic, Irfan CA 1820 Bruno, Daniel CA 74 Chang, Ethan TX 1782 Chow, Philip NJ 2254 Dattel, Barry TX 1155 Mu, Kevin NY 977 Apterman, Dilan FL 1808 Barvie-Perez, Sherlyn MI 1267 Brushman, Brad CA 2073 Chang, Fernando WA 1205 Chramiec, Pete FL 1304 Daugherty, Michael MI 1152 Hammond, Jacob NY 799 Apterman, Mark CA 1399 Basiao, James FL 1826 Bryan, Andre NJ 1388 Chang, Kee CA 2219 Chu, Anthony MI 1033 Dault, Joe TX 1369 Arashev, Begench GA 988 Basu, Sunny MD 707 Bryant, Daniel VA 1459 Chang, Kyong Sik FL 2248 Chu, Bin Hai GA 1694 Dave, Ishaan MD 1149 Sofer, Daniel FN 1670 Araujo, Jose OH 303 Batchelder, Ross AZ 1828 Bryant, Robert CA 2194 Chang, Matthew CA 2173 Chu, Isabel NJ 1716 David, Ajay NJ 1137 Zhang, Richard NV 1359 Arceo, Eddie MA 2055 Bavly, Larry IN 2075 Brzycki, Brian NY 1881 Chang, Ming-Hong NJ 2050 Chu, Jonathan NV 1916 Archambo, Steve KS 1426 Bayer, Cal ON 2174 Bu, Alexander VA 1668 Chang, Soon NJ 2086 Chu, Jonathan CA 195 Archbold, Mason IL 837 Bayr, Zita FL 1385 Bubis, Igor CA 347 Chang, Sydon CA 2160 Chu, Nathaniel CA 1933 Wu, Youruo CA 1405 Archbold, William MO 1024 Bean, Joseph MI 1532 Bublitz, Gary TX 1036 Chang, Toshi WA 1710 Chu, Raymond CT 924 Arciero, Chris CA 1930 Sung, Rachel NJ 1099 Beauchamp, Timothy NY 1233 Buchanan, Winston IN 1871 Chang, Vincent CA 1962 Chu, Sammy CT 1386 Arciero, Matthew LA 2271 Beaumont, John TX 1854 Budiman, Danya CA 1811 Chang, William NJ 1989 Chu, Stephen MD 1825 Ke, Tiffany MI 1634 Arciniega, Jake OR 974 Beck, Jenny IL 1985 Buente, Kevin WI 556 Chao, Madison CA 1324 Chu, Suming CA 1730 Tan, Angie CA 555 Arellano, Angelica VT 1212 Becker, Peter CA 1769 Bui, Brian CA 1119 Chappelle, Tamara KS 1730 Chu, Tat Wai CA 671 Arellano, Keyla OR 1485 Bednarz, Ben CA 1720 Bui, David MN 1687 Charney, Michael NJ 1789 Chu, Tony N.T. CA 1596 Sung, Joanna CA 2037 Arellano, Ronald GA 2214 Beebe, T. J. TX 1298 Buluchevskiy, Dmitriy FL 2196 Charoenmit, Chanya TX 2180 Chu, Tsz CA 1170 Yin, Emilie FL 809 Arfanis, John OH 1042 Beer, Richard CA 1647 Bunya, Peter NC 2378 Charpentier, Lucas NC 734 Chu, Victor WI 583 Argote, Claudio CT 1716 Behera, Sudhir OH 1115 Burchfield, Mike NM 1651 Chartrand, Rick TX 2026 Chu, Zhihan CA 1150 Chen, Tina FL 2009 Arias, Frank FL 2029 Bekurti, Elidon WA 1322 Burke, Bennett CA 1264 Chau, Eric IN 1864 Chua, Bun-Hiong TX 1103 Lan, Ellen FL 1519 Armstrong, Ernest NJ 764 Belinkis, Nathaniel OR 619 Burns, Paige IL 1759 Chawla, Tarun CA 2286 Chua, Ethan PA 1640 Arnold, Benjamin CA 1111 Belo, Hilarion PA 2116 Burnside, Richard NY 1007 Checa, Luis TX 893 Chuang, Scott NJ 1028 Chen, Katie FL 1245 Arnold, James FL 2118 Benincasa, Giacomo CA 1710 Burris, Theo IL 1252 Chelikani, Advitheey MA 2389 Chui, Chi-Sun CA 1022 Giri, Swathi CA 1767 Arratia, Ari FL 1700 Benitez, Patricia CA 1905 Burton, Craig NJ 2002 Chen, Alan IA 1317 Chung, Jedidiah NY 2149 Artoun, Narbeh MA 1459 Benkley, Mark NY 1233 Busch, Wolfgang CA 910 Chen, Alexander NJ 1577 Chung, Joon TX 787 Chen, Maggie IL 718 Arun, Gautham OH 897 Bennett, Richard GA 1528 Bushkanets, Ilya NY 916 Chen, Alvin IA 1628 Chung, Josh OH 782 Khatami, Sarveen CA 2289 Arun, Sagar MA 202 Berellini, Giuliano OH 1805 Bussey, David GA 1110 Chen, Andrew OH 1346 Ciarrochi, Joe FL 1018 Arzola, Fabio NY 1812 Berg, Mark NJ 778 Fong, Molly TX 2538 Butler, Jim CA 1962 Chen, Andy IL 1215 Ciofiac, Nicolae FL 729 Ruiz, Mylin CA 715 Srivastava, Saanvi Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 63 RATINGS

FN 2156 Edwards, Gillian PA 1916 Fu, Yao FL 1374 Grana, Jamie FL 1488 Hersey, Steve MD 1290 Huang, Siliang NC 909 Ehlert, Kurt CA 1538 Fu, Zheng TX 1408 Grant, Giancarlo MA 1918 Hershenow, Barry CA 1610 Huang, Terry NJ 769 Ehrenreich, Martin IL 1576 Fudala, Christopher TX 1042 Graves, Owen IL 1185 Hess, Kyle MD 430 Huang, William CT 1748 Eichner, Howard OH 1490 Fullen, Dave MO 1386 Gray, Adam NJ 1691 Hetes, Pavol NC 1591 Huang, Xiang NJ 2533 Eider, Cory CT 1368 Fulton, Ethan OH 1144 Grazier, Michael FN 2243 Hetherington, Matthew MD 1945 Huang, Xinsheng Michael IN 1850 Eiler, Brandon NY 1351 Fung-a-fat, Jill NC 1639 Green, Vincent IN 2055 Hicks, H. MI 1163 Huang, Yihao IN 928 Eiler, Mark NM 1323 Funkhouser, Bob WA 1388 Greenbaum, Michael OR 1049 Hicks, Jim MS 2253 Huang, Zesheng OR 1841 Eiles, Travis AZ 1770 Furdui, Stelian OH 1655 Greene, Dan NM 1136 Hicks, Randy CA 2466 Huang, Zihao (Justin) AZ 1409 Ekbundit, Patrick CA 460 Furze, Eric CT 1321 Greenfield, Austin IL 624 Higuera, Mauricio Reyes NJ 2614 Hugh, Adam VA 1637 El Oukaili, Talal FL 1323 Fusa, Fernando NY 205 Gregor, Becky NY 1515 Hill, David NJ 2384 Hugh, Judy NJ 1843 Elazrag, Eymen MD 1565 Gabbidon, Ian NY 326 Gregor, Danko NH 1128 Hill, Douglas IL 826 Hughes, John FL 430 Ellsworth, John WI 1584 Gableman, Jim NY 1226 Gregor, Paul NY 813 Hill, Harold MN 2003 Hui, John FL 309 Ellsworth, William CT 1303 Gabor, Bob FL 2002 Greydinger, Dimitri NY 1492 Hines, Elliot MA 594 Hui, Kelly KS 1617 Ely, Cole CA 2363 Gabriel, Freddie IL 1187 Gribinski, Nathalie MI 2054 Hinshaw, Donald OH 766 Huland, Matt IL 1495 Emilianowicz, Eryk OH 2027 Gacki, Slawomir WI 1465 Grider, Jon NY 1880 Hirata, Jonathan SC 1030 Hull, Paul WV 2011 Emmons, Stephen A. MA 1208 Gaidarev, Peter NY 1178 Griesel, Thomas MA 2158 Hlava, Jiri CA 2126 Huo, Luvena WV 1621 Emmons, Theron Roy CA 1214 Gail, Chris NV 1687 Gripentog, Robert AZ 1468 Hlushko, Gregory LA 767 Hurst, Robert IN 875 Emmons, Todd IL 1797 Galban, Jun NY 1887 Gristede, George CA 999 Ho, Chee CA 1772 Hutchins-Knowles, Brian MI 1485 Enders, Wayne RI 1516 Gallagher, Kevin CA 672 Grodsky, Gilbert NY 1135 Ho, Gordon MN 2156 Huynh, Benjamin TX 2151 Enebish, Munkhbileg CA 920 Galm, Steve OR 1736 Groom, Michael OR 2009 Ho, Hung AL 1547 Huynh, Kevin CA 1606 Davila, Ruben IN 1623 Engel, PJ CA 1887 Gandhi, Nimesh WA 1904 Grossman, Howard AL 1720 Ho, Hung Mike CA 1203 Huynh, Xuanthai UT 1641 Davis, Byron SC 1668 England, David OK 1710 Gann, Charles CA 924 Grubsky, Victor PA 1527 Ho, Quan NJ 531 Hwang, Clarissa UT 1362 Davis, Carol NC 1289 Englebreth, Bill DE 971 Ganti, Krishna FL 1773 Gu, Maxwell SC 1698 Hoagland, Tim NJ 462 Hwang, Stephanie AZ 1294 Davis, David MI 1555 Engstrom, Jim CA 1078 Gao, Annie KS 1565 Gu, Peidi NV 1562 Hoang, Khuong(Kevin) FL 1109 Hyttinen, Arvo WI 1757 Davis, Drew IL 1404 Erdenebileg, MyagmarsurenMA 2208 Gao, Brian CA 2327 Guan, Angela CA 1894 Hoang, Thanh CO 2032 Ibegbu, Basil CA 1864 Dawalbhakta, Samiha FL 1445 Erdos, Tamas MO 1572 Gao, Di CA 1898 Guan, Walter FL 2008 Hoang, Thuan TX 2211 Ikeizumi, Claudia NY 1846 De Asis, Jed Rave CA 1134 Esch, Jim CA 2294 Gao, Felix CA 1765 Gubbi, Vidyadhara OR 2085 Hoarfrost, Ryan FL 1500 Ilanga, Mareuvir TX 1547 De Coatpont, Bertrand CA 1525 Escobar, Wilfredo AK 1444 Gao, Jimmy AZ 1431 Guerin, Bill OH 1032 Hobrath, Ben MD 933 Imran, Ziyan TX 626 de Coatpont, Lucie CA 1519 Espinosa, Gabriel NY 1827 Gao, Junjie CA 823 Gunda, Abhinav OH 1086 Hobrath, Gary MN 1911 Inderieden, Dan WI 1835 De Fabry, Lucas NY 1364 Estill, Alan TX 1787 Gao, Katie NC 944 Gunn, Zannie MD 1970 Hochman, Stephen VA 1770 Inger, Mike AK 1650 De May, David NV 1432 Estrella, Alfred CA 1487 Gao, Patrick UT 1181 Guo, Bryan AZ 1084 Hodge, Nicholas CT 1026 Inkel, John FL 1660 Deacon, Richard WA 1311 Evans, Adam NJ 1984 Gao, Sean(Zhongyi) CA 2567 Guo, Hao FL 1658 Hodges, Mike CA 1401 Innamuri, Pruthvi NY 1113 DeArmond, Christian AZ 1176 Evans, David NY 2516 Gao, YanJun NC 1245 Guo, Jia PA 1416 Hoffman, Brian IL 2170 Inui, Tadao (Tom) IL 1370 DeAsis, Francis IL 1745 Evans, J. CA 1856 Gao, Yuzhang OR 1555 Guo, Jian Xin IL 1491 Hoffman, Mark PA 2270 Iodkovskiy, Vladimir CA 2129 Deb, Ishana FL 1159 Ewert, Matthew OR 1726 Gao, Zhongwei WA 1996 Guo, Jimmy IL 1793 Hogshead, Edward NC 2091 Ip, Spencer MI 1079 Decraene, Parker CA 1306 Ezzo, Steve CA 1820 Garabidian, Ronald NY 2102 Guo, Min Xin CO 1624 Hoi, Pham FL 940 Irish, Janet OH 1297 Decristofaro, John NJ 928 Fabian, Steven FL 1158 Garcia, Leonel NJ 298 Gupta, Krishna FL 1710 Holck, Bruce FL 1461 Irish, Phillip NC 1327 Deepee, Steven CA 1747 Fahlstrom, Ragnar NY 790 Garcia, Miguel TX 564 Gupta, Sanjana OH 1512 Hollenbaugh, Paul WA 984 Ishii, Art VA 1471 Defrank, Tim KY 1828 Fakharpour, Babak NY 529 Garell, Charles TX 889 Gupta, Vaibhav 1745 Holman, Ken OH 2036 Itunin, Aleksandr CA 1766 Dehdashti, Massoud KY 1715 Fakharpour, Peyton NY 549 Garell, Paul NY 1800 Gurevich, Boris TX 1533 Holmes, Paul WA 2164 Iturriaga, Bernardo LA 2156 Del Vecchio, Martin IL 1704 Falcis, Peter CA 1500 Garretson, Steve IL 2151 Gurklys, Paulius CA 1682 Holton, Chris IL 1964 Jablonski, Zbigniew CA 874 Demartini, Cliff IL 192 Falcis, Pierre FL 1062 Gascoigne, Ian NY 1088 Gutierrez, Gustavo MI 968 Homan, Dave CA 1868 Jackson, Jace 1168 Deopurkar, Ashwin AR 519 Falco, Angela CA 904 Gaskins, George NJ 1117 Guttman, Daniel CA 955 Hong, Derek WA 749 Jackson, Jadon UT 1654 Desai, Gaurav AR 1587 Falco, John IL 1365 Gaysin, Arsen WA 1934 Gyonjyan, Tigran FL 1338 Hooker, Allan GA 1236 Jackson, Marc FL 1739 Desai, Phil OR 1565 Fan, Yun NJ 657 Ge, Nicholas CA 1186 Ha, Khiem RI 2002 Hopkins, Steve MI 1190 Jackson, Ronald FL 2362 Desai, Vinay NJ 1060 Fang, Bryan TX 885 Geer, Ezra NV 1647 Ha, Thomas CA 411 Horn, Michael NJ 1446 Jae, Youngshin FL 701 Dev, Rishi TX 701 Fang, Katherine TX 754 Geer, Nathan AR 1690 Hadfield, Paul CA 100 Horn, Nick TX 961 Jaed, Abu GA 415 Devalapalli, Pranav VA 1451 Fanous, Medhat TX 855 Geer, Silas NJ 1128 Hadley, Paul CA 87 Horn, Rikki CA 2373 Jafar, Shuja NY 1136 DeVenezia, Richard NJ 1624 Farkas, Brian TX 687 Geer, Wesley MA 1332 Hagenburg, Todd PA 1261 Hornick, Dennis CA 1262 Jain, Sahil CT 2200 DeWitt, Richard IN 735 Farkas, Joe AZ 1832 Geete, Jayant NY 68 Hagiu, Alexander IL 1993 Horodenski, Karol NJ 499 Jain, Ved MI 2169 Dey, Tapabrata GA 1700 Farrar, William TX 1331 Geeze, Christopher CA 994 Hajilov, Mansour GA 1647 Horton, William CA 152 Jain, Yash RI 1929 Di, Xue OH 1658 Faulstich, Stephen NM 1845 Geeze, Donald MO 1834 Halbig, Fred NY 1667 Hosein, Rafi CA 1824 Jamagocyan, Varujan NE 1649 Dickey, Gordon OR 1120 Fechner, Joann LA 995 Gehrkin, Jonathan CA 701 Hall, Gordon IN 648 Hoshino, Yuta TX 1703 Jampana, Sreeman TN 1728 Dickson, Roger FL 1820 Federico, Steve PA 770 Geisinger, Jeffrey AR 1884 Hall, Jamey CA 1470 Hou, David NJ 1980 Jang, Tae Geon FL 1472 Dieker, Eric IL 1741 Feerst, David NY 1682 Gennuso, Greg CT 1432 Halsey, Jackson MO 1107 Houchens, David 1193 Jara, Fabiola OH 1688 Dietz, Roy TX 1110 Feher, Sam CA 1023 Gharpure, Chinmay OK 1353 Hamby, Mike TX 1033 Houser, John NJ 1720 Jariwala, Nikhil NV 1334 Difuntorum, Reynaldo MA 2052 Fei, Xianger MD 1540 Gholston, Zackery AR 37 Hamilton, Alanis NV 1681 Howard, Jack NC 1160 Jarman, Hunter IL 788 Dilley, Mackenzie CO 1360 Feinstein, Marilyn Sommer MA 542 Gibbons, Mark OH 2159 Hamilton, Don MD 1044 Howes, Jeff CA 1385 Javaherian, Nasrin WA 1845 DiMarco, Gregory CA 935 Feist, Bob MN 224 Gibson, Celeste MD 1209 Hamilton, Elliott NY 1818 Hrishin, Andriy TX 613 Jayaratne, Sachiko WA 2502 Ding, Billy AL 1779 Feldman, Danny MN 466 Gibson, Jim OH 1954 Hamilton, James CA 1487 Hsiao, Mark NV 1131 Jecov, Dmitri CA 1733 Ding, Feng MA 1528 Felsher, Steven KS 1464 Gibson-Birch, Piers AR 2254 Hamilton, James TX 2027 Hsieh, Tia FL 2283 Jeerapaet, Kit FL 1148 Dinh, Thuan CT 1624 Feltenberger, Donald MD 1045 Gilday, Tim AR 652 Hamilton, Yi-Mei MD 2225 Hsin, Jeffrey NY 1551 Jeet, Cheddie CA 2218 Dinh, Tri NJ 113 Feng, XinYi VT 1411 Gile, Peter OH 2222 Hamrahian, Seyed CA 2495 Hsing, Ariel NY 2039 Jeong, Tae Jong NC 1950 Diwakar, Madhu NY 1977 Feng, Yihao (John) FL 1964 Gilkes, Rohan NY 286 Han, Yiguang MD 2316 Hsu, Nathan CA 1540 Jha, Ashish IL 1463 Dixon, Lawer GA 2580 Feng, Yijun CA 1154 Gillman, Art CA 2581 Han, Zheng OR 2046 Hsu, Ryan CA 2588 Jha, Kanak CO 1301 Djoumaliev, Hristo IL 1585 Feng, Ying FL 2029 Gingold, Greg TX 923 Hanks, Andrew MO 1069 Hsu, Simon CA 2377 Jha, Prachi FL 1352 Doelman, John CA 70 Ferguson, Michael TX 1404 Ginther, Dean OH 1012 Hanlin, William AZ 2170 Hu, Qingqing MO 1787 Jia, Tao OH 895 Doenges, Kevin NC 1010 Ferland, Jacob NY 834 Giovannini, Matteo VA 1535 Hanson, Dana NJ 2124 Hu, Xiyue UT 1583 Jiang, Amanda MI 1167 Doerr, Timothy NY 2388 Fernandez, David TN 1828 Girdner, David OH 1187 Hanzlik, Mark MD 1522 Hu, Yingyao NY 341 Jiang, DaHong AZ 1812 Dok, Daphne MA 1467 Ferreira, Antonio Luis CA 1022 Giri, Swathi IL 1473 Hara, Erico IL 2003 Hua, Peter (Liyang) CA 2323 Jiang, Diane CT 890 Dolan, Kevin NV 1474 Ferrenberg, Allan CA 1437 Girton, Ken TN 1638 Hardin, Christopher CA 117 Hua, Yang NJ 1156 Jiang, Michael RI 770 Donadio, Alexander NY 1503 Fields, Tobias FL 1503 Glass, Ray CA 1421 Hardy, Shelley TX 1147 Huang, Alec IL 966 Jiang, Zexin MD 1771 Dong, Chun NJ 2090 Files, Justin VA 1290 Gleeson, Andrew TX 2058 Harihara Iyer, Ramkumar NJ 372 Huang, Chuipong TX 1724 Jimenez, Chae Sun MD 2511 Dong, Steven CA 1599 Finney, Emma IL 666 Glickman, Donna MD 1188 Harley, Douglas NY 242 Huang, Ethan NJ 1293 Jin, Duk NJ 902 Donthi, Sai TX 1299 Fish, David NJ 427 Glickstein, Brandon MD 481 Harley, Taliesin IL 2079 Huang, Haibin OR 1513 Jin, Jeffrey TX 1570 Dorrell, Jimmy OK 846 Fitzgerald, Kathleen FL 1402 Gmach, Ben NJ 800 Harmon, Josh PA 1081 Huang, Haozong OH 442 Jindal, Nirmit OH 339 Dorsey, Owen CO 1346 Fleming, Mark FL 1475 Gmach, David OH 1055 Harris, Anwen MI 1647 Huang, Jack NJ 2032 Joe, Billy CA 1572 D’Ortenzio, Mario TX 1890 Fleshman, Tom FL 2017 Gmach, Gal CO 1892 Harris, Joshua CA 2533 Huang, Jeff CA 1100 Joe, Lisa IL 1774 Douglass, Robert CA 1533 Flexer, Dominique FL 1181 Gmach, Maili OH 1809 Harris, Scott KS 1054 Huang, Jiawei FL 1847 Johnson, Adam IL 1911 Dousmanis, Christos OH 882 Flores, Brandon TX 700 Godfrey, Michael FL 1222 Harrison, Deb CA 670 Huang, Jimmy GA 1357 Johnson, Mark IL 1114 Downing, Charlie TX 2018 Flores, Mark Andrew CA 1840 Godhwani, Aditya VA 1657 Hart, Robert CA 2069 Huang, Kerry CA 1769 Johnson, Mark GA 1975 Dowridge, Winston AZ 1444 Flores, Salvador AZ 1483 Goel, Siddarth AR 765 Hartmann, Joyce TX 2204 Huang, Laura FL 1241 Johnson, Paul TX 1014 Doyle, Don MA 1898 Fomin, Dmitri WV 1432 Goff, Dale CA 1453 Hartmann, Rudy OH 1464 Huang, Lisa IL 1152 Johnson, Philip NJ 1606 Doytchev, Doytcho MO 1268 Fong, Joseph FL 1084 Goff, Don OK 1495 Hash, David CA 1170 Huang, Miranda MO 1645 Johnson, Robert TX 1998 Drake, Kyle NJ 778 Fong, Molly NV 929 Goff, Robert CA 1781 Hashemi, Ross MD 1391 Huang, Nathaniel MO 2116 Johnston, Jeff MO 1285 Drake, Wenyan CA 1490 Fong, Scott NY 967 Gold, Abe CA 1316 Hashimoto, Margaret AL 1889 Huang, Ping FL 1875 Johnston, L. A. SC 1704 Dreyfus, Stephen CA 1589 Fong, Shawn NJ 968 Goldfarb, Matthew CA 1972 Hashimoto, Masaru NJ 1367 Huang, Ray OH 1538 Johnston, Raymond NY 810 Driscoll, Olga NJ 241 Foo, Alysha OR 1526 Goldsmith, Phil IL 1625 Hashimoto, Wataru TX 1810 Huang, Shelly IL 613 Jones, Benjamin IL 1832 Driskill, Ryan NY 289 Foote, Graham NC 1062 Goldstein, Lev GA 1553 Hashtroudi, Hassan IL 1494 Drissen, John NJ 540 Forman, Gary NC 1933 Gomez, Elias IL 1329 Hashwani, Malik USATT Rating Chart SC 1921 Drolet, Joey FL 1900 Forster, Michael FL 1058 Gomez, Enrique MA 1959 Haugh, David OH 1084 Drsek, John FL 1448 Foster, Ed VA 1241 Gong, Daniel CA 271 Haumeder, Susan Higher rated Lower rated MD 1057 Du, Brandon OR 1678 Fountain, Eric CA 2294 Gong, Renny NY 929 Hay, Alistair WA 1526 Du, Ethan MI 1753 Fowler, Brian CA 2173 Gong, Steven FL 1287 Hayes, Tyler player wins: player wins: MD 2033 Duan, Changping WA 1655 Frahler, Jeff MD 1898 Gong, Yunhua TX 2579 Hazinski, Mark Higher Lower Lower Higher OH 2489 Dubina, Samson FL 1744 Francisco, Ramon Paolo MI 1807 Gonzales, Steve TX 2352 Hazinski, Shu Fu (Sara) CO 1492 Ducek, Premysl IL 2161 Franeczek, Janusz FL 1212 Gonzalez, Alberto LA 1477 He, Bob Rating player player player player IL 886 Dudas, Attila OK 1214 Franks, Cameron NY 2122 Gonzalez, Sergio CA 217 He, Charlotte Difference gains: loses: gains: loses: MO 1481 Dudenhoeffer, Todd MA 2121 Frayberg, Alex OH 1347 Good, Kevin NY 1176 He, George NV 1796 Duhaylungsod, Mark MN 1930 Frayne, Elliot OH 496 Goodchild, Dustin CA 2309 He, Jiaming TX 1062 Duich, Jan NJ 1068 Fredricks, Glenn OH 1501 Goodchild, Zack CA 1246 He, William 0-12 8 8 FL 1624 Dunlap, Caleb WA 1547 Fredrickson, John MI 1372 Goode, Michael CA 2403 He, Xiaolan 13-37 7 10 MI 1272 Dunlap, Fred CA 433 Freeman, Chase FL 1228 Gooden, Herrick PA 1479 Hecht, Matt NC 1011 Dunn, Andrew NY 1565 Friedlander, Judah IL 1283 Goodfellow, William WA 1064 Hegstrom, Christopher 38-62 6 13 NY 838 Dunn, Arthur CA 811 Friedman, Gerry CA 1624 Gopalan, Rishikumar CA 2009 Hejazi, Alireza 63-87 5 16 NY 186 Dunn, Leina CA 1840 Friedman, Oliver TX 1609 Gopin, Michael MI 1479 Helfand, Joseph NH 1588 Duperron, Robert MA 650 Friedman, Thomas NY 1581 Gordon, Andrew WI 1568 Heller, Aaron 88-112 4 20 CA 964 Durrer, Thomas TX 917 Friedmann, Nadav NJ 1806 Gordon, William IL 1624 Hemingway, Robert 1744 Duysens, Alexandre TX 2453 Friend, Chance NM 1584 Goring, Kali CA 2263 Hendawi, Ahmed 113-137 3 25 TX 1652 Dy, Edison CA 1590 Frisbee, Stanley CO 1308 Gorodin, Valeriy KS 1709 Hendrickson, Guy 138-162 2 30 IL 1452 Dydynski, Jerry WA 795 Frost, Andrea MO 1040 Gorzko, Jakub WA 1302 Hendrickson, Kahea IL 1361 Dyer, Don WA 837 Frost, Bryan MO 911 Gosar, Jubin FL 969 Henry, Ray 163-187 2 35 IL 924 Dyer, Jonathan CA 1558 Frye, Scott CA 1425 Gotliffe, Harvey MO 1790 Henry, Sonjay 188-212 1 40 NY 484 Eagle, Jack CA 1515 Fu, Adrian TX 1272 Gradinaru, David CA 852 Henry, Stephen NY 1082 Eagle, Todd CA 235 Fu, Alice CA 1838 Graff, William PA 1595 Heo, Richard 213-237 1 45 SD 317 Eastman, Ben CA 1419 Fu, Ava FL 1562 Graham, Donovan FL 1075 Hernandez, Guillermo 238 & up 0 50 OR 1476 Edwards, David NV 1841 Fu, Billy OK 630 Graham, Sean FL 1519 Hernandez, Sean GA 1338 Fu, Michael IN 1519 Grambo, Alan FL 738 Hersey, Sebastian 64 TABLE TENNIS NJ 1835 Jones, Clifton CA 1584 Kong, Alvin GA 2055 Lee, HaeJoon MD 1350 Ling, Bo MA 1623 Maisel, David TX 1241 Jones, David CA 1073 Kong, Jonathan OH 1814 Lee, Jack MD 1088 Ling, Zihan Christopher UT 1729 Majors, Bruce FL 2132 Jordan, Garth CA 1189 Kong, Kailyn MA 2149 Lee, Jay NJ 1337 Lipschutz, Joel UT 1628 Majors, Dale MN 1504 Joshi, Sandhya FL 1609 Kong, Shek NJ 1468 Lee, Jin OR 1807 Lipscomb, Scott TX 1818 Mak, Joshua OK 1028 Jourdan, Tom CA 1539 Korb, Kevin NY 1736 Lee, Johnson NY 883 Lipsits, Alexander TX 1878 Mak, Kam TX 1532 Joy, Rony TX 1582 Kornegay, Stephen WA 1893 Lee, Joseph TX 1203 Lisook, Sam CA 617 Malcy, Vivian MN 1725 Judd, David NY 986 Kothari, Burair NJ 1479 Lee, Joshua MN 817 Litak, Katarzyna IL 1667 Maldre, Katrin NC 1516 Juntilla, Michael MN 1806 Kotz, Paul CA 1143 Lee, Kai OH 501 Liu, Annie CA 1920 Malek, Amanda MD 1080 Juran, Donald MN 1899 Kouatli, Omar NY 738 Lee, Kenneth TX 882 Liu, Austin CA 2291 Malek, Attila FL 1733 Kadin, Rick CA 1472 Kovacs, Tony CA 1727 Lee, Kenneth NY 458 Liu, Benjamin CA 2022 Malek, Scott NY 2057 Kadzinski, Jean Philippe SC 1539 Kovalov, Max MI 2299 Lee, Lester MA 1594 Liu, Brian CA 1269 Malladi, Bhargav IL 59 Kagathi, Bhavika NY 1172 Koven, Brett TX 789 Lee, Matthew OH 1399 Liu, Carol CA 1561 Malladi, Bhavya IL 663 Kagathi, Raj NY 1479 Kozlowska, Anna WA 506 Lee, Morgan MD 1993 Liu, Charlene CA 1494 Maloof, Unan NY 802 Kahane, Gabriel IL 755 Kramer, Samuel CA 777 Lee, Nathan KS 2021 Liu, Chunyen CA 1577 Mancilla, Robert HI 1691 Kahanu, George IL 1431 Kravchenko, Pavlo NJ 1288 Lee, Sumin CA 2594 Liu, Dan GA 471 Manem, Tejas CA 1990 Kahng, Alex CA 1525 Kravtsov, Alexey IN 855 Lee, Wendy CA 446 Liu, Ethan NY 1901 Maness, Wesley CA 1874 Kaiser, Tod FL 1874 Krecek, Michal NY 1979 Lee, Young-Woon OH 2277 Liu, Fangyi IL 1572 Mani, Ganesan TX 1891 Kajihara, Caroline TX 1827 Kressner, Scott NY 2138 Lee-Freithofnig, Ludovic KS 1024 Liu, Gwen RI 1748 Mani, Murali WA 1086 Kakade, Aniket IL 2261 Kretschmer, Maria NJ 1989 Lehman, Christopher OH 1452 Liu, Jim IL 1842 Maniates-Selvin, Jasper WA 1840 Kakade, Manish NY 1283 Krijestorac, Haris NY 2426 Leibovitz, Tahl IL 1268 Liu, John AL 1115 Mann, Eli CA 879 Kalustov, Artem FL 1115 Krimshtein, Anna CA 2057 Leitman, Marina NJ 1567 Liu, Jonathan AL 1609 Mann, Thomas H. VA 1697 Kaminsky, Barbara CA 1946 Krishnamoorthy, Satish TX 2105 Lemal, Bernard NY 502 Liu, Justin CA 1170 Mannem, Keshav CA 2105 Mihet, Emilian FL 1911 Kanani, Jean Marie CA 2066 Krishnan, Ananda IL 143 Lemke, Robert NJ 1932 Liu, Kai CA 1950 Mannem, Rohan FL 946 Mijares, Javier WA 1905 Kanatsu, Naoki MO 1469 Kristo, Robert TX 1657 Lemma, Warren IL 876 Liu, Kaibai CA 178 Mannur, Gandhar NC 1730 Miklowcic, Jerred AZ 1531 Kanchanapelly, RadhakrushNY 1514 Krit, Shaker FL 1419 Leon, Billy OH 783 Liu, Kane IL 1083 Mansholt, Roger FL 1138 Milanov, Juliana CA 2014 Kandadi, Sohan MD 1480 Kronlage, Yvonne FL 2049 Leparulo, Willy NJ 1935 Liu, Leslie CO 1746 Mao, Jerry OH 1045 Millard, Newell NJ 1900 Kandell, Scott PA 1799 Krug, Andre PA 2154 Leshinsky, Michael CA 215 Liu, Nicole CA 1671 Mao, Toon KS 1764 Miller, Carl CA 1777 Kang, Danny WA 1509 Kruse, Scott OH 1280 Leslie, Tom MO 1284 Liu, Paul IN 1160 Maple, Steve CA 653 Miller, Dale NJ 1511 Kang, Kyoung Jung IL 1077 Krynski, Paul OH 1643 Letic, Marijo FN 2381 Liu, Quande De FL 933 Mar, Christopher IN 108 Miller, Dion LA 1910 Kang, Sung Ho GA 878 Kuang, Brian AZ 1890 Leu, Gia MO 1222 Liu, Randy GA 2256 Mar, John IN 280 Miller, Dionta NJ 575 Kannan, Krithik CA 7 Kuang, Connor CA 2061 Leung, Che-Him OH 1922 Liu, Roger TX 986 Marchese, Ryan MN 1994 Miller, Greg CA 618 Kanyavong, Sichan GA 1259 Kuang, Jeffrey FL 1748 Leung, Gar Bo VA 708 Liu, Shuren IN 1641 Marcum, Jerry TX 1347 Miller, John NY 763 Kaplan, Zachary NY 1821 Kumar, Alok NY 1095 Levine, Jesse VA 463 Liu, Shuyi WA 1034 Mardari, Alexei OH 1327 Miller, Paul VA 1813 Kapsalakis, Dean CA 2225 Kumar, Nikhil GA 1695 Lew, Hwa MD 1660 Liu, Su FL 1009 Marik, Victor NC 1771 Miller, Tom WA 1083 Karimov, Shavkat PA 1467 Kumar, Pavan NY 1855 Lewis, Andrew OH 874 Liu, Taylor MN 1979 Markov, Andrey IN 1778 Miller, Tony GA 1684 Karp, John CA 985 Kumar, Rohan PA 1184 Lewis, Andrew MI 1079 Liu, Tianyi OK 1795 Marks, Douglas CA 234 Min, Jerry MA 1698 Kasha, Steven NJ 1991 Kumar, Sharath IA 1583 Lewis, Paul NY 799 Liu, Victor FN 1846 Marksheid, Hannoch MA 1396 Mino-Kenudson, Mari CA 2576 Kashyap, Anal CA 2277 Kumar, Shivam CA 117 Li, Alison CA 2343 Liu, Victor IL 373 Maroon, Jim OH 620 Minor, Hunter IL 1611 Kasperski, Grzegorz CA 2332 Kumar, Shivansh CA 263 Li, Alvin CA 1977 Liu, Xuan CO 1274 Martin, Dennis WA 1891 Mioduszewski, Vince AR 874 Kassees, Ranya MD 1498 Kung, Ling-bing WA 472 Li, Axel TN 1451 Liu, Yiqing (Linda) CA 1021 Martin, Michael CA 2236 Miranda, Rudy VA 1412 Kasson, Scott CA 2026 Kuo, Patrick TX 1932 Li, Benjamin GA 2375 Liu, Yitong(Wantong) NC 1836 Martin, Michael NJ 1479 Mistry, Jayesh OH 1791 Katbi, Tarek CA 2198 Kuok, Joey PA 2649 Li, Bochao CA 1140 Liv, JunJie MO 2123 Martin, Richard CA 1013 Mitchell, Craig NC 1309 Kauffman, Ronald TX 1432 Kurapati, Allen MS 2590 Li, Cheng CA 1918 Livshin, Bella LA 1633 Martin, Richard FL 1288 Mittal, Prashant IL 1474 Kaye, Gordon IL 2027 Kurcz, Marcin NM 1557 Li, Chia-Yeh IL 1200 Lkhagvajav, Baasanjav OH 941 Martin, Ronald HI 794 Miyashiro, Angie CA 1714 Kazemi, Behnam IL 2300 Kurek, Artur NC 1806 Li, David FL 1387 Llapa, Arturo LA 1757 Martinez, Glenn HI 1167 Miyashiro, Stewart MD 2333 Ke, Roy HI 853 Kuroki, Riko LA 2198 Li, Dian TX 1825 Lloyd, Lindsey TX 1924 Martinez, Gustavo NY 1687 Mizrahi, Gabi MD 1825 Ke, Tiffany NJ 1623 Kusnic, Lance VA 1720 Li, Eric NY 946 Lo, Graham FL 1591 Martinez, Jose CA 863 Mo, Emily NC 1335 Kearney, Joseph F. 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Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 67 Paddle Palace Presents USATT Tournament schedule *For the most up to date list of tournaments please visit http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Events/Event-Info

Pennsylvania State Closed, Philadelphia, PA, 4/26/2014 - 4/27/2014, West Michigan Holland Spring Open 2 Star, Holland, MI, 5/17/2014 ggg, Ken Weinstein, 215-247-5555 - 5/18/2014, gg Brian Fowler, 616-617-1016

Arizona Closed, Phoenix, AZ, 4/26/2014 - 4/27/2014, g, Jay Turber- LYTTC May Open, Dunellen, NJ, 5/17/2014 - 5/18/2014, gg Barry ville, 480-529-2829 Dattel, 732-200-5820 NJ State Championship, Westfield, NJ, 4/26/2014 - 4/27/2014,g g Potomac 2014 Spring Open, Potomac, MD, 5/17/2014 - 5/18/2014, gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129 Herman Yeh, 301-915-4079 Westchester 2014 April Open Pleasantville, NY, 4/26/2014 - Westchester 2014 May Open, Pleasantville, NY, 5/24/2014 - 4/27/2014, gggg Will Shortz, 914-769-9128 5/25/2014, gggg Will Shortz, 914-769-9128

2014 Rhode Island Table Tennis Spring Open, Manville, RI, America’s Team Championship, Rockford, IL, 5/24/2014 - 4/26/2014 - 4/27/2014, g Manuel Silva, 401-769-6666 5/25/2014, gggg Edward Hogshead, 815-262-1868 DAC April Open (41 Points), Davison, MI, 4/26/2014 - 4/27/2014, SVTTC Butterfly Open, Milpitas, CA, 5/24/2014 - 5/25/2014,g g ggg, Jon Bosika, 810-658-8153 Steven Wang, 650-235-6796 2014 Wisconsin Closed State Championships, Milwaukee, WI, Neil Smyth Memorial Open, San Diego, CA, 5/24/2014 - 5/25/2014, 4/26/2014, Linda Leaf, 414-281-3123 gggg Attila Malek, 714-280-6821

Charlotte $1000 Loopalalooza Open, Charlotte, NC, 4/26/2014 - Clearwater Spring Open, Clearwater, FL, 5/24/2014, gg Keith 4/27/2014, gg John Pahl, 704-651-5464 Hanley, 727-726-2181

Texas Wesleyan Open (31), Fort Worth, TX, 4/26/2014, gg, Texas Wesleyan Open (31), Fort Worth, TX, 5/31/2014, gg Jasna Jasna Rather, 817-715-4062 Rather, 817-715-4062 2014 Indiana State Championships, Indianapolis, IN, 4/26/2014 - $16,000 Meiklejohn North American Seniors Open, Laguna Woods, 4/27/2014, g, Robert Clyde, 317-895-8394 CA, 6/5/2014 - 6/8/2014, gg Craig Krum, 909-227-0822

Vernon Hills Spring Open, Vernon Hills, IL, 4/26/2014, g, Engel- LYTTC June Open, Dunellen, NJ, 6/7/2014 - 6/8/2014, ggBarry Dattel, bert Solis, 847-312-0590 732-200-5820 Florida Orange Blossom Table Tennis Series Spring Classic Open, Lake- Atlanta Open Giant Round Robin U2000, Norcross, GA, 6/7/2014, land, FL, 5/2/2014 - 5/3/2014, gg, Brad Woodington, 863-370-5163 g Wendell Dillon, 770-923-5110

HCTT Circuit Tournament, Columbia, MD, 5/3/2014, Fan Yang, Ararat Open 2014, Glendale, CA, 6/14/2014 - 6/15/2014, gg Victor 443-538-5034 Shahbazian, 818-634-7245

St. Louis Open, St. Louis, MO, 5/3/2014 - 5/4/2014, gggg, 2014 Washington Table Tennis Open, Chantilly, VA, 6/14/2014 Daniel Seemiller, 574-654-7476 gg Jay Park, 703-944-8819

San Antonio Spring Open, San Antonio, TX, 5/3/2014 - 5/4/2014, 2014 Missouri Show-Me State Games Open, Springfield, MO, gg, San Antonio Table Tennis Club, 210-254-0987 6/21/2014, gg William Lewis, 417-890-8092 NYISC May 2014 Open, College Point, NY, 5/4/2014, gg, Yu Shao, Michigan Closed State Finals, Grand Rapids, MI, 6/21/2014 - 646-234-5291 6/22/2014, gg Brian Fowler, 616-617-1016

NW LA Open, Canoga Park, CA, 5/4/2014, g, Allen Verny, 818- 2014 NNTTC Joola Open, Newport, VA, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014, gg 330-5756 Dan Barrett, 757-729-2335 Newgy Cincinnati Open, Cincinnati, OH, 5/9/2014 - 5/10/2014, 2014 HI June Open (22), Palisades Park, NJ, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014, gggg, Samson Dubina Byung Jun An, 718-928-8551 Florida Sunshine State Games Table Joseph Bae Open, Santa Ana, CA, 5/10/2014, gg, Ardeshir Afshar, Tennis Open 2014, Lakeland FL, 949-463-8000 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014 3rd Annual Robert Bluestone Memorial Event, El Paso, TX, 5/10/2014, g, Mark Nordby, 915-282-8210 Brad Woodington, 863-370-5163 California State Open, Santa Monica NJTTC 2014 May Open, Westfield, NJ, 5/10/2014 - 5/11/2014,g g, CA, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014, gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129 Ichiro Hashimoto, 818-700-0948 Sacramento Spring Open, Sacramento, CA, 5/10/2014, James Ther- riault, 916-308-3209 NJTTC 2014 Giant Round Robin Robo-Pong May 2014 BTTC Open, Hollywood, FL, 5/17/2014 - Westfield NJ, 6/21/2014 - 6/14/2014 5/18/2014, ggg Carlos Zeller, 954-849-5436 gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129 68 TABLE TENNIS PaddlePalace.com

For the most updated ratings, visit USATT.ORG GHTTC June 2014 Open, Hartford, CT, 6/22/2014, gg Wilbert Lawrence, 860-819-0356 South Florida Newgy US Open Warm Up (53 Points), Dania Beach, FL, 6/27/2014 - 6/29/2014, ggg Terese Terranova, 954-695-3218

2014 Summer Sooner State Games, Oklahoma City, OK, 6/28/2014, 2014 Summer Slam VI, El Paso, TX, 8/16/2014, gg Mark Nordby, g Britt Salter, 405-306-7227 915-282-8210 Westchester 2014 June Open, Pleasantville, NY, 6/28/2014 - gggg Dana Point Open, Dana Point, CA, 8/17/2014, g Attila Malek, 714- 6/29/2014, Will Shortz, 914-769-9128 280-6821 2014 US Open, Grand Rapids , MI, 7/1/2014 - 7/5/2014, ggggg 2014 Butterfly MDTTC August Open, Gaithersburg, MD, 8/23/2014 Joyce Grooms, 719-866-4583 - 8/24/2014, gg Charlene Liu, 202-459-9096

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70 TABLE TENNIS Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 71 TIM BOGGANDS IN HIS OWN WORDS 2013 Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient YVONNE KRONLAGE

By USTTA Historian Tim Boggan In her 1985 USTTA Executive Committee Election Cam- paign Statement, Yvonne Kronlage showed very clearly her disillusionment at the continued passionate effort she’s made, and will continue to make, to further the sport, but always with so little personal recognition. She feels she’s so often ignored, her valid USTTA complaints on women’s issues not taken up. Why is that? Especially when back in 1972 she was named “Woman of the Month” by our National Publication, and in 1979 when, on her way to being elected USTTA Executive Committee Treasurer, her “Women’s World” article was very well received. Answer (so she’d been told) to her not being recognized: “Because no one knows you and what you’ve * See tableten- done.” nis.teamusa.org Well, though it’s certainly not true she’s unknown—she’ll (USATT) get over 400 votes this election—she doesn’t get elected either. (Hall of Fame) But Yvonne is a combatant, is very persistent at going after for expanded versions of each what she wants. Two years later she has a new strategy, will let Raised funds for and has taken teams to many Junior Olym- profile a man speak for her. pics. Dennis Masters, well known as USTTA Tournament Chair, Regional: writes 51-year-old Yvonne’s 1987 Campaign Statement for Organized and has run Eastern Opens. Vice-President—and this time she is elected: Founded and is President of the Maryland TTA. “Yvonne, he begins, “has worked for U.S. Table Tennis for Ran Regional trials for Junior Olympics and National teams. over 25 years on the international, national, regional, and local Was instrumental in getting table tennis in the Maryland Se- levels. [Remember, this is being written by Dennis more than nior Olympics and Maryland State Games. a quarter-century ago and he’s going back another quarter cen- Local: tury.] Listed below are just some of her many efforts. Founded and ran clubs in Maryland for over 20 years. International: Taught table tennis in many schools. Team Manager and Coach in 1979 of the first U.S. Men’s Coached many players of all ages. [“Why was there never a and Women’s teams to the Pan Am Games—when t.t. was an Girls’ Camp?” she asked. And then in 1980 ran one with over exhibition sport. 20 participants.] Women’s Captain and Coach to the 1983 World Champion- Has always showed initiative--organized many exhibitions in ships—Women’s Captain for a Women’s Team had been one of schools, malls, and sporting events. her goals. Sponsored players and teams through her club and the MTTA. Captain of the U.S. Girls Team to the 1981 Scandinavian Worked to get women and juniors into table tennis. Instituted Open Junior Championships in Sweden. a Chaperone Program. Trying to bring the World Veterans Championships to the Directed tournaments year after year and will continue to do United States. [In Apr. ,’88, Yvonne flew to the European’s and so [the Maryland Open in ’88, for example). Yvonne founded successfully got sanction approval (and consequently participa- the Howard County Circuit. [In the 1986-87 season, Yvonne tion support) to run a super-tournament, a tripartite 1990 U.S. awarded $9,000 for 9 Circuit tournaments in which 600 players Open, World Veterans, and International Junior Championship. participated. This Circuit will run continuously for 30 years!]” A dream for Yvonne that, because of mismanagement, will turn Yvonne is also a player who holds a number of National ti- into something of a momentary nightmare.] tles. She has played in the Senior World Championships, and National: in many U.S. Open and National Championships over a half- Has been involved in every U.S. Olympic Sports Festival century span. in an official capacity [continuing in ’87 to be Women’s Team [At the 1961 National Team Championships she won the Out- Manager]. standing Player Award. At the 1963 U.S. Open, Yvonne was After being on a winning team herself (1983), she coached a Mixed Doubles finalist (playing with English looper Derek and captained U.S. Women’s teams at the annual Toronto CNE Baddely, they defeated the strong Sol Schiff/Leah Neuberger tournament, and also at the U.S. Open [and will do so in the team). And in the 1964-65 season, she was ranked #7 among future, as in the 1989 Open when she’ll also play for the U.S. U.S. Women. Photo by Mal Anderson. Photo by Mal Senior Women’s team]. Later, with her customary vigor, she’ll continue playing com- Chairperson of USTTA Committees. petitively into her 70’s. Here are her consistent U.S. Closed

72 TABLE TENNIS HistoryHistory ofof U.S.U.S. TableTable TennisTennis 962962 465465later-years playing highlights: photosphotos pagespages WON: twoVolumeVolume Over 40’s. After XIVXIV objecting NowNow publicly Available!Available! that there wasn’t •• www.timboggantabletennis.comwww.timboggantabletennis.com any Women’s Over 40’s in the 1978 Closed, that event was first held at the both the 1979 U.S. Open and 1979 Closed and Yvonne took both titles. WON: two Over 50’s. WON: three Over 60’s. WON: three Over 70’s (another event Yvonne, had initiated.] In 1987, Yvonne will be re-elected USTTA Executive Committee Vice-President—her third successful term in office. In 1989, she’ll see her Eastern Resident Training Program become a reality in Sykesville, MD—with Richard McAfee as Head Coach, assisted by China’s Zhi Yong Wang. In 1990, Yvonne embarked on her most ambitious venture, her gutsiest, the Baltimore Tournaments of Champions. She was the driving force that enabled the U.S. to stage a bona fide World (Vet- erans) Championship. Such a person is willing to take risks, get into trouble (Had “serious organizational, training, and staffing problems”), be criticized, fail….Succeed. (When much was cha- otic, Yvonne coolly, courageously took the mike, and gradually provided a stable finish to the tournament, which brought forth a number of appreciative remarks from players.) In 1994, Yvonne was inducted into the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame. And thereafter has continued to lead an active, productive life. Currently she’s a member of the U.S. Hall of Fame Board of Directors.

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Vol.Vol. II...... 1928-391928-39...... 375375 pages pages...... 215215 photos photos Vol.Vol. IXIX ...... 1977-791977-79...... 503503 pages pages...... 810810 photos photos Vol.Vol. IIII ...... 1940-521940-52...... 395395 pages pages...... 320320 photos photos Vol.Vol. XX...... 1979-811979-81...... 535535 pages pages...... 820820 photos photos Vol.Vol. IIIIII...... 1953-621953-62...... 450450 pages pages...... 400400 photos photos Vol.Vol. XIXI ...... 1981-821981-82...... 516516 pages pages...... 805805 photos photos Vol.Vol. IVIV ...... 1963-701963-70...... 460460 pages pages...... 700700 photos photos Vol.Vol. XIIXII...... 19831983 ...... 460460 pages pages...... 837837 photos photos Vol.Vol. V*V*...... 1971-721971-72...... 282282 pages pages...... 400400 photos photos Vol.Vol. XIIIXIII...... 19841984 ...... 448448 pages pages...... 918918 photos photos *Covers*Covers thethe Ping-PongPing-Pong DiplomacyDiplomacy YearsYears Vo.Vo. XIVXIV ...... 1985-861985-86...... 465465 pages pages...... 962962 photos photos Vol.Vol. VIVI ...... 1970-731970-73...... 500500 pages pages...... 800800 photos photos Vol.Vol. VIIVII...... 1973-751973-75...... 530530 pages pages...... 820820 photos photos “How“How cancan anyany seriousserious playerplayer notnot buybuy thesethese books?”books?” Vol.Vol. VIIIVIII ...... 1975-771975-77...... 512512 pages pages...... 836836 photos photos -Larry-Larry Hodges,Hodges, USATTUSATT HallHall ofof FamerFamer

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Gary Gresher (1944 - 2013) A Remembrance of Gary Gresher by Hall of Fame John Tannehill

“... I’m enclosing a copy of one of our favorite pictures of Gary. He loved Vietnam and visited often - this one is a classic - and don’t worry, I’m sure he put the little lizard down later, gently.” - Kathy Gresher

remember first meeting love for chess, wit, and during the stress-filled match I Gary Gresher and his general life view with me and that went 25-23 in the final wife Kathy at the Chicago influenced me greatly with game to my victory, and I table tenis club (Net and his tough but gentle, fun- remember feeling grateful for Paddle Club) of Mildred loving character. Trying to Gary’s watching so calmly Shahian and Jim Lazarus in combine table tennis training while I was battling for each the late 60’s. I was a “ping with its cold technical point. It was his energy as pong nomad” in need of precision and a student’s well as mine that won that a place to stay in Chicago passion for knowledge of day. while training with Jim culture and history was made Gary’s support showed Lazarus and coaching other easier by Gary’s influence. me that no matter how players including Gary. Gary The loneliness of disciplining technically fit your skill and Kathy befriended me myself to the competitive in table tennis, it amounts and opened their house in sports life was made tolerable to very little without the generous hospitality to me. by Gary, Kathy, and their real support of a friend on Later they would do the same son Charlie’s presence and the sidelines who radiates in Berkeley, California after support. concern for you. I miss Gary they moved there, and I was One of my best matches and his infectious love of live coaching and training at the was played in Chicago during and adventure. San Francisco club. the World Team Trials against Throughout this time Gary the national champion Dal shared his insights, books, Joon Lee. Gary was present

74 TABLE TENNIS Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 75 Table Tennis Charity Foundation Introducing Table Tennis to Schools in Virginia Beach by Dean Johnson ([email protected])

Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia has introduced the Table Tennis Sports and Education Program as a part of the schools 2014 High School Founders Week. The program is part of a larger plan being implemented by the Table Tennis Charity Foundation to introduce table tennis in both public and private schools as an extension to mainstream sports such as football, basketball, and baseball.

“We’re excited to kick off this program here at Ocean Lakes” said Ken Lees, Founder and President of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation and sponsor of the program. “Ocean Lakes will provide its students with proper equipment to facilitate an active Ping Pong Club, a scholarship opportunity, both casual and competitive play, Members of Ocean Lakes High School Ping Pong Club playing and ultimately, as we grow, school competitive participation between on make-shift cafeteria table prior to receiving donation of school teams!” He added. The Foundation will introduce the adaptive regulation tables from Kettler USA. program to the school, including the donation of table tennis tables by the Table Tennis Charity Foundation and table tennis equipment supplier Kettler USA.

The program kicked off with the Foundation’s chairman, neuropsychologist Dr. Scott Sautter, presenting a slide show to the students and a discussion of the science behind the benefits of table tennis.This was followed by demonstrations from local table tennis players Dean Johnson and Ron and Chris Weber.

It is the mission of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation to provide qualified schools with the Table Tennis Sports and Education Program – at NO cost. The goal is to “Cross-Train Your Brain”, both educationally and physically. The program provided to participating schools on behalf of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation benefits all Ping Pong Club members were grateful to receive 4 new tables ages and skill levels and will engage students, parents, faculty and staff donated by Kettler USA and have seen Club membership grow who are committed to a successful integration and implementation. since receiving the new tables.

As described by Dr. Scott Sautter, “The neuroscience of playing Ping Pong has been described as a game of aerobic chess. It’s great for eye- hand coordination, reflexes, balance, planning, strategy and a stress reliever exercising the mind and body in a safe activity for everyone. The cool factor is that research has demonstrated the positive benefits to brain fitness, such as the report of a Japanese study that found just ten minutes of playing Ping Pong increased neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum.” TheTable Tennis Charity Foundation is eager to raise awareness of the mental health and therapeutic benefits of playing Ping Pong.

Recently, USA Table Tennis endorsed Table Tennis Charity Foundation as a means to bringing“awareness of the benefits of playing table tennis to recreational players of any age and ability” said Ken Lees. “We are proud of the direction that Table Tennis Charity Foundation is heading, Ken Lees, Founder and President of the Table Tennis Charity and hope to work towards increasing table tennis participation, Foundation delivering presentation to students at Ocean Lakes including recognizing the physical and mental benefits playing the High School in Virginia Beach on the benefits of playing table sport. We are excited about starting our program at Ocean Lakes, and tennis. Photo by Dean Johnson look forward to bringing table tennis to all schools,” he added.

76 TABLE TENNIS 2500 1550 1800 1450 1000 1950 1400Tournament 1350 2650 2000 2150 1100 Event 1600 2250 Choices 1850 900 2750 2300 850 by Britt Salter, Mike Lauro, and Marguerite Cheung experience a competitive match because they are dominated by - ITTF level 2 certified coaches the opponent’s higher skill. Wins will likely come from like-rated In this article, we examine an issue that, from our experience, is players and lower rated players. If the player is entering these common with table tennis players below 2000. Far too often we events mainly to gain rating points, they may not be focused on see these players enter only rated events that are much higher than learning from these more competitive matches. their current USATT rating. The players we’ve talked are mainly As coaches, we feel that this 1680 player should first enter the motivated to protect their current rating points and to sidestep the U1700 event. We advise our students to enter the lowest rated danger of losing points to players with the same or lower ratings. event that they are eligible for. We want them to go into the event By entering only high rated events, they hope to gain rating points fully intending to win it! If they come up short but gave it their with a lucky win against a much higher rated opponent. As coaches, best effort, we are satisfied that we can use the results to improve we believe that this practice presents obstacles to improvement. the player’s development. We will modify training sessions as A player hones multiple skills by playing competitive matches needed to address issues presented from the competitive matches. against opponents with like ratings. Winning tough, competitive As the player continues to play in tournaments, they may see their matches will give the player confidence in future matches. Learning rating go up and down. But if we are doing our job as coaches, and how to win, especially close matches, and learning why a match the players are working hard to improve, then the overall trend of was won or lost are critically important skills. The player may have their rating will be UP! to make adjustments and change tactics in order to win a match. We also suggest entering the U1900 event. The player should be Properly evaluating the reasons behind a win or a “winnable loss” moderately competitive and is likely to have at least one or two in a competitive match is a tool that will better serve the player’s tough matches. This will give them a first-hand look at “the next future development than evaluating a loss against an opponent level”. Even if they lose most of their matches in this event, they who vastly outclasses the player. will have the opportunity to learn what is required to compete Playing only opponents rated 250 points or more above a player’s at that level. If the player has boundless energy and is really rating does not simulate competitive match play. Because the ambitious, we’d be fine with them entering the U2100 event as player is not expected to win and may be hoping to gain a rare well. They will probably get less benefit from this event, but it upset, the player may not approach the match in the same way they should be fun and they may play at least one competitive match. would against an opponent of similar level. The prospects of a low We recommend that players ALWAYS enter the lowest rated event rated player winning matches in higher rated events are usually for which they qualify. Rating points may be won and lost, but not good, hence the player’s tournament experience may consist the primary reason for playing in the lowest rated event is not mostly of losing. Coming close to winning a game (or match) related to rating points; it is to learn to build skills from playing against a much higher rated player is not the same as winning a competitive matches. competitive match against a similarly rated opponent. The much We want our students to learn to handle match pressure, fight higher rated opponent may be treating the duel as a warm up match, for points, stay focused, maintain their composure, control their conserving energy and using the player to set up shots they want emotions, and adapt to players with different styles. We want to practice for later matches against more challenging opponents. them to learn how to find and exploit weakness of their opponent The lower rated player is neither dictating the action nor likely to and to make appropriate adjustments in order to overcome tough even see the opponents real game. opponents. In these tight matches, the difference between winning As an example, consider the following scenario. Let’s say a and losing may be miniscule. Small adjustments in serving, player with a rating of 1680 decides to go to a tournament offering returning, placement, anticipation, balance, patience, consistency, the following events: U1100, U1300, U1500, U1700, U1900, or general shot selection are often the difference between a U2100, U2300, and “Open” singles events. The player enters only meaningful win and an agonizing loss. These skills are critical the U2100, U2300, and Open events. Because this tournament to building a solid foundation to advance to the next level. All of will have competitive 2000+ and 2200+ opponents, the chances these skills matter! They matter at this level, the next, and the that the player will advance out of an initial round robin group next… are slim. The player is likely to run into other like-minded and Our advice to ambitious tournament players is fairly simple: similarly-rated players where they will have to engage in a DO NOT STRESS OR OBSESS OVER RATINGS POINTS!!! competitive match. As coaches, we are more impressed with experience that an event What does the player learn from these matches that can be applied championship brings rather than sudden jumps in ratings points. to future individual development and tournament competitions? As players improve their skills and match playing ability, the Basically, not much. Few of their matches will be competitive. ratings points will surely follow. Against much higher rated opponents, the player may not actually

Spring Issue/April 2014 • usatt.org/MAGAZINE 77 78 TABLE TENNIS Table Tennis or Ping Pong? So about a month ago to the players it is but do you did I hear them use the phrase I posted a video of me really think it is to people who table tennis - and this is coming being interviewed on the dont know anything about this from the best in the world Steve Harvey show for the sport? I would say definitely by far! Not to mention table launching of my website not! Try it yourself. Go around tennis is terrible name from a whoiswallygreen.com. As I was and ask people who don’t play marketing perspective to make reading through the comments the sport what’s a better phrase it popular. How many movies (as I usually do), I noticed one for them and see what they have you seen that used “table comment in particular. The tell you. I guarantee 90% if tennis” in the title? Answer.... comment noted how good it not more will say ping pong, ZERO. If it was such a great was, but stated that I should and remember these are the name for the sport it would be have used the phrase “table same people we desperately used universally, and its not. tennis” and not “ping pong”. It need to help this sport grow! One of the biggest historical went on to say how ping pong Of course some of you will events in this country is called is used in a derogatory way, say “No, ping pong is what “Ping Pong” Diplomacy! (Not conjuring up images of social/ you play in the basement!” table tennis diplomacy.) So casual table tennis as opposed ...Yada yada yada. Says who?? instead of focusing so much to the sport he loves blah blah Who made this rule that ping energy getting angry when blah blah -- and not to mention pong is played only in the people call it ping pong just the countless number of players basement, a hobby sport, or show them what its all about. who actually get angry when that its not the real sport table Ping Pong, Table Tennis, someone calls it that. tennis is? The best players in Whiff Whaf, Gossamer, Flim In my opinion I think its the world call it Ping Pong! Flam....whatever... It all stands hilarious! All of you who do I have never heard anyone in for same great sport we love know me know how much China call it table tennis. I am so much. No matter what the I love the sport and want good friends with a few players name is, if its marketed and to see table tennis become who have even been on the presented in the right way a mainstream sport such as Chinese National Team and people will love it just as much basketball or baseball. My never once in a conversation as we do. life IS table tennis, ping pong, whiff waff, or whatever you want to call it. And my goal in this sport is to make it kool, popular and make it possible for players to make lots of money! whoiswallygreen.com Now honestly, does anyone really think the phrase “table tennis” is real kool and inviting? Just try to step outside of the box for minute and really think about this. Of course

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