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July/August 2013 USATable tennis

2013 Open Champ Wang Zhen

CONTENTS PUBLISHER: USA Table Tennis USA Table Tennis Magazine 4065 Sinton Road, Suite 120 VOLUME 84, NUMBER 4 Colorado Springs, CO 80907

FEATURES 2013 US Open and Americas Challenge...... 14 (with articles by Richard McAfee, Ian Marshall, and Steve Hopkins) Full Results...... 35 2013 Hopes Week...... 38 Olympic Day...... 39 Ladies First...... 42 Tim Boggan Hall of Fame Profile...... 70 Bobrow...... 71 Baltimore Orioles Visit MDTTC by Larry Hodges...... 72 COACHING Zoran Primorac Interview by Wei Wang...... 44 Learning to Counterloop by Larry Hodges...... 46 Tips of the Month by Carl Danner...... 48 Junk Yard by Richard Burnside...... 49 Tournaments Local and National Tournamnets...... 52 USATT AND OTHER NEWS Editors...... 8 CEO Report...... 10 USATT Annual Giving Campaign...... 12 USATT National Rankings ...... 62 USATT Ratings ...... 64 USATT Tournament Schedule ...... 69 In Memoriam: Mel Eisner...... 76 In Memoriam: Peggy McLean Foulke...... 77 ON THE COVER: 2013 Open Champion Eugene Wang photo by Steve Hopkins

This page: Adam Hugh at the 2013 US Open photo by Steve Hopkins

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In the case of McLean and Rating and Rankings Questions Reisman, each was an elite player (both won the US Open, both won the English Open, both PRINTER were in the top few players in the World in Publication Printers, Denver, CO their era). In the case of Eisner and Reisman, USA Table Tennis Magazine (USPS 942-000) both were great characters and both were still (ISSN 1089-1870) is published bimonthly active in the sport even in recent years. at Colorado Springs, CO. and is the official magazine of USA Table Tennis (USATT), a Class “A” member of the U.S. Olympic Com- Our table tennis community mourns the loss mittee. Periodicals Postage Paid at Colorado of these legends. Their talent, contribution, Springs, CO and at additional offices. and dedication to the sport have helped shape it for the rest of us. Our thoughts and prayers are CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Michael Cavanaugh weith their families, friends, and loved ones. 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Not all of the dust has settled from Las Vegas (and the US Open and Americas truck deliveries and forklift work that Challenge) but I wanted to take a moment to reflect on all that we attempted to do. needed to be done to set up the venue Whenever you start to thank folks you invariably leave some very deserving person(s) using the large open doors – all amidst out and that is a pity but it is the human condition. near record heat in the Las Vegas area. We started out before most of the participants arrived in Las Vegas with taking Greg was nearly always the first one at on the responsibility of conducting an IR Course (the ITTF International Referree the venue in the morning and nearly Programme). Roman Tinyszin did all the heavy lifting for staging this event and we always one of the last to leave. included the course for two reasons: (1) to give some US folks the opportunity to take Doru Gheorghe remains a quiet hero and test through the course and (2) to attract a few more IUs to stay on and work our as well - managing all venue service Open and Americas Challenge! Michael Zwipp from the ITTF URC was the Course contracts, security, printer/computer Conductor and he was gracious enough to stay and serve as Deputy Referee for the rentals, electricity, custodian, internet, Americas Challenge. We were fortunate to have him from the start to the finish. water and food services, vendor booth The US Open drew a near record level of entries and trust me that Joyce Grooms arrangements, fork lift rental, delivery and Deborah Gray were pushed to new levels of performance in managing the entries, scheduling - all while managing our preparing player packets, t-shirt coupons, athlete water tickets, fee processes and national team coaches and coaching hotel accommodations for officials, staff and volunteers. NATT too had to react our team athletes in their matches! to increased scheduling and increased equipment demands and all that entails. We Also, on July 6 we observed Olympic Day in the venue as part of the U.S. Olympic learned some very valuable lessons in managing the crush of registration that we Committee’s effort to recognize a nationwide observance as part of a worldwide experienced the first morning but the staff and volunteers calmly and methodically recognition of Olympism. The USOC provided temporary tattoos that featured the worked through to manage the situation as effectively and humanly possible. Olympic Rings and Olympic Day and these went like ‘hot cakes’ at the registration One primary purpose of taking on the Americas Challenge event was for our US area especially with our young players. players to participate in that level of competitive experience on our ‘home turf’. It Our referee and umpire leadership and corps, along with racket control officials was gratifying to see many of them enjoying the experience with some impressive included Azmy Ibrahim (Open Referee), Joseph Yick (Open – Deputy Referee), results. This event was unusual because of the increased technical demands of Stephen Banko (Open – Chief Umpire), Scott Ryan (Open, Deputy Chief Umpire), hosting an ITTF event - lighting at or above 1,000 lux, a wooden sub-floor beneath Wendell Dillon (Open Evaluator), Bill Walk (Referee – AC), Kagin Lee (Deputy our floor mats, reserved practice tables, increased demands for sponsor exposure Referee – AC), Michael Wetzel (Chief Umpire – AC) , Lee Kondo (Deputy Chief through barriers and floor decals, sponsor backdrops, an athlete lounge, and on and Umpire – AC) and Larry Kessler (Racket Control) all rose to the occasion and on. The ITTF directive called for one day of broadcast production with streaming contributed their professionalism as they always do – we couldn’t have done it without and we were able to produce four full days of streaming on two courts with multiple them. In fact, there were so many moving parts to the entire operation that “couldn’t cameras, live scoring and graphics and expert commentating – the HEROES of this have done it with you” applies to virtually everyone. Our event photographer, Steve aspect of the operation were David Del Vecchio and Sean O’Neill. Sean was able Hopkins, has provided photos that capture the essence of the overall events and these to recruit additional commentating expertise through the services of Han Xiao, can be seen on the USATT Facebook page, at the ITTF website and FLICKR site, Jim Butler, Richard McAfee, Larry Bavly, Matt Winkler, Alex Figueroa, and Adam and in upcoming issues of the magazine. He always seems to come through with an Bobrow. Adam Bobrow also managed the announcing and spectator enhancement all-encompassing coverage. music in an upbeat, balanced and professional fashion. It was also touching to see the Men’s and Women’s Singles winners posing for The ITTF Competition Division sent us Didier Leroy (BEL) to serve as our photographers with their individual trophy and medals flanked on either side by Competition Manager. Didier represents a small group of professional competition the large perpetual trophies made available through the USATT Hall of Fame / the managers who help raise the bar in terms of how the competition is managed, raising US Table Tennis Foundation and USATT and named after the Thal Sisters for the the presentation of the competition and serving as a point person to the athletes who Women’s Open Champion and Sol Schiff for the Men’s Open Champion. are regulars on the tour to assure them that technical expectations are being met to Ideally we favorably impressed our ITTF officials who worked with us throughout certain standards around the world. Didier was a patient task master with us and we the events. ITTF President Adham Sharara was not with us as he hoped to be due an were grateful to have his expertise and guidance. Ian Marshall of the ITTF provided IOC meeting conflict in Switzerland. However, he sent me a note that said he was outstanding press updates around the clock throughout the championships. following the event streaming every chance that he had. These were clearly learning I can’t say enough about the performance of Team JOOLA/NATT. NATT‘s Richard experiences at many different levels but for me all I can say is that you all made Lee, John Miller and Marynes Parra along with a corps of volunteers managed the USATT very proud of your efforts and I simply wanted to express my heartfelt thanks Open and AC in a very competent and professional manner. Greg Cox was there for to each and every one of you! the first three days when the air conditioning was not on because there were so many

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IN RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION OF $70,000 THE ANNUAL GIVING CAMPAIGN DONORS $100k Dear USATT Member, USATT USOC Matching After a successful 2012 campaign which saw $50,000 in donations from Goal USATT members and supporters through pledges and gifts, and $50,000 in $35,000 $35,000 2013 Gifts matching funds from the USOC as we achieved our 2012 goal of $100,000, we are now officially kicking off our 2013 Annual Giving Campaign. Our National Team and Paralympic Athletes are ready to represent us to the best of their ability, and we want to support their dreams. The US Olympic Committee believes in table tennis and will MATCH $35,000 of our pledges this year. There is a catch - we must exceed $35,000 in pledges to receive USOC matching funds. Once again, we are asking for your help. We need support that will be dedicated to developing the future of our sport. The annual giving campaign $9,691 $9,691 is dedicated to doing just that; with your help, we can make the vision a reality. Each of our projects will help young players improve, put more US athletes on the international scene and help us reach more recreational players to build support for the sport. Please make a gift of $50 or more today to help us reach our goals. You can help us reach these goals faster with a contribution of $250, $500 or even $1000. Gifts to USA Table Tennis, a 501(C)3 organization, are tax deductible. Sincerely, As of July 1 $9,691 from USATT Michael D. Cavanaugh USA Table Tennis CEO $9,691 Match from USOC (if $35,000 goal is met) TOTAL: $19,382

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USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 13 2013 US OPEN TWO IN A ROW A YEAR AGO, WANG ZHEN OVERCAME SEVERAL YEARS OF FINALS APPEARANCES WITHOUT A TITLE TO WIN HIS FIRST US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. THIS YEAR THE TOURNAMENT WAS AN ITTF PRO TOUR STOP WITH A STRONGER AND DEEPER FIELD. IN THE END, DIFFERENT DAY, SAME RESULT - WANG ZHEN, US OPEN CHAMPION. by Richard McAfee The ITTF World Tour returned to the U.S. with a bang this year as 181 players from 27 countries traveled to Las Vegas to fight for a coveted ITTF World Tour Title. Combined with the large turnout for the US Open Events, this year’s combined event produced the largest US Open in more than 20 years. It also provided many exciting matches for the enjoyment for both those on-site and the many viewers of the live internet streaming broadcast centered on the two main tables in the arena.

14 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 19 23 30 Junior Ping Pong Keinath Events Diplomacy Interview Americas Challenge US Open Finals Men’s Singles Semifinals The top seeds this year included two veteran champions, No.1-seeded Jens Lundqvist (SWE) and No.2 Zoran Primorac (CRO). Lundqvist, who is world ranked at No.56, is a longtime member of the Swedish National Team. Primorac, who is ranked No.80 in the world, and who won the US Open in 1991, is now forty-four, but is still in remarkable shape. Joining the top seeds in the Semifinals was the #3 seed, Canada’s Eugene Wang and an unknown qualifier from China, Yang Ce. Lundquist (SWE) vs Wang (CAN) Both Jens and Eugene had won very hard-fought quarterfinal matches. In fact, these were perhaps the “matches of the tournament”. Jens needed every bit of his experience to pull-out a seven game win over Marcos Madrid (MEX), 10-12, 11-9, 11- 8, 10-12, 12-10, 9-11, 17-15. This match featured many crowd pleasing counter-looping rallies with Marcos holding an edge in the backhand exchanges and Jens with the more powerful forehand. Jens needed five match points in the seventh game before Marcos returned a serve off the table to give Jens the match. Wang’s quarterfinal with Tao Wenzhang (CHN) was an equally amazing and crowd-pleasing match as Eugene pulled out a seven game win, 12-10, 11-3, 11-9, 8-11, 7-11, 5-11, 12-14. Tao looked to be the most powerful player in the draw, with exceptional pen-holder forehand and reverse backhand topspins. But when Tao missed two forehands on match points in the seventh game, Eugene continued his march forward to defend his

2012 US Open Title. The first game of the match saw Lundquist get off to a slow start with a number of unforced forehand errors to give game one to Wang 11-7. Eugene continued his steady play at the start of game two and quickly went up 5-0 before winning game two at 11-5. Lundquist seemed a step slower in this match than during his quarterfinal match and was clearly frustrated trying to attack Wang’s clever all-round play. Lundquist began to find his forehand timing early in the third game to take a 9-8 lead. However, when Eugene pulled out the game with some strong serve returns 11-9, Jens quickly folded in the fourth game 11-5 to give Wang a quick and somewhat surprising 4-0 match win.

Primorac (CRO) vs Yang Ce (CHN) Both of these players had a somewhat easier road to the semifinals. In his quarter-final match, Yang Ce defeated Seyama Tatsuo (JPN), in five games, 12-10, 11-8, 9-11, 11-4, 11-8. Yang plays a modern Chinese close-to-the-table, shakehand attacking style of play. In this battle of the unseeded qualifiers, Yang dominated the serve and serve return game to take a quick five game victory. Primorac played Shiono Masato (JPN) in a crowd pleasing quarterfinal. Shiono, who is a wonderful defender, had just won

photos by Steve Hopkins: (left to right) Wang Zhen, Zoran Primorac, Jens Lundqvist USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 15 the ITTF Japan Open the week before and was definitely a crowd favorite. However, Zoran showed that he still has the power and certainly the experience as he out steadied Masato in a spectator’s delight match, 11-8, 7-11, 2-11, 11-7, 7-11, 8-11. As often happens, the first game is was a feeling-out process for both players. Zoran’s famed backhand serve and backhand third- ball attacks were effective and he won the first game 11-5. Pri- morac’s fine play continued into the second game, but Ce began to force Zoran into more forehand to forehand exchanges where he clearly had an advantage. Down 9-10, but serving, Primorac once again went for his favorite backhand serve, but this time Ce was ready and made a winning backhand flip to win the game 11-9 and tie the match up at one-all. Game three was close all the way until the end when Ce was able to force Zoran into several wide forehand-to-forehand exchanges where Ce clearly held the advantage. Ce won the game 11-7. Primorac started out game four with his game hitting on all cylinders. Making some great down-the- line backhand blocks, Zoran quickly ran to a 9-3 lead. Yang however, did not give up and with some great forehands of his own, cut the deficit to 9-6 and at this point Primorac took a timeout to think things over. The timeout backfired though as Ce, with two forehand loop winners and a flip-kill, brought the game even at 9-9. Two errors from Zoran completed Ce’s eight points in a row run as he won game four at 11-9. Game five was another see-saw affair with Primorac again rushing to a lead at 5-1 only to see Ce again come back to tie the game at 9-9. A strong forehand counter-loop gave Yang a match point at 10-9. At this point Primorac made full-

bodied forehand smash/loop only to see Yang make an incredible reflex block for a winner and Yang won the game and match 11-9. Men’s Finals For the third year in a row, Eugene Wang was in the Men’s finals. His opponent, Yang Ce, while unseeded and unknown, had already shown his ability in this event with a comfortable win over Zoran Primorac in the Semifinals. Yang clearly was the more powerful player of the two, but Eugene has always shown an ability to find a way to win the big matches, especially in his North American backyard. As play began, it was apparent that both players had similar styles that both featured strong forehand topspins and backhand blocks. For much of the first game, Yang’s forehand power caught Wang by surprise and Yang won the important first game at 11-7. Yang continued his strong play in the second to take a 9-7 lead on his serve. A forehand error and a great mid-distance forehand, sidespin counter-loop by Eugene brought the score to 9-all. An error from each player brought the game to deuce. At this point, Eugene scored with a great backhand flip serve return and a heavy chop serve to win the game 12-10 and tie the match at one-game all. In game three, it seemed Wang had suddenly found the answer to Yang’s power. He began to flip more serves and to open with much more spin on his first loops. The result of this change in tactics forced many errors from Yang and Eugene quickly ran out the game 11-5. Wang continued his fine play at the beginning of game four. Suddenly, Yang’s power was not driving Eugene away from the table. Wang had built an 8-6 lead when the umpire gave him

16 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 a yellow card for taking too much time between points. Eugene, while not showing emotion about this call, lost the next two points to tie the game 8-all. At this point, Eugene made two very spin- ney backhand flip returns to force errors from Yang and with yet another strong backhand topspin, won game four, 11-8, to take a 3-1 game lead in the match. Game five was close all the way until a great reflex forehand counter-loop gave the game and match 11-9 to Wang. Congratulations to Eugene Wang for repeating as Men’s Singles Champion at the U.S. Open and this time it goes as an ITTF World Tour Win as well. Women’s Semi-finals The top two seeds, #1 Elizabeta Samara (ROU) and #2 Georgina Pota (HUN), made it comfortly into the semifinals. Elizabeta defeated Tang Liying (USA), four games to two, 11-2, 11-7, 14-16, 8-11, 11-8, 11-9 in the quarter-finals. Georgina had an even more impressive victory over her quarterfinal opponent, Ana-Maria Erdelji (SRB), 4-0. Joining the top seeds in the semi-finals were Abe Megumi (JPN) and U.S.’s own, 4th-seeded Lily Zhang. Lily played a great match in the quarterfinals to pull out a seven game victory over Cana- dian Champion, Mo Zhang, 11-6, 11-13, 2-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-9, 11-6. Abe was the hot player of the tournament, defeating USA’s #5-seeded, Ariel Hsing in the round of 16 in five games and #3 seeded, Petrissa Solja (GER) in straight games in the quarter-finals.

Elizabeta Samara (ROU) vs Lily Zhang (USA) To the casual spectator, Samara with her world ranking of #19 was a heavy favorite over the #92 ranked Zhang going into the match. However, Lily’s fans knew that she is a young player quickly marching up the world rankings and most expected a real battle. The first game saw both players feeling out each other’s games looking for weaknesses. The left-handed Elizabeta plays a typical European mid-distance topspin game while Lily plays closer to the table putting her opponents under a lot of time pressure. A good sign for Lily was that she was winning most of the longer points as Samara had problems keeping up with Lily’s fast play. Samara had the advantage on the serve and serve return game and it was her serve return at deuce that helped her win the first game 12-10. Game two was also close all the way to deuce. Lily continued to have difficulties reading Samara’s inside-out forehand serve, but at 11-all, she finally made a strong backhand serve return to reach 12-11, and then with a strong third ball attack, took game two, 13-11. In game three, Samara took complete charge with her serve game. Lily simply could not read the spin on the serve and Samara scored again and again with easy third ball attacks to take a quick 11-5 victory and a 2-1 lead in games. Game four was more of the same with Lily continuing to do well in the rallies, but Eliza- beta dominating with her serve and receive game. With Samara up 10-9, but Lily on a run, Elizabeta called a time-out. The time-out worked as Samara made a winning drop-shot off of Lily’s serve to take the game 11-9. In game five, Lily started out strong and

photos by Steve Hopkins: (left to right) Yang Ce, Wang Zhen, Lily Zhang, Georghina Pota

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 17 with some help from the umpire faulting Samara on her serve, Lily raced to a 10-6 lead. An edge ball and a clever side-spin serve return drew Elizabeta closer to 10-8 and Lily, sensing the game getting away, called a time-out. However, the time-out did not help as Samara scored with a strong backhand third ball attack and then another serve winner to deuce the game. A strong step-round forehand winner and another topspin serve that Lily could not handle gave Samara the game and match, 12-10. Lily had played well throughout the match, but the difference in the serve game of Sa- mara was just too much for Lily to overcome. Georgina Pota (HUN) vs Abe Megumi (JPN) Pota came into this match as a big favorite. After all, she was a past U.S. Open Champion and with a World Ranking of #57, was certainly much more experienced that Abe, world ranked #200. However, the left-handed Megumi plays an unusual style featuring close to the table long pips attacks and blocks on the backhand mixed with strong forehand kills. Her ability to mix-up the spins with her long-pip blocks presented everyone she played with a lot of problems. Georgina, on the other hand, plays a very straight forward European Topspin Style with strong topspins from both sides. In game one, Abe rushed out to a 10-6 lead as Pota was visibly confused about what tactics to use. However, Pota then went on a roll, making a series of strong topspin winners before Abe finally got in her own third ball attack to take the game, 11-9. Abe’s fine play continued in game two. Georgina could not seem to find an answer against the very quick-to-smash Abe. Georgina could not

find the angles needed to keep Abe from pivoting to use her forehand from the backhand corner. The result was a quick 11-5 win in game two. At the start of game three, Abe is just “in the zone”. She smashed even Pota’s strong opening topspins and rushed to a 6-0 lead before Pota could finally score a point. To Pota’s credit, she kept trying to find a winning tactic and she never gave up. Varying the spin and height of her topspins, Pota was able to make a comeback, but fell just short losing the game 11-8. Finally in game four, Pota began to get back into the match as Abe finally began to make some unforced errors and Pota also was able to move Abe at wide angles. Pota took an early 8-3 lead and won game four, 11-5. At the beginning of game five, both players were playing well. Abe was quickly back into the “zone” mixing soft long pips backhand blocks with deadly step-a-round forehand smashes. At 4-4, Pota ran out of answers and Abe quickly won the game and the match, 11-5. Surely, Megumi is having the tournament of her life. Women’s Finals While the #1 seeded, Elizabeta Samara, was expected to be in the finals, not many before the start of the tournament were picking Abe Megumi to be her opponent. However, Megumi had already dispatched the numbers 5, 3, and 2 seeded players and now everyone was wondering if she could go all the way to win the championship. While Elizabeta plays the classic European topspin game with an exceptionally strong mid-distance forehand, Abe plays a style not seen very much in international play. She reminds me a little of a left-handed version of the great Chinese World Champion

18 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Deng Yaping who won the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. If anyone doubted Abe’s ability to play with Samara, those doubts were quickly put to rest as Abe raced to a 10-2 first game lead. Both players are left-handed, so the question to be answered was which one would be able to force the other to play from the wide forehand side. Abe showed her ability to handle Elizabeta’s strong serves by dropping them short and then moving Elizabeta side-to- side with her long-pip blocks until she could finish with a forehand smash. Samara made a run of her own, but it was too little too late as Abe took the important first game 11-6. Samara’s dilemma continued in the second game. If she played too soft, then Abe would pounce on her returns. If she played too fast, then the quick changes of spin from the long pips caused many unforced errors. Adding to Elizabeta’s problems was the fact that Abe was making great serve returns denying Samara her usual easy third ball attacks. Game two went to Abe 11-5. Game three was more of the same as Abe kept control and Samara could find no answers to deal with Abe’s pips returns. While Elizabeta made a few strong winning backhands, Abe easily took the game 11-6. Finally in game four, Samara began to find a winning tactic. She began to open with slower and heavier topspin strokes and this began to force some errors from Abe and gave Samara her first game win 11-6. At the beginning of game five, both players came out swinging. Samara scored with several backhand topspins and Abe was looking to pivot and forehand smash at the first opportunity. With two strong third ball attacks, Elizabeta took a 5-3 lead. A couple of strong forehand attacks from Abe and the game was tied

6-all. A couple of forehand attacks and a great series of backhand blocks gave Abe the lead 9-7. A net return and a service winner gave Abe the game and match 11-7. Abe Megumi’s smile said it all. She had just won the U.S. Open, America’s Challenge Series Women’s Singles Title and had the tournament of her life. This year the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour, U.S. Open, America’s Challenge Series brought a lot of exciting matches to Las Vegas. It is important to remember that this event required a separate operations staff, separate umpires, and a great many volunteers to produce the daily live video streaming. All of us at USA Table Tennis owe these dedicated volunteers a big “thank you” for making this event possible and allowing us to share in the excitement that comes with being a part of the ITTF World Tour.

photos by Steve Hopkins: (left to right) Elizabeta Samara, Abe Megumi, Abe Megumi, and Samara with Abe

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 19 AND THEN THERE WERE TWO: Top Seeds Fall One at a Time Leaving An Unexpected Champion in Both Events by Steve Hopkins

20 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 This year, many of the top players in both the Mens’ and Womens’ events fell victim to the unusually deep and strong field. Though, we knew there would be some interesting stories regardless of the winners at the 2013 GAC Group ITTF World Tour - US Open Americas Challenge Series. In fact, as one looked across the entries, only two players (Men or Women) had ever won an ITTF event: Zoran Primorac who last won a Tour Event in the ‘90s, and Masato Shiono who had won his first Tour Event in Japan just a few weeks before this tournament. On the women’s side, two high seeds fell in the first round: Romania’s Iulia Necula and host country favorite Jiaqi Zheng. On the men’s side, three high seeds fell in the second round: Sweden’s Robert Svensson (4th Seed), Japan’s Ryusuke Karube (5th Seed), and Romania’s Andrei Filimon (7th Seed). The crowds around the Americas Challenge top tables grew larger each day of the tournement. There were clear crowd favorites from the beginning. Some favorites, like Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang were high seeds and were cheered on by onlookers as American champions (Lily Zhang survived in the Women’s draw until the Semifinals). Others, like Adam Hugh and Jens Lundqvist brought crowds with animated and athletic play. Still others by virtue of the surprise - like China’s Yang Ce who defeated 4th Seed Svensson in the second round and then won every match with a relatively easy score of 4-1 until losing in the Final. The photos on this page are of some of the crowd favorities - some of those who were expected to be the stories of the tournament. Top left is Zoran Primorac of Croatia who despite playing in all seven Olympic Games (and 17 World Championships) is still performing at an elite level - and who advanced all the way to the Semifinals. The top right photo is of Japanese player Masato Shiono who defied all odds by winning the Japan Open in June but who could not best Primorac in the Quarterfinals in Las Vegas. The center photo is of a very entertaining Jens Lundqvist of Sweden who entered the tournament as the top seed but who fell to Canada’s Wang Zhen 4-0 in the Semifinals. The bottom left photo is of top seed Elizabeta Samara of Romania who defeated USA’s Lily Zhang in the Semifinalis and then lost to Japan’s Megumi Abe 4-1 in the Final. The bottom right photo is of third seed Georgina Potal of Hungary who met the same fate as Samara - losing to Megumi Abe 4-1 in the Semifinals. And the large photo on the left is of the US Open Champions: Canada’s Wang Zhen and Japan’s Megumi Abe. Both are seated on the awards podium holding their trophies and posing with the large perpetual trophies: the Men’s Open Trophy is the Sol Schiff Cup, and the Women’s Open Trophy is the Thal Sisters Cup.

(PHOTOS: Champions Zhen and Abe, Primorac, Shiono, Lundqvist, Samara, and Pota) photos by Steve Hopkins

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GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour, US Open, Americas Challenge Series

by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor (Excerpts from His Daily Articles Which Appeared at ITTF.com from July - July 6)

Opening Success for Principal Names but Casualties Emerge on United States (11-9, 12-10, 8-11, 9-11, 11-4, 8-11, 11-8) to keep his First Day hopes alive of a place in the main draw. The leading names in the qualification stage of the Men’s and Women’s Players finishing in first and second places in each group progress to Singles events at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States the main draw. Open in Las Vegas enjoyed success, as matters commenced on the morning of Wednesday 3rd July 2013. Problems for Caribbean Duo In the Men’s Singles event it was a winning start to proceedings for An early reverse for Jubin Kumar; it was the same for the Caribbean the United States duo of Wang Qingliang and Timothy Wang as it was duo of Juan Vila (World ranked no.497) and Emil Santos (World ranked for India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Japan’s Tatsuo Seyama. 515). All emerged unscathed in their opening encounters. Juan Vila was beaten by Zhao Xinxu of the United States (7-11, 11-6, 13-11, 7-11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-8); Emil Santos suffered defeat at the hands Similar for Ladies of China’s Li Tianyu (15-13, 6-11, 11-2, 11-5, 11-8). Similarly in the Women’s Singles event, the leading ladies on first day action made positive starts to their campaigns. Chinese Adversaries Cause Upsets America’s Zheng Jiaqi enjoyed success as did Japan’s Nozomi Hasama Similarly, for the host nation’s Adam Hugh (World ranked 513) and and Megumi Abe with Mexico’s Yadira Silva being equally impressive Zhang Yahao (World ranked no.574) it was not the start they desired. and victorious. Both suffered defeats at the hands of Chinese opponents.

Defeats Adam Hugh was beaten by Yang Ce (9-11, 11-3, 12-14, 11-9, 12-10, 11-9); Zhang Yahao experienced defeat when facing Liu Dongri (4-11, 11-6, 6-11, 11-5, 12-10, 11-8).

Notable Names Experience Defeat However, there were surprises and casualties as matters commenced, especially in the Men’s Singles competition with World ranked players suffering against those with no global status. India’s Jubin Kumar, the Dominican Republic’s Juan Vila and Emil Canadian Pain Santos alongside the host nation’s Adam Hugh and Zhang Yahao were Meanwhile, in the counterpart first stage of the Women’s Singles the most notable names to suffer defeat against players with no World event, the player to experience the most pain was Canada’s Anqi Luo. ranking. Listed at no.407 on the present day Women’s World Rankings, she was beaten by Japan’s Miki Tsuchida (11-6, 11-4, 11-1, 12-10) and by Door Still Open for Indian Judy Hugh of the United States (20-18, 14-12, 11-9, 11-4). Listed at no.450 on the current Men’s World Rankings, Jubin Kumar Miki Tsuchida has no World ranking, Judy Hugh stands at no.407. was beaten by Japan’s Ayumi Hokkedo (11-5, 11-5, 14-16, 3-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-7), before recovering to overcome Zhang Xiangjing of the photos (left to right) Juan Vila, Adam Hugh, Wu Yue photos by Steve Hopkins 24 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Miki Tuschida. She caused a surprise by beating Canada’s Anqi Luo, Surprise First Stage Winners in Las Vegas World ranked no.407 (11-6, 11-4, 11-1, 12-10), before overcoming Japan’s Shigeko Nakamura, Airi Moranga and Miki Tuschida Sophia Huang (11-7, 11-6, 11-1, 11-6) and Judy Hugh (11-2, 11-3, 13- alongside the host nation’s Diane Chen, were the surprise names to 11, 11-7). conclude the group stage of play in the Women’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States Open, on Wednesday Second Place for Anqi Luo 3rd July, in first places in their respective groups. Anqi Luo, despite also losing to Judy Hugh (20-18, 14-12, 11-9, 11- All caused upsets and you can follow their progress and that of the 4) finished in second place in the group. She beat Sophia Huang (11-9, leading names on duty in Las Vegas by tuning to the ITTF YouTube 11-5, 6-11, 11-5, 11-7) who had gained a walk-over against Judy Hugh Channel to watch: matches live on table no.1 and table no.2. following the latter’s disqualification from the match. None of the quartet possesses a current World ranking. Thus Judy Hugh finished the group with three points, Anqi Luo and Sophia Huang possessed four points each (one point for each match Biggest Upset played, one point for each win). Undoubtedly Shigeko Nakamura was the player to cause the biggest Two players level, the verdict of the match between the two players upset. is taken into account; thus the vote and second place went to Anqi Luo. She accounted for Li Tao of the United States (11-6, 11-3, 6-11, 11-9, 11-4), New Zealand’s Sophie Shu (11-4, 11-6, 11-2, 11-8) and Wu Yue, Close Call for Diane Chen also from the host nation and the favourite to top the group (3-11, 11-6, A close call for Anqi Luo; it was the same for Diane Chen. 11-7, 11-5, 11-7). She was beaten in her opening contest by compatriot Maggie Meng Currently Wu Yue is listed at no.242 on the Women’s World Rankings, Tian in six games (11-4, 8-11, 11-8, 11-7, 7-11, 11-7); the result was as Li Tao is at no.478, Sophie Shu has no status. expected. Maggie Meng Tian is listed at no.341 on the Women’s World Rankings. An opening match defeat but Diane Chen recovered to beat Japan’s Miji Fujihara in five games (12-10, 11-5, 11-8, 9-11, 11-1), who duly finished her group stage matches by causing a surprise. She beat Maggie Meng Tian in five games (11-3, 11-4, 14-12, 7-11, 11-8).

Games Ratio Decides All three beat the Dominican Republic’s Eva Brito; so games ratio determined the final outcome. First place went to Diane Chen (6:5), followed by Miki Fujihara (5:5) with Maggie Meng Tian in third place and eliminated from proceedings.

Top Seven Top Groups Defeat for four notable names including the eighth highest World ranked player in action in the first stage of the Women’s Singles event, Wu Yue; however for the top seven names there were no such troubles. Zhen Jiaqi from the United States finished in first place in her group as did the Japanese duo of Nozomo Hasama and Megumi Abe. Similarly, it was first place for Mexico’s Yadira Silva, Romania’s Iulia Necula and Hungary’s Rita Kertai.

Leading Names Enjoy Opening Round Success but Two Notables Fall The leading names in the Women’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States Open in Las Vegas all emerged successful in their first round clashes on Thursday 4th July; however, there were two surprises of note. Japan’s Airi Morinaga and Mika Tuschida were the players to rise to the occasion; the players to suffer were Romania’s Iulia Necula and Consolation for Wu Yue Zheng Jiaqi of the United States. Defeat for Wu Yue but there was consolation; she gained second place Meanwhile, the principal names to prosper as status predicted were in the group and thus progressed to the main draw. Romania’s Elizabeta Samara and Canada’s Zhang Mo in addition to the Players finishing in first and second places in each of the 12 groups host nation duo of Lily Zhang and Tan Liying. join the eight seeds in round one. Wu Yue accounted for Sophie Shu (9-11, 11-3, 11-6, 11-2, 11-8) and Upsets Li Tao (6-11, 14-12, 10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8). It was Airi Morinaga who caused the first upset of the day by beating Iulia Necula (9-11, 11-4, 11-9, 11-7, 3-11, 11-7); soon after, Mika Equally Good Form Tsuchida followed suit by overcoming Zheng Jiaqi (11-6, 11-7, 4-11, Similarly, Airi Moranga was in outstanding form; having accounted 5-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-1). for Canada’s Ioulia Degtiar (11-2, 11-3, 11-3, 11-4) and the host All four players had been required to compete in the qualification nation’s Marina Lietman (11-7, 11-4, 11-6, 11-1); she caused an upset stage of proceedings; however, on the international scene Iulia Necula by overcoming Prachi Jha, also from the United States and World and Zheng Jiaqi were the more experienced international players. ranked no.348 (8-11, 13-11, 7-11, 11-8, 4-11, 12-10, 11-4). The consolation for Prachi Jha was that she gained second place in Successful Junior Career the group, she beat Marina Lietman (11-8, 11-2, 14-12, 11-6) and Ioulia Iulia Necula made her debut in the World Championships in 2004 in Degtiar (11-1, 11-7, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7). Doha having enjoyed a most successful junior career. She was the runner up in the Cadet Girls’ Singles event at the Further Fine Performance European Youth Championships in Bratislava in 2000 and three years Three fine performances from Airi Maranga; it was the same from later experienced the same fate in the Junior Girls’ Singles event.

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Now 27 years old, currently she stands at no.213 on the Women’s Similar Scenario World Rankings; conversely Airi Morinaga is new to the international Similarly it was straight games victories for Petrissa Solja, the no.3 scene and has no global status. seed; as it was for Ariel Hsing, the no.8 seed and Ana-Marija Erdelji, the no.8 seed, ITTF World Tour Experience Petrissa Solja, winner of the Cadet Girls’ Singles title at the European Equally, Zheng Jiaqi is a player with international experience; she Youth Championships in Terni in 2008 and one year later in Prague, may not have appeared in World Championships but she has ITTF overcame Canada’s Sara Yuen (11-7, 11-5, 11-4, 11-2). World Tour experience. Notably in 2011 she was a quarter-finalist in the Women’s Singles Ariel Hsing Impressive event at the Brazil Open and one year later in Chile progressed to the An impressive display by Petrissa Solja, it was the same from Ariel same round. Hsing. Winner of the Intercontinental Cup at the Volkswagen Women’s Presently she is at no.153 on the Women’s World Rankings; as with World Cup in Huangshi in September 2012, Ariel Hsing ended the Airi Morinaga, Mika Tsuchida has not World ranking. hopes of Japan’s Miki Fujuhara in an emphatic manner (11-8, 11-4, 11-3, 11-8). Comfortable Wins Two upsets but where the leading names were concerned there were no heartaches. Also it was farewell for the much travelled Phillips sisters from Wales; Megan was beaten by Lily Zhang, the no.4 seed; Angharad suffered defeat at the hands of Tan Liying, the no.7 seed (11-7, 11-6, 11-3, 11-9). Success for Lily Zhang and Tan Liying; similarly Elizabeth Samara, the no.1 seed, accounted for Isabel Chu of the United States (11-8, 11-2, 11-5, 11-8) and Zhang Mo, the no.8 seed, overcame Prachi Jha of the United States (11-9, 10-12, 16-14, 11-8, 12-10).

Accustomed to Rigours of International Play, Seeds Progress with Comfort The opening round of the Men’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States Open in Las Vegas had seen international experience count; as matters progressed in the first round of the Women’s Singles in the early evening of Thursday 4th July it was the same scenario. Players who were accustomed the hotbed of hard fought endeavours throughout the world imposed their authority on proceedings. The only player with experience to be tested was Hungary’s Rita Kertai.

Stretched to Limit Now 34 years old, she was stretched to the very limit by Japan’s Misaki Nakajima; victory by the minimal two point margin being the eventual verdict. Rita Kertai won in seven games (11-9, 12-10, 12-10, 9-11, 11-4, 4-11, 12-10). Unquestionably, the experience of now 16 years of competing on No Drama the ITTF World Tour was vital; Rita Kertai made her debut on what Success for Georgina Pota, Petra Solja and Ariel Hsing with any was then the ITTF Pro Tour in 1997 when she competed in Linz at the moments of drama, it was the same for Ana-Marija Erdelji. Austrian Open. Crowned European Cadet Girls’ Singles champion in Moscow in 2002, she extolled her defensive skills to the full; she beat India’s Pooja Accustomed to Situation Sahasrabudhe without any qualms of anguish (11-4, 11-9, 11-6, 11-2). Experience told for Rita Kertai, with somewhat less experience but equally accustomed to the rigours of international play, there was First Three Names Enjoy Success but Next in Line Suffer Second success for colleague Georgina Pota, as there was for Germany’s Petra Round Defeats Solja, the host nation’s Ariel Hsing and Serbia’s Ana-Marija Erdelji. The top three seeds in the Men’s Singles event at the GAC Group All are players who have secured noteworthy titles during the young ITTF World Tour United States Open in Las Vegas enjoyed success in careers. the second round of proceedings on the evening of Thursday 4th July 2013. All beat adversaries from the host nation. Georgina Pota Unremitting Sweden’s Jens Lundqvist, the no.1 seed, accounted for Zhang Georgina Pota, the winner of the Junior Girls’ Singles event at the Xianjing (11-5, 11-5, 11-9, 11-7), Croatia’s Zoran Primorac, the no.2 European Youth Championships in Moscow in 2000 and the second seed, overcame Liang Yonghui (7-11, 12-10, 11-8, 13-11, 11-9); whilst seed in the Women’s Singles event in Las Vegas, was in no mood for Canada’s Eugene Wang, the no.3 seed, ended the aspirations of Calvin charity. Chan (11-6, 11-2, 11-1, 11-6). She beat Liu Yitong of the United States in four straight games (11-5, 11-6, 11-6, 11-8).

26 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Shocks Abound in Opening Round as Seeds Fall In Quick Succession Common Factor Seeds fell with alarming regularity in the first round of both the Under However, for three of the next five names in the order of merit it was 21 Men’s Singles and Under 21 Women’s Singles events at the GAC defeat; the one factor in common being that they all lost to Chinese Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States Open in Las Vegas on adversaries. Thursday 4th July. Sweden’s Robert Svensson, the no.4 seed, was beaten by Yang Ce In the Under 21 Women’s Singles event, only four of the eight seeds (8-11, 12-10, 11-7, 11-7, 11-8); Japan’s Ryusuke Karube, the no.5 seed, survived the opening round; Germany’s Petrissa Solja alongside the suffered against Tao Wenzhang (11-7, 9-11, 4-11, 11-4, 12-10, 4-11, 11- United States trio of Lily Zhang, Ariel Hsing and Tina Lin progressed. 7), whilst Li Tianyu signalled the end of the road for Romania’s Andrei Four survivors in the Under 21 Women’s Singles event; in the Filimon, the no.7 seed (13-11, 11-7, 11-0, 11-0). counterpart Under 21 Men’s Singles competition only one!

Canadian Survives The only seed to negotiate the opening round successfully was Canada’s Chen Hongtao, the top seed but even he came close to defeat! He needed the full five games to beat Kunal Chodri of the United States (8-11, 11-8, 11-5, 8-11, 11-5).

Defeats Meanwhile, Canada’s Pierre-Luc Theriault, the no.2 seed, was beaten by Wang Can from the United States (11-8, 13-11, 8-11, 11-8). Additionally, the latter’s compatriot, Wang Qingliang, the no.4 seed, suffered at the hands of China’s Tao Wenzheng (5-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-9), whilst India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, the no.4 seed, was beaten by the host nation’s Yuan Xiaojie (9-11, 12-14, 15-13, 11-6, 11-6). Similarly, Zhang Yahao, the no.5 seed, suffered in the all-American duel. He was beaten by Chen Bowen (11-8, 9-11, 12-10, 11-7); in a further domestic clash, Liang Yonghui, the no.6 seed, departed at the hands of Dan Liu (11-8, 9-11, 12-10, 11-9).

Farewell Defeats for the fifth and sixth seeds, the seventh and eight seeds also bid farewell. Canada’s James Pintea, the no.7 seed, was beaten by Feng Yijun of the United States (11-9, 12-14, 7-11, 11-8, 11-6), at the same time, Peter Li, the no.8 seed, experienced defeat at the hands of China’s Li Tianyu (11-5, 11-7, 11-3).

Four Seeds Remain Meanwhile, in the Under 21 Women’s Singles event the top three Avoided Carnage seeds alongside Tina Lina of the United States, the no.8 seed survived; The two notable names to avoid the carnage were the two who did not all beat host nation adversaries. confront Chinese adversaries. Petrissa Solja, the no.1 seed, accounted for Diane Jiang (11-6, 11-4, Mexico’s Marcos Madrid, the no.6 seed, beat the Dominican 11-4), Lily Zhang, the no.2 seed, defeated Angela Guan (11-5, 9-11, Republic’s Juan Vila (9-11, 14-12, 11-1, 11-7, 11-7), before Japan’s 12-10, 11-8), whilst Ariel Hsing, the no.3 seed, overcame Joy Li (11-5, Masato Shiono, the no.8 seed, defeated the host nation’s Timothy Wang 11-6, 11-3). 11-5, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4, 11-9). Tina Lin ended the hopes of Grace Yang (11-13, 11-5, 7-11, 11-3, 11-7). Four Further Upsets Three upsets and lower down the order of merit there were four more. Opening Round Exits Wang Qingliang overcame Liang Jishan, the no.14 seed, in the all- However, for the other seeds, it was defeat. American duel in a close seven games contest (11-8, 11-6, 10-12, 7-11, Prachi Jha of the United States the no.4 seed suffered defeat at the 11-8, 11-8, 11-4). hands of Japan’s Miki Fujihara (11-7, 8-11, 13-15, 11-8, 11-8), whilst Similarly, Japan’s Tatsuo Seyama ended the hopes of the host’s Zhou Canada’a Anqi Luo, the no.5 seed, was beaten by Japan’s Mika Tsuchida Xin, the no.15 seed (11-8, 8-11, 16-14, 12-14, 11-8, 11-6); whilst (11-9, 11-7, 11-7). the latter’s colleague, Yuan Xiaojie ousted Canada’s Chen Hongtao, the no.12 seed (11-5, 12-10, 12-10, 7-11, 9-11, 11-4) and Takanori In Form Angharad Phillips Shimoyama, also from Japan, accounted for Poland’s Filip Szymanski, Similarly, the Dominican Republic’s Eva Brito, the no.6 seed, was the no.9 seed (11-5, 11-6, 9-11, 11-4, 11-4). beaten by Liu Yitong of the United States; whilst Canada’s Shirley Fu, the no.7 seed, found Angharad Phillips of Wales in form. Status Prevails The young lady from Denbigh in the north of the principality won in Meanwhile, in the remaining second round matches, matters proceeded four games (10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 11-8). as per status. Fifth Seeds Departs, Megumi Abe Hits Form to Cause Second In the top half of the draw Canada’s Pierre-Luc Theriault, the no.13 Round Upset seed, beat Feng Yujin of the United States (12-10, 8-11, 14-12, 10- Japan’s Megumi Abe was the player to spring the biggest surprise as 12, 11-9, 11-8) and Japan’s Kentaro Miuchi, the no.10 seed overcame matters progressed in the second round of the Women’s Singles event India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (11-7, 11-5, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7). at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States Open in Las In the lower half Welshman Ryan Jenkins, the no.11 seed, overcame Vegas on Friday 5th July. the Dominican Republic’s Emil Santos (12-10, 8-11, 14-12, 10-12, 11- A qualifier, she accounted for the host nation’s Ariel Hsing in five 9, 11-6) and Japan’s Tatsuya Ono, the no.16 seed, halted the aspirations games, the no.5 seed (12-10, 13-11, 10-12, 11-9, 11-8), to reach the of colleague Yuya Mizuno (11-9, 11-7, 6-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-5). quarter-final stage of a Women’s Singles event on the ITTF World Tour for the first time in her career.

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 27 18761-Q North Frederick Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour, (301) 519-8580 www.mdttc.com [email protected] US Open, Americas Challenge Series maryland Ian Marshall Excerpts - Continued - table tennis center Previously her best was last September when she reached the third Title Favourites Book Semi-Final Places but Tested to the Very Limit round of the Women’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2012 Koltsovo Sweden’s Jens Lundqvist, the top seed and Canada’s Eugene Wang, 2013 training camps ITTF World Tour Russian Open in Ekaterinburg. the third seed, have both reserved semi-final places in the Men’s The win recorded by Megumi Abe was the only upset in the second Singles event at the GAC GROUP 2013 ITTF World Tour United round of the Women’s Singles competition. States Open in Las Vegas. Coach Cheng Yinghua In most dramatic circumstances, they emerged successful in their Spring Break Camp: • Member, USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame Two Upsets quarter-final contests on the evening of Friday 5th July 2013. March 25–29 • U.S. #1 Ranked Player for ten years One surprise in the second round of the Women’s Singles event; However, both were stretched the absolute limit; both secured victory • 4-time U.S. Men’s Singles Champion in the third round of the Men’s Singles competition, there were two in titanic seven games duels. Summer Camps: • 2000 Olympic Team Member upsets. June 17–21, 24–28 • USATT’s Coach of the Year, 1996 The players to cause the problems were China’s Tao Wenzhang and Tension Packed Duels July 1–5, 8–12, 15–19, • Chinese National Team Member 1977–87 Yang Ce, both qualifiers; both beat Japanese adversaries. Jens Lundqvist overcame Mexico’s Marcos Madrid in a contest of 22–26, July 29–Aug 2, • Former Head Coach for the Szechuan Tao Wenzhang accounted for Kentaro Miuchi, the no.10 seed in five epic proportions (12-10, 9-11, 8-11, 12-10, 10-12, 9-11, 17-15); whilst Aug 5–9, 12–16, 19–23 Province of China games (5-11, 11-5, 12-10, 11-5, 11-4); Yang Ce ended the hopes of in a similarly tension packed struggle, Eugene Wang recovered from a • Butterfly sponsored full-time coach C H E N G Y I N G H U A A T T H E Tatsuya Ono, the no.16 seed (11-4, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-6). three games to nil deficit to overcome China’s Tao Wenzhang (10-12, Winter Break Camp • USATT certified National Coach 2 0 0 8 U . S . T E A M T R I A L S 3-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5, 12-14). Dec 26 –31 Status Prevails Coach Jack Huang Otherwise, matters went very much as per prediction. End of Road for Yokohama Champion In the Men’s Singles event, Sweden’s Jens Lundqvist, the no.1 seed, Success by the very narrowest of margins for Jens Lundqvist and • U.S. #1 Player in 1990 beat Canada’s Pierre-Luc Theriault (11-9, 7-11, 15-13, 12-10, 11-7); Eugene Wang; for Croatia’s Zoran Primorac, the no.2 seed and China’s • Normal hrs: 10am–6pm (1pm–3pm lunch break) • Chinese National Team Member 1976–83 Croatia’s Zoran Primorac, the no.2 seed, overcame Japan’s Takanori Yan Ce, who was required to negotiate the qualification stages, life was • Christmas Camp special hrs: 12/26: 3–6pm • Former U.S. Senior and National Shimoyama (7-11, 11-9, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4, 14-12), whilst Canada’s more slightly comfortable. 12/27–12/30: 10am–1pm, 3–6pm Men’s Doubles Champion Eugene Wang, the no.3 seed, ended the hopes of the host nation’s Zoran Primorac overcame Japan’s Masato Shiono, the no.8 seed and 12/31: 10am–1pm • USATT’s Developmental Coach of the Year, 1997 Wang Qingliang (11-4, 11-2, 11-7, 9-11, 12-10). shock winner of the Men’s Singles title at the recent GAC Group 2013 • Former Head Coach for the Guangxi Success for the top three seeds, also there was success for Mexico’s ITTF World Tour Japan Open in Yokohama, in six games (8-11, 11-7, All Ages & Levels Welcome! 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London Olympian: Tim Wang Timothy Wang, on duty at the London 2012 Olympic Games, was the runner up in the Men’s event earlier this year at the ITTF- North American Cup in Westchester; a fate he also experienced in 2011 when the tournament was staged in Mississauga.

Last Eight in Morocco: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Equally, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran has demonstrated in the past that he has the potential to achieve at senior level but has yet to make the transition. At the Indian Junior and Cadet Open in 2008 in Pune, he reached the semi-final stage of the Junior Boys’ Singles event and achieved the same finish one year later in Indore and in 2011 in Dehradun. Furthermore, one week ago at the Morocco Open in Rabat, he was in form; he progressed to the quarter-final stage of the Men’s Singles event, losing to the eventual silver medallist, Belgium’s Robin Devos.

Promising Names Equally, there many other promising young players in action; notably there is Sathiyan Gnanasekaran’s colleague, Jubin Kumar, whilst from Latin America Venezuela’s Jonathan Pino lines up alongside the Dominican Republic duo of Juan Vila and Emil Santos. Impressive young players and it is the same from North America. In addition to Timothy Wang; Adam Hugh and Zhang Yahao are notable aspiring names who appear in the first phase of affairs. Likewise from north of the border in Canada, Xavier Therien, the winner of the ITTF-North America Cup in 2012 will be in action.

From Denbigh to Las Begas Also in the first phase of the Women’s Singles event, the names of promising young players appear. Twin sisters Megan and Anharad Phillips make the long journey from the quiet north Wales market town of Denbigh, a different world to Las Vegas; whilst from Canada Anqi Luo appears on the start list as does Prachi Jha from the United States.

30 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Solja and Wenzhang Secure Under 21 Titles

Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor Bronze medallist in the Girls’ Singles event at the Volkswagen World Junior Championships, the player to dent the hegemony of China; Germany’s Petrissa Solja won the Under 21 Women’s Singles title at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour United States Open in Las Vegas on Friday 5th July. The top seed, she justified her exalted position in the draw by overcoming the host nation’s Ariel Hsing, the no.3 seed at the final hurdle (11-5, 12-10, 8-11, 9-11, 11-5, 15-13). Furthermore, Ariel Hsing was a player very much in form; at the semi-final stage she had ousted compatriot, Lily Zhang, the no.2 seed (11-8, 8-11, 11-4, 12-10, 11-9).

Impressive on Penultimate Day In the final, Petrissa Solja underlined the fact that she was also in good form; most certainly she had impressed on the penultimate day of play. At the semi-final stage she ousted Japan’s Miki Fukuhara (11- 5, 11-9, 9-11, 11-4, 11-3), having in the quarter-finals recovered from a two games to nil deficit against Tina Lin, the no.8 seed and also from the United States to record a six games success (9-11, 4-11, 11-9, 11-5, 11-4, 11-1). In the corresponding quarter-final duel, Ariel Hsing had ended the hopes of Angharad Phillips of Wales (5, 2, 4, 5).

Mens 21: Semi-Final Without Seeds Success for the top seed in the Under 21 Women’s Singles event; in the counterpart Under 21 Men’s Singles competition none of the seeds reached even the semi-final stage. Seven had disappeared the previous day in the opening round, the one remaining, Canada’s Chen Hongtao, the top seed, departed in the quarter-finals. He was beaten by China’s Li Tianyu (11-5, 11-3, 9-11, 11-9, 11-8); alas for Li Tianyu, the euphoria was short lived; he lost to compatriot, Tao Wenzhang, the champion elect, in the semi-finals (9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-8, 12-10).

Tao Wenzhang Secures Crown At the final hurdle, Tao Wenzhang accounted for Yuan Xiajie of the United States (11-4, 11-8, 11-3, 11-3); the latter having overcome Dan Liu, also from the United States, in the semifinals (9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 8-11, 11-9, 11-4) and Bowen Chen, likewise from the host nation in the quarter-finals (11-1. 11-4, 11-5, 11-4).

In the counterpart quarter-final duel, Tao Wenzhang had beaten Feng Yujun of the United States (11-3, 11-8, 6-11, 11-7, 11-7).

Photos: Emil Santos and Petrissa Solja. Photos by Steve Hopkins

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 31 32 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 33 JUNIOR EVENTS JUNIOR AND CADET BOYS JUNIOR AND CADET GIRLS The convincing winner of the Junior Boys event was The Junior Girls’ event write-up for the last several Zhang Xiang Jing. He closed out the final at 7, 1, 4. He years has been about Lily Zhang and Ariel Hsing being was pushed in the Quarterfinals by Tan Peng (winning seeded first and second, about both advancing to the 3-2), but lost only one game in the remainder of the Final, and about one beating the other. This year, Ariel event including dominating 3-0 performances in both the Hsing defaulted her first match in the event which Semifinals and Finals. It is a little difficult to define this make the bottom half of the draw uncharacteristically result as unexpected as Zhang entered the tournament uncertain. The default was to Amy Wang, who then with a US Rating of 2628, but in a field that included proceeded to win her next two matches (over Lucy six players over 2500 who were not seeded as they had Ma and then Cherry Zheng). Amy then lost to Ge Chi, no World Ranking and four players with World Junior an unceeded Chinese player, in the Semifinals. Ge Rankings over 250, it is safe to say that dominating 3-0 had defeated Prachi Jha the event’s third seed in the wins in the Semifinals and Finals were unexpected. Quarterfinal. In a very close Final, Lily Zhang defeated The Cadet Boys event proceeded almost as expected Ge 3-1. with Top Seed by World Ranking Chodri Kunal advancing Similarly, in the Cadet Girls’ event, Top Seed Tina Lin through the top half of the draw all the way to the finals maneuvered through her half of the draw to the Final and with Second Seed by World Ranking Kanak Jha where she met an unseeded Chinese player named Han meeting the player with the highest US Rating, Hao Guo Xu. Xu had previously defeated Amy Wang 3-2 to get in the Semifinal. Guo then dispatched Jha 3-0 and went to the Final. And, in the end, the top seed prevailed. on to defeat Kunal in the final in a hard fought 3-2 match Tina Lin won the final 3-0 (8,9,8). (-10, 3, 8, -5, 10)

34 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 RESULTS

1 Open Men Wang Zhen Canada Yang Ce China 2 Open Women Abe, Megumi Japan Samara, Elizabeta Romania 3 U-21 Men Taom Wenzhang China Yuanm Xiaojie USA 4 U-21 Women Solja, Petrissa Germany Hsing, Ariel USA 1 Men’s Doubles Szymanski, Filip & Madrid, Marcos Poland/Mexico Karube, Ryusuke & Mizuno, Yuya Japan 2 Women’s Doubles Tsuchida, Mika & Tsuchida, Miki Japan Tong, Fei-Ming & Hsing, Ariel CA 3 Mixed Doubles Solja, Petrissa & Szymanski, Filip Germany/Poland Yuan, Xiao Jie & Hsing, Ariel CA 4 O30 Men’s Li, Kewei GA Yoo, Chang Jae South Korea 5 O30 Women’s Chen, Diane Dongye CA Degtiar, Ioulia Canada 6 O40 Men’s Bennborn, Thomas Sweden Munoz, Guillermo Mexico 7 O40 Women’s Lee, Sumi TX Chen, Diane Dongye CA 8 O50 Men’s Dattel, Barry NJ Schmidt, Avishy CA 9 O50 Women’s Livshin, Bella CA Liu, Charlene Xiaoyi MD 10 O60 Men’s Malek, Attila CA Chan, Ming Yung NV 11 O60 Women’s Liu, Charlene Xiao MD Livshin, Bella CA 12 O65 Men’s RR Sakai, David MD Cheung, Michael Canada 14 O70 Men’s RR Resek, Errol A NV Hicks, H. Richard IN 16 O75 Men’s RR Hicks, H. Richard IN Fahlstrom, Ragnar E. CA 17 O75 Women’s RR Arpon, Joyce NV Brin, Harriet R. CA 18 O80 Men’s RR Neely, Bill B. TN Kitchel, Dwain L. TN 19 O80 Women’s RR Brin, Harriet R. CA Speisman, Berta CA 20 O40 Doubles Law, Joe & Liu, Dongri Canada Ko, Carlos & Bennborn, Thomas GA/Sweden 21 O50 Doubles Dattel, Barry & Schmidt, Avishy Miranda, Rudy X. & Ngo, Loc Bao 22 O60 Men’s Doubles Sweeris, Dell & Sakai, David Sharifi, Hossein & Duan, Changping 24 O60 Mixed Doubles Duan, Changping & Liu, Charle Sakai, David & Sakai, Donna 25 O65 Men’s Doubles Sweeris, Dell & Sakai, David Von Schimmelmann, Ron & Resek, Errol A 27 O70 Men’s Doubles Von Schimmelmann & Resek Ukapatayasakul, Bill & Fahlstrom, Ragnar E 29 O75 Men’s Doubles Hicks, Richard & Marcum, Jerry Theil III, Martin J. & Fahlstrom, Ragnar E. 30 O75 Women’s Dbl McAloose, Louella & Brin, Har Drake, Millie Murphy & Speisman, Berta 31 O80 Men’s Doubles Miller, Al L. & Sokol, Stanley Kitchel, Dwain L. & Neely, Bill B. 33 Junior Boy’s Zhang, Xiang Jing CA Guo, Hao CA 34 Junior Girl’s Zhang, Lily CA Chi, Ge China 35 Junior Boys Teams Atlanta TT Acadamy - 2 Atlanta TT Acadamy - 1 36 Junior Girls Teams GJTTC-ITT CA Beijing Xiannongtan Sports School China 37 Cadet Boy’s Guo, Hao CA Chodri, Kunal CA 38 Cadet Girl’s Lin, Tina NJ Han, Xu China 39 U13 Boy’s Hazin, Jeremy Canada Jha, Kanak CA 40 U13 Girl’s Wang, Amy W. NJ Liao, Ivy Canada 41 U11 Boy’s Bu, Alexander Canada Tran, Michael Minh MN 42 U11 Girl’s Wang, Amy W. NJ Wu, Youruo CA 43 U9 Boy’s Lu, Matthew NJ Yang, Len NY 44 U9 Girl’s Wu, Youruo CA Sung, Joanna CA 45 U2600 Singles Liu, Dan CA Pino, Jonathan Venezuela 46 U2400 Singles Patel, Aashay CA Alguetti, Sharon NJ 47 U2250 RR Liao, Frank Canada Seemiller Jr., Daniel IN 48 U2100 RR Kumar, Nikhil CA Iturriaga, Bernardo WA 49 U1950 RR Lehmann, Matthew Canada Kumar, Nikhil CA 50 U1800 RR Bai, William CA Darukhanawalla, Ma CA 51 U1650 RR Kuo, Patrick CA Subonj, Anna TX 52 U1500 RR Godhwani, Aditya CA Tseng, Ryan CA 53 U1350 RR Balakrishnan, Rishi CA Liu, Bohan(Jimmy) CA 54 U1200 RR Balakrishnan, Rishi CA Sribhashyam, Sashrik CA 55 U1000 RR Tan, Angie CA Zhou, Benita Canada 56 U800 RR Tan, Angie CA Mannem, Keshav CA 57 Unrated RR Arcones, Miguel Venezuela Chang, Jack Canada 58 U4200 Doubles Liao, Frank & Liao, Ivy Melnik, Alexander & Yu, James 59 U3700 Doubles Huang, Vincent & Huang, Xiao Yang, Rachel & Liu, Johnny 60 U3200 Doubles Ochsner, John & Ochsner Johnny Lipscomb, Scott & Edwards, David 61 U2700 Doubles Ramaswami & Prasanna Lee, King & Luc, Dennis 62 U2100 Women’s RR Huang, Laura TX Oak, Anushka TX 63 U1800 O40 RR Leone, Don WI Garcia, Alexis TX 68 Hardbat RR Maropis, Adoni CA Johnston, Jeff MO 69 Hardbat Doubles RR Gordon, Scott & Johnston, Jeff Martinez-Simons, Patty & Maropis, Adoni 70 O40 Hardbat RR Maropis, Adoni CA Johnston, Jeff MO 71 U2000 Hardbat RR Turberville, Jay AZ Geete, Jayant R. AZ 72 U1500 Hardbat RR Guerin Jr., Bill OR Massey, Randy SC 73 O60 Hardbat RR Mock, Kenny CA Ma, Steve M. WA 74 O50 Hardbat Dbl RR Hodges, Larry & Turberville, J Gordon, Scott & Johnston, Jeff 75 Liha Sandpaper RR Maropis, Adoni CA Pineda, Louie Philippines 76 Open Sandpaper RR Maropis, Adoni CA Johnston, Jeff MO 77 Over 85 RR Wasserman, Si CA Speisman, Berta CA Events Concluding in Round Robin 13 O65 Women’s RR Suzuki, Chiyako CA 3-0 Sung, Monica CA 2-1 15 O70 Women’s RR Arpon, Joyce NV 3-0 Brin, Harriet R. CA 2-1 64 Wheelchair Open RR Guzman, Esteban Colombia 5-0 Caplin, Stuart Ronald FL 4-1 66 Standing Men’s Open Arratia, Ari CA 4-0 Sterling Jr., Daryl CA 3-1 USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 35 CLASSIC EVENTS

Adoni Maropis Tops List of Winners in the Classic Events at 2013 US Open

Clearly there are several interesting story lines within the nine classic table tennis events held at the 2013 US Open. We have Hall of Famer and 1969 US Open Champion (and ‘67 and ‘65 too) Patty Martinez- Simons falling just short in the Hardbat Doubles event and settling for second place. We have Jeff Johnston medaling in 5 of the 9 events. We have a Philippine player, Louie Pineda, upsetting the top rated player in the Liha event, but then falling in the Final. We have Larry Hodges adding yet another in an almost countless number of National and Open titles. And, in the story that eclipses all of the others - we have Adoni Maropis winning all three open singles titles (Hardbat Singles, Liha Singles, and Open Sandpaper Singles) and then also winning the Over 40 Hardbat and finishing second in Hardbat Doubles.

Classic Singles Events The top seeds progressed almost as expected in the Hardbat Singles event with the top 6 seeds finishing first through sixth. There was one minor upset early - as Chance Friend (the 4th seed) fell to Noel Hermann (the 5th seed). And, one small upset in the final as well Adoni Maropis photo by Steve Hopkins - as Adoni Maropis defeated Jeff Johnston - that is, the second seed defeated the first seed. Perhaps the real story in this event was the dominance of Maropis who Maropis. But in the Over-50 Hardbat Doubles, the same pair of did not lose a single game in the event on his way to Gordon and Johnston fell to Larry Hodges and Jay Turberville claiming the title. (2-1). The results were actually quite similar in the other three singles events that Maropis won. In the Over 40 Event, Maropis again maneuvered through to the Finals 2013 CLASSIC EVENTS AND RESULTS without losing a game where he bested Johnston a second time. In the Liha event, Maropis did not lose Hardbat: 1st Maropis, Adoni; 2nd Johnston, Jeff a game until the final where he defeated Louie Pineda Hardbat Doubles: 1st Gordon, Scott & Johnston, Jeff; 2-1. And, in the Open Sandpaper event, Maropis was 2nd Martinez-Simons, Patty & Maropis, Adoni pushed to 5 games against Nico Cruz and then won the O40 Hardbat: 1st Maropis, Adoni; 2nd Johnston, Jeff final 3-1 over Johnston. Four singles events - four titles U2000 Hardbat: 1st Turberville, Jay; 2nd Geete, Jayant R. for Adoni Maropis. U1500 Hardbat: 1st Guerin Jr., Bill; 2nd Massey, Randy The Over 60 Hardbat was also a No.2 seed over No.1 O60 Hardbat: 1st Mock, Kenny; 2nd Ma, Steve M. seed result with Kenny Mock defeating Steve Ma 2-0. O50 Hardbat Doubles: 1st Hodges, Larry & Turberville, J; And the other two singles events were the U2000 which 2nd Gordon, Scott & Johnston, Jeff was won by Jay Turberville, and the U1500 which was Liha Sandpaper: 1st Maropis, Adoni; 2nd Pineda, Louie won by Bill Guerin Jr. Open Sandpaper: 1st Maropis, Adoni; 2nd Johnston, Jeff Classic Doubles Events The doubles results were less predictible. Scott Gordon and Jeff Johnston paired up to win Hardbat Doubles - they won 2-0 over Patty Martinez-Simons and Adoni

36 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 CLASSIC EVENTS REPORT 2013 Hopes Week and Challenge

ITTF Press Release:Highlights from the 2013 ITTF Hopes Week and Challenge. One of the International Table Tennis Federation’s (ITTF) biggest development initiatives, the ITTF Hopes Week and Challenge has just concluded at the world-renowned Werner Schlager Adedemy in Austria. 60 young players born in 2001 and 2002, from 35 countries covering each continent, descended on the town of Schwechat for a comprehensive week of coaching, coach education and competition to select the ITTF World Hopes Team, which will compete in selected international events under the ITTF banner. ITTF Senior Consultant for Education and Development Mikael Andersson stated: “The fundamental idea behind the ITTF Hopes programme is simple: we want these young players and their up and coming coaches to be inspired and feel that the symbol of Hope is with them. We have seen a number of talents The boy’s automatic spot went to Yanapong PANAGITGUN emergeDear friends from some and key markets supporters like the USA of , Thailand the ITTF and World Hopes Team, (THA), who displayed nerves beyond his years to win the boys event. Brazil.Dear participants of the 2013 ITTF World Hopes Week & Challenge, The actual selection for the World Hopes Team is not really The additional 9 spots on the boys’ and girls’ ITTF World the key thing for the program, it is just a motivation for the Hopes Team went to MOREGARDH Truls (SWE), Rafael playersPlease to find put more in work this in and letter aspire to the improve ITTF selection of and young make the Hopes TORINO players (BRA), Amin who AHMADIAN now will (IRI), be Yang offered Lun a set of educational ZHAO team.activities After all in – we the are talking month about of the most August. coveted The playing selection (NZL), panel would like to thank BOURAS and congratulate Boubaker (TUN), all Cristal Hopes WANG participants (USA), in shirt in the world of table tennis.” Marta NAGYPAL (HUN), Qiao Ni LOH (MAS), and Ivona WSA, Schwechat for an excellent showing and for participating in a unique and innovative Global Talent Identification The ITTF World Hopes team, which includes 6 boys and 5 PETRIC (MNE), as determined by Mikael Andersson and Head girls,program. are made We up from believe the winners that of the the 2013 selection ITTF World presented here (excellence Coach and and Chief development Evaluator Dejan Papic. approach) does reflect the basic Hopesprinciples Challenge of singles the and program those selected and based the on coaches’ overall philosophies “This generation applied of players by looksining the ITTF Education and Tra very strong Program. and has chance We are, as evaluationalways, during committed the training to camp support and the competition. the development to surpass of our the group sport from 2009,” from a global perspective. stated Dejan Papic. “Despite The first person onto the team was Hong Kong’s LEE Ka Yee the young age, the players were able to play a very mature style of game. The Hopes field this time was deeper than in previous whoPolona emerged Cehovin as the most Susin successful player at the ITTFDejan Hopes Papic Zita Pidl Challenge. The 11 year old won both the girls singles, which years and that helped with the quality of the training sessions, earnedDirector her a Education spot on the ITTF & Hopes Training Team and the teamHopes event, Head and set Coach up for a dramaticHopes competition. Program Overall ManagerI think we are on with her fellow countryman CHU Hoi Yuen. the right track with the Hopes program and I foresee even more The team event followsMikael the Anderssonsame format as the Youth Olympic growth for theGl enn event.” Tepper Games, with one Senior boy and one Consultant girl joining E&T forces to and play one Development For moreDeputy information, CEO please contact ITTF’s Promotion Photo of Crystal Wang by Remy Gross, courtesy of ITTF Wang Photo of Crystal singles match each and a mixed doubles. Manager Matt Pound at [email protected].

ITTF World Hopes Team selection 2013 Girls Name DOB Continent National Association 1 LEE Ka Yee 2002 Asia Hong Kong 2 WANG Crystal 2002 North America USA 3 NAGYPÁL Márta 2001 Europe Hungary 4 LOH Qiao Ni 2002 Asia Malaysia 5 PETRIC Ivona 2001 Europe Montenegro Boys 1 PANAGITGUN Yanapong 2001 Asia Thailand 2 MOREGARD Truls 2002 Europe Sweden 3 AHMADIAN Amin 2001 Asia Iran 4 TORINO Rafael 2001 Latin America Brazil 5 ZHAO Yanglun 2001 Oceania New Zealand 6 BOURASS Boubaker 2001 Africa Tunisia

38 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Selection is subject to National Association’s approval

¥ The selected athletes and their respective national associations are requested to confirm availability for the planned event in New Jersey/USA 5-‐19 Aug 2013 not later than 28th JUNE 2013 by email to ITTF WHT Manager Zita Pidl: [email protected]

Page 2 of 3 US Table Tennis Olympians Celebrate Olympic Day

Photos: (large) US Olympians Gao Jun (’92, ‘00, ‘ 04,’ 08), Ariel Hsing (’12), Jim Butler (’92, ‘96), Sean O’Neill ( ’88, ’92), Lily Yip (‘92, ’96), and Wei Wang (’96) at the 2013 US Open Championships in Las Vegas and (small photos) Sean O’Neill celebrates with students at L’Etoile French Immersion school in Portland

An International Olympic Committee initiative - officially recognized each year on June 23 - Olympic Day commemorates the birth of the modern Olympic Games on June 23, 1894, and helps spread the Olympic ideals to all corners of the globe. This year there were 715 events in the U.S. alone, covering more than 550 cities.

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 39 Newgy Robo-Pong The Original Digital Table Tennis Robots Powerful, Precise, Programmable

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©2012 Newgy Industries To order, call: 1-800-55-NEWGY For pricing, specials, more information, or to order online, visit us at www.newgy.com Newgy Industries, Inc. • 805 Teal Drive Gallatin, TN 37066 USA • Phone: 615-452-6470 • Fax: 615-230-9785 USATT Magazine• email: • http://usatt.org/magazine [email protected] by Terry Casey, Yvonne Kronlage, and Caron Leff Where the boys are... Recently, lifetime USATT member Yvonne was in England the winter months only. For practice, they put up three visiting her sister and while there, she investigated the local tables; but for league play, they need more room, so Table Tennis scene up close. What she discovered was very in- they have only two tables up. Keyworth has nine teams teresting and worthy, in our humble opinions, of sharing with - all men. They do, however, have a lady that keeps the the membership…So, please enjoy the following observations league scoring. from her trained eye and (slightly edited) hand-written notes! Nottingham, which is the largest city near them, has “Visiting my sister in England in a small village called, forty (40) teams. Janice, who keeps the league score ‘Keyworth’ in the outskirts of Nottingham. I thought I for them said, ‘she stopped playing twelve years ago would try to find out more about women players. I spoke because she developed arthritis in her neck.’ She could to Clive who runs the Keyworth Club, Thursday nights, think of two women that played there. I asked her about and asked him, ‘How many women players they had.’ juniors…Did they compete? And, did they get coach- He was a little surprised at the question, and then said, ing? How many girls to boys? She thought that it was 5 ‘we don’t have any.’ I asked if there was any particular girls to 20 boys; but then sadly, when they get older the reason. ‘Well, we just don’t have any. We play Septem- girls vanish to do other things. ber through March, so I guess they’re home taking care of the children.’ What about tournaments? Do young people participate? What are the entry fees? The club rents a cricket shed. Cricket is played April through August, so they are able to use the shed during Tournaments are Round Robins which gives the players

42 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Where the boys are...

more games. Children – 10 pounds, Adults – 30 pounds yourself a favor and check the trailer out online. http://ping- and Hardbat – 20 pounds. A pound is equal to approxi- pongfilm.co.uk/trailer. mately $1.42 US. “8 players with 703 years between them compete in the They had a lot of senior players and veterans and a very World over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner well organized league, as do most European countries. Mongolia. I was surprised that a lot of players only play in the winter months. We used to do that many years ago; but Terry (81) having been given a week to live, gets in with full time clubs, we now play all year round in the sight of winning gold. Inge (89) has used table tennis States. It is a sad thing that more women don’t partici- to train her way out of the dementia ward she com- pate in England. It’s a great sport and great exercise mitted herself to. Australian legend Dorothy deLow is and a sport that the whole family can play together. 100, and finds herself a mega celebrity in this rarefied world and Texan Lisa Modlich, a new-comer at 85 I met my husband at a D.C. Club. We had two children years old, is determined to do whatever it takes to win whom we taught to play table tennis and had fun travel- her first gold. This film is as much about the tenacity ing to tournaments with them. My daughter no longer of the human spirit as it is a meditation on mortality.” plays, but her eldest son does. My son has a table in his back yard where he and his son play along with friends. Director – Hugh Hartford: “Hugh is a producer and It is sad that none of the girls in England play any more. director of documentaries for UK and international Well, we’ll keep trying! broadcasters through Banyak Films - a company he co-founded. Hugh’s last project as producer, Us Now, England has produced some very good women players was first aired on Channel 4’s international feature in the past starting with the Rowe Sisters. In the United documentary slot True Stories. He regularly makes States, we are producing more young women with the current affairs documentaries for Al Jazeera English. full-time clubs and great coaches. Next Olympics, we Ping Pong is Hugh’s first directed feature documen- hope we ladies will medal for the first time. tary.”

We are pushing ahead and will keep trying!” Have you seen this Ping Pong movie? Have you scheduled a formal screening in the USA? Have you gone to the website? Caron and I were surprised to hear Yvonne’s report upon her re- (http://pingpongfilm.co.uk) turn to Maryland. Didn’t the previous Olympic Summer Games happen in England? We thought (incorrectly) that that coun- We are blessed to live and play in the USA. And, while we try was still wild about table tennis after witnessing the recent keep an eye on the rest of the world playing table tennis (out- Olympics there. Here in the good ‘ole USA, young players are side of the Pacific Rim) and particularly at the World Cham- plentiful and well coached; and senior players, both male & pionships as it moves around the globe; we know where the female, are everywhere too. boys are…Do you?

Lifetime USATT member Caron pointed out that the new Ban- For additional information about the film or about yak Films’ movie from the United Kingdom is called, “Ping purchasing screening licenses for the film, visit Pong” – and is due out July 6th. And, if you haven’t already, do http://www.pingpongfilm.co.uk

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 43 COACHING Zoran Primorac

oran Primorac has been among the best match. Zour sport has to offer. He has been among the Remember: I don’t know these guys. Some of best players in the world for over 25 years,. His them I see for the first time in my life. There are successes - too many to list in their entirety – not many Youtube videos I can study them with, include an Olympic silver medal (doubles with and so in the first game I have to learn what’s Ilija Lupulesku), silver at the 1991 World Table going on, but then I can adjust quite fast. Tennis Championships Team event in Chiba, I have to say I had the weakest concentration Japan and the same year, he won the US Open. during my semi-final (against Yang Ce). My By Wei Wang, USATT Hall of Fame Throughout this time Zoran has been a model mind wandered and I couldn’t get it back Member and Certified National Coach for sportsmanship, a gentleman on the court, in focus. Sometimes I was back in and won and he has remained approachable, connecting a number of points in a row, but then I lost it, and usually that means that I can attack it with his fans on a personal basis. it again and just couldn’t get it back. I was strongly. The most important thing is knowing His game is elegant, flowing and yet powerful. playing in waves, and that’s the problem of a where it will come back.” His touch when receiving serves is legendary, guy who hasn’t played a lot of matches lately. and the apparent simplicity of his style no doubt But overall, I’m satisfied with how I played in Q: “When you receive serves, it doesn’t seem to plays a big part in his ability to keep up with this tournament – just not this last match.” matter to you, what kind of spin is on the ball. player half his age. You can always push it or drop it short and low. At the US Open in Las Vegas we put together Q: “In your quarterfinal against the chopper How do you do that?” a list of technical questions and sat down with Masato Shiono from Japan, was there a specific Zoran: technical adjustment you made, or was it also P: “When you receive serve, you have to first the same delay in being able to bring yourself read the spin very accurately, and adjust the Q: “In the three matches preceding the semi- into the match mentally and physically before racket angle accordingly. Second, your hand final you lost the first game and then managed you could perform?” has to be soft. My hand was a little stiff at the to win the match. What kind of adjustments did beginning , but afterwards I received well. A lot you make?” P: “With Shiono it was different. I know how of it depends on how well you are playing at the to play against a defender. I have experience, moment. If your hand is soft and you are playing P.: “Actually, I didn’t have any plan. I had a I have a system, and once I have found my well, you can touch the ball and even then still little problem, because lately I haven’t played rhythm, the defenders have to adapt to my make an adjustment (P. makes sliding motion many tournaments, and I was still looking for system of playing. I developed that system a with his hand). You don’t play so fast and you my concentration and trying to find the rhythm long time ago, and I am quite confident when make the adjustment at the last moment which of the game. I was fighting with that in all my I play against defenders. I played Shiono 4 makes it harder for your opponent to react. But matches here. In the first game I was always or 5 years ago and I won quite easily. He has when you’re not playing well, you have to stick struggling to find the right level of adrenaline improved dramatically since then and just won with your first choice, and then it becomes easy I need to ramp up to, and at the same time I the Japan Open two weeks ago, but even though for him to read what you’re going to do.” had to figure out the tactics to employ against he’s playing much better now, but I was quite that opponent. This becomes a natural, smooth confident.” Q: “Do you mainly read the spin at contact or process when you play a lot of matches, but when the ball comes to you?” when you don’t, it is always problem. In my Q: “Tell us how you came up with the trade- second round match (against Liang Yonghui) I mark Primorac backhand serve from the P: “At contact. Sometimes, when you’re not realized I had to avoid his dangerous “backhand forehand side.” sure, you can try to read the label on the ball, banana shot” (term international players use but mostly I read the spin by looking at how the for an over-the-table backhand flip/loop), so I P: “When you serve, you want to control racket touches the ball.” changed my service placement, and then I was where the ball comes back so you can use your able to open up deep into his forehand. Actually, strongest shot. With this serve, I can force my Q: “You didn’t succeed in this semi-final, but my brain started working pretty well in that opponent to give me the ball where I want we have seen you many times, when initially

44 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Zoran Primorac

you were not play well in a match, and then rises with it.” they are very enthusiastic in a pure way. They’re something seemed to happen, and suddenly here to enjoy, to make noise, to have fun. I mean, you were there. Is there something specific you Q: “Do you consciously think about these what is sports? Sports is entertainment, and people think or do to get yourself back into a game?” factors when you’re not playing well?” in the US still consider sports as entertainment. Sometimes in Europe and in China, it is a bit too P: “When I was playing at my best, I think I P: “I don’t think so. That would make you serious, because sometimes it is a way for some was the one who practiced most of all the top slower. It has to come automatically. Yes, of the guys to break through and “make it”, but guys in the world, and I was confident that I maybe somewhere in the back of my mind there that is a different dimension, and it’s a bit like a had the skills and capacity to beat anyone. This is a list of the things I need to do, but basically modern war. This is also good, and I accept it, but is a very technical sport. Everything has to be it has to come out automatically.” here it is *fun*. Everyone gives their best, and if in synch – the mental game, the technique, the it was a good match, everybody is happy.” footwork, everything has to be right, and it can Q: “Well, Zoran, you seem to like America, and be the problem early in a match, if you don’t America likes you. We hope to see you here As always, you’ll find the full clip on my accurately control all these things at the same many more times.” Youtube Channel - WeiTTTube time. But when they all come together, then I can feel how my confidence rises, and my game P: “Yes, I like the crowds in America, because Photo sequence by Diego Schaaf

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variation: this time serve straight topspin (and have your partner do the same) so you can start by looping off a topspin ball from close Learning to Counterloop to the table, and then back up and start counterlooping. As you practice, you’ll get a feel for what type of counterlooper By Larry Hodges, TableTennisCoaching.com you are - off-table, mid-distance, or close to table. Learn all three, Once you get past serve & receive, the basic but generally specialize in one. At the highest levels, players try rallying shot at the higher levels is counterlooping. to counterloop from as close to the table as possible, but at the Some do it from way off the table, others from close speeds they play they are still forced to back up. to the table (often taking the ball on the rise), while You can also get a coach or partner to feed you multiball, where most take it somewhere in between, sometime the coach loops the ball directly after tossing the ball out of his hand. after the top of the bounce (around table level), This allows him to move you around as you work on counterlooping from five to eight feet back. It’s mostly done on the and footwork. forehand side, but some do it on the backhand Many players never practice anything beyond this type of straight side as well - especially the best players in the counterlooping. But think about it - in a game, many or most loops world, who often backhand counterloop off the start from backspin, which often have more topspin (because they bounce. (Spectators often don’t even realize it’s are adding to the backspin already on the ball), come at you from a a counterloop as it happens so quickly, and think closer contact point (so you have less time to react), often have a it’s just a backhand block.) For this article, unless sharper arc (due to the extra topspin), and force you to counterloop noted otherwise, I’m mostly talking about forehand from relatively close to the table (since they don’t usually bounce counterlooping. out as much as a loop against topspin). Plus you don’t know where Not everyone needs to counterloop, not unless the ball is going, unlike in the counterlooping drills explained above, you are aspiring to the higher levels. If you have where you are going forehand to forehand. Here are some more good serve & receive (and so can get the first attack advanced variations so you can get more match-like practice. in, forcing your opponent to either defend or go for First, if you have a partner or coach feeding you multiball a risky counterloop or some other difficult counterloops, have him vary the placement, so sometimes you forehand attack) or have good defense (such as blocking or counterloop, other times you have to use your backhand. (Either chopping), then counterlooping may be an unneeded block, hit, or counterloop. Or, if you are a chopper/looper, chop the luxury. But at the highest levels, essentially everyone backhand.) counterloops. Blocking is often the last resort, as the Second, work on counterlooping against a loop against backspin. best loopers overpower blockers with space-aged Have your partner serve backspin, you push long, and the looping strokes and equipment. Even choppers server loops, and you counterloop, and both players continue to almost always look for chances to counterloop. counterloop. (Or, if your partner isn’t a counterlooper, he can switch At the recent USA Nationals I watched two rival junior players to blocking after the first loop against backspin.) This gives you go at it. The previous time they’d played it had been rather close. practice counterlooping against a loop against backspin. It also This time the player I was coaching relentlessly counterlooped gives your partner practice looping against backspin. whenever the other player looped, turning the opponent into a But there is an even better way to rapidly develop your counterloop blocker. The counter-looping player won easily. It wasn’t a matter against a loop off backspin, using an adjusted version of multiball. of just choosing to counterloop; the junior had been trained to do Your partner will need a box of balls handy. Just as above, he serve so with relentless counterlooping drills, and so when faced with and loops against backspin, and you counterloop. Only you do not aggressive loops, there was no hesitation; he counterlooped, and play out the point. As soon as the server loops, he reaches for continued the barrage each point until the point was over. the next ball. So the server serve and loops over and over, and Keys to a good counterloop include good technique (see a coach the receiver pushes and counterloops over and over. By doing this and watch the top players); light on feet (which is a habit you can you can rapid-fire practice over and over your counterloop against develop); and good sponge. Even developing players should use a loop off backspin. And the server gets great rapid-fire practice modern sponges developed with looping in mind, with a slower blade looping against backspin!) As an added bonus, the receiver should until they are advanced. The paradigm used to be that developing work on his long push - don’t make it easy for the server. Push players should use thinner and slower sponges to develop their quick off the bounce, heavy, low, deep, and well angled. (But for strokes, and while I believe that was true before, I don’t believe that this drill, always push to the same spot. is true any longer. Using such sponges simply limits the player from You can also do this drill where the server loops to your backhand, developing at a more advanced level. By using modern looping and you can either backhand counterloop, hit, or block. You can sponges, players find looping and counterlooping more natural, also have the server alternate, looping one to the forehand, one to and so it becomes central to their games. the backhand. I’m not going to go into the finer points of looping or counterlooping When you are proficient at this drill, there are two variations that technique here; see a coach for that. Instead, let’s talk about what will bring you to an even higher level. Now have the server serve you can do to develop your counterloop. & loop to one of two spots - either the forehand or backhand. (Or First and foremost is the obvious: practice counterlooping. Find perhaps the wide forehand or wide backhand.)This forces you to a partner or coach who can counterloop. Stand a bit off the table - make a quick reaction decision, just as you would in a match. Make perhaps five feet - and toss the ball up and loop it directly to your sure your first move is the right one - don’t anticipate, just respond opponent’s side of the table. This gets you right into counterlooping, to the ball coming off the opponent’s racket, or a split second before forehand to forehand. Before you can do anything else, you must if you see where it’s going. be proficient at this. One hint - don’t try to meet the opponent’s The final variation is to have the server loop anywhere on the incoming topspin straight on. Instead, hook the ball by hitting a bit table, including at your middle. When you are proficient at this, on the outside of the ball, creating a sidespin that breaks to your left able to counterloop on the forehand, and counterloop, hit, or block and away from your opponent on his forehand side (for righties). on the backhand (depending on your style and the incoming ball), This not only makes your counterloop more consistent, it gives you and able to cover the ball to the middle (forehand or backhand, better angles, forcing your opponent to cover that much more table. depending on your style and foot speed), you will be ready to If you watch world-class players, you’ll see that they almost always do this in a match. And then you’ll be able to turn past rivals into counterloop with sidespin. Be aggressive in putting your own spin blockers that you can overpower. on the ball; overpower the incoming spin with your own spin, mostly One last tip: No Guts, No Glory. If you don’t use this shot regularly topspin. in matches (whether it’s practice, league, or tournaments), then you When you are pretty good at straight counterlooping, try the next won’t develop the shot. 46 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Pure Pong Sponsors ITTF Coaching Course with Christian Lillieroos

By Kayse Dahl Pure Pong in the Pearl, a newly opened and the largest Table Tennis participants signed up for the course, taught by prominent figure in the club in the nation recently sponsored an ITTF level one training course Table Tennis community—Christian Lillieroos. at the club’s location in the Pearl District of Portland. Pure Pong Lillieroos has been active in Table Tennis internationally, primarily opened this past March, with a mission to inspire everyone to take as a coach and administrative figure as the Development Director for advantage of Table Tennis in America as a fun, healthful sport, while USATT and chairman and Coaching Officer for the ITTF Paralympics building camaraderie, developing skills, igniting a sense of nostalgia, in Africa, Taiwan, Malaysia, Mexico, and Bermuda. During his time and bridging the gap between Ping Pong and Table Tennis. working with the USATT, Lillieroos worked with Olympian and one Approached by course organizer, Tim Aikey, Oregon’s current of the highest ranked Table Tennis figures in America, Sean O’Neill. Table Tennis State Champion, Pure Pong owner, Duane Smith, did O’Neill is now a Portland resident, and hosts coaching lessons at Pure not hesitate to seize the opportunity to help educate local players, to Pong. Having the opportunity to work with O’Neill again, as O’Neill inspire a higher level of play in the area. Smith hopes a trend of higher- enrolled in the course, provided additional incentive for Lillieroos to level play, and Ping Pong play in general, will take effect nationally in make the trip to the Pacific Northwest. the coming years. Lillieroos has taught over 40 courses, five of which, have been under “In order to promote Table Tennis as a legitimate sport, and encourage the new generation of the ITTF course standards. Of the 40 some new players to get involved on a competitive level, it requires a good courses Lillieroos has taught, the course instructor says he has never number of solid coaches that are able to go out into a community, and taught a group like the participants enrolled in the Pure Pong sponsored pass on their knowledge and passion for the sport” said Smith of his course—describing the group as a “Rare group of talent”. motive to sponsor the coaching course—donating Pure Pong’s optimal “The Pure Pong group had a very high philosophical and spiritual venue space with 20 plus tables and 40 foot ceilings, as well as audio aura. Everyone taking the course changes the dynamic depending on visual equipment to facilitate an enhanced learning experience. Pure who they are, and this group brought a high level of thinking—one I Pong also sponsored four local players to attend the course, in order to have never experienced before” said Lillieroos. Lillieros was not only become certified. impressed by the students, but by the Pure Pong venue as well. “I was excited to have the opportunity to further my comprehension “Pure Pong is like a dream come true” said Lillieroos, “The United of Table Tennis in all aspects, and to gain the credentials to become a States is like a fourth world country when it comes to Table Tennis. coach” said Tom Roeser, one of the players sponsored by Pure Pong The barrier between Table Tennis and Ping Pong needs to be broken. who has been playing competitively since 2008. It needs to be ‘ok’ to play Table Tennis. Pure Pong is helping raise the Pure Pong in the Pearl Coaching ClinicThe five day, 30 hour course level from Ping Pong to Table Tennis through ventures like sponsoring is designed to equip coaches with the skills and resources necessary to this course. The success of Table Tennis lies in the promotion of Ping transform a five year old beginning player, to an 1800 level player in Pong” Lillieroos continued, which is also a belief held by Pure Pong. five years. The forum of the course utilized both theory and practical Pure Pong and Lillieroos are currently seeking opportunities to segments, to provide participants with all-inclusive skills to effectively collaborate again in the near future, with hopes of ultimately raising convey instruction both physically, and verbally. Nineteen local awareness and respect for the sport here in the United States.

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Tips of the Month by Carl Danner Your (Literal) Playing Level (Tip of the Month: July) Players on the taller side face a little dilemma in terms of attacking shot if needed (as opposed to starting tall, and then how “tall” to play. It’s comfortable to stand up straight, but not having to get down and then up again). always very practical. Another key is to keep your back relatively straight, rather I think a good starting point is always an athletic stance, than hunching over. If you bend your torso, it will complicate as if you were a basketball player on defense. You will want smooth stroke movements. It can help to think about pulling your legs spread comfortably wide, your knees bent a bit, and your backside down a bit towards the floor behind you, if you your balance even over your feet. However, it’s possible to do want to crouch during the rally while still allowing yourself full a little better than that, borrowing in part from how the world freedom of movement to swing. class players stand. To begin with, they tend to spread their Ultimately, leg strength is the key to being able to move legs fairly wide, which lowers them a bit towards the table and play effectively a little lower to the ground, if you want to surface while permitting better movement and balance. They get a little better angle on shots that come to you on a lower also crouch down to return serve, a useful way to get a better trajectory. Try the crouched position I describe (legs wide, angle on the ball’s flight and to enable them to rise up into an backside pulled back and down) and you’ll feel it immediately! Simple Tactics (Tip of the Month: August) Some players wonder about how to set up a point tactically. I could predict. Second, I used your initial reaction (reach in to Tactical plays involve finding consistent ways to set up your return the serve) as a source of further advantage in the point. best shots, or to force the ball to a location where your While a strong winner up the line would be a nice conclusion opponent is weak. to that play, against most opponents a halfway-decent topspin For example: I serve short and low to your backhand. shot would probably be enough to gain the advantage in the You lean in, predictably, to return the ball crosscourt to my point, or to win it outright. backhand. I then topspin the ball up the line at your deep Try looking at your opponents to identify when they appear forehand, a location you have trouble covering after reaching predictable in ways you can exploit. And, try to identify where in on the other side. most opponents may tend to return certain shots of yours (like Notice two keys to that description. First, I placed the serves). Once you see that predictability start to appear, you opening shot not with the intent to try to win the point outright, will have the basis for some winning tactical plays that will but instead to encourage you to make a return whose location make your matches a little easier.

BROOKLYN TABLE TENNIS CLUB 1100 Coney Island Avenue (Between H and Foster Ave.) Contact: Nison Aronov 718-421-2200 / 917-239-0398 by Elie Zainabudinova www.nisonsttc.com AClasses couple of for words Children about my and background. My name is Elie Zainabudinova and I am originally from Kazakhstan. I started playing table tennis Personalwhen I was Lessons8 years old fromand I represented High the National Team of Kazakhstan for five years. In 2000 I moved to Los Angeles and due to many changes and a new lifestyle I took a break from table tennis. In 2005 I started representing the Killerspin Krew and came back to table tennis. NowRated I am a Playersfull time coach are available! in a couple of clubs in Los Angeles: one is Michael Zaretsky’s club “Gilbert Table Tennis Center” and the other one is Lloyd McQueen’s club “Robofit”. LivingLeague in Hollywood Tournaments: I did not miss the opportunity to be a part of the entertainment world including both TV shows and movies. I participated in theThursday movie, “Balls at of8:00 Fury”; pm, I appeared as a guest on Lopez Tonight, Best Damn Sport Show, as well as USA’s Character Fantasy. I am also in the Sundayupcoming atmovie 11:00 “Fencewalker”. am, But, my favorite appearance came last year when I was cast in an episode in the seventh season of “Entou- rage”, one of Hollywood’s hottest shows. ItLeague all started for when Kids I was heading to a lesson at a remote location. I had no idea who my student would be. As soon as I walked into the office whereSunday i was told at to15:30 go, I saw Entourage posters all around me. I thought to myself, whoever is here must be a big fan of the show. It did not take me too long to realize that this was the production office of the show itself. The good news for me was that I had seen Entourage before. The bad newsSanctioned was that I was Tournaments: not current with it. The single episode I saw was the pilot episode and here they were about to start shooting season seven. ThatSee day nisonsttc.com I was introduced tofor Doug dates Ellin, creator and executive producer. It turned out the lesson was for him because he was, and remains to be, a big fan of table tennis. His friend Rob Stone from New York had consistently beaten him and Doug decided that it was finally time to get betterGreat with Prizessome lessons. and AwardsDoug’s game was typical of a tennis player coming to table tennis; big swings, especially his forehand, and a lot of power. Once you add a lot of competitiveness and a fun personality to it, you have a good picture of Doug as a table tennis player. So we started training. During our sessions I started seeing many actors in the office and many people competing. (The next thing I know I see that the Jonas Brothers to challenge Doug; no luck for them.) Ultimately Doug became obsessed with ping pong and made everyone in the office play in order to become better and to challenge him. Ally Musika, anotherWe producer sell of the anyshow, who Brands was progressing of fast, Blades, started to play regularly Rubber with him. Accessories, This all culminated when he decided to write an episode with table tennis in it. I was super excited-- I asked him if I was going to participate and he said yes, and that he would even give me a line! At firstSports I thought he wasWear, kidding because Robots, for the many Used times I have and been on New set, I have Tables never actually - had one a line. day Soon, Kevin Dillon (Johnny Drama) started participating in our training sessions. According to the script, he and another actor were supposed to face each otherFREE in a ping pong delivery battle. I remember and how installationa new guy showed up for his in lesson NY, for the NJ, first time. CT I thought area he was one of Doug’s

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Gamesmenship 101

Winning is the goal of the athlete. We want to win the next point and the match. We want to advance to the next round or win the prize. Coaches want to see intensity from their students. As a coach I love to see intensity in my students. When does this intensity actually hurt our student and in some situations negatively impact our sport? Where do we draw the line? Obviously when our junior gets so upset that he cannot concentrate we must intervene. How about trickery? What costs should one go to win? Is there standardized ethics people should follow in addition to the rulebook?

I venture to say most players agree that breaking the rules in order to win is intolerable, which is why we have rules to level the playing field. Everyone, in my opinion, is born with a conscience as to what is right and wrong. Purposely breaking the rules is wrong. How about if the player does not get caught? If a wide receiver traps a ball and the referee does not see it and awards him a catch, is that wrong? (Assuming instant replay does not overturn it.) How about illegally boosting your racket if there is no tester machine available? I believe anyone who breaks the rules deliberately is guilty regardless of whether they are caught or not. Such a violation is detrimental to our sport, for rules are created for a specific reason by our governing federations. To teach a student to break rules is a worse offense, because those of us who coach have more responsibility to adhere to the rules. It seems at the international level there is an unwritten code of ethics. Watch Timo Boll long enough and you will see him reverse a referee’s call or alert the referee of a ball that hit the edge. We should follow Timo’s example.

What about excessive celebration? I personally like “cho-ing” as long as its not done in a demeaning manner to your opponent. A pitcher pumping his fist after a strikeout is a good thing. The same pitcher pointing at the person he struck out is over the line, and usually comes back to bite him. One thing we have to keep in mind is to teach our juniors not to lose their cool, positively or negatively. Too much excitement not only can actually distract or player;in addition it can stir up their opponent. Some players will talk to their opponents, not in a demeaning manner, but in a manner to distract them. We must coach our student to not fall for these schemes. A match too easily can be decided by the loss of focus for two or three key points in the match. A good way to help our student avoid this is to try and distract him during his club matches. Table tennis is very mental and we must equip the players we coach for this mental battle.

Controlling the tempo is another tactic used by experienced tournament players. When a crafty veteran gets into a rhythm she tends to serve the ball much quicker than when she has lost a few points in a row. On the flip side I have seen players tie their shoes or “accidentally” kick the ball a few feet away. I am not condoning this and it could get the player a yellow card or incite their opponent as well. We need to be aware of quickplaying and stalling as coaches. A quick mention of this to our juniors will make sure they are aware of what is going on with the tempo of the game and why.

One of the craziest things I heard of in table tennis happened to one of my good friends that shall remain unnamed. He was down by a big margin in the final game as a junior in the Detroit teams. He got frustrated with his play and started cheering against himself. Every time he won a point he complained and every time his opponent won a point he cheered. He was not doing this to deliberately distract his opponent; he was just a frustrated junior. His opponent crumbled and melted into an emotional disaster, losing focus and eventually the game and match. In my many years playing and coaching I have seen so many matches won or lost mentally. Our students need to be aware or “gamesmenship” and the entire gamut of emotional tactics and pitfalls. We need to teach our students ethics of play as well. A little mental preparation can go a long way for our students.

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2013 Alabama Closed Newgy Akron Open May 18, 2013, Aquadome Recreation Center, June 8th, 2013 Decatur, Alabama by Samson Dubina By Michael Wetzel Players from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Michigan gathered at Top-seeded David Landry defeated second- the House of the Lord gymnasium to compete seed Adam Brown to win his sixth straight for $2000 cash and prizes at the Newgy Akron state singles title and move to No. 3 on the Open. All of the events were giant round robin state’s all-time singles title winner. Landry format with 9-10 players per group. The top 4 got past Brown, who owns five singles titles, players advanced from the groups to compete 11-8, 11-13, 11-8, 12-10, 6-11 and 11-4 in the against other groups in the knockout stage. best of seven finals. Both players went unde- In group one of the Open, Ohio State’s feated until the finals. Liao Liang had three major upsets to advance In the semifinals, Landry beat Barnabas as second behind Samson Dubina; the third Gonzales 5-8, 10, 6, while Adam Brown was and fourth advancers were Sam Gacki and defeating Terry Hamilton 5, 8, 7. Harsh Khandelwal. In group two of the Open, Dr. Ashutosh Tamhane recorded the upset twelve-year-old Keiran Pinili pulled of a of the tournament when he eliminated fourth- major upset over Don Hamilton to become the seeded Amber Yi Li -6, 8, 9, 8 in the first fourth qualifier behind Keith Pech, Don, and round. Darren Tang. Top seeds continued winning as In championship doubles, Brown teamed Samson, Keith, Don, and Darren all won their with Gonzalez to win their first doubles quarterfinals matches moving to the money crown. They defeated Ernesto Kawamoto and round; followed by Samson beating Don 4-0 Landry in the finals 8, -4, 7, -8, 7. Kawamoto David Landry won his sixth straight Alabama and Keith beating Darren 4-1. The crowd was excited to see Keith (Ohio’s owns a record 13 state doubles championships singles title. Photo by Michael Wetzel with five different partners. Kawamoto and #2 ranked player) pull off the first game win in Landry have eight of those. the Open final 11-9 over Samson (Ohio’s #1 Bill Mobley had a strong tournament win- ranked player), only to lose the next four games ning Class A with a 9, -7, 2, 6 win over Ced- Arkansas League Singles Champions 2013 at 11-5, 11-4, 11-5, 11-9. Keith was very happy with his second place finish. He has had great ric Richardson. Mobley later won his second June, 17-19, 2013 success recently with remarkable results at the over-60 esquires title by downing 16-time Duran Youth Center Sherwood A Team Singles: 1st Scott Baron; 2nd Mike Lau- American’s Team Championship and other state champion Don Gaither 6, 11, -4, 8. Midwest tournaments. William Phillips IV took the U-1500 cham- ro; 3rd Vivul Mhapsekar; 4th Kedar Jambhekar The u2000 event was won by local junior pionship money with a 9, -3, 2, 11 win over B Team Singles:Shelby Barone; 2nd John Falco; Shreyans Bafna over Utica New York’s Will Hung Nguyen. Caleb Lenox defeated Fred 3rd Clem Volpert; 4th Kitt Oudthone Lombard. The u1600 event was won by Mitchell II 6, 8, -8, -10, 5 in the Class C finals. C Team Singles: 1st Conley Hillegas; 2nd Jeff Akron’s Tim Brubaker over Xingyi Que. The Li, a University of Alabama student from Pratt; 3rd Ranya Kassees; 4th Alexander Falco u1200 event was won by Mansfield’s Richard China, bounced back to win her second Beer over Barnsville player Jon Thornton. straight women’s crown by beating Jun Liu MDTTC Maryland Circuit I want to send out a special thanks to our 2, 5, 9. sponsors – Newgy, Paddle Palace, and Nittaku. Yuan He had an easy time winning his June 1, 2013 I would also like to thank The House of the Lord third juniors title with a 7, 5, 6 win over Tim Eldersburg, MD for use of their beautiful triple gymnasium and Wooley. U-3500 Doubles: 1. Rich Burnside/Josiah Hine the large tournament committee that allowed Ivan Skripnik defeated Mobley 8, 2, 7 to win 2. Joe Hawkins/Edgar Bailiff the tournament to run in a timely fashion: Greg his first state seniors crown. Juniors U-18: 1. Ethan Hine 2. Josiah Hine Thompson, Perry Wilson, Pastor Taylor, Sam Torin Alter and Brandon Green won Class U-1400: 1. Ethan Hine 2. Bernd Kral Dubina, Nancy Dubina, Heather Dubina, Cathy A doubles defeating Colton Brown and Lenox U-1600: 1. Matt Pugmire 2. Dan Hageman Steel and the many scorekeepers who made it in the finals. interesting for the many excited spectators. I U-2000: 1. Kyle Yan 2. Daniel Ring also wanted to thank our photographer Christ Notes: Gaither holds the state record of 16 OPEN: Rich Burnside 2. Kyle Yan state singles titles. Second is Keith LaFrance Jordan. with eight. The tournament committee is now planning Tournament co-director Michael Wetzel par- OCALA OPEN 2013 to host 3 tournaments per year in Akron, Ohio ticipated in his 34 straight Alabama Closed. Ocala FL, June 1st, 2013 featuring free meals, free snacks, and free drinks to all the players. Our next tournament A total of 56 players participated in the tour- Mid-Florida Table Tennis Tour is scheduled for Friday and Saturday September nament hosted by the North Alabama Table Colossal Round Robin 13th-14th 2013. Entry form now available at: Tennis Club and Decatur Parks and Recre- Championship Div: www.samsondubina.com ation. 1st Khai Chu; 2nd Ronald Rigo Tournament directors were Chip Patton and Elite Div: 1st William Mogensen; 2nd Peter Wu RESULTS: Wetzel. Committee members were Mike Har- Master Div: 1st Edwin Rivera; 2nd Donovan Open: 1st Samson Dubina; 2nd Keith Pech ris, Tom Alexy, Logan Wetzel, Jim Norris, Graham 3rd-4th Don Hamilton and Darren Tang Tom Mann, Shannon Bishop, Kawamoto and U2000: 1st Shreyans Bafna; 2nd Will Lombard Mitchell. Expert Div: 1st Deb Harrison; 2nd Ramon Soto Advanced Div: 1st Frank Perdomo; 2nd Lee U1600: 1st Tim Brubaker; 2nd Xingyi Que U1200: 1st Richard Beer; 2nd Jon Thornton Danielson

52 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 West Michigan Holland Open

CLASS ACT at the West Michigan, Holland Spring Open, April 6 & 7, 2013 Scott Endicott goes home with $500.00 from the Holland Spring Open in Holland Michigan. In the RR group Scott lost to Dan Dulkin, but we advanced 2 from each of our 3 Open groups for a final single elimination play off. Scott had started the day early fighting off and defeating Allen Lin in the finals of the under 2350 event. As fate would have it, Scott met Dan Dulkin again, this time in the finals of the Open event and defeated him to become our April Holland Open winner! Anxious to get home to his family, while collecting his medals and money, Scott overheard that our 5:00 Sunday evening event, the under 18, 3 person team event was not able to start because the other team of 3 had not showed up. With only the 2 teams entered, due to spring break, the other team’s father was expressing how disappointed the boys were that they had no team to play. Scott quickly offered to go play with each of the boys, so we quickly formed a team of 3 of our own and played the young boys some games and gave a little instruction. Our team was then disqualified for not being under 18 and the boys all went home with gold medals and the memory of having had the opportunity to play with the top player of the tournament! Class Act. Thanks Scott!

RESULTS: Under 1000: 1st: Rob Wood; 2nd: Kwan Joon VanTubbergen Cha Under 1600: 1st: Ke Ning 2nd: Joe Maher, Under 1800: 1st: Steve Gonzales 2nd: Jim Under 2350: 1st: Scott Endicott, 2nd: Allen Engstrom Lin Under 1400: 1st: Kraig Smith, 2nd: Richard OPEN: 1st: Scott Endicott ($400.00) 2nd: Pinapati Danny Dulkin, ($150.00) ; 3rd: Allen Lin Under 2200: 1st: Brian Brzycki 2nd: Ladislav ($100.00); 4th: Dennis S. Cobb Sr., ($50.00) Sranko Open Doubles : 1st: Paul Wandrei & Allen 18 Years & Under: 1st: Brian Brzycki, Lin, 2nd: Danny Dulkin & Donald Hinshaw 2nd: Jack Bao Under 1200: 1st: Francis Hsu; 2nd: Sumilhig Under 3700 Doubles: 1st: Brian Fowler and Santiago Fred Knapp, 2nd: Roman and Jonathan Vay- Under 2000: 1st: Jack Bao, 2nd: Brad Over- sman beek Over 55: 1st: Ladislav Sranko 2nd: Xiao 3 Person Team 18-Under: 1st: Daniel Guar- Yueming, Silver Medal izo, Basil, Philip, Gold Medals; 2nd: Endi- Novice: 1st: Henry Kellum, 2nd: Kathleen cott/Fowler/Rose, Defaulted West Michigan Holland Open Winner Scott Endicott

2013 Missouri Show-Me State Games by Bill Lewis The June 8 tournament went splendidly. A total of 36 contestants played 157 matches which were completed on 10 tables. Players came from five states. The tourney’s # 1 seed was Kris Frank who hailed from Lindenwood University and sported a 2232 rating. In the day’s highest rated event, the Open Round Robin, 17 participants hammered one another for the right to vie as the 2013 Missouri Show-Me State Champion. When the eight quarterfinalist matches were completed, there emerged four semifinalists which were comprised of Kris Frank vs. Chunyen Liu and Jeff Johnston vs. Richard Martin. Frank went on to dispatch Liu in 3 straight games, but the persistent Johnston could not outlast the hardier Martin in the other semifinal and Johnston went down with his ship, anchor and all; their sea-pitched ride went the distance at 3 games to 2. Martin then proceeded to chop/bock his way to victory in the championship match as his game is comprised of 90% corner to corner hits; a style which stood in marked contrast to that of Frank’s preferred style of attacking loops. Martin would win his first ever Missouri State Open Championship at 3 games to 1. That this was the 3rd consecutive year in which a Missouri player would win the State Championship in the Open era, begs the inevitable question. When will an out-of-stater finally win the Missouri Open championship? To paraphrase General Zod ...”is there no one on this planet who can beat Missouri’s finest”? *Many of the matches can be found on YouTube by searching “Show-Me State Games Table Tennis”

RESULTS: OpenRR: 1st: Richard Martin, Kansas City 2nd: Todd Dudenhoeffer, Springfield MO MO; 2nd: Kris Frank, St. Charles MO Under 1400: 1st: Mario Canossi, Rolla MO; Open Singles: 1st: Richard Martin, Kansas 2nd: Aravind Mereddi, Overland Park KS City MO; 2nd: Kris Frank, St. Charles MO Under 1200; 1st: Mario Canossi, Rolla MO; Under 2200; 1st: Everton Wilson, St. Charles 2nd: Peter Buscemi, Hulbert OK MO; 2nd: Richard Martin, Kansas City MO Open Doubles; 1st: Kris Frank / Everton Under 2000: 1st: Jeff Johnston, Smithville Wilson St. Charles MO; 2nd: Chunyen Liu / MO; 2nd: Ilya Rozenblat, Overland Park KS Ilya Rozenblat Overland Park KS Under 1800: 1st: Mats Johansson, Broken Hardbat Open: 1st: Jeff Johnston, Smithville Arrow OK; 2nd: Aravind Mereddi, Overland MO; 2nd: Carl Miller, Hutchinson KS Park KS Novice Singles: 1st: Mario Canossi, Rolla Richard Martin - Missouri State Champion Under 1600; 1st: Nikola Terzic, Ballwin MO; MO; 2nd: Oscar Contreras, Rolla MO

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 53 Eugene Wang Ekes Out a Victory in Westchester By Bill McGimpsey The top-rated player in North America, Eugene Wang (rated 2806), won the April Westchester Open, in Pleasantville, NY, but got seriously rocked in the process. The Canadian #1 had played in Westchester once before, in October 2012, and sailed right through without dropping a game. “What happened this time?” I asked. He replied, “The competition was a lot tougher.” How tough? Well, let me put it this way: On the prior weekend the ITTF North America Cup was also held in Pleasantville. The top players from Canada and the U.S., hand-picked by their respective national associations, competed. In the men’s final, Canada’s Andre Ho (2522) emerged victorious. Andre returned the next weekend for the 4-star Westchester Open ... and found himself seeded #10! This time there were players from China, Switzerland, France, and across North America, including some elite players not eligible to compete in the North America Cup. Altogether 123 players vied for more than $7,000 in cash prizes. Eugene’s feathers were ruffled in the very first round of the single elimination. There he met Hiroka Ooka (2527), the top woman in the Open, also the manager/pro of the King Pong in Soho club in New York City. Hiroka surprised him by getting a big lead in the second game and holding on to an 11-8 win. This was the first time Eugene had ever lost a game at Westchester. He hunkered down and closed out the next two games at 5 and 4. So we were left to wonder — was this an aberration or a sign of trouble to come? Eugene’s next match was against YanJun Gao (2556), of New York City, a two-time champion at Westchester. Gao is one of the most powerful hitters in the American game today. Eugene is also a power hitter, so this was sure to be interesting. The match was fireworks from the start. Gao overpowered Eugene in the first game and won 11-7. The pressure continued in the second as Gao threatened to go up by two games, but Eugene managed to hang in and salvaged it at 11. That was fortunate for him, since Gao won the third, showing just how close the match came to being a three-game sweep. Eugene slowly clawed his way back and in the end prevailed. In the semis, Eugene met fellow Canadian Andre Ho, who had just RESULTS pulled off a big upset over a Chinese visitor, Xiao Feng Qi (2650), Open: F: Eugene Wang def. Damien Provost (-10, -12, 10, 5, the #3 seed. Qi told me he was a customs officer, just over for a visit. 11); SF: Eugene Wang def. Andre Ho (7, -8, 3, 5); Damien Andre, a regular practice partner of Eugene’s, nearly beat him in the Provost def. Hongtao Chen (6, 4, 9) first, did so in the second, and was surging ahead in the third. Once Under 2500: F: Allen Wang def. Matthew Khan more it looked like Eugene might be upset, but again he rallied and won. Under 2350: F: Bin Hai Chu def. Matt Simon The final pitted Eugene against four-time Westchester winner Under 2200: F: A. J. Carney def. Trenace Lowe Damien Provost of France — the #2 seed. I have seen all previous 16 Under 2050: F: Dieter Peise def. Erick Cardona Westchester Open finals, and I think this one was the most exciting. Every game but the fourth went to deuce, and all five games were Under 1900: F: Gal Gmach def. San Htet packed with breathtaking rallies. Damien won the first two and Under 1750: F: Don Feltenberger def. Sam Rockwell was ahead 9-7 in third. Again it looked like an upset was pending. However, Eugene hung tough and pulled out the match 13-11 in the Under 1600: F: Sam Rockwell def. Anna Kozlowska fifth. Under 1450: F: Rafi Hosein def. William McGimpsey In other results, the finals of the U-2500 were an exact replica of the Under 1300: 1. Rufus James (3-0); 2. Igor Kirman (2-1); prior month’s. Allen Wang (2397) again beat Matthew Khan (2353) 3. Saleem Majied (1-2) 3 games to 1, and by almost the same scores. Neither Wang nor Khan was the top seed in the U-2500, so each did well to repeat. Under 1150: F: Rufus James def. Igor Kirman Worth special mention is the Handicap event on Saturday, a regular Under 1000: F: Ronald Yau def. Allen Bukhbinder nonrated competition at Westchester, in which the higher-rated player 60 & Over: F: Bin Hai Chu def. Wayne Carney in each match is handicapped by 1 point for every 50-point rating advantage over the lower-rated player, up to a maximum of 7 points 14 & Under: 1. Christian Su (3-0); 2. Weston Cooper (2-1); per 11-point game. This month Allen Bukhbinder, rated 607, won the 3. Ali Khan (1-2) $100 first prize by beating Anna Kozlowska (1369). Last month Kai Handicap: F: Allen Bukhbinder def. Anna Kozlowska Zhang (2624) won the event. The two results together prove that any (7-point handicap) player, no matter how strong or weak, truly has a chance to win. Local Unrated: 1. Trevor Mack (2-0); 2. Jacob Cooper (1-1) Full results and photos of the April Westchester Open can be found at www.westchestertabletennis.com. Photo of Eugene Wang by Diego Schaaf

54 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Eugene Wang Ekes Out a Victory in Westchester 2013 Butterfly MDTTC April Open by Charlene Liu Ph.D. Seventy six players from eight states competed in the 2013 Butterfly MDTTC April Openon April6&7at the Maryland Table Tennis Center. The results of the Open event are very interesting. To give opportunities to two new MDTTC assistant coaches from China, the head coaches assigned 2495 rated Bowen Chen along with the two new assistant coaches to play the Open event. Because there are not enough tournaments for players to compete in China, players there have to perform when they are given an opportunity. One bad match at wrong time may end one’s table tennis career. Since this is the very first appearance in USATT sanctioned tournament, the pressure of winning was too big for these new assistant coaches to handle. Only one of them advanced on the same side of the draw as the #1seed Bowen Chen. This opened a big door for the #2 seed, 2409 rated Khaleel Asgarali. However, Khaleel lost to 2314 rated Richard Doverman from VA in three games. Richard’s style of play requires him to cover full court with his forehand. Richard played his U2400 semi-final againstLixin Lang before playing Khaleel. Lixin is well known for his big angle blocks. Richard managed to win and was very well warmed up by Lixin. That might be one of the reasons that he beats less warmed upKhaleel in three games. If Khaleel played Richard before Richard played Lixin, the result might be different. After playedKhaleel, Richard got cramp in both arms and legs. The cramp forced him to quit his Open semi-final against John Wetzler after first game. John recovering from 2 tough 5 game losses in earlier events, survived a 5 game match and then found table tennis skills are being nurtured and developed by the team at the a way to once more raise the level of his game, cruising into the finals Maryland Table Tennis Center. defeating his next 3 opponents without losing another game. In the MDTTC is known for our top notch junior program, consistently finals John was overmatched by the skill and power of Bowen Chen. producing top level and upcoming young players. This tournament The other Semi-Final Open Event match was between MDTTC coaches featured many of these young players dreaming of success. However, Bowen Chen & Brian Zhang Liang (4-0). standing in their way was a trio of aging warriors looking to conquer MDTTC assistant coach Nadmichettu, Raghu R. won the U2400 both time and their much younger opponents.John Wetzler (50) cruised event. Richard Dovermanhad to default his U2400 final match due to into the Open final. Richard Doverman (51) put on an impressive display muscle cramp in both arms and legs.Richard was born in Vietnam and of penhold forehand looping and counter looping to earn his way to the his father led him to play table tennis when he was 7 years old. He U2400 final.Lixin Lang (53) used his extensive array of deft blocks and was Vietnam Cadet and Junior champion from 1971 to 1975, and on sharply angled shots to fight his way to the U2050 final. While the day national team from 1976 to 1980. He was the national men’s singles was ultimately won by the younger players, the aging warrior could all champion in 1978. Richard came to the United States in 1981, studied hold their heads high and be proud of their accomplishments. and lived in California for 4 years, and moved to Virginia in 1985. He I would like to thank all participants of this tournament. Without your was the mixed double champion (with Lisa Gee) at US Nationals in participation and support, there will be no tournament. We would also 1984. He stopped playing table tennis for 18 years, and started all over like to thank our tournament sponsors Butterfly North Americaand James again in 2006. When he came back, many things have changed, size of Wu, a Llewellyn realtor for their continuing support, and the developer the ball, orange balls, 11 points games, rubbers, blades, etc… of Omnipong tournament software (www.omnipong.com) Craig Krum MDTTC Junior Roy Ke beats Lixin Lang in three games to win the for his great help.Special thanks go to co-authorsJohn Wetzler, Richard U2250 event.Although Lixin sometimes beats Roy in Friday night Doverman, Robert Gabay, Deapesh Misraand Eliana Chow for their leagues, Roy claims that he never lost in finals. First seed2272 rated contribution to this article. If you have a table tennis story to share, please John Wetzler lost to 2093 rated Qiming Chen and second seed 2246 write it up and give it to me at our next tournament on August 24&25. rated Jeff Hsing lost to 2107 rated Lixin Lang. Both Qiming and Lixin Attached Photo: Open winner Bowen Chen (left), runner up John Wetzler, lost to RoyKe. third/fourth place Brian Zhang Liang and Richard Doverman (right). Junior Josiah Chow from West Chester PA won the U2050 event after In the youth events, Seyed Hamrahian won the 18-Boys event over a 5-game fight over Reginald Willis. Reginald Willis lost to Reginald Brian Brzycki. Peter Yang won the Boys 15 over Jack Bao and the Boys Sotero in U2250 group. The two Reginalds run into each other again 13 over Ali Khatami. at the quarterfinal of U2050, and Mr. Willis got his revenge. With the Special mention must be made of the much improved level of the momentum, Reginald Willis upsets the first seed, 2008 rated Joshua junior players in the Midwest region; Jack Bao (15) and Brian Brzycki Tran, to reach the final. Josiah’s sister Eliana and brother Jeremiah (15) from South Bend also, AkashPardeshi (10) and David Sun (10) also competed in this tournament. The Chow brother/sisters began from Champaign, IL. From Ohio, KeiranPinilli, SeyedHamrahian ,Ali playing table tennis in 2008, taking lessons from Coach Ben Wolski. Khatami and ShreyansBafna. Peter Yang, from Wisconsin, who had a Now they are coached by Coach Lu Ying. Besides table tennis, Eliana great win over Niraj Oak in Las Vegas this year.Ben Huynh, David Lee enjoys writing and reading, and likes studying Math and English. Josian and Michael Tran from Minneapolis and Michael Wolski from Illinois. enjoys solving puzzles, as well as playing other sports such as baseball. Also, the threesome from Indianapolis, Darren Chang, Vincent Chang His favorite subjects are Math and Science. Jeremiah enjoys playing and Henry Luo. Every one of these juniors have the potential to reach various board games, especially Monopoly. He likes playing baseball national level and we wish them the best of luck in their training. and his favorite subject in school is Math. Special thanks to Robo-Pong and the Newgy Corporation. Their Robert Gabay beats Yanghang Tang in 3 games to win the U1900 sponsorship has enabled us to host a first class tournament every year event. Robert Gabay is a Jamaican table tennis enthusiast who has been and Butterfly for sponsoring the official ball for the tourney. Kagin Lee playing since the mid 70’s. Plagued by a degenerative disc disease, he was the referee and Brad Balmer ran the control desk and kept the time has not been able to play consistently for the last ten years, but when he schedule right on. Thanks Kagin and Brad! does play, he utilizes a combination of tricky serves and tries to finish the point with penetrating top-spin loops. Robert’s family has been stationed in the USA since 2010 as part of a diplomatic assignment, and he says he is very impressed by the large numbers of youngsters whose USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 55 Fifth Annual America’s Team Table Tennis Championship by Ed Hogshead Seemiller, who turned 59 this past June, was a beast at the table - a beast As the tournament committee made plans for the team tournament in the best sense of the word. He led his team, Powered by RoboPong, to in Rockford, IL (one-hour west of Chicago), goals were set with one a second place finish in Division One. His three singles victories against main theme: to make this annual four-star event the best experience for Team Killerspin (Zheng, Qi, & Guo) were pivotal in their 5-3 team win. the players, spectators, and community. What were not planned were He simply outplayed, outfought, and outthought each of them until the the myriad celebrations that took over! There were celebrations that wins were his. highlighted the strengths of our beloved sport of table tennis, unpredictable Now to the crème of the crop, the Atlanta Table Tennis Academy victories that brought great pride, and successes beyond expectations. (ATTA) with it’s star, Kewei Li. They powered their way to gold medals The Atlanta Table Tennis Academy coached by Wang Hui decidedly won in Division One with just one singles match loss. Kewei is a 2648-rated Division One, which will be discussed later in this article but let’s begin chopper living and coaching in Atlanta who was trained by Wang Hao with the junior Paralympians. Jenson Van Emburgh and Ian Seidenfeld (not the World Champion born in 1983) in China. Wang Hao was a former together gained an incredible total of 757 rating points by defeating top player during the 1990’s that specialized in defensive play. Kewei’s 11 able-bodied players! Ian, who stands just a bit taller than the table teammates were Diwei Shi (US #13 at 2614), Hangyu Li (2458-rated), and is the son of Paralympic Champion Mitch Seidenfeld, entered the and Wangtong Liu (2389) the sole woman on the team. tournament at 730 and came out at 1210. Jenson Van Emburgh, a fierce The team match of the tournament began during Round Five on Sunday competitor fighting from his wheelchair, defeated a 1600 rated player. as #3 Killerspin took on #2 RoboPong. Sameh Awadallah from Egypt and But the real strength of these athletes was the teamwork exhibited by their now living in Nashville, TN has wins over several top US players. His entire team, VCS United, who won two rounds in Division Five. backhand attack, loop, and kill are among the best. Pundits thought his Igor Botkin, a standing disabled player with a devastating forehand power would overcome Guo Hao’s all-around game as Sameh won the loop, competed on the Cool Bats team to help them earn bronze medals in first game at 10. Guo had other ideas as he out steadied Sameh and kept Division Four. Mitch Seidenfeld, the USATT Hall of Famer and many- him off balance and unable to execute backhand winners. Guo won going time Paralympian Champion, continues to amaze. He recently had hip away at –10, 11, 10, & 6. replacement surgery for the second-time and is already back in form as Next up was Mark Hazinski with RoboPong against Qi Wei from a solid 2200 level player. Many, if not most able-bodied USATT players Killerspin. Mark just returned from the World Championships in France never achieve his level. He is truly an inspiration for all. and was expected to dominate. Qi is coaching fulltime in Minnesota and Juniors also stood out with solid wins in all five divisions. The Alguetti has little chance to train with elite players. But a different Qi showed Brothers, Sharon, Gal, and Adar, were seeded fourth in Division One, up and it was not pleasant for Mark. The Qi that competes in regional competed hard and boisterous to remain fourth. These fired-up youth tournaments is one that is having fun and thoroughly enjoying being from New Jersey are just 12 and 13 years old. There are many other in the USA and playing table tennis. Qi’s teammates, Zheng and Guo, junior players and under 21-year-old players that played and left with are friends and training partners from his youth while in China. QI’s wins including Hao Quo and Qi Wei who teamed with Jiaqi Zheng to lead demeanor was to compete hard and win at this tournament in order to Team Killerspin to a third place finish in Division One. The college team support his team. Mark, on the other hand, suffered a bit of a let down of Detroit Lefties took a resounding gold medal in Division Two – yes, after competing against the elite of the world. Yes, you guessed it, Qi they shouted LOUDLY when MN Cereal Killers upset BumperNets in the won 10, 4, -8 & 7. final match. MN Junior Elite fared well and finished in a four-way tie for Third-seeded Killerspin was up 2-0 in the best of 9 singles matches and second in Division Two and ended up in fourth place after the tie-breaking well on their way to an upset over the 2nd seeded RoboPong. But do not process concluded. ever underestimate Dan Seemiller, five-time US Champion and two-time The excitement from the two junior teams from Duluth, MN was US Olympic coach. This was the match of the round and possibly the contagious. They could not wait to start each round. The wonderful match of the tournament as Dan took on Jiaqi Zheng, who was rated 130 attitudes from the junior teams from Chicago and the perfect manners points higher. Jiaqi is unphased by Dan’s anti-spin rubber and style of displayed by the two young players on the Trini-American team, namely play and wins game one 11-6. But Dan was placing balls deep to back Dylita and Shiva need to be mentioned. Jiaqi off the table and off her game and it worked as he won the second Women also dominated. The 2013 National Women’s College Champion, game 11-7. The crowd started to take special notice as many thought Jiaqi Jiaqi Zheng, was the second highest rated player in the tournament at 2618. would win. The third game was even closer with Jiaqi executing just a The Atlanta Table Tennis Academy team included Wangtong Liu, the 16th bit better to win 11-9. Game four was the one that gave notice that Dan rated woman in the USA. And two Minnesota women were instrumental was in it to win it. He added enough anti-spin shots to reduce Jiaqi’s in their respective teams’ successes. Sandhya Joshi captained Minnesota confidence, hit his spots on the far corners to make Jiaqi move more, and Freeze to an upset win in the preliminary rounds as her team jumped from then finished the points when weaker returns came. At 2-2 in games, Division Five to Four and finished in fifth place. Brenda Nguyen’s wins both players came out intense for game five. The score was very close helped her team, MTWTFSSpinesota, to silver medals in Division Four with similar battles occurring as in the first four games. Jiaqi was hitting as she personally gained 214 rating points. forehand kills and Dan was mixing up his shots and locations to force the The last, but not least, demographic one must address are those players point. Each player had match points but it was Dan that prevailed in the that have the most experience, in other words, the older players. Dan end 13-11. 56 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Now this was a competitive team match with Killerspin up 2-1 and first singles match loss for ATTA in the entire tournament. There was Hazinski facing Guo. Mark’s power from both sides was too strong as he now some buzz among the crowd as maybe ATTA could actually lose – defeated Guo 9, -8, 5, & 9. It was time for Sameh to take on Jiaqi with both especially with Dan coming to the table for RoboPong! But it was not teams having two wins. Sameh was spectacular in taking the offense first meant to be as Shi defeats Dan, Kewei defeats Mark, Shi defeats Sameh, to win points before Jiaqi could get her kills going. It seemed like her loss and Li Hangyu wins over Dan with all matches being three games to zero. to Dan in the previous round took something out of her. Match to Sameh ATTA wins Division One over Powered by RoboPong five matches to one in straight games 8, 11, 9. Killerspin’s Qi now had to face RoboPong’s match and is the 2013 America’s Team Table Tennis Champion! wily Dan. This was youth against experience with experience winning We must include information on the amenities that fostered positive fairly easy 8, -7, 5, & 5. Dan had reversed his five-game loss to Qi in feedback from the many athletes that decided to spend the Memorial Day the 2012 America’s Team Championship with an important win to put weekend with us including door prizes awarded by raffle tickets with a RoboPong in the driver’s seat 4-2 after being down 0-2. ticket for playing, and additional tickets for staying at the tournament hotel Killerspin’s Jiaqi that has dominated women’s table tennis on the west and for entering the tournament early. Duluth Table Tennis Club won the coast for years comes out to play against former USA Olympian Mark RoboPong table tennis robot. Custom embroidered shoe bags, equipment of team RoboPong. Mark easily wins the first two games so it appears bags, shirts, and bottled water were also given out. Matches on table one that RoboPong will win the round 5-2. But there is a reason that Jiaqi were live streamed courtesy of the USATT, David DelVecchio, and Sean entered the tournament with a rating of 2620. Yes, she is good, in fact O’Neill (see YouTube). There was a free players’ party Saturday night good enough to defeat Mark in the last three games, at 7, 10, & 7. She did at the tournament hotel that included appetizers. Entry fees remained enough quick returns to knock Mark off his game to make the team match the same as 2012. Conditions were, again, exceptional with many courts score 3-4 in favor of RoboPong. It was now time for the ‘beast’ Dan to fully barriered with excellent lighting and flooring. And how about the take on Killerspin’s Guo with Dan the underdog again. But rating points 15+ hours of work to allow the ratings to be processed in less than one do not matter to Dan as he lost the first game at nine and then worked week? Over 1200 matches were entered from paper to Excel to enable his unorthodox game to massage out a comfortable –9, 9, 7, & 8 singles quick and correct ratings processing! match win to secure the team round victory for RoboPong 5-3. Beautiful custom-made medals were awarded to first through fourth Round Six for Division One had Killerspin going against top-seeded places for each division. Additional awards were given to the tournament ATTA. As the match began, one could notice a bit of disappointment Most Valuable Player and the Sportsperson of each division. All players from Killerspin due to their loss to RoboPong. ATTA wins 5-0 with only were allowed to vote for these special awards. Kewei Li won the the Qi versus Hangyu Li match going five games. tournament MVP award and appeared to treasure it more than the team Round Seven was the finals for the first division. It was the top seed medals, marble trophies, or the money ATTA won. The Sportsperson ATTA taking on second seed RoboPong. There was some expectation award was for the person in each division that demonstrates sportsmanship, that Sameh would be competitive against Kewei but it wasn’t close at 8, leadership, teamwork, and a desire to excel. It is not based on playing 2, & 3. Next up were RoboPong’s Mark and ATTA’s Li Hangyu. Mark ability or statistics. cruises to a 2-0 game lead as the match enters game three. Mark hits another one of his cold spells and loses the next two games at 6 points Special thanks to our sponsors and supporters Newgy RoboPong, each. Give credit to Li Hangyu for taking the right shots while staying Butterfly, Forest City Tennis Center, Rockford Area Convention and away from Mark’s powerful winners but to no avail as Mark ekes out Visitors Bureau, Landmark Billing Systems, Inc., Clock Tower Resort, the match in game five 13 -11. Team match score is even at one with the and the Rockford Table Tennis Club. Lily Yip: U.S. WOMEN’S TEAM REPORTS

2013 China Open The US Women’s Team consisting of Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang and myself US Team Leader and Coach Lily Yip traveled to Changchun, China for the ITTF Por Tour China Open which was held June 12 to 16. This was the first ITTF Pro Tour event held after the 47th World Championships this past May in Paris, France. Women’s Singles World Champion Li Xiao Xiao defeated Guo Yan in the final 4 games to 1 to win this ITTF Pro Tour Title. Current US Champion Lily Zhang did very well as she beat many world class players and lost in the eighths to former world champion Guo Yue. Ariel advanced through the Round Robin and lost in the first round to Guo Yan, 3 games to 1. In Women’s Doubles Ariel and Lily did very well defeating Korea 3 games to 2 and making it all the way to the quarter finals but eventually losing to Chinese National Team members Liu Si Wen and Guo Yue. This tournament meant a lot to China as they sent their best team to the China Open and of course they brought home the gold for their country.

2013 Egypt Junior and Cadet Open

The Egypt Open was the second stage of our mid June trip. As soon as the China Open was completed we travelled to Ismailia, Egypt or the ITTF Junior and Cadet Open. US National Cadet Team member Allen Wang met us in Egypt as he was already there. This Egypt Junior Open is also a Youth Olympic Games qualification tournament.

Unfortunately, Lily Zhang hurt her leg and was not able to move as well as she could. But Ariel played better than ever.

Ariel beat the players from Taiwan, India, Europe and Japan. In the Finals she was leading 6-0 in the seventh and final game but played to safe and lost at deuce to Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi Kem.

In the team event the US Team finished third.

58 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 Lily Yip: U.S. WOMEN’S TEAM REPORTS 60 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 61 RANKINGS USATT National Rankings TOP MEN TOP WOMEN

1 CA 2689 Zhou, Xin 1 CA 2660 Gao, Jun 2 WA 2674 Liang, Jishan 2 PA 2609 Zhou, Xiao (Sophia) 3 NY 2670 Provost, Damien Presented by 3 WA 2584 Tang, Li Ying 4 CA 2667 Zhang, Xiang 4 CA 2579 Yi, Fangxian 5 GA 2660 Li, Kewei 5 CA 2559 Zheng, Jiaqi 6 CA 2649 Liang, Yonghui 6 TX 2543 Rather, Jasna 7 NJ 2644 Zhang, Kai 7 NJ 2532 Wu, Yue 8 CA 2637 Yuan, Xiao Jie Everything for the Table Tennis Player! 8 CA 2527 Tian, Maggie 9 TX 2622 Wang, Timothy 9 TX 2525 Wang, Huijing 10 GA 2620 Shi, Diwei 10 CA 2520 Zhang, Lily 11 PA 2617 Li, Bochao 11 NY 2520 Ooka, Hiroka 12 MD 2614 Cheng, Yinghua 12 VA 2515 Shi, Chenxi 13 NJ 2584 Hugh, Adam 13 CA 2490 Hsing, Ariel 14 MD 2583 Wang, Qing Liang 14 NJ 2461 Zhao, Jing Yi 15 CA 2582 Zhang, Weijian 15 TX 2444 Chih, De-Rong 16 GA 2577 Li, Hangyu 16 CA 2441 Wu, Erica 17 NJ 2572 Yin, Peng 17 NY 2414 Wang, XinYue 18 TX 2571 Butler, Jim 18 TX 2410 Hazinski, Shu Fu (Sara) 19 CA 2571 Nguyen, Khoa World 19 GA 2396 Liu, Yitong(Wantong) 20 CA 2568 Liu, Dan 20 NJ 2384 Yip, Lily 21 TX 2564 Li, Cheng Champion TC 21 NY 2380 Kurimay, Dora 22 TN 2563 Awadallah, Sameh World Championship 22 VA 2378 Li, Tao 23 TX 2562 Zhang, Yahao Quality! 23 TX 2345 Lee, Sumi 24 CA 2562 Guo, Hao 24 TX 2332 Li, Yawei 25 NY 2557 Landers, Michael 25 MO 2332 Fukushima, Karin 25 TX 2556 Guan, Weida 25 NJ 2329 Hugh, Judy 27 NY 2555 Gao, YanJun 27 MD 2328 Feng, Amy 28 MA 2555 Li, Grant 28 CA 2321 Chen, Diane 29 MA 2554 Pino, Jonathan Delhi 25 29 NJ 2321 Lin, Tina 30 NY 2552 Manousoff, Stefan John Super Compact and 30 CA 2313 Jha, Prachi 31 MD 2549 Li, Peter Ready to Play! 31 LA 2291 Huang, Kang Kang 32 CA 2545 Wang, Siliang (Steven) 32 CA 2277 Vlasic, Brana 33 GA 2537 Feng, Yijun 33 CA 2267 Guan, Angela 34 GA 2537 Chen, Zihao 34 MD 2267 Wang, Crystal 35 CA 2535 Molla, Zaman 35 FL 2242 Charoenmit, Chanya 36 MD 2531 Xiao, Han 36 TX 2223 Ikeizumi, Claudia 37 CA 2528 Huang, Jeff 37 CA 2219 Chu, Isabel 38 NY 2527 Wang, Max Qinmin 38 NJ 2208 Wang, Amy 39 TX 2526 Bai, Zhedi Persson 25 39 NJ 2208 Wang, Mendy (Ke) 40 CA 2524 Reed, Barney Easy, Compact Storage! 40 MD 2206 Wei, Barbara 41 CA 2524 Tan, Peng 41 NJ 2204 Peng, Ying 42 NY 2523 Ebuen, Ernesto 42 OR 2202 Hui, Jingwen 43 NJ 2523 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony) 43 CA 2201 Yang, Michelle (Min) 44 CA 2522 Piyadasa, Thilina 44 MA 2200 Liu, Shuhan 45 TX 2519 Hazinski, Mark 45 MD 2178 Wang, Heather 46 MO 2515 Yamazato, Fernando PaddlePalace.com 46 WA 2178 Ma, Lucy 47 IN 2514 Seemiller, Daniel 47 NJ 2174 Shih, Stephanie 48 UT 2513 Najem, Alfred 800-547-5891 P 503-777-2266 48 DC 2170 Song, Xiyao 48 WA 2505 Wang, Leslie 48 OR 2168 Yang, Simone 50 MO 2504 Ramesh, Venkatramanan 50 TX 2153 Lin, Chia-Yu

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62 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 OVER 80 MEN OVER 60 WOMEN OVER 30 MEN UNDER 18 GIRLS MD 1697 Greenberg, MortonMD 1975 Liu, Charlene GA 2660 Li, Kewei CA 2520 Zhang, Lily IL 1673 Kiss, Zoltan CA 1923 Livshin, Bella MD 2614 Cheng, Yinghua CA 2490 Hsing, Ariel MO 1662 Sokol, Stanley CA 1851 Cheung, TingNing TX 2571 Butler, Jim CA 2441 Wu, Erica TX 1617 Modlich, Lisa NJ 1831 Alvarez, Ann CA 2571 Nguyen, Khoa NJ 2321 Lin, Tina NV 1613 Cantor, Bill CA 1820 Xianyu, Hui TN 2563 Awadallah, SamehCA 2313 Jha, Prachi KS 1606 Metzger, Clifford MD 1819 Sakai, Donna NY 2555 Gao, YanJun CA 2267 Guan, Angela NC 1600 Shur, Walter CA 1793 Suzuki, Chiyako CA 2535 Molla, Zaman MD 2267 Wang, Crystal OH 1577 Myers, Neil CA 1782 Sung, Monica CA 2524 Reed, Barney FL 2242 Charoenmit, Cha TX 1530 Horn, Mac MD 1745 Bell, TerriLee NY 2523 Ebuen, Ernesto CA 2219 Chu, Isabel VA 1507 Johnson, Dean CA 1736 Martinez-Simons, CA 2522 Piyadasa, Thilina NJ 2208 Wang, Amy TN 1491 Neely, Bill TX 1617 Modlich, Lisa IN 2514 Seemiller, Daniel NJ 2208 Wang, Mendy (Ke) HI 1486 Lum, Bill TX 1601 Li, Zhen UT 2513 Najem, Alfred MA 2200 Liu, Shuhan NY 1479 Sprague, Ray Ar MD 1599 Cheong, Si WI 2501 Barsoum, Emad WA 2178 Ma, Lucy TN 1476 Hua, Paul CA 1556 Tsung, Julian NY 2492 Boggan, Eric CA 2151 Jiang, Diane CA 1475 Olson, Richard TX 1540 Legris, Chihiro NY 2484 Shao, Yu CA 2146 Yang, Grace OVER 75 OVER 50 MEN OVER 30 WOMEN UNDER 16 BOYS UNDER 12 BOYS IN 2157 Hicks, H. MD 2614 Cheng, Yinghua CA 2660 Gao, Jun GA 2577 Li, Hangyu CA 2358 Liu, Victor CA 2071 Tay, Chong IN 2514 Seemiller, Daniel TX 2543 Rather, Jasna CA 2562 Guo, Hao TX 2155 Li, Jonathan WA 1990 Grossman, Howa NY 2467 Tran, De TX 2525 Wang, Huijing CA 2495 Chodri, Kunal CA 2078 Kumar, Nikhil NY 1934 Braithwaite, Geor NY 2461 Li, Yu Xiang NY 2520 Ooka, Hiroka MD 2480 Chen, Bo Wen CA 2040 Wong, Jordan CA 1919 Mintsiveris, Nick MD 2423 Wang, Xinzhi NJ 2384 Yip, Lily CA 2456 Jha, Kanak CA 2031 Huang, Kerry NC 1896 Gao, Shujing NY 2397 Li, Xun Ming NY 2380 Kurimay, Dora CA 2442 Avvari, Krishnateja IL 2027 Pardeshi, Akash CA 1831 Wickerd, Gayle MA 2357 Shapiro, Vladimir TX 2345 Lee, Sumi FL 2414 Ou, Jonathan MN 2026 Tran, Michael WA 1821 Wolfe, Wes NJ 2348 Osmanov, Roman TX 2332 Li, Yawei CA 2371 Kumar, Shivansh IL 2012 Wolski, Michael CA 1796 Fahlstrom, RagnarIL 2322 Lam, Spenser MD 2328 Feng, Amy CA 2368 Chua, Ethan CA 1976 Gong, Steven CA 1756 Guillory, Ralph VA 2310 Doverman, Richa CA 2321 Chen, Diane CA 2358 Liu, Victor CA 1970 Bai, William NY 1744 Holck, Bruce MI 2301 Xu, Xuan Steve NJ 2204 Peng, Ying OR 2356 Wang, Maoxi Geo TX 1954 Xie, Tianming FL 1719 Filipowicz, Leszek CA 2293 Schmidt, Avishy MD 2178 Wang, Heather NJ 2355 Wang, Allen MA 1919 Cui, David NY 1711 Young, Donald TX 2292 Chan, Henry OR 2168 Yang, Simone CA 2355 Cheng, Newman VA 1908 Yao, Adam SC 1705 Danner, Fred PA 2291 Iodkovskiy, Vladim NC 2144 Jia, Zhen TX 2343 Zhai, Hao IL 1896 Sun, David MD 1697 Greenberg, Morto CA 2278 Phan, Tung CA 2134 Dole, Gina NJ 2342 Alguetti, Sharon IN 1856 Luo, Henry OVER 70 MEN OVER 50 WOMEN UNDER 22 MEN UNDER 16 GIRLS UNDER 12 GIRLS NV 2171 Resek, Errol OR 2168 Yang, Simone WA 2674 Liang, Jishan NJ 2321 Lin, Tina MD 2267 Wang, Crystal IN 2157 Hicks, H. CA 2134 Dole, Gina CA 2667 Zhang, Xiang CA 2267 Guan, Angela NJ 2208 Wang, Amy FL 2075 Concepcion, Elm CA 2012 Nguyen, Thuy CA 2649 Liang, Yonghui MD 2267 Wang, Crystal CA 1961 Wu, Youruo CA 2071 Tay, Chong MD 1975 Liu, Charlene NJ 2644 Zhang, Kai CA 2219 Chu, Isabel CA 1906 Sung, Rachel CA 2067 Leung, Che-Him NC 1970 Fan, Ling CA 2637 Yuan, Xiao Jie NJ 2208 Wang, Amy TX 1796 Zhao, Kelly NV 2063 Von Schimmelma CA 1923 Livshin, Bella TX 2622 Wang, Timothy NJ 2208 Wang, Mendy (Ke) VA 1769 Lu, Jie CA 2048 Ukapatayasakul, MA 1862 Kotlerman, Yevge GA 2620 Shi, Diwei WA 2178 Ma, Lucy NY 1760 Ackerman, Estee TX 2026 Bui, Augustine CA 1851 Cheung, TingNing PA 2617 Li, Bochao CA 2151 Jiang, Diane TX 1702 Gao, Katie CA 2007 Chau, Y.C. NJ 1831 Alvarez, Ann MD 2583 Wang, Qing Liang CA 2146 Yang, Grace MA 1685 Zhang, Angela WA 1990 Grossman, How CA 1820 Xianyu, Hui GA 2577 Li, Hangyu CA 2103 Deb, Ishana GA 1664 Lin, Emilie PA 1969 Chu, Sandy MD 1819 Sakai, Donna CA 2568 Liu, Dan CA 2100 Cheng, Emmy TX 1652 Hsieh, Tia IL 1955 Inui, Tadao (Tom) CA 1793 Suzuki, Chiyako TX 2564 Li, Cheng PA 2089 Xiao, Claire KS 1633 Maruthapandian, NY 1934 Braithwaite, Geor CA 1782 Sung, Monica TX 2562 Zhang, Yahao TX 2070 Li, Joy CA 1624 Sung, Jia-Yu CA 1919 Mintsiveris, Nick MD 1745 Bell, TerriLee CA 2562 Guo, Hao TX 2059 Huang, Laura CA 1607 Sung, Joanna MD 1910 Lonergan, Terry CA 1736 Martinez-Simons, NY 2557 Landers, Michael CA 2029 Huo, Luvena CA 1568 Yang, Rachel OVER 70 WOMEN OVER 40 MEN UNDER 22 WOMEN UNDER 14 BOYS UNDER 10 BOYS NJ 1831 Alvarez, Ann MD 2614 Cheng, Yinghua CA 2579 Yi, Fangxian CA 2495 Chodri, Kunal TX 1815 Lai, Evan CA 1782 Sung, Monica TX 2571 Butler, Jim CA 2520 Zhang, Lily CA 2456 Jha, Kanak NJ 1799 Lu, Matthew TX 1617 Modlich, Lisa CA 2571 Nguyen, Khoa VA 2515 Shi, Chenxi CA 2442 Avvari, Krishnateja CA 1719 Godhwani, Aditya CA 1459 Hellwig, Irina IN 2514 Seemiller, Daniel CA 2490 Hsing, Ariel CA 2371 Kumar, Shivansh NY 1619 Yang, Len NV 1397 Arpon, Joyce NY 2492 Boggan, Eric NJ 2461 Zhao, Jing Yi CA 2358 Liu, Victor NY 1533 Wu, Nathan FL 1395 Williams, Nahed NY 2484 Shao, Yu TX 2444 Chih, De-Rong CA 2355 Cheng, Newman MD 1491 Lu, Jason TN 1371 Gove, Ruth NY 2467 Tran, De CA 2441 Wu, Erica TX 2343 Zhai, Hao TX 1457 Zhao, Michael CO 1319 Longee, Jinny NY 2461 Li, Yu Xiang GA 2396 Liu, Yitong(Wanto NJ 2342 Alguetti, Sharon CA 1414 Pillas, Lionel CA 1303 Quon, Harriet TX 2449 Subonj, Viktorian MO 2332 Fukushima, Karin MD 2291 Nie, Derek CA 1406 Fong, Shawn MO 1298 Davis, Rosemary MD 2423 Wang, Xinzhi NJ 2321 Lin, Tina IN 2276 Chen, Timothy CA 1353 Li, Ted FL 1272 Faria, Essie CA 2403 Hyatt, Michael CA 2313 Jha, Prachi NJ 2268 Wang, Jack IL 1338 Naresh, Sid CA 1249 Brin, Harriet TX 2399 Oak, Niraj CA 2267 Guan, Angela CA 2237 Chen, Michael GA 1316 Shen, Luke TN 1235 Hua, Ruth NY 2397 Li, Xun Ming MD 2267 Wang, Crystal NJ 2233 Alguetti, Adar WI 1270 Bedi, Kabir OH 1206 Tressler, JoAnne GA 2384 Ko, Carlos FL 2242 Charoenmit, Cha CA 2203 Tong, Howard CA 1199 Mannem, Keshav CA 1194 Igasaki, Ofelia NY 2378 Yokoyama, Kazu CA 2219 Chu, Isabel CA 2200 Gao, Felix CA 1186 He, William OVER 60 MEN OVER 40 WOMEN UNDER 18 BOYS UNDER 14 GIRLS UNDER 10 GIRLS TX 2292 Chan, Henry CA 2660 Gao, Jun CA 2667 Zhang, Xiang MD 2267 Wang, Crystal CA 1961 Wu, Youruo FL 2257 Chu, Bin Hai TX 2543 Rather, Jasna NJ 2644 Zhang, Kai NJ 2208 Wang, Amy CA 1906 Sung, Rachel KS 2256 Mojaverian, Parviz NJ 2384 Yip, Lily GA 2620 Shi, Diwei CA 2146 Yang, Grace CA 1607 Sung, Joanna CA 2254 Malek, Attila TX 2345 Lee, Sumi MD 2583 Wang, Qing Liang CA 2103 Deb, Ishana MD 1467 Ke, Tiffany TX 2254 Hou, Randy MD 2328 Feng, Amy GA 2577 Li, Hangyu CA 2029 Huo, Luvena CA 1448 Tan, Angie OH 2246 Tannehill, John CA 2321 Chen, Diane CA 2562 Guo, Hao MD 2022 Lu, Amy MD 1381 Lin, Lisa NJ 2235 Shtofmakher, Sim NJ 2204 Peng, Ying GA 2537 Feng, Yijun TX 1972 Oak, Anushka TX 834 Subonj, Christina NV 2171 Resek, Errol OR 2168 Yang, Simone CA 2498 Ren, Ruqin CA 1961 Wu, Youruo TX 828 Fang, Katherine CA 2163 Kim, Jin Up CA 2134 Dole, Gina CA 2495 Chodri, Kunal MD 1953 Ke, Princess CA 640 Fu, Ava MA 2162 Hlava, Jiri CA 2110 Leitman, Marina NY 2492 Wang, Can Kevin CA 1906 Sung, Rachel NJ 636 Chen, Katie NV 2160 Chan, Ming MI 2099 Murakami, Tamaki MD 2480 Chen, Bo Wen MO 1900 Henry, Sonjay NJ 598 Fong, Molly NJ 2159 Chui, Lim Ming CA 2012 Nguyen, Thuy CA 2456 Jha, Kanak TX 1796 Zhao, Kelly OH 415 Khatami, Sarveen IN 2157 Hicks, H. MD 1975 Liu, Charlene GA 2455 Gao, Baiyi VA 1769 Lu, Jie TX 403 Lan, Ellen CA 2152 Salcido, Alexande NC 1970 Fan, Ling CA 2442 Avvari, KrishnatejaMD 1766 Cui, Lisa CA 345 Tung, Faith NY 2144 Mack, Raymond CA 1926 Lim, June WA 2434 Ding, Billy NY 1760 Ackerman, Estee CA 309 Chen, Tina USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 63 RATINGS NATIONAL RATINGS LIST (In Alphabetical Order by Last Name)

State Rating PlayerName AZ 1988 Annest, Brian OH 1158 Beer, Richard MN 119 Burley, Nick CA 44 Chang, Sabrina MO 2179 Chu, Tsz IL 1687 Abdulrasool, Mansoor Ali FL 851 Anos, Albert CT 1714 Behera, Sudhir PA 2182 Burnside, Richard FN 1998 Chang, Shih-Ming TX 1954 Chu, Zhihan GA 1731 Abdurahman, Mohammed FL 1305 Anumulapally, Pranav FL 1962 Bekurti, Elidon CA 1669 Burton, Craig CA 1230 Chang, Steven CA 2368 Chua, Ethan NV 1900 Abey, Tharindu NY 966 Apterman, Dilan NJ 550 Belinkis, Nathaniel OK 1271 Buscemi, Peter CA 67 Chang, Sydon VA 933 Chua, Jemuel NY 1352 Abolmoali, Seyed NY 631 Apterman, Mark FL 1189 Bell, Donald GA 1500 Bushkanets, Ilya IN 1960 Chang, Vincent GA 1109 Chua, Sabrina VA 2258 Abraham, Gelawdiwos AL 1816 Arabov, Iliyan VA 1736 Belmonte, Jonathan OH 1510 Bussey, David CA 1735 Chang, William GA 1647 Chua, Sean VA 1708 Abraham, Morris TX 865 Arbogast, Earl CA 1127 Belo, Hilarion MD 1247 Butcher, Duc Tai FN 1389 Chang, Yi-Ching CA 907 Chuang, Ming FL 1946 Abril, Ricardo NV 1321 Arceo, Eddie CA 2188 Benedicto, Voltaire OH 1032 Butler, Brent TX 956 Chao, Brandon VA 1418 Chun, Jong-Joon FN 1907 Acevedo, Gerardo NV 1918 Archambo, Steve FL 1696 Benitez, Patricia TX 2571 Butler, Jim VA 1933 Chao, Lo VA 1094 Chung, Bog Sun NY 1935 Acharya, Rahul MI 1479 Arciniega, Jake SC 2069 Bennett, Jermaine CA 1181 Byeon, Gilbert (Gir) MN 1993 Chaplin, Aleksandr IA 1280 Chung, Jedidiah NY 1130 Acharya, Rohan FN 2172 Arcones, Miguel OH 818 Bennett, Richard NY 1542 Byfield, Horace CA 816 Chappelle, Tamara NJ 1425 Chung, Joon OK 1708 Ackart, Stephen CA 1151 Ardisson, Dave VA 974 Benoit, Cheryl OH 1325 Byler, Erwin 1629 Charles, Dawn IA 1381 Chung, Josh NY 2160 Ackerman, Akiva CA 2069 Arellano, Ronald CA 1142 Bentley, Hannah OH 1085 Byler, John FL 1303 Charles, Joey OH 1322 Ciarrochi, Joe NY 1760 Ackerman, Estee FL 2028 Arias, Frank WI 930 Berdan, Robert MD 2176 Byles, Ernest S. FL 2242 Charoenmit, Chanya IL 962 Ciofiac, Nicolae NY 1182 Ackerman, Glenn CA 1485 Armentano, Paul NY 1835 Berg, Mark TX 2148 Byles, Roberto CA 1707 Chau, Lap FL 2354 Ciz, Richard NV 1552 Acopiado, Rodil IN 1522 Arnett, Eric HI 1428 Berganio, Alex FL 2057 Cadet, Gerard IL 1725 Chau, Tim IL 1927 Claflin, Steven CA 1662 Adachi, Ryousuke FL 1832 Arnette, Dewey AZ 181 Berger, Josh WA 1284 Caffee, Chris CA 2007 Chau, Y.C. 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Tony KY 1858 Jett, Roger MI 1461 Kann, Adam AZ 1395 Ekbundit, Patrick OK 1593 Gann, Charles TN 1719 Guo, Xiaofeng VA 1286 Hong, Gui Chung CA 1540 Jha, Ashish NJ 138 Kannan, Krithik CA 1209 Ekmekjian, Vahe MA 2210 Gao, Brian CA 1849 Guslandi, Luigi IL 989 Hong, Ryan CA 2456 Jha, Kanak CA 277 Kannan, Shrivats NY 1287 Ellenberg, Adam CA 2200 Gao, Felix NY 1059 Gutierrez, Gustavo TX 1276 Hongsongkiat, Theera CA 2313 Jha, Prachi NY 679 Kaplan, Zachary NY 497 Ellis, Richard IL 1693 Gao, Husheng FL 1404 Gutierrez, Ricardo UT 1329 Honrubia, Dennis FN 2591 Ji, Jiale VA 1832 Kapsalakis, Dean KS 1704 Ely, Cole CA 2660 Gao, Jun NJ 1804 Gutman, Harvey FL 1255 Hooker, Allan TX 1040 Jia, Kevin NY 1919 Kapur, Ashwin CA 1422 Elzailaa, Akhnaton(Shady) TX 1702 Gao, Katie NJ 1152 Guttman, Daniel WA 609 Hopke, Clint NC 2144 Jia, Zhen IL 1530 Embalabala, James NY 2555 Gao, YanJun FN 1893 Guzman, Esteban NC 1065 Horne, Charles IN 821 Emmons, Todd CA 1815 Garabidian, Ronald AR 1644 Hadfield, Paul PA 1218 Hornick, Dennis MI 2237 Endicott, Scott TX 1737 Garces, Pedro WA 1718 Hagel, Cody IL 1978 Horodenski, Karol USATT Rating Chart HI 1059 Endo, Kiyoko FN 2295 Garcia gomez, Juan David NJ 1481 Hageman, Daniel IL 1928 Horodyskyi, Anatoliy Higher rated Lower rated IN 1655 Engel, PJ TX 1795 Garcia, Alexis CA 607 Haghverdian, Chris NY 1849 Horowitz, Steven NC 1291 Englebreth, Bill TX 1959 Garcia, Giann CA 1771 Haghverdian, Edik NY 1481 Hosein, Rafi player wins: player wins: NY 1687 Erdogan, Engin FL 985 Garcia, Gustavo NJ 1400 Haibach, Michael CA 1423 Hou, David Higher Lower Lower Higher FL 1479 Erdos, Tamas NM 980 Garcia, Ignacio NC 1822 Hajbabaie, Ali TX 2254 Hou, Randy CA 1573 Escobar, Wilfredo OH 1136 Garcia, Jose OH 2183 Hamilton, Don NV 1673 Howard, Jack Rating player player player player FL 1877 Espenship, Scott TX 2079 Gardner, Brandon NM 1698 Hamilton, Max WA 1435 Hrebeniuk, Adam Difference gains: loses: gains: loses: FL 1992 Estacion, Peter HI 1769 Garduque, Dan MD 672 Hamilton, Steven NY 1857 Hrishin, Andriy FL 2066 Estrada, Carlos NY 583 Garell, Paul MI 1152 Hammond, Jacob TX 1652 Hsieh, Tia FL 1704 Estrada, Ernie IL 1758 Garg, Shshank AL 1315 Hampton, Russell NY 2218 Hsin, Jeffrey 0-12 8 8 HI 1496 Ettinger, Thomas VA 1111 Garney, Timothy OH 2136 Hamrahian, Seyed CA 2490 Hsing, Ariel 13-37 7 10 NJ 1752 Eugene, Lyonnel CA 1426 Garretson, Steve FN 2141 Han, Xu TX 1069 Hsu, Avery AZ 1216 Evans, David GA 1247 Garrett, John FN 2619 Han, Zheng OH 1433 Hsu, Chih-Hao 38-62 6 13 MA 994 Evans, David FN 2008 Gavilances Placencia, Jose TN 2039 Handoko, Liedy MD 2318 Hsu, Nathan 63-87 5 16 IL 1676 Evans, J. 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RATINGS CA 1369 Troppmann, Viktor GA 1918 Wang, David CA 1677 Wong, Benjamin FL 1198 Young, William NY 384 Troyer, Candyce WA 681 Wang, Erick GA 2195 Wong, Chee GA 851 Yu, Alex AZ 1518 Trudell, Robert PA 1028 Wang, Evan NJ 481 Wong, Donald GA 1586 Yu, Betty MN 2202 Truelson, Thor IL 1829 Wang, George AB 1906 Wong, Gladwin VA 965 Yu, Chae Kil WI 1768 Trujillo, Adalberto OR 1338 Wang, Harvey GA 1470 Wong, Jake NJ 315 Yu, Dennis NY 1856 Truong, Cuong (Philip) MD 2178 Wang, Heather CA 307 Wong, Jessie NJ 1945 Yu, Geng CA 1870 Truong, Le TX 703 wang, Henry CA 2040 Wong, Jordan ON 2072 Yu, James MN 1739 Truong, Tuan NJ 2268 Wang, Jack NJ 1492 Wong, Lawrence UT 1879 Yu, Jordan IN 2062 Trykall, David FL 1737 Wang, James CA 2194 Wong, Michael CA 1479 Yu, Kent NY 1198 Tryon, Dave GA 2136 Wang, James CA 1467 Wong, Reynold CA 1617 Yu, Kevin NY 1072 Tryon, Eric NY 1787 Wang, Jin CA 2091 Wong, Wai CA 1728 Yu, Man GA 930 Tsai, Caleb AZ 1813 Wang, Jinlin NY 1577 Woo, Hyun Sik (Peter) CA 2152 Yu, Nelson GA 750 Tsai, Sarah CA 917 Wang, Julia NY 2185 Woo, Phillip PA 1640 Yu, Normen TX 1829 Tsang, Boris TX 1217 Wang, Jun CA 1836 Woo, Shu Kwan CA 1994 Yu, Rok TX 1731 Tsang, Brian WA 148 Wang, Kelly WA 1717 Wood, Mark CA 1864 Yu, Ronald CA 1374 Tse, Anika OR 994 Wang, Lawrence AZ 1001 Woodrow, Adam CA 1663 Yu, Tony CA 1571 Tseng, Ryan NJ 145 Wang, Leo AL 1297 Wooley, Timothy CA 859 Yuan, Joe NY 1922 Tsitoghdzyan, Tigran OR 2356 Wang, Maoxi George WI 1915 Wruck, Douglas CA 2637 Yuan, Xiao Jie CA 1556 Tsung, Julian WA 1772 Wang, Mei NY 1647 Wtorkowski, Radek NY 1882 Yuen, Roger Chang CA 125 Tu, Cindy NJ 2208 Wang, Mendy (Ke) OH 1838 Wu, Alan OH 1428 Zadrozny, Edward CA 1579 Tu, Edmond FN 2140 Wang, Mengyao TX 1931 Wu, Bryan OH 1546 Zalany, Nick TX 2069 Tan, Kui OH 1541 Wu, Fuming CA 1758 Zandpour, Frank CA 2524 Tan, Peng OH 1577 Tu, Jinbiao MA 2299 Wang, Michael CA 1005 Tu, Norman TN 1425 Wang, Ming CA 399 Wu, Isaac IN 1575 Zathang, John UT 1251 Tan, Tammie KS 1850 Wu, Ji Wen CA 1432 Zavastitsa, Nikolai CA 240 Tandon, Anushkar CA 2436 Tu, Truong Manh FN 2445 Wang, Nan CA 2021 Tung, Evan NV 1668 Wang, Odo NY 1533 Wu, Nathan CA 1781 Zelener, Alexander CA 1902 Tandon, Tarun FL 1722 Wu, Peter FL 1830 Zeller, Carlos NV 1365 Tang, Allan CA 345 Tung, Faith NY 2031 Wang, Q S OH 1472 Turakhia, Ashwin MD 2583 Wang, Qing Liang CA 661 Wu, Shang CA 1101 Zhan, Kanghong OH 2073 Tang, Darren CA 1961 Wu, Youruo GA 2088 Zhang, Albert PA 1830 Tang, Haine AZ 1866 Turberville, Jay NJ 1835 Wang, Ray VA 1047 Turner, Warren TX 1519 Wang, Robert VA 1128 Wung, Henry CA 1179 Zhang, Albert CA 1833 Tang, James Yuanrong VA 1394 Wung, William MA 1685 Zhang, Angela AZ 1711 Tang, Jason VA 960 Turton, David FN 2309 Wang, Ruinan FL 1167 Tutuianu, Nicolas NJ 2115 Wang, Tianyi TX 486 Xi, Darren NY 1771 Zhang, Benjamin FL 1105 Tang, Stanley OR 1577 Xiang, Zaichen OH 1591 Zhang, Bill CA 2094 Tang, Stanley MI 1561 Uganski, Alex TX 2622 Wang, Timothy CA 2048 Ukapatayasakul, Bill TX 1868 Wang, Tina CA 1820 Xianyu, Hui CA 1390 Zhang, Brian VA 1757 Tang, Yanghang NC 1395 Xiao, Charles CA 1728 Zhang, Chao CA 1689 Tangirala, Srivatsav CA 2362 Umel, David CT 1624 Wang, Yanhua NC 1586 Unanue, Richard CA 1784 Wang, Zezheng NC 1593 Xiao, Chris CA 1927 Zhang, Daisong MD 2356 Tangyingyong, Sutanit PA 2089 Xiao, Claire CA 726 Zhang, Henrik TX 1111 Tanner, Ralph IL 1196 Upshaw, Ramar BC 2813 Wang, Zhen (Eugene) WI 1074 Ussery, Bianca MD 2150 Wang, Zibing CA 2173 Xiao, Jeff NV 1872 Zhang, Hong CA 1254 Tantravahi, Pranav GA 1175 Xie, Eric TX 1670 Zhang, Hongyi WA 1991 Tao, Wucheng OH 1745 Utis, David CA 1727 Wang, Zili VA 1541 Vaddadi, Naveen CA 1290 Wasserman, Si MD 1421 Xie, Frank Yingze GA 2046 Zhang, Jason NJ 1718 Tao, Xin CA 674 Xie, Raymond CA 2321 Zhang, JinGe KS 1618 Taplin, George CA 113 Vakada, Satwik FL 1283 Watanabe, Makiko CA 792 Vakil, Shivam OK 1667 Waters, Jeffrey TX 1954 Xie, Tianming TX 935 Zhang, Justin CA 1112 Tarasov, Vladimir IL 1778 Xie, Victor NJ 2644 Zhang, Kai CA 1515 Taroyan, Vardan CA 1447 Valera, Peter CA 1217 Watkin, Roger CA 1029 Vallabhapurapu, Mohan NY 1281 Wawrzaszek, Zack FL 1155 Xie, Weijie AL 1896 Zhang, Kui FL 1987 Tauber, Akos AL 1324 Xing, Xuejing CA 2520 Zhang, Lily CA 2071 Tay, Chong FL 1618 Valliant, Frank NJ 398 Wayne, Arthur CA 1771 Van De Wiele, Philip AR 495 Weatherford, Christine NY 1279 Xiong, Lily TX 1152 Zhang, Lizhao OH 1461 Taylor, Jimmy 1410 Xu, Hui NJ 606 Zhang, Michael TX 1305 Taylor, Thomas MD 1577 Van Dusen, Philip VA 945 Weber, Christopher WI 1230 Van Emburgh, Jenson VA 1879 Weber, Ronald NV 1636 Xu, Jin Hui NJ 1786 Zhang, Rick TX 1880 Tchizmarov, Atanas WA 1652 Xu, Jinlong GA 1063 Zhang, Teddy NY 1612 Teitel, Gideon FL 1160 Van Pampus, Daniel MD 2206 Wei, Barbara MD 1390 Van Wright, William CA 1983 Wei, Kevin FN 2439 Xu, Liang CA 2582 Zhang, Weijian NJ 1396 Teitelbaum, Howard SC 2208 Xu, Weilun TX 922 Zhang, William IL 1271 Tenenbaum, S. Aaron IL 1886 Vanegas, Jorge CA 2000 Wei, Wesley FN 2355 Vanegas, Pablo NJ 2304 Wei, Wilson OR 1649 Xu, Zhongkai (John) CT 1441 Zhang, William CA 1911 Tenerife, Ange NJ 1333 Xue, Alexander CA 2667 Zhang, Xiang OR 1498 Teodorescu, George OR 1527 VanSlyke, Bob WI 1392 Weiland, Brian GA 2041 VanWagner, Corey WI 888 Weiland, James NJ 1347 Xue, Christopher NY 667 Zhang, Ying GA 2039 Teotia, Seemant OH 1513 Xue, Yi Yan TX 1825 Zhang, Yukong VA 1689 Terry, Orlanda NV 1996 Varela, Steve WI 1991 Weiland, Jim FN 1483 Vargas, Yair PA 1273 Weiner, Mark VA 1682 Xue, Yuming CA 376 Zhang, Yuzhong MO 1301 Terzic, Marko VA 1852 Yalung, Rick MD 2419 Zhangliang, Bojun MO 1516 Terzic, Nikola TX 1587 Varnell, Grant NJ 1672 Weingarten, Zachary CA 1246 Vartanian, Valentina FL 1659 Weisbecker, Jim NV 1377 Yamate, Michael TX 1381 Zhao, Brian CA 1867 Thai, Brian BC 1933 Yan, Jane PA 1706 Zhao, Ethan CA 509 Thakkar, Neel NJ 1334 Vasconcellos, Jose CA 1316 Weiss, Ralph IL 1701 Vasilev, Veselin AZ 1319 Welsh, Robert AK 1846 Yan, Kyle CA 2011 Zhao, Hang OR 1284 Thape, Leon OR 1539 Yan, Peng NJ 2461 Zhao, Jing Yi PA 1669 Theil, Martin NH 2112 Vasquez, Jerry GA 1160 Wen, George VA 1433 Vaturi, Sharon CA 1405 Weng, Dacong CA 1590 Yang, Adela IL 2048 Zhao, Junduo CA 1029 Theis, Karl CA 1261 Yang, David TX 1796 Zhao, Kelly CA 2196 Therriault, James CA 739 Vaughan, Doug VA 1360 Westmeyer, Frank AZ 1412 Vays, Lev AL 528 Wetzel, Logan CA 1523 Yang, Derek DE 773 Zhao, Leon GA 1177 Thigpen, Patrick NJ 1897 Yang, Dong IL 1272 Zhao, Meide CA 540 Thomas, Naveen MI 418 Vaysman, Jonathan PA 2249 Wetzler, John MI 1800 Vaysman, Roman PA 1752 Whang, Jin UT 1438 Yang, Emily WA 2192 Zhao, Michael DE 1190 Thomas, William WA 1262 Yang, Ernest TX 1457 Zhao, Michael FL 2025 Thompson, Delroy IL 1712 Veksler, Dan VA 1498 Wheeler, Harris NM 1108 Velasquez, Fred OR 958 Whisler, Casey MI 925 Yang, Fan WA 1894 Zhao, Wei WI 1608 Thor, Sitha WA 1929 Yang, George NJ 2523 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony) OH 1249 Thornton, Jon IL 1920 Veljkovic, Sasha MI 1579 White, Byron FL 895 Venigalla, Arjun OR 804 White, Jeffrey CA 2146 Yang, Grace 2389 Zhao, Zhi Yang VA 1855 Tian, Geng IL 1390 Yang, Haohua FN 2338 Zhao, Ziwei CA 2527 Tian, Maggie NY 1226 Vera, Eddy IN 1024 Whiteman, Bryan IL 1316 Verma, Vishesh NC 2130 Whitmeyer, Michael CA 1369 Yang, Jason GA 909 Zhaoe, Amy CA 1226 Timmins, Terry SC 1310 Yang, John CA 1141 Zheng, Hua OK 2150 Ting, See Hyiik IL 841 Vermani, Vivek TX 1423 Wickham, Jonathon OH 2092 Vesel, Richard VA 921 Wickline, William NJ 252 Yang, Joseph CA 2559 Zheng, Jiaqi FL 1211 Tinson, Sai NY 1619 Yang, Len MA 1845 Zheng, Liansheng (Eric) CA 1843 Tio, Fredrick CA 1267 Veysoglu, Murat GA 1004 Wiggins, John CA 1307 Victor, Aidan GA 910 Wiggins, Luke WI 2184 Yang, Peter Jie MA 1883 Zheng, Long CA 2141 Tio, Nicholas CA 1568 Yang, Rachel MA 1699 Zheng, Luke MD 1132 Todd, Michael CA 1708 Victor, Bennett GA 833 Wiggins, Mark IL 1835 Villanueva, Marc GA 1276 Wiggins, Mike NJ 313 Yang, Thomas WA 1695 Zheng, Xiaoyu IN 1425 Tolen, Robert CA 1888 Yang, Xiankun CA 1559 Zheng, Yi FL 2302 Tomlinson, Simon CA 990 Villegas, Sergio CO 1099 Wilcox, Yoko CT 2218 Virgo, Ernest WA 1037 Wilder, Donna CA 2333 Yang, Xu NY 1184 Zhitomirskiy, Dmitriy HI 1538 Tone, Ben NJ 2003 Yao, Kaelan FL 994 Zhong, Davie CA 1846 Tong, Hannah FL 1423 Viriamu, Alex LA 1463 Wilkins, Chad NJ 1621 Virtudazo, Dennis NJ 709 Willence, Nolan CA 807 Yao, Maxwell FL 713 Zhong, Eric CA 2203 Tong, Howard NY 1978 Yao, William NJ 2489 Zhong, Zongqi (Henry) CA 1531 Tong, Teddy FL 2208 Vite, Marlon FL 2103 Williams, Andrew CA 892 Vo, Brian VA 1638 Williams, Charles NY 1510 Yarmak, Igor 1427 Zhou, Benita NJ 1441 Topuz, Sinan NY 756 Yau, Ronald NJ 1168 Zhou, Jayden FN 2002 Torkington, Emma CA 2062 Vo, Quang VA 1814 Williams, Jerald CT 1606 Von Kohorn, Jeffrey OH 1047 Williams, Kristopher WA 427 Ye, David TX 1532 Zhou, Mingfei FN 2088 Torres, Alan Isaac TX 1262 Ye, Jennings IL 768 Zhou, Rachel HI 1263 Torres, Emiliano CT 1224 Von Oy, Herman S. WI 1738 Williams, Paul NV 2063 Von Schimmelmann, Ron NY 1884 Williams, Vibert WA 457 Ye, Sophie IL 1354 Zhou, Sarah FL 1711 Tovar, Manuel GA 1917 Yeap, Tony PA 2609 Zhou, Xiao (Sophia) FL 1244 Tozstokhatko, Vadam DE 1269 Vonderau, Kodi NC 1364 Willis, Steve WA 1815 Voronin, Alex FL 983 Wilson, Anna NC 1496 Yedetore, Jagadeesh CA 2689 Zhou, Xin NY 2467 Tran, De CA 607 Yee, Jeffrey TX 958 Zhu, Alan CA 1972 Tran, Erica NJ 1015 Vovchik, Vlad GA 1599 Wilson, Blair NJ 108 Vovchik, Yana IN 890 Wilson, Bud CA 2294 Yee, Jordan NJ 749 Zhu, Franklin MN 1713 Tran, Hoang TX 1535 Yeh, Min NY 1922 Zhu, Jingsong CA 2029 Tran, Joe FL 1691 Vrahotes, Mark MO 2038 Wilson, Everton CA 1561 Vu, Howard PA 1497 Wilson, Helen MD 2229 Yeh, Stephen NY 1248 Zhu, Michael CA 2343 Tran, John Thach CA 1964 Yeh, Thomas CA 1335 Zhu, Steve MD 1937 Tran, Joshua WA 1310 Vu, Ky TX 760 Wilson, Joseph NC 1921 Vu, Van OR 937 Wilson, Kaia OK 966 Yelavich, Mark CA 1724 Zhu, Sui Ning MD 1676 Tran, Khai MI 1970 Yeotis, Dean CA 2174 Zhuang, Jian CA 1942 Tran, Kiet CA 1767 Vuong, Dean TN 1894 Wilson, Reggie CA 2008 Vuong, Trung HI 529 Winkler, Debbie CA 1305 Yepremian, Garo UT 1370 Zimmerman, C. Craig CA 2207 Tran, Matthew IL 1435 Yeung, Cecil IL 1677 Zmijewski, Ariel MN 2026 Tran, Michael WA 1395 Wakabayashi, Kei AZ 2279 Winkler, Matthew NY 1739 Wald, Aaron MN 614 Winn, Derrick IL 2120 Yeung, Daniel WI 1402 Zonoozi, Jamshid NC 1543 Tran, Sabrina FL 1399 Yeung, Ted NV 1678 Zorick, Daniel TX 1177 Tran, Stephen TN 1546 Walker, John Edd WA 1607 Winnie, Boyd MI 1480 Walkowiak, Robert CA 1161 Winter, Stanley OR 1754 Yi, Jason MI 1562 Zou, Gang CA 2369 Tran, Theodore NY 1915 Yim, Justin PA 984 Zozulya, Arthur CA 1458 Tran, Thu NY 1197 Wallace, Kevin NC 1787 Wintermute, David NY 446 Wallis, Zachary NC 1910 Wintermute, Walter AL 1622 Yin, Xinhua WV 1558 Zuniga, Royce OK 1218 Tran, Tiffany MO 1625 Ying, Yuyang MI 1368 Zywicki, Kevin OH 1513 Tran, Tuyen TX 2014 Walsh, Diego CA 1655 Winterstein, Florian CA 731 Walter, Charles CA 1117 Winton, Jake CA 996 Yip, Danny IL 2081 Zyworonek, Arkadiusz MA 1909 Travitzki, Thiago NJ 2384 Yip, Lily CA 1399 Trevare, Julien OH 1281 Walters, Stephen CA 1512 Winton, Jeremy MI 2185 Wandrei, Paul NM 1677 Wintrich, Thomas CA 1897 Yip, Raymond FL 799 Trimble, Jan AZ 1711 Yip, Richard CA 1915 Trinh, Ken NJ 2355 Wang, Allen NJ 1721 Wisniewski, Vincent NJ 2208 Wang, Amy CA 1254 Witkowski, Walter OR 1652 Yoder, Brian NY 1661 Trinidad, Marcos NY 2378 Yokoyama, Kazuyuki AR 740 Tripathi, Sanidhya NY 2492 Wang, Can Kevin FL 924 Wolf, William NY 1960 Wang, Changxin WA 1821 Wolfe, Wes HI 1290 Yonamine, Tommy AR 417 Tripathi, Shreyam FN 2604 Yoo, Chang Jae NC 1780 Triveno, Renso FN 2451 Wang, Changzi CA 1323 Wolfgram, Doug TX 1212 Wang, Ching IL 2047 Wolski, Dariusz NC 1481 Yorgason, Ronald NJ 1268 Trofimov, Dmitriy FL 1822 Young, Jeffrey NJ 1341 Trofimov, Michael MD 2267 Wang, Crystal IL 2012 Wolski, Michael NJ 1866 Wang, Daniel IL 2262 Wolski, Wojciech NJ 401 Young, Jessica

68 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013

Paddle Palace Presents the USATT Tournament schedule *For the most up to date list of tournaments please visit http://www.usatt.org/events/tournaments.shtml

2013 LA Open Table Tennis Tournament, El Monte, CA, 8/31/2013 - Indiana Open Giant RR, Indianapolis, IN, 9/28/2013, g, Robert 9/1/2013, gggg Craig Krum, 951-652-5538 Clyde, 317-895-8394 Buttefly Teams Championships, Highland, IN, 8/31/2013 - 9/1/2013 Westchester 2013 September Open, Pleasantville NY gg Mark Nordby, 915-282-8210 9/28/2013 - 9/29/2013, ggg, Will Shortz, 914-741-0738

Florida State Closed, Clearwater, FL, 8/31/2013 - 9/1/2013, gg Texas Wesleyan Open, Fort Worth, TX, 10/5/2013, g, Jasna Rather, 817- Michael McFarland, 727-444-0908 715-4062 Texas Wesleyan Open, Fort Worth, TX 8/31/2013, g, Jasna Rather, West Michigan Holland Open, 2 Star, Holland, MI 817-715-4062 10/5/2013 - 10/6/2013, gg, Brian Fowler, 616-617-1016

2013 Berkeley Open on JOOLA North America Tour, Berkeley NJTTC 2013 October Open, Westfield NJ, 10/5/2013 - 10/6/2013 CA, 9/7/2013 - 9/8/2013, gggg, Marynes Parra, 301-816-0660 gg, James Liu, 908-654-9009 Robopong September 2013 BTTC Open, Dania Beach, FL, 9/7/2013 Maryland Circuit, Eldersburg, MD, 10/5/2013, Yvonne Kronlage, - 9/8/2013, g, Carlos Zeller, 954-849-5436 410-489-7291 2013 Butterfly Atlanta September Open Duluth, GA, 9/7/2013 2013 Virginia Joola Open, Newport News, VA, 10/5/2013 - g, Yang Shigang, 678-469-0650 10/6/2013, g, Dan Barrett, 757-729-2335 Maryland Circuit, Eldersburg, MD, 9/7/2013, Yvonne Kronlage, Glendale Friendship Games 2013, Glendale, CA 10/6/2013 410-489-7291 g, Victor Shahbazian, 818-634-7245 NJTTC 2013 September Open, Westfield, NJ, 9/7/2013 - 9/8/2013 2013 Aurora Fall Open, Aurora, IL, 10/6/2013, gg, Slawomir Lorenc, gg, James Liu, 908-654-9009 630-978-7658 September Newgy Giant Round Robin Akron, OH, 9/13/2013 - Huntsman World Senior Games, St. George, UT 10/7/2013 - 9/14/2013, gg, Samson Dubina, 10/10/2013

2013 New England Open, Shelton, CT, 9/14/2013 - 9/15/2013 2013 Spokane Fall Open on JOOLA North America Tour, Spokane ggg, Roman Tinyszin, 860-416-5299 WA, 10/12/2013 - 10/13/2013, gggg, Marynes Parra, 301-816-0660

Club Joola Fall Open, Rockville, MD, 9/14/2013 - 9/15/2013 2013 Newgy and Wang Vision Institute Open, Franklin, TN gg, Amy Feng, 770-952-1550 10/12/2013, gg, Brian Rassavong, 615-364-3955

Hi Fall Open, Palisades Park NJ, 9/14/2013 - 9/15/2013, Byung Jun 28th Annual Bernard Hock Open, New Albany, IN, 10/12/2013 - An, 718-928-8551 10/13/2013, gg, Jeff Smith, 502-648-5426

Northwest LA Open, Canoga Park, CA, 9/15/2013, g, Allen Verny, Robopong October 2013 BTTC Open, Dania Beach, FL 818-330-5756 10/12/2013 - 10/13/2013, g, Carlos Zeller, 954-849-5436

Mid-Florida Tour - Lakeland September Classic Open 2013 Lake- 2013 Hawaii Island Open, Hilo, HI, 10/18/2013 - 10/20/2013, Len land, FL, 9/20/2013 - 9/21/2013, gg, Raymond Spann, 863-273- Winkler, 808-889-1099 1321 2013 Butterfly Badger Open Waukesha, WI, 9/21/2013 - 9/22/2013, Florida Orange Blossom Series Fall Classic Open 2013, Lakeland gggg, Linda Leaf, 414-281-3123 FL, 10/18/2013 - 10/19/2013, gg, Raymond Spann, 863-273-1321 Arkansas Open, Little Rock, AR, 9/21/2013, gg, Eugene Atha, 501- Manor Pumpkin Patch Open 2 Man Teams, Lancaster, PA, 10/19/2013 835-5291 gg, Robert Cogley, 717-898-8668

Trolley Car Table Tennis Club September 2013 Open, Philadelphia 2013 Millcreek Open, Erie, PA, 10/19/2013 - 10/20/2013, gg PA, 9/21/2013 - 9/22/2013, g Bruce Crawley, 215-528-9803 Samuel Steiner, 814-833-8704 Wild Bill Hickok Shootout, Abilene, KS, 9/21/2013, g George Grace Lin TTC Open, South El Monte CA, 10/19/2013 - Taplin, 785-263-0577 10/20/2013, gg, Robert Shahnazari, 310-569-2825 P&W Aircraft TTC - September 2013 Open, East Hartford, CT 9/22/2013, Igor Knelev, 860-408-9272 LYTTC October Open, Dunellen NJ, 10/19/2013 - 10/20/2013 gg- LYTTC September Open, Dunellen, NJ, 9/22/2013 - 9/23/2013 Barry Dattel, 732-200-5820 gg, Barry Dattel, 732-200-5820

2013 Best of the West Open, Phoenix, AZ, 9/28/2013 - 9/29/2013, South Shore Sports/Butterfly Table Jay Turberville, 480-529-2829 Tennis Championships, Highland IN, 10/26/2013 - 10/27/2013 gggg Louisiana Open, New Orleans, LA, 9/28/2013, gg, Martin Del Vec- Dan Seemiller, 574-261-4545 chio, 504-439-4484

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 69 TIM BOGGANDS IN HIS OWN WORDS

2012 Hall of Fame Player Inductee Jennifer Johnson By Tim Boggan, USATT Historian “Play Ping-Pong and see the world”—that’s a mantra many of us have taken to heart, and few more so than 2012 U.S. Hall of Fame inductee Jennifer Brown Johnson. The Ping-Pong, er, Table Tennis, we’ll get to in a moment, but Jennifer’s peripatetic sports life began not in the U.S. representing USA teams at home and abroad, but in Jamaica, West Indies. There, after having been stricken with polio when she was five years old, she became a determined-to-excel member of the Jamaican Paraplegic Team from 1968-1980 and, in addition to competing in Israel and Holland, won silver medals at the 1971 Pan Am Games and the 1972 Paralympic Games in Heidelberg, Germany. And this was in Basketball! From Jamaica, where she was employed by the Government as an Executive Secretary, Jennifer came to the U.S., and in 1985 became a naturalized citizen. Over the years she’s held down steady jobs with IBM, Amax, and as Office Manager for the Dowling Group. She and her husband Denton, who currently call Port Chester, NY home, have a son Anthony, and both are with her tonight as she’s being honored with a presentation by • 1996: Atlanta Paralympics: GOLD in Ladies Class Singles. her longtime friend and supporter Sharon Frant Brooks. Some • 1999: Pan Am Championships: GOLD in Ladies Class Singles. initially used to refer to Jennifer as being among the ‘disabled,’ • 2003: Mexican Open: GOLD in Ladies Class IV Singles. but, as we’ll continue to see, you could scarcely find one more able, • 2003: U.S. Paralympics Open: Silver in Ladies Class V Teams. * See tableten- both on and off the table tennis courts. • 2006: U.S. Paralympic Championships in Las Vegas: GOLD in nis.teamusa.org I’ll begin describing the accomplishments of this amazing 25- Teams; Silver in Ladies Open and Class Singles. (USATT) year member of USA International Teams by telling you some of the (Hall of Fame) most interesting places she’s been: Argentina, Australia, Austria, During Jennifer’s many competitive years, playing and winning for expanded Brazil, China (Jennifer led a group of 16 to Shanghai), England, versions of each weren’t enough to fully engage her attention. To do her justice I profile Greece, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, and Venezuela. What most have to mention at least some of her off-court table tennis activities: people would give for a lifetime of that kind of travel experience. • President of the American Wheelchair Table Tennis Association And now to a list of Jennifer’s major competitive successes: (AWTTA), 1988 to Present. • 1984: Paralympic Games: Silver in Teams and Ladies Class • Member of Chicago 2016 Circle of Olympians and Paralym- Singles. pians. • 1987: World Championships: GOLD in Ladies Class IV Teams Co-Chair (with Sharon Frant Brooks), USA Table Tennis Dis- and GOLD in Women’s Doubles (with Terese Terranova, the abled Players Committee (2003-2008). 1987 Women’s Wheelchair World Champion), and Silver in • Organized and managed U.S. Paralympics T.T. Championships Women’s Class Singles. in Las Vegas and Chicago, 2005, 2006, and 2007. • 1988: Seoul Paralympics: GOLD in Ladies Class IV Teams • Organized and managed U.S. International trips to Austria and (with Terranova) and Ladies Singles Open; Silver in Ladies Argentina. Class Singles. In winning the Gold in the Ladies Singles Open • Member of Wheelchair Sports Technical Committee. against Class III arch-rival Christiane Wininger of Germany, • Member of the TriState Wheelchair Athletic Association Board Jennifer, with some helpful coaching by Jim Beckford, encour- agement from her teammates, and the look of late-game fear she of Directors. saw in her opponent’s eyes, rallied from 19-16 down in the third • Member of Wheelchair Sports, USA International Games Prep- to take the title. aration Committee. • [1989: Jennifer is now the Class III Ladies World Champion and the current Women’s Wheelchair World Champion.] Naturally, while at the center of such all-out activity, Jennifer has won her share of accolades: • 1989: National Wheelchair Championships in Miami Beach: GOLD in both U.S. and International Wheelchair Women’s • 1993/2003: Wheelchair Sports’ USA Athlete of the Year. Open (over Terranova in both). • 1994: Through generous support of Sudafed, Recipient of $500 • 1990: Pan American Wheelchair Championships: GOLD in Women’s Sports Foundation Grant for Travel and Training. Ladies Singles Open, Doubles, and Class Singles. • 1995: Write-up in Essence Magazine (Jan.): “Women Achieving • 1990: USA National Wheelchair Team Trials (AWTTA’s first Goals.” use of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation • 1995: Women’s Sports Foundation National Commercial with Functional Classification): GOLD in Women’s Functional Class Kristy Yamaguchi. 3/4/5 and Gold in Women’s AWTTA Women’s Open (close wins • 1996: Cover of Sports ‘N Spokes as Atlanta Gold Medalist. over Terranova in both). • 1997: The Burke Hospital Award for Athletic Excellence. • [1992: Barcelona Paralympic Games: Big disappointment: • 2007: Inducted into Wheelchair Sports Hall of Fame. USA Wheelchair Team members Jennifer, Terese Terranova, Mike Dempsey, and Andre Scott were inexplicably left out of the Turns out Jennifer’s husband Denton is also a Paralympic Cham- Team draws.] pion. At Seoul in 1988 he won a GOLD in the shot put as well as • 1995: 8th International Table Tennis Tournament in Austria: silver medals in the Javelin and Club Throw. Helped by his lasting GOLD in Ladies Singles Open (defeated Austria’s 23-times show of strength as her life partner, and by her own work ethic and World Champion Rosa Shweizer, 2-1 in the final), Doubles, and deep religious faith, it’s no wonder that Jennifer appears before us Class Singles. tonight to receive this most significant of the many awards she’s

Photo by Mal Anderson. Photo by Mal • 1995: Pan Am Championships: GOLD in Ladies Singles Open deservedly earned in a dedicated 40-year sports career. Ladies and and Class Singles. Gentlemen, please welcome to our Hall Jennifer Johnson. 70 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 BOBROW

Ovtcharov (top 2 from Germany) play a match that was pretty one-sided and not very memorable. Do I like those players? Of course… but I’d prefer to see them in more exciting and close battles. Intense: while exhibitions can be fun to watch… there’s an element of intensity that is missing. When you sense that the players don’t care who wins, then why would the crowd care who wins. I wanna see players fighting for every point. I wanna see passion and know that it means something to the player to win the point. Do I want to see a touchdown celebration for someone’s first point? Of COURSE not. That would be ridiculous! Dramatic: imagine watching a comeback where one player was the underdog and down 3-0 in a best of 7 match. Imagine that the underdog was down 9-4 in game 4 and then battling off 3 match points with the weakest shot in table tennis… the lob. Imagine if he slipped and fell and still managed to win the point to save the game and take it to a 5th game… then managed to with the 5th, 6th and 7th to take the match. That would be a-MAZE-ing! Ask Michael. Inspirational: after watching Michael Maze beat Hao Shuai in the match described moments ago… you can bet that people said… “whoa!It looked like it was over… but he didn’t give up… anything is possible!” Or “I bet I could learn a trick or two about how to make my lobs that effective.” Thought-provoking: What if she hadn’t clipped the net at 9-8 in game 7? I wonder how many hours of training these players put in every week. How on Earth do they do that?What would it be like to be receive that serve? Now why would we care who wins? What if our best friend was playing? Family member? Significant other? Practice partner or player from our club? We would DEFINITELY cheer for that person. It seems like, because of Spectator Sport the small community of table tennis players in the USATT many of us are friends and by cheering for someone, it appears that we are cheering against the opponent… so we default to occasionally cheering for good points or By Adam “nothing to see here” Bobrow often not cheering at all. In any sporting event, the excitement you feel when A coliseum filled with 90,000 people screaming, jumping out of their seats, a crowd erupts as a player buries a clutch shot or steals the ball or hits a hands in the air, hearts pumping blood faster than a bullet train, flashing homerun… that excitement is contagious and what people want to be a part lights, music thumping out of concert speakers as cameras overhead and from of. all angles broadcast the excitement to hundreds of millions around the world A friend of mine just got back from competing in China and said that in an attempt to share the rush that only I will know because I am THERE, anytime a rally got past the 3rd ball the crowd would start to cheer. The LIVE in the coliseum. Cheerleaders, professional dancers and acrobats more shots the rally had, the louder the crowd would get (especially if perform at center court while the drummers on the sidelines bang away. The there were some aggressive shots being returned). While this might be ocean of fans is as nervous as a nun on a nude beach and in a suspense that distracting… maybe that’s because we’re not used to it. In baseball when leaves them no choice but to scream and cheer at every moment possible. someone hits a deep fly that could be a homerun, the crowd goes nuts, A robust, deep voice that throttles your ribcage comes over the speakers but the outfielders learn to play with it and still make the play whenever and says “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PREPARE YOURSELVES… they can. In basketball, when the away team takes free-throws there are FOR … GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME SEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and the LITERALLY fans behind the backboard doing everything they can do crowd ROARS creating an adrenaline inside the two competitors walking distract the shooter in the hopes that he misses his free throws. back to the table. The competitor in the shiny silver shirt turns to the crowd A clear story: Yeah! We need some context so we know what’s going on and screams “THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!” What? Why and how important each point is. Have you ever watched a table tennis did she say that? The crowd erupts in support …. EHHH EHHH EHHHH match on youtube where you don’t know the score is? I have… and it’s EHHH EHHH. That’s weird…the crowd sounds a LOT like my cell phone ALWAYS more exciting when I know what the score is.Is this the finals, alarm…. and I wake up sweaty in my car from a power nap I forgot I took the semis… single elimination… what happens to the winner and loser??? 26 minutes before. If we think of sports as entertainment, there are going to be down times and Why do events like this only occur when I’m watching the back of my moments that are less exciting. That’s why in most major, televised sports eyelids? Good question. Stop complimenting yourself, Adam. Fine! I’m there is high-energy music, dancing, performances during any significant done! But seriously… how do we make this a spectator sport?The answer break and why there are people on microphones who get the crowd hyped is… I don’t know. I wish I did, but I think this is an important question and and even audience participation games and contests to fill breaks. I can share some thoughts on it and hopefully write something that will Also, we are avid fans of table tennis so we appreciate the details and encourage others to think seriously about this question. have a good enough understanding of how tough some of those soft shots What makes a sport a “spectator sport?” What do spectators want? Well… are at the beginning of a point. But to an outsider, it might not look so I can’t speak for everyone… I mean I CAN… but I run the risk of losing a impressive. When someone watches tennis, it’s pretty easy to understand few facebook friends. I like my sports like I like my movies… suspenseful, what’s happening: people running around to cover the court and hitting the intense, dramatic, inspirational, thought-provoking, memorable, looking ball hard to specific places and occasionally softly hitting a drop shot. good, sounding good and with characters I care about and feel for and a The more involved people get in table tennis, the more they’ll feel “in the story that’s clear and interesting. Oh yeah… and there’s always a special know” and like they understand what they are watching. Let’s get more feeling to see a movie on its opening weekend in a full theater. people playing, warmly invite more people to join us in our favorite sport Suspense: not knowing who is going to win. If it’s obvious who is going and make them feel welcomed and encouraged to learn and play more and to win… it’s much tougher to get people to watch. In many cases I’d rather more. watch a close match between two beginners than watch two world-class If this lengthy article put you to sleep, I hope you had a dream much like players play when it’s a blowout. I’ve seen a very exciting match between mine at the beginning of this article and either way, I hope that many people two players who would probably be rated about 400 and for match point have conversations to generate some great ideas and take action to continue they had a 20 shot rally and my friend hit a shot to win the match 16-14 improving a sport that seems to be growing daily in the US and hopefully in the 5th. I’ve also seen Oh Sang Eun (top 3 from Korea) and Dimitrij around the world! 8>) USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 71 Baltimore Orioles visit MDTTC

By Larry Hodges J.J. Hardy is the star shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles. (He’s the reigning gold glove winner with 52 homers the last two seasons and a former All-Star.) Brady Anderson was the Orioles star center fielder for 13 of his 15 major league seasons, where he was a 3-time all-star, and once hit 50 homers in a season. They are true baseball stars. But they are also pretty good at table tennis! With the Orioles having a day off from playing, they spent four hours at the Maryland Table Tennis Center last night, 4-8PM. I gave them a private coaching session the first two hours, and then they hit with our local juniors. I knew in advance that JJ was the Orioles best TT player - they have a table in their clubhouse, and NOBODY beats JJ. Brady is their #2. But how good could they be, considering they hadn’t had coaching? I was expecting “basement stars,” perhaps 1200 level at most. Boy was I wrong! Both came with their own sponge rackets in racket cases. JJ’s around 1850. Strengths: fast rallying and good serves, and adjusts quickly to opponents. Weaknesses: return of serve and against spin in general. He’s very fast and aggressive at the table, with nice forehand and backhand hitting and blocking. He tends to hold his racket tip up on the forehand, which costs him some power, but his bang-bang rallying and reflexes allow him to rally at a 1900+ level - even better if you counter with him instead of looping. He also tends to reach for the ball instead stepping, which allows him to block but means he doesn’t end the point as well as he could. He can loop against backspin from even if you return his serve to his wide backhand, he manages both wings, and follow with quick hitting. to step around from where he’s serving from on the forehand He has a surprisingly good forehand pendulum serve. He side to play his forehand from the backhand side. doesn’t change his grip for the serve, and so loses a bit of spin Brady tends to hit the forehand with his arm jammed in too since his wrist is locked up, but it’s very deceptive. He does the much, raises his elbow as he hits the ball, and often tries to serve from the forehand side, which seemed to make the serve muscle the ball instead of relaxing the arm and shoulder and more effective for him since most players do this serve from letting the body do the work. We worked on fixing these the backhand side. He has two main variations, side-backspin problems, and he was quick in making the adjustments in drills. and side-topspin, and they both look similar. His depth varies At the start he had sort of a wristy backhand, but I quickly (not sure if it’s intentional, need to ask him), so some are long, corrected it. While his backhand isn’t as good as his forehand, some are short, and some are half-long, with second bounce it’s technically sound once he made the change, though he’ll right around or just past the end-line. need a lot of practice to ingrain the stroke. Brady has a deceptive He played a practice match with Tony Li, 11, rated an even forehand - he usually goes crosscourt, and then he’ll suddenly 1800. Tony won the first two as JJ had trouble with his serves, change in mid-stroke and go inside out the other way, which but JJ came back to win, deuce in the fifth! You could pretty was almost unreturnable, even for me. much see his mind at work as he figured out how to get Tony’s The racket Brady was using was too slow, so I lent him my various spinny serves back, and how to block his constant backup, which he liked. He ended up buying a racket from the forehand looping. I also played JJ, and while I won easily, 11-3, club, with Coach Cheng Yinghua doing the sale and putting the 11-4, the key was that I was experienced enough to recognize racket and sponge together for him. (They were awe of Cheng how good he was at rallying, and so rarely let him get into a when they learned he’d been #1 in the U.S. for about ten years.) rally - I serve and looped everything, and looped his long serves Brady also played a practice game with the 1800 Tony Li. while pushing his short ones back heavy, and looping the next Tony was very nervous, and Brady led 10-8 game point, but ball. I wasn’t going to be nice and risk losing!!! Tony won in deuce. Later Brady played 8-year-old Tiffany Ke, How did he get so good without coaching or playing at a club the #2 ranked Under 9 girl in the U.S. with a rating of 1439. with top players? His dad was a tennis coach and good table (She trains seven days a week!) Brady was using the new racket tennis player, and he learned from him. He picks up things very and wasn’t quite used to it, and seemed mesmerized that this fast, as I saw both in his lesson with me and his adjustments in little girl, whose head barely stuck up over the table, was so his match against Tony. good, and so lost 0-3. (See their picture below.) I also played Brady Anderson was a level or so weaker, about 1500. He’s a Brady, and I won 11-3, 11-1 - but a lot of that was because lefty who likes to cover almost the whole table with his forehand he couldn’t get my serve back, and couldn’t handle my spinny - he returned almost all my serves with his forehand. He has very loops off his serves. Most 1500 players wouldn’t have high- nice footwork and range. He has a pretty good forehand, and level serves or be able to loop serves, and so they’d rally - and can almost match JJ in rallies except that he has great trouble once he gets used to his new paddle, Brady will be in the 1500 with JJ’s serve. He can do a soft loop against backspin with his range again. forehand. Brady also serves almost always from the forehand It’s tricky giving rating estimate for these two, due to their side, with a tomahawk sidespin serve, which was pretty spinny lack of experience against players with proper coaching. For but without a heavy backspin variation, and so was easier to example, while I estimated JJ at 1850, I’m taking into account

Photo: JJ Hardy, Larry Hodges, and Brady Anderson - photo provided by Larry Hodges Anderson - photo provided Larry Hodges, and Brady Photo: JJ Hardy, read than JJ’s pendulum serve variations. He’s very mobile, and how fast he adjusts and learns in each match - he’d probably 72 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 plans to come regularly. I’m looking forward to working with him - once we’ve made a few adjustments on his forehand, I can already see him running around looping forehands. One interesting tidbit - when JJ was hitting with the 2400 Nathan Hsu, Nathan of course dominated with his two-winged looping. But when they played points, Nathan actually had trouble with JJ’s serve. Part of this was because he was nervous, and wasn’t expecting good serves. I told him to stop thinking about it and just react, and then he began looping them in. I also missed a few of JJ’s serves at first, but then stopped missing them. The Orioles have a table at their clubhouse. Besides JJ and Brady, the other regulars are Manny Machado, Steve Pearce, and Nick Markakis. Nick plays with a hardbat and chops! They’ve invited us to come in and play at their clubhouse, though we haven’t set a date yet. They were also interested to learn that two-time USA Cadet Team Member Tong Tong Gong lives about 15 minutes from Orioles Park, and may invite him to come in and hit with them. (Tong Tong doesn’t know this yet!) I’ve been an Orioles fan since 1972, when I was 12, so it was an exhilarating experience hitting with these two. They were extremely nice, and very fast learners. When I made adjustments to their strokes, both picked them up fast, though they’ll need more practice to ingrain the changes. You could see how their baseball skills transferred to table tennis with their fast reflexes and ability to learn new skills quickly. Both could react to my best smashes and loop kills. They didn’t most back, often lose the first game and have to come back, and might even but they got their rackets on them over and over, and JJ made struggle at first with 1700 players. some nice blocks. Some of you may remember Brady’s range as Here are some pictures taken via someone’s cell phone. (We a center fielder. Well, you could see both when he ranged around have a group picture, but I haven’t got it yet.) playing his all-forehand game, and when I taught him how to They hit with many of our top junior players: Nathan Hsu (16, lob. He’d never done this, but he picked it up very quickly, and rated 2397), Derek Nie (12, 2215), Roy Ke (13, 2229), Princess with me smashing at 80% speed to his forehand he was not only Ke (11, 1954), Tiffany Ke (8, 1439, and Tony Li (11, 1800). lobbing ball after ball, but he began counter-smashing, making They were great with the kids, and posed with pictures with all the shot over half the time. of them as well as signing autographs. I think JJ and Brady were I gave them both autographed copies of three of my books: as much in awe of the kids’ skills as the kids were of them. By the Table Tennis: Steps to Success, Table Tennis Tales and end of their time at the club, they and the kids were having fun Techniques, and Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers. They gave and talking like old friends. These were two very nice athletes; the kids autographed copies of baseball cards, and offered free their stardom has not gone to their heads. They were as excited tickets to games. We’ll take them up on that sometime soon. about playing table tennis as a kid playing baseball. Both were All in all, a great day at MDTTC. The kids have a great story interested in coming more often for lessons and regular play, to tell at the school, as well as lots of pictures. but JJ can’t because of the team’s schedule. But Brady can, and

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 73 74 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 This is the official response of the USOC to the call from Senator Graham (R-SC) for the USA to boycott the Olympic Games in Sochi, due to Russia not turning Edward Snowden over to the US authorities.

U.S. Olympic Committee statement regarding a boycott of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2013

The following is attributable to United States Olympic Committee spokesperson Patrick Sandusky:

“If there are any lessons to be learned from the American boycott of 1980, it is that Olympic boycotts do not work. Our boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games did not contribute to a successful resolution of the underlying conflict. It did, however, deprive hundreds of American athletes, all whom had completely dedicated themselves to representing our nation at the Olympic Games, of the opportunity of a lifetime. It also deprived millions of Americans of the opportunity to take pride in the achievements of our athletes, and in their dedication and commitment, at a time when we needed it most. While we acknowledge the seriousness of the issues at hand, we strongly oppose the notion that a boycott of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in our country’s best interests.”

Patrick Sandusky Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer United States Olympic Committee 1 Olympic Plaza Colorado Springs, Colorado 80909

A TRIBUTE TO MARTY REISMAN

The photo on the right is the grave marker created for Marty Reisman by long-time friend Dick Evans. It was mailed to the Staten Island cemetery in July and will stand as another monument to Marty Reisman and his mark on our sport.

USATT Magazine • http://usatt.org/magazine 75 IN MEMORIAM

Mel Eisner (1927 - 2013)

By Tim Boggan, USATT Historian

To me, Mel Eisner was always a take-charge kind of guy, abrasive at times—as when he, a bit high-handledly, I thought, took over directing MY Concord, NY Resort Hotel tournament in the mid-1980’s—but that was generally o.k. with me because he up front honestly spoke his mind, believed in what he said. Moreover, I knew he was very experienced, had successfully organized a number of tournaments. There was, among others— all a labor of love—the very well-attended 1976 Rutgers Open, the two Eastern’s he was involved with in 1979 and 1982, a spectacular New York City Port Authority Exhibition Tournament (said to have drawn during its duration 200,000 spectators). These were followed by the 1985 Big Apple Sports Festival—a continuous series of t.t. exhibitions, accompanied by celebrities, put on at Madison Square Garden, with write-ups of the top-level matches featured in newspapers throughout the country. During the 1980’s Mel became increasingly well known, thanks in part to his continuing Up Beat columns in the USTTA’s National Publication, their signature sentence—“It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness”—reading like a much- practiced mantra. In 1988, after being elected for three terms as USTTA Vice- afraid to extend himself or the Association he served: he traveled President, Mel ran against incumbent Sol Schiff and Danny to Rome for an important ITTF Meeting, hired a new Editor Seemiller for the Presidency, emphasizing his actuarial business for the National Magazine, and established at Headquarters a experience as a now retired Vice-President for Metropolitan Temporary Executive Director. Life, and also (as a longtime President of the Greater New York My favorite line of Mel’s is when he responded to one of those Table Tennis League) his belief in the importance of establishing invariably critical of whoever’s in the Presidential office who’d leagues whenever and wherever possible (in Israel he learned said he had to establish a “Grand Plan,” then quickly make it about leagues there, and he himself played in a Tuesday-night happen. Mel replied. “That’s not lighting a candle, that’s merely league at the Westfield, NJ Club). looking in the drawer for it.” He won Presidential office, but though he ran for re-election, A candle I myself may not be holding, Mel, but I hope I’ve shed he was defeated by the popular slate of Danny Seemiller and at least a little light here on the memorable service you’ve given Donna Sakai. During his tenure he was proud of the considerable the sport you loved for so long. increase in membership that occurred, and of the sponsorship help he received from Bob Tretheway (Bob got $50,000 from the Ground Round Company). Mel kept busy as President—was not

Dear Tim, It is hard for me even to utter the words but my champion and husband, Mel passed away after brave battle with illness. He loved table tennis and dedicated most of his life for this cause. Many hours he reviewed your history books and had great pleasure doing so I hope to continue with this venue.

Best, Judith Ackerman

Dear Judith, I’m very sorry to hear of Mel’s passing, and I know how hard it must be on you to lose him. Mel was a big help to me in the 1980’s. He was very reliable, very involved, caring and indefatigable. No wonder after his tenure as USTTA Vice-President he was elected President. And no wonder he liked to read T.T. History, he helped make it as few others did--he covered all bases. By coincidence, I’d just included in the volume I’m now working on, his thoughts on his relationship with Brian. Please give him too my best wishes during this trying time. x, Tim

76 USA TABLE TENNIS MAGAZINE • Jul/Aug 2013 IN MEMORIAM

Peggy McLean Foulke (1927 - 2013)

By Tim Boggan, USATT Historian

Peggy McLean (later Foulke), one of the U.S.A.’s most successful players at home and abroad, has died. By 1940, as a 13-year-old, she was playing seriously at Herwald Lawrence’s fabled Broadway Courts in New York City and was coached by four-time U.S. Champ Lou Pagliaro whom Dick Miles thought the best U.S. player ever. Like any outstanding player on her way to great accomplishments she had to pay her dues, had successes and disappointments. In 1944, as her game was maturing, she defeated Defending Champion Mae Clouther to win the Eastern’s, then won the New York City Open over Bernice Charney (afterwards Chotras) destined to win the first of her two U.S. Opens just two years later. Then, at the 1945 Detroit National’s, McLean defeated future nine-time U.S. Open Champion Leah Thall (later Neuberger) in five in the semi’s. This allowed her to meet Davida Hawthorn who in the quarter’s had 23-21 in the fifth upset Sally Green Prouty, winner of the last five U.S. Opens, and who in the semi’s had stopped, also in five, the 1950 U.S. Open Champion Reba Monness. Unfortunately for Peggy, Davida continued to show more heroics and at deuce in the fifth defeated her to win the Championship. Said one reporter, “Peggy went down fighting second, Peggy held on to give the USA for the second and last every point of the way, and in a way that made you stand up and time the Corbillon Cup. Bravo! cheer. With Davida favoring her defense, Peggy drove forehand At the English Open that followed, the U.S. women got a lot of and backhand, beautifully, steadily to attack…attack… and attention. Here’s a local reporter giving us her “take” on McLean: attack. With the score 20-18 in the fifth against her, Peggy drove “She has a dry sense of humor, an insatiable curiosity regarding her way to deuce before losing out.” English ideas and methods, and in order to acquire the correct But shortly Peggy was back and with more control. She started ‘slant’ on English life perused the London Times with great the 1947-48 season with a win at the prestigious Canadian interest during her stay in London. National Exhibition tournament in Toronto. She beat, first Thelma She is 22, but looks 16, has a loveable elfin face, and the most “Tybie” Thall (later Sommer), Leah’s sister, then Leah herself, beautiful teeth you ever saw—I can’t help feeling that a certain the Defending Champion, in a 19-in-the-fourth final. firm of toothpaste manufacturers, well-known for their ‘pun’ In March, 1948, you could find Peggy off-court, but with racket adverts missed a wonderful opportunity there, especially in view in hand—on stage at Radio City Music Hall. She was part of the of the fact that English aficionado Ron Craydon will actually “Bellak and Elaine” act. write her name as McClean.” Apparently show-biz prepared her the more for acclaim, for now As for Peggy’s progress in the English Open, she couldn’t she won the Big One—the 1948 U.S. Open…over Tybie in the have done much better. She won the Singles, and the Women’s semi’s (Tybie had just won the World Mixed Doubles title with Doubles with Tybie, and in the Mixed with Reisman fell in the Miles) and Monness in the final. final to Miles and Leah, 23-21 in the fifth. That September Peggy successfully defended her CNE Back home, she beat Leah in the final of the Eastern Open, 23- Championship, downing both the Thall sisters. She also won 21 in the fifth. the Mixed with Sol Schiff. Then she distinguished herself in Then, unexpectedly, though her picture was prominently qualifying play to make the U.S. Team to the 1949 World’s. displayed in the 1949 U.S. Open Program, and though her role as There were two round robins in the Women’s Teams at favorite had been established in pre-tournament publicity, Peggy Stockholm. Peggy proceeded undefeated, but against the Czechs didn’t defend her U.S. Open Women’s Singles Championship. had to be relieved when Tybie, who’d lost her opening singles Her table tennis career, just when the ITTF was judging her to be match, gave the needed partnership assist to allow the U.S. to take the #2 seed for the next World’s, abruptly stopped. She married a the doubles, deuce in the third. Swede, Elis Foulke, whom she’d met at the ’49 World’s while he Then, against Hungary, when our Millie Shahian succumbed as was covering the matches for the Christian Science Monitor, and expected to Defending World Women’s Singles Champion Gizi players missing her at this U.S. Open couldn’t be sure they’d ever Farkas and we dropped the doubles, it would seem we’d lost the see her at a tournament again. lucky dice to our game play. But Chance handed us another pair, Some would, but her play was very spotty over her remaining and, lo, Peggy hurled, rolled through Farkas to send us into the competitive years—she’d taken time out to raise a family and fifth. Which meant Shahian vs. Rose Karpati. secure a Master’s degree in Education—and, though she won a “My arm was petrified,” Millie later wrote me.”I was scared to U.S. Open Women’s Doubles with Leah, she never was in form to death because I would have been a real goat if I’d have lost after win another major singles. the magnificent effort of Peggy. But “Karpati played with tears [My larger version of this Profile is on the USTTA web running down her face because Farkas had lost to McLean. So site. Also, David Royce knew Peggy in her later years and has when I managed to win the first game at deuce, the second was written a short but interesting biography of her. His e-mail is: easy.” [email protected]] In the final against England, after Shahian had lost two close games to Peggy Franks, McLean overpowered Pinky Barnes, then, with Tybie’s crucial help, gave us another deuce-in-the-third doubles win. After which, up 1-0 on Franks and at deuce in the

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