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CONTENTS

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FEATURESKanak Jha by Sheri Cioroslan ................................................................... 14TeamUSA ................................................................................................... 19Bobrow ....................................................................................................... 31Tim Boggan on Yvonne Kronlage ............................................................ 72Obituaries (Gary Gresher) ....................................................................... 74Wally........................................................................................................... 78FEATURED VIDEOS by Jimmy Butler ................................................. 81

COACHINGTips of the Month by Carl Danner .......................................................... 34Tips for Seniors by Yang Yu ..................................................................... 35Changeup by Samson Dubina .................................................................. 36Shadow Practice by Larry Hodges .......................................................... 37

TournamentsCary Cup.................................................................................................... 42Swiss Open ................................................................................................. 46Local and National Tournamnets ............................................................ 48

USATT AND OTHER NEWSEditors ........................................................................................................ 8Chairman’s Report ................................................................................... 10USATT Annual Giving Campaign ........................................................... 13USATT National Rankings ..................................................................... 60USATT Ratings ....................................................................................... 62USATT Tournament Schedule ................................................................ 68

USA Table Tennis Magazine is a digital publication of USA Table Tennis. Distribution of the publication is at the direc-tion of USA Table Tennis. The publication is designed and produced by Steve Hopkins, and edited by Steve and Marie Hopkins. If you would like to purchase a paper copy, please contact Andrew Horn, Circulation Director, for additional information.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERDoru Gheorghe (interim)

HEADQUARTERS STAFFDoru Gheorghe, Chief Operating Officer Deborah Gray, Finance DirectorJoyce Grooms, Membership DirectorAndrew Horn, Administrative Assistant andRatings

EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEEJim McQueen (Chair), Ross Brown, Ty Hoff, Steve Hopkins, Tom Poston, Andrew Horn (Staff Liaison)

PRINTERUSA Table Tennis Magazine is published bimonthly. It is the official magazine of USA Table Tennis (USATT), a Class “A” member of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS ISSUE

CONTRIBUTING WRITERSMike Babuin, Brad Balmer, Adam Bobrow, Tim Boggan, Terry Casey, Sheri Soderberg Cioroslan, Costel Constantin, Carl Danner, Samson Dubina, Larry Hodges, Steve Hopkins, Yvonne Kronlage, Caron Leff, Dan Seemiller

PHOTOGRAPHERSMalcolm Anderson, Grant Bergman, Jason Denman, Steve Hopkins, Diego Schaaf,

USATT Magazine Logo designed by Ju-lian Waters (www.waterslettering.com). Many headings within the magazine use Julian Waters’ Adobe Waters Titling fonts.

A SPECIAL THANK-YOU TO ALL OF THE CONTRIBUTORS. THIS PUBLICATION IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE VOLUNTEERS THAT SUP-PORT IT.

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This is our first fully digital issue. The first issue of the year was posted online at the same time it was mailed, so many of you saw it digitally before receiving your print copy. Our intent was to get an honest response from readers about our digital edition, and then to make some adjustments and try to improve (while recognizing that the paper magazine was in the mail as a safety net). This time, there is no paper edition in the mail - so, this time, we are operating without a net. We heard from a lot of members after the announcement of our format change... And I’m not going to lie to anyone, most of those comments were making sure we knew that they preferred a paper magazine. And mixed in were a few readers who like the digital format, some international readers who had never seen the magazine before, and some pretty good recommendations for how to improve as we move forward. This is a thank-you for everyone that provided feedback and an open invitation to continue to comment. The decision to go digital has been made - but we will be working very hard to continue to improve as we move forward.

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Farewell to CEO Cavanaugh and Ms. GroomsBy Michael Babuin, Chairman of the Board It is with great sadness that I share with all of our membership the departure of two good friends. First Joyce Grooms long time manager of ratings and memberships with headquarters is retiring April 4th. Joyce has always been there to help all of us in sorting out various problems and in providing information in a timely and professional manner. We wish her much happiness to come! I am also very sad to report that our CEO Mike Cavanaugh will also be leaving USA Table Tennis. Mike has accepted a position with USA Team Handball and after much deliberation and a heavy heart, has decided to leave table tennis. Mike stepped into the role of Interim CEO in 2007 during the USATT’s reorganization and reformation period mandated by the US Olympic Committee. Following that we did a nationwide search for a CEO and of all the candidates that stepped forward, Mike was considered the best one. Seven years later we still think he is the best. Mike helped shape our organization into a national governing body (NGB) that developed increased credibility with the USOC, and one which focused on larger scale issues related to Olympic medal attainment. While we have not achieved that goal yet, we are closer than we ever have been in the past, and with the right amount of support and resources we will eventually get there. These efforts while the culmination of efforts from many people over the years, also includes much from Mike Cavanaugh. Mike has been a tireless professional who has championed the cause of table tennis in the United States and USATT will indeed miss him. We wish Mike much success in his new endeavor. USATT will be appointing an interim CEO within the next week to manage the day to day duties of the organization over the period of time that it takes to compile a nationwide CEO search including formation of a task force charged with this duty, advertising for the position, receiving applications, developing a short list of candidates, interviewing the candidates, making an offer, and allowing time for relocation of the new hire to the National Office. All of these efforts may easily take us until the Fall of this year to fully complete. Let’s wish Mike and Joyce much happiness in their life after table tennis.

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By Sheri Soderberg Cioroslan Thirteen-year-old Kanak Jha, currently ranked 8th in the ITTF World Cadet U15 age division, surely felt lucky upon being named to USATT’s Men’s Team, which will compete in Japan at the World Championships in April. His table tennis career, one might say, got started serendipitously when his parents were working on their own conditioning goals at the India Community Center (ICC) in Milpitas, California nearly a decade ago. Mom, Karuna, was taking fitness classes and playing table tennis recreationally. Dad, Arun, who had captained his badminton and cricket teams back in India before moving to the United States, was intent on maintaining his athleticism. He played our sport a little more seriously and competitively than his wife. They enrolled daughter Prachi, then 8, in the ICC’s table tennis camps. And then there was 5-year-old Kanak. “What to do with him,” Karuna laughed, looking back at that time in her family’s life. “That was the question. We couldn’t leave him at home!” So he tagged along. Little did they know how pivotal that moment would be. Kanak was already following in the family’s athletic footsteps. He’d been playing soccer since he was 2 ½. “He was always interested in all the ball sports,” said his mom. “But he especially loved soccer. And, of course, that lead to his dream of becoming a professional soccer player one day.” Mom and Dad, in addition to all of their own activities and responsibilities, were accustomed to shuttling him around town for soccer matches between their own, and Prachi’s, ICC activities. When Kanak wound up at the ICC, he didn’t grumble or fidget. He got excited and exclaimed, “I want to play too!” That’s how Rajul Sheth, the Bay Area uber-promoter and enthusiastic supporter of youth development, began working with him. Rajul commented, “I am proud to have been Prachi and Kanak’s first coach. There was something extraordinary about the 6-year-old Kanak. I had always seen him, even at that young age, enjoying his introduction to the sport at the ICC. He would try to balance a ball on his paddle, or repeatedly bounce the ball on his racket, or hit against the wall all of the time.” Kanak was simultaneously excelling in both soccer and table tennis. In tournaments, he had already begun collecting national titles. At the 2009 U.S. Open, Kanak was the Boy’s 9 & Under Champion. Later in the year, and again in the following year, at the U.S. Nationals, Kanak won the Boy’s 10 & Under division. Bowie Martin extended Kanak a coveted Butterfly sponsorship. As his first decade of life was concluding, and the schedules of everyone in the family became busier and more hectic, Kanak’s parents told him that he really needed to choose between the two sports. He opted for table tennis. Karuna, for one, was happy with his decision. Not only had the family already received positive feedback about his potential, but also this enabled everyone to keep the ICC as a center of family activity. Karuna attributed Kanak’s decision in part to the bond between him and his sister Prachi. “Those two are very close. She has been his biggest mentor. He follows her in everything. So, when we decided to get her private coaching, Kanak wanted it too.” Some years earlier Kanak had already made an unusually strong and favorable impression on Mikael Andersson, the ITTF’s Senior Consultant on Education and Development. Mikael recalled, “I came across Kanak for the first time back in 2006 when I visited the Palo Alto TTC for a clinic together with Dennis Davis. I was there on an inspection visit for the 2007 World Junior Championships. And there he was – very small, but eager to play.” Mikael continued, “He then came up again in the ITTF World Hopes program. He did very well.” Kanak did, in fact, better than very well. In 2011, Kanak’s first year on the ITTF’s World Hopes Team, the ITTF’s youth talent identification program, Kanak won bronze medals in both the Hopes Challenge and the World Cadet Challenge. In 2012, Kanak took gold in the Hopes Challenge. “From that point,” remarked Mikael, “I have always kept in contact

with his family. And, if they have questions, I have been there with some advice. Kanak also spent time in Sweden to prepare for the World Junior Championships and the U.S. Nationals last year. I am relieved that it went well! It was a tough thing for him to do, from a mental point-of-view, for a thirteen year-old. Maybe that is what I like most about him. This is a tough little guy with an excellent knowledge of international table tennis. You can see it in his eyes. There is no difference between him and Michael Maze or any of the other superstars. They know what they are looking for.” Mikael has gone so far as to dub Kanak the “Tiger Woods of table tennis.” Mikael confidently asserted, “And I stand by that. He can be a game changer and the best U.S.-born player that ever played the game.” Rajul Sheth echoed a similar sentiment. “Kanak has potential to win a medal for Team USA at the Olympics. His parents have sacrificed a lot to bring him to this level.” The coaching staff at the World Champions Table Tennis Academy (WCTTA) in nearby San Jose are optimistic about Kanak too. U.S. Men’s Coach Stefan Feth, former U.S. National Coaches and former world champions and Chinese superstars Li Zhenshi and Zhang Li, along with their accomplished daughter, Coach Nan Li, issued joint comments about Kanak. They noted, “He has a strong passion for the game. You basically have to kick him off the table. Otherwise he could play 24 hours a day. He has great footwork, very good touch, and anticipation for the ball. He is a relentless fighter. He has a great work ethic. That enables us to push him to the limit during every training session. He is 100% committed to the sport. He has the potential to become a full-time professional player.” Kanak has been training with the WCTTA staff for eight years already and they remain his primary coaches. They stated, “This is a very special relationship, as it takes more than just training and hitting the ball to be successful in the long run. Overall, Kanak is a very talented and complete player, physically and mentally.” All of those adulatory comments and remarks lead me to wonder: how can someone who’s only recently become a teenager himself not only deal effectively with so many expectations, but more importantly, learn to continue to thrive personally under such pressure? The WCTTA staff responded, “With Kanak’s future in table tennis looking very bright, it is also not easy for this young boy to carry these high expectations. Expectations can be both motivational and burdensome. Kanak needs to continue to stay grounded and remain hungry for ‘higher and better.’ He constantly needs to compete against himself, measure his abilities against his own higher standards, and stay true to his innate passion for this great sport. This, in turn, can help him find balance in handling the pressures that come with these expectations.” “With Kanak,” Mikael Andersson weighed in, “perhaps you are right. Any article or positive comments may raise the expectations, but this is what any top athlete will have to live with anyway, so I think it is good to address this issue.” Carl Danner, the chair of USATT’s High Performance Committee, chimed in, “So far Kanak has done very well with pressure and expectations. Part of this is that he is young and fearless – and fear is the biggest issue that can hold someone back emotionally. As well, I think Kanak and his family see him as possibly becoming a top-level international professional. We have had a few U.S.-trained players do that before, but it has been a while. To aim for that level clearly means moving beyond what has recently been ‘normal’ for most other developing players. Thus, while charting a relatively new path is always challenging, it also comes with the benefit of fewer established expectations to worry about.” While all of those important issues get sorted out at the USATT level, there is the “urgency of the present” to contend with. Logistically, on a day-to-day basis for Kanak, he trains in separate but tandem programs, continuing at the WCTTA and, as of March 2014, the ICC, for a few more hours of table time. According to Rajul, “The ICC has already designed a three days a week high-level training opportunity for seven top Bay Area juniors in preparation for the 2016 Olympics. Kanak is the youngest and most talented player in that group. If we get additional sponsorship support, we will definitely extend this program to 14-16 hours per week.”

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Kanak Jha: Feeling Lucky at 13

That is the kind of news Mikael Andersson liked to hear. “Lots of good things are happening in the Bay Area. For some reason, I have just felt involved there ever since the 2007 World Junior Championships were held at Stanford. That was very special. Dennis Davis and Anne Cribbs did such a great job pulling the event through. I kind of feel that by keeping an eye on Kanak, I also maintain contact with that area.” For all the positives, Mikael warned that there are some concerns going forward. “Many huge challenges remain for him to be able to fly internationally and it’s only going to get tougher and tougher. If we can pull together and start supporting the young talents a little better it would be great. It is true that Kanak cannot do this alone. The table tennis community in the USA and, more specifically, in the Bay Area, need to start thinking bigger and with more international focus. With a unique kid like him, he may inspire us to have all kinds of ideas.” For example, according to Mikael, “We need to feed off his energy and start thinking things like Pro Leagues in the USA and why not a U.S.-hosted World Championships in 2020 or something of that nature?” But first things first and back to Kanak. Carl Danner explained the role USATT is assuming in Kanak’s high performance training. “USATT is doing fairly well at providing opportunities for international competition for Kanak, just as it did for Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang, and is doing for the other high-level juniors. Where USATT is struggling is in coordinating its efforts with the ongoing training and domestic competition on which Kanak and the other kids spend most of their time; we need to get better at that.” Carl elaborated on the task he and his committee members have in front of them as to how USATT can best position and support our talented generation of juniors. “A related issue is developing a forward-looking program through which kids like Kanak can see a path through early adulthood (at least) that involves significant financial support in return for full-time commitment and extraordinary accomplishments. This is in part a matter of money, but also a policy decision as to how USATT wants to focus its limited resources.” He continued, “The Jha family is the exceptional example with both Kanak and Prachi, but there are dozens of other families who are making

huge financial and time commitments to help their kids succeed at the highest levels of the sport. We absolutely must find some ways to return the favor in terms of support for the very best as they move further into their teen years, and beyond.” In the meanwhile, the sponsorship from Butterfly serves as both a tangible reward and a source of motivation for Kanak to realize that his actions can inspire others. Bowie Martin credited Kanak not only for his achievements, but also for his behavior. “Butterfly is proud to have sponsored Kanak since he was nine years old. It’s been fun watching him improve each year and reach Top 10 in the ITTF Cadet ranking. Kanak has been a terrific role model for other young players, with his positive attitude on and off the court. Though only 13, Kanak is a true gentleman and an excellent ambassador for table tennis.” Prachi, who is a member of the U.S. Women’s Team, is also sponsored by Butterfly. Proud parents, Arun and Karuna, expressed their gratitude on behalf of the whole family. “We want to thank Butterfly for their continued backing for several years. Bowie Martin has always been a great supporter and guide. And, for the last year or so, Butterfly Japan has been helping us, too.” They hope they will get the chance to visit the Butterfly headquarters, factory and museum in Tokyo during their trip to the World Championships. For his part, Kanak is “so happy” and “super excited” to be going to Japan as a member of the U.S. Men’s Team. He is preparing hard, playing six days a week. Kanak expressed gratitude for his “great coaches.” And he appreciates, on an ongoing basis, having the chance to train with fellow aspiring juniors in the Bay Area. “They help me work harder,” Kanak said of his peers, who are both his friends and his rivals. Naturally Kanak’s final compliments and words of appreciation went to his family, “My mom, who is a hypnotherapist, has helped me a lot with strategies. My sister Prachi and I sometimes practice together. It’s great that she’s there. My dad is very supportive. He helps me with my fitness. He’s always encouraging me. My family is a great help to me as I pursue my dream of becoming a professional table tennis player.”

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BUT HERE WE MEET AGAIN; late in2013, almost to the day twenty yearssince our paths crossed for the firsttime, to share one day of Table Tennis,the sport that has stayed with us over the years. Michael had committedtraining time with the vastlytalented thirteen year old AmericanKanak JHA staying in Sweden at thetime and he also promised to showme around in his secret haven,training setup in Amager, just southof Copenhagen where he the lastfour months had set up his privatecamp with access to his own venueand his physical conditioning coachThomas

THE TWO PLAYERS JOINING MEthis day, Kanak JHA and MichaelMaze, are separated by time; 20years, but also glued together interms of determination and desire.We are talking almost instant connectionbetween the two players.You can see it in their eyes – the will

to become something more thanjust the average athlete.Kanak JHA – the American supertalent stands up well in the exercisesand Mr. Maze, the mentor for theday, is generously complementinghis much younger partner: “ Verygood – excellent change of rhythmand adjustments in the block”. Twohours of Table Tennis is gone andnext stop is the physical conditioningstudio owned and operated fora selected group of Danish Top Athletesby Thomas Macon – a soughtafter physical conditioning guru inDenmark.Both players are guided throughthe physical work out. Again theyoung American manages to holdfort.“I have to say that it is not every day you meet a thirteen year old that cando the things this guy can do. Impressivestuff, said the two Danes.


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

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Timothy Wang Jimmy But-ler Yahao Zhang Adam Hugh Timothy Wang Jimmy Butler Yhao Adam Hugh Timothy Wer Yahao Zhang Adam Wang

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TEAM USA Bios2014 US Team Trials Coverage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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By Larry Hodges It’s 3PM at the Maryland Table Tennis Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland. You know this because Crystal Wang has just arrived, as she does every day, Mon-Fri, right after school. She has her homework and playing stuff, and changes into her table tennis clothes. Sometimes she gets her homework done first; she’s in the magnet program at Roberto Clemente Middle School, where she’s a six grader. Other times she goes straight to a practice session. But it’s going to be a long afternoon and night at the club, as she practically lives there. Sometime later that night, after perhaps two training sessions, service practice, lots of practice matches, and a jump rope session, she’ll go home. But it’s all paying off. On Sunday, March 16, Crystal made history by becoming, at 12 years and 14 days, the youngest member of the USA National Team, according to USATT Historian Tim Boggan. That was at Texas Wesleyan University in Ft. Worth, Texas. Less than 24 hours later and 1400 miles away, Crystal arrived at MDTTC at 3PM after school on Monday, as usual, and was all set to continue her training, even after three days of grueling play. We had to order her to take a day off – she wants to practice. It’s a habit. Crystal trains seven days a week, an idea that’s foreign to much of western civilization but is normal for many Chinese players. I asked her when she takes days off, and she said, “When I’m sick. But only if I’m really sick, like with a fever.” She does admit to being tired sometimes, and that’s when training is hard. But it’s what she needs to make the USA Olympic Team, the shining goal in the sky she is aiming for. If she does that, then the goal is to medal. If she does that, then the goal is a gold medal. If she does that, well, then she can take a few days off. Perhaps. Crystal went into the USA Team Trials with a rating of 2395 – she’s just turned twelve, think about that for a moment – which would have seeded her third, two points behind #2 Judy Hugh. But because they were using slightly older ratings she was seeded 7th at “only” 2304, and so she faced #1 seed and 2012 USA Women’s Singles Champion Lily Zhang in the quarterfinals on Friday, losing 4-1. Lily went on to clinch the #1 spot, with a 4-3 battle over Tina Lin in the semifinals, and 4-1 in the final over Erica Wu. (The Trials were run as three single elimination tournaments, with the USA Team consisting of the winners on day one and two, and the two finalists on day three.)

On Saturday, Crystal and Prachi Jha had a titanic struggle in the quarterfinals. Crystal won the first two easily; Prachi won the next two easily, and pulled out the fifth 11-9. Up 3-2 and leading 7-1 in the sixth, it looked like Prachi was going to win, but Crystal came back to win in deuce. In the seventh, with Crystal up 8-5, it looked like she was going to win and finish second on the team, but Prachi won the last six points to win the game and advance. She would go on to clinch the #2 spot, winning 4-0 against Judy Hugh in the semifinals and 4-1 over Angela Guan in the final. Crystal could only put aside what might have been and focus on the final day. It was on Sunday that Crystal went on a rampage. She won 4-0 in the first round over Tia Hsieh; 4-1 over Tina Lin (and her ferocious backhand smash) in the quarterfinals; 4-0 in the semifinals over chopper Angela Guan (having 2600 chopper Wang Qing Liang as a practice partner and coach at the Trials helped), and 4-2 in the final over Erica Wu, thereby clinching the #3 spot on the team, with Erica getting the #4 spot. She’s a bit excited these days, not just about making the U.S. National Team, but about upcoming travel. She’s going to the Canadian Junior & Cadet Open in Toronto, April 10-13. Then she’ll be going to Tokyo for a training camp (April 24-27) and then the World Team Championships (April 28 -May 5). It may seem that all Crystal does is table tennis and school. But that’s not quite true, even if she seems perpetually at a table practicing something. “I like shopping, skiing, and ice skating,” she said. In fact, it was just a couple of months ago that she and other top MDTTC juniors went on a joint skiing trip, much to the horror of some of us, who debated which one would return with a broken leg. (All came back healthy and ready to practice.) She also likes Korean Drama, and is a big fan of the Hunger Games (both books and movies). She also likes to watch and draw anime. School is also important to her, and she’s a dedicated student, which is why she’s in a magnet program despite all her table tennis hours. She has straight A’s, with one exception. “I have an 89.4% average in English,” she laments, “just 0.6% from an A!” She also goes to Chinese School on Saturdays, which she described as “Really boring.” She added, “But I get bored easily. We have a drawing class afterwards which is more interesting. Right now

Youngest US Team Member in HistoryCrystal Wang, 12, Makes USA National Team

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we’re doing cartooning.” She’s not Miss Perfect either. “I used to play piano but wasn’t very good. I got frustrated and finally quit.” She can also get moody at tournaments, which affects her play, sometimes leading to uncharacteristically poor play. She was born in the U.S., and has been playing since she was five and a half. She’s tall for her age, 5’5”, something she sometimes laments about, but her parents are tall as well. She is sponsored by Butterfly, and uses a Mizutani blade, with Tenergy 05 on the forehand, Tenergy 64 on the backhand. From the beginning her primary coach has been Jack Huang, a full-time coach at MDTTC since it opened in 1992. He’s a former Chinese team member (1976-83), a National Coach (highest USATT certification level), and was the 1998 USATT National Coach of the Year. Before coming to the U.S. in 1989 (where he was the #1 player in 1990), he was the head coach for the Guangxi Province of China. He also holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Sports from the Guangxi Sports Institute. He has coached countless top players, with Crystal the latest – and perhaps, someday, the greatest. They have four sessions every week. Crystal also trains with the other coaches and top players at MDTTC, including Wang Qing Liang (who coached her at the Team Trials), Chen Bo Wen, Chen Ruichao (a new MDTTC coach/practice partner, about 2650), Han Xiao, Raghu Nadmichettu, Harold Baring, Heather Wang, and Derek Nie. (I used to train with her, but alas, I can no longer keep up with her. But we talk tactics often.) What is she focusing on right now? “Mostly forehand and footwork,” says Coach Huang. “More snap, more spin.” It’s been the focus for much of the past year. Over the next year they’ll also be focusing on serve and receive. “She needs more variety on her serve,” says Huang. “Also more aggressive on receive.” “When she’s tired she sometimes doesn’t want to train,” continued Huang. “But she does since she wants to reach a high level. So I keep pushing her. When you push her, she works very hard. Mentally, she’s getting stronger. She knows how to change strategies if one doesn’t work.” Previous generations of top junior girls in the U.S. were often hitter/blockers. It was a great way to make the U.S. team. However, at the higher levels, it was somewhat of a backwards style. Crystal is the complete opposite, a two-winged looper who loops nearly everything off the bounce. Spectators, even experienced players, often don’t realize until they watch closely – or play her – that most of her apparent countering and blocking aren’t counters or blocks – she’s looping off the bounce, but she does it so quickly that it often goes unnoticed. Her off-the-bounce topspinning backhand is especially good. Add to that great ball control, especially when returning serves, and it’s murderous playing her. I know, because I’ve faced her many times. Crystal also has a knack for attacking an opponent’s middle (the playing elbow), something they drill on specifically. Becoming the youngest USA team member isn’t the first time Crystal has set age records. At the USA Nationals in December, at the age of 11, she became the youngest player ever to win Under 22 Women, defeating top seed Ariel Hsing of California in the semifinals (who would go on to win her third Women’s Singles title), and Angela Guan in the final. In Women’s Singles, Crystal lost in the quarterfinals 4-0 to Erica Wu. Crystal is now the #1 ranked girl in the U.S. in Under 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 Girls. She is also ranked #1 in Under 13 overall, girls or boys. She has already achieved the highest rating in history, boys or girls, for ages 9, 10, and 11, and is well on her way to doing so for age 12. She was a member of the U.S. Junior Team at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Hyderabad, India, and at age 10, was not just the youngest on the team by several years, but the youngest in the tournament. The International Table Tennis Federation did a feature on Crystal in December, 2012, after she won the North American Hopes Trials and attended Hopes Week at the Werner

Schlager Academy in Austria. While there she won the training tournament, and in the tournament held at the end of the week she made the final of Girls’ Singles, losing the final to Hong Kong’s Lee Ka Yee and making the ITTF World Hopes Team (top four 11- and 12-year-old girls in the world). Outside of perhaps a few girls in Asia, Crystal is almost for certain the top player her age in the world. Now ratings are not that important, but they are fun to look at, especially when they go up. So it’s fun to look at rating records. Crystal and California’s Kanak Jha (who turns 14 in June) keep setting new ones. Crystal has set records for the highest rated 9-, 10-, and 11-year-old in history (boys or girls) at 2150, 2355, and 2402. (Kanak’s highest ratings at those ages were 2017, 2265, and 2366.) However, Kanak has since set lofty records for 12- and 13-year-olds at 2468 and 2635 – and that last one will be incredibly difficult to break; he’s a tough act to follow. Crystal is already by far the highest rated girl in history for each of these ages, though technically she’s got nearly a year to go before she becomes a teenager next February. However, she’s also being pushed to excel by others near her age, especially Amy Wang of NJ, who’s a little younger and who would be breaking these records herself if not for Crystal breaking them first.It’s fun to watch, even though the players themselves are largely oblivious to it – they are focused on winning titles and making teams, not on numbers. Those are for the fans. So forget the ratings, what’s next for Crystal Wang? “Now that she’s made the U.S. team,” said Coach Huang, “she needs to go for the Olympic Team. She works very hard, but if she wants to go to the Olympics, she’ll have to work even harder.” I can’t imagine that, but I know Crystal is up for the challenge, and I can’t wait to see the results.

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2014 TMS College Table Tennis Championshipsby Andy Kaningiser and Willy Leparulo The 2014 TMS College Table Tennis Championships was a tournament of firsts all around as Teams and play-ers alike picked up top honors for the first time. The Col-lege Table Tennis Championships was hosted by the Visit Monroeville Convention Visitor’s Bureau and sponsored by TMS International, Newgy Industries, Butterfly and was played at the Club Sport and Health in Monroeville, PA (also for the first time). Also for the first time we were able to utilize rubber flooring graciously donated by Kill-erspin through Ed Hogshead. Women’s Doubles was a great event featuring several top school pairs, but one wiley veteran in Vivien Zhou who previously won Women’s Doubles in 2012 with then Partner Pei Pei Zheng. Vivien and XiXi are owners of little pimples called Medium pips and in addition Vivien brought her Lion sized personality as exhibited by the way she pumps herself up. All of these factors led to this powerful University of Toronto duo winning the Women’s Doubles tournament over Sylvan Guo and Ellen Hwang of California (Berkeley) who actually unseated the #1 doubles duo from Princeton, Olympian Ariel Hsing and teammate Shirley Fu. Men’s Doubles featured a first as well as Zhedi Bai

and Razvan Cretu teamed up together to play in what the Texas Wesleyan camp would call their #2 doubles team. Cretu, a lefty, is made for the doubles set up and as one spectator noted “he is a beast”. Yes, Razvan was a force to be reckoned with and Zhedi cleaned up any loose ends. A great partnership and one that was a FIRST this year for each of them as they have never teamed up in dou-bles. They beat a determined Mississippi College team, but experience does have its benefits. Mississippi College players are on the rookie stage of their careers in College Table Tennis, so experience is an intangible that does not need to be understated. Texas Wesleyan has plenty Raz-vanCretu is no stranger to College Table Tennis finals in doubles as he participated in the 2012 and 2013 Cham-pionships in that event and Zhedi Bai can also hold his own on the Championship court was the finalist in Men’s singles in 2013 among other accolades. Another first for NCTTA was the number of powerhouse women’s singles players that qualified for the event. Never before in NCTTA’s history have so many talented wom-en’s players come to the forefront. This year, Olympian in 2012, Ariel Hsing is a Freshmen at Princeton University; also at Princeton arrived Shirley Fu ex Canadian junior in-ternational as well as a plethora of other noted stars from around the country (Berkeley- Ellen Hwang); (Northeast-ern-Li Yuhua); (Western Ontario- Ronnge Zhang), (Texas Wesleyan- Claudia Ikeizumi). These young ladies have brought a new trend to College Table Tennis proving that the men aren’t the only ones to watch! Ten out of an al-most full field of women’s players were over 2000 in rat-ing. Ariel Hsing faced off in the TMS 2014 College Table Tennis Championships vs #2 seed Li Yuhua from North-eastern University. Two newcomers to College Table Tennis and the #1 and 2 seeds. Li a southpaw and Ariel handling her bat from the right side showed off impres-sive shots and gave the College TT populace a chance for ovation after ovation as Ariel Hsing picked up her first piece of College Table Tennis hardware as the Women’s Singles Champ. Men’s Singles featured a toe to toe competition between two teammates from the same school specifically Missis-sippi College. Small religious college out of Clinton, MS featured Cheng Li and teammate Yichi Zhang. The 6’ 3”

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


native, Cheng Li, of the Yunan Province of China beat his MC teammate Yichi Zhang, who ended up No. 2 in theall-MC finals. A first again for the Mississippi College Ta-ble Tennis team picking up both the Men’s singles cham-pion trophy and 2nd place trophy. Women’s Team event featured a first time winner in Princeton University led by Ariel Hsing and Shirley Fu. Princeton came into the event ranked #2 overall behind the California (Berkeley) team. California on paper was prob-ably the most solid women’s team in the field. They easily dispatched their opponents, but the showdown came when they faced Princeton women’s team with Ariel at the helm. The women’s final featured a showdown in doubles where Ariel and Shirley were able to enact revenge and defeat Sylvan Guo and Ellen Hwang (who previously beat them in the Women’s Doubles competition) for the win in the Women’s Team event. Welcome Princeton women to the Championships as a new school team winning it on the first try! In Pittsburgh Steelers Country, Texas Wesleyan Univer-sity showed their collegiate table tennis dynasty is in the same league with one of the NFL’s greatest teams.

The proof was evident Sunday afternoon at the 2014 TMSCollegiate Table Tennis Championships in Monroeville, Pennsylvania when the Texas Wesleyan Rams captured their 11th consecutive coed team title. A FIRST for any Collegiate team in most probably any Collegiate sport! For the third straight year, the awesome coed team from Fort Worth withstood a mighty challenge from Mississippi College to take home a first place trophy on April 6. Powerful TWU table tennis stars like Emil Santos of theDominican Republic, Yahao Zhang of Denver, Zhedi Bai of China and Razvan Cretu formally of Romania, brought their “A’’ games to the table for the three-day NCTTA event. In the collegiate table tennis world, their names shine bright. Following a four-match split with some potent MC players seen by audiences from the USA to China on the NCTTA’s live streaming, TWU turned up the heat. It came down to the wire in a doubles match, and TWU’s Santos and Zhang prevailed over MC Choctaws standouts Cheng Li and Yichi Zhang. Plenty of hugs, high fives, and joy on the faces of the TWU players, coaches and fans followed moments later. It’s become an all too familiar scene every spring for TWU

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table tennis supporters. “Honestly, it was unexpected,’’ said TWU Coach Jasna Rather. “On paper, MC has two stronger players and they are good at doubles. But our players always push themselves beyond their ratings.’’ It’s never easy for anybody going up against Cheng Li, 22, who on Saturday battled his way to become the 2014 national collegiate men’s singles champion. In fact, Rather salutes Cheng Li, the No. 1 seed heading into the Monro-eville tourney, as “one of the best players in the USA,’’ andnoted that goes beyond collegiate circles. But TWU’s Santos, the 2013 NCTTA singles champ, and Yahao Zhang, who’s bound soon for World Table Tennis competition in Japan, were aggressive with their attacks and returned some spectacular shots against their MC opponents. NCTTA President notes, “NCTTA brings the best in Col-lege Table Tennis together and we are super enthused at the top notch final, congratulations to all for an amazing final.” Kudos to the NCTTA and its sponsors TMS International, Newgy Industries and Butterfly.

Coed Team - Texas Wesleyan University Women’s Team - Princeton University 1stMen’s Singles - Cheng Li, Mississippi College Women’s Singles - Ariel Hsing, Princeton UniversityMen’s Doubles - Razvan Cretu & Zhedi Bai, Texas Wesleyan University Women’s Doubles - Vivien Zhou &Xixi Guo, University of Toronto Men’s Consolation - Peng Peng Women’s Consolation - Xiaohaun Zhu

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Article Courtesy of Texas Wesleyan Athletics (www.ramsports.net)

MONROEVILLE, PA: The Texas Wesleyan Univer-sity table tennis team faced one of its toughest chal-lenges at the 2014 TMS College Table Tennis Na-tional Championships. However, the Rams were up to the task extending their streak to eleven consecutive national championships. The Rams entered the competition as the top seed, but second seeded Mississippi College had served notice in Saturday’s competition that they were a force to be reckoned with. Saturday’s men’s singles final was an all MC affair with Cheng Li defeating his teammate Yichi Zhang. In men’s doubles, the Rams and Choctaw’s had battled it out with each program putting two teams in the final four. Texas Wesleyan’s second ranked duo of Zhedi Bai and Razvan Cretu defeated MC’s second ranked combo of Junyu Xiao and ZeshengHuang for the title. The team competition was tied 2-2 entering men’s doubles which would decide the title. Team USA member Yahao Zhang and 2013 men’s singles champion Emil Santos took to the table for Texas Wesleyan against Li and Zhang and the Rams came away with a thrilling victory.

Rams Win: Dynasty Rolls On

TWU Doubles. Photo courtesy of Keith Lam/NCTTA

The win ran Texas Wesleyan’s streak to eleven consecutive national championships. The Rams first became eligible to play for the team championship in 2004, and they have never been defeated. The 2014 team title along with the win in men’s doubles gives the Rams a total of 55 championships since the program’s inception in 2001. In the women’s team competition, the Lady Rams had won five titles in the last seven years. However, the 2014 squad was seeded fifth. The Lady Rams took a 3-1 win over NYU to reach the semifinals where they were defeated 3-2 by the eventual champion Princeton. 2014 TMS College Table Tennis National Champions

Coed Team: Texas WesleyanWomen’s Team: PrincetonMen’s Singles: Cheng Li, Mississippi CollegeWomen’s Singles: Ariel Hsing, PrincetonMen’s Doubles: Zhedi Bai / Razvan Cretu, Texas WesleyanWomen’s Doubles: Vivien Zhou / Xixi Guo, Toronto


By Adam “Chicken Soup for Your Face” Bobrow

Your Kid

Don’t have kids???? I don’t think I do either. This article is for you too. We’re getting older. Every year. Every day. Every second. Before we finish reading this sentence, we’ve gotten older. And that sentence was pretty short for me. So what? What does that mean? More responsibility? Maybe we run around slightly less or not quite as fast… maybe our bones sound like Rice Crispies when we walk??? That’s all part of the game. But enough of the UPLIFTING content. Whether it’s at SPiN, in an elevator or in a room filled with only sleeping people… I tend to ask people if they play ping pong (I usually don’t ask sleeping people). And a LARGE percentage of the people I ask tell me they “used to play.”Naturally, I follow that with “why’d you stop?” The most common response I get is “I just got too busy.” That’s closely followed by “I don’t have a table anymore” or “sorry, this is my floor… have a nice day.” Just got too busy??? We all have our priorities, but one thing that makes us healthy is being happy and one thing that makes us happy, is doing what we love. Therefore, through the transitive property (if I remember my math terms), being healthy = doing what you love. So

many people that I talk to about this stopped playing but when they play for a minute or two remember how much FUN they used to have. So why not make some time to play?!?! Is playing only for kids??? Of COURSE not. Even if there were NO exercise involved, just playing would be healthy because of all of its creative aspects and the fun factor alone. Maybe if there were more tables around, people would be playing more often. “If you build it… they will come.” A quote so great that I don’t even have to mention that it was from Field of Dreams. How many people got really into table tennis because they had a table at work, or in their dorm… or just somewhere convenient and accessible? And how many people stopped playing because there wasn’t a table around anymore? Well… it’s getting out there… but if I weren’t related to someone who knew about organized table tennis… I might never have discovered how amazing it is and how much fun it can be or that there are other places to play outside of my home. And since not everybody has a family member who’s connected to places to play… it would be great if this information was out there and available for anyone interested in getting back into what they played as a kid. Of course, there are priorities and those are yours. Who’s to tell you what your priorities should be? DEFINITELY not me. But I WILL say that it’s way too easy to get caught up in being busy, being productive and to simply forget about making time for the things you enjoy the most. And whatever those things are… they might not include playing table tennis(but since you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance that you’re really into table tennis), we would probably feel better if we include them in our life fairly often. As I get older, I am constantly reminded of how I still feel like a little kid. It’s interesting to know that many people I’ve talked with, from 93-year-olds to 72-year-olds, young parents and professionals just out of college still feel like kids inside. So was this article about your child? Well, I understand that having a child is a HUGE factor in how you spend your time, but this article is less about being a parent and more about being good to yourself and letting your kid, your INNER kid, live… play and without being terribly irresponsible… be free and have fun. No matter how long you’ve been alive, don’t get old. Stay young at heartand please don’t ignore… “your kid.” 8>)

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by Carl Danner

Shot Sequences (Tip of The MonTh: April)

Tips of the Month

Paying Attention(Tip of The MonTh: MArch)

For many players just starting out in the sport, it is not too difficult to get the hang of some of the strokes in a club environment. Game tactics can be another matter, however, as opponents combine shots into point-winning sequences the newbies haven’t seen before.

To understand these sequences requires appreciating how each stroke naturally feeds into the next. The key is to encourage your opponent to provide the kind of return you want to attack, in a location that is convenient for you. For example, a crosscourt push is usually pushed back crosscourt among beginners, and if the push is deep then the return will also be deep. If you can attack a deep push successfully, you have the makings of a winning shot sequence just by pushing deep crosscourt, and moving into position to attack the return. Another common approach is to anticipate a return to the middle of the table if you can angle your shot off to one side. Many players will return sidespin serves to one side of the table only, creating a further opportunity. If the return is predictable enough, you can even move ahead of time to be waiting in place when the ball arrives back.

One of my coaching emphases is on behaviors of top players that you can copy, but which most players don’t.

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

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

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The same thinking can help you defend against winning shot sequences, when you feel compelled in rallies to give your opponent just the ball he wants to pounce on. Take a moment and think about what type of shot you are being encouraged to hit (and to where), and try to deliver something else -- almost anything else, in fact. For example, rather than stroking a topspin into the wrong corner, try chopping the ball in the opposite direction even if your chop is pretty weak. Just having to change direction and stroke will slow your opponent down, and may even win the point outright if he was moving early to anticipate his favorite return. A lob can be another surprise tactic, as your opponent will not only have to move sideways but back to handle it. A further benefit is that once you do surprise your opponent a few times, he will grow more cautious and hesitate to trust his sequences.

Understanding how one return naturally follows another is a key to your development as a competitive player. Start looking for these patterns now, and you will soon see results!


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

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

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Change-UpThe Missing Key in Table Tennis Footwork

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By Samson Dubina Most club players are unable to excel in table tennis because of their poor footwork. Many players blame their beer belly or their age or their footwear or their training partners. However, the aspect of footwork that I will be describing in this short article is an aspect that every player can improve upon, regardless of their age, rating, or physical condition. Today, I want to show you the importance of anticipation as it relates to footwork in table tennis. There are three elements that I want you to remember. First, move into position based on your hit. If you are positioned at your forehand corner and you hit cross court, you are probably in a good position for the next hit. If your opponent decides to hit down-the-line, then you can adjust your position. But covering the cross court ball will force your opponent to hit the more difficult ball or to hit the easy ball to your position. From your forehand corner you hit to the middle, you then need to move to the middle of the table. From your forehand corner you hit down-the-line to your opponent’s backhand, you then need to shift your feet to the backhand corner in anticipation of the next ball. Again, there is no guarantee that the ball will go cross court. The only thing that you are trying to accomplish in this first element is that you cover the easiest and deadliest hit from your opponent – cross court. In order to practice this first aspect, I would recommend starting simple and perfecting the first ball first. Start by serving to the corners and preparing with your body position for the cross court return. You can do the same with serve return. Have your training partner serve short backspin, you push deep to either corner, then prepare cross court to block his loop. Second, adjust your position again based on what you see. If you have moved into position on the backhand side of the table but your see your opponent’s racket angled toward the middle, then re-adjust your position based on what you see.

About 90% of the time, the angle is correct. Players usually don’t double-fake you. If their angle is showing that they are hitting to your forehand, then usually they truly are hitting to your forehand. In order to practice this second aspect, I would recommend learning how to watch the ball as it approaches you, then learning how to watch your opponent’s racket after your hit. Warm-up forehand to forehand with your training partner. Ask your training partner to occasionally switch your backhand. You should be able to see his angle change prior to contact. If you can see the angle change and are able to adjust, then you are on the right tract. If your training partner hits the ball to your backhand… the ball is crossing the net… then suddenly you realize that he switched, then you have not properly been watching his angle. Start with simple drills like this, then get more advanced as you perfect this new skill. Third, be ready to make small, split-second adjustments with your feet. The anticipation based on your hit and the anticipation based on your opponent’s angle are very general. You might think that your opponent is placing the ball to your middle-forehand, but in fact, he placed the ball to your wide forehand. In order to maintain balance and control, you must make the final adjustment with your feet. In order to practice this third aspect, ask your training partner to block for you in the forehand ½ table. You hit everything to his forehand while he moves you slightly. Your feet should be making 1-2 micro moves before every hit. The world’s best players usually take about 2-3 mini-steps between hits. Remember the three aspects – your hit, your opponent’s racket, and your final adjustment. If you can master these three aspects, then table tennis will seem easier, you will seem to have more time, you will be reading the ball better, and the game will flow much easier.

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By Larry Hodges, TableTennisCoaching.com

Shadow Practice for Strokes and Footwork A great way to improve the sharpness and steadiness of your shots is to shadow practice them. This means practicing your shots without the ball. One of the best things that ever happened to me when I was a beginner was when I was told to shadow practice my forehand and backhand drives and loops, and side-to-side footwork, one hundred times a day. This was a primary reason why I went from beginner at age 16 to 1900+ in about two years. For Beginning Players: focus on the basics. You want to develop smooth, repeatable shots and footwork. You might want to have a coach work with you first, so you aren’t practicing bad habits. Once you know what to do, do perhaps fifty to a hundred forehand and backhand drives, and fifty to a hundred forehand and backhand loops. Then go side to side fifty to a hundred times, stroking each time (either all forehand, or alternate forehand and backhand).One key thing: remember that strokes have three parts: backswing, forward swing, and back to ready position. Many players tend to just go back and forth (going directly from forward swing to backswing), which you never do in a game. The stroke should go through a triangular motion (dropping down to ready position), not just a back and forth motion. For Intermediate Players: Focus on improving the speed, crispness and power of the shots and footwork. Think about the type of specific movements you do in a game, and mimic them. For example, if you want to develop a powerful forehand loop that you can use from all parts of the table, then shadow practice powerful forehand loops, from both the wide forehand and wide backhand, as well as from the middle, and practice moving from one spot to another. (Note--intermediate players should also use some of the techniques

explained for advanced players.) For Advanced Players: At this point, your shots are consistent and powerful. You should continue to do the shadow practice as explained for intermediate players. However, now you should add randomness. As you shadow practice, imagine you are playing a real match. Imagine a specific opponent, and play out the rallies--except now you are playing at whatever level you hope to attain. Want to be a world-class player? Then shadow practice rallies as if you are world-class! Instead of alternating forehand loops from side to side, add randomness - imagine your opponent spraying the ball all over the court. For example, after looping a forehand from the backhand court, your “opponent” might put one to the wide forehand, which you then cover; or he might block one right back to your backhand again, which you’ve vacated after the previous shot to get back into position, and so you either step around again for the forehand, or play a backhand attack shot. You can also practice receive techniques - imagine an opponent’s serve, read it, and return it. You might step in, drop a ball short or flip it, then step back and attack the next ball. Or you might shadow practice looping the deep serves. Think of what happens in a real match, and play out those points. For All Players: You can practice everything this way, except for the actual timing of hitting the ball - and you can do that later at the table, with much faster, stronger and crisper shots because of the shadow practicing. And the nice thing is you can shadow practice anywhere - at work, at home, on the subway. (Okay, that last might get you strange looks--but I’ve done it before!)

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ExternalMotivation All coaches are familiar with external motivation. For example, some athletes need a carrot or stick approach to get motivated. If the athlete does what is expected, he/she is rewarded. If he/she doesn’t do what is expected he/she is punished. The reward may be psychological or materialistic. A psychological reward could merely be a pat on the back, a smile for a job well done, verbal praise or even just a friendly approving nod. Materialistic awards could vary from just another star on the amateur player’s helmet to a financial award. The negative or stick approach to motivation is an attempt to eliminate unsatisfactory physical or mental reactions in athletes through the use of criticism or punishment. An example would be making an errant athlete run laps around the field or assessing a fine for some physical or mental lapse or error. Combining the positive and negative approach may be preferred by some coaches. In general a positive approach is preferable since it creates a more enjoyable climate for sports activity instead of an atmosphere of prevailing fear that a negative approach tends to precipitate.

Internal Motivation Internal motivation is the most desirable and effective of all. People with intrinsic motivation are average people who accomplish outstanding things. They get a dream. They set a goal. You are what you go for. Bob Richards, the World Champion pole vaulter, often personally stressed this psychological aspect to us. It is important that we make some sort of commitment to what we would like to achieve in our life, as well as in sports. Concentrate all your efforts on achieving your goal. Be prepared to try again if you fail the first time.Goals must be realistic, but high enough to create challenge. Make them specific but obtainable. Long-term goals are reached by accomplishing several short-term goals. Become positive and believe you can do it. It’s important that athletes develop a positive self-image. For instance, if you don’t think you can win you probably won’t. Thinking you’ll win doesn’t guarantee that you will but a least you have abetter chance to do so. You must overcome yourself before you can overcome others. Any person entering sports is immediately challenged. In both team and individual sports the athlete is challenged by an opponent. We all have a vast reservoir of untapped talent. Your capacity is only determined by challenge. Four other techniques we find effective in the mental training of athletes are: Visualization, biofeedback, cybernetics, and hypnosis. They sound like separate entities but basically they are intrinsically entwined. For instance visualization is a basic concept utilized in hypnotherapy. There is nothing mystical about any of these techniques.

Visualization: You are all familiar with visualization. The same parts of the brain are activated by imagining an athletic

Michael J. Scott, Jr., MDUSATT Certified Coach, Umpire World ChampionshipsMichael J. Scott III, DO, MD

This article will stress how table tennis athletes in general have been well educated on the physical aspects of training but are often undereducated on the mental aspects. This imbalance has often resulted in some very frustrated athletes who, after devoting tremendous amounts of time physically training their bodies, achieve only mediocre results in competition. They are not obtaining their maximum potential because although they spent months or years physically training their bodies they devoted only seconds preparing the mental aspects in table tennis. It’s ironic that many fail to see the inequity. Today sports psychologists, coaches, and athletes are aware that training the mind and body together is essential for optimal results. It is imperative to emphasize that the athlete’s mental state is just as adaptable to training as his or her physical skills. Utilizing both to maximal effectiveness will result in the highest level of performance. To achieve optimal results the emotional and mental skills must be trained and developed just as the physical skills. To train or program the mind in athletics is a detailed variable process that must be learned and then faithfully followed. Athletes must practice mental training just as they practice physical skills. This article will discuss some of the techniques we find effective in the mental training of table tennis players to help avoid choking during tournament play. Compared to many sports table tennis is not primarily about physical strength; it is a game of skill that combines physical and mental aspects. In the final analysis, the will to win is often more crucial than the skill to win. Sports psychologists, coaches, and athletes are beginning to realize this fact and are placing more emphasis on the mental aspects in sports.The mind and the body work as a unit and cannot be separated into distinct entities. Whatever affects one, affects the other. Often a player’s motivation, determination, concentration, and confidence decide the winner or loser. An athlete must not only battle an opponent, he/she must also conquer complexities and conflicts in his/her own mind. He/she must confront such obstacles as self-doubt, nervousness, lapses of concentration, and similar distractions which prevent optimal performance. He/she must learn “selectiveattention,” which is the ability to focus on a specific task; thereby eliminating extraneous factors. Sports psychology is not a quick fix and must be individualized. What works for one may not work for another. Techniques we have found effective in the mental training of athletes include:

• Motivation• Visualization• Biofeedback• Cybernetic Training • Hypnosis

These are not the only techniques, but are the ones we found very effective if properly utilized.

Motivation We prefer to classify motivation into two forms. One is of external origin, and the other of internal origin.

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performance as actually doing it. Therefore, visualizing yourself performing the various strokes in table tennis is very effective but make them vivid and realistic as possible. Visualization has been well-publicized and accepted in our sport

Biofeedback: Biofeedback uses instrumentation to give an athlete immediate continuous signals of change in their body. It is gaining popularity in Sports Psychology to decrease stress, anxiety, and muscular tension during competition. Numerous electronic devices can be utilized in biofeedback therapy. With modern biofeedback the body’s abnormal electronics can be modified.The object of biofeedback is to increase the voluntary control over physiological processes that are otherwise outside conscious awareness. It is a noninvasive method of training the brain to work more efficiently and the ability to self-regulate. Many devices can be used in biofeedback to document and record changes in respiration, blood pressure, pulse rate, skin temperature, surface electromyography, and other physical functions. In more advanced procedures such as neurofeedbackand electroencephalography, electrode leads can be placed on the scalp to measure activity of the brain. This information can be fed to a computer and shown on a screen. Such information obtained can be used to influence the efficiency and effectiveness of performance. By looking at the screen, while concentrating and relaxing, an athlete can visually observe how they can alter physiological activity. Many Olympic and professional athletes have credited biofeedback training as a key factor in their success by increasing their ability to focus under stress giving them the edge they need to win.Anxiety and stress can cause many athletes to “choke” in clutch situations. By learning to alter their mental and physical state with a few simple relaxation techniques they decrease tension and stress and their performance improves. Biofeedback devices are excellent tools for achieving such results.

Cybernetics: Cybernetics is the study of control processes in the biological system.Cybernetics ismentally training the mind to focus for extended period of time on a chosen goal and thereby eliminating extraneous factors. Such selective attention leads to athletic success. With selective attention an athlete can mentally block out distractions or taunts from a hostile crowd such as disparaging comments about the athlete’s physiognomy, his/her race etc… Yoga is one example of cybernetic techniques utilized to obtain these results. Yoga, as used in sports, is not a religion or cult. Yoga is a mind and body discipline developed in India 2,000 years ago which focuses on conscious breathing, calm state of mind, and deep stages of relaxation. Such concentration can lower the heart rate, the blood pressure, the respiratory rate, decrease stress, and increase muscular strength, flexibility, improve balance, and relaxation. After learning Yoga techniques an athlete can, prior to a match,utilize this cybernetic ability to obtain relaxation and “selective attention.” Similarly during the actual match a trained athlete can also obtain beneficial results despite stressful conditionsusing visualization, biofeedback, and hypnotic training. Yoga is now being used in hospitals for the treatment of many disorders such as muscular dystrophy.Many professional athletes including golfers, such as Tiger Woods, attribute some of their success to Yoga exercises.

Hypnotherapy: Hypnosis has been increasingly accepted as an effective modality in sports. Hypnosis is a fascinating topic often clouded by misconceptions, mysticism, and neglect. Hypnosis for entertainment and amusement has no more relationship to hypnosis in medicine or sports than astrology to astronomy; nevertheless the very word hypnosis conveys obsolete prejudices, taboos, and misconceptions

to many individuals. Many individuals, essentially those with little or no experience, unhesitatingly condemn it. However hypnosis applied in athletics has proven highly successful in carefully selected cases. The era of superstition towards hypnosis in sports is gradually being eroded by an awareness of its therapeutic values. Hypnotherapy can effectively neutralize adverse stimuli of extrinsic or intrinsic origin. Athletes can learn to control their emotional level and mentally block-out adverse emotional stimuli.Hypnosis is a cooperative undertaking between the hypnotist and the athlete. During hypnosis the athlete is more receptive to acceptable suggestions. A hypnotized person will not accept any idea or suggestion that is against their morality, religion etc… The higher the intelligence the easier it is to do hypnosis.Hypnosis can help an athlete overcome issues of self-doubt which may be preventing him/her from progressing to a higher level of performance. Visualization and certain aspects of Yoga are actually forms of self-hypnosis. Hypnosis is not a panacea, but often a valuable technique in athletics. The three basic techniques we primarily used with hypnosis are:

1. Direct Suggestion2. Symptom Substitution3. Hypnoanalysis

Direct Suggestion: Suggestions given in a hypnotic trance are far more effective than suggestions given in the conscious state. For example, let’s assume you go to your dentist and he says “I am not going to use Novocain or any anesthetic while extracting your infected tooth so you will feel pain but I am sure you will be able to tolerate it.” In the average patient the chances of that working is quite slim. In contrast, the ability to produce anesthesia by hypnotic suggestion alone has gained great notoriety. Were it not so time consuming in certain patients and if all patients could be hypnotized deeply enough, it would be the ideal anesthetic. Brain surgery, thyroidectomies, hysterectomies, tooth extractions, etc… have all been done with direct suggestion alone in a hypnotic trance. Direct hypnotic suggestion has been proven effectivein athletics. In many instances it is used primarily to obtain physical and mental relaxation and to relieve tension and stress.

Symptom Substitution: Another method of reconditioning or re-educating the subconscious through hypnosis is replacing one habit pattern with another more constructive pattern. The new pattern must be logical enough to destroy the earlier pattern in the patient’s mind. In symptom substitution some undesirable mental or physical outlet is replaced with a more acceptable one. For example, instead of being distracted by inadequate lighting, an obnoxious opponent, or spectator etc… a player can instead be directed to concentrate on the table tennis ball. In other words “selective attention.” As stated previously, a suggestion given in the hypnotic situation is far more effective than one given in the usual normal state.

Hypnoanalysis: In this procedure hypnosis is combined with an analytic method of psychotherapy.Each of us is a maze of conflicting desires and impulses which subconsciously influence our actions. Repressed fear, hate, love, anxiety, anger, painful experiences, frustrations, etc…may consciously be forgotten but forever remain in the subconscious where they are capable of producing conflicts which may manifest themselves in functional disturbances.Obscure underlying causes of neurotic behavior may come to the surface in one or two sessions. Conscious awareness of such underlying suppressed causes may completely disintegrate undesirable behavior characteristics.

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With the help of Town of Cary Recreation Director Dwayne Jones and the ever-present Tournament Operations Director Sam Trogdon, Mike Babuin’s thirteenth annual Cary Cup was the success everyone thought it would be. Major sponsor Butterfly’s Bowie Martin, Jr., Newgy Robo-Pong’s Joe Newgarden, and local supporters such as NC Communications and the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance had to be pleased that the many spectators were so responsive to the high-quality competition, particularly that of the dominating Chinese-trained players. The weekend’s gigantic 144-entry Cary Cup Round Robin was preceded by five satellite events played at various times Friday, all of them offering prize money and the special coveted cups associated with this tournament (all Final Four participants in all events would receive a cup). The opening event was called “Classic” Hardbat because, as in the pre-sponge era, games were played to 21 and the “small” 38 mm balls (circa 1959) t.t. collector Babuin had acquired were used. Mike, who’s on his way to being a great caretaker of our sport’s historic items, has been abetted by U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame President Dick Evans (Chief Umpire for this tournament), Committee Chair to establish a HOF Museum site Dean Johnson, and USATT Historian Tim Boggan. Tim’s just contributed, among other treasures, what may be the only extant set of the USTTA’s beginning (1930’s) Table Tennis Topics. The Friday Hardbat event was won, as expected, by 43-year-old Jim Butler, former two-time Olympian and three-time U.S. Men’s National Champion. Butler, playing with the same racket Marty Reisman specified he use in their celebrated 1998 money match, won seven in a row in his Group A round robin to reach the Final Four—all without dropping a game. Runner-up in this Group was 62-year-old, stamina-strong Chu Bin Hai who 20 or so years ago came from China on a working visa to settle in Miami and now is an habitué of the Broward Club in Fort Lauderdale. Aside from being beaten by Jim, he didn’t lose a game. However, in their final Group A match, with both players undefeated, Jim, behind 15-8 in the first to Chu, was asking, “Does this match count?” Comes the answer, “No,” because, as was the case last year, there’s no carry over to the Final Four. So, players asked again, “Why, Mike, are we playing such a meaningless match?” Not that it made any difference to Jim—he rallied to win that game 21-17. The Group’s Third-Place finisher was Scott Butler. He induced mid-match smiles from Jim who was struck by the fact that Scott, though he wasn’t playing seriously anymore and had only played sparingly, if at all, with a hard bat, was trying his best against his brother. (And why shouldn’t he? Wasn’t he playing out of that North Carolina town, Advance.) “Crazy”—that was the one line written on the back of the Fourth-place finisher’s shirt—apparently enough information to identify Chris Obrian. In Group B, Alec (“A.J.”) Carney, 26-year-old lefty two-wing attacker (“BAZINGA!” yelled his playing shirt), advanced to the Final Four

unbeaten, but, unlike Butler, was challenged by Group Runner-up Xin Ping (20, -15, 19), and to a lesser degree by both Third-Place finisher Larry Hodges, who’d put on another successful Thursday night “Skills” Clinic for more or less (I would say “more”) beginners, and Fourth-Place finisher Dmitri Moundos. No Final Four for Larry this year, but never mind, though a Hall of Famer, he has quite a life outside of his player/coaching awards and (yes, you need to count them) his 1334 published t.t. articles; in recent years he’s sold no less than 70 sci-fi or, well, call them weird tales, and also two fantasy-imbued novels. Moundos, who learned the game in strange-to-most-of-us Siberia, now plays with a three-ply Hock bat and sports black knee-support patches he has to have and a red shirt that says “USA” on the back he doesn’t have to have. In the Final Four grouping, Butler continued his run-away play, again not losing a game in taking home $400 for his easy efforts. Second-Place ($200) went to Xin Peng. Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Xin came to Minnesota from China, was helped by USTTA Executive Vice-President Gus Kennedy to get a visa, was befriended by the Truelson family, and welcomed at Charlie Disney’s Table Tennis Club. He then accepted an invitation from Pete May to coach at his club in Augusta, Georgia. Now 64, Peng is still in Augusta, and still coaching which helps him to keep in great shape for his age. His fitness he attributes to his early table tennis training and his continued exercise of essential fundamentals he’d learned as a teenager then further developed as a 22-26-year-old member of the Chinese National Team. In decisively defeating Chu Bin Hai (both players were loath to throw the ball up even slightly on serve, but no one seemed to care), Xin avenged his loss to him in the final of the Over 60’s at the 2012 U.S. Open. Chu, however, did win a tough 19, -19, 18 match for the $100 Third-Place prize from Carney who at least received a trophy others were sure to admire. “A.J.” coaches in nearby Raleigh and hopes to find a niche for himself in what many, including U.S. Hall of Famer Diana Gee McDonnell who’d come to see matches here at this Bond Park venue, was looking forward to, the soon to be established 30,000 sq. ft. Triangle Table Tennis Center in Morrisville, a town adjacent to Cary. The results of the Final Four in the Friday Open, played simultaneously with the Hardbat event and sharing the same four ($400, $200, $100, Trophy only) prizes, saw First-Place winner John Mar (2241) score an 8, 10, -6, -4, 8 upset over runner-up Yu Di (2438), a recent arrival from China who in advancing hadn’t lost a game in his Group. Third-Place went to Xie Tianming (2149) who earlier in his round robin had been extended only by 38-year-old credit company executive Seemant Teotia (1971), last year’s Intermediate event (1500-1900) winner (and this year in that event the only Group player to take a game from Butler). The Fourth-Place Trophy was won by James Wang (2161), thanks to his Group win over Carlito Almirol, originally from Manilla but based now in Houston, Texas, and, though not entered in the tournament, the delighted recipient

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(left) Kewei and (right) Mingyu photos by Paul Derby

By Tim Boggan (Mar. 14-16, Cary, NC)


of a well-wisher’s surprise all-expense invitation to attend it…and then, when a spot opened, play in it. The U-1500 event winner ($250 first prize) was Li Shuxin—7-0 in his Group round robin with wins over Ronald Yorgason (6-1) and Sabrina Zhu (5-2). Li might have lost his 12, -11, 4, -7, 8 match to Zhu, but even if he had he still would have advanced out of a three-way 6-1 tie. Top seed Richard Perez was Runner-up ($100). Randy Massey, after advancing with a four-game (15-13 in the first…13-11 in the fourth) Group win over Ken Chia, finished Third ($50). Christopher Kartawira reached the Final Four with a five-game win over Moustapha Nasser, after which, despite defeating Li in straight games but losing to Perez and Massey, he was at least a Trophy winner. In the Intermediate event (prizes matching those in the U-1500’s), Steve Hamilton (1880) came First in the Final Four competition, but he wouldn’t have gotten there and pocketed $250 if in Group play Tony Murnahan (1689), who’d beaten Hamilton, had also held his 2-0 lead and taken out Mossa Barandao (1788). Runner-up “ringer” Lu Jian (1642) had the most startling advance: seeded fifth in his Group, he finished with a 7-0 (21-1) record—knocking off Liang Huigang (1879) and Ron Weber (1804), then in the Final downing in straight games Tony Yeap (1896) and Ayan Bagchi (1785). The remaining Friday event was the Advanced (over 1900) Round Robin and here the Final Four seeking the $600, $500, $200, $100 prizes were well over 1900. The winner was again Jim Butler, playing his 20th match of the day, or rather not playing it when Yu Di couldn’t continue because of cramps. The outstanding match of the event was Butler (2557) over the U.S.’s #1-rated player Shi Mingyu (2796), 12-10 in the fifth. Shi, 20, who’d been a member of the Chinese National Team from 2010-2012, is now based in Atlanta and needs to acclimate to his new surroundings. He misses his friends back in China and the Chinese food he was used to. But he’s ready to coach “anybody.” Certainly he needed to acclimate himself to Butler’s game—and didn’t. After advancing from his preliminary Group—7-0 (21-0, giving up no more than five points in any match)—he played Jim in his first Final Four encounter and won the initial game 11-5. But then, oh, oh, something of a shock after all those easy wins, when Butler took the second at 11-9. Shi saw he wasn’t prepared for Jim’s at-the-table backhand attack, was confused as to how to play him, lost confidence and the third game as well. Then, though Shi would outscore Butler 49-43 in the match, in the fifth it could have been anyone’s game and Butler prevailed. “This win was the highlight of my first two years back,” Jim said. Butler also defeated Shi’s friend, Feng “Tom” Yijun (2580), the personable 17-year-old Atlanta high schooler who speaks English and Chinese with ease, excels at the saxophone, and is good at golf. Tom, $200 Third-Place winner, was also, despite being a penholder, holding his own in backhand play in a 15-13 second-game win against Butler and was -11, 12, -9 hangin’ right in there with Yu before Di cramped to finish Fourth. Earlier, Di had 6, 3, -9, -9, 7 upset 36-year-old Gao Yanjun, Cary Cup winner in 2010 and finalist in 2009 and 2011. Saturday, the 144-entry main event, the Cary Cup, got underway with Round One that emphasized the advance of winners from 36 carefully seeded round robins of four. These 36 winners (that would form Group A) would then be divided into four seeded groups of nine players, out of each of which would come the top four finishing players who would then advance to a Sunday 16-player Single Elimination draw—eighth’s, quarter’s, semi’s, and final. Those who finished second, third, and fourth in their Round One play would go, respectively, into Groups B, C, and D where they too would form four nine-player groups, out of each of which would come a single advancer to play a Final Four round robin for trophy prizes. The seedings to produce the 36 Group A advancers were so accurate that in every round robin but one the higher-rated player was still at least theoretically eligible for the prize money available to the 16 Sunday qualifiers (Eighth’s: $300; Quarter’s: $500; Semi’s: $1,000; Runner-up: $2,000; Winner: $3,500). The one upset (and it wasn’t much of one) was when 40-year-old Carlos Garcia Ramirez (2205), a lefty stop-stroke blocker/attacker newly arrived from Spain, interrupted his smoke breaks to beat John Mar (2241) and advance from Group 35. Also, as I’m sure Roy Ke and family would have me note, Roy (2333), last year’s B winner, went down three straight to Huang Zesheng (2153). Turns out, however, this couldn’t really be considered an upset because Huang playing in an earlier NCTTA tournament had established a rating of 2470. Then, however, two months later under a different name, he entered

an U-2250 event, lost a match or two, and his rating as Huang Zesheng fell 300 points. So, instead of the 2075 opponent Roy expected, he got stung with this “ringer” and, disgusted, didn’t even play in the B’s. Later, Huang would show how capable he was when in Group A play he forced 2598 Li Cheng into the fifth. Before I continue now with Round Two Group A round robin play that will produce the money winners, I’m going to give you the Final Four results from Groups B, C, and D. In Group B, T.J. Beebe, 32, having been ousted in his opening round robin by John Wetzler (“Old Guys Rule” John’s shirt proudly proclaimed), downed Maria Costillo, #2 finisher with three five-game wins, then survived 2002 Cary Cup Champion Gregg Robertshaw, to reach the Final Four. There T.J. was the winner over Runner-up John Mar who’d struggled earlier with both Rich Burnside (16-14 in the fifth) and Don Settle. Michael Whitmeyer’s upset wins over Jia Zhen and James Wang allowed him to finish Third over Carlito Almirol. In Group C, David Albright (1939—that’s his rating not the year of his birth; he’s a young 55) repeated his last year’s win. But because had to go five in preliminary round robin play with Brendon Mrzlak and David Li, and was then 7, 10, -8, 11 pressed by Final Four Fourth-Place finisher Edem Komlanvi (who earlier had escaped the ubiquitously pestering Seemant Teotia), he was hardened to his First-Place challenge. That was from 12-year-old Emilie Lin. Emilie, coached by 37-year-old Yang Shigang at the Atlanta Table Tennis Academy, had lost a five-gamer to Olufemi Ogundipe but had offset that with upset wins over Richard Johnson and Jason Lu. After losing two 12-10 games to this precocious grade-school girl, Albright found himself again at 10-all in the fifth...but this time, surely to an ohhh! from the spectators, he won. Seyed Saadat advanced over three of the four players seeded ahead of him (Brandon Koh, Joey Drolet, and Lee Barbour—only he who wore the shirt “Vote for Jim McQueen” was spared), then 7, 10, -8, 11 he took Third-Place over Komlanvi. In Group D, top seed Mossa Barandao, once in the Final Four via a 14-12 in the third/12-10 in the fifth win over Ivan Kartawira, had little trouble with the other advancers allowing them on the average little more than seven points a game. Runner-up in a three-way 1-2 tie-breaker was Albert Senter, able to 7-1 advance when 1972-rated Kevin Lu somehow gave Senter-stopper 1458-rated Charles Xiao his second preliminary loss, 14-12 in the fifth. Third-Place went to Tony Murnahan, thanks to his earlier down 2-0 (12, 8, 10) rally over Kyle Moyart. Fourth, though he beat Murnahan in five, was Sam Berry who’d gotten by Chris (Zhuoqun) Xiao 11-9 in the fifth, and also had scored a notable 19-in-the-fourth endurance win over Baik Yeu Jin. Back now to the four Cary Cup round robins (nine players each, four advance) beginning with Group A-1. The #1 seed here was the Cary Cup

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Champion the last two years, Canada’s #1, and the current U.S. Open Champion, Wang “Eugene” Zhen (called familiarly not “Eugene” or “Gene” but “Wang”). Rated 2822, he 8-0/24-1 surprisingly lost a game and was pressured to 10-all in the fourth by Lindenwood College student Austin Preiss (2258), often thought of as a budding golf pro and already a professional t.t. entertainer in tandem with his father Scott. Advancing too, as expected, was Maryland T.T. Center’s teenage chopper/attacker Wang Quinliang (2573) who lost only to the more prominent Wang, as he had at the 2012 Badger Open, but dropped games to ex-Israeli defender Asaf Azarsky and the unheralded ninth seed in the Group, Preiss. Third was 6-2 Jiaqi Zheng, 25 and playing out of Fremont, CA, the 2011 U.S. Open runner-up, the 2012/2013 NCTTA Women’s College Champion, and twice the Top Woman $300-award winner here at the Cary Cup. The fourth advancer was the eighth seed in this Group, Xiao Junyu (rated only 2261). Again Preiss was central to the action, for had he beaten Xiao, instead of losing to him 11-9 in the fifth, Xiao would have had a 3-5 not the 4-4 record that had given him a tie-breaker advance over 27-year-old Mexico’s #1 woman, Yadira Silva, and Silva, mother of two, would have advanced to have become—had this ever happened anywhere in the U.S. before?—the fifth woman in the elite 16-player field. As Jim Butler was telling me, U.S. women have relatively strong men to play against to possibly become world-class like Jiaqi Zheng, but U.S. men haven’t got the competition, and since the USATT seems to have little or no interest in trying to produce even a decent World Men’s Team, he thinks the ITTF ought to help us. A Champion like Wang Zhen feels he must train in Germany. He can practice at the Saarbrucken Bundesliga Club, but he’d like to be in Dusseldorf where the German National Team is based. He feels at 29 he’s “old,” that so many players are better, that he’s “not good enough.” And Sean Barkume’s Cary Cup Program lists him as World #65. Where are the best of our U.S. men ranked? In Group A-2, Shi Mingyu 8-0 advanced without losing a game. Second was Zhao “Anthony” Xinxu (2573) who, in addition to losing to Shi, also lost to Jim Butler, 11-9 in the fourth. Butler, seeded third in this group, was obviously irritated when he lost to Tong Fei Ming, formerly formidable Taiwan’s #3, who finished Third. After whiffing a ball to lose a game he loudly dropped his bat on the table, then early in the next game when Tong got a net he whacked the ball away. Tong good-naturedly smiled and said to Mike Babuin who was watching, “You need a yellow card.” Mike, who was wearing a yellow shirt, just smiled back. But after that loss Jim seemed to recover with his (“YES!”) satisfying win over Zhao. It was then, though, that he was scheduled to play Chu Bin Hai and defaulted. After that he played on to a 13-11 loss in the fourth to Fourth-Place finisher, Mississippi College student Xie Zhiqiao, and a win

over Fifth Place finisher Behram Jamaspi before defaulting his last match to Shi. The matches he lost to Tong and Xie gave them 5-3 records, so had Jim beaten Chu for his own 5-3 record he couldn’t have advanced. It was clear, as he said, he was just too tired to continue with spirit. Quite possibly Scott Butler would have something to say about Jim’s conscious or unconscious choice to opt for play in Sunday’s FASTT Sandpaper event. (Go to see Scott at Wells Fargo—he’s in Wealth Management—but if you want his services make sure you’ve at least a $1,000,000 in liquidity.) “Hey,” Scott might have counseled, “in the $400 First Prize Sandpaper event, if you beat Xin Peng and Chu Bin Hai, as you did in the Hardbat, that’s almost what you’d get if you weren’t tired and reached the quarter’s of the Cup. And presumably it’s a lot safer route to the money.” As would happen, Jim would win the Sandpaper event, though it was harder to do than he might have thought. Against Xin Peng, Jim rallied from 1-1 and down 10-4 in the third to win in four; and against Chu Bin Hai he was forced into the fifth before taking the money. Call Jim’s three wins a “Hat Trick,” would you? In Group A-3, no surprise that Li Kewei, last year’s runner-up, 8-0 led the field (no one took a game from him except Third-Place finisher Yu Di who went five with him). And, as anticipated, Feng “Tom” Yijun, 7-1, took Second Place. What wasn’t expected was Gao Yanjun’s very bad day, three five-game losses—to Feng, Yu, and the surprise Fourth advancer, 13-year-old lefty, Jack Wang, who, at the South Shore Sports/Butterfly Open in October at the Highland Park, Indiana Fieldhouse, topped a field of 29 players to win the $500 First Prize in the 15 & Under event—part of the Junior and Cadet competition sponsored annually by Hall of Famer Si Wasserman in remembrance of his brother Nate. A key match for Jack’s advance was his five-gamer with Lindenwood’s Gabriel Skolnick. Had Gabe won this match, creating a three-way tie-breaker (but he didn’t win, wasn’t at all aggressive enough in the end-game fifth), Gao would have advanced, not Jack. Lindenwood College, in St. Charles, Missouri, offers table tennis scholarships and doesn’t hesitate to send its players, all expenses paid, off to play. Here in Cary—it’s their fifth straight tournament weekend—a team of nine players competed. In Group A-4, the only one where all four top seeds advanced, Li Cheng (2598) finished First over lefty two-wing looper and the Group’s #1 seed Chen Ruichao (2600). Third was Yue “Jennifer” Wu (2495), former member of the Beijing Team, and in 2012 a member of the winning Women’s Team at the Baltimore North American Team Championships. Fourth was Seattle-based lefthander Wang Bao (2505) who, though she defeated Li in five, says she prefers to play women rather than men. Prior to Sunday’s Single Elimination play, there was a problem with the draw. Turns out, an eighth’s match paired two Group winners, and Chief Referee Larry Kesler, realizing that wasn’t right, at first tried to make a minor adjustment with a new draw, but then decided that wasn’t right either, and so started over with newly redrawn matches. However, trying to avoid any further delay, Larry didn’t tell the players the entire draw had been reworked, as later he admitted he should have, and some complained they hadn’t the “lead” time to prepare themselves for the unexpected player they were to face. Preparing themselves for a Butterfly-sponsored video taping of Sunday’s play wasn’t a problem for a Barbara Wei/Scott Butler team, and they soon got help from Jim Butler as well. Jim was telling me how important it is for every tournament to have such a taping. Tournament sponsors and directors should always insist on such coverage and provide for it in their budgets. Table Tennis, says Jim, is one of the best sports to show not dull play after dull play but vibrant highlights of matches. “Tournaments die,’ he says, “but videos of them don’t die.” The Eighth’s are played in two waves, four tables at a time. Spectators try to position themselves close to the players they most want to watch and the matches they feel will be most contested. Wang Zhen vs. Xie Zhiqiao (2311) is 2, 4, 6 not one of these. In a not exactly vicious Battle of the Sexes, Wue Yue against “Tom” Feng, Wu wins the first when at 9-all “Tom” tries to backhand in her serve, then misses a loop. But, righting himself, he wins the next three, always holding 7, 7, 8 end-game steady. In the Zheng Jiaqi-Zhao “Anthony” Zhao match, it’s the woman who wins—the first at 6, then up 8-7 she runs out the second and takes a 6-1…9-3 lead in the third. But “Anthony” is not easily done in, at times he can match Jiaqi’s furious double-wing attack—indeed, from triple match-point down, he goes up 11-10 on a Zheng mishit…only to falter with a crucial backhand miss. Other misses follow by both players until Jiaqi 14-12 prevails and so, as this round of play unfolds, assures herself of the

(left) Wang and (right) Jiaqi photos by Paul Derby


$300 Top Women’s Award. The remaining match of the first wave pits Li Ching (2598) against 13-year-old seventh grader Jack Wang (2330). Hardly seems fair, huh? The more so when in the first from 4-4 Li spurts to a 10-5 lead and an opening win. But young Jack who likes to watch basketball and hears the fans, as he does the players themselves on the t.t. courts, has learned from his elders…learned how to make noise exhorting himself to action—he wins the second, 11-5. In the third, it’s 7-all—and they do seem more evenly matched than expected. Li, himself vocally aggressive, at 9-all gets a shot in and, down 10-9, Jack doesn’t. The bigger, older, much-higher-rated guy is up 2-1. Jack needs outside help? At 7-all in the fourth, Li winds up, misses. But then he’s up 9-8, and down 10-9…when Jack gets a winning back edge. In the deciding fifth, back and forth they go—3-all, 4-all, 5-all, 7-all and now Li gets a break with a net ball. Chance balances. But then there’s no balance at all. Li mis-serves, fails to return serve, fails to return serve again, serves and fails to return Jack’s return of serve. O.K., second wave. First up: 33-year-old Li Kewei (he’ll be showing off that very striking large yellow/green butterfly on the back of his black shirt?) vs. Wang Bo. She’d rather be playing a woman—especially when she starts off 5, 2. But, as with Anthony, give her credit where credit’s due. Before losing in the fourth, she stubbornly takes the third game 12-10. Now a real, unflagging Battle of the Sexes—18-year-old Wang Qingliang, Maryland TT Center Player/Coach extraordinaire who’d trained at the elite Shandong Luneng Table Tennis School in China, against, well, older than 18, Tong Fei Ming, former World #38 and more than 15 but not yet 20 years ago the English Open Champion. Who do you like?...Who can decide, because none of the first four games are contested. The fifth game, however, is 8-all close. Wang attracts because he’s not only a defender (always welcome) but an equally strong looper. Tong shows a very effective high-toss serve and has such professional poise on court that you have to realize she’s a much experienced, savvy player. However, at 9-all Tong repeatedly had a ball to hit, but didn’t, whereas Wang went all out and won the point. Did her reluctance lose the match for her? No, her control was there: 10-all. And now she took the forehand and it went in. But Luck wasn’t with her—Wang got an 11-all net. Then an acrobatic return and a forehand winner won the match for him. In the Chen Ruichao-Yu Di quarter’s match, Yu’s loss of the first from up 10-8 set the pattern of play. In all three games, Yu (-10, -9, and -12, whiffing at the end) just fell short. The Shi Mingyu vs. Xiao Junyu quarter’s was no contest. Xiao, getting off to such starts as down 6-1 in the first and 10-2 in the second, didn’t inspire confidence. In the quarter’s, against powerful Defending Champion Wang, “Tom” Feng could not compete until the third game where twice down match-point (9-10…10-11) he staunchly resisted, until, with a whiff of a chance, he went down again…and this time out. Nor in the remaining quarter’s could Jack, the Giant Killer, take a game from Jiaqi. Still, how did this just-turned-teen Wang get so good? His mother said, “My husband played a lot with him at home.” Oh? But then it turned out, good players, sometimes a coach, joined them, and then, also, every year the family went to China. Yep, that would help. The Shi Mingyu-Chen Ruichao quarter’s had an unusual start. Shi took the first at 7—no, that wasn’t unusual, but then he was down 10-1 in the second, which was. Chen, a friend of Tong Fei Ming, reportedly had played in the Chinese Super League, and had a good chance here for a win. He was up 2-1 and at 9-all in the fourth, but Shi’s hard counter into Chen’s turn led eventually to a 12-10 loss for the Super Leaguer. Then in the fifth it was quickly all over—from down 3-2 Chen lost six of the next seven points. The Li Kewei—Wang Qingliang match, won by Li, figured to be more exciting than it was, though I heard towards its finish some involved spectators batting fervidly together those elongated sausage-like rubber balloons one generally sees and hears at World Championships. Though both Li and the bouncy, noisy Wang had great attack and defend abilities, no games were closely contested. The play itself was generally predictable with Wang driving and Li defending, enjoyable enough to watch but void of the desired tension. One of the semi’s had to be the most entertaining match of the weekend not only for me but for a number of others. This was the one between Jiaqi and I’ll call him “Eugene” (for this match he had to be viewed differently). In their earlier Round Two play the somewhat burly Wang had been 6, 6, 9 dominant over the 95-pound Zheng. Had we any reason to expect a different result here? Especially when Wang opens with a devastating 6-1…9-2 attack. Brute. Be chivalrous. In the second it’s more of the same,

spurred on by Wang’s powerful serve-and-follow play. From 6-5 up, he 11-6 almost runs out the game. In the third game, however, Jiaqi’s matching Eugene point for point with sustained attacking off-the-bounce returns of whatever he can throw at her. Amazing how she anticipates where the ball will be and how fast she slings it back. She wins this third game 12-10. In the fourth, Eugene gets off to a 5-2 lead, but can’t hold it because unbelievably Jiaqi’s outslugging him with her counter hits. I can scarcely believe my eyes. Does the ball really touch her side of the table before it comes low, laser-like hurtling back, repeatedly forcing Eugene to retreat from the table and lob? He lobs high and well but invariably not good enough to win most such points. Of course this is the current U.S. Open Men’s Champion, World #65, Jiaqi’s battling. The crowd loves her intensity. But can she keep her strength, keep up the pressure? She can. Down 10-8…10-9 her all-out super-swift attacks tie up the game, tie up Eugene’s usually overpowering aggressiveness. On they go, deuce after deuce, the spectators enthralled, by a low attack and high defense they weren’t used to seeing. Jiaqi, still zoned in, eventually wins this game 17-15. In the fifth, it’s Jiaqi up 2-0…but then what mysteriously she was given was mysteriously taken away. She would win only two more points this game, would even find herself back lobbing, closing off the fun by losing the last seven points of the match. Naturally, Li Kewei’s win over Shi Mingyu, though holding our attention, couldn’t compare with the excitement we felt watching that other semi’s. Shi started 8-2 strong to win the first, but play soon reversed itself and Li took the second 21-3, then (though it was a little thrill to see chopper Li curve a ball in around the net) rather routinely finished off Shi, 8 and 8.The match between Wang and Li, said to be once a Chinese National Team member, would be a replay of last year’s final. Sort of. Last year Wang opened with an 11-1 win. This year defender Li, passing Wang with forehands along the way, took the first 11-8. Last year Wang won their second game 11-6. This year an error by Wang caused him to lose their second game 11-9. What’s made the appreciable difference? Was Wang thrown off by the very different games of his back-to-back opponents? Had his unexpected struggle with Jiaqi taken away his confidence? Last year, after being down 2-0, Li found his game. So it was now with Wang when from 6-5 down he turned in an 11-7 winner. Last year Li, though losing, put up strong fourth-game resistance. So it was now with Wang—except the ending play is not good. Both players make mistakes. Wang pops up two balls, mishits, gets an edge for game-point but can’t take advantage—he finally loses 14-12. It was an unexpected poor performance from him. Today, as the afternoon progressed, he did seem “old,” wasn’t “good enough.”

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by Dr. Costel Constantin The Swiss Table Tennis Open Lausanne organized this year the DHS Europe Cup to replace the European Top 12. Lausanne city located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland was hosting this tournament that started on 02/07/2014. Known for its stature as an Olympic city, Lausanne has some unusual attractions which allows a glimpse of another dimension. Although there are many other unusual attractions, I would like to point out the Naive Art Collection which is a dedicated museum to works created by marginalized people such as prisoners, and psychiatric patients (it is definitely worth visiting if you plan to travel in Switzerland!). Getting back to table tennis, at this tournament came many known players including Timo Boll who is the 2012 European Champion, Dimitrij Ovtcharov who is the 2013 European Champion, veteran Michael Maze who returned after a hip surgery, and Adrien Mattenet who reached the Quartefinals of the 2011 World Championship to name a few. With such great elite squad, this tournament is bound to generate a lot of “best rallies of 2014” videos on youtube!

Men’s singles In the first semifinal, Michael Maze (DEN) won against Dimitrij Ovtcharov (GER) in six games (7-11, 11-7, 11:8, 11-7, 11-13, 11-3). The first game was mainly based on serve-and-serve return techniques and Dima won this game by 11-7. For the next three games, Michael quickly adjusted to Dima’s third ball attacks and, as a response, he started attacking more aggressively to Dima’s FH/BH wide angles which game Michael wins at 11-7, 11-8, and 11-7. Dima knew he needed to get the fifth game in order to stay in the game…With a lot of encouragement from fans, Dima was able to win it with 13-11. The sixth and the final game of the match was very easy for Michael, he essentially tried to attack with less power while he increased ball consistency. The score gap started widening from 5-2 all the way to 10-2. It seemed like Dima was out of power giving Michael the opportunity to win the match with 11-3. This victory slingshotted the Dane to the final! The second semifinal was played between Mattenet Adrien (FRA) and Freitas Marcos (POR). Adrien lost this match in four straight games (9-11, 1-11, 1-11, 6-11). This match was interesting, because judging by the score it seemed like is was a very easy game for Marcus. Marcus’ soft serve returns and extremely powerful forehand attacks worked very well against Adrien’s two-wing defense/attack style. This match propelled Marcus to the final! In the final Marcos Freitas (POR) won against Michael Maze (DEN) in four straight games (11-6, 11-6, 11-8, 11-7). In the first game, Michael missed a couple of balls due to timing and this gave Marcus the opportunity to win with 11-7. In the second game, Marcos was able to build up a 3-point gap (score 9-6) at which point in time, it seemed like Michael started breaking down mentally. At 10-6 Michael started attacking furiously, but Marcos was able to block them all, which gave him a 11-6 win. The third game, was probably the closed game played between them. Michael used every trick he had, but he was not able to stop Marcos from winning it with 11-7. In the fourth game, Marcos started stepping around and attacking more of Michael’s serves and he managed to win this one with 11-7. Marcus’ victory was celebrated with a Brazilian jujitsu style roll over with his trainer!

Women’s singles In the first semifinal, Solja Petrissa (GER) lost to Pavlovich Viktoria (BLR) in four straight games (5-11, 8-11, 8-11, 8-11). In the first game of the match, Viktoria was able to provide a strong defensive play which created a 5-point gap (score 10-5) and finally a win at 11-5. In the second game, Petrissa started playing smarter which included a combination of offensive FH topspin and defensive BH underpin techniques. This adjustment closed the 4-point gap from 1-5 all the way to 5-6. However, this smart play did not help Petrissa win the game… Viktoria won with 11-8. In the third game, Viktoria started using extreme underpin shots against Petrissa and although the game was very close, Viktoria won with 11-8. In the fourth game, Viktoria even started using BH topspin attacks (score 4-3) which threw Petrissa off her game. This last game victory (score 11-8)

assured Viktoria advance to the final. In the second semifinal, Li Jiao (NED) lost against Liu Jia (AUT) in six games (4-11, 7-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 4-11). In the first game, Jia was using her high toss serve and BH topspin attacks to create a 6-point gap (score 10-4). Another high toss underpin serve from Jia helped her win this game with 11-4. In the second game, Jiao was able to play with more control and she reached a gap of 4 points (score 5-1). It seemed like Jia was able to use her BH topspin very well and she managed to close the gap at 6-6. Jia continued to use her BH against Jiao’s BH and she was able to win the with 11-7. The third game, Jiao was able to use her FH more and she managed to win the game with 11-8. In the fifth game Jiao was using more aggressive blocks on Jia’s BH and FH which helped Jia win the game with 11-7. In the last game of the match, Jia showed superior defense and attack strategies. This superiority was demonstrated at points 6-3 and 7-3. Jia continued this trend until she beat Jiao with 11-4. This win assured Jia the opportunity to play the final against Belarusian Pavlovich Viktoria. In the final, Liu Jia (AUT) won against Pavlovich Viktoria (BLR) six games (11-9, 6-11, 7-11, 11-5, 14-12, 11-7). Their playing styles couldn’t be more different. Viktoria is a master of defense and tactics, while Liu is an all-around attacker. Liu started this match as an underdog. The first game was very close, but Liu was able to win with 11-9 after a great exhibition of great rallies. The next two games were dominated by Viktoria who showed experience and authority. Somehow in the fourth game, Viktoria started breaking apart giving Jia the opportunity to nail this game with the score 11-5. It looked like the fifth game was the deciding one, because Viktoria started really strong with a 5-point lead (score 9-4), but (eventually) she lost with 12-14. Viktoria did not give up easily which was shown by the strong beginning of the sixth game (i.e., a 5-point lead until the score of 6-1). At this point in time, Viktoria became impatient and she started to make errors. The score was 6-3 and it was clear that Viktoria’s mental toughness weakened. She knew that Jia would close the gap soon and she could not be stopped anymore. A very interesting rally to watch was at score 7-7, Jia was control-attacking with her FH all over the table while Viktoria was nervously defending. At some point within the rally, the roles reversed, Viktoria started attacking while Jia did a great job defending those topspins coming from the Belarusian. It seemed like the more nervous Viktoria got, the calmer Jia become. Finally, Viktoria lost this game with 7-11, giving the gold medal away to Jia. It was a great match worth watching.

There were many interesting things I could have discussed in this article about this tournament, but that would have taken days and due to lack of time [and journal space :)] I would only mention a few things that stood out to me. I was amazed as to how the 32-year-old Michael Maze (back from a myriad of injuries) was able to display such a high class of table tennis! He eventually advanced to the finals to honorably lose against Marcos Freitas. Also, if you are interested in watching great rallies, you have to watch the match between Tiago Apolonia (POR) and Gionis Panagiotis (GRE), or between Liu Jia (AUT) and Pavlovich Viktoria (BLR). Congratulations are in order to undefeated Portugal’s Marcos Freitas and Austria’s Liu Jia who remained unbetean to claim gold at this wonderful tournament.

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SWISS OPENSwiss Table Tennis Open LausanneDHS Europe Cup, February 7-9, 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland

Photo of Marcos Freitas courtesy of ITTF


2014 YOG World Trials in Portugalby Lily Yip Our US Players Kunal Chodri and Tina Lin played very well but unfortunately did not qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in China this summer. The Tournament was very well run, the food was excellent and the organizers tried very hard to please. This was a first class event. The tournament playing hall is a brand new stadium with lots of bleachers and will be used as a National Full Time Training Center. The Europeans Boys are still very strong as they (Hungary’s Adam Szudi, Germany’s Killian Ort, Czeckoslovakia’s David Reitspies) won 3 of the 4 qualification positions with the 4th going to Taiwan’s Yang Heng-Wei. Unfortunately our own Kunal Chodri was paired up in the same group with the German and Taiwanese players. All of Kunal’s opponents including Brian Afanador from Puerto Rico are Professional Full Time players playing in Sweden. The fundamentals of these Professional Players are stronger then our US Players. On the girls side Asia still dominates. Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi Kem finished first and Taiwan’s Chiu SSu-Hua was second, 3rd and 4th went to Romanian’s Adina Diaconu and Japan’s Miyu Kato. Tina Lin lost to the Romanian and to Thailand’s Tamolwan Khetkhuan 2 games to 3. Of course all the girls are Professionals as well and train many hours every day. As a player from North America, Tina has a very fast all around style which helped her do well against the Europeans, but not as much spin variation or consistency as the Europeans. The European girls are also very strong physically. For World Junior Circuit Final, Ariel Hsing fought very hard played well even though she is now a full time Student at Princeton University and only practiced a couple hours after Nationals due to school obligations. The conclusion is that if we want to be competitive with the Europeans and Asians we need to practice a minimum of twenty hours per week and have weekly competitions.

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TOURNAMENTS

USA Tournament ResultsJoseph Bae Open Feb 15, 2014Santa Ana, CaliforniaUnder 2000 RR: Thong Nguyen, Amanda Malek Under 1500 RR: Anh Quoc Duy Nguyen, Charles Kim Under 1200 RR: Tim Stephens, Xuanthai Huynh Under 1850 RR: Quyen Ly, Brian Bui Under 2400 RR: Attila Malek, Robert Shahnazari Under 1700 RR: Syed Amjad Naqvi, Qui Le Under 1600 RR: Stanley Gene Frisbee, Qui Le Open RR: Zaman Molla, Zihao (Justin) Huang Over 40 U/1850 RR: David Bui, Thomas Ha

LATTA Open February 22, 2014 Under 1100 RR: Loc Vo, Siming Zhang Under 1750 RR: Tony Lai Yu, Peter Bunya Under 1300 RR: Victoria Brigitt, Ming Chan Under 2150 RR: Qing Michael Shi, Ron-ald Arellano Under 1400 RR: Maxwell Yao, Xuanthai Huynh Under 1900 RR: Craig Burton, Alex Melekhov Under 2350 RR: Jiaming He, Zhongtang (kevi Li Under 1600 RR: Yi Zheng, Maxwell YaoUnder 2250 RR: Jiaming He, Joey KuokUnder 2050 RR: Joe Tran, Luis Reyes

Laguna Hills High School Open March 1, 2014Laguna Hills, CaliforniaUnder 2000 RR: Thong Nguyen, Phuong-Tram Lu Under 1500 RR: James Basiao, Michael Vaden Under 1200 RR: Rogelio Cisneros, Thomas Nam Under 1850 RR: Quyen Ly Behnam, Kazemi Under 2350 RR: Shivam Kumar, Vic Truong Unrated RR: Tony Kovacs, Chris Gail Under 2150 RR: Sherwin Afshar, Fred-rick Tio Under 1700 RR: Syed Amjad Naqvi, Arthur Campos

A full house at the 2nd Annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Tournament

CT2: Greg Lukens, Michael Green-baum, Joann Kay Fechner Ian Mc-GranaghanCT3: Wayne Steffens, Jim B. Hicks Thomas Nam, Frank LackieCT4: Mark Rea, Todd Meng Yevgeniy Mayevskiy, Alex Van SteenCT5: Jane Parrish Sofiya Mayevskiy Paige Burns, Franklin Wang

Newgy Akron Open March 21-22, 2014Akron, OhioOpen Singles RR: Zhen (Eugene) Wang, Cheng Li, Yi Chi Zhang Samson David DubinaUnder 2100 RR: Burak Cevik Aleksandr Itunin Under 1700 RR: Marijo Letic Edward A Zadrozny, Raymond John-ston, Michael WilkeUnder 1300 RR: Mike Burchfield Anwen Harris, Daniel Waugaman Richard G. Beer

LATTA Thanh Banh Memorial March, 29, 2014Los Angeles, CaliforniaUnder 1150 RR: Victoria Brigitt, Sim-ing Zhang Under 1750 RR: Eugene Brigitt, Jer-emy Winton Under 1350 RR: Ming Chan, Charles Kim

Open RR: Xiang Jing Zhang, Theodore Tran Under 3800 Doubles RR: Quoc Bao Nguyen / Tri Phan Thanh Hoang / Quyen Ly

Bill Mason Memorial March 15, 2014Beaverton, OregonClassA RR: Hao Guo, Jimmy Guo, Phil Schock Wan SuwitoClassB RR: Michael Groom, Kyle Lake Yun Fan Jian Xin GuoClassCRR: Leezan Da, Ian Mc-Granaghan, Jim B. Hicks Alex Van SteenAT1: Hao Guo, Maoxi George Wang Ryan Hoarfrost, Brian ChiaAT2: Roger Castle, Valeri Kim Jimmy Guo, George YangAT3: Vince Mioduszewski Phil Schock Sophal Pouv, Travis EilesAT4: Tod Kaiser Alan Bi Scott Lip-scomb, Max KeswaniBT1: Zhongwei Gao, Michael Groom Eric Fountain, Zhongkai (John) XuBT2: Kyle Lake, Ting-Chung Cheng Her-man Pandana, Nha H. NguyenBT3: Grant Brown, Mengjin Su Peng Yan, George TeodorescuBT4: John Peng, Paul Shih Jeffrey Jin, Jian Xin GuoBT5: Ethan Du, Bob VanSlyke Phil Goldsmith, Haohan WangCT1: Kahea Hendrickson, Pete Chra-miec, Jamo Parrish, Ron Skowronek


Under 1950 RR: Craig Burton, Ronald Yu Under 3650 Doubles: Willy Hwa-Fang Liang / Gabriel Espinosa, Grace Zhou / Jeremy Winton Open RR: Zaman Molla, Zihao (Justin) Huang Under 2350 RR: Guo Hui Lu, Diane Dongye Chen Under 1500 RR: Ronald McPherson Loc Vo Under 2200 RR: Adam Bobrow, Amanda Malek Under 1650 RR: Winston Ngai, Ken-neth Seiple

2014 BTTC Spring Open March 29-30, 2014Bellevue, WashingtonO- 55 years RR: Howard P. Grossman Raymond Lock, Mariano Ortiz Larry S. ChinnUnder 1000 Singles RR: Shavkat Karimov, Alex Van Steen, Alexei Mardari Under 2800 Doubles SE: Larry S. Chinn / Donna Wilder, Ying Zhao / Akiko Bishop, Mariano Ortiz / Renee Sayatovic Under 2150 Singles RR: Brian Chia John P. Ochsner Under 1450 Singles RR: Hyun Ook Ryu, Michael Greenbaum Under 1850 Singles RR: Umar Mbow Chad Su Under 1200 Singles RR: Shavkat Kari-mov, Alexei Mardari, Renee Sayatovic, Charles Schaaf30 + Under 1650 RR: Yakov Zubarev Mariano Ortiz Under 2350 Singles RR: Wucheng Tao Brian Chia BTTC Special Singles RR: Christian Solomon Howard P. Grossman Hoang Ngo, David YeUnder 850 Singles RR: Akiko Bishop Renee Sayatovic Tomoko Takemura Kareem ShehabUnder 1350 Singles RR: Michael Greenbaum Larry S. Chinn Open Singles RR Bernardo Iturriaga Reda Ali Under 4200 Doubles RR: Gregory J. DiMarco / Christian Solomon Hung Ho / Arthur Chan Under 1700 Singles RR: Ting-Chung Cheng Mingrui Wu Under 1550 Singles RR: Mariano Ortiz Haohan Wang Under 1950 Singles RR: Tigran Gyon-jyan Vince Mioduszewski

2014 Butterfly MDTTC April Open April 5, 2014Gaitherburg, MDOpen Singles RR: Ruichao Chen, Bo Wen Chen Under 2400 RR: Bojun Zhangliang Nathan Hsu Under 2250 RR: Lixin Lang, Zibing Wang Under 2050 RR: Yunhua Gong Ryan Dabbs Under 1900 RR: Justin Bertschi Darwin Ma Under 1650 RR: Daniel Yang Chanakya Anne Under 1400 RR: Adam Kandel Daniel Gong Under 1150 RR: Daniel Sofer, Callie Xu Age U-13: Benjamin Clark Callie Xu Emily Z Yuan, Emily Wu

Aurora Spring Open April 5, 2014Aurora, IllinoisGiant Round Robin - Group 1: Wojciech Wolski, Artur Kurek, Janusz Franeczek Dariusz WolskiGiant Round Robin - Group 2: Bogdan Plugowski, C. T. Pham, Jan Bogdan Steven ClaflinGiant Round Robin - Group 3: Bun-Hiong Carls Chua, Henry Polecki Ken Oh Keith OffordGiant Round Robin - Group 4: Robert Douglass Simon Liang, Stanislaw Micha-lak, Peter Gerard FalcisGiant Round Robin - Group 5: Jang Won Kim, Jeffrey Liao, Subba Parvathaneni, Hui LinGiant Round Robin - Group 6: Jerry Dy-dynski, James Madrid, Robert L. Tysl Mike R. BaldwinGiant Round Robin - Group 7: Kevin Swan, Don Dyer, William Goodfellow Kevin ColomboGiant Round Robin - Group 8: Advitheey Chelikani, Samuel Kim Nicolae Cio-fiac, Marek SypolkaGiant Round Robin - Group 9: Zexin Jiang, Carlos J Lara, Zsolt Keszthelyi Kaibai LiuGiant Round Robin - Group 10: Zita Bayr, Frank Aguilera, Tim Szot Madison ChaoGiant Round Robin - Group 11: Danesh Badlani, Aarish Lakhani, Armaan Rehm-ani Mark Derecho

13th Butterfly Cape Fear Open April 5, 2014Cape Fear, North CarolinaOpen Singles RR - Group 1 : Zhen Jia Gregg Robertshaw, Paul Elliott Ly LeOpen Singles RR - Group 2: Scott Badillo Fred Van Nynatten Francisco Kuilan Xingchu Li

Holland April Club Tournament April 12, 2014Holland, MichiganUnder 1100 RR: Lex Khuzor Chris Anton, Rob Michaud Tony DraperUnder 1500 RR: Thomas Manett Dylan Yancey Under 1800 RR: Thomas Manett Justin Heslinga Open Doubles RR: William Thompson / Brian Fowler, Brad Overbeek / Brian Helander Vivek Singh / Joe Maher Dylan Yancey / Kelsey FitzgerrelOpen Singles RR: Vivek Singh Brian Fowler William Thompson Brad Overbeek

Dana Point Open Giant Round Robin April 13, 2014Dana Point, CaliforniaEUnder 1800 RR - Group 1: Arthur Campos Cole Riel, Paul Nguyen Kenneth SeipleUnder 1800 RR - Group 2: Steve Galm Steven Anderson Michael Chang Henry WongOpen Singles RR - Group 1: Zaman Molla, Tung Huy Pham, Tuan Dai Le MD, Amanda MalekOpen Singles RR - Group 2: Luis Reyes, Behnam Kazemi, Karolina Lira, Micah Lim

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Second Annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Team Tournament

By: YijunFeng, Betty Yu, Ethan Jin To say that The Second Annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Team Tournament was a success is an understatement.Thanks to the support of the many parents and sponsors, this tournament was phenomenal. As tournament organizers, Ethan Jin, Betty Yu, and Iworked extremely hard to make the tournament competitive and enjoyable for all the participants. In addition to our intentions on promoting the sport in Atlanta, another purpose of this tournament was tofundraise for USATT and JTTF (Junior Table Tennis Foundation). On February 23, there were 24 teams (48 juniors) from all over the Atlanta area to compete for many prizes. The tournament had two divisions. Division A consisted of all the teams with a combined rating of above 2500, and Division B consisted of all the teams with a combined rating of 2500 or below, including all the beginners and unrated juniors.After a long day of competing, the wining team of Division A was Team Robert Chen (James Du, Jason Zhang), and the winning teamof Division B was Michael Fu and Kevin Zhao. Division A was divided into 3 round robin groups with 2 teams advancing from each group. In group 1, Team Robert Chen (James Du, Jason Zhang) and Albert Zhang/Eric Xie advanced. In group 2, James Wang/Tina Qin and Double Happiness(David Wang, Jeffery Ma) advanced. In the third group, Nigeria(Jerry Yao, Robert Chen) and

Team Team (Betty Yu, Sean Chua) advanced. In the semi-finals,Team Robert Chen defeated James Wang/Tina Qin, and Albert Zhang/Eric Xie defeated Nigeria. The final was highly anticipated. Both teams havejuniorswith very high potential who have been training seriously for many years. In the end Team Robert Chen finished in first place over Albert Zhang/ Eric Xie. Four extra awards to 4 special players were also given based on the performance of the juniors. Sabrina Zhu received the Star Award for her outstanding overall play at such a young age, David Wang received The Motivational Award for his high-spirited performance, Eric Xiereceived The Most Improved Award, and Alex Yu received The Best Performance Award. All in all, the 2nd annual Atlanta Junior Table Tennis Team Tournament was one of our best outcomes by far. Not only did we double the amount of teams we had the last tournament, but we also gained more confidencethat table tennis is growing more and more popular in the Southeast. We would like to thank Coach Wang Hui(Atlanta Table Tennis Academy), Coach Jie Chang, AGTTA, and Butterfly for supporting this tournament. We would also like to thank the parents who have provided all the financial support to JTTF. Without you, JTTF would never have the success that we have today.


March 21-22, 2014

by Samson Dubina The 3-Star Newgy Akron Open set the record for the largest tournament in NE Ohio during the last 10 years. Leading the pack of 96 players was Wang Zhen (rated 2822) who just return from training in China and Germany. The 2-day event began on Friday with warm-up events and concluded Saturday with the Giant Round Robin events. The handicap event began first – one game to 31 points with the lower player receiving a “handicap” by starting with a lead in points. Cheng Li (rated 2598) spotted nearly everyone 25 points and still took home the first place cash! Finishing second was Daniel Waugaman and the semifinalist were Ron Martin and Gary Hobrath. Next up were the junior recreational and adult recreational. Andrew Heiser beat Noah Sussman in the junior final for the first place prize and Stephen Faulstich beat Lee Szwast in the adult final for the first place prize. In the Open doubles, Samson Dubina and Shreyans Bafna (Samson’s student) surprised the spectators with 2 major upsets – first over Zhiquiao Xie/Keith Pech in the semis 3-2 then over Cheng Li/Yi Chi Zhang 3-1 in the final. The Saturday events were all giant round robins of 8 players with the top 4 players from each group advancing to the next round. In the open round robin groups, lobber Don Hamilton (2155) nearly caused the upset of the tournament losing a nail-bitter to Yi Chi Zhang (2584) 16-14 in the 5th game. After the top 4 finishers advanced from the 4 groups, they played a final 16 single elimination. In the semifinals, Yi Chi Zhang played a very high-risk game against Wang Zhen and managed to squeak out one game. In the end Wang was too consistent and was able to counter all of Zhang’s power shots. In the other semi, Samson started off well against Cheng Li by winning the first and up 6-2 in the second. After a few tactical changes, Cheng Li was able to adjust and win 4-1. In the start of the Open final, Wang Zhen was so steady from both sides – able to be consistent and still rip winners. Cheng Li was left shaking his head in shock that Wang could play at such a high level. The 150 spectators were delighted to see Cheng win the 4th game and thought they might see a comeback. Wang stepped up his level and won the 5th, 11-7 and took home the $1000 check. The other giant round robin events featured the same format. In the u2100 final Cincinnati’s Burak Cevik looped and smashed his way to a $200 victory over lobbing and fishing Aleksandr Itunin. The semifinalist Roger Liu and James Hamilton with also awarded with cash winnings for their valiant efforts. In the under 1700 final, the top seed Mario Letic got his revenge against Ed Zadrozny. Ed had beaten him in the group, but Mario had the last word winning 3-0 in the final. The semifinalist were Mike Wilke and Raymond Johnston. The last event was the u1300. Two young players fought against the older crowd to come out on top – Mike Burchfield beat Anwen Harris in the final with Richard Beer and Daniel Waugaman losing in the semis. Congrats to all the players for their fighting efforts throughout the tournament! Our next Akron tournament will be September 26-27 featuring the giant round robin format, excellent playing conditions, great prize money, and free food for all the players. The entry form is now available atwww.samsondubina.com. I would like to send out a special THANK YOU to all 96 players who attended our tournament. I would also like to send a THANK YOU to our tournament sponsors who made this event possible. See you in September!

Newgy Akron Open

Our Sponsors: Newgy, Wil-Cut, Clear Choice, Simplex Creative, Paddle Palace, and CLJ Studios Our Staff: Greg Thompson, Perry Wilson, Pierce Scott, Sam Dubina, Nancy Dubina, Cathy Steele, Raymond Johnston, Orlando McEwan, Karen Pon, David Bussey, and Ron Arcaro Our Photographer: Chris Jordan from CLJ Studios Our Host: Pastor Jimmy Taylor Our Chefs: Heather Dubina, Rachel Detwiler, Cathy Steele, and Calvin Detwiler Results:

Open Giant Round Robin: 1st Wang Zhen (rated 2822), 2nd Cheng Li (rated 2598), 3rd Yi Chi Zhang (rated 2584), 4th Samson Dubina (rated 2497), 5th-6th Nachiket Joshi and Junyu Xiao, 7th-8th Seyed Hesam Hamrahian and Keith Pech Under 2100 Giant Round Robin: 1st Burak Cevik, 2nd Aleksandr Itunin, 3rd-4th Roger Liu and James Hamilton5th-8th Rick Akers, Bob New, Shreyans Bafna, and Harsh Khandelwal Under 1700 Giant Round Robin: 1st Mario Letic, 2nd Ed Zadrozny, 3rd Raymond Johnston, 4th Mike Wilke, 5th-8th Ashwin Turakhia, David Sommers, Joe Ciarrochi, and Richard Beer Under 1300 Giant Round Robin: 1st Mike Burchfield, 2nd Anwen Harris, 3rd Daniel Waugaman, 4th Richard Beer, 5th-8th Dick Bennett, Jeff Shiff, David Sommers, Ron Martin Open Doubles: 1st Samson Dubina/Shreyans Bafna, 2nd Cheng Li/Yi Chi Zhang, 3rd-4th Zhiqiao Xie/Keith Pech and Hesam Hamrahian/Ali Khatami Handicap: 1st Cheng Li, 2nd Daniel Waugaman, 3rd-4th Ron Martin and Gary Hobrath Junior Recreational: 1st Andrew Heiser, 2nd Noah Sussman3rd-4th Annie Liu and Sarah Sommers Adult Recreational: 1st Stephen Faulstich, 2nd Lee Szwast

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March 1, 2014Inderkum High SchoolSacramento, California

by James Therriault. With U.S. Champion Timothy Wang on hand to battle the talented Jiaqi Zheng to capture the Open; and along with 165 other partici-pants who went at it of all ages, sizes, and levels, this was truly an amazing tournament! Matches started at 9:45am and continued through-out the day on 36 tables in the 22 different round robin divi-sions of play! Many had a breakout day: Sergey Tsvor was on his game in win-ning the U-2100 and reaching semi’s in U-2250. Tian Xie won both U-1950 and U-1825! Pranav Tatravahi took the U-1575 and then the U-2800 Doubles with Sruti Raman! Pruthvi Innamuri placed 3rd in U-1325 and also won the U-1450!But maybe even more impressive was the play of a couple of our smallest/youngest players like Jonathan Kong who won U-825 and U-550, Stacy Nguyen who won U-400 and got 2nd in U-250, while Aneesh Raghaven did just the opposite in taking the U-250 and plac-ing 2nd in U-400. A determined Kai Zarabin won the U-1200 and U-700 even if it meant playing late into the night! Thanks to all players for a full day of great play and excitement! Look for our Spring Open on Saturday May 10, where we may hold a team or giant rr event! Here are all the 1st-4th results below:

Event, 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd & 4th place:Open: Timothy Wang, Jiaqi Zheng, Huaiyu Chen & Shashin Shod-han2400, Jordan Yee, Zheng Yu Sun, Hiromasa Takemura & Opendro Thouraojam2250, Olaf Surmann, Nelson Yu, Sergey Tsvor & Wai Wong2100, Sergey Tsvor, Nelson Yu, Arun Sharma & Tian Xie1950, Tian Xie, Tarun Tandon, Aziz Mugren, & Joshua Cheng1825, Tian Xie, Joshua Cheng, Nick Zavastitsa & Wendy Chen 1700, Alex Yuen, Radu Licea, Ryan Chen & Jaideep Singh1575, Pranav Tatravahi, Jaideep Singh, Nick Zavastitsa & Wendy Chen1450, Pruthvi innamuri, Shiju Tharun, Sahil Jain & Navid Afrah1325, Tharun Shiju, Andrew Streng, Pruthvi Innamuri & Chris Ziyalin1200, Kai Zarabin, Jonathan Kong, Craig Mitchell & Navid Afrah1075, Evan Chen, Nelson Cortez, Navid Afrah & Mike McRitchie 950, Ethan Chen, Abhinav Gunda, Chinmay Gharpure & Nathan Lee 700, Kai Zarabin, Jonathan, Faith Tung & Chinmay Gharpure 550, Jonathan Kong, Rachel Cheng, Emily Yang & Nathan Lee 400, Stacy Nguyen, Aneesh Raghaven, Ethan Liu & Aarushi Bajpai 250 Aneesh Raghaven, Stacy Nguyen, Alice Fu & Michelle Lin 100,Amir Dhami, Avery Chan, Joseph ZouHigh School, Nick Horn, Kenny Rollins3300 Dbls, Stephen Alfred/Craig Mitchell, Howard Lindo/Angel Soltero2800 Dbls, Pranav Tatravahi/Sruti Raman, Stephen Alfred/David Webb2300 Dbls, Ken Sandberg/Yung Ma, V. Alamuthu/ Akash Alamuthu

Sacramento Winter Open

-Sponsored by JoolaBy: Richard McAfee On Sunday, January 26, 2014, the Sky High Table Tennis Club (Aurora, CO) held its first USATT Sanctioned Tourna-ment in over 2 years. Forty-eight players from Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah took part. Fourteen of these were playing in there very first USATT Sanctioned Tournament. Sky High Tournaments are sponsored by Joola and the Joola Super 3-Star Yellow ball was the official “tour-nament ball”. Matches started promptly at 10am and finished at 6pm. Each participant played a minimum of eight matches with a total of 185 matches being played. All the players enjoyed the free pizza lunch that was provided along with free sodas and water throughout the day. There was a lot of exciting play to watch. The Sky High Tournaments feature the very popular “Giant” Round Robin Format. This format allows players to play against other players of all levels during the morn-ing round robin. Each player is then placed into a Division for the afternoon round robin based on their results in the morning. The finals of the A Division featured two of Sky High’s own, Phong Pham #1 seed and Basil Ibegbu seeded #3. This match was played at a very high level with Phong’s strong topspins barely edging out Basil’s athletic returns. Here is the list of our Division Winners and Runner-ups:

Division Winner Runner-upA Phong Pham Basil IbegbuB Jerry Mao Dean Dingyl ChenC Bryon Kipschull Mike MuiD John Lau Marilyn Feinstein E Trevor McCord Ray Vincinoni

Division finalists received beautiful trophies and the A Divi-sion finalists also received cash prizes of $125 and $50.Conducting a Sanctioned Tournament takes a lot of work by our dedicated Tournament Committee. A special thank you to: Joyce McCready, Josh Harris, Kyle Angles and Diane McAfee. We also want to give a big “Thank You” to Ron Lusk and Dennis Driggs for assisting with the physical set-up of the venue. Richard McAfee served as the Tournament Referee.

Sky High January Open


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

The final results of all the events are following:

U2200-1st: Min Xin Guo; 2nd: ZhenmoZhou; 3rd: Alec Coiro, Jianglin MeiU1900-1st: Yun Ying; 2nd: Junjie Gao; 3rd: Mark Berg, Rafi HoseinU1700-1st: Rafi Hosein; 2nd: Jign2shkumar; 3rd: Roy Li, Li WangU1400-1st: Paul Gregor; 2nd: Wolfgang Busch; 3rd: James YenU1100-1st: David Orloff; 2nd: James Danziger; 3rd: Krithik Kannan, Kenneth LeeJunior U14-1st: James Yen; 2nd: Abe Gold; 3rd: Gabriel Kahane, Abe Benjamin LiuJunior U11-1st: Kenneth Lee, 2nd: David Orloff; 3rd: Krithik Kannan, James Danziger

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by Swavek Lorenc Organizing your first 4-star tournament presents many challengesand this proved true for the 2014 Butterfly Aurora Cup which took place in Aurora, IL on January 18 & 19, 2014. The venue was chosen from 12 different sites in the city of Chicago and the suburbs. The new, more rigorous and perhaps fairer USATT tournament sanctioning process required the installation of additional lights over the show courts to meet the minimum standard of a tournament of this rank. And finally, the sunlight streaming into the venue through the narrow windows located 40 feet off the ground needed to be blocked. This last obstacle was removed by hoisting 450 feet of black plastic sheeting which took several volunteers and a few nights to install. Fortunately, tournament director Swavek Lorenc was able to excite the Chicagoland area players and especially several members of his local club Fox Valley Table Tennis Club to pitch in during preparations and a new, 4-star tournament was born. From the start, Swavek set the bar high for this tournament,with the goal of attractingover 200 players from Illinois and other states. Much effort was put into preparing and executing a high-quality online and print marketing campaign and building an awards ceremony area with a podium large enough to fit a doubles team. Butterfly, the official equipment sponsor, pulled out all the stops to make the tournament a success. They brought 38 brand new Centerfold and Europa tables, 400 barriers and streamed feature matcheslive on the web on both days. They also brought inDanny Seemiller, who provided insightfulcommentary about the various techniques and tricks employed during matches at feature tables. Infogix, Inc.,an enterprise software company, was an early supporter and anotherkey sponsor. The provided their expertise in marketing, contributed to the prize money pool and provided additional chairs for the event. Finally, the Aurora Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fox Valley Park District worked with the organizers to bring this event to Aurora. 264 players entered the tournament, making it the 5th largest tournament in the USA in the last 12 months. While almost 70% of players were from Illinois, guests from 20 other states also participated. The top players included former Chinese National Team memberMingyu Shi (2794), Diwei Shi (2627), Cheng Li(2582), Yi Chi Zhang (2582), Yue Wu (2533), Jim Butler (2554) and Samson Dubina (2515), just to name a few.The Open Singles event received entries from 48 players. It started at 11 am on Saturday and ended around 6 pm. Mingyu Shi took first placeand Cheng Li second (9, 7, 4, 6). Third place went to Yi Chi Zhang and Jim Butler. Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth place went to Micaiah Skolnick, SamehAwadallah, Diwei Shi and Fernando Yamazato respectively. The Open Doubles and U-3800 Doubles attracted 12 and 16 teams respectively, giving hope to the tournament director that the art of playing doubles will be kept alive despite so much focus in this sport on individual ratings and achievement. The Open Doubles first place prize was won by Mingyu Shi andDiwei Shi after a four game match in which they defeated Yi Chi Zhang and Cheng Li (5, 8, 2, 0). The third places were won by Fernando Yamazato and Felipe Morita along with Samson Dubina andSamehAwadallah. The U-3800 Doubles held on Sunday ended with a victory by a pair from Lindenwood University (Gabriel Skolnick and Luke Reft) who defeated Marcel Borceanand Gabriel Bardan (7 8 11). Third place went

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to Krzysztof Szostak and Henry Poleckiand a pair from Fox Valley Table Tennis club,Matthias Stender andBun–HiongCarls Chua. The Women Open Singles event attracted 10 players, considerably fewer than was hoped for. Perhaps offering another rated women’s event would attract lower rated players who might have been too intimidated by top seeded Yue Wu (2533) and Yitong Liu (2393). As expected, the event ended with first place going to Yue Wu and second place to Yitong Liu (3, -9, 10, 4, 2). Third place went to local players Maria Kretschmer (2233) and Barbara Wei (2206). The tournament director collected informal feedback during and after the tournament via e-mail. While most of the feedback was positive, the more seasoned players who attended many events of this rank recommended several improvements that will be considered for next year.In the end—despite early challenges with getting the tournament off the ground, all of the hard work paid off and the plans for next year’s tournament are already underway.

Under 1900 RR: NarasimhanTigeRamakrishnan, Joseph MasminsterUnder 1400 RR: Sid Naresh, AdvitheeyChelikaniUnder 18 Youth: Nathan Hsu, TapabrataDeyOpen Singles RR: Mingyu Shi, Cheng LiUnder 1700 RR: Deepak Somarapu Josh ChungUnder 1200 RR: Kyle Hess, ZigmasVievesisUnder 2000 RR: Xiaoming Zhang, Ken OhUnder 800 RR: Suraj Menon, Omar Salas-LievesRecreational: Kei Wai Lai, Lawrence TranUnder 2300 RR: ArturKurek, Maria KretschmerUnder 1800 RR: Joseph Masminster, Mansoor Ali AbdulrasoolOpen Doubles RR: Mingyu Shi / Diwei Shi, Yi Chi Zhang / Cheng LiUnder 2500 RR: Fernando Yamazato, SamehAwadallahUnder 1600 RR: Deepak Somarapu, Hui LinUnder 1000 RR: Danny Sternfield, Thomas P. McCormackUnder 14 Youth: LavanyaMaruthapandian, David SunWomen Singles RR: Yue Wu, Yitong LiuUnder 2400 RR: Nathan Hsu, Gabriel Skolnick40 and Over: Don R. Hamilton, Spenser Minh LamUnder 2200 RR: Nathaniel Ming Curran, Arkadiusz ZyworonekUnder 1750 RR: Vidhan Chandra, LavanyaMaruthapandianUnder 3800 Doubles RR: Gabriel Skolnick / Luke Reft, Marcel Borcean / Gabriel Bardan


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

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his own enabler and won the Under 2200, claiming stake to $75 dollars and winning the 1st place alloyed medal.

Open Round Robin 1st Place: Russ Hamilton, Bentonville, AR $150.00 2nd Place: Jeff Johnston, Smithville, MO $100.00 3rd Place: Richard Martin, Kansas City, KS $50.00Open Singles 1st Place: Russ Hamilton, Bentonville, AR $100.00 2nd Place: Richard Martin, Kansas City, MO $75.00Open Doubles 1st Place: R.Hamilton/T.Umebayashi AR $100.00 2nd Place: D.Chu/J.Zhang, Lawrence, KS $ 50.00 Under 2200 1st Place: Jeff Johnston, Smithville, MO $75.00 2nd Place: Richard Martin, Kansas City, MO $50.00Under 2000 1st Place: David Chu, Lawrence, KS $75.00 2nd Place: Dale Boswell, Springfield, MO $50.00Under 1800 1st Place: Nik Terzic, Ballwin, MO Medal 2nd Place: Terry Brecheisen, Kansas City, KS Medal 3rd Place: David Chu, Lawrence, KS MedalUnder 1600 1st Place: Jim Zhang, Lawrence, KS Medal 2nd Place: Bill Kindig, Alton, IL Medal 3rd Place: Alex Larson, Rogers, AR MedalUnder 1400 1st Place: Marko Terzic, Ballwin, MO Medal 2nd Place: Cal Bayer, Lawrence, KS Medal 3rd Place: Randy Liu, Battlefield, MO MedalUnder 1200 1st Place: Cal Bayer, Lawrence, KS Medal 2nd Place: Jiawei Huang, Lawrence, KS Medal 3rd Place: Tom Jourdan, Vinita, OK MedalNovice Singles 1st Place: David Houchens, Springfield, MO Medal 2nd Place: Ty Walters, Springfield, MO MedalHardbat Open 1st Place: Jeff Johnston, Smithville, MO $75.00 2nd Place: Ben Lewis, Springfield, MO $50.00

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By Sheri Soderberg Cioroslan In January the ITTF Executive Committee hosted approximately 80 guests (“table tennis volunteers and experts”) at a dinner in Dubai to roll out the ITTF’s quadrennial goal of reaching a top 5 rank in every criteria in international federation (IF) rankings. ITTF President Sharara explained that a few years ago, he was delighted to discover that the ITTF’s website, as measured by objective criteria, was about #3 in popularity, compared with all IFs. That piqued his interest and he began searching the Internet quite prodigiously. His mission was to answer the question, “How are we perceived?” His searches revealed several studies and surveys of the top sports in the world. At least 12 of them had table tennis listed in the top 10, but never in the top 5. Football/soccer usually scored #1.

Cricket appeared in the top 5 in 50% of the surveys. Swimming also consistently was ranked higher than table tennis. These findings stirred the president to set a clear objective for this quad: in everything we do, be in the top 5! This starts with our website, our World Championships, and our development program. After his re-election in Paris, President Sharara approached the IOC to gather more information. The IOC already conducts its own assessment of sports in the Olympic program. About 17 categories with numerous subcategories (adding up to approximately 40 criteria in total) are measured. While it once released its conclusions more openly, the IOC now limits the information it releases to IFs. Each IF is entitled to know only its own assessment by the IOC. President Sharara shared his objective and asked the IOC where we are strongest and where we are weakest in comparison to the other IFs. He learned that we already are in the top 5 in terms of tv viewers during the Olympics and also percentage of seats filled/attendance (99.2%) at the Olympics. A weak area, conversely, was print media, where the ITTF ranked #17. This revelation, combined with his own admission that even as the ITTF president, he might not even be aware of 40% of our own Olympic development activities, led him to the frank conclusion that we don’t promote our sport enough. We need to be bolder. We have to mention what we do well. If we are a sport of introverts, we have to overcome that barrier. We have to, in a good way, be willing to boast and be arrogant. We need to promote our sport! And, that “P” for “promotion” fit in nicely with President Sharara’s previously espoused “P4 Plan,” dating back to his original election in 1999. (P4 = Popularity, Participation, Profit, & Planning) With the newly expanded, “P5 Plan Priorities” in mind, President Sharara determined that it is not acceptable for an IF to set objectives

without knowing two factors: 1) the human resources/skill set available and 2) how much money can be directed toward achieving the desired objectives. A good analysis leads to “success, success, success” whereas a poor understanding of those two factors leads to “failure, failure, failure.” (His emphasis.) Our tool for moving forward is the codename: DBI. It stands for Data-Base Intelligence. DBI will be utilized to develop a “Human Resources Data-Base,” a summary of skills and areas of expertise that exist within the not only roughly 25 professionals already on staff, but also within the entirety of our global table tennis family, friends and even neighbors. Always keeping in mind the overall goal “in every criteria, move up to the top 5,” the ITTF will then solicit strategic input for goals and objectives from elected volunteers, officials and experts at international and continental levels as well as national associations and ITTF staff. The meeting in Dubai started the clock ticking on setting the plans in motion. All initial input will be sought between now and approximately March 15. In Tokyo, the ITTF’s EC will finalize the professional staff structure for 2014-2016. Addressing the financial side, the ITTF will strive to forecast within 5% how much revenue it will generate for the quad. After ensuring that the ITTF’s reserve will be equal to one year of operational expenses, the ITTF’s newly-formed Finance Committee will allocate the spending on this “top 5 in all we do” initiative to an amount that neither overspends nor underfunds the ultimate objective. That analysis is slated to be determined by June. Merging all of the information gleaned from the steps described above, the ITTF will then announce in September its short-term (2015-2016), medium term (2017-2020) and “flex-time” (ongoing) goals and objectives. By year-end, 2014, the ITTF will establish performance indicators to measure progress and success of the plan.Looking at this from a yearly perspective, it will look like this:

2014: Activate Design Action Plan based on DBI and P5 2015: Implement P5 Plan, using DBI 2016: Review of P5 Plan / Refine DBI Process / Review Performance Indicators

What this will mean for the ITTF is change. It’s another step toward modernizing our federation and embracing a call for new ideas. Keeping in mind that some “crazy” ideas of the past are now considered to be the norm, all ideas are welcome. The crowd endorsed the president’s presentation with loud applause, indicating their enthusiastic willingness to participate in the “Top-5 in Sports” ITTF initiative. President Sharara closed by saying that follow up will be conducted through emails. photos courtesy of ITTF

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US National Trial Rankings

RANKINGS

2014 US Team and 2014 US Entry to the World Team Championships in Tokyo, Japan

The US National Team is composed of the Top Four players as they finished at the trials. The next finishing players are alternates (in the order in which they finished). The Top Ten players are listed on this page. If a player is unable to compete, then the next alternate is chosen to compete in their place.

The U.S. entry to the 2014 Worlds will include the US Team plus one additional player selected by the coaches and approved by the USATT High Performance Committee. This year, the additional players selected for each team are Kanak Jha for the men’s team, and Angela Guan for the women’s team.

TOP MEN1. Timothy Wang 2. Adam Hugh3. Yahao Zhang4. Jim Butler5. Billy Xu Ding

TOP WOMEN1. Lily Zhang2. Prachi Zha3. Crystal Wang4. Erica Wu5. Judy Hugh

6. Shao Yu7. Kanak Jha8. Chance Friend9. Samson Dubina10. Cory Eider

6. Angela Guan7. Diane Jiang8. Tina Lin9. Laura Huang10. Joy Li


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About Ratings and RankingsThese lists were compiled on 4/4/14 (ages are as of that date) and includes all tournaments processed through that date. Due to space limitations, a maximum of 3200 members are listed -- the list is based upon those who most recently competed in a sanctioned tournament. For a full list of ratings, please visit www.USATT.org. This document may not be reproduced without prior written permission of USA Table Tennis. Copyright 2014. Think you’ve been left out by mistake? Email [email protected]

Ratings Questions?You can now search for all your results online at www.usatt.org. Should you have any ratings-related questions, contact Andrew Horn, USATT Headquarters, 4065 Sinton Road, Suite 120, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. To find out your rating if you cannot access our website, send a self-addressed, stamped postcard with your name and the date of your last tournament. You may also contact us at 719-866-4583 or by e-mail at [email protected] are ratings calclulated? http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Ratings

USATT National RankingsTOP MEN TOP WOMEN

GA 2796 Shi, MingyuCA 2711 Zhou, XinGA 2711 Li, KeweiCA 2709 Zhang, XiangNY 2704 Zhang, KaiCA 2679 Liang, YonghuiPA 2649 Li, BochaoNY 2647 Provost, DamienVA 2641 Kim, Jang HoCA 2639 Yuan, Xiao JieTX 2636 Wang, TimothyNJ 2629 Zhuang, David NJ 2614 Hugh, AdamGA 2607 Shi, DiweiCA 2594 Liu, DanNY 2594 Liang, JishanMS 2590 Li, ChengCA 2588 Jha, KanakMD 2587 Zhang, JakeMS 2583 Zhang, Yi ChiCA 2582 Zhang, WeijianGA 2582 Li, HangyuCA 2581 Han, ZhengGA 2580 Feng, YijunTX 2579 Hazinski, MarkCA 2576 Kashyap, AnalNJ 2575 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony)NY 2573 Shao, YuMD 2573 Wang, Qing LiangCA 2567 Guo, HaoCA 2547 Nguyen, KhoaTX 2543 Zhang, YahaoMA 2540 Li, GrantTX 2538 Butler, JimCA 2533 Huang, JeffNJ 2533 Eider, CoryNJ 2532 Yang, XinYangCA 2529 Chen, Yu-hengNJ 2528 Zhong, Zongqi (Henry)GA 2528 Chen, ZihaoCA 2524 Tan, PengMD 2523 Xiao, HanMD 2522 Chen, Bo WenNY 2516 Gao, YanJunCA 2516 Chodri, KunalUT 2513 Najem, AlfredNY 2512 Landers, MichaelMO 2512 Yamazato, FernandoCA 2512 Wang, RuiMD 2511 Li, Peter

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6. Angela Guan7. Diane Jiang8. Tina Lin9. Laura Huang10. Joy Li

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NV 2175 Resek, ErrolIL 2170 Inui, Tadao (Tom)CA 2106 Ukapatayasakul, BillFL 2075 Concepcion, ElmanCA 2071 Tay, ChongNV 2063 Von Schimmelmann, RonCA 2061 Leung, Che-HimNY 2058 Braithwaite, GeorgeIN 2055 Hicks, H.CA 2007 Chau, Y.C.NC 1950 Diwakar, MadhuMD 1910 Lonergan, TerryWA 1904 Grossman, HowardWA 1893 Lee, JosephNY 1876 Gudzenko, Gary

NJ 1929 Alvarez, AnnCA 1778 Sung, MonicaVA 1697 Kaminsky, BarbaraMD 1480 Kronlage, YvonneCA 1464 Hellwig, IrinaNV 1381 Arpon, JoyceTN 1333 Gove, RuthCO 1327 Longee, JinnyFL 1320 Williams, NahedCA 1316 Do, LindaMO 1291 Davis, RosemaryFL 1237 Cline, JanCA 1229 Quon, HarrietCA 1222 Ho, LauraCA 1143 Brin, Harriet

GA 2364 Xin, PengCA 2291 Malek, AttilaKS 2259 Mojaverian, ParvizTX 2259 Hou, RandyTX 2258 Chan, HenryOH 2248 Tannehill, JohnFL 2248 Chu, Bin HaiNV 2175 Resek, ErrolNJ 2175 Shtofmakher, SimonIL 2170 Inui, Tadao (Tom)CA 2163 Kim, Jin UpMA 2158 Hlava, JiriCO 2148 McAfee, RichardTX 2137 Tran, MinhNV 2137 Chan, Ming

MD 1993 Liu, CharleneNJ 1929 Alvarez, AnnTX 1928 Roufeh, Tahereh (Mahin)CA 1918 Livshin, BellaNC 1916 Fan, LingCA 1902 Cheung, TingNingCA 1898 Xianyu, HuiCA 1856 Suzuki, ChiyakoMD 1799 Sakai, DonnaCA 1778 Sung, MonicaCT 1774 Choi, Eun SunCA 1736 Martinez-Simons, PattyVA 1697 Kaminsky, BarbaraCA 1695 Chan, YudeCA 1679 Tsung, Julian

NJ 2629 Zhuang, David Yong-XiangIN 2448 Seemiller, DanielNY 2432 Boggan, EricTX 2416 Schwartzberg, PerryNY 2375 Tran, DeGA 2364 Xin, PengNY 2355 Li, Yu XiangNJ 2348 Osmanov, RomanNY 2318 Henry, MichaelMA 2314 Shapiro, VladimirVA 2310 Doverman, RichardCA 2306 Baddar, Mohamed A.FL 2305 Fleisher, DickieMI 2301 Xu, Xuan SteveCA 2297 Schmidt, Avishy

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NJ 2629 Zhuang, David Yong-XiangNY 2573 Shao, YuCA 2547 Nguyen, KhoaTX 2538 Butler, JimIN 2448 Seemiller, DanielNY 2432 Boggan, EricTX 2416 Schwartzberg, PerryTX 2415 Oak, NirajTX 2414 Subonj, ViktorianMA 2389 Chui, Chi-SunGA 2383 Ko, CarlosNY 2375 Tran, DeCA 2373 Jafar, ShujaMD 2366 Abass, LarryGA 2364 Xin, Peng

CA 2660 Gao, JunCA 2392 Tong, Fei-MingNJ 2385 Yip, LilyTX 2345 Lee, SumiCA 2330 Chen, DianeNJ 2293 Peng, YingIL 2261 Kretschmer, MariaCA 2130 Dole, GinaMI 2099 Murakami, TamakiCA 2057 Leitman, MarinaCA 2010 Li, Tzu-YingCA 2010 Nguyen, ThuyMD 1993 Liu, CharleneNY 1962 Drabkina, OlgaNM 1938 Gresham, Toni

GA 2711 Li, KeweiNJ 2629 Zhuang, David CA 2576 Kashyap, AnalNY 2573 Shao, YuCA 2547 Nguyen, KhoaTX 2538 Butler, JimNJ 2533 Eider, CoryNY 2516 Gao, YanJunUT 2513 Najem, AlfredWI 2501 Barsoum, EmadNY 2494 Awadallah, SamehOH 2489 Dubina, SamsonMD 2473 Baring, HaroldTX 2464 Cretu, RazvanIN 2448 Seemiller, Daniel

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GA 2796 Shi, MingyuCA 2709 Zhang, XiangNY 2704 Zhang, KaiCA 2639 Yuan, Xiao JieGA 2607 Shi, DiweiCA 2594 Liu, DanMS 2590 Li, ChengCA 2588 Jha, KanakMD 2587 Zhang, JakeGA 2582 Li, HangyuGA 2580 Feng, YijunNJ 2575 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony)MD 2573 Wang, Qing LiangCA 2567 Guo, HaoTX 2543 Zhang, Yahao

CA 2529 Li, RuiNiCA 2528 Zhang, LilyCA 2495 Hsing, ArielNJ 2472 Zhao, Jing YiTX 2461 Chih, De-RongWA 2399 Zhang, BijiaMD 2396 Wang, CrystalCA 2383 Wu, EricaCA 2377 Jha, PrachiGA 2375 Liu, Yitong(WantCA 2327 Guan, AngelaNJ 2325 Wang, AmyCA 2323 Jiang, DianeNJ 2321 Lin, TinaCA 2245 Yang, Grace

NY 2704 Zhang, KaiGA 2607 Shi, DiweiCA 2588 Jha, KanakGA 2582 Li, HangyuGA 2580 Feng, YijunCA 2567 Guo, HaoNJ 2532 Yang, XinYangMD 2522 Chen, Bo WenCA 2516 Chodri, KunalCA 2512 Wang, RuiCA 2486 Tran, TheodoreNJ 2468 Wang, AllenCA 2460 Ren, RuqinCA 2439 Avvari, KrishnatejCA 2436 Lin, Bryant

CA 2528 Zhang, LilyMD 2396 Wang, CrystalCA 2383 Wu, EricaCA 2377 Jha, PrachiCA 2327 Guan, AngelaNJ 2325 Wang, AmyCA 2323 Jiang, DianeNJ 2321 Lin, TinaCA 2245 Yang, GraceWA 2225 Ma, LucyNJ 2213 Wang, Mendy (Ke)TX 2204 Huang, LauraFL 2196 Charoenmit, ChanyaPA 2179 Xiao, ClaireCA 2173 Chu, Isabel

CA 2588 Jha, KanakNJ 2532 Yang, XinYangMD 2522 Chen, Bo WenCA 2516 Chodri, KunalCA 2439 Avvari, KrishnatejaCA 2381 Cheng, NewmanCA 2356 Shah, AarshNY 2352 Wu, TingleiTX 2351 Zhai, HaoNJ 2345 Alguetti, GalCA 2343 Liu, VictorMD 2333 Ke, RoyCA 2332 Kumar, ShivanshNJ 2332 Wang, JackNJ 2329 Chen, Timothy

MD 2396 Wang, CrystalCA 2327 Guan, AngelaNJ 2325 Wang, AmyCA 2323 Jiang, DianeNJ 2321 Lin, TinaCA 2245 Yang, GraceWA 2225 Ma, LucyNJ 2213 Wang, Mendy (Ke)TX 2204 Huang, LauraPA 2179 Xiao, ClaireTX 2146 Li, JoyCA 2129 Deb, IshanaCA 2126 Huo, LuvenaNJ 2124 Hu, XiyueTX 2027 Hsieh, Tia

CA 2588 Jha, KanakNJ 2345 Alguetti, GalCA 2343 Liu, VictorNJ 2332 Wang, JackNJ 2324 Alguetti, SharonCA 2301 Tio, NicholasCA 2294 Gong, RennyCA 2294 Gao, FelixMD 2293 Nie, DerekCA 2277 Kumar, ShivamTX 2256 Li, JonathanCA 2229 Tong, HowardCA 2225 Kumar, NikhilOH 2222 Hamrahian, SeyedCA 2194 Chang, Matthew

MD 2396 Wang, CrystalNJ 2325 Wang, AmyCA 2245 Yang, GraceCA 2129 Deb, IshanaCA 2126 Huo, LuvenaTX 2027 Hsieh, TiaMD 2023 Lu, AmyCA 1933 Wu, YouruoCA 1930 Sung, RachelNY 1927 Ackerman, EsteeGA 1877 Lin, EmilieVA 1870 Lu, JieTX 1834 Zhao, KellyMD 1825 Ke, TiffanyFL 1808 Barvie-Perez, Sherlyn

OVER 80 MEN OVER 60 WOMEN OVER 30 MEN UNDER 18 GIRLS

CA 2225 Kumar, NikhilMN 2176 Tran, MichaelCA 2173 Gong, StevenCA 2083 Chen, Pin-ChungIN 2026 Luo, HenryCA 2024 Bai, WilliamMA 2008 Cui, DavidNJ 2002 Chen, AlanIL 2001 Pardeshi, AkashNY 1977 Feng, Yihao (John)CA 1972 Puri, SahilPA 1960 Parthsarthy, PrasiddhaCA 1956 Yung, TimothyNJ 1930 Lu, MatthewMD 1916 Lu, Jason

NJ 2325 Wang, AmyTX 2027 Hsieh, TiaCA 1933 Wu, YouruoCA 1930 Sung, RachelVA 1870 Lu, JieTX 1834 Zhao, KellyMD 1825 Ke, TiffanyFL 1808 Barvie-Perez, SherlynCA 1787 Yang, RachelTX 1787 Gao, KatieKS 1782 Maruthapandian, LavanyaCA 1730 Tan, AngieMA 1711 Zhang, AngelaCA 1612 Chen, WendyCA 1596 Sung, Joanna

GA 1763 Ng, DanielTN 1745 Khan, MohammedCA 1657 Li, TedWA 1526 Du, EthanNJ 1526 Zhou, JaydenVA 1518 Zhang, BowenCA 1487 Gao, PatrickVT 1356 Tomas, MarijanMD 1353 Chen, RonaldWI 1270 Bedi, KabirCA 1246 He, WilliamTX 1155 Mu, KevinMI 1152 Hammond, JacobMD 1149 Sofer, DanielNJ 1137 Zhang, Richard

CA 1933 Wu, YouruoCA 1930 Sung, RachelMD 1825 Ke, TiffanyCA 1730 Tan, AngieCA 1596 Sung, JoannaCA 1170 Yin, EmilieCA 1150 Chen, TinaTX 1103 Lan, EllenNJ 1028 Chen, KatieCA 1022 Giri, SwathiTX 787 Chen, MaggieOH 782 Khatami, SarveenNJ 778 Fong, MollyFL 729 Ruiz, MylinCA 715 Srivastava, Saanvi

OVER 75 OVER 50 MEN OVER 30 WOMEN UNDER 16 BOYS UNDER 12 BOYS

OVER 60 MEN OVER 40 WOMEN UNDER 18 BOYS UNDER 14 GIRLS UNDER 10 GIRLS

OVER 70 WOMEN OVER 40 MEN UNDER 22 WOMEN UNDER 14 BOYS UNDER 10 BOYS

OVER 70 MEN OVER 50 WOMEN UNDER 22 MEN UNDER 16 GIRLS UNDER 12 GIRLS

NATIONAL RANKINGS


CA 2225 Kumar, NikhilMN 2176 Tran, MichaelCA 2173 Gong, StevenCA 2083 Chen, Pin-ChungIN 2026 Luo, HenryCA 2024 Bai, WilliamMA 2008 Cui, DavidNJ 2002 Chen, AlanIL 2001 Pardeshi, AkashNY 1977 Feng, Yihao (John)CA 1972 Puri, SahilPA 1960 Parthsarthy, PrasiddhaCA 1956 Yung, TimothyNJ 1930 Lu, MatthewMD 1916 Lu, Jason

NJ 2325 Wang, AmyTX 2027 Hsieh, TiaCA 1933 Wu, YouruoCA 1930 Sung, RachelVA 1870 Lu, JieTX 1834 Zhao, KellyMD 1825 Ke, TiffanyFL 1808 Barvie-Perez, SherlynCA 1787 Yang, RachelTX 1787 Gao, KatieKS 1782 Maruthapandian, LavanyaCA 1730 Tan, AngieMA 1711 Zhang, AngelaCA 1612 Chen, WendyCA 1596 Sung, Joanna

GA 1763 Ng, DanielTN 1745 Khan, MohammedCA 1657 Li, TedWA 1526 Du, EthanNJ 1526 Zhou, JaydenVA 1518 Zhang, BowenCA 1487 Gao, PatrickVT 1356 Tomas, MarijanMD 1353 Chen, RonaldWI 1270 Bedi, KabirCA 1246 He, WilliamTX 1155 Mu, KevinMI 1152 Hammond, JacobMD 1149 Sofer, DanielNJ 1137 Zhang, Richard

CA 1933 Wu, YouruoCA 1930 Sung, RachelMD 1825 Ke, TiffanyCA 1730 Tan, AngieCA 1596 Sung, JoannaCA 1170 Yin, EmilieCA 1150 Chen, TinaTX 1103 Lan, EllenNJ 1028 Chen, KatieCA 1022 Giri, SwathiTX 787 Chen, MaggieOH 782 Khatami, SarveenNJ 778 Fong, MollyFL 729 Ruiz, MylinCA 715 Srivastava, Saanvi

(The Most Recent 3200 Tournament PlayersIn Alphabetical Order by Last Name)

LA 1900 Abadie, SpencerMD 2366 Abass, LarryNY 957 Abouelardat, ZiadFL 1914 Abril, RicardoOH 741 Accursi, ChristopherNY 2094 Acharya, RahulNY 1639 Acharya, RohanOK 1668 Ackart, StephenNY 1927 Ackerman, EsteeNY 1172 Ackerman, GlennMN 1381 Ackerman, JohnNV 1559 Acopiado, RodilCA 1682 Adachi, RyousukeGA 1218 Adams, BillyCA 1629 Adams, SteveOK 2159 Addy, WinfredNJ 1623 Adebayo, VincentTX 1008 Adeyinka, OluwatobiCA 68 Adi, SarahNY 2108 Adini, EyalCA 2134 Aebersold, CharlesCA 1216 Afrah, NavidCA 1994 Afshar, SherwinOK 1300 Agbasi, SamCA 1048 Agpaoa, AnthonyMN 1853 Aguila, GaylordIN 683 Aguilera, FrankLA 1314 Ahmad, ToysirCA 887 Ahmed, RaeedOH 1817 Akers, Richard W.TX 1713 Alamina, LouisCA 1391 Alamoudi, YazanCA 482 Alamuthu, AkashNY 1824 Alaua, LuisCA 823 Alban, JonathanIL 1645 Alberski, TadeuszVA 1939 Albright, David WesleyNY 2149 Alegue, AlejandroLA 1184 Alfaro, ManuelNY 189 Alger,GriffinNJ 2221 Alguetti, AdarNJ 1767 Alguetti, EyalNJ 2345 Alguetti, GalNJ 2324 Alguetti, SharonIL 160 Ali, AshmalIL 372 Ali, FarazWA 2015 Ali, RedaNY 1531 Alic, EmirTX 1552 Alirezaei, Reza 1705 Allaire-Bourgie, LaurentNJ 566 Allan, AhmadNY 1255 Allen, GregoryKY 1891 Allen, JackKY 2030 Allen, JohnTX 2193 Almirol, CarlitoTX 1435 Almogela, AlanMO 658 Al-Ramis, MohammedFL 1377 Alter, RonKS 2096 Altman, VladimirCA 2409 Alto, EarlTX 2006 Alvarez, NicolasTX 1333 Aly, AdamNJ 149 Amarnath, ShashankCA 1772 Amatya, PradyumnaCA 1427 Amayo, RicardoIL 1504 Ameen, MichaelFL 1550 Ameris, PaulMO 850 Ami, ArnoldNY 1559 Amin, AsheshNY 1804 Amstislavskiy, EricNY 1533 Amstislavskiy, MarkWI 1933 An, HaiQiCA 1505 Anand, GautamPA 1800 Andrade, JohnCT 1314 Ang, ErnestCO 1976 Angeles, KyleUT 1573 Angstadt, PatrickIL 975 Anklewicz, AndrzejMD 1543 Anne, ChanakyaWA 1191 Ansari, IrfanFL 1550 Anumulapally, PranavCA 1846 Apostol, Von ErickNY 977 Apterman, DilanNY 799 Apterman, MarkTX 1369 Arashev, BegenchFN 1670 Araujo, JoseNV 1359 Arceo, EddieNV 1916 Archambo, SteveCA 195 Archbold, MasonCA 1405 Archbold, WilliamCT 924 Arciero, ChrisCT 1386 Arciero, MatthewMI 1634 Arciniega, JakeCA 555 Arellano, AngelicaCA 671 Arellano, KeylaCA 2037 Arellano, RonaldFL 809 Arfanis, JohnWI 583 Argote, ClaudioFL 2009 Arias, FrankFL 1519 Armstrong, ErnestPA 1640 Arnold, BenjaminFL 1245 Arnold, JamesCA 1767 Arratia, AriNY 2149 Artoun, NarbehIL 718 Arun, GauthamCA 2289 Arun, SagarFL 1018 Arzola, Fabio

OH 1677 Asare, FrancisMD 2242 Asgarali, NazruddinNC 790 Ashkin, JeffreyCA 1289 Athalye, RohanMO 1400 Atmaca, CagatayPA 1101 Attenberger, MarkCA 2338 Au, KevinNC 1636 Auerbach, CraigNC 1156 Augustine, PatrickCA 1634 Aung, SanCA 936 Avarell, KimOH 2014 Averin, AlexWI 2116 Avery, AaronCA 2439 Avvari, KrishnatejaNY 2494 Awadallah, SamehCA 2089 Awale, SandeshIN 2168 Ayangade, OluwoleCA 1719 Azimzadeh, KamranCA 1869 Aziz, SultanTX 1952 Babalola, WoleNC 1678 Babuin, MikeMA 1149 Backus, RodmanME 1235 Bacon, JerryWA 855 Bacon, NeilMI 1435 Badillo, ScottIN 328 Baer, AlexisIN 1004 Baer, BrittanyMO 1846 Baez, AlfredoOH 1869 Bafna, ShreyansVA 1785 Bagchi, AyanFL 1202 Bahr, MichaelCA 766 Bai, EdwinCA 2024 Bai, WilliamTX 1489 Baig, SaqibNY 1613 Baik, Yeu JinMA 1580 Baird, JimCA 1633 Baird, WillCA 585 Bajpai, AarushiCT 1453 Baker, ChuckWA 1347 Baker, DarrylTX 1441 Baker, DerekTX 567 Baker, HaydenOH 1304 Baker, JohnIL 1282 Baker, QuinnOH 545 Baker, R. BrettWA 1477 Bakke, DouglasCA 1944 Balakrishnan, RishiCA 484 Balasubramanian, BalakumaranCA 1664 Balderama, JasonCA 1764 Baldonado, EugeneCA 1191 Baldonado, ThomasIL 1456 Baldwin, MikeNC 1047 Bales, NathanCO 1919 Ball, KevinAZ 1649 Balmer, BradCA 1996 Baltaxe, MichaelAZ 1487 Bandapally, SunilNY 1418 Banfield,VaughanCA 1700 Banh, DaltonNC 1539 Banks, TeeMA 833 Bannister, RamonGA 1486 Banot, JohnGA 1156 Banot, Supakan(Jeed)NJ 2217 Bao, LarryNY 2097 Baptista, JosephIL 1777 Baran, KarolAZ 588 Barber, WallySC 1864 Barbour, LeeIL 1832 Bardan, GabrielIL 1194 Bardoczi, BillVA 1689 Barnes, HalAR -13 Barone, MiaAR 2040 Barone, ScottAR 325 Barone, SharonAR 1512 Barone, ShelbyFL 1384 Barrau, CarmelTX 1049 Barrera, ChristianIN 1278 Bartling, GeorgeNJ 1722 Barton, HughVT 1892 Barucic, AsmirVT 1196 Barucic, IrfanFL 1808 Barvie-Perez, SherlynCA 1399 Basiao, JamesGA 988 Basu, SunnyOH 303 Batchelder, RossMA 2055 Bavly, LarryKS 1426 Bayer, CalIL 837 Bayr, ZitaMO 1024 Bean, JosephNJ 1099 Beauchamp, TimothyLA 2271 Beaumont, JohnOR 974 Beck, JennyVT 1212 Becker, PeterOR 1485 Bednarz, BenGA 2214 Beebe, T. J.OH 1042 Beer, RichardCT 1716 Behera, SudhirFL 2029 Bekurti, ElidonNJ 764 Belinkis, NathanielCA 1111 Belo, HilarionFL 2118 Benincasa, GiacomoFL 1700 Benitez, PatriciaMA 1459 Benkley, MarkOH 897 Bennett, RichardMA 202 Berellini, GiulianoNY 1812 Berg, Mark

IL 598 Berger, JenniferNY 1186 Bergman, JimCA 1374 Bergman, NealTX 1214 Bergmann, GrantMN 1957 Berman, AntonNC 1980 Berman, CharlieCA 1403 Bernstein, DavidVA 1656 Berry, SamTX 1666 Bertschi, JustinCO 1823 Betancur, Ann MarieIN 1669 Betts, SteveCA 1285 Bhachawat, YashCA 1163 Bharadwaj, SudhanvaTX 1223 Bhardwaj, NishantCA 1769 Bhartia, SaurabhNJ 1335 Bhatia, PravirNJ 1225 Bhatia, VirenTX 1551 Bhatnagar, NeerajMA 1432 Bhobe, RahulCA 1281 Bhutkar, AishwaryaWA 1898 Bi, AlanNY 699 Bianchi, EttoreAZ 1540 Bill, JoeMA 682 Billmers, MeyerNY 1249 Billow, BrianCA 504 Bilotta, RyanNJ 1030 Birenbaum, AndrewGA 943 Bires, JamesWA 904 Bishop, AkikoAL 1361 Bishop, DonaldFL 1004 Blass, JuliCT 1021 Blauvelt, TimAZ 1926 Block, AdamPA 1152 Block, EliCA 1410 Blyth, WilliamCA 2118 Bobrow, AdamFL 1485 Bocanegra, JoseMA 2198 Bockoven, ChaseMA 2235 Bockoven, ConnorMA 2012 Bockoven, RalphFL 2007 Bogavac, SvetislavIL 2031 Bogdan, JanCT 1404 Bogie, MarvinWI 1611 Boldon, KyleNC 1564 Bolling, ErikVT 1432 Bolton, JohnCA 1565 Bookey, JustinFL 1755 Borges, JoseMO 1766 Boswell, DaleWA 1761 Boudour, YazelCA 831 Bourgeois, TimMA 1538 Bourget, StephenMA 1579 Bourque, MatthewCA 1933 Boyko, YuriyCA 1488 Boyle, MickeyVA 1656 Bragg, LewisMN 1346 Braianov, TodorNC 1863 Brain, SimonNY 2058 Braithwaite, GeorgeIL 1806 Brandt, JohnFL 1654 Brantley, BarryFL 1137 Brenner, BardOH 1953 Brewster, KeithNY 598 Briggs, BrendanCA 1540 Brigitt, AndrewCA 1577 Brigitt, EugeneCA 1141 Brigitt, VictoriaCA 1143 Brin, HarrietNJ 1266 Brissett, LuzNJ 1733 Brito, Ricardo 1541 Brockmann, AndrewAR 1365 Brooks, CharlesMS 868 Brookshire, BruceUT 1460 Brown, DanOR 1702 Brown, GrantNC 1512 Brown, JamesIN 952 Brown, LarryGA 1708 Brown, LukeAL 1803 Brown, SeanVA 1351 Brown, SteveCA 1020 Bruckel, JaneCA 1820 Bruno, DanielMI 1267 Brushman, BradFL 1826 Bryan, AndreMD 707 Bryant, DanielAZ 1828 Bryant, RobertIN 2075 Brzycki, BrianON 2174 Bu, AlexanderFL 1385 Bubis, IgorMI 1532 Bublitz, GaryNY 1233 Buchanan, WinstonTX 1854 Budiman, DanyaIL 1985 Buente, KevinCA 1769 Bui, BrianCA 1720 Bui, DavidTX 1298 Buluchevskiy, DmitriyCA 1647 Bunya, PeterOH 1115 Burchfield,MikeWA 1322 Burke, BennettOR 619 Burns, PaigePA 2116 Burnside, RichardCA 1710 Burris, TheoCA 1905 Burton, CraigNY 1233 Busch, WolfgangGA 1528 Bushkanets, IlyaOH 1805 Bussey, DavidTX 2538 Butler, Jim

WV 1641 Butts, MikeMA 1357 Bychkov, VladimirOH 1382 Byler, ErwinOH 663 Byler, JamesOH 1359 Byler, JohnTX 2167 Byles, RobertoTX 2035 Byles, RogerMO 760 Cai, AliceNE 1892 Caines, DevonCA 230 Cajigas, AlbertoKY 1804 Calipo, WilliansCA 1916 Calvert, ThomasVT 1939 Cameron, KenCA 1117 Campbell, DanCA 1611 Campos, ArthurFL 1640 Canepa, FelipeFL 1559 Cao, TanWA 1392 Cao, TaoFL 1571 Cao, ThangMN 1965 Cao, TracCT 1468 Capasso, AnthonyNV 1286 Caples, BuddyNY 1463 Caplin, GlennFL 1594 Caplin, StuartFL 1313 Capo, EnricoCA 1070 Caraco, DerolFL 1120 Cariglio, JosephFL 1214 Cariglio, MichaelLA 1762 Carlisle, BillyWA 789 Carlson, HaroldMI 1381 Carmean, RickNY 2293 Carney, A.J.FL 2124 Carra, RobertIN 1585 Carrillo, Jose ArturoTX 550 Carroll, BrandonNJ 1571 Carroll, GregoryMI 1811 Carter, BarryMI 1325 Casey, WilliamTX 800 Cashin, BillCO 1536 Casi, TrentIL 1333 Cassidy, RonaldIL 830 Casstevens, RexTX 1589 Castillo, AlannFL 437 Castillo, DanielaMO 2159 Castillo, MariaTX 1015 Castillo, RichardTX 1035 Castillo, RonOR 2049 Castle, RogerCA 1574 Cavazos, AnthonyRI 1627 Cavicchio, CharlesCT 1703 Cedro, ChrisAZ 980 Cejudo, JesseVA 1531 Cerrato, EzioOH 2010 Cevik, BurakMN 1293 Cha, SonnyNY 1109 Chafetz, HarryTX 1504 Chai, AndrewCA 2054 Chai, JimTX 1882 Chai, RyanCT 849 Chakraborty, DebrajAR 1223 Chambers, JamesAR 881 Chambers, WilliamCA 208 Chan, AveryIN 1720 Chan, BarryNV 2105 Chan, Benjamin(Tian)PA 2383 Chan, CalvinCA 2265 Chan, Chi Wing (Felix)FL 2126 Chan, Chi-KinTX 2258 Chan, HenryCA 1935 Chan, JasonMA 606 Chan, JessieCA 1312 Chan, JoaquinCA 1385 Chan, Long-HinCA 1266 Chan, MingNV 2137 Chan, MingCA 1695 Chan, YudeMN 1744 Chandra, VidhanCA 1820 Chandrashekaran, ShreyasNM 888 Chang, Chi-HsinAZ 1413 Chang, Chung-FuCA 1925 Chang, DylanCA 74 Chang, EthanCA 2073 Chang, FernandoNJ 1388 Chang, KeeVA 1459 Chang, Kyong SikCA 2194 Chang, MatthewNY 1881 Chang, Ming-HongVA 1668 Chang, SoonCA 347 Chang, SydonTX 1036 Chang, ToshiIN 1871 Chang, VincentCA 1811 Chang, WilliamWI 556 Chao, MadisonCA 1119 Chappelle, TamaraMN 1687 Charney, MichaelFL 2196 Charoenmit, ChanyaNC 2378 Charpentier, LucasNM 1651 Chartrand, RickCA 1264 Chau, EricIL 1759 Chawla, TarunNY 1007 Checa, LuisIL 1252 Chelikani, AdvitheeyNJ 2002 Chen, AlanCA 910 Chen, AlexanderNY 916 Chen, AlvinGA 1110 Chen, AndrewCA 1962 Chen, Andy

GA 328 Chen, BenNJ 1140 Chen, BinFN 2736 Chen, BobCA 976 Chen, ChristopherNY 115 Chen, ClaireCO 1733 Chen, DeanTX 439 Chen, DennisCA 2330 Chen, DianeTX 613 Chen, EmmaCA 900 Chen, EthanCA 1051 Chen, EvanCA 2431 Chen, HuaiyuMA 324 Chen, JasmineMA 587 Chen, JasonGA 603 Chen, JesseOR 2095 Chen, Jia Feng (Jason)TX 1756 Chen, JudyTX 1661 Chen, JustinNJ 1028 Chen, KatieTX 1209 Chen, Kuei-MeiMN 1590 Chen, LeonTX 787 Chen, MaggieFL 1770 Chen, MichaelMD 1411 Chen, PatrickGA 1378 Chen, PatrickOH 2134 Chen, Po HsuMD 1353 Chen, RonaldCA 1644 Chen, RyanMD 1523 Chen, SpencerCA 1246 Chen, StephanieNY 1591 Chen, StevenNJ 1514 Chen, TimmyNJ 2329 Chen, TimothyCA 1150 Chen, TinaTX 956 Chen, VincentCA 1940 Chen, WeiCA 1612 Chen, WendyCA 1634 Chen, WilliamCA 2053 Chen, YingZhao (Anthony)GA 2207 Chen, ZhicongCO 1894 Chen, Zhimin(Jimmy)NY 1802 Cheng, ChenCA 2043 Cheng, EmmyWA 1706 Cheng, GangCA 2124 Cheng, HoraceCA 1821 Cheng, JoshuaCA 2381 Cheng, NewmanCA 410 Cheng, RachelWA 1687 Cheng, Ting-ChungCA 842 Chennu, BalaTX 1032 Cheong, HenryMD 1619 Cheong, SiMA 2013 Cheung, KevinTX 1948 Cheung, Michael LatyanNY 2170 Cheung, MingCA 1902 Cheung, TingNingIN 918 Chhatiawala, HarinOR 2070 Chia, BrianMD 1420 Chia, KenCA 1160 Chillara, RishiGA 1547 Chin, KingsleyIL 1253 Chin, RonFL 1389 Chin, SamuelNY 1975 Chin, Wayne MingWA 1229 Chinn, LarryFL 1712 Chirinos, VeronicaTX 1110 Chirkli, AbdulMN 1977 Chirmule, ShardulCA 376 Cho, RachelCA 749 Cho, StephenCA 2035 Chodri, AditiCA 2516 Chodri, KunalCA 1159 Choe, TimothyNJ 898 Choi, ChanghyeonCA 1550 Choi, Han PyoNJ 809 Choi, JacobIL 738 Choi, KevinCA 823 Choi, RubyNY 429 Choi, SkyCA 1164 Choi, UngsamWA 1784 Chou, BerthaTX 1782 Chow, PhilipWA 1205 Chramiec, PeteCA 2219 Chu, AnthonyFL 2248 Chu, Bin HaiCA 2173 Chu, IsabelNJ 2050 Chu, JonathanNJ 2086 Chu, JonathanCA 2160 Chu, NathanielWA 1710 Chu, RaymondCA 1962 Chu, SammyNJ 1989 Chu, StephenCA 1324 Chu, SumingKS 1730 Chu, Tat WaiNJ 1789 Chu, Tony N.T.TX 2180 Chu, TszNC 734 Chu, VictorTX 2026 Chu, ZhihanIN 1864 Chua, Bun-HiongCA 2286 Chua, EthanTX 893 Chuang, ScottMA 2389 Chui, Chi-SunIA 1317 Chung, JedidiahNJ 1577 Chung, JoonIA 1628 Chung, JoshOH 1346 Ciarrochi, JoeIL 1215 Ciofiac,Nicolae

CA 1036 Cisneros, RogelioFL 2323 Ciz, RichardIL 2004 Claflin,StevenNY 2119 Clang, JohnCA 1113 Clark, BarbaraNJ 739 Clark, BarryIL 1505 Clark, RobertNY 1077 Clarke, GlenroyAZ 1139 Clavijo, DeborahAZ 1204 Clavijo, SergioIN 2263 Clyde, StephenMI 2057 Cobb, DennisMI 2142 Cobb, DennisIN 2400 Cochran, JosephCA 1576 Cohen, EdNJ 2253 Cohen, RandyNY 1855 Coiro, AlecFL 1341 Cole, RyanAR 1234 Collins, FredNV 1046 Collins, JeffMI 521 Collins, MichaelIL 1310 Colombo, KevinCA 1502 Colter, GeraldTX 1698 Compton, RobertAZ 1944 Cone, DerrickMI 1028 Conklin, ScottGA 1385 Conn, ElijahCA 1650 Connell, GrantNC 1831 Connelly, TimVA 1964 Constantin, CostelTX 2087 Cook, GraydenGA 1751 Cook, JoshuaAR 811 Cook, TannerMD 1508 Cooke, PeterGA 1917 Cooper, GeorgeCA 930 Copeland, MarkNC 1361 Corbett, TildenOK 1648 Correa, DavidHI 1579 Correa, FrankCA 1034 Cortez, Nelson 1993 Cote, AliciaOH 1780 Cottrell, BlakePA 2192 Coulter, ChipNE 1757 Cowles, RodWA 1216 Cox, BrianPA 1699 Cox, RobertTN 1126 Craighead, KevinMI 951 Craw, StephenIN 1211 Creel, ClaudeIN 1670 Creel, StephenCA 1432 Crescitelli, LuisTX 2464 Cretu, RazvanMN 461 Crist, AnthonyVA 1372 Cristofaro, FrankNY 2366 Croitoroo, MarkCO 1178 Crozier, BruceMA 2008 Cui, DavidWA 2230 Cui, JieIL 1342 Cumby, ChadMN 2180 Curran, NathanielIN 1447 Czarnecki, ScottCA 1776 Da Vee, MarkOR 1225 Da, LeezanMD 1755 Dabbs, RyanIN 1293 Dagher, CharlesNC 1642 Dahake, NikhilGA 1405 Dale, GardnerNC 1317 Dalton, RufusMN 2111 Damyanov, VeselinMD 1096 Dancis, BarryMD 601 Dancis, ElaineNJ 368 Dang, AlyssaNJ 636 Dang, SarahFL 953 Danielson, LeeIN 1830 Dannenfelser, TomNY 799 Danziger, JamesAK 1293 Darnall, DiannCA 1238 Dart, JohnCA 2082 Darukhanawalla, MalcolmCA 1967 Darukhanawalla, NashNY 2146 Dassonval, PhilippeNJ 2254 Dattel, BarryFL 1304 Daugherty, MichaelMI 1033 Dault, JoeGA 1694 Dave, IshaanNJ 1716 David, Ajay

NATIONAL RATINGS LIST

TABLE TENNIS64

USATT Rating Chart Higher rated Lower rated player wins: player wins: Higher Lower Lower HigherRating player player player playerDifference gains: loses: gains: loses:

0-12 8 813-37 7 1038-62 6 1363-87 5 1688-112 4 20113-137 3 25138-162 2 30163-187 2 35188-212 1 40213-237 1 45238 & up 0 50

CA 1606 Davila, RubenUT 1641 Davis, ByronUT 1362 Davis, CarolAZ 1294 Davis, DavidWI 1757 Davis, DrewCA 1864 Dawalbhakta, SamihaNY 1846 De Asis, Jed RaveTX 1547 De Coatpont, BertrandTX 626 de Coatpont, LucieWI 1835 De Fabry, LucasAK 1650 De May, DavidFL 1660 Deacon, RichardNY 1113 DeArmond, ChristianIL 1370 DeAsis, FrancisCA 2129 Deb, IshanaMI 1079 Decraene, ParkerOH 1297 Decristofaro, JohnNC 1327 Deepee, StevenVA 1471 Defrank, TimCA 1766 Dehdashti, MassoudLA 2156 Del Vecchio, MartinCA 874 Demartini, Cliff 1168 Deopurkar, AshwinUT 1654 Desai, GauravFL 1739 Desai, PhilFL 2362 Desai, VinayFL 701 Dev, RishiGA 415 Devalapalli, PranavNY 1136 DeVenezia, RichardCT 2200 DeWitt, RichardMI 2169 Dey, TapabrataRI 1929 Di, XueNE 1649 Dickey, GordonTN 1728 Dickson, RogerFL 1472 Dieker, EricOH 1688 Dietz, RoyNV 1334 Difuntorum, ReynaldoIL 788 Dilley, MackenzieWA 1845 DiMarco, GregoryWA 2502 Ding, BillyCA 1733 Ding, FengFL 1148 Dinh, ThuanCA 2218 Dinh, TriNC 1950 Diwakar, MadhuIL 1463 Dixon, LawerCO 1301 Djoumaliev, HristoFL 1352 Doelman, JohnOH 895 Doenges, KevinMI 1167 Doerr, TimothyAZ 1812 Dok, DaphneCT 890 Dolan, KevinRI 770 Donadio, AlexanderMD 1771 Dong, ChunMD 2511 Dong, StevenNJ 902 Donthi, SaiTX 1570 Dorrell, JimmyOH 339 Dorsey, OwenCA 1572 D’Ortenzio, MarioIL 1774 Douglass, RobertIL 1911 Dousmanis, ChristosIL 1114 Downing, CharlieGA 1975 Dowridge, WinstonTX 1014 Doyle, DonNJ 1606 Doytchev, DoytchoTX 1998 Drake, KyleMO 1285 Drake, WenyanSC 1704 Dreyfus, StephenNY 810 Driscoll, OlgaIL 1832 Driskill, RyanIL 1494 Drissen, JohnSC 1921 Drolet, JoeyOH 1084 Drsek, JohnMD 1057 Du, BrandonWA 1526 Du, EthanMD 2033 Duan, ChangpingOH 2489 Dubina, SamsonCO 1492 Ducek, PremyslIL 886 Dudas, AttilaMO 1481 Dudenhoeffer, ToddNV 1796 Duhaylungsod, MarkTX 1062 Duich, JanFL 1624 Dunlap, CalebMI 1272 Dunlap, FredNC 1011 Dunn, AndrewNY 838 Dunn, ArthurNY 186 Dunn, LeinaNH 1588 Duperron, RobertCA 964 Durrer, Thomas 1744 Duysens, AlexandreTX 1652 Dy, EdisonIL 1452 Dydynski, JerryIL 1361 Dyer, DonIL 924 Dyer, JonathanNY 484 Eagle, JackNY 1082 Eagle, ToddSD 317 Eastman, BenOR 1476 Edwards, David

FN 2156 Edwards, GillianNC 909 Ehlert, KurtNJ 769 Ehrenreich, MartinCT 1748 Eichner, HowardNJ 2533 Eider, CoryIN 1850 Eiler, BrandonIN 928 Eiler, MarkOR 1841 Eiles, TravisAZ 1409 Ekbundit, PatrickVA 1637 El Oukaili, TalalNJ 1843 Elazrag, EymenFL 430 Ellsworth, JohnFL 309 Ellsworth, WilliamKS 1617 Ely, ColeIL 1495 Emilianowicz, ErykWV 2011 Emmons, Stephen A.WV 1621 Emmons, Theron RoyIN 875 Emmons, ToddMI 1485 Enders, WayneTX 2151 Enebish, MunkhbilegIN 1623 Engel, PJSC 1668 England, DavidNC 1289 Englebreth, BillMI 1555 Engstrom, JimIL 1404 Erdenebileg, MyagmarsurenFL 1445 Erdos, TamasCA 1134 Esch, JimCA 1525 Escobar, WilfredoCA 1519 Espinosa, GabrielNY 1364 Estill, AlanNV 1432 Estrella, AlfredWA 1311 Evans, AdamAZ 1176 Evans, DavidIL 1745 Evans, J.FL 1159 Ewert, MatthewCA 1306 Ezzo, SteveNJ 928 Fabian, StevenCA 1747 Fahlstrom, RagnarKY 1828 Fakharpour, BabakKY 1715 Fakharpour, PeytonIL 1704 Falcis, PeterIL 192 Falcis, PierreAR 519 Falco, AngelaAR 1587 Falco, JohnOR 1565 Fan, YunNJ 1060 Fang, BryanTX 701 Fang, KatherineVA 1451 Fanous, MedhatNJ 1624 Farkas, BrianIN 735 Farkas, JoeGA 1700 Farrar, WilliamOH 1658 Faulstich, StephenOR 1120 Fechner, JoannFL 1820 Federico, SteveIL 1741 Feerst, DavidTX 1110 Feher, SamMA 2052 Fei, XiangerCO 1360 Feinstein, Marilyn SommerCA 935 Feist, BobAL 1779 Feldman, DannyMA 1528 Felsher, StevenCT 1624 Feltenberger, DonaldNJ 113 Feng, XinYiNY 1977 Feng, Yihao (John)GA 2580 Feng, YijunIL 1585 Feng, YingCA 70 Ferguson, MichaelNC 1010 Ferland, JacobNY 2388 Fernandez, DavidMA 1467 Ferreira, Antonio LuisNV 1474 Ferrenberg, AllanNY 1503 Fields, TobiasNJ 2090 Files, JustinCA 1599 Finney, EmmaTX 1299 Fish, DavidOK 846 Fitzgerald, KathleenCO 1346 Fleming, MarkTX 1890 Fleshman, TomCA 1533 Flexer, DominiqueOH 882 Flores, BrandonTX 2018 Flores, Mark AndrewAZ 1444 Flores, SalvadorMA 1898 Fomin, DmitriMO 1268 Fong, JosephNJ 778 Fong, MollyCA 1490 Fong, ScottCA 1589 Fong, ShawnNJ 241 Foo, AlyshaNY 289 Foote, GrahamNJ 540 Forman, GaryFL 1900 Forster, MichaelFL 1448 Foster, EdOR 1678 Fountain, EricMI 1753 Fowler, BrianWA 1655 Frahler, JeffFL 1744 Francisco, Ramon PaoloIL 2161 Franeczek, JanuszOK 1214 Franks, CameronMA 2121 Frayberg, AlexMN 1930 Frayne, ElliotNJ 1068 Fredricks, GlennWA 1547 Fredrickson, JohnCA 433 Freeman, ChaseNY 1565 Friedlander, JudahCA 811 Friedman, GerryCA 1840 Friedman, OliverMA 650 Friedman, ThomasTX 917 Friedmann, NadavTX 2453 Friend, ChanceCA 1590 Frisbee, StanleyWA 795 Frost, AndreaWA 837 Frost, BryanCA 1558 Frye, ScottCA 1515 Fu, AdrianCA 235 Fu, AliceCA 1419 Fu, AvaNV 1841 Fu, BillyGA 1338 Fu, Michael

PA 1916 Fu, YaoCA 1538 Fu, ZhengIL 1576 Fudala, ChristopherOH 1490 Fullen, DaveCT 1368 Fulton, EthanNY 1351 Fung-a-fat, JillNM 1323 Funkhouser, BobAZ 1770 Furdui, StelianCA 460 Furze, EricFL 1323 Fusa, FernandoMD 1565 Gabbidon, IanWI 1584 Gableman, JimCT 1303 Gabor, BobCA 2363 Gabriel, FreddieOH 2027 Gacki, SlawomirMA 1208 Gaidarev, PeterCA 1214 Gail, ChrisIL 1797 Galban, JunRI 1516 Gallagher, KevinCA 920 Galm, SteveCA 1887 Gandhi, NimeshOK 1710 Gann, CharlesDE 971 Ganti, KrishnaCA 1078 Gao, AnnieMA 2208 Gao, BrianMO 1572 Gao, DiCA 2294 Gao, FelixAK 1444 Gao, JimmyNY 1827 Gao, JunjieTX 1787 Gao, KatieCA 1487 Gao, PatrickNJ 1984 Gao, Sean(Zhongyi)NY 2516 Gao, YanJunCA 1856 Gao, YuzhangOR 1726 Gao, ZhongweiCA 1820 Garabidian, RonaldFL 1158 Garcia, LeonelNY 790 Garcia, MiguelNY 529 Garell, CharlesNY 549 Garell, PaulCA 1500 Garretson, SteveFL 1062 Gascoigne, IanCA 904 Gaskins, GeorgeIL 1365 Gaysin, ArsenNJ 657 Ge, NicholasTX 885 Geer, EzraTX 754 Geer, NathanTX 855 Geer, SilasTX 687 Geer, WesleyAZ 1832 Geete, JayantTX 1331 Geeze, ChristopherNM 1845 Geeze, DonaldLA 995 Gehrkin, JonathanPA 770 Geisinger, JeffreyNY 1682 Gennuso, GregCA 1023 Gharpure, ChinmayMD 1540 Gholston, ZackeryMA 542 Gibbons, MarkMN 224 Gibson, CelesteMN 466 Gibson, JimKS 1464 Gibson-Birch, PiersMD 1045 Gilday, TimVT 1411 Gile, PeterFL 1964 Gilkes, RohanCA 1154 Gillman, ArtFL 2029 Gingold, GregTX 1404 Ginther, DeanNY 834 Giovannini, MatteoTN 1828 Girdner, DavidCA 1022 Giri, SwathiCA 1437 Girton, KenFL 1503 Glass, RayVA 1290 Gleeson, AndrewIL 666 Glickman, DonnaNJ 427 Glickstein, BrandonFL 1402 Gmach, BenFL 1475 Gmach, DavidFL 2017 Gmach, GalFL 1181 Gmach, MailiTX 700 Godfrey, MichaelCA 1840 Godhwani, AdityaAZ 1483 Goel, SiddarthWV 1432 Goff, DaleFL 1084 Goff, DonNV 929 Goff, RobertNY 967 Gold, AbeNJ 968 Goldfarb, MatthewOR 1526 Goldsmith, PhilNC 1062 Goldstein, LevNC 1933 Gomez, EliasFL 1058 Gomez, EnriqueVA 1241 Gong, DanielCA 2294 Gong, RennyCA 2173 Gong, StevenMD 1898 Gong, YunhuaMI 1807 Gonzales, SteveFL 1212 Gonzalez, AlbertoNY 2122 Gonzalez, SergioOH 1347 Good, KevinOH 496 Goodchild, DustinOH 1501 Goodchild, ZackMI 1372 Goode, MichaelFL 1228 Gooden, HerrickIL 1283 Goodfellow, WilliamCA 1624 Gopalan, RishikumarTX 1609 Gopin, MichaelNY 1581 Gordon, AndrewNJ 1806 Gordon, WilliamNM 1584 Goring, KaliCO 1308 Gorodin, ValeriyMO 1040 Gorzko, JakubMO 911 Gosar, JubinCA 1425 Gotliffe, HarveyTX 1272 Gradinaru, DavidCA 1838 Graff, WilliamFL 1562 Graham, DonovanOK 630 Graham, SeanIN 1519 Grambo, Alan

FL 1374 Grana, JamieTX 1408 Grant, GiancarloTX 1042 Graves, OwenMO 1386 Gray, AdamOH 1144 Grazier, MichaelNC 1639 Green, VincentWA 1388 Greenbaum, MichaelOH 1655 Greene, DanCT 1321 Greenfield,AustinNY 205 Gregor, BeckyNY 326 Gregor, DankoNY 1226 Gregor, PaulFL 2002 Greydinger, DimitriIL 1187 Gribinski, NathalieWI 1465 Grider, JonNY 1178 Griesel, ThomasNV 1687 Gripentog, RobertNY 1887 Gristede, GeorgeCA 672 Grodsky, GilbertOR 1736 Groom, MichaelWA 1904 Grossman, HowardCA 924 Grubsky, VictorFL 1773 Gu, MaxwellKS 1565 Gu, PeidiCA 2327 Guan, AngelaCA 1898 Guan, WalterCA 1765 Gubbi, VidyadharaAZ 1431 Guerin, BillCA 823 Gunda, AbhinavNC 944 Gunn, ZannieUT 1181 Guo, BryanCA 2567 Guo, HaoNC 1245 Guo, JiaOR 1555 Guo, Jian XinWA 1996 Guo, JimmyNY 2102 Guo, Min XinNJ 298 Gupta, KrishnaTX 564 Gupta, SanjanaTX 889 Gupta, VaibhavNY 1800 Gurevich, BorisIL 2151 Gurklys, PauliusNY 1088 Gutierrez, GustavoNJ 1117 Guttman, DanielWA 1934 Gyonjyan, TigranCA 1186 Ha, KhiemNV 1647 Ha, ThomasAR 1690 Hadfield,PaulNJ 1128 Hadley, PaulMA 1332 Hagenburg, ToddNY 68 Hagiu, AlexanderCA 994 Hajilov, MansourMO 1834 Halbig, FredCA 701 Hall, GordonAR 1884 Hall, JameyCT 1432 Halsey, JacksonOK 1353 Hamby, MikeAR 37 Hamilton, AlanisOH 2159 Hamilton, DonMD 1209 Hamilton, ElliottOH 1954 Hamilton, JamesAR 2254 Hamilton, JamesAR 652 Hamilton, Yi-MeiOH 2222 Hamrahian, SeyedNY 286 Han, YiguangCA 2581 Han, ZhengTX 923 Hanks, AndrewOH 1012 Hanlin, WilliamVA 1535 Hanson, DanaOH 1187 Hanzlik, MarkIL 1473 Hara, EricoTN 1638 Hardin, ChristopherCA 1421 Hardy, ShelleyTX 2058 Harihara Iyer, RamkumarMD 1188 Harley, DouglasMD 481 Harley, TaliesinNJ 800 Harmon, JoshOH 1055 Harris, AnwenCO 1892 Harris, JoshuaOH 1809 Harris, ScottFL 1222 Harrison, DebVA 1657 Hart, RobertAR 765 Hartmann, JoyceCA 1453 Hartmann, RudyOK 1495 Hash, DavidCA 1781 Hashemi, RossCA 1316 Hashimoto, MargaretCA 1972 Hashimoto, MasaruIL 1625 Hashimoto, WataruGA 1553 Hashtroudi, HassanIL 1329 Hashwani, MalikMA 1959 Haugh, DavidCA 271 Haumeder, SusanNY 929 Hay, AlistairFL 1287 Hayes, TylerTX 2579 Hazinski, MarkTX 2352 Hazinski, Shu Fu (Sara)LA 1477 He, BobCA 217 He, CharlotteNY 1176 He, GeorgeCA 2309 He, JiamingCA 1246 He, WilliamCA 2403 He, XiaolanPA 1479 Hecht, MattWA 1064 Hegstrom, ChristopherCA 2009 Hejazi, AlirezaMI 1479 Helfand, JosephWI 1568 Heller, AaronIL 1624 Hemingway, RobertCA 2263 Hendawi, AhmedKS 1709 Hendrickson, GuyWA 1302 Hendrickson, KaheaFL 969 Henry, RayMO 1790 Henry, SonjayCA 852 Henry, StephenPA 1595 Heo, RichardFL 1075 Hernandez, GuillermoFL 1519 Hernandez, SeanFL 738 Hersey, Sebastian

FL 1488 Hersey, SteveMA 1918 Hershenow, BarryIL 1185 Hess, KyleNJ 1691 Hetes, PavolFN 2243 Hetherington, MatthewIN 2055 Hicks, H.OR 1049 Hicks, JimNM 1136 Hicks, RandyIL 624 Higuera, Mauricio ReyesNY 1515 Hill, DavidNH 1128 Hill, DouglasNY 813 Hill, HaroldNY 1492 Hines, ElliotMI 2054 Hinshaw, DonaldNY 1880 Hirata, JonathanMA 2158 Hlava, JiriAZ 1468 Hlushko, GregoryCA 999 Ho, CheeNY 1135 Ho, GordonOR 2009 Ho, HungAL 1720 Ho, Hung MikePA 1527 Ho, QuanSC 1698 Hoagland, TimNV 1562 Hoang, Khuong(Kevin)CA 1894 Hoang, ThanhFL 2008 Hoang, ThuanOR 2085 Hoarfrost, RyanOH 1032 Hobrath, BenOH 1086 Hobrath, GaryMD 1970 Hochman, StephenAZ 1084 Hodge, NicholasFL 1658 Hodges, MikePA 1416 Hoffman, BrianIL 1491 Hoffman, MarkIL 1793 Hogshead, EdwardCO 1624 Hoi, PhamFL 1710 Holck, BruceOH 1512 Hollenbaugh, Paul 1745 Holman, KenTX 1533 Holmes, PaulCA 1682 Holton, ChrisMI 968 Homan, DaveCA 955 Hong, DerekFL 1338 Hooker, AllanRI 2002 Hopkins, SteveCA 411 Horn, MichaelCA 100 Horn, NickCA 87 Horn, RikkiPA 1261 Hornick, DennisIL 1993 Horodenski, KarolGA 1647 Horton, WilliamNY 1667 Hosein,RafiIN 648 Hoshino, YutaCA 1470 Hou, DavidMO 1107 Houchens, DavidTX 1033 Houser, JohnNV 1681 Howard, JackMD 1044 Howes, JeffNY 1818 Hrishin, AndriyCA 1487 Hsiao, MarkTX 2027 Hsieh, TiaMD 2225 Hsin, JeffreyCA 2495 Hsing, ArielMD 2316 Hsu, NathanOR 2046 Hsu, RyanMO 1069 Hsu, SimonAZ 2170 Hu, QingqingNJ 2124 Hu, XiyueMD 1522 Hu, YingyaoIL 2003 Hua, Peter (Liyang)CA 117 Hua, YangTX 1147 Huang, AlecNJ 372 Huang, ChuipongNY 242 Huang, EthanIL 2079 Huang, HaibinPA 1081 Huang, HaozongMI 1647 Huang, JackCA 2533 Huang, JeffKS 1054 Huang, JiaweiCA 670 Huang, JimmyCA 2069 Huang, KerryTX 2204 Huang, LauraOH 1464 Huang, LisaCA 1170 Huang, MirandaMD 1391 Huang, NathanielAL 1889 Huang, PingNJ 1367 Huang, RayTX 1810 Huang, Shelly

MD 1290 Huang, SiliangCA 1610 Huang, TerryMD 430 Huang, WilliamNC 1591 Huang, XiangMD 1945 Huang, Xinsheng MichaelMI 1163 Huang, YihaoMS 2253 Huang, ZeshengCA 2466 Huang, Zihao (Justin)NJ 2614 Hugh, AdamNJ 2384 Hugh, JudyIL 826 Hughes, JohnMN 2003 Hui, JohnMA 594 Hui, KellyOH 766 Huland, MattSC 1030 Hull, PaulCA 2126 Huo, LuvenaLA 767 Hurst, RobertCA 1772 Hutchins-Knowles, BrianMN 2156 Huynh, BenjaminAL 1547 Huynh, KevinCA 1203 Huynh, XuanthaiNJ 531 Hwang, ClarissaNJ 462 Hwang, StephanieFL 1109 Hyttinen, ArvoCO 2032 Ibegbu, BasilTX 2211 Ikeizumi, ClaudiaFL 1500 Ilanga, MareuvirMD 933 Imran, ZiyanMN 1911 Inderieden, DanVA 1770 Inger, MikeCT 1026 Inkel, JohnCA 1401 Innamuri, PruthviIL 2170 Inui, Tadao (Tom)PA 2270 Iodkovskiy, VladimirNC 2091 Ip, SpencerFL 940 Irish, JanetFL 1461 Irish, PhillipWA 984 Ishii, ArtOH 2036 Itunin, AleksandrWA 2164 Iturriaga, BernardoIL 1964 Jablonski, ZbigniewCA 1868 Jackson, JaceWA 749 Jackson, JadonGA 1236 Jackson, MarcMI 1190 Jackson, RonaldNJ 1446 Jae, YoungshinTX 961 Jaed, AbuCA 2373 Jafar, ShujaCA 1262 Jain, SahilNJ 499 Jain, VedCA 152 Jain, YashCA 1824 Jamagocyan, VarujanTX 1703 Jampana, SreemanNJ 1980 Jang, Tae Geon 1193 Jara, FabiolaNJ 1720 Jariwala, NikhilNC 1160 Jarman, HunterCA 1385 Javaherian, NasrinTX 613 Jayaratne, SachikoNV 1131 Jecov, DmitriFL 2283 Jeerapaet, KitNY 1551 Jeet, CheddieNY 2039 Jeong, Tae JongCA 1540 Jha, AshishCA 2588 Jha, KanakCA 2377 Jha, PrachiMO 1787 Jia, TaoUT 1583 Jiang, AmandaNY 341 Jiang, DaHongCA 2323 Jiang, DianeNJ 1156 Jiang, MichaelIL 966 Jiang, ZexinTX 1724 Jimenez, Chae SunNJ 1293 Jin, DukOR 1513 Jin, JeffreyOH 442 Jindal, NirmitNJ 2032 Joe, BillyCA 1100 Joe, LisaFL 1847 Johnson, AdamGA 1357 Johnson, MarkCA 1769 Johnson, MarkFL 1241 Johnson, PaulIL 1152 Johnson, PhilipMO 1645 Johnson, RobertMO 2116 Johnston, JeffFL 1875 Johnston, L. A.OH 1538 Johnston, RaymondIL 613 Jones, Benjamin

RATINGS


NJ 1835 Jones, CliftonTX 1241 Jones, DavidFL 2132 Jordan, GarthMN 1504 Joshi, SandhyaOK 1028 Jourdan, TomTX 1532 Joy, RonyMN 1725 Judd, DavidNC 1516 Juntilla, MichaelMD 1080 Juran, DonaldFL 1733 Kadin, RickNY 2057 Kadzinski, Jean PhilippeIL 59 Kagathi, BhavikaIL 663 Kagathi, RajNY 802 Kahane, GabrielHI 1691 Kahanu, GeorgeCA 1990 Kahng, AlexCA 1874 Kaiser, TodTX 1891 Kajihara, CarolineWA 1086 Kakade, AniketWA 1840 Kakade, ManishCA 879 Kalustov, ArtemVA 1697 Kaminsky, BarbaraFL 1911 Kanani, Jean MarieWA 1905 Kanatsu, NaokiAZ 1531 Kanchanapelly, RadhakrushCA 2014 Kandadi, SohanNJ 1900 Kandell, ScottCA 1777 Kang, DannyNJ 1511 Kang, Kyoung JungLA 1910 Kang, Sung HoNJ 575 Kannan, KrithikCA 618 Kanyavong, SichanNY 763 Kaplan, ZacharyVA 1813 Kapsalakis, DeanWA 1083 Karimov, ShavkatGA 1684 Karp, JohnMA 1698 Kasha, StevenCA 2576 Kashyap, AnalIL 1611 Kasperski, GrzegorzAR 874 Kassees, RanyaVA 1412 Kasson, ScottOH 1791 Katbi, TarekNC 1309 Kauffman, RonaldIL 1474 Kaye, GordonCA 1714 Kazemi, BehnamMD 2333 Ke, RoyMD 1825 Ke, TiffanyNC 1335 Kearney, Joseph F.CA 1265 Keely, RogerNJ 1346 Kelkar, RuchaNH 2068 Kelly, TimothyNY 945 Kelston, HenryNY 1021 Kendall, GailIL 1858 Kendle, BradleeMA 1221 Kenudson, CrisFN 2235 Kerber, MichaelOH 1696 Keren, IsaacOR 1786 Keswani, MaxIN 1073 Keszthelyi, ZsoltIN 1908 Khailo, AndreCA 1857 Khairzad, KamranNY 737 Khan, AliNJ 1638 Khan, AmirIL 1919 Khan, Hussain AliIL 1653 Khan, MahmoodOH 1658 Khan, MohammedTN 1745 Khan, MohammedOH 1932 Khandelwal, HarshOH 1984 Khandelwal, SiddharthOH 2084 Khatami, AliOH 782 Khatami, SarveenCA 865 Khaung, Eant (Henry)IL 1448 Khoja, FaizIL 968 Khoja, ZohayrAZ 1347 Khoshkhoosani, Seyede 1544 Khoutorsky, ArielGA 925 Kiker, ChrisLA 1726 Kim, ByungsamCA 1314 Kim, CharlesCA 1494 Kim, DavidNY 1438 Kim, JacobIL 1602 Kim, JangNJ 1486 Kim, Jun KiIL 1281 Kim, SamuelNJ 1433 Kim, SeanIL 1977 Kim, Seon HoWA 2083 Kim, ValeriFL 1370 Kimmel, StevenCA 1547 Kimura, HirokoIL 1527 Kindig, WilliamIL 997 King, DouglasMN 798 King, RobertIL 2144 Kini, VivekCO 1667 Kippschull, BryonIL 765 Kir, JanCT 921 Kirlew, KahairiNY 1132 Kirman, IgorNY 255 Kirman, ShayeFL 665 Kisic, MariaIA 1507 Kisler, TomMD 930 Kislyuk, AlanCA 846 Kjos, ClaytonWI 1277 Klase, WilliamFL 1906 Klingberg, SteveFL 2182 Klunthong, AroonMI 1910 Knapp, FredTX 1600 Knowles, JuanTX 520 Knox, ToniAZ 1470 Ko, EnochAZ 1509 Ko, MincheolAZ 1339 Ko, SamsonTX 1279 Ko, SeanNJ 1205 Kocay, JonathanCA 201 Kofman, ShawnGA 1947 Koh, C. BrandonNY 1581 Kommel, AzizIL 1014 Kondas, DanielCA 1704 Kondo, Leroy (Lee)

CA 1584 Kong, AlvinCA 1073 Kong, JonathanCA 1189 Kong, KailynFL 1609 Kong, ShekCA 1539 Korb, KevinTX 1582 Kornegay, StephenNY 986 Kothari, BurairMN 1806 Kotz, PaulMN 1899 Kouatli, OmarCA 1472 Kovacs, TonySC 1539 Kovalov, MaxNY 1172 Koven, BrettNY 1479 Kozlowska, AnnaIL 755 Kramer, SamuelIL 1431 Kravchenko, PavloCA 1525 Kravtsov, AlexeyFL 1874 Krecek, MichalTX 1827 Kressner, ScottIL 2261 Kretschmer, MariaNY 1283 Krijestorac, HarisFL 1115 Krimshtein, AnnaCA 1946 Krishnamoorthy, SatishCA 2066 Krishnan, AnandaMO 1469 Kristo, RobertNY 1514 Krit, ShakerMD 1480 Kronlage, YvonnePA 1799 Krug, AndreWA 1509 Kruse, ScottIL 1077 Krynski, PaulGA 878 Kuang, BrianCA 7 Kuang, ConnorGA 1259 Kuang, JeffreyNY 1821 Kumar, AlokCA 2225 Kumar, NikhilPA 1467 Kumar, PavanCA 985 Kumar, RohanNJ 1991 Kumar, SharathCA 2277 Kumar, ShivamCA 2332 Kumar, ShivanshMD 1498 Kung, Ling-bingCA 2026 Kuo, PatrickCA 2198 Kuok, JoeyTX 1432 Kurapati, AllenIL 2027 Kurcz, MarcinIL 2300 Kurek, ArturHI 853 Kuroki, RikoNJ 1623 Kusnic, LanceAR 1639 Kwekel, JoshuaCA 1508 Kwok, Hoi(Oscar)MN 744 La Barge, DustinGA 1283 La Greca, HernanFN 1424 La Rose, DennisMD 1502 La, TimothyVA 901 Labell, MaxOR 933 Lackie, FrankNY 919 LaDuca, JeremiahTX 1253 Lahman, PhillipAZ 1943 Lai, AlexTX 1874 Lai, EvanWY 1691 Lai, JasonMO 904 Laine, BryanMI 1368 Lake, CharlesOR 1633 Lake, KyleFL 799 Lam, AnitaGA 1792 Lam, CalvinMN 1918 Lam, ChiCA 1060 Lam, ConanNJ 1717 Lam, DavidCA 1024 Lam, HarrisonOR 2117 Lam, HauTN 1983 Lam, JudeCA 1632 Lam, MichaelOK 1735 Lam, Si-DungIL 2240 Lam, SpenserOR 1634 Lam, ThangCA 213 Lamba, ShylVT 1087 Lambek, BernardTX 1103 Lan, EllenIL 69 Lande, ArnavNJ 233 Lande, AryehCA 960 Landis, RaymondMA 1536 Landry, KyleMN 787 Lang, HongyuanMD 2162 Lang, LixinSD 258 Lange, MichaelSD 549 Lange, RobertoWI 1709 Lange, TracyNY 306 Lanoff, SamCA 2094 Lardon, MikeGA 1782 Laronde, RoyAR 1345 Larson, SvenAR 1511 Larson, WilliamMA 1097 Lasnik, HowardNJ 946 Latourette, JoshMA 893 Lau, AlbertCO 1618 Lau, JohnMN 956 Lauer, DougFL 1202 Launonen, MattiAR 1970 Lauro, MichaelNJ 546 Law, MichaelCA 1055 Le Vettet, PascalWI 1808 Le, LongMN 1751 Le, LongCA 1573 Le, QuiCA 2281 Le, Tuan DaiIL 1497 Le, Van ThanhWA 1737 Leadbeater, AndrewCT 1043 Leathe, PeterNY 2368 Lee, Byeong CheolGA 1134 Lee, ChanMN 1137 Lee, CherNJ 322 Lee, ChristianTX 1492 Lee, ChristopherNJ 1324 Lee, Dae HeeNJ 290 Lee, DanielMN 2218 Lee, DavidCA 1796 Lee, Gan WahVA 1566 Lee, Gordon

GA 2055 Lee, HaeJoonOH 1814 Lee, JackMA 2149 Lee, JayNJ 1468 Lee, JinNY 1736 Lee, JohnsonWA 1893 Lee, JosephNJ 1479 Lee, JoshuaCA 1143 Lee, KaiNY 738 Lee, KennethCA 1727 Lee, KennethMI 2299 Lee, LesterTX 789 Lee, MatthewWA 506 Lee, MorganCA 777 Lee, NathanNJ 1288 Lee, SuminIN 855 Lee, WendyNY 1979 Lee, Young-WoonNY 2138 Lee-Freithofnig, LudovicNJ 1989 Lehman, ChristopherNY 2426 Leibovitz, TahlCA 2057 Leitman, MarinaTX 2105 Lemal, BernardIL 143 Lemke, RobertTX 1657 Lemma, WarrenFL 1419 Leon, BillyFL 2049 Leparulo, WillyPA 2154 Leshinsky, MichaelOH 1280 Leslie, TomOH 1643 Letic, MarijoAZ 1890 Leu, GiaCA 2061 Leung, Che-HimFL 1748 Leung, Gar BoNY 1095 Levine, JesseGA 1695 Lew, HwaNY 1855 Lewis, AndrewPA 1184 Lewis, AndrewIA 1583 Lewis, PaulCA 117 Li, AlisonCA 263 Li, AlvinWA 472 Li, AxelTX 1932 Li, BenjaminPA 2649 Li, BochaoMS 2590 Li, ChengNM 1557 Li, Chia-YehNC 1806 Li, DavidLA 2198 Li, DianVA 1720 Li, EricMN 1921 Li, FuliaoMD 1583 Li, GeorgeMA 2540 Li, Grant 1674 Li, HenryCA 1483 Li, IvyTX 2256 Li, JonathanTX 2146 Li, JoyCA 343 Li, KatiaNY 660 Li, KevinIL 1070 Li, KevinCA 2105 Li, Kevin 2311 Li, LeiIL 2101 Li, LeonMN 1536 Li, MengqunMD 1159 Li, MichaelFN 2455 Li, QiuxiaCA 2068 Li, Richard (Yin)NY 1176 Li, RoyCA 2529 Li, RuiNiPA 1626 Li, ShengyuNJ 1601 Li, ShiangtianCA 1657 Li, TedVA 1697 Li, TonyIN 899 Li, TylerCA 2010 Li, Tzu-YingIN 1524 Li, WeimingIA 1293 Li, XingchuNY 2355 Li, Yu XiangOH 1626 Li, Yueh-FenCA 2226 Li, Zhongtang (kevin)MA 428 Lian, AnnaMA 1550 Lian, BillIN 1624 Lian, DavidMN 1451 Lian, KevinNY 2594 Liang, JishanIL 1762 Liang, SimonCA 2679 Liang, YonghuiMS 2165 Liang, ZhichengCA 1549 Liao, FafaIL 1560 Liao, JeffreyOH 2001 Liao, LiangCA 1657 Licea, RaduGA 1243 Li-Falcetta, MarcoMI 1270 Likic, StefanFL 1751 Lillie, JohnLA 1714 Lilly, JoshuaGA 1309 Lim, AlelandroCA 936 Lim, ArisreiNJ 2069 Lim, ChangwooCA 960 Lim, ElijahCA 1065 Lim, EzraCA 1871 Lim, JuneNY 2038 Lim, KennethCA 1213 Lim, MicahMI 2164 Lin, AllenCA 1719 Lin, AndrewCA 2436 Lin, BryantGA 1877 Lin, EmilieWA 1977 Lin, HaoCA 1790 Lin, Hsueh-yen 1516 Lin, HuiMD 1425 Lin, JessicaCA 1799 Lin, JonathanCA 1680 Lin, KatieCA 191 Lin, MichelleGA 1685 Lin, PatrickGA 394 Lin, QifanNJ 2321 Lin, TinaLA 1194 Lindberg, JamesCA 1584 Lindo, HowardCA 294 Lindsey, Mark

MD 1350 Ling, BoMD 1088 Ling, Zihan ChristopherNJ 1337 Lipschutz, JoelOR 1807 Lipscomb, ScottNY 883 Lipsits, AlexanderTX 1203 Lisook, SamMN 817 Litak, KatarzynaOH 501 Liu, AnnieTX 882 Liu, AustinNY 458 Liu, BenjaminMA 1594 Liu, BrianOH 1399 Liu, CarolMD 1993 Liu, CharleneKS 2021 Liu, ChunyenCA 2594 Liu, DanCA 446 Liu, EthanOH 2277 Liu, FangyiKS 1024 Liu, GwenOH 1452 Liu, JimIL 1268 Liu, JohnNJ 1567 Liu, JonathanNY 502 Liu, JustinNJ 1932 Liu, KaiIL 876 Liu, KaibaiOH 783 Liu, KaneNJ 1935 Liu, LeslieCA 215 Liu, NicoleMO 1284 Liu, PaulFN 2381 Liu, Quande DeMO 1222 Liu, RandyOH 1922 Liu, RogerVA 708 Liu, ShurenVA 463 Liu, ShuyiMD 1660 Liu, SuOH 874 Liu, TaylorMI 1079 Liu, TianyiNY 799 Liu, VictorCA 2343 Liu, VictorCA 1977 Liu, XuanTN 1451 Liu, Yiqing (Linda)GA 2375 Liu, Yitong(Wantong)CA 1140 Liv, JunJieCA 1918 Livshin, BellaIL 1200 Lkhagvajav, BaasanjavFL 1387 Llapa, ArturoTX 1825 Lloyd, LindseyNY 946 Lo, GrahamCA 1571 Loadholt, WendellWA 1882 Lock, RaymondTX 1067 Lockwood, CharlesCA 2102 Loe, KockNC 2027 Logabalan, VigneshNJ 538 Logan, RichardCO 641 Loi, BrandonCA 2088 Loi, DucCO 1329 Loi, TanCA 570 Lok, Chui-ChuCA 1349 Lomaka, AlexandreGA 869 Long, NancyTX 1419 Longpre, LucNC 1855 Lopez, ElvisNY 1963 Lopez, RaulIL 1674 Lorenc, SwavekWA 653 Lotz, DavidMO 2163 Louvier, AndrewNJ 402 Low, BrandonNJ 190 Low, EthanFL 339 Low, JoeNJ 1376 Low, YeeNY 2163 Lowe, TrenaceFL 1406 Loyola, EdwardNJ 1888 Lu, AndrewNC 731 Lu, BenjaminCA 2331 Lu, Guo HuiMD 1916 Lu, JasonIN 1553 Lu, JerryNC 1344 Lu, JianweiVA 1870 Lu, JieNJ 1930 Lu, MatthewNC 948 Lu, MichaelCA 1943 Lu, Phuong-TramMI 2069 Lu, SamuelNJ 1231 Lu, WilliamMI 1829 Lu, XiaotianCA 1730 Lu, Yueh YunNH 663 Lubin, JohnNY 219 Lui, MarkWA 1143 Lukens, GregCA 1487 Lungu, AdrianCA 1292 Luo, Dongmin (Don)PA 2226 Lurty, ScottCA 826 Luu, HaCA 1515 Ly, DanCO 617 Ly, JadenCA 1845 Ly, QuyenFL 1957 Lynum, JamesMD 1547 Ma, DarwinWA 1152 Ma, KentWA 2225 Ma, LucyCA 1228 Ma, SeigoPA 1328 Ma, SiruiWA 2006 Ma, SteveCA 255 Ma, YungFL 1787 Maadhavan, SarranyanFL 1780 Maamoun, AdamNY 2084 Mack, RaymondCA 940 Madabusi, PreethiNV 915 Madden, LesterFL 2155 Mader, OlivierCO 1521 Madigan, Thomas DarrelIL 1437 Madrid, JamesNY 1100 Magloire, RotchildCT 736 Mahajan, AviralFL 2306 Maharaj, DayanandFL 1662 Maharaj, DylitaFL 1556 Maharaj, ShivaCA 1713 Mahishi, AniruddhaNV 1255 Mainster, Martin

MA 1623 Maisel, DavidUT 1729 Majors, BruceUT 1628 Majors, DaleTX 1818 Mak, JoshuaTX 1878 Mak, KamCA 617 Malcy, VivianIL 1667 Maldre, KatrinCA 1920 Malek, AmandaCA 2291 Malek, AttilaCA 2022 Malek, ScottCA 1269 Malladi, BhargavCA 1561 Malladi, BhavyaCA 1494 Maloof, UnanCA 1577 Mancilla, RobertGA 471 Manem, TejasNY 1901 Maness, WesleyIL 1572 Mani, GanesanRI 1748 Mani, MuraliIL 1842 Maniates-Selvin, JasperAL 1115 Mann, EliAL 1609 Mann, Thomas H.CA 1170 Mannem, KeshavCA 1950 Mannem, RohanCA 178 Mannur, GandharIL 1083 Mansholt, RogerCO 1746 Mao, JerryCA 1671 Mao, ToonIN 1160 Maple, SteveFL 933 Mar, ChristopherGA 2256 Mar, JohnTX 986 Marchese, RyanIN 1641 Marcum, JerryWA 1034 Mardari, AlexeiFL 1009 Marik, VictorMN 1979 Markov, AndreyOK 1795 Marks, DouglasFN 1846 Marksheid, HannochIL 373 Maroon, JimCO 1274 Martin, DennisCA 1021 Martin, MichaelNC 1836 Martin, MichaelMO 2123 Martin, RichardLA 1633 Martin, RichardOH 941 Martin, RonaldLA 1757 Martinez, GlennTX 1924 Martinez, GustavoFL 1591 Martinez, JoseTX 938 Martinez, MarioKS 1782 Maruthapandian, LavanyaOH 1882 Masminster, JosephSC 1415 Massey, RandyFL 1488 Masters, MarkCA 1694 Masterson, SeanRI 1595 Mathews, MattFL 1398 Matthews, BjornFL 1058 Matthews, MichaelOR 734 Mayevskiy,SofiyaOR 954 Mayevskiy, YevgeniyGA 1850 Mayfield,MatthewTX 582 Mayfield,ReeceNY 2111 Mayzlin, AlexWA 1900 Mbow, UmarIA 1548 McCalley, BrandonCA 2045 McCarthy, JackAR 637 McCarthy, KonnieOK 1219 McClanahan, JohnnyIL 993 McCormack, ThomasVA 1251 McCormick, MichaelPA 1975 McCoullum, HenryFL 1429 McCoy, TysonGA 952 McDonald, JackOH 2033 McEwan, OrlandoNY 1431 McFadden, JohnIL 1563 McGarvey, PhilNY 1526 McGimpsey, WilliamOR 1076 McGranaghan, IanMN 1759 McGrane, TimFL 1326 McKee, MizellGA 697 McLeod, AlFL 1768 McLeod, MichaelAL 1782 McNeil, WarrenAR 772 McNerlin, BradleyIL 1253 McNicholas, BradleyCT 2288 McPherson, EmaniCA 1181 McPherson, RonaldNC 2005 McQueen, JimCA 925 McRitchie, MichaelMN 598 McTigue, ConnorTX 1355 Mdahaduzzman, MunnaTX 1914 Medcalf, RandallTX 1178 Medina, RoderickCT 1825 Medina, SamuelCT 2081 Medunjanin, AdnanCT 1792 Medunjanin, AmelTX 1781 Meeks, RonaldOH 490 Mefford, JacobCA 943 Megressa, IyoelCA 2199 Mehta, SubalTX 1321 Mei, ChristopherNY 1924 Mei, JianglinNV 1901 Meimban, JuneFL 1707 Melad, ReaganCA 1862 Melekhov, AlexPA 1889 Meleshenko, AlexTN 1566 Memon, KashifNY 512 Mendez, DanielAZ 1511 Mendoza, FranciscoTX 1670 Meng, KevinOR 972 Meng, ToddKS 692 Menon, RohitKS 1201 Menon, SurajCA 1586 Mercado, RichardCA 1432 Meredith, AidanCA 1347 Meredith, StevenNY 1434 Messmer, MattAR 1772 Mhapsekar, VifulAZ 1937 Migliaccio, ThomasIL 2052 Mihai, Sebastian

CA 2105 Mihet, EmilianFL 946 Mijares, JavierNC 1730 Miklowcic, JerredFL 1138 Milanov, JulianaOH 1045 Millard, NewellKS 1764 Miller, CarlCA 653 Miller, DaleIN 108 Miller, DionIN 280 Miller, DiontaMN 1994 Miller, GregTX 1347 Miller, JohnOH 1327 Miller, PaulNC 1771 Miller, TomIN 1778 Miller, TonyCA 234 Min, JerryMA 1396 Mino-Kenudson, MariOH 620 Minor, HunterWA 1891 Mioduszewski, VinceCA 2236 Miranda, RudyNJ 1479 Mistry, JayeshCA 1013 Mitchell, CraigFL 1288 Mittal, PrashantHI 794 Miyashiro, AngieHI 1167 Miyashiro, StewartNY 1687 Mizrahi, GabiCA 863 Mo, EmilyNJ 136 Mo, JasonNC 2349 Mo, Qiyuan (Caleb)CA 1884 Moayery, MohammadTX 1396 Mody, MehernoshTX 862 Mohan, ArnavKS 2259 Mojaverian, ParvizTX 1891 Mojtahed, MasoudNY 1266 Mok, MichaelNV 2050 Mokuolu, AdedayoMD 1695 Moledina, IqubalCA 2429 Molla, ZamanFL 1697 Mombekov, KenshemirFL 1836 Monopoli, JerryMN 1935 Monson, BrianNJ 1710 Montealegre, MillerMN 695 Montzka, TimNY 683 Moon, In HakPA 1438 Moore, ChadRI 475 Moore, HunterFL 2001 Morales, AngelCA 2060 Morales, GuillermoIN 1335 More, RanjitGA 1511 Morian, NicholasFN 2361 Morita, FelipeIL 1869 Moriyama, HiroyukiNC 1127 Morley, MichaelOH 749 Morris, AubreyGA 1712 Morris, JamesIL 1596 Morris, MathewCA 1641 Movsessian, ClaudeWI 1647 Moy, NoriIL 1739 Moy, ZacharyFL 1546 Moyant, KyleMD 1412 Mozingo, JamesFL 1895 Mozur, JosephFL 1161 Mozur, MikeNC 1862 Mrzlak, BrendonMN 1496 Mu, EdwardTX 837 Mu, EmilyTX 1176 Mu, FuchenTX 1155 Mu, KevinIL 1265 Mueller, JonathanTX 1982 Mueller, RickCA 2100 Mugren, AbdulazizNY 1711 Mugren, IbrahimCO 1678 Mui, MikeVA 1552 Muller, HarryNY 1404 Munoz, JohnCA 870 Munsayac, JonathanFL 1056 Murali, ChandrasekaranMA 751 Murdock, ChrisNC 1689 Murnahan, TonyCA 801 Murthy, AkhilTX 1853 Musgrove, TimAR 762 Myers, WayneNM 995 Nabb, JerryIA 1929 Nabity, KevinNC 1732 Nadeau, LaurenceMD 2364 Nadmichettu, RaghuIL 978 Nagarathnam, ManikandanNY 1893 Nagel, RaymondCA 2034 Nagvekar, SanamMA 1719 Nagy, LaszloFL 1331 Nail, DannyHI 1480 Nakamura, TakeoIL 740 Nam, HyunsookIL 1341 Nam, JamesWA 1063 Nam, ThomasMN 1169 Nangrani, SushantFL 2110 Napartovich, MarkCA 1667 Naqvi, Syed

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FL 995 Narasimhan, BalajiIL 1972 Naresh, ArcotIL 507 Naresh, NandanIL 536 Naresh, SangitaIL 1582 Naresh, SidMA 1021 Nasjleti, DavidME 1462 Nason, JimNC 1372 Nasser, MoustaphaNJ 117 Natakala, AnshulIL 1194 Natali, ChristopherFL 1937 Nathanson, UriCA 2021 Nayak, AvinashCA 1652 Nayak, ShrikantNY 1777 Nazarbechian, TomasTX 1727 Nedrow, RandyNY 2083 Needle, MatthewTN 1506 Neely, BillFL 2029 Neimark, DashielMD 1197 Neis, AdrianoAR 467 Nelluri, MeghaAR 1136 Nelluri, PramodCA 1532 Nelson, StevenOH 298 Nervez, RemusCA 1943 Nestor, BrantonTN 1882 Neuendorf, TimCA 1756 Neumann-Takane, LayanOH 1730 New, BobOH 302 Newberry, WillCA 910 Newby, JeanFL 2067 Newton, DwightGA 1763 Ng, DanielNY 1258 Ng, SamanthaCA 1614 Ngai, WinstonTN 1724 Ngo, HarrisonWA 1738 Ngo, HoangCO 1995 Ngo, HuanFL 1517 Ngo, NelsonMN 1730 Nguyen, AaronCA 1464 Nguyen, AndrewCA 1606 Nguyen, AndrewCA 1445 Nguyen, Anh Quoc DuyMN 1651 Nguyen, BrendaMD 1522 Nguyen, HanCA 1694 Nguyen, HungAL 1692 Nguyen, HungCA 562 Nguyen, JuliaCA 2336 Nguyen, JustinCA 1425 Nguyen, KenCA 2547 Nguyen, KhoaCT 1944 Nguyen, KimWA 2003 Nguyen, KyMN 2052 Nguyen, LaiVA 2098 Nguyen, NamOR 1666 Nguyen, NhaFL 2238 Nguyen, NhanCA 1691 Nguyen, PaulWA 1078 Nguyen, PhuongOH 1363 Nguyen, QuangCA 2235 Nguyen, Quoc BaoCA 612 Nguyen, StacyOR 1973 Nguyen, TaiIN 1730 Nguyen, TayCA 2001 Nguyen, ThongCA 2010 Nguyen, ThuyOH 741 Nguyen, TinaCA 1647 Nguyen, TommyCA 2188 Nguyen, Trieu-TienMN 1758 Nguyen, VuCO 1755 Nguyen, YenMN 1537 Ni, QuanMD 2293 Nie, DerekOH 1570 Nie, SenMI 1570 Niederreiter, JensFL 1297 Nieves, JoseFL 1309 Nieves, RicardoIL 2078 Niewiarowski, LukaszAR 1872 Nilangekar, ParimalCA 1312 Niyati, Karl 1508 Noguerole, RobSD 453 Noldner, AustinCA 918 Noone, CharlesMO 1433 Norat, TimothyTX 2115 Nordby, MarkOH 1373 Norman, DelbertGA 1275 Normil, AndrePA 1367 Northcutt, BrannNY 1486 Nunez, PaulTX 2020 Oak, AnushkaTX 2415 Oak, NirajIL 771 Obernuefemann, SamFL 1226 Obiozor, FrancisNC 1961 OBrian, ChrisMD 725 O’Bryan, EugeneWA 2014 Ochsner, JohnIL 1919 Offord, KeithCA 1037 Ogawa, TadNY 1584 Ogilvie, Joe

MN 1174 Ogitchida, MukwaNC 1582 Ogundipe, FemiPA 1806 Ogunshola, AbolajiIL 1887 Oh, KenNJ 1977 Oh, Soon SeokCA 1392 Ohanesian, SakoMO 1807 Okumura, KoichiIL 1575 Olingou, SergeCA 1441 Olson, RichardCA 755 O’Neal, RichardMA 1248 O’Neil, KevinCT 1332 Onnen, DonFL 1356 Onychir, PeterNJ 1620 O’Reilly, BrianNC 1212 Orenstein, RaphaelCA 627 Orgel, AnnaNY 740 Orloff, DavidIL 1744 Oros, JohnMA 761 O’Rourke, BobNV 1456 Ortegon, CarlosWA 1339 Ortiz, MarianoFL 1892 Orvdia, YarivFL 1744 Osmanagic, EdisIL 2127 Osmialowski, JaroslawFL 1550 Ostrowski, TedFL 2376 Ou, JonathanAR 1261 Oudthone, KittMI 1841 Overbeek, BradIL 1951 Owsiak, BoguslawFN 1605 O’Young, LucFN 784 O’Young, NicholasIL 1179 Packard, JerryNV 1688 Padernilla, GodfredMA 1939 Page, Robert 1717 Page-Guiot, ZacharieOH 485 Paglin, LauraNC 986 Pahl, JesseNC 1625 Pahl, JohnNY 1717 Pak, YoungCA 1755 Palgon, RobertCA 1602 Palm, RichardIN 1254 Palmer, StanLA 1278 Palmisano, VernCA 1560 Palmore, DavidIL 1375 Palys, DennisCA 1618 Pan, JohnnyIL 2095 Pan, ZackOR 1608 Pandana, HermanNJ 1436 Pandya, RohanCA 1300 Pang, ChongIL 384 Panjwani, ArmaanCA 1354 Pao, Pei-LinFL 1855 Papadimitriou, IoannaIL 2001 Pardeshi, AkashCA 1872 Parfenov, SashaNJ 609 Parikh, RohanNJ 834 Park, EugeneNJ 220 Park, GeneNJ 866 Park, JohnNY 2184 Park, JoshuaPA 1025 Park, Kyong (Sara)OH 1087 Park, PaulFL 1732 Park, PaulNV 836 Parker, B.J.IL 1061 Parker, RobertAK 1257 Parrish, JamoAK 841 Parrish, JaneCA 701 Parsi, VidulWA 797 Parthasarathy, AjiteshIL 621 Parthasarathy, MaithreyiPA 1960 Parthsarthy, PrasiddhaMN 435 Pasumarty, RithvikCA 2402 Patel, AashayCA 1817 Patel, AnjaleeNJ 800 Patel, FarhanTX 1506 Patel, PratikWA 1425 Pattison, EricIN 1474 Paul, JessCA 788 Paulus, DickWI 1906 Pavelski, AaronMD 1101 Pawlak, DanTX 1451 Payne, RobertOH 2271 Pech, KeithOH 2291 Pech, SethNJ 1764 Pei, AndrewNJ 1807 Pei, PatrickNY 848 Pellew, MichaelNY 1424 Pelshe, AndyOR 1638 Peng, JohnYengMN 1981 Peng, PengFL 952 Penvela, SimonMI 1859 Peradotto, DaveFL 985 Perdomo, FrankFL 1258 Perera, NelmaMO 2280 Pereyra, PatricioNC 1493 Perez, RichardIL 1830 Perrine, DavidMI 438 Perry, JoelNJ 425 Petrushkevich, SergeyOH 1356 Pettrey, RickPA 825 Peysakhovich, LeoAZ 988 Pfeister, MichaelIN 2041 Pham, C. T.FL 1553 Pham, MinhCO 2131 Pham, Nhu PhongGA 1711 Pham, TuanCA 1684 Phan, SangCA 2238 Phan, TungNC 1467 Philipsen, DirkAR 1657 Phillips, BenAR 1421 Phillips, JustinFL 1836 Phipps, CameronMN 1453 Phipps, JonMA 1484 Piazzo Jr., StephenNY 2140 Picciotto, DanielNM 2056 Pickett, RonaldTX 1120 Pierce, LewisMN 103 Pietila, Andrea

MN 363 Pietila, TrevorMI 1090 Pietrofesa, PaulIN 1323 Pinapati, RichardMA 1463 Ping, JindeCA 2058 Pinili, Keiran MarkCO 1392 Pinzon, CarlosCA 1491 Pisanu, RickyFL 2014 Pisarczyk, TomaszOH 639 Pitrof, JeffSC 1999 Plankenhorn, HeikoCT 725 Plassman, CarlIL 2004 Plugowski, BogdanMN 2137 Podvin, JoeIL 1888 Polecki, HenryPA 1797 Polishuk, LeonidFL 1434 Pollard, KevinMD 1508 Polumuri, SwamykumarOH 1789 Pon, KarenTX 1875 Ponchai, ArnonCA 1048 Pong, JohnnyCA 1531 Poon, JeromeNC 1641 Poore, BrianAZ 1465 Porter, PaulCA 1365 Portillo, ChristopherAZ 1951 Potaychuk, SimenMN 1649 Poteryakhin, VictorTX 1312 Potts, KenGA 1611 Pourmehr, DarienGA 1215 Pourmehr, Fred(Faramarz)GA 1167 Pourmehr, KathyWA 1887 Pouv, SophalMO 2259 Preiss, AustinCA 746 Prescott, JaneFL 1436 Preston, DaveTX 1382 Prewitt, GaryTX 1375 Prewitt, TimMI 1539 Priestley, RobertGA 1609 Prieto, AlbertoPA 595 Primus, CaesarTX 767 Printz, JesseTX 1166 Pritchard, ScottMI 1373 Pronk, AdriaanMA 1923 Protsch, FlorianNH 1465 Pryce, DougIL 1947 Puchalski, KrzysztofCA 2014 Puchulutegui, JorgeMD 1432 Puls, ChrisCA 1972 Puri, SahilTX 1790 Purohit, ShilpiUT 1234 Qi, AlexanderTX 472 Qin, DavidAZ 558 Qin, JonathanMD 2111 Qu, AnthonyFL 767 Qu, EricNJ 1475 Quarshie, KennethFL 1760 Quiala, EverthCA 1229 Quon, HarrietIL 1549 Rabjohn, DustyFL 1537 Rackard, DennisCO 631 Rackley, KaiMN 901 Radig, ParkerWI 1333 Radivojevic, RadoslavMD 1909 Radom, MarkCA 553 Raghavan, AneeshCA 1159 Raghavan, AnikaTX 1890 Rahdar, BehdadNY 365 Rahman, HabiborMA 642 Rahmani, MendyIL 1920 Ramakrishnan, Narasimhan TigerCA 282 Raman, AtulCA 1286 Raman, SrutiCA 1761 Ramanath, MunagalaCA 1619 Ramaswami, ShreyasCA 829 Ramaswamy, AshwinNY 333 Ramaswamy, KrishnaCA 499 Rambod, MaxCA 474 Rambod, RoxanaCA 913 Ramesh, SamarthNJ 982 Ramnath, RohitCT 1479 Randmer, GlenCA 229 Ranii, CynthiaMA 1774 Ranocha, RomanCA 1807 Rao, RajeevFL 1507 Rapp, PeterCA 1312 Rastogi, MikeyTX 1340 Rather, WilliamNY 855 Rattu, MohammadCA 220 Raudebaugh, BartTX 1888 Rautis, JamesMI 1409 Ray, MilanOH 1685 Ray, OldenMI 243 Ray, OmCA 1284 Raymond, JimFL 1489 Rayta, WaltCA 1659 Razo, MarioOR 944 Rea, MarkAR 1078 Reddy, MohanMT 1764 Redekopp, DallasNM 1018 Redman, JonID 1669 Reff, MichaelMO 1361 Reft, LukeIL 415 Rehmani, ArmaanIL 1349 Rehmani, AsifIN 1575 Reid, RicardoIN 1854 Reilly, AustinCA 271 Ren, JoshuaTX 1461 Ren, LeiTX 559 Rendon, OscarFL 2214 Renta, RobertoNV 2175 Resek, ErrolCA 1934 Reyes, LuisSC 1541 Reyla, Monellie JuneCO 1087 Reynard, KennethTX 1016 Reynolds, DanielWI 1621 Reynolds, JimFL 1450 Reynolds, JohnVA 576 Rhee, LeAnne

VA 2000 Rhee, SamuelWA 1386 Rho, ChristopherWA 959 Rho, EdwardGA 1138 Rhodes, CarolOK 776 Rhodes, DennisAL 1850 Richardson, CedricIA 1708 Riek, NormanCA 1699 Riel, ColeCA 1041 Riel, LukeFL 1441 Riggs, KenIL 1412 Ritter, BenFL 1593 Rivera, EdwinFL 1823 Rivero, CarlosNH 1025 Robbins, BradleyNH 780 Robbins, PhilFL 1352 Robbins, William (Bill)NJ 746 Roberge, JohnCA 1609 Roberson, SamuelTX 2119 Roberts, CourtneyCA 2242 Roberts, DavidAZ 1278 Roberts, PaulNC 2126 Robertshaw, GreggFL 1894 Robertson, ZachIN 1756 Robinson, ScottNY 638 Rockwell, DavidNY 1734 Rockwell, SamMI 1222 Rodrigues, MelCA 37 Rodriguez, EstevanFL 1542 Roeder, EberhardCO 1259 Roemmich, RyanOR 1436 Roeser, TomFL 1726 Rofoogaran, MassoodCA 1153 Rogers, DaveIL 1277 Roglin, DanielTX 1876 Rojas, Irving (Chinoz)CA 292 Rollins, KennyFL 2228 Romonti, CiprianNJ 1217 Rosales, JustinCA 329 Rose, GregIL 1139 Rosenbaum, VladimirNY 1544 Rosenfeld, DanielCA 987 Rossman, HerbertOH 1431 Rostankowski, MichaelTX 1928 Roufeh, Tahereh (Mahin) 2354 Rousseau-Emond, VincentIN 1333 Routt, TerryFL 1990 Rowe, DwightNH 1241 Roy, HankFL 1997 Roy, WilliamMI 1626 Roychoudhury, RohonIL 1400 Rozanski, AndyOH 658 Rozumalski, RonAZ 492 Ruan, AnthonyGA 491 Ruan, CynthiaGA 371 Ruan, EthanNV 1967 Rubin, DavidNV 1537 Rubio, IvanFL 1745 Ruiz, FelipeIL 1189 Runcie, TreyWI 1742 Running, ThomasPA 1524 Rutan, ChipIN 1513 Ryan, ChadCA 1667 Ryan, DouglasTX 1956 Ryberg, ColeWA 1304 Ryu, HyunookGA 1996 Ryu, SongeunFL 1928 Ryvkin, DmitryVA 1810 Saadat, SeyedMN 1531 Sabas, JosephMN 2182 Sabas, KristopherIL 1270 Sabau, EmilianMI 1036 Sabo, RobertWA 1678 Saekow, LouisMD 1496 Sahakian, AraCT 1850 Sahar, AdamCA 1085 Sahgal, AayushCA 505 Saito, AyaneMD 2073 Sakai, DavidMD 1799 Sakai, DonnaCA 1272 Sakurada, SteveWI 779 Salas-Lieves, OmarNJ 1888 Salay, MickeyCA 2107 Salcido, AlexanderWA 1248 Saldin, MiguelTX 1691 Saleem, ShirazFL 1510 Salib, PeterNH 1264 Salmon, ChipNY 1739 Salmon, TrevorNJ 1616 Samkoff, RhodaNJ 1618 Sammy, AlexanderWI 1985 Sampath, AnandWA 927 Sampson, BillMA 596 Sandalow-Ash, NathanielCA 1202 Sandberg, KennethCA 702 Sandoval, ArthurWA 1844 Sang, Yoo PouMD 748 Sanghani, RohanCA 188 Sankuratri, AshwinWA 1685 Santana, CarlosTX 2509 Santos, EmilFL 1337 Santoyo, NicholasPA 2037 Saperstein, RobertFL 1956 Sapp, ShaunAZ 1504 Saria, RobertoWA 892 Sayatouic, ReneeAZ 1482 Sbarra, JeremiahMA 911 Scaccia, LeeFL 2107 Scarp, A.J.WA 913 Schaaf, CharlesFL 1353 Scheipner, GeorgeMI 1291 Schichtel, RobertIL 1147 Schiff, Jeff 1830 Schiller, LenniMD 1838 Schlager, GaryCA 2297 Schmidt, AvishyCA 1319 Schmidt, MikeTX 1549 Schmidt, TiloIN 1755 Schmucker, Philip

OH 607 Schneider, AndrewCT 1625 Schneider, BenjaminOR 1877 Schock, PhilMA 1029 Scholnick, NathielCA 1662 Schrader, LisaNY 2121 Schuback, JoshuaTX 2416 Schwartzberg, PerryFL 1627 Scott, BarryCA 1488 Scott, LarryMI 1380 Scrivano, Daniel(Danny)MI 1312 Scrivano, JoeNV 923 Scudder, EmmanuelNV 1124 Seale, Li-RongWI 1543 Searles, DuaneFL 974 Sebastiani, RossanaOH 1013 Seeds, MatthewOH 649 Seeds, ToddCA 1173 Seeman, JeffIL 2204 Seemiller, DanielIN 2448 Seemiller, DanielPA 2281 Seemiller, RandyNY 841 Segal, BrianTX 1476 Segesta, AlexTX 1025 Segrest, JamesTX 928 Segrest, James CharlesIN 1970 Seibold, LeeMN 1428 Seidenfeld, IanCA 1534 Seiple, KennethNC 1921 Sekaran, Senthil KumarMA 1802 Seltzer, TynanMA 1502 Selvin, LawrenceIL 1297 Selvin, PaulWA 1391 Senapati, Kaustabh IshanFL 1347 Senko, HisaeME 792 Senthilkumar, VarunNY 625 Seo, Gina 1613 Serna, JohanMN 1762 Sethi, ShashiNC 2054 Settle, D.J.CA 2356 Shah, AarshIL 1921 Shah, EjazCO 1514 Shah, GokalNY 1496 Shah, JigneshkumarNJ 1195 Shah, MaanavMD 1637 Shah, MohitGA 1686 Shah, RajeshCA 2011 Shahnazari, ErickCA 2219 Shahnazari, RobertCA 1572 Shak, RayFL 1721 Shaker, AusamaWA 1252 Shankar, AlokMA 1398 Shao Jun, ChanMA 1400 Shao, PaulNY 2573 Shao, YuMA 2314 Shapiro, VladimirCA 1560 Sharg, VladimirBC 1486 Shariati, MehranMD 2118 Sharifi,HosseinIL 1838 Sharma, RajeevNY 1753 Shaykevich, YuriyME 1497 Shea, RichardWA 800 Shehab, KareemNJ 795 Shelkowitz, PhyllisAR 788 Shelton, CodyNY 629 Shen, JimmyCA 2168 Shen, KevinMA 2032 Sheng, BenNJ 1549 Sheng, Tan TsuMD 1316 Sheppard, AustinFL 1231 Sheppard, ThomasOH 1343 Shi, BoboGA 2607 Shi, DiweiGA 2796 Shi, MingyuCA 2112 Shi, Qing MichaelNY 1658 Shi, Xin PingCA 1657 Shiau, AlbertCA 673 Shiau, EmilyOR 1479 Shih, PaulTX 1198 Shih, Wen-ShiCA 1317 Shiju, TharunOR 2031 Shim, KernCA 601 Shin, JohnKS 992 Shin, PeterMI 1468 Shiono, KojiNY 1244 Shirzay, BashirCA 1658 Shiu, EmmanuelCA 1142 Shivakumar, KaushikFL 1567 Shiwa, FelipeCA 2293 Shodhan, ShashinNY 1814 Shortz, WillOH 899 Shtein, DanielMA 621 Shuhe, MaFL 1472 Shultz, AnthonyFL 1732 Shultz, JohnRI 984 Shunney, JohnMN 1951 Shurslep, AlexRI 1301 Shwartz, RonMD 1700 Siaw, GeorgeCA 1653 Silberman, AllenMA 1530 Silva, ManuelDC 1548 Simkovic, JozefFL 939 Simmons, PhillipIN 1844 Simon, CraigCA 1575 Simon, RichardMN 1505 Simone, AngeloWA 799 Sindona, MikeCA 1810 Singer, StuffyCA 1620 Singh, JaideepTX 1648 Singh, KiranMI 1920 Singh, VivekCA 1776 Singhal, SaarthakCA 10 Singla, AmanPA 1975 Sinha, ShayAZ 2210 Sipos, RenataMN 491 Sirek, Joshua 328 Siripurapu, AbhinavCO 1773 Sisselman, MarkMI 870 Situ, Rong

CA 2267 Siu, GeorgeWA 1412 Sivaprasad, AbhiTX 1555 Sivaraman, NiranjanGA 1387 Sivasankaran, Jeyakumar (Jay)NY 1041 Skangalis, AnrisPA 2337 Skolnick, GabrielPA 2337 Skolnick, MicaiahWA 1208 Skowronek, RonMN 1319 Skowronski, JuliaAL 1867 Skripnik, IvanOH 1387 Slaback, SteveGA 1569 Slater, CharlieFL 2222 Slocombe, AndrewKS 1164 Slocum, TerryIL 1006 Slomba, LukeIN 1211 Smedstad, DonFN 1719 Smirnov, AlexandrNY 471 Smirnov, DanielNC 1655 Smith, CameronMI 1076 Smith, DialloOH 1880 Smith, GregVA 1206 Smith, JayNY 1611 Smith, KirkGA 1662 Smith, KyleIL 1353 Smith, LakeIL 1065 Smith, RyanAR 1378 Smithey, JohnSC 1230 Smothers, CameronIL 712 Snarr, MikeIN 1708 Sneath, RodTX 440 Snell, MikiTX 1062 Snell, PeterKY 2183 Snider, NicholasIL 1363 Snigurskaya, NataliaMN 1877 Snow, LiamCA 1834 So, PrestonCA 1500 So, YiuIL 1915 Sobota, SylwesterMD 1149 Sofer, DanielMI 1516 Sofian,VirgilMO 1605 Sokol, StanleyIL 2143 Solis, EngelbertWA 2019 Solomon, ChristianCA 1673 Soltero, AngelIL 1537 Soltwisch, DavidIL 1622 Somarapu, DeepakOH 1145 Sommers, DavidWA 1369 Sonachalam, SekarLA 1641 Song, BryanNY 63 Song, DanielNY 1824 Song, DavidGA 952 Song, GeorgeWA 275 Song, JeffreyNY 1488 Song, JoannaWA 1422 Song, ShanpengTX 1831 Song, ZhenminIL 1389 Soni, AmritAZ 1453 Sooc, JohnnyMD 1929 Sotero, ReginaldCA 1844 Soto, PatrickNM 1936 Sourou, SimpliceCT 1930 Spanjol, IsakNY 712 Sparkes, NivIN 1268 Speicher, RandyFN 1964 Speier, SvenMO 809 Speight, BrianPA 1571 Spellman, DennisMN 646 Sperberg, JohnMI 1154 Speshock, DerrickCA 1867 Spesick, TomMO 1173 Spies, ZachCA 1410 Spitz, NoahNY 1682 Spitzer, RobertWI 2133 Sranko, LadislavCA 1850 Sribhashyam, SashrikCA 715 Srivastava, SaanviNV 1844 Stadelman, RalphTX 1724 Standridge, BryceIL 1991 Stastny, JaroslavVA 1529 Staylor, JohnFL 1775 Steffan, Clinton K.WA 1169 Steffens, WayneCA 1765 Steinegger, RainerIL 1892 Stender, MatthiasMD 1481 Stepanov, MatveyCA 1162 Stephens, TimCT 2107 Stephenson, DennisCA 1758 Sterling, DarylIL 969 Sternfield,DannyLA 1399 Stewart, DougMI 1352 Stewart, SidneyNC 1010 Still, SamGA 2108 Stirbu, Petrica (Petro)CA 1274 Stockhausen, DerrickNY 1500 Stottlar, GaryOH 1552 Stover, LincolnTN 1341 Strain, FielderOH 1432 Strawn, JeffreyCA 1298 Streng, AndrewCT 1819 Studenikin, ArtemMN 274 Sturm, ChadCA 1575 Sturtevant, MikeSC 1105 Su, AlexWA 1818 Su, ChadFL 1258 Su, ChristianMN 767 Su, EmilyFL 1983 Su, HugoOR 1592 Su, MengjinAZ 1494 Suarez, JoseTX 1693 Subonj, AnnaTX 1172 Subonj, ChristinaTX 2414 Subonj, ViktorianWI 1927 Subramanian, VijayNY 2127 Suen, EdmundCA 865 Suh, NathanoelFL 1751 Sujo, CarlosFL 1974 Sujo, Luis

RATINGS


IL 315 Sukthankar, SatejCA 1594 Sukul, BalaCA 411 Sun, BrianGA 897 Sun, CharleyIL 2018 Sun, DavidTX 2048 Sun, KelvinCA 1381 Sun, LynnMI 1180 Sun, MingyiMD 1693 Sun, PatrickCA 1762 Sun, VivianCA 831 Sun, WinnieNC 2096 Sun, XiziCA 2270 Sun, Zheng YuFL 1814 Sundel, MartinIL 461 Sundrani, AdamIL 728 Sundrani, SabreenaIL 695 Sundrani, SeanCA 1586 Sung, Jia-YuCA 1596 Sung, JoannaCA 1778 Sung, MonicaCA 1930 Sung, RachelTX 1248 Suriya, VijayCA 2195 Surmann, Olaf 867 Sussman, Noah (Mike)OR 1738 Suwito, WanCA 1856 Suzuki, ChiyakoWA 2184 Suzuki, MichiyaIN 1282 Swan, KevinMN 746 Sweeney, AileenMN 608 Sweeney, CormacMN 1657 Sweeney, JohnMN 514 Sweeney, LiamMI 2071 Sweeris, DellFL 1494 Swift, BenNH 1322 Swift, WilliamIL 1242 Sypolka, MarekIL 1512 Szacilowski, TomaszIL 1940 Szostak, KrzysztofIL 499 Szot, TimVT 1083 Szpila, Robert M.IL 1727 Szpringiel, KrzysztofIL 1050 Szymanski, MarkCA 512 Tabibian, FarkhondehWI 1712 Tai, AlexNY 907 Takamatsu, HajimeMA 1273 Takeda, YujiCA 2193 Takemura, HiromasaWA 633 Takemura, TomokoFL 197 Talati, ArjunCA 1314 Talluri, KarthikCA 1730 Tan, AngieNY 795 Tan, ChristopherCA 822 Tan, EmilyTX 1917 Tan, JacksonMA 540 Tan, JerryMA 734 Tan, StevenUT 1225 Tan, TammieMA 1831 Tan, XiaofengCA 1906 Tandon, TarunCA 2076 Tang, AlanNV 1517 Tang, AllanPA 1749 Tang, HaineAZ 1728 Tang, JasonNY 120 Tang, JosephFL 1138 Tang, StanleyNJ 1850 Tang, SuyanCA 1678 Tangirala, SrivatsavMD 2326 Tangyingyong, SutanitOH 2248 Tannehill, JohnTX 1050 Tanner, RalphCA 1543 Tantravahi, PranavWA 2007 Tao, WuchengCA 1199 Tarasov, VladimirNY 707 Tatar, BenFL 1706 Tatti Gopah, DeepakFL 1946 Tauber, AkosWI 1064 Taxman, RoyalIL 1250 Taylor, DanOK 637 Taylor, JasonOH 1473 Taylor, JimmyRI 1295 Taylor, LouisFL 1693 Tedesco, TrentNY 1624 Teitel, GideonMN 646 Tembe, AkashCA 1901 Tenerife, AngeOR 1556 Teodorescu, GeorgeGA 2013 Teotia, SeemantMO 1546 Terzic, MarkoMO 1641 Terzic, NikolaCA 1511 Thai, QuyenCA 1192 Thakkar, NeelPA 1644 Theil, MartinCA 2243 Therriault, JamesNC 1760 Thigpen, RickCA 753 Thio, EthanIL 516 Thobani, AimanIL 597 Thobani, NamirFL 2024 Thompson, DelroyLA 1261 Thompson, LeviWI 1604 Thor, SithaTX 1084 Thorn, KristenOH 1116 Thornton, JonCA 2254 Thounaojam, Opendro SinghCA 1404 Thrasher, StevenCA 1262 Thu, AungMO 1303 Tian, HeCA 1927 Tien, KennyWA 2235 Timsuwan, SakdaCA 2023 Tio, FredrickCA 2301 Tio, NicholasOH 1899 Tith, KosalFL 1530 Tittel, TimothyOH 1207 Tiu, AdamOH 1161 Tobias, ZackUT 2047 Todd, WilliamCA 1255 Tokuhara, BurtIN 1291 Tolen, Robert

VT 1356 Tomas, MarijanNY 2084 Tomazos, EleftheriosTX 1470 Tomescu, Nicolae (Nick)FL 2321 Tomlinson, SimonCO 1736 Tomoi, SamPA 1467 Ton, WinCA 2229 Tong, HowardCA 1075 Tong, Kwan EdCA 1545 Tong, TeddyTX 2106 Torres Zevallos, RobertoMI 2057 Toth, BenceOH 954 Toth, JohnFL 935 Tran, BrandonNY 2375 Tran, DeCA 1982 Tran, EricaMN 1687 Tran, HoangCA 2059 Tran, JoeCA 1955 Tran, KietIL 880 Tran, LawrenceCA 2193 Tran, MatthewMN 2176 Tran, MichaelTX 2137 Tran, MinhNC 1554 Tran, SabrinaCA 2486 Tran, TheodoreFL 1224 Tran, ThinhCA 854 Tran, ThomasOK 1161 Tran, TiffanyOH 1641 Tran, TuyenCA 810 Treigherman, DanielCA 1347 Treigherman, PhilipNH 1618 Treitel, RobertCA 552 Trestman, GrogoriyNY 1750 Trinidad, MarcosAR 1420 Tripodi, AlexAR 232 Tripodi, HannahCT 2045 Triumph, ClydeIL 1739 Trofimov,DenisNJ 1548 Trofimov,MichaelNY 367 Troyer, CandyceMN 2116 Truelson, ThorMN 943 Truelson, ViktoriaNY 1867 Truong, Cuong (Philip)TX 1307 Truong, Quoc HuyMN 1710 Truong, TuanCT 1620 Trusiewicz, MikeNY 1155 Tryon, DaveNY 798 Tsai, JeffreyTX 1699 Tsai, JoeyTX 1769 Tsang, BorisTX 1845 Tsang, BrianGA 1142 Tsaur, EthanCA 1809 Tse, AnikaNY 1983 Tsitoghdzyan, TigranCA 1679 Tsung, JulianCA 2089 Tsvor, SergeyCA 254 Tu, CindyCA 1891 Tu, EdmondOH 1574 Tu, JinbiaoCA 1025 Tu, JosephWA 1572 Tu, LucyCA 1427 Tu, NormanCA 2356 Tu, Truong ManhCA 1418 Tun, TunCA 521 Tung, FaithOH 1508 Turakhia, AshwinTX 1000 Turpin, WilliamTX 1433 Tyrell, RyanIL 1430 Tysl, RobertMI 1447 Uganski, AlexCA 2106 Ukapatayasakul, BillAR 1890 Umebayashi, TetsuroTX 1355 Uniyal, VendagTX 760 Uniyal, ViviktIL 1173 Upshaw, RamarCA 835 Uritskiy, NickGA 1152 Usdan, WilliamVA 1679 Vaddadi, NaveenCA 1134 Vaden, MichaelTX 783 Vadlamani, SiddharthCA 1862 Valdoria, RodelFN 1603 Valeeva, RenataMA 347 Vallabh, AmitFL 1643 Valliant, FrankFL 1835 Van Brussel, AveryMI 1358 Van Camp, RobertMD 1597 Van Dusen, PhilipFL 831 Van Haverbeke, NealVA 1678 Van Name, JonathanNC 1332 Van Nynatten, FredWA 937 Van Steen, AlexOH 847 Vanderhoff, PeterIL 1925 Vanegas, JorgeOR 1558 VanSlyke, BobWI 1730 Vartani, HenryCO 1443 Vasquez, AntonioNH 2274 Vasquez, JerryIN 1584 Vasu, VireshCA 1604 Vattuone, RichardCA 926 Vaughan, DougAZ 1407 Vays, LevSC 1801 Veach, ClintonNY 1461 Vega, AlbertoTX 1231 Vega, OscarLA 1111 Veizer, KeithMA 1305 Vekhov, YegorTX 1213 Velazquez, MannyNY 273 Velez, GeorgeMN 1023 Velumani, SenthilTX 1246 Venkat, RamamoorthyCA 1636 Venkataraman, ShivakumarNY 1357 Vera, EddyNY 2182 Vergara, MauricioIL 1322 Verma, VisheshOH 1646 Vermaji, PiyushCA 848 Verny, AllenOH 2044 Vesel, RichardFL 1712 Vieira, MichaelWI 1112 Vievesis, Zigmas

CA 957 Vijay, KumarCA 1390 Villacarlos, PaulIL 1926 Villanueva, MarcFL 1594 Villorente, KirkfredCO 1128 Vincioni, RayCT 2214 Virgo, ErnestFL 1591 Viriamu, AlexVT 1365 Vitzthum, TomMN 1215 Vn, Dat TienCA 1104 Vo, LocCA 2036 Vo, QuangCT 1383 Vogt, DanCO 1935 Vollmar, DavidCA 1316 Von Allmen, TomDE 1405 Vonderau, KodiWA 1788 Voronin, AlexCA 980 Voros, MagdolnaNJ 204 Vu, AlexCA 1481 Vu, HowardNC 2015 Vu, VanCA 1799 Vuong, DeanFL 1798 Wada, SatokoAR 1752 Waheed, ImranWA 1463 Wakabayashi, KeiNY 1692 Wald, AaronFL 1151 Wald, AdamPA 1605 Walk, BillCT 1437 Walker, DennisTN 1628 Walker, John EddTN 963 Walker, MaryNY 1046 Wallace, KevinNY 412 Wallis, ZacharyOH 1121 Walls, ChristopherMO 739 Walters, TylerNY 946 Walzer-Goldfeld, JulesNY 574 Walzer-Goldfeld, StefanNY 1701 Wan, ClemensNJ 2468 Wang, AllenCA 247 Wang, AltonNJ 2325 Wang, AmyTX 880 Wang, BrandonTX 1176 Wang, ChingMD 2396 Wang, CrystalGA 1913 Wang, DavidGA 987 Wang, EricCA 472 Wang, EthanPA 1145 Wang, EvanOR 83 Wang, FranklinGA 517 Wang, GraceWA 1377 Wang, HaohanMA 824 Wang, IanNJ 2332 Wang, JackGA 2163 Wang, JamesTX 1578 Wang, JessicaIN 1661 Wang, KanMI 917 Wang, KennethNY 1539 Wang, LiOH 1049 Wang, LinOR 2290 Wang, Maoxi GeorgeNY 2498 Wang, Max QinminNJ 2213 Wang, Mendy (Ke)MA 2321 Wang, MichaelTX 934 Wang, NeoNV 1539 Wang, OdoTX 728 Wang, PercyNY 2046 Wang, Q SCT 1293 Wang, QiangMD 2573 Wang, Qing LiangNJ 1962 Wang, RayTX 1620 Wang, RobertCA 2512 Wang, RuiTX 806 Wang, SeanCA 663 Wang, ShoujinTX 2465 Wang, ShuaiTX 2636 Wang, TimothyNY 690 Wang, WarrenNY 473 Wang, WesleyPA 1491 Wang, YidiFN 2367 Wang, YingOH 977 Wang, Ying-beiIL 1135 Wang, YunAZ 842 Wang, YuQinTX 2212 Wang, ZheBC 2823 Wang, Zhen (Eugene)CA 1821 Wang, ZiliNY 650 Wareham, JohnCA 1283 Wasserman, SiFL 1257 Watanabe, MakikoMD 1992 Waters, JulianCA 1306 Watkin, RogerOK 1210 Watson, LoganPA 1133 Waugaman, DanielIL 770 Wazir, AmmarCA 695 Webb, DavidVA 1804 Weber, RonaldOH 770 Weghorst, CarsonMD 2218 Wei, BarbaraMA 1563 Wei, GeorgeVA 821 Wei, JerryMI 1548 Wei, TomGA 2127 Wei, TongMI 360 Wei, TylerNY 2357 Wei, WilsonFN 2449 Wei, Yang SongWI 1975 Weiland, JimNV 1005 Weissman, AlanMI 1471 Wells, DaveAZ 1379 Welsh, RobertMA 1376 Wen, AlinaMD 952 Wentz, MichaelPA 2240 Wetzler, JohnMN 2032 Weyessa, NemeraOR 835 White, JeffreyIN 1598 Whiteman, BryanNC 2109 Whitmeyer, MichaelOH 795 Whittier, ToddCO 1338 Wilcox, YokoWA 1141 Wilder, Donna

CA 1038 Wilford, RyanOH 1521 Wilke, MichaelLA 1635 Wilkins, ChadMN 992 Wilkinson, StanOH 1055 Williams, KristopherVA 1379 Willis, JonathanMD 1766 Willis, ReginaldIN 1288 Willitts, JimFN 2289 Wilson, AaronGA 1595 Wilson, BlairMO 2079 Wilson, EvertonAZ 2241 Winkler, MatthewCA 1650 Winton, JeremyAR 751 Wolf, PaulWA 1821 Wolfe, WesFL 1280 Wolfe, ZackIL 2097 Wolski, MichaelIL 2331 Wolski, WojciechCA 799 Wong, AlbertMN 840 Wong, AlecCA 1545 Wong, BenjaminCA 1001 Wong, DanielCA 1240 Wong, DavidWA 1852 Wong, FrancisCA 130 Wong, IsaacNY 1261 Wong, JonCA 2184 Wong, JordanKS 1671 Wong, Kin HoNY 1045 Wong, MichaelCA 2117 Wong, Michael 1648 Wong, QingTX 564 Wong, SylviaCA 2112 Wong, WaiIL 857 Woo, BradleyNY 2292 Woo, PhillipMD 1747 Wood, KlausCA 1520 Woodall, DustinAL 1336 Wooley, TimothyWV 1318 Workman, GretchenMN 528 Wrazidlo, DawsonGA 855 Wright, TylerWI 1891 Wruck, DouglasAK 1556 Wruck, WadeOH 1702 Wu, AlanTX 2092 Wu, BryanFL 701 Wu, DanielMD 494 Wu, EmilyCA 2383 Wu, EricaCA 1113 Wu, IsaacOH 836 Wu, MeileenWA 1740 Wu, MingruiNY 1707 Wu, NathanFL 1646 Wu, PeterCA 1358 Wu, PeterCA 507 Wu, RyanNY 2352 Wu, TingleiCA 539 Wu, WilliamPA 671 Wu, Xiao KangNJ 2495 Wu, YueCA 819 Xian, AlanCA 374 Xian, JasonCA 1898 Xianyu, HuiPA 2179 Xiao, ClaireCA 1752 Xiao, CongCA 2167 Xiao, JeffMS 2298 Xiao, JunyuIL 2098 Xiao, YuemingGA 1654 Xie, EricMD 1765 Xie, Frank YingzeCA 2124 Xie, TianTX 2150 Xie, TianmingMS 2344 Xie, ZhiqiaoNY 1447 Xiong, CharlesNY 1663 Xiong, LilyMD 993 Xu, CallieAZ 1704 Xu, FangWA 1685 Xu, JinlongOR 1683 Xu, Zhongkai (John)OH 1510 Xue, Yi YanIL 2084 Xue, Yong JianNJ 971 Yakura, KenGA 1260 Yamada, KojiNV 1565 Yamate, MichaelMO 2512 Yamazato, FernandoNY 601 Yammie, AdamOR 1545 Yan, PengMD 1122 Yan, TelonMD 1006 Yang, AlexanderCA 864 Yang, BenNY 1512 Yang, ChangCA 603 Yang, DavidCA 1802 Yang, DerekCA 415 Yang, EmilyUT 1437 Yang, EmilyWA 1965 Yang, GeorgeCA 2245 Yang, GraceIL 1545 Yang, HaohuaTX 2317 Yang, James EddieCA 49 Yang, JustinMD 904 Yang, KevinCA 281 Yang, KevinSC 855 Yang, KevinNY 1845 Yang, LenWI 2261 Yang, Peter JieCA 1787 Yang, RachelMD 668 Yang, RaymondNY 1268 Yang, ShuoFL 1502 Yang, StevenNJ 199 Yang, VictorCA 1900 Yang, XiankunNJ 2532 Yang, XinYangNY 1371 Yanga, DennisNJ 1998 Yao, KaelanCA 1464 Yao, MaxwellMA 1670 Yashgul, GregoryMN 1935 Ye, ChengWA 848 Ye, DavidWA 496 Ye, Sophie

NY 896 Yee, ChristopherCA 964 Yee, JeffreyCA 2332 Yee, JordanAZ 1142 Yee, TimCA 652 Yeh, AndyTX 1512 Yeh, MinMD 2232 Yeh, StephenNY 1112 Yen, JamesMI 1972 Yeotis, DeanOR 1785 Yi, JasonCA 1170 Yin, EmilieAL 1649 Yin, XinhuaNY 1753 Ying, YunCA 1056 Yip, DannyNJ 2385 Yip, LilyIN 1079 Yoder, James L.IL 1255 Yoder, MatthewIL 2082 Yoon, JosephNC 1458 Yorgason, RonaldNJ 1382 You, JamesNY 1613 Young, DonaldNJ 957 Young, JessicaIL 1479 Young, Vanessa MooFN 2438 Yu, DiNJ 2055 Yu, FrankUT 1866 Yu, JordanCA 1676 Yu, KentCA 1632 Yu, KevinNJ 2085 Yu, KyleNC 1964 Yu, MingCA 2133 Yu, NelsonPA 1823 Yu, NormenCA 1715 Yu, TonyNY 830 Yu, WilliamMN 1220 Yu, ZelingCA 1298 Yuan, JoeCO 1890 Yue, EdwardCA 1865 Yuen, AlexCA 1913 Yuen, KevinNY 1881 Yuen, Roger ChangMI 1352 Zachos, RobertOH 1549 Zadrozny, EdwardAR 1281 Zaldivar, FernandoCA 1778 Zandpour, FrankCA 129 Zarehbin, AzizCA 1047 Zarehbin, KaiIL 1308 Zarycki, StanislawTX 2077 Zavala, IrvingNY 1264 Zeitlin, IngaCA 1806 Zelener, AlexanderFL 1778 Zeller, CarlosNC 917 Zeng, AndrewUT 1012 Zeng, MeganMD 1073 Zeng, Ruoheng 1982 Zerrudo, DinoTX 2351 Zhai, HaoCA 1614 Zhan, KanghongVA 800 Zhan, RichardCA 1251 Zhang, AlbertMA 1711 Zhang, AngelaNY 1836 Zhang, BenjaminWA 2399 Zhang, BijiaOH 1499 Zhang, BillVA 1518 Zhang, BowenCA 1861 Zhang, ChaoCA 1867 Zhang, DaisongMA 1706 Zhang, GordonGA 1375 Zhang, GregoryCA 1395 Zhang, HenrikKS 1601 Zhang, JimFN 2423 Zhang, Jun Da (James)NY 2704 Zhang, KaiNJ 167 Zhang, KarenAL 1867 Zhang, KuiTX 1501 Zhang, Lihao (Jasper)CA 2528 Zhang, LilyWY 1359 Zhang, MengwenCA 1107 Zhang, SimingGA 1504 Zhang, TeddyWA 1644 Zhang, WeiCT 1450 Zhang, WilliamTX 923 Zhang, WilliamCA 2709 Zhang, XiangMO 2006 Zhang, XiaomingTX 2543 Zhang, YahaoMS 2583 Zhang, Yi ChiTX 1790 Zhang, YukongPA 1367 Zhang, YumengMD 2272 Zhangliang, BojunNJ 236 Zhao, AllisonTX 1640 Zhao, BrianMA 648 Zhao, EricPA 1803 Zhao, EthanCA 550 Zhao, FranzNJ 364 Zhao, JasmineTX 777 Zhao, JospehTX 420 Zhao, KatieTX 1834 Zhao, KellyGA 1054 Zhao, KevinWA 2132 Zhao, MichaelTX 1688 Zhao, MichaelIL 1139 Zhao, MoshiWA 1949 Zhao, WeiTX 782 Zhao, WenhuiNJ 2575 Zhao, XinXu(Anthony)WA 1090 Zhao, YingCA 2566 Zheng, JiaqiMA 1928 Zheng, Liansheng (Eric)MA 2054 Zheng, LongMA 1567 Zheng, LukeNH 1691 Zheng, WeiCA 1572 Zheng, YiNH 1559 Zheng, YifeiNY 1284 Zhitomirskiy, DmitriyLA 1490 Zhong, ChaozongFL 1031 Zhong, DavieFL 951 Zhong, EricNJ 2528 Zhong, Zongqi (Henry)

CA 1829 Zhou, Dong YongNJ 1526 Zhou, JaydenMD 1569 Zhou, LijunIL 1291 Zhou, RachelIL 1565 Zhou, SarahCA 2711 Zhou, XinTX 1472 Zhou, YiNY 1952 Zhou, ZhenmoWA 1235 Zhu, EricNJ 901 Zhu, FranklinWA 459 Zhu, HenryGA 1352 Zhu, SabrinaPA 1989 Zhu, ShaoboCA 1759 Zhu, Sui NingMN 1943 Zhu, XiaohaunNY 237 Zhu, XiaoyuNJ 2629 Zhuang, David Yong-XiangCA 2105 Zhuang, JianTX 1390 Zhumagaliyev, ArmanGA 1676 Zhuo, EvanCA 802 Zhuo, HelenaMA 895 Ziolek, BrunoCA 1153 Ziyalan, ChristopherCA 173 Zou, JosephWA 1437 Zubarev, YakovAR 997 Zumbach, SimonWV 1518 Zuniga, RoyceCO 1485 Zwisler, RossMI 1407 Zywicki, KevinIL 2054 Zyworonek, Arkadiusz

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SVTTC Butterfly Open, Milpitas, CA, 5/24/2014 - 5/25/2014, gg Steven Wang, 650-235-6796

Neil Smyth Memorial Open, San Diego, CA, 5/24/2014 - 5/25/2014, gggg Attila Malek, 714-280-6821

Clearwater Spring Open, Clearwater, FL, 5/24/2014, gg Keith Hanley, 727-726-2181

Texas Wesleyan Open (31), Fort Worth, TX, 5/31/2014, gg Jasna Rather, 817-715-4062

$16,000 Meiklejohn North American Seniors Open, Laguna Woods, CA, 6/5/2014 - 6/8/2014, gg Craig Krum, 909-227-0822

LYTTC June Open, Dunellen, NJ, 6/7/2014 - 6/8/2014, ggBarry Dattel, 732-200-5820

Atlanta Open Giant Round Robin U2000, Norcross, GA, 6/7/2014, g Wendell Dillon, 770-923-5110

Ararat Open 2014, Glendale, CA, 6/14/2014 - 6/15/2014, gg Victor Shahbazian, 818-634-7245

2014 Washington Table Tennis Open, Chantilly, VA, 6/14/2014 gg Jay Park, 703-944-8819

2014 Missouri Show-Me State Games Open, Springfield, MO, 6/21/2014, gg William Lewis, 417-890-8092

Michigan Closed State Finals, Grand Rapids, MI, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014, gg Brian Fowler, 616-617-1016

2014 NNTTC Joola Open, Newport, VA, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014, gg Dan Barrett, 757-729-2335

2014 HI June Open (22), Palisades Park, NJ, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014, Byung Jun An, 718-928-8551Florida Sunshine State Games Table Tennis Open 2014, Lakeland FL, 6/21/2014 - 6/22/2014

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NJTTC 2014 Giant Round Robin Westfield NJ, 6/21/2014 - 6/14/2014 gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129

Arizona Closed, Phoenix, AZ, 4/26/2014 - 4/27/2014, g, Jay Turber-ville, 480-529-2829

Sacramento Spring Open, Sacramento, CA, 5/10/2014, James Ther-riault, 916-308-3209

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2014 Summer Sooner State Games, Oklahoma City, OK, 6/28/2014, g Britt Salter, 405-306-7227

Westchester 2014 June Open, Pleasantville, NY, 6/28/2014 - 6/29/2014, gggg Will Shortz, 914-769-9128

2014 US Open, Grand Rapids , MI, 7/1/2014 - 7/5/2014, ggggg Joyce Grooms, 719-866-4583

LYTTC July Open, Dunellen, NJ, 7/12/2014 - 7/13/2014, gg Barry Dattel, 732-200-5820

Mid-Florida Table Tennis Tour-2014 Lakeland July Classic Open, Lakeland, FL, 7/18/2014 - 7/19/2014, gg Brad Woodington, 863-370-5163

SportsFest XVIII, Allentown, PA, 7/19/2014, Fred Kistler, 610-797-6637

NJTTC 2014 Giant Round Robin, Westfield, NJ, 7/19/2014, gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129HCTT Circuit Tournament, Columbia, MD, 7/19/2014 Fan Yang, 443-538-5034

Dana Point Open, Dana Point, CA, 7/20/2014, gAttila Malek, 714-280-6821

Waco Table Tennis Tournament, Waco, TX, 7/26/2014, g, Jimmy Dorrell, 254-214-4933

Arizona Sizzler Open, Phoenix, AZ, 7/26/2014 - 7/27/2014, gJay Turberville, 480-529-2829

Westchester 2014 July Open, Pleasantville, NY, 7/26/2014 - 7/27/2014, gggg Will Shortz, 914-769-9128

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Texas Wesleyan Open (31), Fort Worth, TX, 8/2/2014, gg Jasna Rather, 817-715-4062

Robo-Pong August 2014 BTTC Open, Hollywood, FL, 8/2/2014 - 8/3/2014, ggg Carlos Zeller, 954-849-5436

Knoxville Secret City Open Gold Dollar Upset Tournamnet Oak, Ridge, TN, 8/2/2014, gg Jude Lam, 865-300-4829

NJTTC 2014 Giant Round Robin, Westfield, NJ, 8/9/2014, gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129

GHTTC August 2014 Open, Hartford, CT, 8/10/2014, gg Wilbert Lawrence, 860-819-0356

Florida Orange Blossom Table Tennis Series Summer Classic, Lake-land, FL, 8/15/2014 - 8/16/2014, gg Brad Woodington, 863-370-5163

2014 Summer Slam VI, El Paso, TX, 8/16/2014, gg Mark Nordby, 915-282-8210

Dana Point Open, Dana Point, CA, 8/17/2014, g Attila Malek, 714-280-6821

2014 Butterfly MDTTC August Open, Gaithersburg, MD, 8/23/2014 - 8/24/2014, gg Charlene Liu, 202-459-9096

Westchester 2014 August Open, Pleasantville, NY, 8/23/2014 - 8/24/2014, gggg Will Shortz, 914-769-9128

Pacific Coast Open Santa Monica, CA, 8/23/2014 - 8/24/2014, gg Ichiro Hashimoto, 818-700-0948

The Butterfly Labor Day 2-Person Teams, Highland, IN 8/30/2014 - 8/31/2014, gg Mark Nordby, 915-282-8210

2014 Southern Open on JOOLA North America Tour, Round Rock TX, 9/6/2014 - 9/7/2014, gggg Marynes Parra, 301-816-0660

HCTT Circuit Tournament, Columbia, MD, 9/6/2014, Fan Yang, 443-538-5034

NJTTC 2014 September Open, Westfield, NJ, 9/13/2014 - 9/14/2014, gg Larry Bavly, 617-383-5129

NW LA Open, Canoga Park, CA, 9/14/2014 - 9/14/2013, g Allen Verny, 818-330-5756

Mid-Florida Table Tennis Tour-2014, Lakeland September Classic, Lake-land, FL, 9/19/2014 - 9/20/2014, ggBrad Woodington, 863-370-5163

2014 Butterfly Badger Open, Waukesha, WI, 9/20/2014 - 9/21/2014 gggg Linda Leaf, 414-281-3123

Trolley Car Table Tennis Club, September 2014 Philly Giant RR, Philadelphia, PA, 9/20/2014, gg Ken Weinstein, 215-247-5555

LYTTC September Open, Dunellen, NJ, 9/20/2014 - 9/21/2014 gg Barry Dattel, 732-200-5820

ARARAT Glendale Friendship Games 2014, Glendale, CA, 9/20/2014 - 9/21/2014, gg Victor Shahbazian, 818-634-7245

September Newgy Akron Open (42 Points), Akron, OH, 9/26/2014 - 9/27/2014, ggg Samson Dubina, 330-949-9230Westchester 2014 September Open Pleasantville, NY, 9/27/2014 - 9/28/2014, gggg Will Shortz, 914-769-9128Arkansas Open, Little Rock, AR, 9/27/2014, gg Eugene Atha, 501-835-5291

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South Florida Newgy US Open Warm Up (53 Points), Dania Beach, FL, 6/27/2014 - 6/29/2014, ggg Terese Terranova, 954-695-3218

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By USTTA Historian Tim Boggan In her 1985 USTTA Executive Committee Election Cam-paign Statement, Yvonne Kronlage showed very clearly her disillusionment at the continued passionate effort she’s made,

and will continue to make, to further the sport, but always with so little personal recognition. She feels she’s so often ignored, her valid USTTA complaints on women’s issues not taken up. Why is that? Especially when back in 1972 she was named “Woman of the Month” by our National Publication, and in 1979 when, on her way to being elected USTTA Executive Committee Treasurer, her “Women’s World” article was very well received. Answer (so she’d been told) to her not being recognized: “Because no one knows you and what you’ve

done.” Well, though it’s certainly not true she’s unknown—she’ll get over 400 votes this election—she doesn’t get elected either. But Yvonne is a combatant, is very persistent at going after what she wants. Two years later she has a new strategy, will let a man speak for her. Dennis Masters, well known as USTTA Tournament Chair, writes 51-year-old Yvonne’s 1987 Campaign Statement for Vice-President—and this time she is elected: “Yvonne, he begins, “has worked for U.S. Table Tennis for over 25 years on the international, national, regional, and local levels. [Remember, this is being written by Dennis more than a quarter-century ago and he’s going back another quarter cen-tury.] Listed below are just some of her many efforts.International: Team Manager and Coach in 1979 of the first U.S. Men’s and Women’s teams to the Pan Am Games—when t.t. was an exhibition sport. Women’s Captain and Coach to the 1983 World Champion-ships—Women’s Captain for a Women’s Team had been one of her goals. Captain of the U.S. Girls Team to the 1981 Scandinavian Open Junior Championships in Sweden. Trying to bring the World Veterans Championships to the United States. [In Apr. ,’88, Yvonne flew to the European’s and successfully got sanction approval (and consequently participa-tion support) to run a super-tournament, a tripartite 1990 U.S. Open, World Veterans, and International Junior Championship. A dream for Yvonne that, because of mismanagement, will turn into something of a momentary nightmare.]National: Has been involved in every U.S. Olympic Sports Festival in an official capacity [continuing in ’87 to be Women’s Team Manager]. After being on a winning team herself (1983), she coached and captained U.S. Women’s teams at the annual Toronto CNE tournament, and also at the U.S. Open [and will do so in the future, as in the 1989 Open when she’ll also play for the U.S. Senior Women’s team]. Chairperson of USTTA Committees.

Raised funds for and has taken teams to many Junior Olym-pics.Regional: Organized and has run Eastern Opens. Founded and is President of the Maryland TTA. Ran Regional trials for Junior Olympics and National teams. Was instrumental in getting table tennis in the Maryland Se-nior Olympics and Maryland State Games.Local: Founded and ran clubs in Maryland for over 20 years. Taught table tennis in many schools. Coached many players of all ages. [“Why was there never a Girls’ Camp?” she asked. And then in 1980 ran one with over 20 participants.] Has always showed initiative--organized many exhibitions in schools, malls, and sporting events. Sponsored players and teams through her club and the MTTA. Worked to get women and juniors into table tennis. Instituted a Chaperone Program. Directed tournaments year after year and will continue to do so [the Maryland Open in ’88, for example). Yvonne founded the Howard County Circuit. [In the 1986-87 season, Yvonne awarded $9,000 for 9 Circuit tournaments in which 600 players participated. This Circuit will run continuously for 30 years!]” Yvonne is also a player who holds a number of National ti-tles. She has played in the Senior World Championships, and in many U.S. Open and National Championships over a half-century span. [At the 1961 National Team Championships she won the Out-standing Player Award. At the 1963 U.S. Open, Yvonne was a Mixed Doubles finalist (playing with English looper Derek Baddely, they defeated the strong Sol Schiff/Leah Neuberger team). And in the 1964-65 season, she was ranked #7 among U.S. Women. Later, with her customary vigor, she’ll continue playing com-petitively into her 70’s. Here are her consistent U.S. Closed

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


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A Remembrance of Gary Gresher by Hall of Fame John Tannehill

IN MEMORIAM

Gary Gresher (1944 - 2013)

remember first meeting Gary Gresher and his

wife Kathy at the Chicago table tenis club (Net and Paddle Club) of Mildred Shahian and Jim Lazarus in the late 60’s. I was a “ping pong nomad” in need of a place to stay in Chicago while training with Jim Lazarus and coaching other players including Gary. Gary and Kathy befriended me and opened their house in generous hospitality to me. Later they would do the same in Berkeley, California after they moved there, and I was coaching and training at the San Francisco club. Throughout this time Gary shared his insights, books,

love for chess, wit, and general life view with me and influenced me greatly with his tough but gentle, fun-loving character. Trying to combine table tennis training with its cold technical precision and a student’s passion for knowledge of culture and history was made easier by Gary’s influence. The loneliness of disciplining myself to the competitive sports life was made tolerable by Gary, Kathy, and their son Charlie’s presence and support. One of my best matches was played in Chicago during the World Team Trials against the national champion Dal Joon Lee. Gary was present

during the stress-filled match that went 25-23 in the final game to my victory, and I remember feeling grateful for Gary’s watching so calmly while I was battling for each point. It was his energy as well as mine that won that day. Gary’s support showed me that no matter how technically fit your skill in table tennis, it amounts to very little without the real support of a friend on the sidelines who radiates concern for you. I miss Gary and his infectious love of live and adventure.

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by Dean Johnson ([email protected])

Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia has introduced the Table Tennis Sports and Education Program as a part of the schools 2014 High School Founders Week. The program is part of a larger plan being implemented by the Table Tennis Charity Foundation to introduce table tennis in both public and private schools as an extension to mainstream sports such as football, basketball, and baseball. “We’re excited to kick off this program here at Ocean Lakes” said Ken Lees, Founder and President of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation and sponsor of the program. “Ocean Lakes will provide its students with proper equipment to facilitate an active Ping Pong Club, a scholarship opportunity, both casual and competitive play, and ultimately, as we grow, school competitive participation between school teams!” He added. The Foundation will introduce the adaptive program to the school, including the donation of table tennis tables by the Table Tennis Charity Foundation and table tennis equipment supplier Kettler USA.

The program kicked off with the Foundation’s chairman, neuropsychologist Dr. Scott Sautter, presenting a slide show to the students and a discussion of the science behind the benefits of table tennis.This was followed by demonstrations from local table tennis players Dean Johnson and Ron and Chris Weber. It is the mission of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation to provide qualified schools with the Table Tennis Sports and Education Program – at NO cost. The goal is to “Cross-Train Your Brain”, both educationally and physically. The program provided to participating schools on behalf of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation benefits all ages and skill levels and will engage students, parents, faculty and staff who are committed to a successful integration and implementation. As described by Dr. Scott Sautter, “The neuroscience of playing Ping Pong has been described as a game of aerobic chess. It’s great for eye-hand coordination, reflexes, balance, planning, strategy and a stress reliever exercising the mind and body in a safe activity for everyone. The cool factor is that research has demonstrated the positive benefits to brain fitness, such as the report of a Japanese study that found just ten minutes of playing Ping Pong increased neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum.” TheTable Tennis Charity Foundation is eager to raise awareness of the mental health and therapeutic benefits of playing Ping Pong. Recently, USA Table Tennis endorsed Table Tennis Charity Foundation as a means to bringing“awareness of the benefits of playing table tennis to recreational players of any age and ability” said Ken Lees. “We are proud of the direction that Table Tennis Charity Foundation is heading, and hope to work towards increasing table tennis participation, including recognizing the physical and mental benefits playing the sport. We are excited about starting our program at Ocean Lakes, and look forward to bringing table tennis to all schools,” he added.

Ken Lees, Founder and President of the Table Tennis Charity Foundation delivering presentation to students at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach on the benefits of playing table tennis. Photo by Dean Johnson

Members of Ocean Lakes High School Ping Pong Club playing on make-shift cafeteria table prior to receiving donation of regulation tables from Kettler USA.

Ping Pong Club members were grateful to receive 4 new tables donated by Kettler USA and have seen Club membership grow since receiving the new tables.

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1600 2250 1850 900 2750 2300 850 experience a competitive match because they are dominated by the opponent’s higher skill. Wins will likely come from like-rated players and lower rated players. If the player is entering these events mainly to gain rating points, they may not be focused on learning from these more competitive matches. As coaches, we feel that this 1680 player should first enter the U1700 event. We advise our students to enter the lowest rated event that they are eligible for. We want them to go into the event fully intending to win it! If they come up short but gave it their best effort, we are satisfied that we can use the results to improve the player’s development. We will modify training sessions as needed to address issues presented from the competitive matches. As the player continues to play in tournaments, they may see their rating go up and down. But if we are doing our job as coaches, and the players are working hard to improve, then the overall trend of their rating will be UP!We also suggest entering the U1900 event. The player should be moderately competitive and is likely to have at least one or two tough matches. This will give them a first-hand look at “the next level”. Even if they lose most of their matches in this event, they will have the opportunity to learn what is required to compete at that level. If the player has boundless energy and is really ambitious, we’d be fine with them entering the U2100 event as well. They will probably get less benefit from this event, but it should be fun and they may play at least one competitive match.We recommend that players ALWAYS enter the lowest rated event for which they qualify. Rating points may be won and lost, but the primary reason for playing in the lowest rated event is not related to rating points; it is to learn to build skills from playing competitive matches. We want our students to learn to handle match pressure, fight for points, stay focused, maintain their composure, control their emotions, and adapt to players with different styles. We want them to learn how to find and exploit weakness of their opponent and to make appropriate adjustments in order to overcome tough opponents. In these tight matches, the difference between winning and losing may be miniscule. Small adjustments in serving, returning, placement, anticipation, balance, patience, consistency, or general shot selection are often the difference between a meaningful win and an agonizing loss. These skills are critical to building a solid foundation to advance to the next level. All of these skills matter! They matter at this level, the next, and the next… Our advice to ambitious tournament players is fairly simple: DO NOT STRESS OR OBSESS OVER RATINGS POINTS!!! As coaches, we are more impressed with experience that an event championship brings rather than sudden jumps in ratings points. As players improve their skills and match playing ability, the ratings points will surely follow.

by Britt Salter, Mike Lauro, and Marguerite Cheung - ITTF level 2 certified coaches In this article, we examine an issue that, from our experience, is common with table tennis players below 2000. Far too often we see these players enter only rated events that are much higher than their current USATT rating. The players we’ve talked are mainly motivated to protect their current rating points and to sidestep the danger of losing points to players with the same or lower ratings. By entering only high rated events, they hope to gain rating points with a lucky win against a much higher rated opponent. As coaches, we believe that this practice presents obstacles to improvement. A player hones multiple skills by playing competitive matches against opponents with like ratings. Winning tough, competitive matches will give the player confidence in future matches. Learning how to win, especially close matches, and learning why a match was won or lost are critically important skills. The player may have to make adjustments and change tactics in order to win a match. Properly evaluating the reasons behind a win or a “winnable loss” in a competitive match is a tool that will better serve the player’s future development than evaluating a loss against an opponent who vastly outclasses the player. Playing only opponents rated 250 points or more above a player’s rating does not simulate competitive match play. Because the player is not expected to win and may be hoping to gain a rare upset, the player may not approach the match in the same way they would against an opponent of similar level. The prospects of a low rated player winning matches in higher rated events are usually not good, hence the player’s tournament experience may consist mostly of losing. Coming close to winning a game (or match) against a much higher rated player is not the same as winning a competitive match against a similarly rated opponent. The much higher rated opponent may be treating the duel as a warm up match, conserving energy and using the player to set up shots they want to practice for later matches against more challenging opponents. The lower rated player is neither dictating the action nor likely to even see the opponents real game. As an example, consider the following scenario. Let’s say a player with a rating of 1680 decides to go to a tournament offering the following events: U1100, U1300, U1500, U1700, U1900, U2100, U2300, and “Open” singles events. The player enters only the U2100, U2300, and Open events. Because this tournament will have competitive 2000+ and 2200+ opponents, the chances that the player will advance out of an initial round robin group are slim. The player is likely to run into other like-minded and similarly-rated players where they will have to engage in a competitive match. What does the player learn from these matches that can be applied to future individual development and tournament competitions? Basically, not much. Few of their matches will be competitive. Against much higher rated opponents, the player may not actually

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So about a month ago I posted a video of me being interviewed on the Steve Harvey show for the launching of my website whoiswallygreen.com. As I was reading through the comments (as I usually do), I noticed one comment in particular. The comment noted how good it was, but stated that I should have used the phrase “table tennis” and not “ping pong”. It went on to say how ping pong is used in a derogatory way, conjuring up images of social/casual table tennis as opposed to the sport he loves blah blah blah blah -- and not to mention the countless number of players who actually get angry when someone calls it that. In my opinion I think its hilarious! All of you who do know me know how much I love the sport and want to see table tennis become a mainstream sport such as basketball or baseball. My life IS table tennis, ping pong, whiff waff, or whatever you want to call it. And my goal in this sport is to make it kool, popular and make it possible for players to make lots of money! Now honestly, does anyone really think the phrase “table tennis” is real kool and inviting? Just try to step outside of the box for minute and really think about this. Of course

to the players it is but do you really think it is to people who dont know anything about this sport? I would say definitely not! Try it yourself. Go around and ask people who don’t play the sport what’s a better phrase for them and see what they tell you. I guarantee 90% if not more will say ping pong, and remember these are the same people we desperately need to help this sport grow! Of course some of you will say “No, ping pong is what you play in the basement!” ...Yada yada yada. Says who?? Who made this rule that ping pong is played only in the basement, a hobby sport, or that its not the real sport table tennis is? The best players in the world call it Ping Pong! I have never heard anyone in China call it table tennis. I am good friends with a few players who have even been on the Chinese National Team and never once in a conversation

did I hear them use the phrase table tennis - and this is coming from the best in the world by far! Not to mention table tennis is terrible name from a marketing perspective to make it popular. How many movies have you seen that used “table tennis” in the title? Answer....ZERO. If it was such a great name for the sport it would be used universally, and its not. One of the biggest historical events in this country is called “Ping Pong” Diplomacy! (Not table tennis diplomacy.) So instead of focusing so much energy getting angry when people call it ping pong just show them what its all about. Ping Pong, Table Tennis, Whiff Whaf, Gossamer, Flim Flam....whatever... It all stands for same great sport we love so much. No matter what the name is, if its marketed and presented in the right way people will love it just as much as we do.

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