Liha Exhibition in Bay Area

(Liha presentation at the US Open)

After a successful Liha event at the U.S. Open in Grand Rapids, Peter Cua is taking the Liha tour through California, with stops at Balboa Park, El Monte, and ending up in the Bay Area. San Francisco is his last stop before heading back to Manila.

The plan is for Peter and fellow Lihador Andy Abad to demonstrate Liha and its rules to us, and then we will all have plenty of time to experience Liha in its true traditional and cultural form.

Peter also has a video that he hopes to show us which assembles a mix of liha topics with rare modern training footage that is sure to interest both classic and modern table tennis players.

If you like hardbat, you'll love Liha!

For questions or directions, please contact me:
Scott Gordon, 916-978-0117, sgordon@hardbat.com

• Where: ICC, 1453 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035
• When: 7PM 7/30/2010
• Who: Peter and Lihador Andy Abad
• Cost: free of charge

2010 US Open Team ICC Winners

Gold Medal:

• Tian Meng: U 21 Women's singles
• Krish Avvari: U 11 Boys singles
• Chu Isabel: U 2100 Women's singles
• Zhang Lily: NAC Junior Girls Singles
• Hsing Ariel: NAC Cadet Girls singles

Silver Medal:

• Ariel Hsing: U 21 Women's singles
• Chodri Kunal: U 13 Boys singles
• Sung Jia Yu (Trinity): U 9 Girls singles
• Lily Zhang: NAC Women's singles
• Chodri Kunal: U 11 Boys singles
• Ariel Hsing: NAC Junior Girls singles
• Kashyap Anal: U 2600 rating

Bronze Medal:

• Lily Zhang: U 21 Women's singles
• Aashay Patel: U 13 Boys singles
• Lily Zhang: NAC Cadet Girls singles

Jiaqi Zheng

Bay Area player Zheng Jiaqi did very well. She repeated her quarter-final appearance in Women's Singles. Also will play the Women's Doubles in semi-final later today. (Teams with Mai Ge Jie from LA area)

U21 Women's Singles at the 2010 US Open

• Winner: Maggie Tian
• Runner-up: Ariel Hsing
• Semi-finalist: Lily Zhang

They could have played at ICC.:-)

2010 Volkswagen China vs World Team Challenge

(left to right) Yang Ha Eun (Korea), Leonardo Mutti (Italy), Leszek Kucharski (Poland - Coach), Kim Min Seok (Korea), Ariel Hsing (U.S.A).
Photo by Judit Farago

Full article:
http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=21404&Competition_ID=1966&

Draw and Result for the US Open Warmup Event

• Over 2000
• Preliminary Round Robin
  
• Main Draw (Single elimination up to semi-final. Final 4 will play the final round robin.)
• Final Round Robin
  
• Under 2000
• Preliminary Round Robin
• Main Draw (Single elimination only)

Top two finishers will advance from each preliminary group.

The Over 2000 final round robin will start at around 7:30 PM.

Special 2010 US Open Warmup Event

ICC will have a special event this Saturday. It provides a nice warmup opportunity for players who play in the coming US Open in Michigan. Actually, good for everyone, too. Limited number of entries. Advanced reservation is required. It is NOT USATT sanctioned. (No rating exchange)

• Where: ICC, 1453 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035
• When: 4:30 PM Saturday 6/26, 2010 (Check-in at 4 PM)
  
• Events: Over 2000 and Under 2000 (Most recently tournament rating will be used)
• Format: 3 or 4-way RR to single elimination
  
• Prize:
• Over 2000: 1st $500, 2nd $100, semi-finalists $50
  
• Under 2000: 1st four sheets of rubber of your choice in the ICC store, 2nd two sheets of rubber, semi-finalists one sheet of rubber
  
• Entry Fee: $25 per event. Either pay by Paypal or in person at ICC.
• Deadline: Friday 6/25. No snail mail entry will be accept. Either enter by email (bay_tt@yahoo. com) or pay in person at ICC.
  
• Entry Received page Get you spot quickly. Over 2000 event is half full!

Sorry there will be no open plan after 4 PM on Saturday this week.

ICC Tournament Winners

(Jerome Poon, Jitendra Gidla, Rajul Sheth, Zaman Molla, Bruce Liu)

• July 2007 (110 players) - 1st Jiaqi Zheng, 2nd James Guo
  
• December 2008 (164 players) - 1st Jitentra Gidla, 2nd Fan Chao
  
• March 2009 (148 players) - 1st Siliang Wang, 2nd Hailong Shen
  
• May 2009 (150 players) - 1st Thilina Piyadasa, 2nd Hailong Shen
  
• December 2009 (234 players) - 1st Li Hu, 2nd Zhu Wen Tao
  
• February 2010 (169 players) - 1st Liu Xibo, 2nd Jitendra Gidla
  
• May 2010 (238 players) - Jitendra Gidla (The only player won the tournament twice!)
  
• Photos by Pradipta
• Photos by Sammy Chu
• Photos by Long C. Nguyen
  

Guess Who's in the Video