Alameda Tournament - 2nd Result and Photos

Sunday Winners -

Under 18 - Chu, Nathaniel
Over 40 - Au, Kevin Duong
Open Doubles - A.Kashyap/D.Kurimay
UNDER 1600 - Chu, Nathaniel
UNDER 1300 - So, Preston
Open Singles - Zheng, Jiaqi

Victor Shone in the Alameda Tournament

(Victor Liu and Coach Tang GaoLin)

• Winner in U500
• Semi-finalist in Under 10
  
• Semi-finalist in U900

$100,000 Hardbat Classic 8/27 on ESPN

Thanks to Dennis Davis to discover this clip.

How many local players you recognize?

I heard a rumor the prize for the next year will be even crazier! Sign up for the coming Hardbat Clinic near you!:-)

Northern California Players 2009 US Open Report Card

(Pingali family)

Incredible result!

• Sorted by the last name

• Sorted by the rating change - Gained 4969 points altogether!

• sorted by the post tournament rating

Let me know if I missed any one.

* Including players from the visiting India Cadet and Junior teams

2009 US Open Day 3

(Prachi Jha and Kanak Jha)

(Diane Jiang)

(Michael Sung, Patrick Wu, Nelson Yu, Bruce Liu, Mark Johnson)

Bay Area Players:

• Buffet Open (The most prestigious event at the US Open)
  
• Bruce Liu tied with Mark Johnson - co-winners
  
• 6 buffets (Rio, Paris, Mirage, Hilton, Korean BBQ, and MGM)
• 3 buffets within the first 24 hours. Slowed down due to busy schedule during the tournament. Picked it up at the end!
  
• Men's Singles
  
• Zhang Weijian (Dojo) - quarter-finalist
• Women's Singles
  
• Zheng JiaQi (Dojo) - quarter- finalist
• Men's Doubles
• Stefan Feth (TTGold/TopSpin) - quarter-finalist (w/ Peter Franz)
  
• Women's Doubles
• Jackie Lee/Dora Kurimay (Alameda) - semi-finalist
  
• Zheng JiaQi (Dojo) - quarter-finalist (w/ Mai Gei Jie)
  
• U21 Men's Singles
• Zhang Weijian (Dojo) - finalist
  
• Mohit Verma (ICC, visiting from India) - semi-finalist
• Sourav Saha (ICC, visiting from India) - semi-finalist
• Hailong Shen (ICC) - quarter-finalist
• U21 Women's Singles
• Monika Batra (ICC, visiting from India) - finalist (upset top seed Zhang Mo)
• Ariel Hsing - semi-finalist
• Reeth T Rishya (ICC, visiting from India) - quarter-finalist
• Over 30 Men's Singles
  
• Shashin Shohdan (Fremont) - quarter-finalist
• Over 50 Men's Singles
• Horace Cheng (Tri-Valley) - 8's
  
• Mark Johnson (ICC) - 8's
  
• Over 65
• Hongzhi Chen (Palo Alto) - semi-finalist
• Over 40 Doubles
  
• Michael Sung (ICC)/Joey Hu (Palo Alto) - semi-finalists
• Junior Boys (5 out 8 quarter-finalists!)
  
• Sourav Saha (ICC, visiting from India) - 2nd
  
• Ramesh Venkatraman (ICC, visiting from India) - semi-finalist
  
• Vasanthphillips, Nitin (ICC, visiting from India) - winner
  
• Mohit Verma (ICC, visiting from India) - quarter-finalist
  
• Rajib Sarkar (ICC, visiting from India) - quarter-finalist
• Junior Girls (4 out 8 quarter-finalists!)
• Natalie Sun (TTGold) - winner
  
• Sumanna R. Krishnan (ICC, visiting from India) - semi-finalist
• Ariel Hsing - semi-finalist
• Varshali Prashade (ICC, visiting from India) - quarter-finalist
• Cadet Boys
• Rajib Sarkar (ICC) - either finalist or winner
• Cadet Girls (5 out 8 quarter-finalists!)
• T Reeth Rishya (ICC, visiting from India) - finalist
• Natalie Sun (TTGold) - semi-finalist
• Monika Batra (ICC, visiting from India) - quarter-finalsit
• Vivian Sun (Sunset TTC) - quarter-finalist
• Camila Sil (ICC, visiting from India) - quarter-finalist
• Boys Under 13
• David Zhen (Alameda) - quarter-finalist
• Arjun Desai (Sunset) - semi-finalist
• Girls Under 13 (5 out 8 quarter-finalists!)
• Prachi Jha (Palo Alto) - winner
• Erica Tran (Sunset) - finalist
• Vivian Sun (Sunset) - semi-finalist
• Isabelle Chu (TopSpin) - quarter-finalist
• Diane Jiang - quarter-finalist
• Boys Under 11
• Kanak Jha (Palo Alto) - semi-finalist
• Shivansh Singla (Sunset) - quarter-finalist
• Mathew Tran (Sunset) - quarter-finalist
• Girls Under 11
  
• Diane Jiang - winner
• Vidya Pingali (ICC) - quarter-finalist
• Hannah Tong (Dojo) - quarter-finalist
• Boys Under 9
• Kanak Jha (Palo Alto) - winner
• Howard Tong (Dojo) - semi-finalist
• U2600
• Trevor Runyan (Palo Alto) - quarter-finalist
• U2400
• Shashin Shodhan (Fremont) - winner
• Sean Lee - semi-finalist
  
• Arthur Breton (Alameda) - quarter-finalists
• U2200
• Brian Chen (Palo Alto) - 8's
• Barry Or (ICC) - 8's
• Nelson Yu (ICC) - 8's
• U2050
• Steven Li (ICC) - quarter-finalist
• Johnny Huang (Alameda) - quarter-finalist
• Patrick Wu (ICC) - quarter-finalist
  
• U1900
• David Zeng (Alameda) - quarter-finalist
• U1750
• Terrence Sun (Sunset) - winner
  
• Aarsh Shah (ICC) - 2nd
• Mathew Tran - quarter-finalist
• U1450
• Isabel Chu (TopSpin) - quarter-finalist
• Avinash Nayak (ICC) - quarter-finalist
• U1200
• Larry Yang (Palo Alto) - 2nd
• Avinash Nayak (ICC) - semi-finalist
• U1000
• Matt Moriguchi (Concord) - winner
  
• Srivatsav Tangirala (ICC) - semi-finalist
• Anthony Chu (TopSpin) - quarter-finalist
  
• U800
• Matt Moriguchi (Concord) - semi-finalist
• U4200 Doubles
• Terry Tam/Kenney Mock (SF) - winner
• Nelson Yu/Andrew Tung (ICC) - 2nd
• Michael Sung/Bruce Liu (ICC) - semi-finalist
  
• Hardbat RR
• Trevor Runyan (Palo Alto) - winner
  
• Freddie Gabriel (Alameda) - semi-finalist
  
• Hardbat Doubles
• Bruce Liu (ICC) - 2nd (w/ Larry Hodges)
  
• Hardbat Over 40 Singles
• Robert Palgon (ICC) - quarter-finalist
  
• Hardbat U2000 RR
• Mike Lee (Berkeley) - winner

Let me know if I missed any one.

You may go check it yourself at:
http://www.usatt.org/magazine/2009_Open/draws.htm

US Open Day 2 - Liang DengSheng vs. Chen Weixing

Men's Singles Open
Chen had a hard time playing against Liang!:-)

US Open Day 1 - Breaking News!

(Kenny Mock and Terry Tam)

(Andrew Tung and Nelson Yu)

(Kelly Tung)

Bay Area dominated the U4200 Doubles! Three out of four teams in the semi-final were from the Bay Area. Congratulations to Terry Tam and Kenny Mock who saved two match points in the fifth game in the final.

• U4200
• 1st Terry Tam/Kenny Mock
• 2nd Nelson Yu/Andrew Tung
• Semi-finalist Michael Sung/Bruce Liu, Justin Nguyen/Jasmine Nguyen
  

Your truly also made the final in the Hardbat Open Doubles.:-)