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2010 ICC Junior Team Trials

Four boys and four girls entered the trials. All of them will represent ICC Junior teams at the 2010 US Nationals. However, the trials would determine which team they will play in. In boys side, the top three finishers will form ICC Team 1 and the fourth will team with Aashay Patel and David Gong who couldn't make it to the trials in Team 2. (Aashay had a previous engagement while David lives in Atlanta.) In the girls side, the winner of the round robin will join Ariel Hsing and Lily Zhang to form the ICC Junior Team 1. Ariel and Lily are pre-qualified because of their world ranking. The rest of the girls will form Team 2.

In the boys round robin, there was only one upset, Krish (2175) who will turn 11 years old in December, lost to Shivi (2003) who just celebrated his 11th birthday in October. Shivi, apparently happy, almost seemed sorry to pull the upset from his buddy Krish. Both possess great touch and mid-distance rally capability. They wooed and wowed the spectators from the start to the end. They will rival with each other for a long long time.



A sidebar - Isabel and Diane had a busy week. Isabel burned some mid-night oil this week for her pre-SAT test and had to cancel her group training on Saturday. Diane finished first in a 5-K race in her school in her grade one day before the trials. She finished the race in 30 minutes!
Boys:
- Krish Avvari over Howard Tong 3-0 (11:6, 11:5, 11:5)
- Shivansh Kumar over Victor Liu 3-0 (11:8, 11:6, 11:7)
- Krish over Victor 3-1 (11:9, 12:10, 5:11, 11:5)
- Shivansh over Howard 3-0 (11:1, 12:10, 11:6)
- Victor over Howard 3-0 (11:6, 11:8, 15:13)
- Krish lost to Shivansh 1-3 (9:11, 12:14, 11:7, 10:12)
- Shivansh Kumar 3:0
- Krish Avvari 2:1
- Vcitor Liu 1:2
- Howard Tong 0:3
- Isabel Chu over Ishana Deb 3-0 (11:1, 11:5, 11:1)
- Diane Jiang lost to Hannah Tong 2-3 (8:11, 11:8, 11:2, 8:11, 9:11)
- Isabel over Hannah 3-1 (8:11, 11:5, 11:4, 11:9)
- Diane over Ishana 3-0 (11:5, 11:0, 11:7)
- Hannah lost to Ishana 0-3 (6:11, 7:11, 7:11)
- Isabel over Diane 3-2 (7:11, 12:14, 11:4, 11:3, 11:9)
- Isabel Chu 3:0
- Diane Jiang 1:2 (+2)
- Ishana Deb 1:2 (0)
- Hannah Tong 1:2 (-2)


ICC California State Open
(Open final Jitendra Gidla vs Zaman Molla. Commentated by Carl Danner.)
Number of entries are limited to ensure quality. Absolutely no more than 250 players. (Individual event cap also applies.) Do not miss the party! Free hotel for out-of-town players over 2350! (Advanced approval required.)
- Photos from the previous tournament in May
- Photos by Pradipta
- Photos by Sammy Chu
- Photos by Long C. Nguyen
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