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ocvillager 
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who are some top female players what already signed up for this tournament guy? For the men, it's sad to hear about Chuan Chin Yuan...
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roundrobin
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Posted: 08/25/2011 at 6:00pm |
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World #17 Shen Yanfei from Spain has entered and should be here. She will be hard to beat even for the top men in the Open Singles. Hopefully Uncle Sam won't deny her visa...
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ocvillager
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Posted: 08/25/2011 at 6:49pm |
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didn't i hear right that Zhang Zhining from wiscousin will be competing too or it was just rumor?
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Posted: 08/25/2011 at 7:25pm |
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I did not hear such rumor. I will get an updated list of entries tomorrow evening. |
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kenboi
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Posted: 08/25/2011 at 9:19pm |
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I never heard of Zhang Zhining. Do you mean Zhang Yining the retiree who just got married and who used to rank #1 in the world?
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itanium45
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Posted: 08/26/2011 at 8:04pm |
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Regarding about the entrance ticket, I will play on Sunday if I come in on Sat., do I need to buy ticket for Saturday? what's the general rule for registered players?
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kenboi
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Posted: 08/27/2011 at 1:49am |
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If you have a student ID card, you can buy the ticket at 1/2 price.
roundrobin, do you have the updated list of entries? |
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roundrobin
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Posted: 08/27/2011 at 2:08am |
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Not yet... I was supposed to get it tonight, but looks like it will be tomorrow afternoon instead. |
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roundrobin
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Posted: 08/27/2011 at 3:57am |
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Here's the list of Top-50 confirmed players in Open Singles (as of 08-26-11):
1. Yang Zi 2. Lin Ju 3. Shen Yan Fei 4. Pan Gang 5. Ilija Lupulesku 6. Zhou Xin 7. Wang Zhen 8. Andreas Ball 9. Pradeeban Peter-Paul 10. Damien Provost 11. Gao Jun 12. Gao Yanjun 13. Zeng Xun 14. Mark Hazinski 15. Richard Ciz 16. Rodel Valle 17. Zaman Molla 18. Timothy Wang 19. Barney Reed Jr. 20. Ernesto Ebuen Jr. 21. Liu Dan 22. Thilina Piyadasa 23. Yahao Zhang 24. Jeff Lin Huang 25. Wei Lai 26. Du Cheng Yi 27. Khoa Nguyen 28. Kazu Yokoyama 29. Ariel Hsing 30. Samson Dubina 31. Sara Hazinski 32. Ben Johnson 33. Truong Manh Tu 34. De Tran 35. Michael Hyatt 36. Cao Shen 37. Ma Chao 38. Ludovic Gombos 39. Earl James Alto 40. Henberd Ortalla 41. Justin Nguyen 42. Chance Friend 43. Philippe Dassonval (Yomango) 44. Trung Nguyen 45. David Umel Jr. 46. Jerica Marrero 47. Mark Croitoroo 49. Paul Puentespina 50. Diane Chen . . . . . . 57. Olivier Mader (Pushblocker) 58. Erica Wu Still a few days left to enter... |
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kenboi
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Posted: 08/27/2011 at 12:58pm |
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Wow!! the top 50 entries are fabulous. Lets hope there will be some more international players joining this great tounament. I will have fun watching them playing. Will they all play in 2 day sessions or some of the top players like Zang zi will only play on sunday?
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Posted: 08/27/2011 at 6:43pm |
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Richard Ciz can't possibly #15.. That has to be a mistake.. He is only mid 2300's..
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Posted: 08/27/2011 at 8:44pm |
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here's to making it hard for Yang Zi.
I hope there is tons of video. I'd be more excited to see these matches than anything from ittf I've seen in a while.
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Posted: 08/28/2011 at 4:56pm |
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I'm curious.. how many tables are there going to be? I saw photos of the venue, so I'm thinking 30 or so?
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Posted: 08/28/2011 at 5:31pm |
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To the organizers (and everybody else!):
We should really take advantage of this tournament and share the word with non players as well. This is a great chance to introduce people to what the sport really is, since we don't usually have this caliber of players in an LA tourney. I haven't really seen any advertising outside the TT world. Some radio ads on public radio would help, or at least trying to make it more viral. The website doesn't have the option to Share on Facebook, Twitter, etc. I just posted about the LA Open on my FB page, but I just realize the video on the main page doesn't work. It would be a good idea to fix this, so people curious about it can at least see some good clips. There's still one more week, lets try to spread the word!!!
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Posted: 08/28/2011 at 5:50pm |
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I can not believe the story with Chuan. The visitors will lost in this case. So bad, but the next time the organisers must be more active to help foreigner players to get visa on time. It is just a lesson.
Good lesson. Because Chuan is just incredible player, before time he was at 3rd position in WR. One of my favourites. Long time I played with Donic Waldner Dicon because he used this blade before to receive his BTY own name blade :) |
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kenboi
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Posted: 08/28/2011 at 6:09pm |
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I'm half disappointed because Chuan couldn't make it.
It's hard to spread words of ping pong to non ping pong players, esp. in the US. You don't see that many people watch a ping pong tournaments. Every time I go to watch a ping pong tournament I see the people I know. I hardly see any new faces. But, this one is worth a watch. I bought tickets for all my brothers to watch this one. I hope there are seats because we'll be watching all day long. BTW, most of the tickets are sold in the chinese bookstores. I wonder why? |
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 4:57am |
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I'm not sure if they already did it, but I'm sure they can get some of the american news channels to have some kind of story on this, as there is more prize money at this than the nationals or us open.
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 1:57pm |
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Could be that there is more than one Richard Ciz in this world :-)
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 2:22pm |
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I doubt it.. It's not really a common name.. He is a very good player but not in the 2500 - 2600 range.... Edited by Pushblocker - 08/29/2011 at 2:23pm |
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 3:21pm |
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Olivier, you are still coming to LATTA on Thursday night, correct? Duc and I can't wait to play you...
 Raymond Wang will be here too. (He changed to inverted on his forehand from hardbat, but still beat Zaman 3-0 in our recent round robin... My records against him after his change is 3-25 or so...  )
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kenboi
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 3:38pm |
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roundrobin, what's Raymond Wang's rating? I know Duc is around 2200, right?
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roundrobin
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 3:46pm |
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1802. It belongs to Ripley's Believe It or Not!  |
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 4:19pm |
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wow!! I thought he's at least 2000. But, then again, I've never watched him play. Can you beat Justin Nguyen? He has improved a lot over the year. |
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 4:58pm |
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Justin and I are fairly even in practice matches, but in round robins he beats me 4 out of 5 times. He's a very smart player. Edited by roundrobin - 08/29/2011 at 4:59pm |
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 5:02pm |
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i noticed Ilija Lupulesku is playing- i didn't even think he played anymore........
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 6:24pm |
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Lupi has no chanse to beat the younger fighters, IMHO :)
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 7:48pm |
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No, I don't think they did it, but it's a good idea. They should be interested since is the first time a tournament like this take place. |
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Unless my plane crashes or I'm getting sick before the trip... I will be there on Thursday.. What time is a good time to get there to find someone to play.. I remember that last time that I went there, at 5 PM, hardly any players were there.. So, maybe 6 PM is better?? I want to get a decent amount of matches as I haven't played too much lately due to my son's heart surgery 3 weeks ago. Only started practicing again about a week ago.. In the last month, I played a total of 3 times so far.. Not a whole lot.. I'm playing about mid 2100 level right now and not high 2200 level, but I hope that with some practice in LA, I'll get back to 2200 level.. Right now, I'm losing to players that I used to always beat... It's not that easy to come back from not playing for a few weeks, but I saw some improvements last Friday when I made it to the semi-final of a handicap tournament (1 point handicap for each 100 rating points with a 5 point maximum).. Won a close match against a 1850 player (who usually is mid 1900's but recently dropped). Had to spot him 4 points per game and still won 3:0.. Kept my nerves after being deuce in both, game 2 and 3... I can't wait to play Raymond.. I think that I have a better chance against him if he has inverted on one side.. I'm looking forward playing you and Duc.. What are you currently using? Still DtecS?
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 8:52pm |
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Raymond is definetely the beat 1800 player in the country without a doubt..
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Posted: 08/29/2011 at 9:06pm |
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Hi Olivier:
Most players go to LATTA after work, or even after dinner, so I'd say 6 to 10pm is by the far the best time at our club. I won't be able to get there before 7pm because of dreaded traffic from my direction, but Duc should be there by 6pm. After we play some, we should head to Gao Jun's place together around 9-9:30pm, so save some energy for more matches. Last week alone I used Talon, DtecS and Saviga V ox on various blades including Mat Pro Special, Defplay Senso, Bulldozer and Firewall Plus... My game is very confusing even to myself now, lol! Still, I managed to get some wins over pretty good players last week including Raymond, Duc and Justin at LATTA, so I guess I am still playing okay... |
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