2015 Seattle Open August 22-23 4 Star Tournament

Thank you to Vince, Jerry, Jinlong, John Peng and all the others, who sacrifice the possibility to participate themselves in order to arrange an excellent tournament for us others to enjoy. All-in-all a great venue: excellent lighting; no drafts; good tables, nets and balls; sturdy floors providing good footing; good contrast; relatively little disturbing foot traffic, etc. Very good organization. The level of the players was very good, including at the very top. If you haven't yet, you should consider participating in next year's Seattle tournament !! 

fatt wrote: Thanks vince64 and all the team for a great time. A few cool wins a few bad losses...another great ping pong weekend. Congrats to the green lake kid in a wheelchair who was 2-0 in games and when I was ahead 9-6 in the last and 5th game he managed to win 13-11. I really wanted to win. Good job Eric you deserved it.

Sorry about your lost, but it's not easy to play against a person in wheelchair, as you may not used to the restriction imposed, and end up giving an easy ball.

Or we could give Goa Hao credit for great play.  I'll admit I didn't have high hopes for Hao mainly because he has no worthy practice partners.  If he was still fresh from China, then I would have called it an even match.  However, he showed great poise today and a lot of maturity in managing the match (and he had no coach, either).  If I knew how to reach his parents, I'd tell them they should be proud.

fatt wrote: Yes cmets. The general feel is that the us open champion was too tense. A knowledgeable player told me all he had to do was to manage but instead went for gold too often on a bad day...somebody else told he had vision problems...not sure what credit to give to those comments.

Edited by cmetsbeltran15 - 08/24/2015 at 1:09am

Hao Guo beat Jinxin Wang 4-1 in open singles final.

Next semifinal Hao Guo 2574 vs Eriic Zhao 2575

Up next is Milton Garcia 2444 vs Eric Zhao 2575

Quarter final match between Jinxin Wang vs Joe Law won by Jinxin Wang by default

Womens singles finals next match on the stream. Wenting Zha 2502 vs Bo Wang 2510

12 hours to till the matches start. We will be live streaming on both days starting at 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Saturday https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Lsag4NVU6I? autoplay=1&modestbranding=1" When it comes online Open Doubles matches will be going on. Matches will be going on all day. The plan is to play the finals of all events on table one if possible. I believe if you make it to a final your match should be on the main table no matter the level. Sunday 9-5 will be quarter finals of men singles starting at 10:00am https://www.youtube.com/embed/gCFI4jfqqtA?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1"   Also can be viewed at http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Events/2015/August/22/2015-Seattle-Open on the USATT website. Live Streaming will also be at Butterflyonline.com also. If I have time between my matches and overseeing the running of the tournament I will try let everyone know in advance of a event final.


Edited by Vince64 - 08/22/2015 at 1:35am

patrickhrdlicka wrote: and where is the current U2250 + U2400 US Open champ :)

He has to work on Saturday. He is part of the team from Japan that is repairing the Bertha drilling machine. Saturday's he works till 5pm.

patrickhrdlicka wrote: Is it just me, or are we missing some B.C Canadians ?? Also, there are at least two SPTTC juniors missing (A.B. and M.G)...I hope they participate !!

The Canadian nationals start the 25th. The spttc juniors went to a two week camp back east much to my protests.

Vince64 wrote: Just a update. Up to 135 players now. Entered players include the current U.S. Open champion Jinxin Wang, Hao Guo number one rated (2574) player from Oregon, Eric Zhao (2575) number one rated player from Washington state, Milton Garcia from Mexico. Still a couple of days left to enter.

(ง ͠ ͠° ل͜ °)ง Jinxin Wang gonna lose to Zhao or Hao (ง ͠ ͠° ل͜ °)ง

Just a update. Up to 135 players now. Entered players include the current U.S. Open champion Jinxin Wang, Hao Guo number one rated (2574) player from Oregon, Eric Zhao (2575) number one rated player from Washington state, Milton Garcia from Mexico. Still a couple of days left to enter.

patrickhrdlicka wrote: Hao but then no more...I want to remain one of the top 8 seeds in the open event  In all seriousness - I hope many more players will sign up for what promises to be a great tournament !!!

I think you will be out of luck on top eight wish. Lol. Two of the coaches from the club still have to enter and if some of the names I'm herring actually do enter it should be a good field. Are you driving over solo or bringing the family with you? We will be at the gym setting up starting about 1pm on Friday.