U4200 Doubles: 1st place – Disney Ryait  & Hrach Javadian Men’s 75+ Doubles: 1st place – Ragnar Fahlstrom & Martin Theil Men’s 75+ Doubles: 2nd place – Kamal Parikh & Ritchie Griffith U3200 Doubles: 1st place – Bob Koch & Sean House U1800: 2nd place – Sean House U1700: 2nd place – Sean House U1700 Sandpaper – 1st place – Sean House For a full list of results, click here.

The San Diego contingency, that travelled to Las Vegas for the U.S. Open, had a great showing and should be proud of their results. There were around 1,100 participants and San Diego was represented very well. Below is the list of the top results. Congratulations to all!! Para 8-10 Open RR     1^st Place    Tahl Leibovitz    //  2^nd Place    Vinh Vuong Under 1800 sandpaper RR            1^st Place     Sean House Under 1250 O18 Super RR            1^st Place     Bob Koch Full results: 2015 U.S. Open Results

We had a great and very successful tournament on Saturday. Our team included David Flores, Ragu, Chip, Behnam, Bob, Kia, James, Vladimir, Danny, John, Kasra, Suzan, Sahil. We played against Baja and Sorrento teams. All players  showed their skills and sportsmanship in these games. These games will help create new friendships and momentum for better Table Tennis.  I’d like to thank the Sorrento club and Baja team for bringing their players to our club to play. I hope we can arrange for more tournaments in the future. I also like to thank all the people who came early to help set up the tables and barriers. My special thanks goes to Baja coaches Roberto and Juan for running our tournament. Without all the volunteer’s  help we would not have been able to make it. If you like to play in future tournaments please let me know. Behnam Kazemi

Here’s some footage from the semi-final match (in the highest rated event) at the Hunstman 2014 tournament: Ray Mack vs Karl Assenmacher

The San Diego team had a great  day at Joseph Bae’s Open Tournament  of  5/10/2014! U2000 Kiet  Tran – 1st place U1850 Carlos Pedro – 1st place U1700 Behnam Kazemi – 2nd place U1600 Santhoshkumar Srinivasan – 2nd place U3700 Doubles RR Sherwin Afshar/BehnamKazemi – 2nd place   Behnam Kazemi SDTTA Board

Womens RR 1st – Brana Vlasic Under 2050 RR 2nd – Ketthong Pisa Under 1900 RR 1st – Ted Chensheng Li 2nd – Carlos Pedro Under 1800 RR 1st – Daryl Sterling, Jr. 2nd – Philip Van De Wiele Under 1450 RR 1st – Shelley A. Hardy Team Event – Under 6300 3rd place David Flores, Satish Krishnamoorthy, James Therriault Under 3800 Doubles David Flores / Behnam Kazemi Over 60 RR 1st – Behnam Kazemi Over 70 RR 1st – Ragnar E. Fahlstrom 2nd – John A Anderson Draw Doubles 1st – Behnam Kazemi / Maxwell Yao 2nd – Emilian Mihet / Alena Nikolskaya

We had a great day of high level matches between our three clubs — Balboa, Sorrento and Baja.  Each team, composed of 5 two-man groups, played their counterparts.  The competition was superb.  Baja won with a total of 45 match wins, followed by San Diego with 32 and Sorrento with 27.  I like to thank board members and volunteers and especially Juan and Roberto who  helped  make the tournament a great success. We ran over 100 matches (each player played up to 8 matches)  on  up to 12 tables from 10-3 with no issues. But I think the results are secondary behind promoting the camaraderie  among this table tennis fraternity. Here’s who played for SDTTA:

• Davy Umel jr.      2300+
• Mike Lardon        2100+
• Emilian Mihet     2100+
• Koji Kido              2100+
• Ray Naanos         2100+
• Chip Yang             2000+
• Pisa Ketthong      2000+
• Satish Krisna…    2000+
• Benham Kazemi 1800+
• Bill Chang              1700+
• James Kahn          1600+

We plan to continue our “Friendship Matches” and Baja has invited us to their club to compete in Ensenada on February 8, 2014.  If you are of reasonably strong playing ability and want to go please tell me and I will form our next team.  They have proven  to be a very gracious host to us in Mexico.   James Kahn, President SDTTA