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