Winter 2015 Smash Table Tennis League Awards

Open
Sathyanarayana, Sayee (1554) Winner $211.25
Lawrence, Branden (1560) Runner up $126.75

Class B
Labell, Max (1336) Winner $169.00
Helonde, Swapnil (1243) Runner Up $84.50

Class C
Labell, Alex (953) Winner $169.00
Fisher, Keith (909) Runner Up $84.50

Smash Table Tennis to Host 2015 Table Tennis for World Police and Fire Games

Every 2 years 12,000 professional, public safety athletes from 70 countries compete in 60+ sports to qualify for over 1,600 medal sporting events. The event moves from country to county. The 2015 games is being held in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. Smash Table Tennis in Sterling, Virginia, owned by ex-pat & former UK national league and county player Michael Levene will be host the table tennis! Information about the games can be found at http://fairfax2015.com/

Smash Table Tennis which opened in January 2015 is a place where both keen amateur and recreational players can gather in a social environment and participate in the sport of table-tennis. Our center provides best facilities, coaching programs and value for money suitable for beginners, intermediate to advanced players.

22nd March 2015 – 33 players participated in this weekends first ever USA Table Tennis sanctioned event at Smash Table Tennis in Sterling, Virginia. Players were initially placed into group of 3 to determine their bracket for the main championships.

The youngest player was Tiffany Ke from Maryland aged 10 and oldest was Tom Norwood from Virginia aged 72. Competitive table tennis is a sport you can play and enjoy at any age.

Tiffany Ke, Aged 10 from Maryland. Competing in the Open division

Results

In a the division C final Michael McCormack came back from 2 games to 1 down to defeat local club member Ajay Rajani 7-11, 11-8, 13-15, 11-8, 11-6. In another hard fought match, Gordon Lee defeated 13 year old Max Labell in four sets to win the division B final 11-8, 9-11, 11-8, 11-6. All four finalist received a trophy, XIOM paddle, XIOM paddle case and XIOM ball holder.

The top 4 seeds contested the semi-finals for the open event. In the first semi-final and a battle of fast forehands, Bojun Zhangliang defeated Allen Lin 4-1. At one game all and with Allen leading 7-3 Bojun stepped up his game to come back and take the game 11-8 and then next 2 games 11-6, 11-7. The second semi-final between Toby Kutler and Nam Nguyen saw 4th seed Toby defeat Nam 4-0. Toby had defeated the top seed Bojun in the group stage and was simply on fire in this encounter. With Toby serving and looping consistently from both backhand and forehand, Nam was unable to find his typical form and timing which allows him to crush heavy topspin balls.

In the final Bojun put on a brilliant display of power speed looping. There were some excellent fast paced rallies between the 2 finalists but in the end Bojun was able to elevate his game for the final and avenge his group defeat by Toby and take home the trophy and prize money.

Open Champion – Bryan Zhang
Open Runner Up – Toby Kutler
Open Semi-Finalists – Nam Nguyen and Allen Lin

Class B Winner – Gorden Lee
Class B Runner Up – Max Labell

Class C Winner – Michael McCormack
Class C Runner Up – Ajay Rajani

Open Winner Bojun Zhangliang with Smash Table Tennis club owner Michael Levene

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Open Champion – Bryan Zhang
Open Runner Up – Toby Kutler
Open Semi-Finalists – Nam Nguyen and Allen Lin

Class B Winner – Gorden Lee
Class B Runner Up – Max Labell

Class C Winner – Michael McCormack
Class C Runner Up – Ajay Rajani

5 space left in the XIOM Spring 2015 round robin at Smash Table Tennis in Sterling, Virginia tomorrow. The top 8 entries have ratings from 1944 up to 2287

Who is going to take home the trophies and prize money this weekend?

Event details are here

Still plenty of time to enter our rated Spring Round Robin event on 22nd March 2015 in Sterling, VA. We are accepting scanned entries accompanied by payment through PayPal

More information can be found here

Will be at center at 2.30pm tomorrow – all children out of school tomorrow (cancelled due to recent snow) can come for free open play until 7.00 pm

We will be replacing all balls at the club in the next few days with the iPong Poly Pro balls. These are rebranded XUSHAOFA Sports balls; the balls we will be using in our upcoming XIOM Round Robin event on 22nd March 2015.

****Closed today due to weather****

Expecting 12 inches of snow today and looking out window most of it is falling now – I will make a determination by 4pm if the club will open today or remain closed due to weather conditions.