2000 USA Nationals

2000 USA Table Tennis Nationals
Sunday, December 17

Las Vegas, Nevada
December 13-17, 2000
By Larry Hodges

Day Five: Sunday, December 17, 2000

Right, L-R: Adam Hugh, Lily Yip, Judy Hugh and Barry Dattel: This New Jersey family won a lot of hardware! First places in Boys' Primary School Singles (Adam), Under 2200 (Adam), Under 4200 Doubles (Adam), Girls' Primary School Singles (Judy), and Bobbie Gusikoff Hardbat Benefit (Lily). Second places in Hardbat Singles (Lily) and Over 40 Men's Singles (Barry). Semifinals in Women's Singles (Lily), Women's Doubles (Lily & Judy) and Mixed Doubles (Lily & Adam). Quarterfinals in Men's Doubles (Barry & Adam), Mixed Doubles (Barry & Judy) and Junior High School Doubles (Judy). Photo copyright 2000 by kausphoto.com

Here are today’s events – all 66 events are now complete!

Boys’ High School Singles

David Umel Jr. defeated Vincent Cheng in the final, 13 & 17.

Boys’ Junior High School Singles

Top-seeded Mark Hazinski won this event pretty easily, defeating Howard Lamb (who had received a default from second-seeded Han Xiao, who had to catch a flight back to Maryland) at 17 & 12.

Boys’ Primary School Singles

Adam Hugh won his third title here, and the three events were a wide-ranging trio. He’d already won Under 2200 and Under 4200 Doubles; here he defeated Mikhail Kazantsev in the final, 14,-18,10. He and the rest of his family – Lily Yip, Barry Dattel and Judy Hugh – would be taking home quite a stack of hardware back to New Jersey!

Boys’ Elementary School Singles

Marcus Jackson won his first (of many?) national title, defeating Brian Lam in the final, 19 & 19. Lam had defeated one of Marcus’ practice partners in the semifinals, Kevin Ma, in a 22 & 18 battle. Marcus battled both his opponents and a stomachache that left him nearly incapacitated at times – but not in this event. In the final, he said he served no-spin serves, and if Lam pushed it, he looped; if he rolled them, he tried to smash.

Girls’ High School Singles

Olympian Michelle Do, after struggling for the first two games, finally got back into Olympian form, winning the final over Emily Ping, 21,-13,8.

Girls’ Junior High School Singles

Jackie Lee, who had already won Under 22 Women, added this event to her trophy case, defeating Whitney Ping in the final, -15,18,12.

Girls’ Primary School Singles

Judy Hugh, whose brother Adam had won Boys’ Primary School Singles, matched him and did her share to add hardware to the family trove here. She defeated Atha Fong in the final in a nail-biting two games, 21 & 22.

Girls’ Elementary School Singles

In the championship round robin, Amy Huang came in first, defeating Amanda Kazemi and Adrian Lam in straight games. Kazemi came in second.

Boys’ Junior High School Doubles

Mark Hazinski and Howard Lamb, who had played in the Junior High School Singles final (see above) dominated the event, winning the final over Auria Malek and Vadim Sherman.

Girls’ High School Doubles

Michelle Do and Whitney Ping won the final over Jackie Lee and Allison Seibel, 19 & 7, giving Michelle a clean sweep in the high school events, and a first place trophy for Whitney to go with her finalist trophy in Junior High School Singles.

Over 40 Men’s Doubles

Dave Sakai had already won Over 50 Doubles; he now added this doubles title – with a little help from partner Cheng Yinghua. They defeated Voltaire Trillo and Masaru Hashimoto in the final, 15 & 13.

Under 1900

Miguel Salcido defeated Joseph Podvin in the final, -19,15,15. Salcido’s toughest match was probably his quarterfinal match where he defeated Eric Stamp, 15,-20,19.

Under 1900 Women

Elaine Kwok, 15, flew 3000 miles from Maryland, and won this event without losing a game. In the final she defeated Lena Maria Conlan, 17 & 15. (This event actually finished on Friday, but was left out before.)

Under 1700

Jesus Sanchez defeated 11-year-old Sergy Gutkin in the final, -13,16,14. Sergy had been down 17-14 in the third in the semifinals against Steve Archambo, but won the last seven!

Under 1600/Over 40

David De May had lost to Dan Bryan, 19 in the third, in the quarterfinals of Under 1600 – and Bryan had gone on to win the event. The two met again here – but this time De May won, 20 & 12.

Under 1100 and Under 1200 (and U1000!)

Roscoe Lock had already won Under 1000. Today, he added Under 1100 and Under 1200 to his growing trophy collection! He joked that he owed much of this success to "A lot of Gatorade." However, on a more serious note, he said he owed it to the encouragement from a very good friend and table tennis enthusiast, Amy Wong, who had passed away two months ago. "She could have won the Under 1100 event," Lock said. "I did it for her."

In the Under 1100 final Lock defeated Wilem Jabbour, 18 & 20. In the Under 1200 event, he defeated Henry Taucher in the final, 9 & 12. In the semifinals of Under 1200, there was a small controversy when Taucher’s opponent, Karen Phung, was faulted five times in a row on her serve (and several more times later on), and Taucher won at 14 & 11. Phung’s coach, Masaaki Tajima, was not pleased.

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