$92,000 U.S. Open 
& ITTF Pro Tour
Fort Lauderdale, Florida • July 3-8, 2001

STAFF & SPONSOR LISTING

USA Table Tennis President

Sheri Soderberg Pittman

U.S. Open Tournament Director

Wayne Johnson

ITTF Pro Tour Tournament Director

Azmy Ibrahim

ITTF Pro Tour Deputy Tournament Director

Allen Watson

Tournament Evaluation Director

Jimmy McClure

ITTF Representatives

Adham Sharara, President

Zlatko Cordas, Competition Manager

Anders Thunström, Marketing Director

Peter Jenson, ITTF Media Relations

Cherif Hajem,

ITTF Continental Vice President of Africa

Miguel Angel Delgado,

ITTF Vice President of Latin America

Sheri Pittman, ITTF Continental

Vice President of North America

Facilities Director

Chris Burner

Media and Public Relations

Dave Williams, Alan Williams 

Program Book Editors

Debbie Doney, Larry Hodges

Editor & Co-webmaster, USA Table Tennis Magazine

 Larry Hodges

U. S. Open Computer Operations Director

Marilyn Miller

ITTF Pro Tour Director of Operations

Norm Chouinard 

International Delegation Liaisons

Houshang Bozorgadeh, Ross Brown, Richard Lee, Allen Watson, Alan Williams, Peng Xin

Announcer

Richard McAfee

Chair, Disabled Athletes Committee

Sharon Brooks

Event Manager

Margaret Smith

Florida Sports Foundation Representative

Mike Sophia 

USATT Headquarters Staff

USA Table Tennis Acting Executive Director

Dwight Johnson

Director of Operations

Margaret Smith

Director of Programs

Debbie Doney

Financial Manager

Al Prast

Ratings Coordinator

Tami Walker

Administrative Coordinator

Dawn Simon

Administrative Assistant

Kathy Stabler

Intern

 Connie Conover 

Operations

Operations Shift Leaders

Olga Feingold Kahan

Jim Wilson

Operations Staff

Carlos Barrientos

Adam Finkelstein

Carl Belnavis

Juan Escobedo

Terry Grega

Xin Johnson

Les Kasowski

Stan Kahan

Ann Kesler

Kam Kong

Herbert Lau

Sarah McAfee

Shawna McCann

Bob Sanders

Suzanna Sanders

Event Sponsors

ASTI

Butterfly

Florida Sports Foundation

Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward

County Convention Center

Marina Marriott Hotel

Nittaku

United Airlines

Suppliers

Budget Car Rental 

Exhibitors

ASTI

California Table Tennis

Kaus Photography

Martin-Kilpatrick

Paddle Palace

Rob’s Diamond Digital

& Fountain of Youth

Spin Technologies

Table Tennis International

Table Tennis Pioneers

T.G. Enterprises

Officials

U.S. Open Tournament Referee

Allen Barth 

U.S. Open Deputy Referee

Zhao Ming Yang

ITTF Pro Tour Tournament Referee

Aly Salam

ITTF Pro Tour Deputy Referees

Wendell Dillon (USA)

Nobuki Shirakawa (JPN)

N. American Championships Deputy Referee

Tony Shaw (CAN)

U.S. Open/ITTF Pro Tour Chief Umpire

Dick Evans 

U.S. Open/ITTF Pro Tour Assistant Chief Umpire

Peter Chamberlain 

USA Umpires

Irina Borisova

Waheed Ekunman

Valeriy Elnatanov

Yuriy Elnatanov

Anisim Estrin

Grady Gordon

Joseph Helfand

Yelena Karshtedt

Larry Kesler

Paul Kovac

Joseph Lee

Cindy Marcum

Tom Miller

Erdogan Ozel

Roman Tinyszin

Paul Vancura

Chris Williams

Joseph Yick

Visiting Umpires

Rigoberto Martina (AHO)

Oscar van der Biest (AHO)

Doug Luckraft (AUS)

Ruth Singer (AUS)

Angelo Tabone (AUS)

Lai Kong (CAN)

Delano Lai Fatt (CAN)

Tony Shaw (CAN)

Bill Moran (ENG)

Wilfried Schumacher (GER)

Nagako Tamura (JPN)

Akiko Munezawa (JPN)

Etsuko Kurata (JPN)

Teruko Yoshida (JPN)

Nobuko Sekiguchi (JPN)

Hiroko Hanaki (JPN)

Yoshie Shibata (JPN)

Yaeko Wakabayashi (JPN)

Keiko Shibata (JPN)

Tokuko Ashida (JPN)

Kazuko Takesue (JPN

Kayoko Kikuchi (JPN)

Akiko Nozu (JPN)

Akiko Kamiya (JPN)

Hiroko Kida (JPN)

Atsuko Miyazaki (JPN)

Takashi Kudo (JPN)

Wataru Nagai (JPN)

Mizuo Ono (JPN)

Kiyoshi Doi (JPN)

Junko Ishikawa (JPN)

Natsumi Shimbori (JPN)

Malik Atta Mohammad (PAK)

THANK YOU!

Thanks to all of the volunteers who provided invaluable work and unfailing support. Without you, the 2001 U.S. Open/ITTF Pro Tour would not exist.

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