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2002
U.S. Nationals
By Larry Hodges
Women's Round of 16
Michelle
Do. Photo by Gerry Chua, ©2002.
Seven of these eight matches were pretty straightforward:
Chang Jun Gao d. Allison Seibel, 6,2,31
Whitney Ping d. Mahin Roufeh, 10,6,4,6
Michelle Do d. Susan Erlich, 2,2,5,6
Lily Yip d. Moji Kuye, 4,6,7,9
Reed d. Wendy Eav, 8,4,6,-7,5
Jackie Lee d. Heather Wang, 5,6,5,6
Tawny Banh d. Melissa Vazquez, 4,0,4,5
The only contested match this round was U.S. Team Member Simone Yang (2329) vs. U.S. #3 junior girl Katherine Wu (2155). Nearly every point was a countering battle, with Wu pressing the attack most rallies, and Yang blocking and keeping the ball in play. The rallies were long and vicious, and every game was close. In the end, experience and sheer steadiness won out over speed and quickness, and Wang wins, 7,-8,7,-8,8,9.
The quarterfinal match-ups (to be played tonight) are as follows:
Chang Gao Jun vs. Whitney Ping
Michelle Do vs. Lily Yip
Jasna Reed vs. Jackie Lee
Simone Yang vs. Tawny Banh
Men's Round of 32
Adam
Hugh pulls off an upset. Photo by Diego Schaaf/Alphatabletennis.com,
©2002.
There were a number of wild matches in this round. If you looked away for a moment, you would miss quite a bit! The scores tell the stories, with the more interesting results in bold. In the end, with all the long battles, there were only two upsets: 2410-rated Adam Hugh's long battle over Sean Lonergan (2514), and 2247-rated Jared Lynch's incredible comeback (from down 0-3) against Young Ren (2316).
Ilija Lupulesku d. Barry Dattel, 6,3,5,4
Sean O'Neill d. J. Russell Hamilton, 6,4,4,3
Han Xiao d. Samson Dubina, -9,5,-7,-9,4,6,2
Courtney Roberts d. Tuan Le, 9,10,-8,-5,9,8
Todd Sweeris d. Tuan Tran, -10,3,6,8,8
Jared Lynch d. Young Ren, -6,-2,-6,7,9,9,6
Adam Hugh d. Sean Lonergan, 6,14,-10,-8,9,9
Eric Owens d. Randy Cohen, -9,3,6,4,9
David Zhuang d. Lee McCool, 6,5,3,5
Chi-Sun Chui d. Nison Aronov, 10,10,6,-10,9
Brian Pace d. De Tran, 7,-9,-10,6,6,-7,8
Khoa Nguyen d. Khaled Zeinelabedin, 8,7,-7,9,7
Jim Butler d. Attila Malek, 9,5,7,6
Mark Hazinski d. Auria Malek, 6,6,2,14
Ashu Jain d. Rudy Miranda, 3,-4,10,3,-9,5
Cheng Yinghua d. David Rosenzweig, 4,7,5,4
The round of 16 match-ups (to be played tonight) are from top to bottom above, i.e. Lupulesku vs. O'Neill, etc.
Under
2300 Champion Mark Nordby. Photo by Larry Hodges, ©2002.
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