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2003 World Championships

Paris, France • May 19-25, 2003

Team USA Results

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Main Singles Draws

USA Women Tawny Banh, Lily Yip and Simone Yang have all advanced into the Main Singles draw of 128 players, joining Chang Jun Gao, who was seeded out of the preliminaries. None of the USA Men advanced, although three of the five finished second. (Preliminary results are at bottom of page.)

Round of 128 (Main Women's Singles Draw):

Chang Jun Gao d. Zeina Shaban (JOR), -10,6,8,5,4.
Lily Yip (USA) d. World #68 Tatyana Kostromina (BLR), 9,-2,5,7,-5,9.
Lu Yun-Feng (TPE) d. Tawny Banh (USA), 6,8,6,11.
Li Chunli (NZL) d. Simone Yang (USA), 5,2,7,9.

Round of 64

Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. Svetlana Ganina (RUS), 2,7,6,8.
Jie Schoepp (GER) d. Lily Yip (USA), 3,5,9,7.

Round of 32

Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. Elke Wosik (GER), -9,8,5,9,-5,-8,4.

Round of 16

Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. KIM Kyung Ah (KOR),9,8,2,5.

Quarterfinals

Tamara Boros (CRO) d. Chang Jun Gao (USA), -9,1,-9,11,7,-2,6. (Key points: Gao led 10-9 in the fourth, threatening to go up 3-1, but lost 13-11.)

Doubles

Women's Doubles

First Round:

Chang Jun Gao/Jasna Reed (USA) - Bye
Chris Xu/Marie-Christine Roussy (CAN) d. Tawny Banh/Lily Yip (USA), -12,10,-4,7,6

Second Round:

defeated Anastasiya Koutsova/Elena Brus (UKR), 4,8,9,8.

Third Round:

Tatyana Logatzkaya/Veronika Pavlovich (BLR) d. Chang Jun Gao/Jasna Reed (USA), -5,-5,7,10,4,7.

Men's Doubles

First Round:

David Zhuang/Mark Hazinski (USA) d. Todor Kessov/Kiril Popov (BUL), 12,8,3
Bojan Tikic/Gregor Komac (SLO) d. Eric Owens/De Tran (USA), 7,-10,4,5

Second Round:

David Zhuang/Mark Hazinski (USA) d. Dukhail Al-Habashi/Ali Al-Kondrai, 5,7,4

Third Round (First Round of Main Draw):

David Zhuang/Mark Hazinski (USA) defaulted to Ma Lin/Qin Zhijian (CHN). (David is sick.)

Mixed Doubles

First Round:

David Zhuang/Chang Jun Gao (USA) - Bye
De Tran/Lily Yip (USA) d. Damien Lynch/Tara Fusco (IRL), 9,8,4
Darko Rop/Simone Yang (USA) d. Gerardo Sanchez/Guadalupe Gomez-Sanchez (PER), 4,7,7
Andrei Filimon/Nathalia Vioculescu (ROM) d. Eric Owens/Jasna Reed (USA), 4,6,8
Wang Yu/Simone Spinicchia (ITA) d. Mark Hazinski/Tawny Banh (USA), 6,4,11

Second Round:

David Zhuang/Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. Shane Laugesen/Karen Li (IRL), 8,5,9
Yevhen Prishchepa/Anastaysia Koutsova (UKR) d. Rop/Yang (USA), 8,4,2
Gregor Komac/Biljana Todorovic (SLO) d. Tran/Yip (USA), 11,6,-4,5

Third Round:

David Zhuang/Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. Fabio Andreoli/Wenling Tan Monfardini (ITL), 5,4,-7,8

Fourth Round (First Round of Main Draw):

David Zhuang/Chang Jun Gao (USA) d. Toshio Tasaki/Ai Fujinuma (JPN), 9,9,10,20 (!)

Fifth Round (round of 32)

David Zhuang/Chang Jun Gao (USA) defaulted to Pazsy/Molnar (HUN). (David is sick.)

Preliminaries

The Preliminaries will be played May 19-20, 2003. One player advances from each group to the Main Draw. Rankings are as of May 1, 2003. (The world rankings have 840 men, 581 women.) Chang Jun Gao was seeded out of the preliminaries, based on her world ranking, and so is not in the Preliminaries.

Men's Singles Preliminaries - Team USA
Group	World Ranking	Name/Country
32			Zhuang	Kazeem	Giardina		Record	Place
	153	David Zhuang (USA)		L Def.	L 1-4		0-2	3
	231	Nosiru Kazeem (NGR)	W Def.		L 0-4		1-1	2
	--	Umberto Giardina (ITA)	W 9,8,-4,6,7	W 7,8,9,10			2-0	1

81			Hazinski	Bazenov	Corbin		Record	Place
	494	Mark Hazinski (USA)		L 3-4	W 8,0,9,4		1-1	2
	313	Valentin Bazenov (SVK)	W 13,-12,-11,6,9,-7,6		W 6,-9,7,2,7		2-0	1
	--	Anthony Corbin (TRI)	L 0-4	L 1-4			0-2	3

85			Owens	Schreiber	Dvugai		Record	Place
	334	Eric Owens (USA)		L 2-4	W 5,8,8,2		1-1	2
	472	Marc Schreiber (SUI)	W -9,-9,9,9,8,8		W 6,3,5,2		2-0	1
	--	Alexsandr Dvugai (UZB)	L 0-4	L 0-4			0-2	3

86			Tran	Hanashiro	Silva		Record	Place
	--	De Tran (USA)		L 2-4	L 1-4		0-2	3
	335	Hugo Hanashiro (BRA)	W -5,7,11,-12,6,6		W 8,12,-13,-11-9,6,4		2-0	1
	465	Artur Silva (POR)	W -7,9,5,12,8	L 3-4			1-1	2

87			Rop	Al-Hammadi	Ronquill		Record	Place
	--	Darko Rop (USA)		L 3-4	W -9,9,-10,15,8,3		1-1	2
	342	Hamad Al-Hammadi (QAT)	W 6,9,-8,-6,9,-11,4		W 4,-9,-10,5,8,7		2-0	1
	447	Guillermo Munoz Ronquill (MEX)	L 2-4	L 2-4			0-2	3

Women's Singles Preliminaries - Team USA
Group	World Ranking	Name/Country
18			Banh	Guanchez	Pouelet		Record	Place
	162	Tawny Banh (USA)		W 3,7,5,1	W def		2-0	1
	454	Mariana Guanchez (VEN)	L 0-4		W 2,1,1,3		1-1	2
	--	Berangine Pouelet (COG)	L def	L 0-4			0-2	3

14			Reed	Chiu	Iveljic		Record	Place
	155	Jasna Reed (USA)		L 2-4	W 9,-11,4,7,6		1-1	2
	476	Chiu Soo Jin (MAS)	W -8,6,1,6,-5,9		W 9,9,8,8		2-0	1
	474	Dragana Iveljic (BIH)	L 1-4	L 0-4			0-2	3

53			Yang	Tepes	Richmond		Record	Place
	270	Simone Yang (USA)		W 10,5,-3,6,-5,-0,7	W 2,8,4,7		2-0	1
	313	Sofija Tepes (CHI)	L 3-4		W 3,8,8,-10,3		1-1	2
	--	Melveen Richmond (TAH)	L 0-4	L 1-4			0-2	3

60			Yip	Ghosh	Vioculescu	Molik	Record	Place
	--	Lily Yip (USA)		L 2-4	W 8,4,11,8	W 7,0,3,4	2-1	1
	298	Mantu Ghosh (IND)	W 6,-5,-11,2,5,3		L 1-4	W -8,-4,7,4,-6,5,5	2-1	2
	--	Nathalia Vioculescu (ROM)	L 0-4	W 9,11,5,-7,7		W 2,9,7,6	2-1	3
	304	Patricja Molik (POL)	L 0-4	L 3-4	L 0-4		0-3	4