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US Open Men's Singles

Preliminary Round Robin Results

Wednesday July 5, 2006, 12pm.

By: Richard McAfee,

The Men’s qualifying round robins are now finished. Twenty-four groups fought it out with the winners of each group advancing to the main draw of Men’s Open Singles.

While most of the groups went true to form, there were some interesting developments. First of all, a number of un-rated foreign players are making an early mark on the event. John Nilsson and Jonas Nordin, both unrated from Sweden, showed excellent form to advance. Nordin defeated Joseph Cochran (2284) IN to finish first in his group and Nilsson defeated one of the top juniors in the US, James Earl Alto (2212) CA to wrap up his group. Yang, Ling-Kun (2309), a very good looking player from Canada won his group to advance but not without a struggle from Daniel Seemiller Jr. (2033) IN. Another foreign unrated player, Cordova Valencia Santiago (ECU) defeated US Junior Team Member, John Leach CO in a real nail-bitter, 11-9 in the seventh game. Finally, I must note that long-time Senior Player, Jim McQueen (2074) NC, former President of the USATT, scored a major upset to win his group, taking down the current US Over 50 Champion, Jiri Hlava (2284) MA.

Matches in the Main Draw will start tomorrow at noon. Please check back for more reporting on the US Open Men’s Singles Event.

Women Advance to Round of 32

by Dave Fullen

July 5, 2006 6:30

Twenty-nine women advanced from the Qualifier to the Round of 32, which begins at 3PM Thursday. Since 29 is less than 32 (the draw dwindled through attrition), three women drew byes: Wang Chen, Poulomi Ghatak and Mo Zhang.

A notable match will be between Brana Vlasic (CA) and Marie Alejandra Solares (Guatemala). The closely fought qualifier match between Vlasic and Solares went to six games: 4,16,-7,4,-7,8.

Men's Over 60 Singles

Quarterfinals

Richard Hicks d Bill Ukapatayasakul - 5,6,6

Herbert Neubauer d Ira Goodman - 3,4,3

George Brathwaite d John Harrington - 4,5,5

Dell Sweeris d Duke Stogner - 6,5,12

Semifinals

Herbert Neubauer d Richard Hicks - -5,9,6,5

George Braithwaite d Dell Sweeris - -9,-7,8,6,8

Finals

Herbert Neubauer d George Braithwaite - 5,2,6

Women's Over 60 Singles

Semifinals

Danuta Andrzejewska d Francie Moore - 6,3,2

Suzanna Sanders d Alice Tym - 7,8,-9,4

Finals

Danuta Andrzejewska d Suzanna Sanders - 4,-9,6,4

Over 70 Doubles

1st: Lyn Smith & Bill Neely

2nd: Jack Howard & Tim Boggan

Over 75 RR

Finals

Lynwood Smith d Dick Peregrine - 8,9,6

Photo by Tom Nguyen - North American Table Tennis

Under 3200 Doubles

Quarterfinals

Keith Tademy & Jim Rutowski d Howard Teitelbaum & George Aitken - -6,-8,9,6,8

Henry Dollinger & Mark Kobernick d John McFadden & Andrea Braunfield - -4,7,8,9

Assen Dinkov & Ralph Prescott d Chance Friend & MacKenzie Friend - 9,4,-7,10

Jennifer Weng & Mason Yang d Claude Creel & David Creel - 9,10,9

Semifinals

Keith Tademy & Jim Rutkowski d Henry Dollinger & Mark Kobernick - 7,9,-6,7

Jennifer Weng & Mason Yang d Assen Dinkov & Ralph Prescott - -8,-6,-11

Finals

Jennifer Weng & Mason Yang d Keith Tademy & Jim Rutkowski - -2,6,4,-8,3

Photo by Tom Nguyen - North American Table Tennis

Under 3700 Doubles

Quarterfinals

John Allen & Pierre Cossid d Ira Goodman & Elias Gomez - Default

Simon Jacobson & Bert Serrano d David Pannell & Mike Dorman - 7,5,7

Denis Fritchie & Dinh Le d Bilal Soylu & Heiko Plankenhorn - 9,-9,10,2

Kent Tillinghast & Daniel Flores d Tom Miller & John Pahl - 8,-7,4,10

Semifinals

John Allen & Pierre Cossid d Simon Jacobson & Bert Serrano -8,6,-10,9,8

Kent Tillinghast & Daniel Flores d Denis Fritchie & Dinh Le -1,4,-6,7,7

Photo by Tom Nguyen - North American Table Tennis

Finals

John Allen & Pierre Cossid d Kent Tillinghast & Daniel Flores - 7,5,6

Under 4200 Doubles

Quarterfinals

Adam Brown & Homer Brown d Danny Hill & Jim McQueen - 11,-5,-7,8,8

Alexander Yao & Justen Yao d Yijun Feng & Alex Wang - 11,9,9

Atha Fong & Kyna Fong d Patrick Yee & Mark Nordby - 6,-7,7,7

Bong Geun Kim & Alberto Prieto d Delroy Thompson & Chedy Munroe - 5,-13,7,13

Semifinals

Alexander Yao & Justen Yao d Adam Brown & Homer Brown - 4,9,7

Atha Fong & Kyna Fong d Bong Geun Kim & Alberto Prieto - -8,7,2,7

Finals

Atha Fong & Kyna Fong d Alexander Yao & Justen Yao

Photo by Tom Nguyen - North American Table Tennis

Under 2000 Hardbat

Semifinals

Victor Lorand d John Harrington - 14,9

Simon Jacobson d Tim Boggan - 11, 16

Finals

Victor Lorand d Simon Jacobson - 15,15