The 9th Everbright-Kam Man Cup Table Tennis Tournament Was Success

The 9^th Everbright-Kam Man Cup

Table Tennis Tournament Was Success

The 9^th Everbright-Kam Man Cup table tennis tournament was held successfully on Nov. 6, 2010 at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Edison, NJ. The tournament attracted many table tennis lovers from NJ, PA and NY. Ten new DHS tables were set in the newly renovated gym. The tournament sponsored by Kam Man Food. Others are lawyer Dr. Zhiyu Hu, HSBC Edison Bank, JinMa Furniture Whole Sale.

By 8:30am in the morning, the gym was full of players. They were warming up for the game. The game started at 9:00am for the open double event, which was recently added to the tournament. Six pair of athletes played in 2 groups as the round robin. Then, both group winners played the final. The open double final were played between 2 pairs of athletes who had great age difference. One side were two senior mixed double, Shengli Wu and Jean Sze, both were pen hold with pip out; another side were about ten years old brothers Adar and Gal Alguetti, both were shake-hand hold with smooth rubber. The mixed double pair coordinated well, started as very fast attack and variated tactics; the young brother returned with the quick movement and loops. Many people came to table no. one and cheered both sides. The match was very intense and points were very close. Each point was played more than ten times back and forth by both sides___it was very difficult to win a point. Finally, the senior players with more experience, made a non-spin serve, then followed by a fast smash to finish the game and won the champion.

Three community events had most participants, who filled all ten tables in the field. They exchanged techniques and experience, learned from each other, and had a lot of fun. Soon, USATT rating under 1550 and 1950 were played, and had each event winners.

Under 2350 final was very intense between the Everbright Club head coach Ying Peng and Mr. Anton Koychev. Ying attacked Koychev’s both sides and made him run back and forth. When Ying saw the semi-high ball, she got chance to attack. Koychev made fast block and attacked back when he had a chance. With the smart tactic, Ying Peng won the first set. Koychev smashed two times and got two points at the beginning of the second set. Ying soon controlled the situation with more spin. Koychev smashed most fore-hand balls no matter what. This way, Koychev soon fell into Ying’s trap__lost points. Although Koychev did not give up, and played with great courage；just not able to retrieve the game. Ying Peng won the champion. The audiences applaud for the both players excellent performance.

The tournament results are the follow:

	9th KamMan – Everbright Cup Table Tennis Championships, November 6, 2010
	Event	First	Second	Third	Fourth
1/2	OPEN/ Under 2350	Peng, Ying	Koychev, Anton	Gordon, Will	Chen, James
3	Under 1950	Qu, Xiaoge	Alguetti, Gal	Alguetti, Adar	Chen, James
4	Under 1550	Gordon, Will	Meyers, Leroy	Jelinek, Robert	Sze, Jean
5	Under 1000	Pei, Patrick	Zhao, Peter	Pei, Andrew	Kwong, Justin
6	Jr U-13	Alguetti, Adar	Kwong, Justin	Pei, Andrew	Mai, Raymond
7	Doubles	Sze, Jean/ Wu, Shengli	Alguetti, Adar/ Alguetti, Gal	Mahr, Jin/ Mahr, Jeremy	Pei, Woody/ Pei，Andrew
8	Comm Adult	Qu, Xiaoge	Wu, Shengli	Bo, Li	Fan, Jack
9	Comm U-18	Hu, Shirley	Zhao, Peter	Kwong, Justin	Zhu, Mike
10	Comm U-11	Alguetti, Gal	Pei, Andrew	Lu, William	Xian, Ben