Junior Boys Team
Canada’s team of Hongtao Chen and James Pintea places first
in their preliminary round group without giving up a game to the visiting teams
from Argentina and Korea.
In the main draw semi-finals, Chen and Pintea beat fellow Canadians
Max Xia and Vincent Rousseau-Emond. At
6PM on Friday they will compete with the team from Chinese Taipei for the top
prize.
Junior Girls Team
The group stage of the Junior Girls team event is still
underway Friday evening. In the best
shape right now is the combination team Hong Kong/Whales, but Canada’s Team 1 is
close behind with 2 wins and 1 loss. However,
Korea also has a 2-1 record and will face Canada’s Team 1 Friday evening.
Junior Boys Singles
Chen Hongtao emerged unbeaten in the first phase of the
Junior Boys’ Singles event at the Scotiabank Canadian Junior and Cadet Open in
Markham on Thursday 4th October 2012. In the group stage Chen defeated Aaron Wilson
(Trinidad) and Jeremy Hazin (Canada) in straight games. Chen will face Theodore Tran (USA) in the KO
stage, the winner advancing to the quarterfinals.
James Pintea (Canada) and Mathieu Theriault (Canada) also
advance to the main draw, winning their respective groups without giving up a
game. Pintea will meet Pablo Saragovi
(Argentina) in the first KO stage. Theriault
meets Marco Medjugorac (Canada).
Jeremy Lau, Max Xia, Alexander Moran, Jeremy Hazin, Vincent
Rousseau-Emond, and Xuebo Li also will compete in the main draw.
Matches for the main draw start on Friday at 10:45AM EST
Cadet Boys
Jeremy Hazin finishes first in Group C after upsetting no. 3
seed Kunal Chodri of USA (3-1). Hazin
receives a bye in the first round of the main draw, and will face the winner of
Xuebo Li and Alexander Moran for a spot in the semis.
Filip Ilijevski finishes second in his division, after being
just 2-points away from upsetting Theodore Tran (USA) in Group E. In the
first round of the main draw Ilijevski plays Howard Tong (USA) who has been
having a good tournament so far.