Men’s Singles

Both Andre Ho and Pierre-Luc Hinse met with strong Chinese talent in the Men’s Singles draw.  Ho played well against Jianxu Liu of China, but in the end came up short (4,8,9,10).  Hinse played a 7 game nail-biter against Qing Liang Wang, who just sneaked by him in the Round of 16 (10,10,-8,5,-7,-10,8).

In the Round of 32, Hongtao Chen, put on a big effort, but was only slightly bettered by Korean Sang Soo Kim (7,-6,10,-7,6,-15,7).

Eugene Zhen Wang had come of a win at the Florida Open two weeks earlier. In a friendly match against a Korean team, he did not give up a match and at the US Open he made a statement by not leaving much chance to his opponents.

Only Filip Szymanski of Poland, who had been training with the Canadian team prior to the US Open, pushed their semi-finals match to a 7^th game (9,5,8,-9,-8,-9,9). In the finals, Eugene met yet another European player, Thomas Keinath. of Slovakia  After a 5 game finale (7,9,-7,1,13), Eugene put the final point away to claim his first US Open title.

Other Canadian Highlights:

• Hongtao Chen -  first in the U21 Men’s Singles.
• Anqi Luo – third at the ITTF Global Junior Circuit Junior Girls Singles
• Catherine Dauplaise and Jiabao Liu – first in the Cadet team event (ITTF Global Junior Circuit)
• Betty Guo and Amy Nichols – third in the Cadet team event (ITTF Global Junior Circuit)
• Betty Guo and Amy Nichols – second in the Cadet doubles event (ITTF Global Junior Circuit)
• Pierre-uc Theriault – second in the US Open (U2600)
• Joe Law – second in the US Open Over 40
• Jeremy Hazin, Moxi Guo & Filip Illevski - Semi Finalists in the Cadet Team event (ITTF Global Junior Circuit)
• Jeremy Hazin & Filip Illevski - Semi Finalists in the Cadet Doubles Event (ITTF Global Junior Circuit)
• Edward Ly - Finalist in CA9 competition.

For complete results see
US Open page on teamusa.org