The 4th Fox Valley Open tournament took place on March 24th, 2012 and was sponsored by Table Tennis Exchange company. The tournament attracted 71 players from Chicago area as well as Champaign, IL and Madison, WI. Here is the picture of all of our participants.
This tournament was the first to offer a separate division for children and judging from the smiles on children’s faces it was a success. Children, amateur adults and intermediate players were rewarded with a set of trophies like these.
Killerspin company lent us 5 score boards so we experimented with using them to get players accustomed to matches officiated by an umpire.
We brought in 20 additional barriers to keep the balls from going to the adjacent courts to make the tournament run smoothly. Here is the view of our gym from above showing how these barriers were positioned.
Finally, this was the first tournament for which you could register online. Only 13 players registered this way probably because the online registration was introduced midway through the registration process. Overall the registration proceeded very quickly and although we had 7 drop outs we were able to fill the open spots with players on the waiting list.
I would like to thank all who lent their help during set up and tear down the tables and barriers. Special thanks go to Robbert Currey, Michael Matthews, Jacek Wisniewski, Tom Szacilowski, Krzysztof Fudala, Kedar Navkal, Subba Parvathaneni, Mark Hoffman, Christos Dousmanis and many others who helped me start the tournament with minimal delay and run efficiently. I would also like to thank Fox Valley Park district for providing this first class facility for our tournament.
The pictures of each group and results of each division are published below.
Junior division (15 and under)
There were 3 groups in this division dividing children by age.
Group 1:Madison Chao, Preethika Somarapu, Rachel Zhou (380), Nandan NareshSid Naresh (647), Jordan Sun.
Group 2: Sashank Renduchintala, Naman Thakrar, Mahit Ramakrishnan, Taher Dohadwala, Shashank Sangireddy, Rahil Dalwani.
Group 3: Zachary Moy (1265), Neil Bhatia, Christopher Vas, Lou Ruggiero, Sarah Zhou (660), Rohan Pisharody
Round robin results
| Place | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 |
| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. |
Sid Naresh Jordan Sun Rachel Zhou Nandan Naresh Madison Chao Preethika Somarapu |
Taher Dohadwala Rahil Dalwani Mahit Ramakrishnan Naman Thakrar Sashank Renduchintala Shashank Sangireddy |
Zachary Moy Lou Ruggiero Sarah Zhou Christopher Vas Neil Bhatia Rohan Pisharody |
Single elimination results
And here are the junior division top 3 finishers on the podium:
Amateur Division
We had mostly adults in this division which had 3 groups of 6 players.
Group 4: Sangita Naresh (483), Anna Yeung, Kasia Glowik, Christopher Magno, Sandeep Raje, Lucy Wang
Group 5: Arcot Prabhakar (913), Khozem Dohadwala, Mihai Mihailescu, Subahsh Vaidya, Michael Matthews, Kung Chao
Group 6: Sameer Sawant, , Nipun Dubey, Anthony Washburn, Shalabh Singh, Saroor Alam
Round robin results
| Place | Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 |
| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. |
Lucy Wang Sandeep Raje Sangita Naresh Kasia Glowik Anna Yeung Christopher Magno |
Mihai Mihailescu Michael Matthews Kung Chao Subahsh Vaidya Khozem Dohadwala Arcot Prabhakar |
Saroor Alam Nipun Dubey Shalabh Singh Sameer Sawant Anthony Washburn Charles Sun (didn’t play) |
Single elimination results
Here are the top 3 finishers in the amateur division on the podium.
Intermediate Division
We had 4 groups in this division.
Group 7: Dharma Dumpalla, Marcin Stec, Stanislaw Glowik, Ken Robbins (924), John Liu (1104), Christos Dousmanis (1737)
Group 8: Tomasz Szacilowski,Murty Renduchintala , Kedar Navkal, William Goodfellow, Wilson Chen (1301), Robert Currey (1663)
Group 9: Tushar Naik, Mahir Dalwani, Mike Zhou (1307), Nikhil Javeri, Chinmay Vaidya, Mark Hoffman (1642)
Group 10: Steve Bowler, James Harris, Madhav Ketkar, Ron Cassidy (1328), Jaydeep Buzruk, Joseph Magno (1435)
Round robin results
| Place | Group 7 | Group 8 | Group 9 | Group 10 |
| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. |
Christos Dousmanis John Liu Dharma Dumpalla Stanislaw Glowik Marcin Stec Ken Robbins |
Robert Currey Wilson Chen William Goodfellow Tomasz Szacilowski Kedar Navkal Murty Renduchintala |
Mike Zhou Tushar Naik Mark Hoffman Nikhil Javeri Mahir Dalwani Chinmay Vaidya |
Ron Cassidy Madhav Ketkar Joseph Magno Jaydeep Buzruk Steve Bowler James Harris |
Single elimination results
And finally the top 3 finishers in the intermediate division on the podium.
Advanced Division
The advanced division had only 2 groups.
Group 11: George Wang, Krzysztof Fudala, Engelbert Solis, Arcot Naresh, Jaroslav Stastny, Jose Magno
Group 12: Jacek Wisniewski, Krzysztof Szostak, Natalia Snigurskaya, Junduo Zhao, Yueming Xiao, Subba Parvathaneni
Round robin results
| Place | Group 11 | Group 12 |
| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. |
Engelbert Solis Jaroslav Stastny Arcot Naresh George Wang Krzysztof Fudala Jose Magno |
Junduo Zhao Krzysztof Szostak Yueming Xiao Jacek Wisniewski Subba Parvathaneni Natalia Snigurskaya |
Single elimination results
And here are the top three finishers on the podium.
Comments
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Thank you,
Tournament Organizer
Swavek Lorenc
