2008
There’re 125 entries for this
year’s tournament, the biggest draw in recent years. The weather did cooperate, so the players
from East of the mountain can join us, it was great to enjoy the sunshine at
after the tournament on Sunday.
The mixed, Men’s Singles and
Doubles all have over 30 plus entries which made Saturday a long day, the
tournament did run on schedule despite losing 1 court on Saturday evening.
It’s another tournament that
we see the strong playing of the younger players. The young Sandy and Steven were able to beat
the veteran pair of Ufilya and Geoff in 3 games, it’s
Ufilya first tournament after over 1 year’s injury
recovery, she’ll definitely be stronger the next time, welcome back, Ufilya. Despite the
cramp on the 3rd game and thanks to Tao’s sportsmanship, Sisavat (aka Long) was able to win the 3rd game
23-21 in the quarter final and still had enough energy to win the semi final
match against Curtis.
The not as young Shu and Jaikannan proved to be
the surprise pair of the tournament, they were able to
get into the final with 3 straight match all in 3 games.
The Mixed final is almost
like practice match between Ying-Fang/Long and Masako/Garrett, Ying-Fang and
Long proved to be stronger pair and won in 2 games.
Young Sandy played tough when
she had to trailing the 3rd game 15-18 and came back and won against
Ying-Fang with score of 22 -20.
Paz proved again he’s the
best singles player in the state to win the Men’s Singles title 2 years in a
row.
Masako and Ying-Fang took the
Women’s Doubles title against scratch pair Sandy and Yi-Ting.
Paz won the 2nd
event by teaming up with Toru in Men’s doubles, they
did not lose a single game in the whole tournament.
Thanks for everyone that
helped out the tournament, it’s great to work with
everyone to make the tournament successful.
Hopefully, I did not miss anyone.
Registration Desk – Joyce
Lau, Katherine Ip, Jasmine Lau, Evelina
Shin
Tournament Desk – Wendy
Carter, Tao Yuan, Patrick Ip
Announcer – Ufilya Davis, Villette Cuthbert,
Clara Lam
Score Update – Eric Yu, Jessica
Lin, Rebecca Yuen
PA System
– Andy Lin, John Yuen
Cleanup Helps – Long, Chris Lin
Umpire – Ufilya
Davis, Katherine Ip
Food/Drinks – Jenny and Joahnes Jie
T-shirt Design – Linda Tang
Treasurer – Helen Roome