Kam Man Cup - Metropolitan Open Team Championships |
September 3-4, 2005 |
SUNY/Rockland Community College Field House, Suffern, New York |
From left to right are Lily Yip, Kam Man Foods Sponsor, Mr. Hei Chan, Dr.
De Tran, Tahl Leibovitz, Paul David, David Zhuang, Ben Johnson, Di Maharaj,
Keith Alban, Sonia Barton and Referee Y.C. Lee
From left to right are
Li Jie Ling (my bronze medal partner for womens doubles in the China
Championships 25 years ago), Sonia Barton of the Mayor's Office from the Town of
Spring Valley, Mr. Hei Chan, President of Kam Man Foods, Mayor George O Darden
of Spring Valley, Lily and the Mayors' family.
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Our first Kam Man Cup – Metropolitan Team Championships was a success.
This is our first try at running a large team event at the 90,000 square foot SUNY/Rockland Community College
Field House in Suffern, New York.
The floor was a soft, non slip rubberized surface. All tables had plenty of court space. Playing the team event for many
players introduced a renewed team spirit and a chance to make new friends. Many teams were comprised of players from different states, countries and
different races. Both men and women competed against and with each other.
Everyone was on an equal terms. The players were very satisfied with the amount of matches they played except one senior player came to me
stating “Lily are you trying to kill me? I am 65 years old, I have been playing
matches non stop all day!”
The tournament had different events for all levels of play, including an 1100, 1600, 1800, 2050, 2300 and
Super Divisions. In the Super Division Finals Sunday Morning, which was attended by Mayor Gorge O Darden of
Spring Valley, Tahl’s Big Apple Table Tennis Team defeated Adam Hugh’s team in a nine match
thriller, with De Tran defeating Misha Kazantsez 11-9 in the fifth and final game to secure a finals birth.
Di Maharaj’s Florida Team then defeated Shao Yu’s NYTTC’s Team.
Big Apple Table Tennis won the $3000 First Prize in a convincing fashion.
Third Place was won by Adam Hugh’s Team over Shao Yu’s Team
The big winners were Tahl’s and Moshen’s Big Apple Table Tennis Club as they won both the Super Division and
2050 events. The tournaments success is also do to the great support from Mayor George O. Darden of the Town of
Spring Valley who sent many volunteers to help with the tournament.We are also very grateful to all of our sponsors including our Title
Sponsor Kam Man Foods, Metro Funding Corp and Kramer Appraisal Services Inc.
Many thanks go to Larry Bavly and David Marcus for doing a terrific job at the control desk, YC Lee as always did
a great and thorough job as the referee and the many volunteers that helped setup the facility including our volunteers
from the Town of Spring Valley, New York led by Sonia Barton.
We would also like to thank many of the local players from the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey Clubs for promoting
and participating in our event. I would like to name all these players that helped, but I promised Larry a short
article. But I can’t help just naming a few. Special thanks go to Steve Blijheid, Michael Henry, Atanda Musa for the many
New York teams that participated.
Thank you to all the players for their many
compliments. I will try my best for a bigger and better event next year.
We hope to see you there.
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Super Division |
Place | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
1st | Big Apple Table Tennis | Tahl Leibovitz | Paul David | De Tran | David Zhuang |
2nd | Florida I | Di Maharaj | Keith Alban | Ben Johnson |
3rd | NJ Youth | Adam Hugh | Mikhail Kazantsev | Benny Kuchero |
2300 |
Place | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
1st | Dinamo | Vitaly Koretsky | Svetlana Panich | Igor Kulyba | Michael Shur | Oleg Zalesskiy |
2nd | BRC Striker Platinum | Michael Henry | Shawn Embleton | John Duncan | Stephen Grant |
3rd | Team 3 | Anani Lawson | Steve Berger | Zhong Hai | George Brathwaite |
2050 |
Place | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
1st | Big Apple Table Tennis 2 | Moshen Javaheri | John Bauer | Colin Lemessey | Feng Li |
2nd | Potomac Maryland | Tom Orlik | Roger Abbott | Julian Waters |
3rd | BRC Striker Gold | Percival Dublin | Kelvin Duesbury | Francine Abrams | Fritz-Weber Noel |
1800 |
Place | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
1st | East End TTC | Kent Tillinghast | John Udaze | Daniel Flores |
2nd | BRC Striker Silver | Jamaal Abrams | Shaun Abrams | Patricia Thelwell | Leroy King | Brian Cort |
3rd | CT1 | Donald Feltenberger | Steve Blijheid | Tommy Castronovo |
1600 |
Place | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
1st | NJTTC 99 | Kevin Kuznetzow | Irwin Kuznetzow | Ethan Harel |
2nd | Nothing But Net | Harry Dinesh | Irving Adams | Chitra Venkatraman |
3rd | The Sour Grapes | Lisa Cavanagh | Gizella Hajduk | Elin Posner | Andrea Braunfeld |
1100 |
Place | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
1st | BRC Striker Jr | Damian Brewster | Gordon Connell | Ken Roland | Jalicia Connell | Jonathan Reid |
2nd | Team 1 | Julian Divietro | Eric Wang | Chris Reynolds |
3rd | Lily 2 | Andrew Hawn | Steven Lu | Drew Wilke |
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