ATTC Butterfly Spring High Dollar Recap

The ATTC’s Butterfly Spring High Dollar Cap was a huge success with 108 players competing for prize money, trophies and USATT rating points. Here’s a recap of the top results from ATTC members. 

 ·       Apex Award for Best Podium Finish

Akshay Namburi - U1300 Champion (11-9, 11-9, 11-6 Finals sweep)

·       Rising Star Award for Largest USATT Ratings Increase

Akshay Namburi - (+192) and Honorable Mention to Zephan Shivam (+170)

·       Lion Heart Award for Biggest Upset Win

Ekaterina Korol - Defeated the 220 point higher rated top seed twice in clinical 3-0 sweeps

Event Recaps

U1300

Akshay Namburi gave a flawless performance, dominating Group 2 with a 3-0 record, then tearing through the single-elimination bracket. He capped off the day by winning the Finals 3-0 (19, 9, 6) to become the U1300 Champion.

Akshay Namburi

Zephan Shivam also had an outstanding day as an U1300 Finalist, winning Group 4 and fighting through to the Finals.

Kajal Akhlaghpasand was another strong performer, reaching the Semi-Finals.

Kajal Akhlaghpasand

U1600

Charles Oberg made it to the finals and he also won the ATTC Iron Man award for completing a total 18 matches across multiple events in one day!

Charles Oberg

Jeremey Lopez and Zephan Shivam also had successful outings making it to the Semi-Finals, as did Yasir Hussain, who reached the Quarter-Finals.

U1900

Ekaterina Korol had the performance of the tournament in this bracket. Despite being one of the lower-seeded players to advance from the groups, she went on a tear in the knockout stages.

Ekaterina Korol

She entered the tournament rated 1581 and faced Leonid Odinokov, who was rated 1801, a 220-point rating gap. In USATT terms, a 200+ point difference usually implies a win probability of less than 5% for the lower-rated player. Korol didn't just win; she delivered a dominating 3-0 sweep not once, but twice (in the Round Robin and the Quarter-Finals). She reached the Semi-Finals, where she pushed the eventual champion, Nicolas Ayala, to the brink in a high-intensity 1-3 loss.

Alec Petty

Alec Petty had a 3-1 record in the preliminary round and in the knockout bracket, he secured a decisive 3-0 win in the Round of 16 and survived a grueling 5-set Quarter-Final before falling in the Semi-Finals.

Vidyut Govindarajan also made a deep run advancing to the Quarter-Finals.

U2100

Ahaan Pamnani and Dina Farmani both won their groups in the preliminary round advancing to reach the Quarter-Finals.

Ahaan Pamnani

Dina Farmani

U2450

As the top seed, Michael Guo (2335) swept Group 1 with a 3-0 record and cruised through the Round of 16 and Quarter-Finals with back-to-back 3-0 victories.

In the Semi-Finals, he ran into the eventual champion, Hato Yamane, falling in a high-intensity 1-3 battle. Michael finished 4th overall after a grueling 5-set heartbreaker in the 3rd/4th Playoff against Thiago Ueda.

U3200 Doubles

Steve Nguyendon and Yan Yan Hao took first place in the U3200 Doubles with a clean 3-0 sweep to take the top spot.

USATT Rating Increases

Name	Start Rating	Finish Rating	Points Gained	Key Result
Akshay Namburi	1252	1444	192	U1300 Champion
Zephan Shivam	1206	1376	170	U1300 Finalist U1600 Semi Finals
Ekaterina Korol	1581	1739	158	U1900 Semi-Finalist
Sumay Kaushal	400	455	55	U1300 2-2 Record
Charles Oberg	1447	1482	35	U1600 Runner Up
Oreoluwa Banwo	1285	1312	27	Gained points in U1600 and U1900
Kajal Akhlaghpasand	1192	1218	26	U1300 Semi-Finalist
Ahaan Pamnani	1966	1980	14	U2100 Quarter-Finalist
Han Chen	1506	1513	7	2-2 in U1900
Alec Petty	1749	1756	7	U1900 Semi-Finalist
Yasir Hussain	1375	1380	5	U1600 Quarter Finalist
Olaf Westheider	1263	1265	2	U1300 Semi-Finalist
Dina Farmani	2023	2024	1	U2100 Quarter Finalist
Ben Shi	1986	1987	1	U2100 Round of 16

Photos by Lorenz Schimonsky