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Top 10 Player Quadri Aruna was a virtual guest at Austin's African Diaspora Tournament (And 4 of 6 Divisions won by ATTC members in Fall Open)

What an incredible month of table tennis at ATTC. The titan of the Nigerian Table Tennis scene, Quadri Aruna gave the opening remarks at the African Diaspora tournament through Zoom. He was originally slated to come in person which we hope will happen in the future. Players of African descent from all around the world came to Austin's memorial day tournament, including from Alaska!!

Everyone who went said the level of play was even higher than normal ATTC tournaments. Thank you to Quadri for honoring ATTC and thank you to Uko Marcus and the whole African community in Austin for putting this event together.

Now let's go to ratings updates from the ATTC Community:

Name

Begin Rating

End Rating

Change

Ahaan Pamnani

1477

1626 (PR)

149

Teddy Bricker

1760

1901 (PR)

141

Aditya Chirayath

1889

1988

99

Chen Zhao

1525

1622

97

Lekha Subbaiah

1410

1501 (PR)

91

Yihang Tang

1640

1718 (PR)

78

Erxi Wu

1709

1757

48

Morris Lo

1404

1446

42

Yashwanth Sathish

1630

1671

41

Uko Marcus

1860

1898

38

Jeremey D Lopez

1520

1552

32

Aleem Mohammed

980

1010

30

Kai Song

1946

1975 (PR)

29

Azeem Shamsudeen

1125

1145

20

Nicholas Mickowski

1582

1599

17

Cesar T. Serna

1972

1976

4

Yi Qiu

1743

1747 (PR)

4

Jenny Pobelova

1650

1652

2

Two players here gained over 100 points this tournament, Ahaan and Teddy. Ahaan beat several regular ATTC members who were higher rated than him to break 1600. While Teddy defeated a 1999 (almost 2k!) player and a premier chopper in Texas to get over 1900.


Special shoutout to Yihang Tang who won the U1700 Category. Anyone who has faced his full full Chinese forehand loop knows how dangerous he is to face.

Also my fellow former Northern Virginian Kai Song is only 25 points away from hitting 2k!

Additionally, I'd like to start shouting ATTC members that play their first USATT tournaments. It's not easy jumping from playing casually to playing in a tournament setting. Massive props to these members for joining us in the tournament scene.

Name

Begin Rating

End Rating

Change

Ekaterina Korol

0

1596

1596

Yasir Hussain

0

1349

1349

Ishan Dalal

0

1335

1335

Chandan Kalra

0

1274

1274

ATTC Fall Open


First thing about this tournament; with 6 categories, ATTC won 4 of them! Look at all of these champions!

Leonid Odinokov

Pavan Kodati

Seetharaman Potti

3rd-Chandan Kalra

Ananya Singaraju

Lucas Peng

Yashwanth Sathish

3rd-Caleb Dye

Kewei Li

Eday Enrique Gomez Rojas

Jimmy Butler

4th-Edem Offiong

Sahil Joshi

Lekha Subbaiah

Alec Petty

3rd-Erik Zhang

Shreyas Sule

Allen Mao

Swar Patel

3rd-Emma Jiao

Shoko Kusuhara Dye / Caleb Dye

Ryan Martin / Albert Felan

Tai Ly / Susie Teng

 

Biggest common theme I saw at this tournament was playing through adversity. Leo's mom shared with me that Leo had been sick the entire week. Shreyas mentioned that he hadn't played for 2 months. But I saw them grit out tough wins against well coached opponents. Well done to all of our winners!


Ratings Changes

Name

Begin Rating

End Rating

Change

Clark Kim

1632

1772 (PR)

140

Eeshaay Grover

520

620 (PR)

100

Brandon Babot

1458

1506 (PR)

48

Nicholas Mickowski

1599

1641 (PR)

42

Aleem Mohammed

1010

1050

40

Sudhir Kumar

1224

1254

30

Alec Petty

1483

1513

30

Justin Kim

1310

1339

29

Shandra Qiu

1746

1773 (PR)

27

Swar Patel

1992

2018

26

Sahaj Ramachandran

1708

1732

24

Leonid Odinokov

1262

1286

24

Shreyas Sule

2073

2093

20

Sahil Joshi

1460

1478 (PR)

18

Ian Madray

1185

1200

15

Cesar T. Serna

1976

1990

14

Tommi Jokinen

1412

1425

13

Disha Murali

1140

1153

13

Yi Qiu

1747

1756 (PR)

9

Lekha Subbaiah

1501

1508 (PR)

7

Ekaterina Korol

1596

1602 (PR)

6

Arnav Rao

1555

1559

4

Zhen Chen

1673

1676

3

Erwin Josef Prinz

1305

1307

2

Steven Nguyendon

1493

1495

2

Jiahua Ma

1742

1743

1

What a massive list! I never realized that there are so many ATTC members that I've never played. Please, if I haven't played you, please challenge me so I can put a name to a face!


This tournament had amazing showings from the ATTC adults, with Clark and BBabot having their personal records set this tournament. I've seen Clark putting in hours of coaching with Shahin. While Brandon has been away from the tournament scene lately, but has come back with a vengeance. Well done to everyone!


New ATTC Members starting their tournament journey:

Name

Begin Rating

End Rating

Change

Michael Xue

0

1815

1815

Hareendranath Sakhamuri

0

1725

1725

Mugunthan Vengavayal Jaya

0

1221

1221

Lawrence Cormack

0

1137

1137

Adarsh Aruru

0

574

574

Nicholas Mathaes

0

558

558

Lastly, huge shout to out Tairan and Korim for taking these photos. I wish I had a fraction of their photography skills. The expressions of ATTC members as they are focusing on the game are fantastic:



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