We had the largest turnout for a league since covid with 24 players. Both top and bottom divisions were incredibly competitive. A/B players were mixed into 2 pools and then the top 2 from each pool advanced to a single elimination bracket. The same was done for the C/D pools.

Group A/B - Owen Allen defeated Arnaud Salvador
Group C/D - Tim Overbey defated Wes Yates

We had a great turnout for League with a lot of high level players and a solid group of new players. The tournament was a giant round robin that fed into single elimination A/B/C tournaments.

Group A - Adam Block defeated Owen Allen
Group B - Bishop Duperret defeated Kamran Salek
Group C - Mike Halliday defeated Jordan Thompson

Arizona Sizzler 7/28/2018

TTTC had a great turnout to this event. We had 10 members participate and of those members 3 of them made it to the finals for their event.

U-2000 2nd - Adam Block
U-1875 1st - Raphael Lizama
U-1500 1st - Sajid Almuaybid

7/14/2018

This was the second tournament of the mixed format. We unfortunately ran out of time for the A/B finals.

A/B Pool 1
1st Place Zhenmin Song (tiebreaker)
2nd Place Yijie Zhang (tiebreaker)
 
A/B Pool 2
1st Place Arvind Aemireddy
2nd Place Sreeram Parameswaran
 
C/D Semifinals
Owen Allen defeated Roman Masek 3-1
Jimmy Nguyen defeated Sajid Almuaybid 3-1
 
C/D Final
Jimmy Nguyen defeated Owen Allen 3-1

6/16/2018

We debuted a new format where the A and B groups we're mixed and the C and D groups we're mixed. Then the winners of each pool would play off in a 4 team tournament so that we would have an overall winner of the A/B pool and the C/D pool. It was the first time using this format, and we think it went really well.

A/B Semifinals
Adam Block defeated Arvind Aemeriddy  3-1
Willing Cheng defeated Yijie Zhang 3-1

A/B Final
Adam Block defeated Willing Cheng 3-1

C/D Semifinals
Owen Allen defeated Jimmy Nguyen 3-1
Sajid Almuaybid defeated Jeremiah Sbarra 3-2

C/D Final
Owen Allen defeated Sajid Almuaybid 3-1

Group A
1st Yijie Zhang
2nd Adam Block
3rd Sreeram Parameswaran

Group B
1st Michael Hammerschmidt
2nd Fernando Rios
3rd Gustavo Romero

Group C
1st Jorge Deleon
2nd Owen Allen
3rd Roman Masek

Group D
1st Lev Vays
2nd Jin Skutecki
3rd Charlie Edelman

Click here for ratings and full match results.

We had a strong turn-out for August league play. With 29 players and quality players in all 4 four divisions. Overall, Sreeram was the best player on the day.

Group A
1st Place - Sreeram Parameswaran
2nd Place - Yijie Zhang
3rd Place - Raphael Lizama
 
Group B
1st Place - Arun Ravishankar
2nd Place - Gustavo Romero
3rd Place - Richard Tena
 
Group C
1st Place - Miguel Noguera
2nd Place - Michael Nguyen
3rd Place - Sajid Almuaybid
 
Group D
1st Place - Mark Morton
2nd Place - Paul Gold
3rd Place - Tim Edmunds

Group A
1st Place - Willing Cheng
2nd Place - Mike Hammerschmidt (tiebreaker)
3rd Place - Sreeram Parameswaran (tiebreaker)
 
Group B
1st Place - Eric Ziegler (tiebreaker)
2nd Place - Jeremiah Sbarra (tiebreaker)
3rd Place - Jimmy Nguyen (tiebreaker)
 
Group C
1st Place - David Schulte
2nd Place - Owen Allen
3rd Place - Roger Baldner (tiebreaker)
 
Group D
1st Place - James Wiederstein
2nd Place - Ken Smalley
3rd Place - Tim Edmunds (tiebreaker)
 
The match results have been submitted to and processed by USATT.  As you know, we have many folks who regularly participate in USATT sanctioned events.  It was noted that our league ratings have fallen well below our individual USATT ratings for most tournament players in our club.  To the extent possible, we want our club ratings to indicate the performance level of our players.  For that reason, Eric has started a one-time (per person) effort to manually intervene. The new club ratings for this month's league reflect that intervention.  If you would like to understand the details behind this, please contact Eric.

Adam Block finished first in the U-2000 group, winning that division again. He is working up the ladder and finished second in the Open Singles. A few tournaments and he will be bringing home the grand prize. In other divisions we had an all-TTTC final in the U-1875. Chris Castro had a strong showing in U-1750 and the Over 60 Singles.

Full Results

We had many other players compete in the tournament and we had a high quality showing from all of them. It's good to see continued success for TTTC members in high caliber tournaments. Thanks to everyone for the team spirit, and we hope everyone has continued success.

• Open Singles - Phong Pham
• Open Double - Phong Pham and Michael Hammerschmidt
• U2000 - Adam Block
• Runner-up over 60 - Doug Bakke

Tucson TTC members swept the top two division as well as the Open Doubles which is a stellar result for a high level tournament. It shows to the growing quality of Tucson players and Tucson TTC in general. Congratulations to those who placed and all of those who competed.