2013 North American Tour Grand Final

2013 North American Tour Grand Final
Preliminaries – Saturday, January 11, 2014 – 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM PST

2013 North American Tour Grand Final
Quarters, Semis and Final – Sunday, January 12, 2014 – 4:30 PM to 9:00 PM PST

Han Zheng, Ren Ruiqin, Wang Rui, Zhou Xin, Liang Yonghui, and Timothy Wang won the 2013 US Club Championship

What: 2013 North American Tour Grand Final – a USATT sanctioned 4-star tournament
(The list for the participating tournaments:
http://www.battf.com/2013_Grand_Final/Tournaments.htm)

When: January 11 and 12, 2014
Where: ICC, 1453 N. Milpitas, Milpitas, California
Who: 16 top players qualified through the tournaments in the Tour
Prize: $6100
Admission: FREE ($5 or more suggested for adults)
Tournament Referee: Yelena Karshtedt, International Umpire
Media contact: Bruce H. Liu, 408-887-3410, bay_tt@yahoo.com

All matches will have umpires or score keepers. All courts will have individually barriers. The luminosity will exceed the ITTF or USATT requirement. Lily Zhang has confirmed to be one of the interviewees interviewed by Carl Danner during the live streaming. A few more special guests may appear as well.

Confirmed players:

Zhou Xin (2727), Milpitas, CA – #1 active player in the US
Liang Yonghui, Milpitas (2667), CA – #4 active player in the US
Timothy Wang (2604), Milpitas, CA – Three time US Men’s Singles Champion
Zaman Molla (2474), Los Angeles, CA – Former Iranian National Team member
Han Zheng (2581), Milpitas, CA – Former Chinese Provincial Team member
Zhang Xiang Jing (2664), Los Angeles, CA – #6 active player in the US
Truong Tu (2444), San Jose, CA – Former Ho-Chi-Minh City Team member
Liu Dan (2572), Milpitas, CA – Former Chinese Provincial Team member
Wang Rui (2548), Milpitas, CA – Former Chinese Provincial Team member
Jordan Yee (2332), Alameda, CA – One of the most promising juniors in the US
Li RuiNi (2492), Milpitas, CA – Former Chinese Provincial Team member
Kanak Jha (2635), Milpitas, CA – #8 in the ITTF Under 15 World Ranking list
Zhang JinGe (2321), Milpitas, CA – Former Chinese Provincial Team member
Liang Jishan (2665), Bellevue, WA – #5 active player in the US
Victor Liu (2347), San Jose, CA – US Cadet Boys’ Team member
Krish Avvari (2463), Fremont, CA – US Junior Boys’ Team member

David Del Vecchio

Final 16 record and stats:

http://www.battf.com/2013_Grand_Final/Ranks.htm

Schedule:
http://www.battf.com/2013_Grand_Final/Schedule.htm

Made possible by the collective effort of:

Special thanks to David Del Vecchio for providing all the hard/software for streaming the event and Paddle Palace for providing the official Nittaku balls.