anyone know this player"Don james Alto"

yes. no.

I don't know him personally but I saw him play this past weekend at the So Cal Open in a match against Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson won as DJ put up a good fight.

ooooooh the mysterious DJ Alto....

He's really not that mysterious. Won cadet boys @ 2006 U.S. Open. I had to play him at Stiga Berkley Open 2006. Of course he's good, plays short pips on forhand and long pips on backhand....

I still got a game off him though

yea short on both

any videos????

hey i do know him. except i just call him don. he's one of my good friends at school, i've never actually seen him play. heard he's really good. whoa. all this hype about him, seems like he's famous. haha. pretty cool. well that's the way i know him, never seen him play.

He just switched to inverted both sides and is now being trained for the next US open by Stellan Bengston. His father said that his playing level dropped big time but Stellan says in 4-6 months time his game will be better than before.

Stellan is a former World Champ(??) in Sweden, came over to US within the past couple years and now coaches in San Diego area (??)

stellan i think coached waldner soem time in the past after retirement

if this stellan guy is so famous and has coached the swedish national team what the hell is he doing in san diego, america, the country which is least famous for table tennis coaching some 2300/2400 rated guy.

ummm...have you ever been to san diego? Its paradise inside the greater 48. I bummed hes switching to inverted. If anyone has seen him play before his style was so unique and amazing. Im so sad that they feel he should play like everyone else. I think high level coachs should dev indiv styels. not just overall types.

have u got a video of him playing,ive never seem him play, after what you said kollins i think he should definitely not change styles. Is he the eldest of the alto brothers because i know hes got 2 other brothers?

kollins wrote: ummm...have you ever been to san diego? Its paradise inside the greater 48. I bummed hes switching to inverted. If anyone has seen him play before his style was so unique and amazing. Im so sad that they feel he should play like everyone else. I think high level coachs should dev indiv styels. not just overall types.

???? wrote: getting him to change to both sides inverted from always playing both sides short pips doesnt seem to be helping him in his style, it seems like completely changing his style.

???? wrote: who's stellan bengston, some famous ex player?

Former World Champion and World no 1. one of the swedish squad trained by Ogimura. The championship following his victory, he won all his games in the team event and went out in the quarters of singles. Famous for his varied topspin and consistent play. I have a home movie of him at 77 worlds playing Japanese Chopper Takashima with one of the rallies going to 40+ strokes!