2007.1.14 Mississauga Rattlers Open

Mississauga Rattlers Open (Jan 14, 2007)
RESULTS

Without doubles this time, our second Open tournament went more smoothly than the November version and culminated with the expected victory of Robert Roberts (USA/Barbados) in the Open event. Desmond Wilson gave him a hard time in the final, which he lost 1-3, but ultimately could not get through his opponent�s lob defense. I guess he is not used to seeing his kill-shots returned consistently. Desmond also deserves credit for beating Danny Ly in the semis and fearless Pei-Pei Zheng in the quarters. Pei-Pei, the other star of the tournament, unexpectedly dismissed Iraj Golmohammadi in the open and Dave Lau in the U-2300. She only lost in the final of that event, and by the narrowest of margins, to Chandru Krishnan. It�s nice to see a female counter-puncher disturb established patterns on the male side. Now if someone could only give her some chopped returns to deal with...

The following winners were rewarded with cash prizes totaling $1240:

CATEGORY     WINNER           RUNNER-UP          3rd/4th PLACES

Open          Robert Roberts (Barbados, $250) D. Wilson Ben Kim, Danny Ly
O-50 vets     Dave Lau          Mark Pang          Jude Lee-Foon, Alain Thomas
U-17 juniors    Michael Zhang     Terence Leung     Jason Leung, Louis Wong
U-2300     Chandru Krishnan     Pei-Pei Zheng          David Liu, David Lau
U-1900     Yi Lu               Thomas Ho          Sandy Chu, Antonio Coimbra     
U-1500     Sam Ng          Gabriel Egube          Lucian Bogda, Ming Siu
U-1100     Jason Leung          Louis Wong          Fran�ois Caron, Norm Leung
U-700          Kevin Jovanov     Norm Leung          Hollie Lau, Ben Li               
     
Alain Thomas
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