February 25, 2009
2009 Butterfly MDTTC February Open
Open Singles Winner Michael Boye Wang and Runner-up Gabriel Skolnick
The 2009 Butterfly MDTTC February Open was held at Maryland Table Tennis Center, Gaithersburg, Maryland over the weekend of February 14th and 15th. More than 60 players from Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Washington signed up for the tournament and 55 people actually participated in the two-day events. Some local top players were absent due to the injury or sickness and some players pull out at the last minute.
U2350 Winner Michael Boye Wang and Runner up Nina Zhen
The top seed Michael Wang (2204) was on a business trip from Washington and ended up with winning both Open Singles and Under 2350 events.
Gabriel Skolnick (2041) from Pennsylvania signed up all four events on Saturday and played a total of 19 matches with an almost none stop action. Since Gabriel made to the play-offs in all four events, the matches were lined up for him one after the other only aloud a few minutes breaks between matches. In the U2050 event, he defeated Mark Radon (1874) in the semi-final and only lost to Lixin Lang (2040) in the 5th game in the final. He later came back to defeated Lixin Lang in the semi-final of Open Singles event and took the second place after a 1-4 loss to Michael Wang in the final.
Fourteen years old Nina Zhen (1851) performed exceptionally well in this tournament by taking 2nd place in U2350 event. She was the only female player entered the tournament on Saturday. After two losses in the Open event, she did a great job in the U2350 event by defeating every one in her group including 2112 rated Micaiah Skolnick and went all the way to the final by defeating Gabriel Skolnick (2041) in the semi-final with the only loss to the top seed Michael Wang (2204) in the final.
U2050 Winner Lixin Lang and Runner up Gabriel Skolnick
In the U2200 event, Hossein Sharifi (1965) took the first place by defeating Gregory Mascialino (1925) in the fifth game in the final.
U1900 Winner Mohamed Kamara and runner up Gabriel Lu
More people participated in Sunday's event the next day. The U1900 event was won by Mohamed Kamara (1821), who defeated Gabriel Lu (1674) in the final. Alex Polyakov (1307) took the first place in both U1650 and U1400 events by beating David Goodwin (1389) twice. In U1150 event Ara Sahakian defeated Misho Sakian in the final 3-1. In U800 event Jack Heyman took the first and Rafael Portilla came in second.
U1650 Winner Alex Polyakov and Runner up David Goodwin
Tournament Summary
Open Singles RR
[Quarters]
Gabriel Skolnick -def.- Tong Tong Gong, 13, -7, 7, -9, 9
Micaiah Skolnick -def.- Todd Ingram, 10, 5, 10
[Semi's]
Gabriel Skolnick -def.- Lixin Lang, 10, 4, -9, 9, 9
Michael Boye Wang -def.- Micaiah Skolnick, 7, 4, 8, 8
[Final]
Michael Boye Wang -def.- Gabriel Skolnick, 6, 12, -9, 10, 4
U-2350 RR
[Semi's]
Michael Boye Wang -def.- Kian Mokhtari, -7, 4, 11, 10
Nina Zhen -def.- Gabriel Skolnick, 13, -8, 9, 9
[Final]
Michael Boye Wang -def.- Nina Zhen, 5, 6, 9
U-2200 RR
[Semi's]
Hossein Sharifi -def.- Tong Tong Gong, DEFAULT
Gregory Mascialino -def.- Gabriel Skolnick, 7, 9, -7, -6, 12
[Final]
Hossein Sharifi -def.- Gregory Mascialino, -7, 8, 6, -12, 7
U-2050 RR
[Quarters]
Mark Radom -def.- Abraham Behnam, 9, 5, -8, 7
Gregory Mascialino -def.- Mohamed Kamara, 4, 12, 6
[Semi's]
Gabriel Skolnick -def.- Mark Radom, 6, 5, 7
Lixin Lang -def.- Gregory Mascialino, 8, 10, 9
[Final]
Lixin Lang -def.- Gabriel Skolnick, 4, 9, -15, -8, 7
U-1900 RR
[Quarters]
Gordon Gregg -def.- Talal El Oukaili, 9, 10, 5
Ruying Chang -def.- Ayan Bagchi, 12, 5, 10
[Semi's]
Mohamed Kamara -def.- Gordon Gregg, 4, 4, 6
Gabriel Lu -def.- Ruying Chang, 6, 0, 4
[Final]
Mohamed Kamara -def.- Gabriel Lu, -9, 5, 8, 9
U-1650 RR
[Quarters]
Alex Polyakov -def.- Michael Ding, -9, 2, 3, 5
David Goodwin -def.- Thomas King, 8, 4, 8
[Semi's]
Alex Polyakov -def.- Jason O'Brien, 9, 8, 10
David Goodwin -def.- Talal El Oukaili, 9, 2, 9
[Final]
Alex Polyakov -def.- David Goodwin, 6, -9, 8, 6
U-1400 RR
[Quarters]
Alex Polyakov -def.- Misho Sakian, DEFAULT
Philip Furtado -def.- Thomas King, 7, 9, -7, 3
WeiLing Tan -def.- Rafael Portilla, DEFAULT
David Goodwin -def.- Talal El Oukaili, DEFAULT
[Semi's]
Alex Polyakov -def.- Philip Furtado, -3, 7, 8, -9, 12
David Goodwin -def.- WeiLing Tan, 9, -7, 4, -7, 7
[Final]
Alex Polyakov -def.- David Goodwin, -7, 3, -8, 9, 7
U-1150 RR
[Quarters]
P Sharma -def.- Timothy Myers, 4, 8, -7,
Rafael Portilla -def.- Bob Lehrman, 8, 3, 9
[Semi's]
Misho Sakian -def.- P Sharma, 1, 9, 3
Ara Sahakian -def.- Rafael Portilla, 4, 7, 6
[Final]
Ara Sahakian -def.- Misho Sakian, 6, 8, 7
U-800 RR
Jack Heyman -def.- Matthew Du, 10, -10, 10, 9
Rafael Portilla -def.- Yoav Heyman, 1, 1, 6
Matthew Du -def.- Yoav Heyman, 2, 3, 2
Jack Heyman -def.- Yoav Heyman, 2, 2, 1
Rafael Portilla -def.- Bohan Shan, 3, 3, 3
Matthew Du -def.- Bohan Shan, 5, 5, 7
Jack Heyman -def.- Bohan Shan, 5, 4, 2
Bohan Shan -def.- Yoav Heyman, 5, 1, 1
Jack Heyman -def.- Rafael Portilla, 9, -10, 7, 9
U1400 Winner Alex Polyakov and Runner up David Goodwin
U 1150 Winner Ara Sahakian and Runner up Misho Sakian
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