2009 JOOLA North American Teams Elite Division Results November 27-29 2009 Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD The 2009 JOOLA North American Teams Championship brought exceptional play to center court. Teams from five continents entered, but in the end only one could take home the $10,000 first place prize! Here are the results of the Elite[…]
As the penultimate event of the JOOLA Tour, it was delightful to have a skilled and powerful field of competitors and several ‘movers and shakers’ of the sport in attendance, including USATT CEO Mike Cavanaugh and JOOLA Germany’s President, Michael Bachtler. It made a great capstone to a record-breaking year! In addition to John Miller,[…]
Events Concluding in Single Elimination Event # Event Name First State Second State Final Score 1 Open Weijian Zhang CA Zhen (Eugene) Wang BC 7,7,3,-7,8 3 Under22 Men’s Bryan Michaud AB Sean C. Lee CA -6,7,5,8 5 Under18 Boy’s Teddy Wu BC Terence Sun CA 3,16,-12,5 7 Under16 Boy’s Justin Nguyen CA Kunal Chodri CA[…]
It was satisfying to reunite with players like Mark Radom, who won a junior competition at the Eastern Open in 1964, and now was seeking to bookend that accomplishment with a win in the Over 60. Many familiar names and faces joined a bevy of excited newcomers in the tournament. The tournament’s climax on Sunday[…]
San Diego Open on the JOOLA NA Tour April 25th and 26th, 2009 Balboa Park Activity Center, San Diego, CA Breakthrough performances, historic firsts, dramatic matches and renewed fellowship distinguished the San Diego Open on the 2009 JOOLA North American Tour. This was very much a story of adversity met and conquered, of[…]
New York City Open presented by AYTTO April 11th and 12th, 2009 Levien Gymnasium, Columbia University, New York City, NY Four hundred years ago, September of 1609, the European explorer Henry Hudson brought his ship, the Half Moon, to an island at the mouth of a river. The people he met there told[…]