Troublemaking at the 2017 US Open

[Matt Hetherington]

Just misbehaving at the 2017 US Open and bumped into a fellow troublemaker

 

[songdavid98]

who is that?

 

[Der_Echte]

MaTT, a true class Trouble Maker.

Matt prolly met 10x the gents and gals I did at US Open, and I made it a point to strike up a talk with about anything that moved during the 4 days I was there.

I think my sweat dried on my wild hair was stronger than spray starch.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Is that the new super booster in the "natural crystal" bottle?

 

[jawien]

I'm confused guys, the Ittf calendar 2017 shows US Open as present but there is no information about it and no videos ...
https://www.ittf.com/tournament/2878/2017/us-open/

Do you have any vid? What kind of event was it?

[Edit] ok got it : )
https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/2017-US-Open/2017-US-Open-Livestream

 

[songdavid98]

MaTT, a true class Trouble Maker.

Matt prolly met 10x the gents and gals I did at US Open, and I made it a point to strike up a talk with about anything that moved during the 4 days I was there.

I think my sweat dried on my wild hair was stronger than spray starch.

I know Matt. So the other guy is you?

 

[NextLevel]

who is that?

Nice one!

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

I know Matt. So the other guy is you?

The guy with the Nexy shirt and the Nature's Crystal bottle is Der_Echte.

 

[jawien]

The guy with the Nexy shirt and the Nature's Crystal bottle is Der_Echte.

My God! Send those drones right away!!
; )

 

[NextLevel]

I'm confused guys, the Ittf calendar 2017 shows US Open as present but there is no information about it and no videos ...
https://www.ittf.com/tournament/2878/2017/us-open/

Do you have any vid? What kind of event was it?

[Edit] ok got it : )
https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/2017-US-Open/2017-US-Open-Livestream

It is a sanctioned/rated event but not a Tour event.

 

[jawien]

It is a sanctioned/rated event but not a Tour event.

But you have a World Tour event next year - right?
Btw, who were those Japanese guys playing the final?

 

[NextLevel]

But you have a World Tour event next year - right?
Btw, who were those Japanese guys playing the final?

Asia is relatively closer to the West coast of the USA so some Japanese players fly in for the US Open every year. The Japanese players are ranked players who play for clubs in Japan usually and are sent over by corporate sponsors. Some of them are up and coming or just long time high level players who may or may not make it to the higher levels of Japanese national team (for context, Jin Ueda won this tournament a few years back and Kenji Matsudaira has come as well).

 

[TTHopeful]

That looks fun !

 

[Garrison]

I don't know if I would post this. If there are trash cans burning they will probably look for the troublemakers first

 

[Nuke Skywalker]

Matt, make sure you still have your wallet.

 

[Matt Hetherington]

Matt, make sure you still have your wallet.

Shoot....lol

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

But you have a World Tour event next year - right?
Btw, who were those Japanese guys playing the final?

US Open (not an world tour event) has always been very good to attract pro players.
CNT members/former members, Chinese Taipei, Korean national team, Japanese national team etc

I think US Open is one of the best (if not the only one) participated by high level players "non world tour" tournament in the world.

And secondly, it is a crazy big tournament with tons of table and playing space - possibly the biggest "big scale" tournament on the planet

 

[jawien]

And secondly, it is a crazy big tournament with tons of table and playing space - possibly the biggest "big scale" tournament on the planet

If there's so much space, maybe the tournament could transformed in a way, to allow everybody to participate. You could have "The" biggest event in the world : ) Just checked, no World Tour in 2018. There is PTT US Open and I can't really decipher it. Anyway I'll keep my fingers crossed for those big events the USATT is bidding for.

There were some familiar names in the draw for me too, specially in the men's draw. Tomislav Pucar, Eloi Damien (still in form) and of course Lucjan Błaszczyk. Btw how come Lucjan has so many points in your ranking? Does he participate often in the US tournaments or these points are just for the Open?

Zhang Lily is still leading, although she didn't win. I remember her giving a hard time to Li Xiaoxia during Olympics ... it was exciting to watch. [Edit] Gosh it was Ariel ... of course. She wasn't in the draw, is she still playing?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

If there's so much space, maybe the tournament could transformed in a way, to allow everybody to participate.

You make it sound like that they don't allow everybody to participate
You do know it is an Open event, meaning any one is free to participate......

 

[jawien]

You make it sound like that they don't allow everybody to participate
You do know it is an Open event, meaning any one is free to participate......

Oh really, I thought it was based on ranking and limited like those WT events. Good to know.