Results from the STTC 2009 Fall Open tournament held on Saturday, October 17th. We had a total of 28 players in 6 events, hailing from the greater central Illinois area and even as far as Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin! The field was split into large round robin groups in classes A and B, so everyone was able to play lots of matches. View a few pictures from the tournament.

Thanks to the Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church for hosting the event, Rick and J for running the tournament, and all the volunteers who helped run things in the tournament and in the kitchen! A special thanks to Roberta for providing excellent food options for the players. I don't think you can find a better deal on such good food at any other tournament.

Below are the crossover final results; complete round robin results (in PDF format) are available and there's also an article in The Journal-News about our tournament.

Open Class A
Semi-Finals
    Gene Szeto def. Kevin Buente
    Mike Plunkett def. Boomer Sekiguchi
Final
        Mike Plunkett 1st def. Gene Szeto 2nd

Open Class B
Semi-Finals
    Rauf Piskin def. Jason Baptiste
    Stephen Paca def. Gina Lin
Final
        Stephen Paca 1st def. Rauf Piskin 2nd

Seniors
Final
    Tuan Do 1st def. Rauf Piskin 2nd

Juniors
Semi-Finals
    James Embalabala def. Peter Mueller
    Brandon McCalley def. Ryan Peña
Final
        Brandon McCalley 1st def. James Embalabala 2nd

Class A Doubles
RR
1st: Kevin Buente / Boomer Sekiguchi, 3-0
2nd: Tuan Do / John Wang, 2-1
3rd: James Embalabala / Rick Goertz, 1-2
4th: Ryan Driskill / Gina Lin, 0-3

Class B Doubles
Final
    Peter Mueller / Stephen Paca 1st def. Ed Voice / Tom Winter 2nd