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TEAM USA ON THE LIEBHERR WORLD TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 IN GERMANY

TEAM USA on the 54th WTTC


TEAM USA on the ITTF WTTC 2017 (Source: Leon Libin - copyright owner)
TEAM USA on the ITTF WTTC 2017
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USPA NEWS - The United States of America were represented on the the LIEBHERR World Table Tennis Championships 2017 in Dusseldorf, Germany by Lily Zhang, CA; Yue Wu (Jenifer), NJ; Angela Guan, CA; Crystal Wang, WA; Kanak Jha, CA; Kunal Chordi,CA; Nick Tio; Nikhil Kumar, CA.
Lily Zhang and Yue Wu
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On the 54th World Table Tennis Championships, the USA players competed in the following categories: Men´s Singles Event (JHA, Kanak; KUMAR, Nikhil; CHODRI, Kunal), Women´s Singles Event: (ZHANG, Lily; WU, Yue; GUAN, Angela; WANG, Crystal), Men´s Doubles Event (KUMAR, Nikhil and TIO, Nicholas; CHODRI, Kunal and JHA, Kanak), Women´s Doubles Event (GUAN, Angela and WANG, Crystal; WU, Yue and  ZHANG, Lily) and Mixed Doubles Event (JHA, Kanak and WU, Yue; CHODRI, Kunal and ZHANG, Lily).
Main Football (Soccer) Stadium, Messe Dusseldorf
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The #ITTFWTTC2017 was hosted by beautiful the Dusseldorf Messe´s ESPRIT Arena. The Opening Ceremony and Main Draws happened on the Main Football (Soccer) Stadium, while the Qualification and Main Draw Matches were conducted in Hall 5 and Hall 6 - main Arena for Championships.
Opening/Draw Ceremony, Main Football Stadium
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Playing Hall5
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Main Playing Arena Hall 6
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Main Playing Arena
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Main Playing Arena Hall 6
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Hall 6
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In the Women's Single Division (WS), Lily Zhang reached the Round of 32 defeating MAI, H. of Vietnam “” 4:0, Winter, Sabine of Germany “” 4:3 and losing Li, Jie of Netherlands “” 1:4.
Lily Zhang in Action
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Lily Zhang in Action
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Lily Zhang in Action
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Crystal Wang, in the Round 128, lost her match to Daniela Montairo of Romania 1:4, winning game 2 with the score 12:10.
Angela Guan, in the Round 128, lost her match to Sandra Pergel of Hungary (who later on defeated Petrissa Solja of Germany) “” 1:4, winning game 1 “” 11:9.
Yue Wu, in Round 128, lost the match to Petrissa Solja “” 1:4, winning the 3rd game “” 8:3.
Crystal Wang and Angela Guan, Coach Jörg Bitzigeio
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Angela Guan in Action
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Yup Wu in Action
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In Men´s Singles (MS) Championship all three USA players started in Qualification Groups.
Kumar Nichil, Nicholas Tio and Kunal Chord did don advance from their groups (7, 13 and 17 respectively) where they each took the 2nd place. Kanak Jha advanced from his Qualification group (35) by taking the 1st place and then went trough the Preliminary R64, where he won against Ahmadian, Amin of Iran “” 4:1 and through the MS Round128, where he overplayed CRISAN, Adrian of Romania in a very close match with the score 4:3. After that he met with a Swedish player Mattias Karlsson and lost the match with the score 2:4
All-time support to the USA players provided Men's Coach -- Stefan Feth and Women's Team Coach -- Jörg Bitzigeio.
Continuation is following, read in the next article about the USA Team Men´s Doubles, Women´s Doubles, Mixed Doubles on the #ITTFWTTC2017.
Nicholas Tio in Action
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Kumar Nichil in Action
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Kanak Jha in Action
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