We had a lot of fun at the Awards Banquet for the Spring 2014 Season and it was great to see all the division winners get their trophies and medals. Special thanks to Ararat Table Tennis in Glendale, CA for hosting the event.

Check out the photos from the event below and congratulations to all of the winners!

Division 1

• Champion: LATTA !st Team (LATTA) – Zihao (Justin) Huang, Koffee Lu, Tuan Dai Le
• Runner-Up: 3 Black Men (SPiN Standard) – Adam Bobrow, Subal Mehta, Kevin Li, Sandesh Awale

Division 2

• Champion: The Invincibles (Gilbert TTC) – Charles Kim, Kee Lee, Warren Lee, James (Alex) Marquez, Han Choi
• Runner-Up: Hitmen (Westside TTC) – Michael Baggott, Kenneth Seiple, Sasanka Budhavarapu, Josh Bornstein, Simone Cecchini

Division 3

• Champion: MTAG Sr. (SGVBC 2) – Tim Chen, Aashish Thakker, Kelvin Lee, Joe Qiao, Ben Cheng
• Runner-Up: Frozen Paddles (Gilbert TTC) – Kevin Li Te Sun, Xia Yi, Aman Ak, Ashay Burungale, Jimmy Liu

Division 4

• Champion: Golden Ninjas (Anaheim Community Center) – Warren Hoo, Midori Pesyna, Steven Noh, Fred Liao, Minh Lu
• Runner-Up: Walnut EFC (SGVBC 2) – Denwun Lin, Scott Hsu, Ling-Ling Lin, Peter Su

Corporate Division

• Champion: Team Zest (Gilbert TTC) – Marick Sinay, Rohan D’Souza, Alexander Tamoykin, Ian Hall, Van Morgan
• Runner-Up: Blackline Table Tennis 1 (USA Valley TTC) – James Kim, Russell Mullin, Tyler Weitz, Illya Lavrik

Youth Division

• Champion: LATTA 1 (LATTA) – Derek Hong, Tiffany Cai, Timothy Cai
• Runner-Up: LATTA 2 (LATTA) – David Lin, Ryan Lov, Matthew Leung, Wesley Yuen

Oaks (Thousand Oaks TTC) lost to LATTA !st Team (LATTA) 0-5

Craig Burton lost to Koffee Lu 0-3 (4, 5, 5)
Alex Melekhov lost to Zihao Huang 0-3 (6, 4, 3)
Grace Zhou/Craig Burton lost to Zihao Huang/Koffee Lu 0-3 (11, 4, 7)
Grace Zhou lost to Zihao Huang 0-3 (5, 7, 5)
Alex Melekhov lost to Koffee Lu 0-3 (5, 7, 7)

Koffee, Justin, Craig, Alex, Grace

3 Black Men (SPiN Standard) defeated Bruins (Gilbert TTC) 5-0

Subal Mehta defeated Ryan Chan 3-1 (3, -5, 9, 6)
Sandesh Awale defeated Bowen Rao 3-1 (6, 9, -6, 7)
Subal Mehta/Sandesh Awale defeated Bowen Rao/Ryan Chan 3-1 (-9, 4, 9, 7)
Subal Mehta defeated Bowen Rao 3-2 (11, 11, -8, -2, 8)
Sandesh Awale defeated Ryan Chan 3-0 (10, 9, 13)

Subal Mehta, Ryan Chan, Bowen Rao, Sandesh Awale

LATTA !st Team (LATTA) defeated Mount Ararat (Ararat Table Tennis) 5-0

Zihao Huang defeated Robert Shahnazari 3-0 (6, 6, 5)
Koffee Lu defeated Erick Shahnazari 3-0 (7, 4, 1)
Zihao Huang/Koffee Lu defeated Hrach Javadian/Robert Shahnazari 3-0 (6, 3, 4)
Zihao Huang defeated Rolland Garabidian 3-0 (3, 4, 6)
Koffee Lu defeated Varujan Jamagocyan 3-0 (2, 2, 5)

Koffee Lu, Zihao Huang, Robert Shahnazari, Rolland Garabidian, Erick Shahnazari, Varujan Jamagocyan

Mount Ararat (Ararat Table Tennis) defeated Oaks (Thousand Oaks TTC) 5-0

Robert Shahnazari defeated Alex Melekhov 3-0 (7, 9, 4)
Rolland Garabidian defeated Grace Zhou 3-2 (9, 3, -7, -7, 5)
Robert Shahnazari/Varujan Jamagocyan defeated Alex Melekhov/Grace Zhou 3-1 (-9, 8, 9, 6)
Robert Shahnazari defeated Grace Zhou 3-0 (12, 8, 8)
Erick Shahnazari defeated Alex Melekhov 3-2 (7, -8, -10, 7, 6)

Alex, Grace, Roland, Varujan & Robert

Grace Zhou & Robert Shahnazari

Bruins (Gilbert TTC) lost to Mount Ararat (Ararat Table Tennis) 0-5

Rudy Esparza lost to Hrach Javadian 0-3 (4, 2, 7)
Bowen Rao lost to Erick Shahnazari 2-3 (8, 7, -7, -7, 5)
Max Lai/Taiyu Guo lost to Hrach Javadian/Rolland Garabidian 1-3 (8, 5, -10, 5)
Rudy Esparza lost to Rolland Garabidian 2-3 (6, -8, 8, -12, 10)
Max Lai lost to Hrach Javadian 0-3 (2, 3, 4).

Rudy, Max, Bowen, and TaiYu vs. Hrach, Erick, and Rolland

Laughing about “Ralph’s Special” while warming up

LATTA !st Team (LATTA) defeated Bruins (Gilbert TTC) 5-0

Zihao Huang defeated Taiyu Guo 3-0 (7, 5, 8)
Koffee Lu defeated Ryan Chan 3-0 (2, 2, 2)
Zihao Huang/Koffee Lu defeated Taiyu Guo/Rudy Esparza 3-0 (5, 2, 4)
Zihao Huang defeated Rudy Esparza 3-0 (5, 6, 1)
Koffee Lu defeated Taiyu Guo 3-0 (9, 2, 6)

Koffee Lu, Zihao Huang, Ryan Chan, Taiyu Guo, Rudy Esparza

Taiyu Guo

Oaks (Thousand Oaks TTC) lost to 3 Black Men (SPiN Standard) 1-4

Alex Melekhov lost to Adam Bobrow 0-3 (7, 8, 8, 8)
Craig Burton lost to Kevin Li 0-3 (3, 6, 8)
Grace Zhou/Craig Burton defeated Adam Bobrow/Kevin Li 3-1 (6, -7, 12, 8)
Grace Zhou lost to Kevin Li 1-3 (-7, 6, 7, 6)
Eric Wang lost to Adam Bobrow 1-3 (8, 14, -9, 11)

Grace, Eric, Alex, Craig, Adam, Kevin

Alex serves to Adam. Adam shows his defense.

LATTA !st Team (LATTA) defeated 3 Black Men (SPiN Standard) 4-1

Koffee Lu lost to Kevin Li 2-3 (11, -6, -4, 10, 5)
Zihao Huang defeated Sandesh Awale 3-0 (8, 10, 8)
Zihao Huang/Koffee Lu defeated Adam Bobrow/Sandesh Awale 3-0 (5, 5, 8)
Koffee Lu defeated Subal Mehta 3-0 (5, 6, 10)
Zihao Huang defeated Kevin Li 3-0 (8, 9, 3)

Kevin Li, Sandesh Awale, Subal Mehta, Koffee Lu, Zihao Huang

Subal Mehta

Oaks (Thousand Oaks TTC) defeated Bruins (Gilbert TTC) 5-0

Craig Burton defeated Bowen Rao 3-2 (10, 9, -11, -8, 6)
Alex Melekhov defeated Taiyu Guo 3-1 (6, -5, 8, 2)
Grace Zhou/Craig Burton defeated Max Lai/Ryan Chan 3-0 (9, 9, 5)
Grace Zhou defeated Rudy Esparza 3-0 (5, 10, 10)
Eric Wang defeated Ryan Chan 3-0 (8, 15, 5)

Craig, Eric, Grace, Alex, Max, Ryan, Bowen, Taiyu, Rudy

Doubles action