(by Steve Hopkins, photo USATT)
Singles started on Sunday, with top seeds in action on Monday. at the ITTF Pan American Championships in Rock Hill, SC. Top class player Hugo Calderano won his first two matches 4-0 and 4-1, so he could compete with the American Sid Naresh in one quarter-final. In the second section of the draw, American Nandan Naresh fell to Nicolas Burgos and Canada’s Eugene Wang fell to Brazil’s Felipe Arado to set up a Burgos-Arado matchup on Tuesday.
In the bottom half of the draw, Horacio Cifuentes of Argentina defeated Angel Naranjo of Puerto Rico 4-2 and Leonardo Iizuka of Brazil beat American Jishan Liang, leaving Cifuentes and Iizuka to battle each other on Tuesday afternoon. And in the lower part of the draw, American Kanak Jha defeated Brazil’s Guilherme Teodoro 4-2 and Chile’s Gustavo Gomez defeated Marcos Madrid 4-2 to set up the final quarterfinal (Jha-Gomez).
In women’s singles, 7 of the top 8 seeds advanced to the quarterfinals. Top-seeded Bruna Takahashi will face American Jessica Reyes Lai, American Sally Moyland against Canadian Mo Zhang and American Lily Zhang against Chile’s Daniela Ortega. Second seed Adriana Diaz advanced easily, winning her two matches 4-0 and 4-0. Diaz will face Chile’s Zhiying Zeng, who upset Brazil’s Giulia Takahashi 4-0.
The singles and doubles quarterfinals will be played on Tuesday, with team events starting at the end of the week and running into the weekend.
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