(By Steve Hopkins, Photo Usatt)
Not to be lost between the news of two WTT -FEEDER -SERIES -EVENTS were a few Para events in Spokane. The ITTF World Para Future Series event was 6-8 August, immediately followed by the ITTF World Para Elite Spokane.
With a focus on American players, here are the results of the future series event. Jenson van Emburgh has a 2-game lead in the final of class 3, but the Frenchman Florian Merrien won three consecutive games with only 2 points to win the last 3-2. Samuel William Altshuler from the US fell in the quarters of class 6 of Cristian Dettoni in an event won by Ignacio Torres. Jenson van Emburgh and Zachary Alan Pickett fell in the semi -final of the Doubles class MD8 won in an event by a Brazilian pair (Cavalhal and Camargo). Likewise, Tahl Leibovitz and Logan Wade Watson Bronze in double -class MD18 landed in an event won by Iwabuchi and Abe, a Japanese pair. The full results are available on the ITTF -Result site.
In the Para-Elite event, Jenson van Emburgh had sweet revenge over Florian and beat him 3-1 in the semi-final before a dominant 3-0 final Jang Yeongjin van Korea wins. A few Americans participated in class 6 with Samuel Altshuler in the US who fell to Martin Perry in the round of 16, while Ian Seidenfeld made a deep run before she lost 3-2 (12-10 in the fifth) nowhere (12-10 in the fifth) of the final winner of Torres. Tahl Leibovitz fell 3-1 against Joshua Stacey in the quarterfinals of class 9 in an event won by Laurens Devos of Belgium. In Singles for women, Zu Mingyu fell in the semi -final of class 8 against the final champion Sophia Kelmer from Brazil. Leibovitz and Watson lost in the quarters of the double class MD18. The full results are available on the ITTF -Result site.
The next event on the Para tour is planned for 10-12 September in Tokyo-de ITTF World Para Future Tokyo 2025.
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