The first Indy Chinese Tennis Open officially
started on June 5th at Carmel High School tennis complex. IACA,
ICCCI, and China Journal Indiana have prepared this tennis open
for a long time. The Newspaper is in charge of advertisement and
reporting; and members of IACA/ICCCI formed a committee to organize
the event. The committee members include : Diana Yung, Michael
Shen, Hansen Hsiung, Solomon Lee, Peggy Hu, Steven He and Youyan
Zhang.
There are about 40 players registered with the oldest over 60
years old and the youngest, only 9 years old. The tournament does
not have referees for matches. Players watch the lines for themselves.
The players uphold the principle of “friendship first, winning
second.” Our Tennis Open provides good opportunity for players
to find new friends and playmates. One of the players said: “I
was not able to find any Chinese to play tennis two years ago.
Today I am very glad to see so many Chinese playing tennis. Some
of them play very well.”
The Tennis Open has men’s single and doubles, women’s
single and doubles, mixed doubles. In order to shorten the tournament,
players play round ribbons within each group. Each match contains
one “super set” of nine games. The tournament has
gone through 7 weeks already. We hope it will finish by next weekend.
So far the following winners have emerged:
Men’s single 3.5 group: 1. Weiqun Shen,
2. Weiying Li, 3. Michael Tu.
Men’s single 3.0 group: 1. He Wang, 2.
Mingsheng Wang, 3. Xiaodong Liu.
Women’s single: 1st place: Jian Liu, 2nd
place: Daoping Xu, 3rd place: Susie Chen.
Men’s double 3.5 group: 1. Harry Shao/Michael
Shen; 2. Weiqun Shen/Solomon Lee; 3. Michael Tu/Le Wang.
Mixed double group: 1. Peggy Hu/Solomon Lee
Rudy and Diana Yung playing mixed double
Hansen Hsiung and Hongyan Zhang playing men’s double 3.0
Youngsters: (from left) Susie Chen, 13, Jeffery Chen, 9 and Michelle
Li, 10
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