Tianjin’s Ran Xu and Fujian’s Chuxi Chen. Both players faced tough opponents and had something to prove with $10,000 on the line. Ran Xu’s style is predominantly a control game with very good forehand shots while Chuxi Chen prefers to overpower with the forehand topspin. Both players started out a bit nervous but Chen’s service and forehand topspin were able to take the first two games. Xu was clearly having trouble returning Chen’s serve, but managed to take the third game. In the fourth Chen again took control with his service and forehand
topspin forcing Xu back from the table and out of his comfort zone. The final score was 6, 6, -9, 6 for Chen and the Fujian Provincial Team took the final for an amazing upset against Shuai Hao’s Tianjin University of Science & Technology. The North American Teams first year at the National Harbor was a great success. We’d like to thank all the players and participants for their continued support to celebrate Thanksgiving weekend as one big table tennis family. The NATT and JOOLA staff are dedicated on making next year even better, and we can’t wait to see you there!
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