Goodbye June, we barely knew ye! Welcome to the sweltering heat of July!
Congratulations to all the champions of the 2026 USATT Pennsylvania Open! 130 matches were played as we hosted nearly twice as many players per group as we have done in the past. It kept me very busy! I learned some things, improved some things, and made a couple mistakes along the way. If you have comments or suggestion, fire them my way! I am thinking about hosting another USATT event this year, a wallet friendly version this time.
Phoenixville Mayor Peter Urschler dropped by to welcome everyone and present us with his proclamation of Phoenixville Table Tennis Day. Little did he know, Mayor for the day, The PongFather had already drawn up his own proclamation!
Shortest proclamation video ever.
We also had an article about our tournament in the Philadelphia Inquirer!
2026 USATT Pennsylvania Open Results:
- Open - 1st Jameson Bernard, 2nd Jimmy Good
- Women's Open - 1st Rachel Oresky-Portner, 2nd Yuening Wang
- Under 19 - 1st Chen Chengan, 2nd Arjun K
- Over 40 - 1st Qiang Qiang, 2nd Jackie Feng
- U2000 - 1st Jimmy Good, 2nd Thang Luong
- U1200 - 1st Allen Stork, 2nd Chen Chengan
Summer Spindex League Results
- 1st Girish - 31 points
- 2nd Lu - 22 points
- 3rd - PJ - 18 points
- The rest can be found here.
July events
- The club is CLOSED July 4th for the morning session.
- The club is open 5pm-9pm July 4th for Phoenixville's Independence Day celebration. Fireworks are right outside the front doors! Warning 1: All of Phoenixville will be there traffic and parking will be outrageous! I myself, am walking to the rec center. Warning 2: If the event is cancelled because of poor weather, we will likely be cancelled too.
- Volunteers? I have to work some overtime coming up, that means I need volunteers for opening, closing, running things, for the following dates: 7/7, 7/18, 8/1.
