2022 JOOLA North American Team Championships - Final

Okay, that's worse, President, foreign ladies and gentlemen, we're about to start in about a minute and a half. I just want to make sure everyone can hear me. Can you hear me? I received half a round of applause. Can you hear me? Me here, okay, let me listen a little. I like these people in the back, can you hear me right now? That's what I'm talking about, what about my front row here? The people on the field, you listen to me. Okay, that was half a round of applause too. Okay, I have stuff to throw away, so you're about to see how it's done.

What's up with this back section here? Can you hear me? The hats are harder to throw, but I know this side wants them. so I'm going to ask you all at once, are you ready for the

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North American Team Championship Finals right now? Max, that's what I'm saying, let this work. It wasn't actually a throat, it was a boomerang. Okay, we'll start at less. Over a minute now we just want to make sure we have both

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s lined up. I see Tim Pinkpot here. I have the colay club over here. Guys, ready to go. Ernesto, your

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is ready.

You need a minute. Are you OK. okay, I have three more hats to give away, who wants some, oh, this is the first one to shout things, who else has two more, oh, that was really close, you're going to gag him, she's getting closer, she's got it, they've got it one more. one more, it was a terrible pitch, it was the worst pitch of my life, please forget I did that and I'll bring out another hat in a minute, okay, okay, I'd like to invite all the players and umpires to line up. with me right here and we're going to make this work right here right now overseas if you can hear my voice you're with us in Maryland here at the

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Yola North American Team Championship this is the

final

are you ready?

It is an absolute honor for me to present the two teams that have made it this far. We have had over 1200 players play in this incredible event. It is the biggest team championship we have ever had. Our first team competes today representing the new club known as Ping Pod. Our first team.

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ists representing France with a rating of 2,678, is a medalist in multiple French national

championships

, please welcome, and today he is joined by a player representing the great Philippines with a rating of 2,515. He is a six-time Philippine national champion, please welcome Ernesto and the latest player to represent Mexico with a rating of 2766.

He is an Olympian, welcome Marcus Madre Dread and now the highest ranked team in the tournament is the Curve, a table tennis club, our first player representing California with a rating of 2729. one of the top 100 in the world, please welcome Wong and he will be joined by a gentleman representing Canada with a rating of 2764. a three-time US Open champion and three-time Olympian, please welcome him, and the last, but certainly not least, player with a rating of 2864. He represents California and has represented Ukraine . He is a bronze medalist at the European games and was previously among the top 20 in the world.

Please, welcome. Today, ladies and gentlemen, our referee will be Dan Reynolds from Texas, and he will be assisted by Jake Choi. From Maine, ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the national anthem and welcome our own Mike Henry to sing it for us. Oh, say, can you see with the first light of dawn? What is surprising is that Twilight, finally, is in favor of bright stars and stripes, worse here to win. the house of the Lord that was beautiful Mike, thank you very much gentlemen, thank you very much, let's start with the warm-ups, okay, we are with the warm-ups, this is going to be a crazy final.

I'm telling you right now that The new dogs in this game are Team Ping Pod and if you don't know what Ping Pod is, if you've never heard of this club, I go to the one in New York, it's a fully automated table tennis club, like if you literally booked it online. and then you don't even have employees there, you have the whole place to yourself and you get it by the hour, it's amazing, so to see them here in the finale after starting their business not long ago, it's very exciting to see Ting. ping pod here, but they will face the number one seed in this tournament, they will face some of the fiercest players here, so I want you to choose who you want to win this match and cheer them on to victory because this is the best thing that offers table tennis here at the 2022 North American Team Championship.

I also have some hats I need to give away before this is all over, so I want to know who wants to see team colay win. noise I can only throw it so far, okay, who wants to? Anyone here who wants to see team ping pod make it and win tonight? Make some noise as far as you can go. Does anyone here want? I have two hats left. G Sean, you want one, you want one. Here, who do you want to win? Look, we have a ping-pot team. Over here, you will receive a hat. Who wants the colay team?

It's a little loud around here in the back corner, let's see, oh, nice snack, bro, that was a good one. We've already started our warm-up, we'll give you a little space. Okay everyone, it's time for the biggest game of the tournament. We're here on center court, it's a little wider than you may remember from the rest of the broadcasts because it's time for the final. I'm Matt Hetherington, joining everyone at home for what's going to be a great match between Cole Table Tennis Club, colay team Eugene Wong and Wong Wei taking on ping pod, stay Lowrance on the court now Marcus.

Madrid from Mexico Liang ji Shan but Ernesto are all going to be the third player in this final, they managed to get through the semi-final suffering an unfortunate injury during that semi-final, but they were still able to push through and get here. for this final match these guys are the best of the more than 1100 table tennis players almost 1200 table tennis players here in this huge convention hall 167 tables we are here for one it's time for the final match to the best of five Thai teams Romaine Laurence starts with serve, let's see what he can bring against Coley in the end, a dominant Force, his team barely beat the Triple Eight table tennis club in their semi-final, he had some very close matches and he is a table tennis player with a lot of gears because we still need to move forward here to make sure his team gets him home if you slip through the net.

The Rock is doing a good job holding the server's seat tight. It's one of the great challenges of playing co-lay. Many variations of reverse pendulum service on the board. a great forehand counterattack there looking at the ball towards the right corner all his life he is a difficult player to shake he keeps his ground very well quite close to the table good balance foundations of footwork and weight transfer very strong there is a reason why the one who is the leader of this team apart Of course, there are also clubs, also a defending champion along with his teammate Eugene Wong, winners of last year's American team championship.

You can see the strategy at work here for my pressure backhand corner, that slower, spinning Lawrence opening leaves a lot of the table. open so far in this matchup colay it's a great start very imposing 9-2 lead thank you Keeps dropping the ball again a little bit until the middle yes, still with six game points here at the beginning of this first match in the first game going to some crazy things here a couple of meat shots there one cut but Romaine Lawrence kept her nerve there still Follows five vocal supports on the Pink Floyd bench has Romaine Laurence closes Four Points goes to the big counter and misses colay takes the first game here in this final I'm going to go back to their benches for Lawrence to overcome and adjust a little more towards the end of that game.

The variation in pace will certainly help having to be stable until you can create opportunities to try and help with more power to get a The gap in a player's armor as a colay can be quite challenging, so you are going to put a lot of pressure on him. these Top Spin rallies playing the aggressor here to get things started with a foreign forehand, very compact shots, very technically precise, well, that's it. pick that three reverse pendulum with topspin put some good pressure on the server's turn down right here, thank you oh Gentlemen, definitely take some initiative on the server's turn with good placement so far has not been able to take Cola with guard down.

Kool-Aid like me. said before he just has a really stable base, you barely see him unbalanced, it's very rare to see him unbalanced so far, he's dominating this and a great recovery from both players, two eights, there's definitely a lot of pressure here on Romaine Lawrence to find some answers Olay no He is giving him no room to maneuver here just as he is efficient in his technical game also very efficient in energy management he does not give away any three points two three he takes the game two eleven points to three for a 2-0 lead here Coley takes In the second game, eleven to three, he has a 2-0 lead against Lawrence.

If you join us here at the 2022 North American Team Championship, we'll be playing best-of-five games per game and best-of-five games right here in the finals. Colay looks quite relaxed there on the bench with his teammates he takes a short break there a little hydration but a pretty comfortable situation here in this first match quite dominant in the first two games and will certainly look to capitalize and close out the challenges in this third. It's still up to Laurence as to whether he can stop that or at least slow it down. He's really giving it all the weird here.

Effortless technique. Thank you. Another great counter-loop move off the table. It's definitely what the public wants to see. Pollay takes that point. force team timeout pinkpod Laurence back to Ernesto everyone on the bench saints, waste no time getting back to the table here a man focused on the task at hand who is looking to close the door on this match as quickly as possible this once in a big rally Lawrence enters capitalizes with a point great play by Lawrence keeping his nerve difficult variations by Cola foreigner foreigner second time every point counts here it is not easy to get two points directly from the server against the player like Cola wow nobody at home for those four but Ryan is looking for some big shots here, he just doesn't need the four nine mark, some good play from Amanda Rocks and a great set piece attack, although the closest to three points is one of the shortest moves I've seen, a very subtle touch there, well, they choose. up that long medium serve kills three match points here looking to put a point on the board for the rare colloid table tennis club team exchange there probably looks a little softer on the backhand side Laurence making a great work to finish that point and an incredible final colay backhand service rocket front three games he has taken the first game the best team won the third game he wins three games to zero so I just want to check with my people here who are happy that Cole's Table Tennis Club won the first game in the match Make some noise for team colay okay who wants to see team Pink pod fight and win this second match right now make some noise for Ping pod?

I have some passion here, we are about to start this second match, so don't do it. I'm not going anywhere foreign foreign thank you foreign if you're just joining us here in the final warming up at the table right now we have two Olympians competing against each other Eugene Wong represented Canada and Marcus Madrid represented Mexico, they are two of the best players here in this country and they are going to go head to head right now, this is the best of five match, so get ready and choose who you want to win abroad. We are ready for game number two.

Eugene Wong Marcus Madrid Gene. representing the collection because Bob already have a 1-0 lead in this best-of-five team tie. Marcus Madrid overcame some exceptionally close matches yesterday to keep his team afloat, he won his five-game meeting with Jung Tian in the group stage and then moved on. that with a 9 in the fifth victory in the ninth decisive match against Daniel González, things could have been very different if his team had not won that match ES, so Eugene Wong will start us on serve here right away, it's like a ittf head to head records these two have not faced each other here first wow very explosive game from the start of Marcus Madrid foreign table tennis player from Mexico plays in the French league 2-1 taking control early here as is his specialty Marcus Richard is currently ranked 145th in the world and has spent a considerable amount of time in the top 100.

Ranked 74th. Actually, 70th in the world, will that be enough to defeat Eugene Wong? The hard question to ask is Gene's style. very well known here in the US. A multiple US Open champion won probably every high profile tournament here in the US abroad getting a strong lead in thismatch places the ball on the line Immaculate placement working in parallel one line down the other, a lot of pressure on Marcus Woodridge here to get his team on the board, of course these are the one and two seeds in the tournament, they had Some difficult battles on the way here, but they both managed to reach this final stage brilliantly. playing there from Marcus Madrid this is what we need from him he has to have the opportunity to level the playing field with Eugene Wong Madrid working at table five we have to get Eugene out of that backhand position in the corner where he is so stable and Madrid is closing in on two foreign points high potential reward you can hit those shots I couldn't hit that one you can see him taking a step really looking for opportunities to lift the ball down the line with the forehand thank you and Marcus with Drake gets close to one keeping it firm on the backhand side, looking for that change of direction again, big risk, but tactically he knows that's what he needs to do, he's going to win the points here, two game points now for Eugene Wong overseas, it's like the Empire I would like to give you that point, though parents. is saying that before a slight moment of confusion came, I think from where I was sitting the first game will go to Eugene Wong, a great exhibition style, point there to round out that zero zero foreign ball attack, he is leaving much of the open table to take these risks but they are paying off one two that's a great move through those forehand loops and a lot of acceleration three two one just sit on the serve and it's red go for a reverse pendulum serve a little more long here turns the attack into short fly balls but touches the side, it's red, two points up here, okay, good, speed, acceleration on that backhand.

Marcus Madrid's Fleck somewhat maintains his two-point lead. Reckless from Marcus for the drip, it's a better place, straight to the elbow. amazing sick shock control from Eugene Wong has a brilliant ability to play these very low trajectory but very heavy slow spin loops from The Dread, it will be six, everyone sees his two point lead dry up here, the big attack has certainly been significantly aggressive in some of these The exchanges have left no room for doubt at the table, which is surely eight seven, so Eugene Wong leads eight points to seven. Marcus Madrid calls time out.

Back on the bench, you always feel that in these types of matches it seems that the people who play against Eugene Wong to exert all the energy there is a lot of attack, that a lot of energy transfer has to happen. I feel like they are always on their toes, always moving, never in position most of the time and while all of this is going on, Eugene is just rock solid, stable defense and a lot of fluid techniques that seem very easy to do. very difficult player to maintain a strong game. thank you eight seven eight seven she just ruins that store crime opportunity set there in the dread oh Eugene can't get that smile off because what else can you do in that situation? rise straight back Marcus Madrid's edge really phenomenal Point played by Eugene Wong those counterattacks from the rebound uh just incredibly impressive really a margin game Marcus Madrid really goes for those white lines the edge of the table, you chain one, he'll take the second game.

Eugene wanted the game 11-8. He leads two games to none right here in the 2022 North American Team Championship Finals. Now the ping pod is down by one game. Right now they are down. for two games here so I need to hear the support from the public who want to see colay table tennis club take this match right now and get a two match lead. Make some noise, buddy, you want a hat because you're going to get one here. West Coast is in the house, okay, here we go, giving some support to the kolei table tennis club short shot, who here wants to see the Pink pod team come back right now, win this game, get some noise back and that It's what you get when you have it right.

What I'm talking about, that's coming here on the east coast, man, you ready, thank God, it's like a Frisbee here in Maryland Harbor, they can get it today, looking down, one game less, ya Eugene Wong leads 2-0, everything is falling. on the shoulders of Marcus Madrid here right now look at all the fun zero two handles the red zero Paul drops the racket there on serve he can't afford to give away three points to a man who already has many here in this match make sure let him be on the board, oh okay, three, two and fast hands from Madrid, but even faster from Eugene Wong, he just has an incredible understanding of the game, great anticipation that he doesn't need at this stage, but we'll take it from everyone modes.

Marcus Madrid is trailing 2-5 with two games in hand and a little problem here, thanks, well it's an area he's done quite well in getting those backhand spins deep into the table with good speed, one coming in on serve backhand and a terrifying putt too. There's a lot of pressure on himself here, especially when Eugene plays soft, he's really picking up the pace, she's causing a few more mistakes, she finds her Mark with that forehand, though right in the corner, seven five foreigners lead and has had the advantage throughout the third game. So far Madrid outperforms it and still finds some good opportunities to move the ball quickly down the line, this time Marcus Madrid remains in control.

I want to see Jane Wong really work for her points. Okay, I'm just going to tie it eight points. Every foreign shot is just a matter of execution in Madrid and Eugene Wong is going to establish two match points here. A chance to put his team up 2-0 should leave them just one game away from winning this final. A little more public support. I'm sure they would love to see Marcus Madrid return to this game and he could tie things at 10 points apiece, what not, so it's definitely the right idea. I'm going to blow 12 10 here and another 3-0. cola Table Tennis Club wins and Eugene Wong defeats Marcus Madrid in the second matches here and they lead two matches now they are up two matches to zero this is a situation that the pink five must win.

I still have something to give away, you want a hat on top here, before I sit on the court, it's a must-win situation. I want to hear some love for for cold lace Table Tennis Club right now. It's going to be a big question here Ernesto was playing at third and his jersey was injured. bench Ernesto is no stranger to this competition stranger to high level competition in the US in general down here so we'll be back in a moment it will be Ernesto airport taking in a sense foreign foreign foreign so both players warming up here and let's get started, they are all black and represent ping pod of course one of their key founders.

One Way zero zero Defender, let's play some very intense matches here so far, losing in five in the semi-final, to imagine, but finally putting your team here. in the final by defeating Tao and Zhang 11-9 in the fifth plane, he had a good start two, two, three balls too, oh wait a little slow from the back, here he starts quite well in control. Wong has been navigating some of those fronts for quite some time. foreign net goes for that inside out forehand doesn't find the table one way will bring it back to five five pretty amazing work there for one actually picked up an edge ball managed to keep things pretty stable too eight nine back and attack the wrong way, but Ernesto has an answer for him six six nine, let's start calmly He returns the net with the net payment for an electric eye and a great shot on Ernesto's forehead all One Way establishing three game points that backhand serve has been very successful with, especially against Taiwan Zhang, one four in a row in the last game apparently my catching skills are not up to par today luckily there are no cameras on me oh wait oh great.

Aim the backhand there from the forehand side and finish the game in a way. eleven points to eight so far Kool-Aid table dance club on an absolute streak seven games in a row here at table one so the pressure is on Ernesto in the air he needs to keep his hopes alive zero zero one zero one one oh that did the trick along with the solid foreign defense of a foreign side from the back of the court of one side Five points to two there is a reason why he was US Open champion in 2016. solid player former top 100 in the world headed to Spain foreign foreign certainly in the power position here in this match more defensively than we've seen in previous matches and a couple of fronts there from the Modesto airport, foreign turn in this start with the service still four game points here for a bomb in a direction there from Edwin closes it to three, well, a big move in the forehead one way but we are ready for it two more game points for a long way foreigner change to the backhand serve to serve that has worked some wonders had one more opportunity therefore in its store very far in the back of the court when it is the second game 11 points to nine, so Huong Way is one game away from sealing this championship for his team.

Colony Table Tennis Club leads two games to none in this best-of-five team final eliminator. Here there are still many matches in play in the room, but as the players finish, We are here to see this final champion of the Crown of the 270 teams here, so in a way, with the service, two games in hand , looking to close this championship, two backspin serves in a row, I will give him two three points, one of which Ernesto gets. the board leads overseas here things are starting to look tough I guess, although everyone just cuts the net on the serve almost off the ground, oh that's overseas, I don't feel too much pressure when the balls go to the same place for the That I am here.

Ernesto in the air, but I'm glad I was here suffering from an injury in the last game. I'm sure Ernesto would certainly have preferred to have G Sharp playing with this Williams on the bench, with a long front on the line and a handful of match points. here and the championship points, everyone still wants to win some more here, he is not ready to retire and in one way he wins the match 3-0, he will lead a 3-0 victory for the cola Table Tennis Club Eugene Wong, it is the defense of its title. and an absolutely complete team and a brilliant effort and they narrowly survived their semi-final match to make it all the way to the final taking out the ping pod for gold.

I met Hetherington. It has been a pleasure being here with all of you. Thanks for hanging out and being there. here and supporting and watching the North American Team Championship, the largest table tennis tournament on the continent, one of the largest in the world, will return next year, as always, now we will head towards the awards ceremony for the champions of the Colay Table Tennis Club. just giving it up, announcing silver and then I'll pass the Pink Team pot to you. If we could have them lined up here, we will present them with their medals, we will bring them here so we can get their medals.

I don't think so. Know that okay gentlemen, if we could have both teams lined up here, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the final of the 2022 North American Team Championship. The winner of it all was the Colay Table Tennis Club and here to present the awards to both teams, let's welcome the chief revenue officer. from Yola Mr Mike Squires Mike gives the medal to Mr Madrid and the silver medal to Mr Lorenz and another silver to Mr ebwin Lester tell them please make some noise for the ping pod team in the name of North American table tennis and Yola we congratulate al Norte 2022 American Team Champions colay Table Tennis Club thank you on behalf of North American table tennis and Yola, we would like to thank the staff, umpires and volunteers who worked tirelessly at Tyler, as well as each of you, the players and the spectators who have come out. to support this great event to make this table tennis tournament the best in the country congratulations again to the winners of North America Table Tennis 2022 thank you very much Max we are going to take some photos and everything right now and thank you again for joining us here at the 2002 North American Team Championship