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PT Lovern and Emmanuel Bouchard are the World Champions!

They won in straight sets over Gilles and JF (Montreal, Quebec) 15-5, 15-11.

Gilles Demers and JF Lemieux defeated 2 time defending World Champion Florian Goetze and Patrick Schrickel (Frankfurt, DE and San Lorenzo, CA, USA) in the semifinal 2 sets to 1 (6-15, 15-13, 15-8) to reach the final.

PT and Manu were a well oiled machine and JF and Gilles never really got into rythm in the Championship match.

In the other semifinal PT and Emmanuel defetead Matti Pojhola and Oskari Forsten in straight sets.

Oxana and Julia are the Womens’ Open Doubles Champions!

I’ll try to add to this later but that’s the news of the day so far.

Chaos!

Eleven!

The Open Singles World Champion for 2008 is Emmanuel Bouchard.  JF Lemieux put up a good fight, it was a great show, and Manu’s complete domination of Open Singles continues.  Emmanuel won the first game, which was close throughout, 15-12.  JF jumped out to a 9-4 lead in game 2 before Manu worked his way back and then took the lead 12-9.  The venue is small but it was packed and the crowd was, shall we say… very appreciative.  JF would not go easily and came back yet again to take the lead 14-12.  He had one shot at a game point and the crowd definitely wanted to see more, but he could not convert and Emmanuel closed it out 16-14.  It’s definitely one of the great singles finals of all time.

Matti Pojhola (Team Finland) is the bronze metalist over John Leys (Team Chaos) in straight sets.

Oxana Prikhodko, of Russia, is the Open Singles Women’s World Champion defeating Julia Tikhomirova, also from Russia, in straight sets.

Ok, off to the site for the Doubles matches.  I’ll be back

Quarterfinals For The Ages

All 4 quarterfinal singles matches were well played, having at least some drama, and were very entertaining.  On top of that, they were staggered just enough so the fans could move from the finish of one match to the final game of another catching the climactic final set of all if they so chose.

The Fins have another representative in the Semi’s!  Matti Pohjola, of Team Finland, defeated Florian Goetze, Team Deutschland, in a dramatic 3 set match (11-9 in the 3rd).

They had a glimpse at history too with Tuomas Karki taking Emmanuelle Bouchard to task in game 2 of their quarterfinal.  Tuomas was unable to convert on a game point in the 2nd set and ultimately fell in strights sets with the score 10-12 in the 2nd.

JF Lemieux, of Montreal Quebec defeated Andy Wolff, of Frankfurt Deutschland, in 3 sets.  All 3 games were dramatic and while JF took control in game 3 it was still closer than the score would indicat with JF prevailing 11-3.

Finally, John Leys, NYC USA and Chaos #4, was steady enough to close the book on Oskari Forsten’s Cinderella Story performance.  Oskari made a furious comeback in the 3rd set after being down 8-2 only to fall short as John tightened up his defense to close out at 11-9.

So, the story of the event so far is still the Finns I think!!

Singles Semis:
#1 seed Emmanuelle Bouchard of Montreal Quebec VS #3 seed John Leys, Chaos #4, of NYC USA
#8 Matti Pojhola of Finland VS #6 seed Jean Francios Lemieux of Montral Quebec

Doubles quarters was pretty much the opposite.  All matches went in straight sets with perhaps a little drama with Franky and Luc pushing the defending World Champions, Flo and Patrick Schrickel - Chaos #8, but Flo and Patti were able to come back after significant deficits in each of the first 2 sets to win the match in straight.

Gilles Demers and JF Lemieux were very much on top of their game and defeated John and Eric in straight sets.  I think it was disappointing for all to see Chaos #4, John Leys, revisit a calf injury early in game 1.  The chances for a good showing reduced significantly from that moment, and Gilles and JF took full advantage as they should continuing to play at the top of their game throughout.

Emmanuelle and PT, Chaos #3, dominated the Finnish Team of Tuomas and Jesse winning in straight sets.

Matti Pojhola and Oskari Forsten defeated the bronze metal team from last year, Jakko Inkennen and Jani Markkanen, in straight sets.

So - Doubles Semis
Matti and Oskari (Finland) VS PT and Manu
JF and Gilles of (Quebec) VS 2 time defending World Champions Patrick Chaos #8 Schrickel and Florian Goetze.  Patrick now resides USA and Florian, of course, is from Frankfurt, Germany

The Semis are Set!

The Quarterfinals had some upsets for sure. There was some crazy action especially on the Singles side.

Here are the results:

Singles

Manu (Quebec) over Tuomas Karki (Finland)
Johnny over Oskari (Finland)
Matti (Finland) over Flo (Germany)
JF (Quebec) over Andi (Germany)

Semis are

Manu VS Johnny
JF VS Matti

Doubles Net:

Flo and Patti (Germany) over Frank and Luc (Quebec)
PT and Manu over Tuomas and Jesse (Finland)
Matti and Oskari (Finland) over Jakko and Jani (Finland)
JF and Gilles (Quebec) over Eric and Johnny

Doubles Semis:

Patti/Flo VS Gilles/JF
PT/Manu VS Oskari/Matti

Other notes: Tuan and Jeremy got 16th, Tuan is also the Master of Disaster in both Singles and Doubles, and of course Air Jer is still on PROBATION, but damn proud of it. 

Taking Care Of Business

Ok, it was a shaky start and we’ve had a couple scares but Chaos is taking care of business so far.  PT and Manu, Chaos #3 and #27, the #2 seed here, haven’t broken a sweat yet in their run to the quarterfinals in open doubles.  All doubles matches are games to 15 from here on out.

John and Eric, Chaos #4 and 5, pulled the #5 seed, and won their pool.  Out of the pool they were immediately challenged by Slovanian A, Ales and Jaka, in the round of 16 going to game 3 and winning in dramatic fashion 11-9 on a dig by Eric off the net scrappy diving save by Johnny somehow dribbling it over the net - for the win!  4-11, 11-6, 11-9.  John and Eric face Montreal A, Gilles and JF, today at 11:30 to see who goes to the semifinals - “The Show”.

Chaos #25 and #7, Jeremy and Tuan, seeded 13 are out of the title run but playing strong and aiming for 9th.

Johnny Leys is the final US player in the running for the singles championship and in the quarterfinals.  Johnny!!

The feel good story of the event so far is team Finland.  They’ve been threatening for years now and starting to break through the last 2 having their first semifinalist 2 years ago in singles and a 3rd place finish in doubles and singles last year.  Well, we’re looking at 3 Fins in the quarters in singles and another 3 Fin teams, that means 6 , in the doubles quarters.  The Fins are deep.

As usual, it’s hard trying to find time to post but maybe I can squeeze in some more detailed results and shenanigans at some point before this week is out.

Black Monday

Sorry, details not be disclosed here.