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2018 Paddle Palace Winter Round Robin

2018 Paddle Palace Winter Round Robin

By Jay Crystal

Paddle Palace Club Giant Round Robin—December 8th, 2018 PPC hosted a Giant Round Robin Tournament on December 8th. 27 players were seeded into 5 groups, two of 5 players and 3 of 6 players. The second round had the 1 through 4 finishers placed into 4 groups of 5. The fifth and sixth place finishers were placed into two groups of four with the number one finishers having a playoff for the top two division 5 players. This was the first sanctioned tournament in the US using the new yellow Nittaku Nexcel 3-Star 40+ Ball. Results are as follows: Group , Winners , Runner-ups Group 1 , Jiwei Xia , Sarang Bhaway Group 2 , Alex Badmaev , Tom Lackaff Group 3 , Gerald Yaneza , Viktor Khlevnoy Group 4 , Burke Walls , Yevgeniy Mayevskiy Group 5 , Zack Riccelli , Chuck Brockway PPC members were victorious in all of the groups!

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