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As there was no category on South America, I will insert the following news report under North America. (Maybe we should rename the Category as Pan America)

The Ecuador International Open was staged at the High Performance Training Centre in Guayaquil on 2nd - 3rd September.

The host nation should be very proud as its talented 17 year old Ivan Proaño, from Quito, overcame Juan Vila (Dominican Republic), the top seed, in the ensuing Men’s Singles event, in five games. Alongside Dino Suarez, he remained unbeaten. The only "black mark" by the Ecuadorian outfit being the defeat of Nelson Salazar in five games by Juan Vila.

The Ecuador International Open is organised on the principles of the Olympic Games team system. The home team of Ivan Proaño, Dino Suarez and Nelson Salazar recorded a three-nil win against Peru’s Juan Carlos Luperdi, Aron Villavicencio and Johan Diaz followed by victory by the same margin against Guatemala’s Allan Guttierez, Jefferson Roach and Ricardo Ostos.

In the semi-finals stage, Ecuador `A’ meets the joint Dominican Republic/Ecuador team whilst Ecuador `B’ confronts Peru `B’.

Meanwhile, in the Women’s Team event where there are five teams competing on a group basis, Peru represented by Meyling Guerra, Kimberly Chavez and Natalia Ocaña finished the day as the only unbeaten team.

They recorded a three-two win over Ecuador’s Tania Almendariz, Daniela Andrade and Astrid Salazar after earlier in the day defeating Guatemala’s Eva Godoy, Mabelyn Enriquez and Hellen Salazar by thee matches to nil.

Conclusion
Matches in the team events to be concluded on Thursday 3rd September 2009.

http://www.ittf.com/juniors/2009/JC22EC ... _Event.pdf

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I will create one next week. I will be gone during the weekend to the capital of western movies.

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Well, have a nice trip to Holy-wood, varghese.

More updates on the Ecuadorean International Open.

Peru won the Men's Team Event through Xavier Portugal, Bryan Blas and Fernando Inca on Thursday 3rd September 2009 and in so doing reversed the result of one day earlier, when in the group stage, they had suffered a three-one reverse against the host nation.

At the semi-final stage against the Ecuador `B’ team trio of Dino Suarez, Nelson Salazar and Ivan Proano; Bryan Blas overcame both Nelson Salazar and Ivan Proano in a three-one victory; the one remaining win for the visitors came from Fernando Inca against Dino Suarez; whilst for Ecuador Ivan Proaño and Nelson Salazar combined to win the doubles against Xavier Portugal and Fernando Inca.
A three-one semi-final win and it was the same story in the final.Alberto Miño gave to one hundred strong home supporters cause to rejoice when he beat Xavier Portugal in the opening duel but from then on Peru took control.Bryan Blas proved too consistent with his topspin play for Geovanny Coello to level matters and then partnered Fernando Inca to doubles victory over Geovanny Coello and Oscar Sanchez.

However, there was joy also for the host nation. Seeded no.4, Sweden’s Caroline Andersson in harness with the Ecuador duo of Tatiana Nieto and Maria Fernanda Barco won the Women’s Team event. They finished ahead of Peru’s Kimberly Chavez, Francesca Vargas and Meyling Guerra.
Ecuador’s Tania Almendariz, Daniela Andrade and Astrid Salazar finished in third place.

(Note : News from ITTF)