Seemiller Plays. Seemiller Wins.
By Bill McLaughlin - Cub Reporter, Table Tennis Dayton
Dayton, OH – A typical gray April sky did not prevent the finest table tennis players in the mid-west from engaging on the field of battle at the Lohrey Center for glory and a cash payout of “C Notes” to each group victor. Rain threatened from above, while victors reigned supreme within.
A man who has seen hundreds of victories on the table is American table tennis legend Dan Seemiller, who led a contingent of Indianans, and summarily mopped the floor with his Group A competition, on the way to pocketing a cool $200.00 in what was arguably his greatest sequence of victories in his long-storied career.
Sure he's been on World Championship teams for the United States, playing the likes of 1985 and 1987 World Champion Jiang Jialiang among scores of other world class players during his long career – but was he up to the challenge of sweeping eight top mid-west class table tennis players in order to proclaim this latest of greatest victories?
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The answer was an emphatic "yes", as he annihilated his opponents with a final tally of 9-0, and losing only a single game to Cincinnati TTC top gun Nick Snider. Seemiller 27, opponents 1.
And who were his opponents? Granted Jiang couldn't make it due to prior commitments, but in his place were his apparent countryman – the mysterious Xuan "Steve" Xu, the vivacious and previous Dayton Open C Notes II winner Petra "The Czech Czich" Sestakova, another Dayton Open C Notes I winner Chandramouli "The King" Shankaren, the ornery Mark Artman, Ivan "The Rallying Russian" Popov, the aforementioned Nick "No, I do not look like Tom Hulce" Snider, and the only sub-2000 rated player of the group, Keith "Millions" Brewster.
Well take a back seat boys and girls, as Dan “The Man” stormed like a trooper and finished as the newly crowned 2007 Dayton Open C Notes VI champion.
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