Gold in Luxembourg for Puerto Rico’s Afanador
(by Steve Hopkins/Photo by ITTF)
The Luxembourg Open Table Tennis Championships was held a week ago in Kirchberg in the Northeast quarter of Luxembourg City.
The tournament’s top seed was Lioney Weber of Switzerland. There were 42 participants in all, with nearly all representing European countries. Nicholas Tio represented the United States, and was the only other player from North America. Tio fell to Andrei Labanau of Belarus 4-2 and Jonathan Thimon of Swedent 4-0.
The story of the tournament was Puerto Rico’s Brian Afanador who won the Men’s Singles event. Afanador defeated Ciociu (LUX) 4-0 and Chernov (Russia 4-1) on his way to the quarterfinals. He then defeated Shamruk (BLR) 4-0 in the quarters, and Levergne (France) 4-2 in the semifinals.
In the final, Afanador faced Simon Soderlund of Sweden. Afanador won the first two games 11-9, and 11-4. Soderlund then changed the momentum and pulled out an 11-7 victory in the third. However, Afanador closed the door with tight wins in the final two games. Afanador over Soderlund 4-1 (9, 4, -7, 9, 10)
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The Google Sheets image takes you to a spreadsheet that gives the settings for each drill. While these won’t be the exact settings for the Control Panel on your robot, they will give you an idea of where to start, and you’ll need to adjust from there. At the bottom, we’ve included the ranges and defaults for the setting on a Prime so you can compare these to the ranges and defaults on your own robot. In general, default settings should give you a similar ball regardless of what model you have. If a drill has a change of speed, spin, or trajectory, you will be unable to replicate that drill on a Basic or Start model.
Amicus Prime owners, save these drills to your device via the following steps:
Click the Drill image below to download the file to your tablet, cell phone or other device that has the Amicus app on it.
Open that file and a window will appear in the Amicus app to confirm you want to import those drills. Tap Import to add the drills to the Exercise List.
You can then play those drills just like any other drill in the Exercise List.
Tip – After importing the drills from a Fethomania Session, tap on the drill description to reveal Stefan’s technique pointers for that drill!
Amicus Prime owners, if you want a video of a Fethomania drill, you will need to manually link the video for a particular Fethomania drill with the following steps:
Download the video to the device that contains the Amicus app (probably to the Downloads folder).
Open the Amicus app on that device.
Select the matching drill in the Exercise List.
Tap on the Drill Description. The Set Exercise Properties popup window will appear.
Tap on Select Video button at the bottom of that window. Then navigate to where the video is located in the file directory and select that video.
Tap Save at bottom right of the popup window, Save at the top right of the main window, then Save in the resulting popup window.
Tap the Drill Description again and the title of the video should now appear in parentheses after Select Video.
To play the video, tap the Play Video button on the Play Exercise screen.