2018 Fremont April Open tournament

April 23, 2018
7:10 pm

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Trophies were given out to the 1st/2nd place finishers in each event and medals to the 3rd/4th place finishers.

Day 1 Album | Day 2 Album | Day 3 Album

FULL RESULTS

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The big winners were Fremont TTA students Pranav Tantravahi, Bhavesh Kumar, and Arnav Khinvasara who had 5 first-place and 1 second-place finishes and were the only 3 players to reach two event finals. Pranav performed sub-par in the Under 2500 on the first day but then comfortably won the Under 2300 and Under 2100 events losing only one game combined in both events including impressive 3-0 wins against higher-rated players in the Under 2300 semis and finals. Bhavesh won the Under 1300 and Under 1100 events and gave higher-rated players trouble in higher events he played for experience. Arnav Khinvasara won the Under 1700 and beat the top seed in the Under 2100 event before losing to Pranav in the Under 2100 final. Fremont TTA private lesson students won first-place in 8 of the 13 events.

Players to win multiple medals or trophies were:

Anil Ramappa-3rd place-Under 2500, 3rd place-Under 2300, 3rd place-Under 2100

Arjun Ganesan-3rd place-Under 1300, 3rd place-Under 1100, 3rd place-Under 900

Arnav Khinvasara-1st place-Under 1700, 2nd place-Under 2100

Bhavesh Kumar-1st place-Under 1300, 1st place-Under 1100

Daniel Wang-1st place-Under 500, 3rd place-Under 300

Muhammad Qazi-1st place-Under 900, 3rd place-Under 1100

Pranav Tantravahi-1st place-Under 2300, 1st place-Under 2100

Yuyang Ying-3rd place-Under 2100, 3rd place-Under 2300

FULL RESULTS OF 2018 FREMONT APRIL OPEN:

FRIDAY
Under 300	RR	SE	1st Place: Ayush Raj	2nd Place: Yajat Sharma	3rd Place: Madhukar Pawar	3rd Place: Daniel Wang
Under 100	RR	SE	1st Place: Achyut Badri	2nd Place: Tega Sebeni	3rd Place: Akshara Badri	3rd Place: Umar Iqbal
Under 50	RR	SE	1st Place: Nithin Bandaru	2nd Place: Priyanshu Ghosh	3rd Place: Vedant Sanghvi	3rd Place: Ansh Parikh
SATURDAY
Under 2500	RR	SE	1st Place: William Bai	2nd Place: Olaf Surmann	3rd Place: Rishikumar Gopalan	3rd Place: Anil Ramappa
Under 1700	RR	SE	1st Place: Arnav Khinvasara	2nd Place: Yuri Smirnoff	3rd Place: Jose Fernandez	3rd Place: Steve Adams
Under 2100	RR	SE	1st Place: Pranav Tantravahi	2nd Place: Arnav Khinvasara	3rd Place: Yuyang Ying	3rd Place: Anil Ramappa
Under 1300	RR		1st Place: Bhavesh Kumar	2nd Place: Blesson Paul	3rd Place: Martin Wong	3rd Place: Arjun Ganesan
Under 1100	RR	SE	1st Place: Bhavesh Kumar	2nd Place: Becky Cheng	3rd Place: Arjun Ganesan	3rd Place: Muhammad Qazi
Under 900	RR	SE	1st Place: Muhammad Qazi	2nd Place: Neel Dhavali	3rd Place: Arjun Ganesan	3rd Place: Adarsh Jayaram
Under 700	RR	SE	1st Place: Sayan Dey	2nd Place: Rishi Singh	3rd Place: Adarsh Jayaram	3rd Place: Eduardo Gonzalez
Under 500	RR	SE	1st Place: Daniel Wang	2nd Place: Genelia William	3rd Place: Lynna Xu	3rd Place: Dheeraj Tallapragada
SUNDAY
Under 2300	RR	SE	1st Place: Pranav Tantravahi	2nd Place: Shuja Jafar	3rd Place: Anil Ramappa	3rd Place: Yuyang Ying
Under 1900	RR	SE	1st Place: Dhruv Sampat	2nd Place: Jason Liang	3rd Place: Rishi Sankar	3rd Place: Misha Sushchik

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