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Quick, Chin win Big
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Friday Matches in Greenwich Forecast Team

Richard Chin and Preston Quick, who were teammates on the U. S. team that placed 19th in the 2001 World Team Championships in Australia eight months ago, took a big step towards becoming teammates again at the Pan American Federation event in Ecuador this August with straight-game wins in their respective Team Trials pool matches in Greenwich Friday evening.

Chin repeated the six-day-old 3-0 win he had recorded in the early rounds of the U. S. Pro championships in Los Angeles late last week with a 9-6, 5 and 5 victory over Jason Jewell, while Quick, who had won that event in California, maintained his winning streak with a 9-4, 7 and 2 triumph over fellow class of 2000 member Beau River.

Chin, had lost a highly competitive though straight-game match to current National Champion Damian Walker last night, and this outcome, coupled with the No. 4 ranking he carried into these trials (behind Walker, Dave McNeely and Quick), meant that he needed a win tonight to cement his record eighth career membership on an American team entry in this Pan Am Fed competition.

Every player has an overall score quotient computed based 40% on his season-end ranking, 20% on his placement in the S. L. Green tournament in March (the U. S. National championship) and the last 40% based on placement in this six-player Trials event. He seemed a trifle stiff at the outset of his match with Jewell, perhaps betraying the effect the long and intense battle he had fought Thursday night with Walker had exacted on his smallish 33-year-old frame.

Jewell was able to take advantage with a series of well-placed drops and angles that earned him a 6-2 lead, but Chin righted himself and regained his mobility at that stage, enabling him to take the game 9-6 with only three hands-out. He never fully attained the quality he had exhibited against Walker, but he was always a few points ahead throughout the remaining pair of games against his talented southpaw opponent, who always exudes a lot of energy but needs to become less tin-prone in order to have better results at this level.

Quick, the runner-up to Walker in the 2002 S. L. Green this past March and, as noted, the recently-crowned U. S. Pro champion, had been outstanding Thursday night in a dominant 9-2, 4 and 2 victory over McNeely. Against the much-larger River, he was not nearly as sharp or focused, but still was able to grind out a 9-4, 7 and 2 win that swung on the second game, in which River's best stretch of the night got him to a 7-2 lead. When Quick charged right past him and took that game 9-7, the air pretty much went out of River's balloon and he never really was able to contest the third-game close-out.

River and Jewell came into this round-robin event with the lowest rankings of the six contenders for the four available roster spots, which meant that both badly needed to win their respective matches Friday. Jewell will play Walker this afternoon at 4 p.m. in a match that will be immediately followed by McNeely vs. River, and the Trials will conclude Sunday morning with the respective Nos. 1, 2 and 3 finishers in the two pool playing each other for final placement.

Friday's match scores
Richard Chin d Jason Jewell, 9-6 9-5 9-5
Preston Quick d Beau River 9-4 9-7 9-2

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