The Open Pro Smooth resulted in a win for US Champions, Nick Cheremukhin & Viktorija. They won all dances and in fact every couple in this final finished in the same position in all dances, but a look at the judges’ individual scores showed a much closer contest than this would suggest.
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The pro-ams had a Ballroom day. The Open Scholarships began the evening session and the most contested divisions came in the B, C and Senior divisions.
The Open B was won by Cherry Chen w/ Mikhail Avdeev 1,1,2,1,3. 2nd was Julie Zhao w/ Denis Kutepov 3,3,1,2,2 and 3rd Joanne Kay Smith w/ Anton Lebedev 5,2,3,3,1.
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Jan Duffy w/ Tadas Jonyla was the winner 1,1,1,1,2. 2nd went to Takako Trenholme w/ Valdas Padriezas 2,2,2,2,1 and 3rd to Etsuko Amagasa w/ Mikhail Avdeev 3,3,3,3,3.
A Red & White Ball!
Last night at SFO it was truly a Ball in red & white!
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There were certainly some great events last night and events that included several overseas couples. The two open professional divisions and the Amateur Latin all began with semifinal rounds.
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With the increase in entries over last year, the schedule for the pro-ams who danced both Smooth and Rhythm today was long. The Open Scholarships once again took place at night.
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In the C Latin Lynn once again won all dances. 2nd in all was Andrea Bennington w/ Ivan Mulyavka and 3rd went to Michelle Peng w/ Alexey Karaulov 3,3,4,3,3.
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Tina Broccoli w/ Andrey Kazlouski won all dances in the Open B. 2nd was Peggy Fang w/ Kirill Nitkin 3,2,2,2,2 and 3rd Joyce Lo w/ Guennadi Iakounine 2,3,3,3,4.
SFO x 38!
This is the 38th Anniversary of the San Francisco Open and our special congratulations to Denise Jourdaine-Krauel who has been an organizer of the event from the beginning.
Rex Lewis, the other original organizer, is on the judging panel this year and Denise is joined by co-organizers, Stephan Krauel and Colin James.
Entries are up in all divisions this year. Yesterday was a very full day of Rhythm pro-am dancing capped off by the Open Scholarships in the evening session and these were followed by all 4 Pro Rising Star divisions.
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The best of the Pro-Am Open Rhythm Scholarships came in the C and Sen. Divisions.
Lynn Magnesen w/ Tykhon Zhyvkov won all dances in the Open C. Joan Goddard w/ Aaron Talbert was the runner-up 2,2,3,2,3 and Renee Kuwahara w/ Ilya Reyzin was 3rd 3,3,2,3,2.
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