USATT ratings

earned for "mostly hardbat" vs. sponge play

06/15/08  =================

1.  2232  Franz-Josef Huermann
2.  2192  Steve Berger
3.  2153  Ty Hoff
4.  2145  Timothy Kelly
4.  2117  Don Brazzell
6.  2104  Boris Rabinovich
7.  2046  Roy Schlabach, Jr.
8.  1999  Noel Huermann
9.  1988  Scott Gordon
10. 1958  Norman Bass
11. 1949  Marty Reisman
    1949  M. M. Pete May
13. 1938  James Rautis
14. 1930  Dmitri Moundous
15. 1923  George Cooper 
16. 1895  Ralph Stadelman
17. 1890  Andrew Hutzel
18. 1877  Janadri, Bchara
19. 1871  Alan Millett
20. 1862  Carl Miller
21. 1849  Allen McDermott
22. 1843  Houshang Bozorgzadeh 
23. 1840  Lorin Benedict
24.*1819  Scott Andrew Baker
25. 1808  Steven Hitchner
26  1785  Tony Ettinger
27. 1784  Alberto Prieto
28. 1783  Bob Weich
29. 1779  Gordon Beehler
30. 1760  Harry Deschamps
31. 1756  B. Ball
32. 1723  Papp, Albert
33. 1695  Ivan Slade
34. 1653  John Starr
35. 1649  Newton, Curt
36. 1644  Robert Palgon
37. 1638  Francis Kristofic
38. 1637  Matt Faccini
39.*1622  Tisler, James
40. 1612  Peter Zombori
41. 1587  Martin J. Theil, III
42. 1574  Haskard, Donald
43. 1557  Dean Johnson
44. 1555  Harvey Gotliffe
45. 1544  Wayne Johnson
46. 1542  Don Varian
47. 1522  Tim Boggan
48. 1497  Conlee, George
49. 1486  Bob Reising
50. 1466  Tim Wright
51. 1464  Paul Loscavio
52. 1429  Dean Norman
53. 1415  John Pratt
    1415  Friedman, James
55. 1402  Berndt Mann
56. 1376  Thomas J. Huff
57. 1374  Frank Herbst
58. 1367  Hermann Luechinger
59. 1363  Dan Marinas
60.*1352  Fred Kurtz
61. 1345  Jeff Louie
62. 1267  Peter Markus
63. 1203  Temitope Isibor
64.  982  John Grinnell
65 * 874  Jim Carlson
66.  686  Howard Blum
67.* 474  Augustin Crawford

AVERAGE = 1654

A (*) preceeding the rating indicates that this player does not yet have a UHRL (hardbat event) rating.

   2292  John Tannehill rating before returning to sponge play
   2183  Larry Hodges rating before returning to sponge play
   2112  Danny Hill   rating before returning to sponge play
   1899  Jonathon Adams rating before returning to sponge play
   1849  Sonny Bradley rating before returning to sponge play
   1834  Lobo Lin rating before returning to sponge play
   1793  Thanh Nguyen rating before returning to sponge play
   1553  Jose Bulatao rating before returning to sponge play
   1536  John Franicevich rating before returning to sponge play
    548  Ji Li rating before switching to sponge

NOTE: It is a generally-held opinion that hardbat play versus sponge is a very different game than hardbat vs. hardbat. This list is included to show that you don't need sponge to play a competitive game. As you can see, the average ratings of hardbat players, even against sponge, is higher than the average sponge rating!

Classic Hard Bat Table Tennis