Portland’s Sid Naresh (SPINDEX: 2683) and New York’s Haeeun Choi (2568) won Men’s and Women’s Players of the Week for Week 4, Major League Table Tennis (MLTT) announced on Tuesday.

Naresh is the third Paddler to earn Player of the Week honors this season, after Kang Dong-Soo (2788) and Kotomi Omoda (2610) won for their Week 3 performances. 

Haeeun Choi becomes the fifth rookie to win Player of the Week this season, following Kang, Carolina’s Chen Sun (2561) in Week 2, Carolina’s Mohamed Shouman (2697) in Week 2 and Florida’s Peiyu Zhu (2597) in Week 1.

Naresh participated in all three doubles matches throughout Week 4, where he and Nikhil Kumar (2760) won six of their nine games. Naresh also participated in a singles match against Princeton’s Mathieu de Saintilan and won all three games.

Naresh, a native of Naperville, Ill., played his best weekend all season in front of family and friends in Bensenville. Those loved ones saw Naresh score the final point of Friday’s Golden Game against Chicago star Mo Zhang (2582), which stopped a comeback bid from the Wind.

Choi faced Zhang, Omoda, Princeton’s Jiangshan Guo (2575) and in her debut weekend with MLTT. New York’s third-round pick in the 2025 MLTT Draft won five of her nine games in Bensenville, which includes two games against the reigning Female Player of the Week.

New York’s Yiran Wu (2722), Portland’s Minhyeok Kim (2745), New York’s Koki Niwa (2806) and Chicago’s Robert Gardos (2750) were all nominated for Men’s Player of the Week. Zhang, Guo and Omoda were nominated for Women’s Player of the Week.

This is the first time all season that two players on separate teams have won these honors since Week 1, when Zhu and Bay Area’s Elsayed Lashin (2690) took home the inaugural Player of the Week honors for Season 3.

No player on the Chicago Wind (3-3, +39) won either award following Week 4. This means that for the first time in Season 3, neither Player of the Week nod will go to an athlete from that weekend’s home team.

After their Week 4 matches, both Portland and New York sit atop their respective divisions. New York (4-2, +71) surpassed Carolina (4-2, +61) to rule over the East Division, while Portland’s (7-2, +125) seat atop the West Division only rose higher.

New York will host the Los Angeles Spinners (1-2, + ), Texas Smash and Princeton Revolution from Nov. 7-9 in Pleasantville, NY. Portland won’t return until Jan. 9-11, when they face the Los Angeles, Texas and the Atlanta Blazers at home.

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