<p>Whitney Ping would love to help Jasna Reed replace the Olympic medal she lost when Serb troops stormed her hometown 12 years ago.</p><p>"We don't have that much experience together," Ping said. "But we complement each other well."</p><p>Ping, 17, and Reed, 33, earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team Sunday by winning the North American Table Tennis doubles trials at the Adamsville Recreation Center.</p><p>Table tennis matches will be held in Galatsi, Greece, about five miles northwest of Athens.</p><p>Ping, a native of Portland, Ore., and Reed, a Chicago resident, finished the round-robin tournament 4-0 after beating the Canadian pair of Petra Cada and Marie-Christine Roussy.</p><p>Reed, born and raised in Foca, Bosnia-Herzegovina, was named Jasna Fazlic when she earned a bronze medal for Yugoslavia at the 1988 Seoul Games. She gave the medal to her grandmother, but the prized possession was lost four years later when Serb troops ordered thousands of other residents to leave their homes at gunpoint.</p><p>"I'm going to try to win another medal," Reed said. "My hand and my strokes are OK. The problem usually is in my head. My focus, and the fighting in my head _ that's what I need to improve on."</p><p>Though she never experienced the kind of difficulties Reed endured earlier in her life, Ping had some problems last year. Her flight to Atlanta for the world championship trials was canceled after a stopover in Denver, which was covered in 11 feet of snow.</p><p>Ping had spent the previous year training in Sweden and playing European tournaments to get ready for the world trials.</p><p>"This was really tough because every match is so important," Ping said. "There's so much pressure, but to make the Olympics is even harder."</p><p>Ping and Reed both play "kind of mid-distance" from table, between two and six feet, and complement each other's top spin.</p><p>Cada and Roussy made the Canadian team. Cada, like Reed, was already guaranteed a spot in the Summer Games after advancing in singles earlier this year.</p><p>Johnny Huang and Faazil Kassam will represent Canada after going 5-0 this weekend. The U.S. team of Iliju Lupulesku, a 36-year-old Chicago resident, and 17-year-old Mark Hazinski of Mishawaka, Ind., went 4-1 to earn an Olympic spot.</p><p>Huang, already qualified in singles, is the No. 1-ranked men's player in North America and played in the 1996 Atlanta Games. Kassam is a first-time Olympian.</p><p>Lupulesku won a silver medal for Yugoslavia in Seoul. Hazinski will play in his first Olympics.</p>
