reserved words and table names

[Matthew Broadhead]

i am trying to create a table called Condition but i get 
javax.el.ELException: javax.enterprise.inject.CreationException: 
org.apache.openjpa.lib.jdbc.ReportingSQLException: You have an error in 
your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server 
version for the right syntax to use near 'Condition

condition is a reserved word in MySQL.  is there a way to tell OpenJPA 
to surround table and column names with backticks in queries?  i though 
it would do that by default