Badminton Oceania’s disability consultant Ian Bridge has just completed another visit to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to deliver coaching sessions for PNG’s growing Para badminton team. Ian was impressed to see several new athletes join the regular Para athletes attending 3 x weekly Inclusive GymBad sessions. Inclusive GymBad is part of Team Up –…
At the recent CROWNE PLAZA Northern Marianas Open 2023 and TAKECARE Saipan International 2023 Badminton Oceania sat down with Australian National Coach, Leanne Choo to find out what is the ‘why’ behind the young woman who leads the Falcons. At the age of 32, Leanne has had a badminton filled life, representing Australia at two…
Special Olympics World Games 2023 Berlin have just come to an end, completing nine days of competition across 26 sporting codes. The Special Olympics World Games are the world’s largest inclusive sporting event, a celebration promoting more recognition and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics is a worldwide organisation that supports five million athletes,…
With the opportunity to align with two Badminton World Federation Grade 3 International Challenge tournaments held recently in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, Badminton Oceania took the moment to include a number of development activities during this period. One of the initiatives focused on Technical Officials development. Oceania Line Judge, Lynne Dobson (NZL), was responsible for…
Men’s Singles The Lee twins got off to a flying start in their men’s doubles final. Chang and Po seemed to have little response as Fang-Jen and Fang-Chih went into the interval 11-5 up. There was not a lot of chatter from either team in the break, however something had changed as number one seeds,…
Pictured: Fang-Chih Lee/Fang-Jen Lee (TPE) Out of the four mixed doubles pair that made it to the semifinals, only one was seeded, and not one featured in last weeks CROWNE PLAZA Northern Marianas Open 2023 semifinals. The top seeds, who did not make it past round two last week, struggled against team USA, ending their…
Day four opened with some heated contests in the men’s and women’s doubles. Hoping to progress to the quarterfinals later in the day, all first round matches were intense, setting up a competitive vibe at the TAKECARE Saipan International 2023. The first seeds in the men’s doubles from Chinese Taipei had to dig deep against…
Pictured: Ryoma Muramoto (JPN) In a repeat of the men’s final at the CROWNE PLAZA Northern Marianas Open 2023, Liao Jhuo-Fu would have been hoping for a similar result. Jeon Hyeok Jin, on the other hand had a different plan, that took three games to play out. After losing the first, Jeon had a fire…
Over the last two weeks there has been international badminton in the Northern Mariana Islands with many players from numerous nations enjoying the tournaments and the beautiful location they are in. Two of these are players from Europe with this being their first visit to Saipan. Max Weisskirchen and Elias Bracke are good friends on…
Pictured: Wictoria Dabczynska (POL) The women’s singles draw at the TAKECARE Saipan International 2023 had a little stutter on day two with the number three seed Wen Yu Zeng being knocked out by Pen Yu Wei. Sung Shuo Yun had no trouble keeping her campaign alive with a convincing win over Misaki Kurashima. Peng Yu…