Oceania’s reigning Women’s Singles champion has been preparing for an upcoming month of intense competition in India. Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen is looking to qualify for her second Olympics Games after competing in Rio 2016. The singles specialist is competing in the 2019 YONEX Canada Open and US Open over the next month and is balancing…
Pictured above: Danielle Whiteside, Fiji | Photo Credit: Badminton Photo Badminton returns to the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games after last being included in the 2011 New Caledonia edition. Five out of the eight countries entered into the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games Individual events form a diverse seedings report in 2019 which amplifies the range of…
Earlier this year, Fiji hosted a Paralympic Showcase in Nadi to coincide with the Oceania National Olympic Committee (ONOC) AGM. During the event, Ateca Mataitoga was highlighted as a prospect for Para-Badminton, both as a player and coach. After deciding to put her own well-being at the forefront, Para-sport is a new addition to Ateca’s…
Runze Yan leads the charge as an influx of Oceania athletes compete in Mongolia. Players from New Zealand in Australia are competing in the Mongolia International Challenge 2019 this week. Australia’s Runze Yan will be the first player on court at 9am on Tuesday 25 June in the Men’s Singles qualifications. As the first seeded…
Last week, fifteen youngsters from Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and the Cook Islands travelled to Auckland to take part in the Pacific Development Squad training camp. While the aspiring players were taking part in various on and off court sessions, six team managers and coaches accompanied the teenagers and took part in the BWF Level 1…
Australia’s Caitlin Dransfield is currently competing in Ireland at the FZ Forza Irish Para-Badminton International 2019 as she aims to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games – the first time Para-Badminton will be played. The international Para-Badminton circuit comes with an added twist for Dransfield, as a smaller community of players on the elite…
Seven teams will compete in the Mixed Team badminton event at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games event from Monday 8 – Wednesday 10 July. Five months after the VICTOR Oceania Open Mixed Team Championships, where four out of these seven teams competed, the Pacific Islands unite for the prestigious quadrennial event. The teams have been…
The VICTOR Oceania Championships 2020 will return to Victoria, at the Ken Kay Badminton Stadium in Ballarat, Australia, from 10 – 15 February 2020. Opening with the Men’s and Women’s Team Championships (10-12 Feb), the event will act as the qualifying event for the Thomas & Uber Cup Finals which take place in Denmark from…
Four singles players from Australia are competing in Quatre Bornes this week at the FLEET Mauritius International 2019. The two men’s singles players include Anthony Joe and Pit Seng Low, while the two women’s singles players are Louisa Ma and Yingzi Jiang. All four players qualified for the main draw with three of them in…
As the hundreds of players race around the world in hunt of Olympic qualification, players from Australia have taken it upon themselves to chase the dream. Last week, Australia’s Louisa Ma and Anthony Joe travelled to Baku to compete in a BWF International Challenge event, the Azerbaijan International 2019. In the absence of a coach,…