It was a tough day for the remaining Oceania players at the LI-NING BWF World Junior Championships, with some fierce competition and close results as the event refines down to the later rounds and quarter-finals. Australia and New Zealand each saw a mixed doubles pair progress into round two, with both pairs missing out to…
It’s been a tough day for our players on day two of the LI-NING BWF World Junior Championships 2018 with many of the juniors from Australia and New Zealand coming up against some of the top seeds in the early rounds. Zecily Fung (currently ranked 47 in the world junior rankings) continued her impressive run…
On day 1 of the LI-NING BWF World Junior Championships in Canada, we saw mixed success in the men’s and women’s singles events throughout the morning and Oceania’s mixed doubles pairings have been in action throughout the afternoon. Ryan Tong and Ella Smith (ranked 357/143 respectively) from New Zealand secured a second-round place with a fantastic win…
Zecily Fung is the first Oceania player on court at the LI-NING BWF World Junior Championships 2018. On Monday 12 November (local time in Markham, Canada) the LI-NING BWF World Junior Championships 2018 begin as the future stars of badminton compete on the big stage. Oceania sees a number of athletes competing from both Australia…
It was mixed emotions on day 4 as we saw both our teams, New Zealand and Australia, take to the court to compete for final overall standings between 33-40. If both teams were to win their matches against Uganda and Slovakia respectively, they would have faced each other again in the play-off for positions 33…
New Zealand and Australia returned to the court once again on day 3 of the LI-NING BWF World Junior Championships 2018 as they compete for overall standings between 33-40. Having faced each other earlier in the day, New Zealand won the battle to play against Poland in the next round of games while Australia took…
Neighbouring countries Australia and New Zealand went head-to-head in the Play Off stages at the LI-NING BWF World Junior Mixed Team Championships 2018 in Canada. The tie got off to an emphatic start with a mixed doubles match that went the full distance. The three-game thriller was eventually won by Australia with a 22-20 decider,…
From 11-17 February 2019, the VICTOR Oceania Championships 2019 will take place at the Melbourne Sport and Aquatic Centre, starting with the individual event (11-14 February) before the team competition takes place (15-17 February). The seedings for the team event are now available, based on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Rankings commencing Tuesday 8…
With a record breaking 65 countries competing at the 2018 blibli.com BWF World Junior championships the Australian and New Zealand players have finished their tournament showing a promising display for the future.
As part of the Oceania development programme the U19’s national teams from Australia and New Zealand are in Magelang, Indonesia in preparation for the BWF blibli.com World Junior Championships. The training camp is to help them aclimatise and gain some much needed experience in a different environment.