With less than two weeks to go, the teams from Australia and New Zealand are preparing for the TOTAL BWF Sudirman Cup 2019 which take place in Nanning, China from 19 – 24 May. Australia and New Zealand have been drawn in the same group – 3A – and will face each other on the…
DetailsOver the last month, the relatively new pairing of Oliver Leydon-Davis and Abhinav Manota have traveled around Europe to train and compete in BWF International Challenge and International Series events. Starting with the YONEX Polish Open, the pair went on to compete in the Finish Open 2019 where they narrowly missed out on the main…
DetailsThe champions from the VICTOR Oceania Individual Championships in the mixed and women’s doubles compete in the Singapore Open 2019 this week. Australian duo, Simon Leung and Gronya Somerville partnered up for their first ever HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500 event as a pair – as they continue to grow with more experience on…
DetailsThe Finnish Open 2019, a BWF International Challenge event, takes place in Vantaa, Finland from Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 April. Three players from the region enjoyed mixed success this week as New Zealand’s Abhinav Manota and Oliver Leydon-Davis and Australia’s Keith Mark Edison compete for a place in the main draw. New Zealand’s Oliver…
DetailsAs the badminton calendar heats up, several players from across the region are travelling around the world to compete. This week, New Zealand’s Sally Fu and Australia’s Daniel Fan are competing in the Osaka International Challenge 2019. Supported by the Badminton Oceania Player Development scholarship, New Zealand shuttler Sally Fu used her funding to gain…
DetailsPrepare to watch some world-class badminton! The fantastic reputation of the Barfoot & Thompson New Zealand Badminton Open 2019 lives on, and as the first Olympic qualifying event of the year, Badminton New Zealand has announced the entry list for this year’s event, which includes the highest quality assembly of badminton players the country has…
DetailsThe Sudirman Cup is the world mixed team badminton championship that takes place every two years. This year, the bi-annual Championships will be held in Nanning, China from 19-26 May. New Zealand, who finished runners-up in this year’s VICTOR Oceania Mixed Team Championships, have announced their team of eight players who will represent the country at…
DetailsOn day one of the YONEX Polish Open 2019, two of New Zealand’s players were competing for a place in the main draw. Abhinav Manota competed in the men’s singles and men’s doubles alongside his partner, Oliver Leydon-Davis. Abhinav started with his men’s singles campaign against India’s Kiran George. George got off to a head…
DetailsThe Sudirman Cup is the world mixed team badminton championship that takes place every two years. This year, the bi-annual Championships will be held in Nanning, China from 19-26 May. Australia, who won the VICTOR Oceania Mixed Team Championships for the fourth consecutive year last month, have announced their team of nine players who will…
DetailsThe men’s singles champion from the VICTOR Oceania Championships 2018, Abhinav Manota, and one half of the partnership which took the mixed doubles title in 2013 at the same event, Oliver Leydon-Davis, have paired up in pursuit of a men’s doubles spot at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. As the Olympic-qualifying period approaches, players are…
DetailsPlayers from around the world congregated in Auckland this week for the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Future Series event – the YONEX North Harbour International 2019. A large number of talented Chinese juniors were amongst the entry list, with several of the top junior players from various Chinese provinces getting their first taste for the…
DetailsThe semi-finalists have been decided at the YONEX North Harbour International 2019 as a morning of world-class badminton saw more top seed upsets and domination from the Chinese players competing in the quarter-finals. The mixed doubles opened proceedings, with the first seeds and reigning mixed doubles champions at the VICTOR Oceania Individual Championships, Gronya Somerville…
DetailsYONEX North Harbour International 2019 attracts a mix of familiar faces and fresh talent to the badminton circuit. From Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 March 2019, players who are representing countries as far as England will compete in the BWF Future Series event at Badminton North Harbour in Auckland. With a huge entry in the…
DetailsReigning champions and first seeds, Australia, arrived with every intention of taking home a fifth consecutive gold medal this year. Both teams are also competing for the Whyte Trophy – an exclusive test macth between the two nations that has been combined with the VICTOR Oceania Mixed Team Championships this year. Australia stormed through the…
DetailsAUSTRALIA DOMINATE THE DOUBLES WHILE NEW ZEALAND’S PRODIGY AND REIGNING JUNIOR CHAMPION, OSCAR GUO, CONTINUES A LEGACY IN THE OPEN MEN’S SINGLES Both the men’s and women’s singles in the VICTOR Oceania Junior Individual Championships 2019 kept the crowds on the edge of their seats for over an hour today as both ties went the distance.…
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