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…
DetailsPictured 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…
DetailsRunze 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…
DetailsSeven 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsFour 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…
DetailsAs 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,…
DetailsWOMEN’S DOUBLES Yuki Fukushima/Sayaka Hirota (JPN)[2] bt Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan (CHN)[3] 21-10 21-16 The score did not reflect the incredible quality of the match, with some rallies falling just shy of two minutes long. Both pairs got off to a great start with only two points separating them throughout the first half of the opening…
DetailsWS: Nozomi Okuhara (JPN)[1] beat Ratchanok Intanon (THA)[4] 21-17, 21-15 Even though Ratchanok Intanon was making Nozomi Okuhara run a great deal, there was no reluctance on the latter’s part. The Japanese still managed to stay ahead in the first game. There were a few Thai drop-shots that were too sharp to reach but the…
DetailsThe world class players from Indonesia and China opened proceedings on semi finals day at the Crown Group Australian Badminton Open 2019. Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu were looking to reprise their quarter final exit at this year’s All England Championships against Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan. The Chinese dominated the first game, before the…
DetailsJapanese superstars Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino opened proceedings on quarter finals day at the Crown Group Australian Badminton Open 2019. Watanabe was seeking revenge for his early exit in the men’s doubles at the hands of Ko Sung Hyun and Shin Baek Cheol. Alongside Higashino, the Japanese second seeds stumbled in the second game…
DetailsJonatan Christie (INA)[3] beat Lin Dan (CHN)[8] 21-9, 24-22 It was a drama filled revenge match for the Indonesian who bowed out to the five-time World Champion in the final of the 2018 New Zealand Open final the last time they met. Christie returned the favour with a straight games demolition too that was tactical…
DetailsThe quarter finalists have been decided at the Crown Group Australian Badminton Open 2019 as the round of 16 served up some fierce competition at the Quaycentre in Sydney Olympic Park. The mixed doubles opened up with a scintillating display of badminton as the first two games on court went the distance over three thrilling…
DetailsLin Dan (CHN)[8] beat Kashyap Parupalli (IND) 21-17, 20-22, 21-14 The Chinese and Indian played a chess-like match, using every stroke of their arsenal as well as checking the quality of each other’s favourite moves. Twice Olympic champion Lin sporadically displayed this signature cross court smashes from both directions and, importantly, good athleticism to equal…
DetailsAfter missing the Barfoot & Thompson New Zealand Open last month, and only playing one match in the TOTAL BWF Sudirman Cup 2019 in China, the second seeds from Japan, Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino, are back with a vengeance. The pair showed no prisoners in the first round yesterday (winning 21-4 21-2) and brought…
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