No Comments »February 22, 2011 Canada Winter Games
The Canada Winter Games are on right now in Halifax and the individual events are currently heading into the quarter-final stages. After speaking with some players we’ve discovered that Joseph Rogers has pulled out with an apparent hamstring injury sustained during practice before the event began. Otherwise we don’t have much news for you other than the official results page.
No Comments »February 14, 2011 Badminton Canada Junior Elite Series
This past weekend the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club played host to the 2011 Black Knight British Columbia Junior Elite Series. While not all of the countries top players were in attendance the field was nevertheless a strong one with the majority of the top Western Canadian juniors playing.
The finals were dominated by a small handful of names over and over again. Edmonton’s Josephine Wong and Nathan Osborne were present in all three of their respective u16 finals and both took home two titles. Wong took the u16 girls singles and mixed doubles with Osborne. Osborne lost his u16 boys singles to Duncan Yao of Vancouver in two close games but won the boys doubles with Mac Lee also of Edmonton. The girls u16 doubles went to Vanora Lo and Kyleigh O’Donaghue who defeated Josephine Wong and her partner Takeisha Wang. Vanora Lo was Josephine Wong’s opponent in the u16 girls singles final.
The u19 finals were a very similar story to the u16 events but with even more clear domination from a couple of players. Both Nyl Yakura and Christin Tsai won triple crowns with varying degrees of difficulty in their different events. Tsai had a fairly straight forward win in her singles by defeating Bethany So 21-11, 21-13. Yakura’s singles win was a much more arduous affair as Clinton Wong pushed him the distance with Yakura pulling out a 21-18, 16-21, 21-17 win. The girls doubles was the most closely contested u19 final of the day with Christin Tsai and Adrianna Giuffre winning a very close three game match 12-21, 21-14, 21-19 over Bethany So and Vivian Kwok. Yakura teamed up with Nathan Choi to win a lopsided boys doubles final 21-9, 21-19 over Joshua Hurlburt-Yu. Finally the last match of the day was the mixed doubles final where Yakura and Tsai would partner together to defeat Clinton Wong and Kacey Tung 21-13, 21-14.
No Comments »February 6, 2011 Badminton Canada Elite Series
Finally our summary report for the 2011 Canadian National Badminton Championships. It was a great tournament and a big thanks goes out to Badminton Canada and the Ontario Badminton Association for doing a great job organizing.
No Comments »January 13, 2011 Badminton Canada Elite Series
Once again we present to you the summary report for yet another Canadian Elite Series. This weekend was the 2011 Yonex Ontario Senior Elite Series in Toronto at Humber College and by far this event was the strongest turn out of the year. The mens singles showcased all of our top players, and only one premiere team was missing from the mens doubles as Derrick Ng and Adrian Liu were not in attendance.
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No Comments »December 21, 2010 Badminton Canada Elite Series
After hearing some positive reviews from our Prairie Elite Series, and some help from Badminton Canada to make this possible we have yet another summary report for you. This time we headed out to Moncton, New Brunswick to cover the Atlantic Senior Elite Series. We also have a number of player interviews and clips to show you as well. Remember your feedback helps us to determine if we should keep this up so please leave comments here on the blog or on the YouTube videos that we post. Enjoy!
Summary Report
Interview with women’s singles finalist Suneet Khare
Interview with triple crown winner Michelle Li
Interview with men’s singles champion and men’s doubles champion Joseph Rogers
Interview with men’s doubles runners up Sergiy Shatenko and Kyle Hunter
Interview with women’s doubles runners up Caroline Vezina and Stephanie Pakenham
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No Comments »November 19, 2010 Badminton Canada Elite Series
This is the first time we have done something like this so please let us know if you want more reports like this. This is a summary report for the finals of the recent Prairie Senior Elite Series that took place recently in Saskatoon.
The next Senior Elite Series takes place in Moncton New Brunswick in December.
No Comments »April 9, 2010 Badminton Canada Elite Series
Here is the final of the womens singles between Anna Rice and Michelle Li
No Comments »March 28, 2010 Badminton Canada Elite Series
Here is the final between Jon Vandervet/Alvin Lau and Toby Ng/Adrian Liu
No Comments »March 9, 2010 Badminton Canada Elite Series
Here is the finals match of the mens singles between Martin Giuffre and Alex Pang.
No Comments »February 26, 2010 Badminton Canada Elite Series
Here is the finals match of the 2010 Canadian Nationals.
Melody Liang and Lydia Jiang vs Alex Bruce and Michelle Li
