2007
Another BCD tournament came
and gone, as usual, we have a good turnout,
there're just under 100 players signed up. Beside the local players,
We have players from
We do want to thank everyone
for participating in the tournament.
We got to use
it turns out to be a wonderful facility to host the
tournament,
walls are brown (not white), spacious spectator area, nice
gym,
don't know how many people get to relax and enjoy the view
of the
while not playing, you even get to take a bath if shower is
not good enough.
We did have to tape the
singles lines right before the tournament,
the center plans to resurface the gym and should have all
the badminton lines
early next year. The
blower draft does not seems to affect the play too
much.
Our new t-shirt designer
Linda came up with a very clever design and
she only got to use MS PowerPoint. We'll expect a even better and
creative design in the future.
No pressure, Linda...
As usual, our chefs JJ
&& JJ provide the food/drink to keep us
fed and energized through out the tournament. I did request
some Indonesian food, maybe next time...
Katherine Ip
came up with great idea to place white PCV pole (made by
Andy Lin)
per WBF regulation under the net.
The level of playing is
getting higher each year, we keep on seeing the
continue improvement of the younger players, there're less and
less so called "easy games" in the first round. The very arguable
No 1 player (before Sunday,
Nov 18th) in
have a EFG tournament in the future,
The new comers
sister and brother Sandy and Alex Lee are the surprise
of the tournament, Alex lost very tough 3 game against
Robert Chan
in the Men's singles quarter final, but the elder
singles and doubles.
The mixed double is probably
the most interesting and challenging event,
we have quite a few adults pair with juniors. Definitely, made it
tough for anyone who got to play against pair like
Kevin/Christine
or Tao/Vicky. The
top 2 teams got to play against other in the final,
in a very tightly contested 3 games, Iviee
Li and Robert Chan came
up ahead against Tomomi and Shu
Ito.
In Women's singles, young Renata did great to have a upset
win to reach
the final, but lost to the stronger
In the men's singles, Sisavat (Long) came out strong and did not let up
to win in 2 games against K D Len.
against the Japanese pair of Masako and Yukiko.
In men's doubles, Long and
Tim came up winner against Shu and JK. they just
played better toward the end of each game.
I do want to thank for all
the people that help, without you, we are not able
put on the tournament.
Hopefully, I did not miss anyone.
Resident Engineer - Andy Lin
Score Update - Soloman So
Registration - Ying-Fang Lai,
Tomomi Shibahara
Announcer - James Lau,
Katherine Ip, Tao Yuan
Tournament Desk - Nino and
Caroline Gonzales, Patrick Ip, Aiden
Ho
t-shirt design - Linda Tang
chefs - Jenny & Joahnes Jie
treasurer - Helen Roome
See everyone at Washington
Closed.
The result: