2008 Washington Open Note

The weather was hot and the badminton actions were even hotter over the weekend at Bellevue Community College. Similar to the previous years, there’re around 190 participants at this year’s Washington State Badminton tournament, but some of the event has more entries. All these made it harder to schedule all the matches, we did squeeze all the matches in without too much delay and everyone got to enjoy the dinner on Saturday.

Despite blowing air, close court space and thin court lines, BCC worked out great to host the tournament. There’re plenty of space in the middle for players/spectators and we can provide food and drink.

At the dinner banquet, we recognized several people who are instrumental to make the tournament successful last 5 years, Annie Poh for getting the venues at ProClub and Bellevue Community College, Helen Roome for treasurer and entering entries and Jenny and Joahnes Jie for food preparation.

This competition is one of the strongest ever, especially for the mixed events, there’re more entries in the event and some ex national or junior national players from Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, Poland and some top players from Vancouver, BC.

BC Vancouver pair of Elisha Liu and Adrian Liu won the event against Francesca Setiati and Piotr Mazur in a 3 game tight contested match.

In women’s singles, the doubles partner Francesca Setiati and Elisha Liu played against each other, Francesca won the tough 3 game matches to reclaim the crown she won previously.

Chi-Lin Li from Taiwan won the men’s singles event against Paz Ben-Sira and made it tough for Paz to come back in both games.

Aki Ito and Lindy Liu took the women’s doubles crown against Elisha Liu and Francesca Setiati.

Chi-Lin Liu and Rick Liew won in a 3 game affair against Paz Ben-Sira and Toru Takayanagi.

Many many thanks to all the volunteers who helped out through the whole tournament and the juniors that I don’t remember all their names at the tournament desk on Sunday, there’re quite a few junior helped out over the weekend, thanks, little ones.

Registration Desk: Joyce Lau, Julie Lau, Evelina Shin, Tracey Yao, Amy Jin,

Announcer: Katherince Ip, Tomomi Shibahara, Rochelle Ng

Tournament Desk: Patrick Ip, Tao Yuan, Nino Gonzales, Clara Lam

Dinner Emcee: Villette Curthbert, Jasmine Lau

Door Prize: Carla Furukawa

T-shirt Design: Tina Pham

Treasurer: Helen Roome

Food: Jenny Jie, Joanhes Jie, Ying-Fang Lai

See everyone next year.

Clinton Chen

This year’s result:

Open Mixed Doubles A

Open Mixed Doubles B

Open Mixed Doubles C

Open Mixed Doubles D

Open Men’s Singles A

Open Men’s Singles B

Open Men’s Singles C

Open Men’s Singles D

Open Women’s Singles A

Open Women’s Singles B

Open Women’s Singles C

Open Women’s Singles D

Open Men’s Doubles A

Open Men’s Doubles B

Open Men’s Doubles C

Open Men’s Doubles D

Open Women’s Doubles A

Open Women’s Doubles B

Open Women’s Doubles C

Open Women’s Doubles D

35+ Mixed Doubles A

35+ Mixed Doubles B

35+ Men’s Singles A

35+ Men’s Singles B

35+ Men’s Doubles A

35+ Men’s Doubles B

35+ Women’s Doubles

50+ Men’s Singles

50+ Men’s Doubles