[Region4] WA Open Thank You and Result

[clinton chen]

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, Tracy Yao, Amy Jin,
Announcer: Katherince Ip, 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 is available at: http://northwestbadminton.org