Manawatu Closed Champs 2010

Manawatu Closed Champs Results Singles Night Thursday September 9

Congratulations to all the players who slogged it out at the Manawatu Closed Champs, it was a very entertaining competition and all the players displayed great sportsmanship.

Last night was singles night, and there were many close battles going on in all grades.

There were some great results for many of our senior players who managed to roll back the years and fight off a few young pups for a fleeting moment, he he….

None more so than Alf Meads (70 yrs +) who won the Mens’s Social Grade and who faced down Eric Altemann in the final.

In the Women’s Social Grade our President Janice Cudby used all her experience to win the title. Not bad considering she hasn’t played singles for 7 or so years. All those hours on the exercycle must be paying off!

In the Open Grade Men’s plate final Michael Yee outlasted Callum Smith after a hard fought 3 games that featured many long rallies.

Rose Wapp was the winner of the Women’s Open Singles with Lisa Miller runner up.

Sang Ho Kim won the U15 Boys title with Ehsan Tehseen runner up.

Jonathan Tan won the U15 Boys plate with a win over U13 player Junius Ong.

Kristen Taylor won the U15 Girls title with Rebecca Yee (another U13) coming runner up.

The winner of the Men’s Open Singles for the second year running was Josh Curry who played Fraser Ballantyne a newcomer to PN who represented Scotland in badminton. Apparently Fraser has not played competitive badminton for a few years but he still managed to upset a few of our top players and looks all class!

So congratulations once again to all the players and a big thanks to all those who helped set up the nets and pack down.

A big mention must be made to Mike Newton who did all the number crunching and set up everything in tournament planner. It all ran relatively smoothly thanks to his hard work.

Manawatu Closed Champs Results Doubles Night Thursday September 16

Once again some real tussles taking place in all grades.

In the men’s and women’s open grades however the top seeds took out the titles.

Josh Curry our top junior and his partner Masters/Vets rep Shane Ogier managed to beat the second seeds Mike Newton & Danny Chia from the Div 5 team in two close games. 21 – 16 and 21 – 18 to win the Open Men’s Doubles.

In the Women’s Open Doubles final Rose Wapp (Div 5) and Ruawai Te Rata (u17s) beat Lisa Miller (Div 5) and Kavithya Senthilnathan (u17s)  21-19, 21-16.

Brothers Chris & Ben McEwen upset the top seeds Joseph Wilson & Thomas Lavender in the Open Men’s Plate, they then beat the 2nd seeds, James Conroy and Ryan Marsden from Monrad in a close 3 game final, 22-20, 16-21,21-18.

In the Social grade the father & son combination of Vincent and Junius Ong won the round robin.

The Women’s Social grade was won by Norma Crawford-Meades and Bridget Johnson.

Matt Wapp & Sang-Ho Kim beat Callum Hill & Jonathan Tan in the U15 Boys final and Ehsan Tehseen & Ahmed Ugool won the U15 Boys Plate.

Jessica Rich & Danielle Skarott won the U15 Girls round robin.

Congratulations to all the players, a lot of fun was had by all.

Thanks once again to Mike Newton and everyone else who helped on the night!

The final night of the Closed Champs takes place this Thursday 23 Sept for the Mixed Doubles.

Entries are still open so grab a partner and register online here