Jason Ho-Shue (ON) punched his ticket to the finals with his quick win over Imran Wadia (AB)
For more photos, click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/149588978@N03/albums/72157712904569123/with/49467417022/
January 31 – Manitoba Highlights
GOLD AND SILVER FOR OLIVIA!
In the Para-Badminton event, Olivia Meier teamed up with Pascal Lapointe
(QC) to play Duc Goi (ON) and Yuns Oh (MB) in the SL3/SL4 Doubles
Final! Pascal Lapointe/Olivia Meier are the current Pan Am Para Doubles
Champions, and they didn’t disappoint by defeating
their opponents in straight sets 21-11, 21-11. Olivia then had to play
her partner in the SL4 final which proved to be a difficult task!
Olivia would however take home a Silver Medal in her attempt, and she
will be working hard to prepare for Brazil in a
few weeks!
With Ryan Giesbrecht (MB) and Toby Ng (BC) going down in the
Quarter-Finals, Manitoba had no more hopefuls left in the main draw for
the able-bodied competition, so we therefore turn to the consolations.
Rylan Ramnarace who plays for Prairie Badminton, defeated John Li (AB)
in convincing fashion with a 21-11, 21-15 win to take the Men’s Singles
Consolation crown on home soil!
Kevin Barkman (MB) & Brandon Redekop (SK) teamed up and pounded
their way to a Men’s Doubles Consolation crown by defeating Taylor
Oulton (NB) & Josiah Tong (AB) 21-9, 21-11.
The men’s singles draw saw the heavy favourite and defending National
Champion, #1 seeded Brian Yang (ON), receive the upset of the day when
he would lose in 3 games to his opponent B.R. Sankeerth (ON) 16-21,
22-20, 21-19. Though Sankeerth is a widely respected
player in Canada, he was entering into this championships unranked, and
will have to play 3-time National Singles Champion Jason Ho-Shue in the
final.
All other semi-final results can be found here: http://badmintoncanada.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=A76DCBB3-1DDC-48DB-83AA-B0BB743E83CB&d=20200131
Schedule for Finals
Finals will begin at 12pm tomorrow (Saturday) and will feature the following matchups (Order of play may change)
MS: Jason Ho-Shue vs BR Sankeerth
WS: Brittany Tam vs Rachel Chan
MD: Ty Lindeman/Jonathan Lai vs Jason Ho-Shue/Nyl Yakura
WD: Catherine Choi/Josephine Wu vs Rachel Honderich/Kristin Tsai
XD: Joshua Hurlburt-Yu/Josephine Wu vs Jonathan Lai/Talia Ng
Olympic Hopefuls Based on World Rankings:
Jason Ho-Shue (Singles)
Jason Ho-Shue/Nyl Yakura (Doubles)
Rachel Honderich/Kristin Tsai (Womens Doubles)
Joshua Hurlburt-Yu/Josephine Wu (Mixed Doubles)
Address of Competition:
Prairie Badminton
275 De Baets Street, Unit 2
Winnipeg, MB R2J 4A8
For more information:
Justin Friesen
(204) 228-3210
jfriesen@prairiebadminton.ca
Website: www.winnipeg2020.com or www.prairiebadminton.ca