2014 ARIZONA BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS

April 19 & 26, 2014

April 19 & 26, AZBC, Mesa...

The 3rd annual Arizona Badminton Championships brought more than 60 competitors to the AZBC courts on consecutive Saturdays. The doubles and mixed doubles events were held on Saturday, April 19 and the singles events on April 26. As a result, more singles players participated with greater energy and focus. An Open-drop B format and a Senior division also added depth to the events. This year crowned several new champions in each of the events.

Singles finalists (l to r): Seigo Hashimoto (2nd),

Henry Zeng (1st), Kiyoko Hashimoto (1st), Beibei Sun (2nd) -- photo Shash Patel

On the first Saturday, Guy Chadwick and Yukari Katayama teamed to win the Open Mixed Championships. Katayama paired with Miki Honda to win the Open Women Doubles. Chadwick and Peter Huang took the Men Doubles title. On the second Saturday, Kiyoko Hashimoto won the Open Women Singles and 19-year old Chinese exchange student at U of A, Henry Zeng grabbed the Open Men Singles title.

There were lots of tough matches throughout the tournament, including in the B and Senior events. For example, Ramesh Bondalapati and Albert Sue battled against each other in back-to-back marathon B Men Singles and Senior Men Singles matches, both going 3-games, with Albert winning the BMS and Ramesh winning the SMS!

Other Tournament event winners... OMX-Cons: Walter Li/Beibei Sun; BMX: Aditya Vaidya/Nga Le; BX-Cons: Tejas Ashani/Madison Biddulph; OWD-Cons: Denise Nieves/Katherine Valdez; BWD: Adelle Renna/Qindeel Kanwar; BWD-Cons: Julie Lee/Madison Biddulph; OMD-Cons: Joseph Kaamino/Art Solo; BMD: Dean Glazeski/Tom Leong; BMD-Cons: Roger Goettl/Hun Lee; SR MD: Peter Huang/Naren Koka; OWS-Cons: Alexis Mee; BWS: Nidhi Prasad; BWS-Cons: Qindeel Kanwar; OMS-Cons: Francis Hartojo; BMS: Mark Tsang; BMS-Cons: Tejas Ashani; SR MS: Ramesh Bondalapati; SR MS-Cons: Francis Hartojo