Kenny Lu has posted photos of the Washington Closed tournament on
his website, http://students.washington.edu/kennylu/. Check them
out!

Clinton Chen writes,

Some of the tibits I collected for the WA closed:
- In Men's A double semi-final and final matches, experience
prevailed
again, Andrew Soo and Mike Kee first dispatched young Kenny Lu and
Peter
Collins in a 3-game match and then won another hard fought 3 game-
match
against Alim Santoso and Boris Poon. Despite all the golf playing
and
minimum badminton last several months, Andrew didn't miss a beat
and turned
on the turbo to put away last several points on the deciding third
game.
Maybe golf is a real sport, hmmn, Geoff should consider picking up
golf
(Geoff had to default Men's A single and double semi-finals due to
an
injury). Alim, you're not allowed to go back to Indonesia without
winning
the final, we'll miss you.
- We start seeing the changing of guards in Men's singles as the top
older
and mature players stop participating the events (injury or other
priority,
Dr. Soo, where are you ?). Kenny Lu first won the semi-final match
against
his double partner Peter and won against another young gun Yishan
Zhao in
the final, some of the rally seems to go on forever.
- New comer Grace Qiu took the first place in Women's single, her
first ever
win in single event. We do want to encourage more female
participants in
the event, otherwise we may have some male players dressed as woman
participating next year.
- It may be the first time in Seattle badminton history that two
brothers
play against each other in the final. We saw Curtis and Gary
Stensland
played their heart out in the Men's D single final, the younger
Curtis did
prevail. Move over, Serena and Venus.
- The lone representatives from Spokane, Eric Lee and Ted Horobowski
did
well in the Men's open and 35+ doubles, they are the C runner up in
both
events, lost to teams from Seattle with both matches going to 3
games.
Better luck, next time.
- The always animated Ricky Pesik (on the badminton court only)
provided the
most MANLY shouts/screams throughout the tournament, especially in
Men's B
double final, some of the screams did echo the whole gym, Ricky, you
animal.
But then, after a frustrated scream, he would calmly asked for the
score.
- In the "This Can't Be The Score" department, Mike Kee asked the
score in
the middle of 2nd game of men's double quarter-final, without
changing any
expression Kevin Yu answered 14/14 and ready to serve, you should've
seen
the astonished face on Mike Kee.
- President Hentley put in double duty in substituting two men's D
double
semi-final matches, it would've been interesting to see Hentley
playing in
both teams in the final had his team won both matches.
- The best supporting equipment to share or not goes to Clinton
Chen's knee
brace, John Tong borrowed the already soaking wet knee brace when he
sprained his knee in the men's B final match and later won the match
with
it. Just don't ask what the knee brace smells like afterwards.