The result is available at: http://northwestbadminton.org

2009 Washington State Closed Badminton Tournament Note

This year's Washington State Closed Badminton Tournament was held
over the Valentine weekend and we have 110 participants celebrating
the weekend together.

This year's tournament shows the continuing improvement of the junior
players, as they
get better and stronger and took some titles even as the older
experienced players trying
their best to delay the inevitable.

We tried the new software from Tournament Software this year, the drop
rules is a little different than in the past.

Young Amy Jin won her first ever Women's singles against veteran
Ying-Fang Lai in 2 games.

Young Curtis Stensland took the Men's Singles crown in two games
against Tao Yuan and possibly more to come in the future.

Ying-Fang Lai and Sisavat Keobounmey won the mixed title 2 years in a
row, Masako Cochran with new partner Tim Moon had to settle for 2nd again.

The very experienced and healthy pair of Wendy Carter and Ufilya Davis
proved they still have the fire in them to take the Women's doubles
title against the younger Ying-Fang Lai and Masako Cochran.

The father/son pair of Geoff and Curtis Stendsland took the Men's
doubles title against Ronald Langingi and Greg Ung in tight 2 games.

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out, without you the
tournament won't be successful.

t-shirt design - Michael Lau
food/drink - Jenny and Joahnes Jie
entry/financial - Helen Roome
Registration Desk - Joe Leung, Doris Ng, Melissa Tang
Match Announcing - Natalie Sun, Joyce Chung, Nino Gonzales, Justin
Suen, Christine Chen
Tournament Desk - Rochelle Ng, Clara Lam, James Lau, Bryan Lam
Clean up – Quincy and Herman Wu

Special thanks to Katherine and Patrick Ip, they helped throughout the
tournament.

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