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First under 13 & 17 selection (Geelong)

BAV players played very well at the 1st under 13 & 17 selection tournament in Geelong.

Joy Lai & Darshand Gobinathan won all their singles, doubles and mixed doubles at the under 13.

Ashwant Gobinathan & Louisa Ma won in the boys & girls singles, and Ashwant partner with Clifford Gan won their boys doubles.

Congratulations and well done everyone.

Final results for under 13:
BS: Darshand Gobinathan bt Josh Dunkley (Gippsland) = 21-8, 21-6
GS: Joy Lai bt Lucy Young (WSBA) = 21-4, 21-12
BD: Darshand/Mitchell Gervasoni bt Josh Dunkley/Tyler Chishom = 21-10, 21-11
GD: Joy Lai/Lucy Young bt Carly Lyons/Rachael Rais-Colvin = 21-19, 21-15
XD: Darshand/Joy bt Jayden Stokie/Rachael Rais-Colvin = 21-11, 21-11

Final results for the under 17:
BS: Ashwant bt Daniel Trinh (WSBA) = 21-10, 21-18
GS: Louisa Ma bt Tara Pilven (Ballarat) = 17-21, 21-19, 21-18
BD: Ashwant/Clifford bt Daniel Trinh/Matthew Wilson = 21-16, 19-21, 21-11
GD: Tara Pilven/Nicole David bt Louisa/Krystel Oodomansaib = 26-24, 17-21, 21-18
XD: Matthew Wilson/Tara Pilven bt Daniel Trinh/Nicole David = 21-18, 21-19

Results from all BAV players [ Geelong U13-17 ].

Posted on August 11, 2008 11:52 pm


Clean sweep at VIC team events championships

Congratulations and well done to all BAV players to clean sweep the VIC team events championship which held yesterday at MSAC in under 11, 13, 15, 17 & 19.

With this winning once again, proved it that it is possible to do it after these several years.

Special thanks to all BAV inc. committees members, parents and coaches who made this happened.

[ All BAV players who participated in the tournament ].

Posted on August 3, 2008 10:01 pm


Eugenia Tanaka to the Olympics in Beijing

Ex BAV player Eugenia Tanaka will compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games.

Eugenia recently (in June 2008) with other BAV players (Victoria Na, Erica Pong, Shan Lim, Saliya Gunaratne, Einstein Tanaka, Boris Ma and Ashwant Gobinathan) helped BAV team to win the State Penant competition.

We wish her the very best luck and support from all BAV players, coaches and parents.

To see Eugenia’s profile, please have a look at [ profile page ].

Posted on 9:51 pm


BAV players to the Youth Commonwealth Games in India

Boris Ma, Victoria Na and Kashmira Gobinathan are going to represent Australia at the Youth Commonwealth Games in India, October this year.

The Youth Games is for an under19 athletes in Commonwealth countries, featuring sports such as swimming, athletics, gymnastics, badminton, etc.

Four boys and girls were selected to represent badminton in the Games, those other players are: Brendan Chu (WSBA), Eddie Hung (WA), Nathan David (Ballarat), Leanne Choo (SA) and Tara Pilven (Ballarat).

Well done to Boris, Vicky and Kashmira, hopefully other BAV players will get inspired by them and follow their footsteps in the future.

Posted on July 30, 2008 9:55 pm


BAV players perfomed at the 7th Prime Minister’s Annual Dinner

Boris Ma and Andrew Paulet performed a badminton display in front of 1200 people at the 7th Annual Prime Minister’s Dinner, on Saturday the 19th July.

Many young talent from other sports such as wrestling, archery, gymnastics and weight lifting.

Well done boys.

Posted on July 22, 2008 4:55 am


BAV players won the under 19 individual titles

Congratulations to Boris Ma who reigned his boys singles titles he won last year at the C.P. Maddern under 19 carnival, in Geraldton (WA) which completed today.

Boris’s younger sister Louisa Ma partner with Leanne Choo from South Australia won the ladies doubles titles, but Boris/Louisa combination in the mixed lost in the final against Samuel Ho/Leanne Choo.

Another BAV player Kashmira Gobinathan lost in the final against Leanne Choo in two sets.

Leanne Choo from South Australia dominated the tournament, and won three titles in singles, doubles and mixed. Well done Leanne.

Final results in main draws
BS : Boris Ma bt Eddie Hung (WA) = 21-11, 21-7
GS : Leanne Choo (SA) bt Kashmira Gobinathan = 21-9, 21-11
BD : Elliot Clutterbuck/Jonathan So bt Aiden Jewell/Matthew Wilson = 21-14, 21-11
GD : Leanne Choo/Louisa Ma bt Jacintha Joe (ACT)/Lucy Royce (WA) = 21-5, 21-13
XD : Leanne Choo/Samuel Ho bt Boris Ma/Louisa Ma = 19-21, 21-15, 21-14

Final results for plate events
BS : Brendan Chu (VIC) bt Jack Burgess (VIC) =16-21 21-15 21-17
GS : Belinda Chung (NSW) bt Shay Waikawa (NNZ) =23-21, 21-9
BD : Jack Burgess/Nathan David bt Matt Dutkowski/Sam Burnett = 21-19 20-22 21-14
GD : Chiu-pin Ho/Tara Pilven bt Stephanie Gough/Kaitlin Spaulding = 21-19, 21-11
XD: Matt Dutkowski/Hannah Graham bt Aidan Karati/Simone G.M (NZ) = 21-9, 23-21

Posted on July 12, 2008 6:04 am


Victorian 1 won the C.P. Maddern team event

Victorian State team number 1 team won the C.P. Maddern under 19 team event after yesterday beat Central New Zealand team.

Featuring BAV players Boris Ma (winner of boys singles last year), Andrew Paulet, Kashmira Gobinathan, Louisa Ma and Quor-hui Teh, they won the team event final with 15-1 score.

The VIC 1 team had been dominating throughout the team events this year.
The won against Tasmania by 16-0, Western Australia 14-2, New South Wales 15-1 and Northern New Zealand 2 by 15-1 in their group.

The VIC State team number 2 was on the7th position on their playoff after beating Northern New Zealand 2 by 10-6.

The individual events will be started today. Good luck everyone.

[ Individual draws ] [ Team events results ]

Posted on July 8, 2008 10:13 pm


BAV players representing VIC State teams U15 & 19

The VIC State teams had been selected to play at the under 15 Val Nesbitt carnival (2 teams) and under 19 C.P. Maddern carnival in 2008 (2 teams).
Unfortunately, due to school works, some of BAV players had choose not to play in the under 19, those players are: Victoria Na, Olivia Na and Jacky Wu.

Congratulations to all BAV players who will representing the State at the carnivals.

The teams for the under 15 (BAV players will be in bold):

Team 1
Boys: Hu-wen Chew, Matthew Chau, Wilson Tang
Girls: Louisa Ma, Vinning Mak, Sarah Wong

Team 2
Boys: Athi Selladurai, Sawan Serasingha, Lucas Rais-Collin
Girls: Rojini Selladurai, Natasha David, Ruwindi Serasingha

The teams for the under 19 (BAV players will be in bold):
Team 1
Boys: Boris Ma, Andrew Paulet, Luke Peter, Samuel Ho, Brendan Chu
Girls: Kashmira, Louisa Ma, Quor-hui Teh, Skye & Tara Pilven

Team 2
Boys: Aiden Jewell, Jack Burgess, Nathan David, Victor Brooker, Matthew Wilson
Girls: Chiu-pin Ho, Danielle G, Jessica Rayner, Grace Sodomaco, Tarah Marney

Posted on June 12, 2008 10:42 pm


Under 11 & 19 VIC State titles

BAV players won all titles at the under 11 and 19 VIC State titles last Saturday at MSAC.

The State titles under 19 was the last selection tournament to get into the VIC State teams U19 for the C.P. Maddern carnival which will be held at Geraldton (WA) in July.

Well done to everyone who played very well in the tournament, and thanks for all parents and BAV committees members who came and supported our players in the tournament.
The players for the U19 State teams will be selected after the State squad trials.

Under 19 State champions, runners-up & results (BAV players will be in bold)
XD: Boris Ma/Victoria Na bt Luke Peter/Skye/Pilven =21-10, 16-21, 21-13
BS: Boris Ma bt Andrew Paulet = 12-21, 21-19, 23-21
GS: Victoria Na bt Kashmira Gobinathan =21-14, 21-14
BD: Boris/Ashwant G bt Nathan David/Jack Burgess = 21-18, 19-21, 21-16
GD: Victoria Na/Olivia Na bt Kashmira/Louisa Ma = 21-10, 19-21, 21-19

Under 11 State champions, runners up & results
XD: Darshand Gobinathan/Joy Lai bt Gary/Melinda Narere = 30-16
BS: Darshand Gobinathan bt Anthony Guan = 30-7
GS: Joy Lai bt Janice Au = 30-16
BD: Darshand/Edward Ma bt Eldon Xu/Anthony Guan = 30-27
GD: Joy Lai/Janice Au bt Lily Rigg/Vivienne Lao = 30-4

Other BAV players results [ VIC State titles in 2008 ]

Posted on May 5, 2008 9:53 pm


Badminton Victoria Awards night

Congratulations for BAV players Boris Ma and Victoria Na, they were awarded as the Junior Sportsman & Sportswoman of the Year in 2007.
BAV coach Lenny Permana was also awarded as the Coach of the Year.

The awards were given at the Badminton Victoria Awards night last Saturday at Altona.

Posted on April 23, 2008 11:47 pm