2018 Oceania Badminton Championships

The XIII 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships was the continental badminton championships in Oceania sanctioned by the Badminton Oceania, and Badminton World Federation. This championship was organized by Badminton New Zealand, and was the 13th edition of the Oceania Badminton Championships. It was held in Hamilton, New Zealand from 6 to 11 February 2018. The team event started on 6 February, and was the qualification stage for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals in Thailand,[1] while the individual event will start on February 8.[2]

2018 Oceania Badminton Championships
Tournament details
Dates6–11 February
EditionXIII
VenueEastlink Badminton Stadium
LocationHamilton, New Zealand
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Venue

The tournament was held at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, Hamilton East, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Medalists

Individual event
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles New Zealand Abhinav Manota French Polynesia Rémi Rossi Australia Peter Yan
New Zealand Oscar Guo
Women's singles Australia Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu Australia Louisa Ma Australia Joy Lai
Australia Zecily Fung
Men's doubles Australia Matthew Chau
Australia Sawan Serasinghe		 Australia Robin Middleton
Australia Ross Smith		 New Zealand Oscar Guo
New Zealand Dacmen Vong
Australia Simon Leung
Australia Mitchell Wheller
Women's doubles Australia Setyana Mapasa
Australia Gronya Somerville		 Australia Leanne Choo
Australia Renuga Veeran		 New Zealand Anona Pak
New Zealand Danielle Tahuri
New Zealand Sally Fu
New Zealand Alyssa Tagle
Mixed doubles Australia Sawan Serasinghe
Australia Setyana Mapasa		 Australia Matthew Chau
Australia Leanne Choo		 New Zealand Oliver Leydon-Davis
New Zealand Susannah Leydon-Davis
New Zealand Niccolo Tagle
New Zealand Alyssa Tagle

Team event
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Australia
Anthony Joe
Ashwant Gobinathan
Eric Vuong
Jacob Schueler
Matthew Chau
Pit Seng Low
Raymond Tam
Robin Middleton
Ross Smith
Sawan Serasinghe		  New Zealand
Abhinav Manota
Dhanny Oud
Jonathan Curtin
Kevin Dennerly-Minturn
Maika Philips
Michael Fowke
Oliver Leydon-Davis
Oscar Guo		  Tahiti
Greig Teriitanoa
Heinoa Deane
Léo Cucuel
Louis Beaubois
Quentin Bernaix
Rauhiri Goguenheim
Rémi Rossi
Steven Lesourd
Tarepa Bourgery
Teiva Politi
Women's team  Australia
Gronya Somerville
Chen Hsuan-yu
Jennifer Tam
Joy Lai
Leanne Choo
Louisa Ma
Setyana Mapasa		  New Zealand
Anona Pak
Danielle Tahuri
Erena Calder-Hawkins
Gaea Galvez
Jasmin Chung Man Ng
Justine Villegas
Sally Fu
Susannah Leydon-Davis		  Fiji
Alissa Dean
Andra Whiteside
Carline Bentley
Chloe Kumar
Danielle Whiteside
Karyn Gibson

Individual event

The individual event of the 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships were held from 8 to 11 February, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand. Australia had secured four titles in the women's singles and three doubles event, with Sawan Serasinghe and Setyana Mapasa winning two doubles titles each, and the men's singles title goes to New Zealand.[3]

The three doubles event present all the Australian pair. Serasinghe who was teamed-up with Matthew Chau beat their compatriot Robin Middleton and Ross Smith in the final with the score 21–17, 23–21. Mapasa claimed the women's doubles title after beat Renuga Veeran and Leanne Choo with the score 21–14, 22–20. In the mixed doubles event Mapasa and Serasinghe again became the champion defeat Chau and Choo 21–19, 21–18. The women's singles final also present the Australian players, and Wendy Chen claimed the title after beat Louisa Ma 21–7, 21–14. Abhinav Manota of New Zealand broke the Australian stranglehold on the Oceania championships by winning the men's singles gold medal. Manota beat Remi Rossi of Tahiti in the straight games 21–12, 21–14 in the final.[4]

Seeds
  1. Australia Anthony Joe
  2. Australia Pit Seng Low
  3. Australia Ashwant Gobinathan
  4. Australia Jacob Schueler
  5. New Zealand Dylan Soedjasa
  6. Australia Daniel Fan
  7. New Zealand Niccolo Tagle
  8. Australia Nathan Tang

Finals
Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
               
  French Polynesia Rémi Rossi 21 21
5 New Zealand Dylan Soedjasa 7 12
  French Polynesia Rémi Rossi 21 17 21
  Australia Peter Yan 6 21 12
  Australia Peter Yan 22 13 24
  Australia Wesley Caulkett 20 21 22
  French Polynesia Rémi Rossi 12 14
  New Zealand Abhinav Manota 21 21
6 Australia Daniel Fan 16 21 8
  New Zealand Oscar Guo 21 16 21
  New Zealand Oscar Guo 22 16 17
  New Zealand Abhinav Manota 20 21 21
  Australia Kai Chen Teoh 16 14
  New Zealand Abhinav Manota 21 21

Seeds
  1. Australia Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu
  2. Australia Jennifer Tam
  3. Australia Joy Lai
  4. Australia Louisa Ma

Finals
Semifinals Final
          
1 Australia Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu w / o
3 Australia Joy Lai
1 Australia Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu 21 21
4 Australia Louisa Ma 7 14
4 Australia Louisa Ma 21 21
  Australia Zecily Fung 18 12

Seeds
  1. Australia Matthew Chau / Sawan Serasinghe
  2. Australia Simon Leung / Mitchell Wheller
  3. New Zealand Jonathan Curtin / Dhanny Oud
  4. New Zealand Oscar Guo / Dacmen Vong

Finals
Semifinals Final
          
1 Australia Matthew Chau
Australia Sawan Serasinghe 		21 21
4 New Zealand Oscar Guo
New Zealand Dacmen Vong 		19 16
1 Australia Matthew Chau
Australia Sawan Serasinghe 		21 23
  Australia Robin Middleton
Australia Ross Smith 		17 21
  Australia Robin Middleton
Australia Ross Smith 		20 21 21
2 Australia Simon Leung
Australia Mitchell Wheller 		22 15 18

Seeds
  1. Australia Setyana Mapasa / Gronya Somerville
  2. New Zealand Jasmin Chung Man Ng / Erena Calder-Hawkins
  3. Australia Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran
  4. Guam Grace Cai / Sarah Cai

Finals
Semifinals Final
          
1 Australia Setyana Mapasa
Australia Gronya Somerville 		21 18 21
  New Zealand Anona Pak
New Zealand Danielle Tahuri 		9 21 10
1 Australia Setyana Mapasa
Australia Gronya Somerville 		21 22
3 Australia Leanne Choo
Australia Renuga Veeran 		14 20
3 Australia Leanne Choo
Australia Renuga Veeran 		21 21
  New Zealand Sally Fu
New Zealand Alyssa Tagle 		7 4

Seeds
  1. Australia Sawan Serasinghe / Setyana Mapasa
  2. New Zealand Dhanny Oud / Jasmin Chung Man Ng
  3. New Zealand Oliver Leydon-Davis / Susannah Leydon-Davis
  4. Australia Anthony Joe / Joy Lai

Finals
Semifinals Final
          
1 Australia Sawan Serasinghe
Australia Setyana Mapasa 		21 21
3 New Zealand Oliver Leydon-Davis
New Zealand Susannah Leydon-Davis 		12 19
1 Australia Sawan Serasinghe
Australia Setyana Mapasa 		21 21
  Australia Matthew Chau
Australia Leanne Choo 		19 18
  New Zealand Niccolo Tagle
New Zealand Alyssa Tagle 		5 9
  Australia Matthew Chau
Australia Leanne Choo 		21 21

Team event

The 2018 Oceania Team Championships officially crowns the best male and female national teams in Oceania and at the same time works as the qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 4 teams both in the men's and women's team have entered the tournament.[1] Australia men's and women's team were clinched the Oceania Team titles, and qualified for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals, after topping the standings both in the men's and women's team.[5] New Zealand men's and women's team were placing second both in the men's and women's team, while Tahiti men's team and Fiji women's team were in the third place.[6]

Seeds

The seeding, which is based on BWF world rankings, for both the men's and women's competition is the same:[1]

  1.  Australia
  2.  New Zealand
  3.  Fiji
  4.  Tahiti

Men's team
Pos Team Pld W L MF MA MD GF GA GD PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1  Australia 3 3 0 12 3 +9 25 7 +18 612 430 +182 3 Thomas Cup
2  New Zealand 3 2 1 11 4 +7 24 9 +15 651 412 +239 2
3  Tahiti 3 1 2 6 9 −3 12 20 −8 491 608 −117 1
4  Fiji 3 0 3 1 14 −13 3 28 −25 346 650 −304 0
Source: TS

All times are New Zealand Standard Time (UTC+12:00).

  • Australia vs. Tahiti
  • New Zealand vs. Fiji
  • New Zealand vs. Tahiti
  • Australia vs. Fiji
  • Australia vs. New Zealand
  • Fiji vs. Tahiti

Women's team
Pos Team Pld W L MF MA MD GF GA GD PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1  Australia 3 3 0 13 2 +11 28 4 +24 662 306 +356 3 Uber Cup
2  New Zealand 3 2 1 12 3 +9 24 8 +16 606 391 +215 2
3  Fiji 3 1 2 5 10 −5 10 20 −10 388 520 −132 1
4  Tahiti 3 0 3 0 15 −15 0 30 −30 191 630 −439 0
Source: TS

All times are New Zealand Standard Time (UTC+12:00).

  • Australia vs. Tahiti
  • New Zealand vs. Fiji
  • New Zealand vs. Tahiti
  • Australia vs. Fiji
  • Australia vs. New Zealand
  • Fiji vs. Tahiti

References
  1. "VICTOR Oceania Team Championships 2018". Badminton Oceania. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  2. "Fiji to send team to Oceania badminton event". Fiji Times. Archived from the original on 22 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. "Manota wins solitary badminton gold for NZ". MSN. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  4. "Manota, Chen Emerge Champion – Finals: Victor Oceania Championships 2018". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  5. "Australia Prevail in Thriller – Victor Oceania Team Championships 2018". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. "Australia's Double Take: VICTOR Oceania Team Champions qualify for the BWF Thomas and Uber Cup 2018". Badminton Oceania. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  7. Men's Team - Australia vs Tahiti
  8. Men's Team - New Zealand vs Fiji
  9. Men's Team - New Zealand vs Tahiti
  10. Men's Team - Australia vs Fiji
  11. Men's Team - Australia vs New Zealand
  12. Men's Team - Fiji vs Tahiti
  13. Women's Team - Australia vs Tahiti
  14. Women's Team - New Zealand vs Fiji
  15. Women's Team - New Zealand vs Tahiti
  16. Women's Team - Australia vs Fiji
  17. Women's Team - Australia vs New Zealand
  18. Women's Team - Fiji vs Tahiti
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