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Saturday, March 30, 2013

The first day of competition

Dear readers,

Many of you parents must be starved of information regarding what is happening in Victoria. I can only give you 2nd hand news. These are news text to me or emailed to me from my ears and eyes in Victoria.

First a 2nd hand comment from Sok Teoh:

Sok Teoh has left a new comment on your post "The players arrive at Victoria":

I heard there was not enough food for the dinner! And the pasta was cold and the meat was burnt... :(


Email from Annie:

"HI Ray

This morning, as we were driving through the compound to go to the badminton stadium, I remarked to the children in  my car that there was  a man that looked like John.  Silva then squealed and said, ‘That’s my dad!!!’  She ran out of the car and hugged her dad and then we saw Irma running from her cabin in her pyjamas. It was a nice reunion and a very nice surprise for Silvi.  She was on the phone earlier to her mum wishing her good morning and she had absolutely no idea that her parents were in Altona.

Irma and john will be here  until Monday. I think Irma and John are on a mini honeymoon….they have nice slow dinners every night .  Go Irma and John…  However, they were courtside today whilst the team were training.

After the t raining session at the stadium, the team took some time off to relax poolside.  We then left for the welcome dinner at ‘Seaworks’.  I was told that it was a boat builders ( big big ) shed.  (It was really dusty and the photographers were not happy that their white backdrop and floor were getting really grubby with foot prints all over it.)

We had the Team officials meeting and then the Team photos were taken.  Unfortunately there was no Group Photo. 

And Ray,  you thought the Under 15s group photo was bad because we were just bunched up together. Well, at least there was a photo.

We waited a long time for our dinner.  Fortunately Kanny (Lai) was there and she gave us some chocolate eggs for Easter. We had them for entrĂ©e.  It was a short opening ceremony, no pomp or ceremony.  There were not enough chairs and they had to find another table and apparently there were also not enough food.   We were waiting for our turn but we decided that we had better go get the food before it was  gone.  The general consensus was that the food was terrible.  Sigh, we have to go back there for the Goodbye dinner, it will be the same food no doubt.

Again, it just makes me appreciative of how BAWA organizes our events…… always so well prepared and presented.

When we came back to the accommodation, we had a short team meeting and Kay sent all of them to bed.  The boys and girls were really tired due to the time difference.

Tomorrow morning we have shopping to do,  meals to prepare.  We play Tassie tomorrow, our first game.  We should beat them easily unless they have improved tremendously since last year.

Good night.

PS I have some photos but it is on the I pad – I need to ask the kids how to send it.  You know how technologically challenged I am."
 

Comment from Annie:


"We have a bye this morning.

I did the shopping , the kids did some light training within the grounds. Kay and the kids did laundry while the mums cooked dinner.  We are having spaghetti bolognese for dinner.

Lunch was chicken rolls which the kids helped make.

We are now warming up for our game with Tassie.  I sent you the playlist earlier.

Please call Kay for updates as the kids are not allowed to turn on their phones.

I will send some photos soon."


Well, despite not knowing what was happening in Victoria, we did manage to get some updates.

Sok Teoh was updating me on the scores while I was golfing at the Cut, Mandurah with my son Jazton. Yes, I have nothing to do but golf for the whole Easter weekend as my wife and other son are in Victoria. Poor me.

Tomorrow I play at Yokine Country Club. I had a corporate tournament at Joondalup on Friday.  

 Back to the badminton.

The scores are as follows:
 

AustraliaWestern Suburbs Badminton Association, Melbourne, Australia Print

Western Australia036 - 036Tasmania: 16-0

Time:Sat 3/30/2013 3:00 PM
Draw:June Bevan Trophy - Stage 1 - Group D
Score:16-0
Match overview
OrderEventWestern Australia036-036TasmaniaScorePoints

Duration
1WD2
Alexandra PhanAustralia
Julia NicolasAustralia
-
AustraliaJessica Aylett
AustraliaLaura Dennison
21-9 21-51-0

0:14
2MD2
Amos YiAustralia
Edward FanAustralia
-
AustraliaJoshua Partridge
AustraliaSam Lockett
21-4 21-101-0

0:15
3WD1
Phing TeoAustralia
Silvi BothaAustralia
-
AustraliaHeather Rothery
AustraliaCrystal Corbett-Smith
21-8 21-61-0

0:15
4MD1
Tyzton TanAustralia
Titus TanAustralia
-
AustraliaCorey Lockett
AustraliaAlec Avellana
21-10 21-41-0

0:13
5WS4
Serena LinAustralia
-
AustraliaSiobhan Duhig
21-11 21-91-0

0:17
6MS4
Edward FanAustralia
-
AustraliaSam Lockett
21-7 21-81-0

0:10
7WS3
Julia NicolasAustralia
-
AustraliaJessica Aylett
21-9 21-151-0

0:17
8MS3
Titus TanAustralia
-
AustraliaJoshua Partridge
21-6 21-81-0

0:18
9WS2
Alexandra PhanAustralia
-
AustraliaCrystal Corbett-Smith
21-8 21-81-0

0:18
10MS2
Tyzton TanAustralia
-
AustraliaAlec Avellana
21-9 21-31-0

0:11
11WS1
Phing TeoAustralia
-
AustraliaHeather Rothery
21-7 21-61-0

0:14
12MS1
Amos YiAustralia
-
AustraliaCorey Lockett
21-13 21-71-0

0:10
13XD4
Kai Jie TeohAustralia
Serena LinAustralia
-
AustraliaSam Lockett
AustraliaLaura Dennison
21-7 21-111-0

0:14
14XD3
Edward FanAustralia
Julia NicolasAustralia
-
AustraliaAlec Avellana
AustraliaCrystal Corbett-Smith
21-8 21-111-0

0:17
15XD2
Titus TanAustralia
Silvi BothaAustralia
-
AustraliaJoshua Partridge
AustraliaJessica Aylett
21-6 21-11-0

0:16
16XD1
Tyzton TanAustralia
Alexandra PhanAustralia
-
AustraliaCorey Lockett
AustraliaHeather Rothery
21-8 21-31-0

0:15
Statistics

PointsWonDrawsLostMatchesGamesPoints
Western Australia210016-032-0672-245
Tasmania00010-160-32245-672


It was a clean sweep by the WA team.  It was good to see the new State players win their first National matches.

Congrats to Serena, Julia and Kai Jie for their first win at National level. Tomorrow will see a tougher challenge for them and I am sure they will rise to the challenge.

The team plays New Caledonia next. They should perform well. It still brings me to the first match that the Tans witnessed when the boys entered their first national competition in the Under 15s in 2010. The first team they played against was NSW Thunder followed by Vic 1 losing at 16/0 and 13/3 respectively. Morale was totally shattered.

So in comparison, this is a great start especially for the new players.

I called Yuli to congratulate her on the team's first win. She laughed and said, winning at the end is more important. Good luck guys.

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