Badminton New Zealand
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Badminton New Zealand is the national body responsible for the promotion and development of badminton in New Zealand. Established in 1927 and a founder member of the International Badminton Federation which was established in 1934.
AUCKLAND CITY — The 2012 New Zealand badminton national championships start tomorrow (Friday) in Auckland with one player determined to show that age is no barrier to winning.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Tournament favourites Southland and Waikato have started the Wisden Cup inter-provincial badminton competition held at North Harbour in the best possible way with wins in one of the strongest displays of provincial badminton rivalry in years featuring numerous former world stars plus some of the best current locals and those from years past.
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New Zealand players made four of the five available finals at the Altona Badmitnon International in Melbourne but couldn’t come away with any titles, however they can still be pleased with their efforts considering their inexperience at real international level.
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New Zealand has lost badminton’s trans-Tasman supremacy title, the Whyte Trophy for the first time since 1995 after tasting defeat at the hands of Australia 4-1 in Melbourne last night.
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The New Zealand Badminton Whyte Trophy team has been confirmed for the bi-annual clash with Australia.
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DUNEDIN — Top seeded team, Auckland won the national under19 badminton teams event being held in Dunedin by the narrowest of margins over defending champions North Harbour.
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WELLINGTON CITY — The Northern Region New Zealand No1 team has re-affirmed its supremacy in trans-Tasman badminton winning the June Bevan Trophy under17 teams competition in emphatic style with a 13 matches to three victory over the Victorian Rebels, indoors at the Renouf Tennis Centre in Wellington.
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HAMILTON — New Zealand’s loss is Americas gain as the winner of the men’s singles title at the North Island Badminton Championships, Bjorn Seguin who has been domiciled in the Waikato over the past few years and had been trying to qualify to play for New Zealand in badminton but nothing had come of it and he now plays under the USA flag.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — New Zealand’s top badminton singles players provided a couple of early highlights on day one of the strong US$15,000 New Zealand Badminton International at the North Shore Events Centre.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Reputations counted for little as the qualifying was completed for the US$15,000 New Zealand Badminton International.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The international player depth at the US$15,000 Li-Ning New Zealand Badminton International next week means the finalist at the recent national championships and the nation’s top junior player cannot make the main singles draw at New Zealand’s big international badminton event.
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New Zealand players won two out of the five titles available at the Oceania Junior (U19) Badminton Championships in Suva, Fiji dominating the doubles draws but failing in the singles to make any final.
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New Zealand players have missed out on the singles finals at the Oceania Junior (U19) Badminton Championships in Suva, Fiji.
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The New Zealand under-19 badminton team has won the Oceania Junior Championships in Suva, Fiji.
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The two New Zealand sides cruised through their opening round matches of the team championships at the Oceania Junior Badminton Championships in Suva, Fiji.
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Denmark-based Aucklander Michelle Chan this week won the women's title at the Estonia Badminton Open in Estonia's capital Tallinn.
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The New Zealand under 19 badminton team has continued its good form with a win over the New Zealand Associations team at the Lion Foundation Pan Pacific Series at the North Harbour Badminton Centre late Wednesday night.
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New Zealand has named two junior (under 19) teams (New Zealand and New Zealand Associations) to complete in the Lion Foundation Pan Pacific Series against Australia and the Singapore Sports School to be played at North Harbour 15 – 17 June.
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New Zealand Junior representative Luke Charlesworth (Wtk) won his first senior mens singles title on Sunday by winning the North Island Championships, defeating Auckland’s Ashraf Dhoray in the final.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Results from the North Island Badminton Championships being played in Wellington.
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MANUKAU CITY — Bjorn Seguin (Waikato) made it two wins in a row by backing up his win at the North Harbour Open last weekend by defeating team mate Michael Fowke in the final of the Counties Manukau Open on Saturday.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Experienced players captured much of the lime-light at the North Harbour Open tournament played over the weekend with Kerrin Harrison (47) and Tjitte Weistra (35) both former international players, showing the younger generation that knowledge of the game and good tactics are all important when it comes to winning.
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The Northern Region girls doubles pair of Maria Masinipeni and Lilian Shih won the only New Zealand title of the five on offer at the Australasian under-17 badminton championships in Perth, Western Australia to prevent a whitewash of titles by local players.
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The reign of the Northern New Zealand 1 team has come to an end after eight successive years of winning the Australasian U17 badminton teams competition for the June Bevan Trophy played in Perth, Western Australia.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Southland’s James Eunson won his first international badminton title with a victory in the men’s singles at the Crown Power Tools Canterbury International in Christchurch on Sunday as Kiwi players took away three out of the five titles on offer.
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CANTERBURY — The Cantebury Badminton International gets underway on Friday with plenty of questions to be answered.
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INVERCARGILL — It was a real trans-Tasman battle in the finals of the Oceania Junior championships at Stadium Southland in Invercargill as New Zealand won two out of the five titles and came close in the singles contests, with both the men’s and the women’s finals going to three games.
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INVERCARGILL — The juniors took centre stage in the early parts of the penultimate day of the Oceania badminton tournament at Stadium Southland in Invercargill today and the local players proved they have plenty of talent.
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INVERCARGILL — After struggling in the teams events against their Australian rivals, New Zealand badminton players are back with a vengeance in the Oceania Championships individual tournament being held at Stadium Southland, Invercargill.
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INVERCARGILL — The early matches of the Oceania Championships badminton tournament at Stadium Southland, Invercargill got underway with no major upsets and some Pacific Island players enjoying success before the big seeded competitors start hitting their straps.
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INVERCARGILL — There’s an opportunity for New Zealand badminton players to make amends when the Oceania Championships individual tournament starts on tomorrow (Wednesday) at Stadium Southland in Invercargill.
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INVERCARGILL — New Zealand has come agonizingly close to causing a major upset in badminton’s Uber Cup women’s team qualifying tournament held at Stadium Southland in Invercargill, but was beaten 3-2 by Australia.
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INVERCARGILL — New Zealand has started it’s campaign to reach the world finals of the Thomas and Uber Cup badminton competitions in emphatic fashion scoring 5-0 wins in their respective men’s and women’s matches at the Oceania Teams qualifying tournament this morning in Invercargill.
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INVERCARGILL — New Zealand’s domination over Australia in badminton in the past 10 years will come under the microscope in Invercargill as a series of major international events are held in the city over the next 12 days.
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INVERCARGILL — The New Zealand Teams to contest the Thomas & Uber Cup Preliminaries -Oceania Zone and the Oceania Team Championships for the Robson Shield in Invercargill next month have been named.
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The Badminton New Zealand Annual Award Winners have been announced.
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Results from the World Junior Badminton Championships in Malaysia.
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Results from the World Junior Badminton Championships in Malaysia.
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Results from the World Junior Badminton Championships being played in Malaysia.
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The World Junior Badminton Championships are currently being played in Malaysia.
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HAMILTON — Results from the New Zealand under 17 & under 15 Badminton Championships being played in Hamilton Points of interest: Brothers Evan and Kerwyn Lee from North Harbour are brothers.
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HAMILTON — Singles results from the round of last 16 at the NZ Under 15 Badminton Championships being played in Hamilton.
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HAMILTON — Results from the New Zealand Inter-association under 17 and under 15 badminton finals being played in Hamilton Auckland played North Harbour in last round of round robin play in both age groups.
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HAMILTON — Results from the finals of the New Zealand Inter-association team competition being played in Hamilton.
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Results from the New Zealand u19 Inter-association finals being played in Christchurch.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The finals of the New Zealand Inter-association under 19 competition are being played in Christchurch After two rounds the top seeds North Harbour and second seeds Auckland remain unbeaten.
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WAITAKERE CITY — The NZ Masters Badminton Championships are being played at Waitakere with 250 players entered.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Five national titles were decided at the New Zealand Championships played at North Harbour over the weekend.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The New Zealand Badminton Championships are being played this weekend at North Harbour This is the National Championships of New Zealand – overseas players are not able to enter Playing in this event are most of the members of the victorious Whyte Trophy Team who defeated Australia 3-0 in the test series played in Invercargill last week.
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It was a perfect script, three players making their NZ debut, two of them locals, all winning their matches, New Zealand winning the tie 3-2 and the series 3-0 Although the result of the series had already been decided the Australian team were playing for pride and were determined to win the third match of the series Southlander’s Anna Rankin and James Eunson, both 19 were named in the playing line-up, giving them both their first cap for New Zealand, a very special moment in their lives.
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INVERCARGILL — New Zealand have won the ILT Whyte Trophy series being played at Stadium Southland, Invercargill winning the second test 4-1, following their first test win 3-2 on Saturday night.
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INVERCARGILL — The New Zealand badminton team is looking to join the list of recent victories over Australia in the ILT Whyte Trophy test series being played at Stadium Southland, Invercargill starting Saturday.
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It could not have been scripted any better, two actual finals on the last day of play in the Wisden and Slazenger Cups being played at Auckland.
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Waitakere and Waikato are the two teams dominating the New Zealand Inter-association division 1 & 2 Championships being played at Auckland  Results from day three Division 1 - Wisden Cup Waitakere def Wellington North 16-0 Waikato def North Harbour 10-6 Auckland 1 def Auckland 2 12-4 Division 2 Slazenger Cup Southland def Bay of Plenty 15-1 Canterbury def Nelson 15-1 North Harbour def Otago 10-6 It is looking like two very good finals on Saturday at the New Zealand division 1 & 2 inter-association competition.
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AUCKLAND — The New Zealand Inter-association division one and two competition for the Wisden and Slazenger Cups respectively starts on Tuesday and concludes on Saturday in Auckland.
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The New Zealand badminton mixed doubles pair of Donna Haliday and Henry Tam have fallen in the final of the US$50,000 Australian Open in Melbourne.
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New Zealand won the men's doubles final at the Australian U19 Badminton Championships in Melbourne as Waikatere's Luke Charlesworth combined with North Harbour's Brock Matheson to beat their Australian opponents in three long games.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The seedings for the US$50,000 New Zealand Badminton Open starting on Tuesday at the North Shore Events Centre have been confirmed with local players being named in some high positions.
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New Zealand’s U19 men’s badminton players are showing the way across the Tasman at the Australian U19 Championships in Melbourne.
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A new Badminton World Federation ruling means some New Zealand badminton players will find themselves having to play qualifying for the first time in their lives when the US$50,000 New Zealand Badminton Open a world Grand Prix event starting next week at the North Shore Events Centre.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Some New Zealand badminton players are finding themselves in the unusual position of having to play qualifying for the first time in their lives when the US$50,000 New Zealand Badminton Open a world Grand Prix event starting next week at the North Shore Events Centre.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — A record 18 nations will be represented at the US$50,000 Grand Prix badminton event to be held later this month on the North Shore.
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AUCKLAND — It was close, but not quite for the Kiwi on the finals day of the US$5,000 Auckland Badminton International as some unheralded Indonesians dominated four out of the five finals.
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AUCKLAND — Waitakere 17-year-old Luke Charlesworth is the toast of badminton as he won all three titles on offer at the NZ Junior Badminton International at Gillies Ave in Auckland.
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AUCKLAND — Waitakere 17-year-old Luke Charlesworth is on target for three titles at the NZ Junior Badminton International in Auckland.
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WAIKATO — Waikato badminton player Bjorn Seguin, 19 celebrated his third tournament win in succession after having a straight set victory in the final of the North Island and Northland championships in Whangarei over the weekend.
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WHANGAREI — Saturday starts with doubles.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The 2009 North Harbour Badminton Open looks set to be a real test for the latest group of young New Zealand players who are taking over the sport after the retirement of almost the entire Melbourne Commonwealth Games team New Zealand U23 champion, Bjorn Seguin leads a strong contingent from the Waikato and is the men’s singles top seed while Southland’s James Eunson is the second seed.
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INVERCARGILL — The New Zealand Badminton team is looking to continue the trend of being one of the few sports where New Zealand dominates Australia when they play the bi-annual trans-tasman test match series for the prestigious Whyte Trophy later this year.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The class of world No2 Zhou Mi from Hong Kong showed through as she retained her singles title at the US$50,000 KLRC New Zealand Badminton Open at the North Shore Events Centre late on Saturday evening.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The upcoming US$50,000 KLRC NZ Open badminton Grand Prix event being held next week at the North Shore Events Centre has had some good news after just a couple of months ago the entire tournament was looking in doubt.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — A number of comebacks and some difficult first round matches are the features of the small, but strong draws which have been completed for the US$50,000 KLRC badminton Grand Prix tournament to be held at the North Shore Events Centre 11-15 November.
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