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2002 NEWS

December 2002

North Wales Singles Tournament In the recent singles tournament there were some interesting results, this was because we combined the girls and boys events after sickness forced a quite a few withdrawals. In the U-11 event, the winner was Daniel Font (Flintshire) who beat Joe Travers (Flintshire) 15-8, 15-6 in the final. Sion Griffiths and Christopher Roberts (both Conwy) were the beaten semi-finalists. Christopher reached the semi-finals after beating Stephanie Marti-Jones (Conwy) in the quarter-final’s, Stephanie was the runner-up in her group of boys. Giorgia Hughes who has just had her 9th birthday was the 2nd girl to play in the boy’s event coming 4th in her group.

In the U-13 boy’s event, three Welsh squad players progressed out of the group stages and were placed into the boys “A” event. This put Andrew Dawson, Dafydd Hughes and Daniel Williams (all Anglesey) in a head to head. In the 1st game Dafydd beat Andrew 15-8, 15-2. Andrew then withdrew from the competition with a reoccurrence of a knee problem that has plagued him for the last 2 months. The final was between Dafydd and Daniel. Dafydd and Daniel play doubles together and are the best of friends, but once you start the match there can only be one winner. This actually was a very good game with the form book being turned upside down with Daniel winning the event 15-10, 2-15, 15-10.

In the U-13 “B” event, Ben Travers (Flintshire) beat Ross Thomas (Flintshire) 15-11, 17-14 in the final. This game was a battle royal with both players totally committed to covering the court. Ross Thomas beat Jamie Lea (Flintshire) 15-7 in the 1st semi-final with Ben beating Iwan Griffiths (Conwy) 15-10 in the 2nd semi-final. This was a magnificent result for Iwan, to reach the semi-finals in his first ever tournament is praise enough but Iwan has only been playing badminton for 3 weeks, well done Iwan. With this achievement, Iwan has been invited to the Conwy County centre of development coaching sessions. Carl Hughes and Joanne Harrison (both Conwy) were both runners-up in their respective groups and reached the quarter-final stage.

 In the U-15 girls “B” event the winner was Katie Owen (Denbighshire) who proved too strong for the group winning the event quite easily. The runner-up was Kate O’Connor (Conwy) another player playing in their first ever tournament.

In the U-15 boys “A” event the winner was Christopher Pickard who defeated Rohit Srinivasan 15-8, 8-15, 15-13 in the final game. Rohit and Chris both defeated Philip Eastwood (Conwy) which made Rohit the runner-up.

The U-15 boys “B” event was won by a girl with another girl being the runner-up and what a final this turned out to be. Caroline Harvey (Flintshire) beat Laura Hartley-Williams (Conwy) in the final 13-11, 11-7. Laura actually served for the 1st game, a game that was a long titanic struggle as neither of the girls could break down the other with the score only increasing by one or two points at a time, well done to both girls. Caroline beat Christopher Jones (Flintshire) 15-0 in the 1st semi-final with Laura beating Sebastian Owen (Conwy) 15-7 in the 2nd semi-final.

Caroline, after winning the U-15 boys “B” event then went on to win the U-17 girls event beating Ellen Bettaney in the final and if that was’nt enough she then played in the U-17/19 boys event where she came 3rd in her group defeating two boys to get there.

The event was won by U-17 player Nick Strange (Conwy) who defeated U-19 player Chifong Chan (Conwy) 17-14, 15-9 in the final. Chifong beat David Wilkins (Conwy) 15-8 in the 1st semi-final and Nick defeated Matthew Owen (Conwy) 15-3 in the 2nd semi-final. Chris Pickard the winner of the U-15 “A” event was third in his group defeating two U-17 players in the group and only lost the semi-final spot after losing his last game 15-14.

 

North Wales Satellite Series

The 2nd event of the 4 series tournament took place in Rhyl.

In the U-11 Girls singles, the top seed Stephanie Marti-Jones (Great Orme) had to withdraw from the event after only playing two games, this left the group open to a new winner. Lisa Hother (Llanfairfechan) was the runner-up, Giorgia Hughes (Great Orme) was 3rd in the group with Zoe Hother (Llanfairfechan) 4th. In the overall North Wales points table after two events, Stephanie drops to 2nd place, Lisa is 3rd, Zoe is 4th and Giorgia is 5th. In the U-11 Girls doubles Giorgia played with Amy Paton (Flint) to beat Lisa and Zoe in the final. Lisa and Zoe however still lead the U-11 Girls doubles points table.

 In the U-11 Boys singles, Sam MacKenzie (Llanfairfechan) and Lloyd Hughes (Stella Maris) both reached the semi-finals. Sion Griffiths (Llanrwst) was 3rd in his group and Christopher Roberts (Great Orme) was 4th . In the overall points table, Sam is 3rd, Lloyd is 4th, Sion is =7th and Christopher is 9th.

In the U-13 Girls singles top seed and points leader Sarah Jones also had to withdraw through illness. Aimee Danzi (Great Orme) reached the final but was beaten by Jane Jones (Denbighshire), Joanne Harrison (Great Orme) reached the semi-finals where she played the eventual winner. Aimee now leads the points table with Sarah Jones (Great Orme) 2nd and Joanne 5th .

In the U-13 Boys singles, Kristian Edge (Great Orme) reached the semi-finals and is now = 4th in the points table, Lee MacKenzie (Llanfairfechan) reached the quarter-finals and is 7th in the table, Jamie Hogan (Great Orme) reached the 1st round Knock-out but lost to the eventual winner, Jamie is 6th, Iwan Griffithe (Llanrwst) also reached the 1st round and is 8th. Chris Petch and Carl Hughes (Great Orme) were 3rd in their groups with Michael Turton 4th in his group. In this age group there are 24 players in the overall North Wales Satellite Series points table. Kristian and Lee then teamed up and were the runners-up in the U-13 Boys doubles. Sebastian Owen (Llanrwst) reached the quarter-finals, James Hawley (Stella Maris) reached the 1st round of the knock-out stage but was beaten by an eventual semi-finalist. Gareth Allsupp (Llanrwst) was 3rd in his group, Matthew Roberts and Sam Rathbone (Great Orme) were both 4th in their groups and Michael Evans (Stella Maris) was 5th in his group. James and Michael were 2nd in their group which put them into a quarter-final game against the 2nd seeded pair. This pair foolishly went home without checking their position which gave James and Michael a semi-final game and the ranking points that goes to the semi-finalists. Matthew and Sam were 3rd in their group.

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November 2002

November 24th - Conwy County Badminnton Association Junior Inter Club Tournament

Great Orme Junior club won three of the four age group tournaments with the Llanfairfechan club winning one event.

The Llanfairfechan team of Sam MacKenzie, Lisa and Zoe Hother won the U-11 event by beating Great Orme and Stella Maris 5-1, Great Orme were the runners-up after beating Stella Maris 4-2. Great Orme won the U-13, U-15 and U-17 age group events. The U-13 team of Kristian Edge, Carl Hughes and Christopher Morgan beat Llanfairfechan 4-2 . The U-15 team of Leanne Mason, Laura Hartley-Williams and Matthew Roberts beat Llanfairfechan 5-1 and drew with Stella Maris but won on points. Llanfairfechan took the runners-up place after drawing with Stella Maris, Llanfairfechan winning that match on points. The U-17 team of Nick Strange, Matthew Owen and Rohit Srinivasan beat the Stella Maris team of Jason Yiu, Philip Eastwood and Hayley Turner 5-1.

The second tournament in the Junior Shuttle Series to be held in North Wales was played in Flint with success for Great Orme players. Top honours go to Nick Strange who won the U-17 boys singles. Nick beat Simon Crook (Monmouthshire) 15-13, 15-12 in the semi-final and then beat Gary Roberts (Flint & Wales U-15) 9-15, 15-9, 15-13 in the final. Rohit Srinivasan (Great Orme & Wales U-15) reached the quarter-finals of the U-17 boys singles but was beaten by Nick. Nick playing with Rohit reached the semi-finals of the U-17 boys doubles.

Leanne Mason was also in good form. Leanne made both the U-15 and U-17 Girls singles final. In the U-15 girls singles final she was beaten by Hannah Stephenson (Flint & Wales U-13) 11-5, 8-11, 7-11. Leanne had previously beaten Hannah 11-0 in the group games. Laura Hartley-Williams reached the semi-finals where she was beaten by Leanne. Leanne then played with Philip Roberts (Flint) to beat the top seeds to win the U-15 mixed doubles. Laura playing with Daniel Roberts (Flint) missed a final place after being beaten 11-10 in the final group game by the eventual winners, Philip and Leanne. Leanne then played in the U-17 event where she was beaten in the final by Caroline Harvey (Flint and Wales U-15 squad) 9-11, 11-7, 10-13. Leanne then played with Hayley Turner (Stella Maris). Leanne & Hayley were beaten into the runners-up place by Katie Roberts & Caroline Harvey.

Danial Islam (Great Orme & Wales U-13 squad) playing with Andrew Dawson (Anglesey & Wales U-13 squad) were 3rd in their group in the U-13 boys doubles, missing out on a semi-final place after being beaten 15-14 in their last group game. Daniel was 2nd in his group games. In the U-15 boys singles, Rohit Srinivasan (Great Orme & Wales U-15) reached the quarter-finals where he was beaten by the 3rd seed, Damian Dodd (Flint & Wales U-13) 15-11. Rohit then played with Philip Eastwood (Stella Maris). Rohit & Philip playing together for the first time reached the semi-finals of the U-15 boys doubles but were beaten by Alex Cox & Will House (Cheshire). In the group games Rohit & Philip beat the top seeds and eventual winners Ashley Dixon & Gary Roberts (Flint & Wales U-15)

November 16th - 6th James Wiseman Seniorr Open Tournament

The “James Wiseman” Senior Open Tournament was resurrected after an absence of 3 years to continue the rich vein of tournaments held in Conwy County, North Wales. In a senior tournament it was good to see 9 juniors competing, going into a tournament knowing they were not going to win, but to put themselves on the line to see how far they can go and how many points they can win. The girls had to play against top seed Nikki Cottrill (Great Orme) an ex Junior International player and the boys had to play against Neil Cottrill (Great Orme) a current International player, both players they would never compete against in normal tournament/competitive play, (not including Great Orme club nights where the Great Orme juniors do play against Neil and Nikki and all the other Great Orme County players).

To all the junior players; well done. Rohit Srinivasan (Great Orme) who at 13 years old played the eventual runner-up and a beaten semi-finalist. To the junior players who actually played Nikki and Neil, the score is irrelevant the experience was what counted. Mark Chan (Stella Maris) against Neil Cottrill in the 1st semi-final, Mark played a hard game and he fought to the very end to improve his score, what he did not do, was give it up as a lost cause. Throughout the tournament there were very hard fought games in which the winner was not known until the last point. Nick Strange and Steven Gibbons (Great Orme/Stella Maris) who beat Mark Chan and Chifong Chan (Stella Maris) 17-14, this was an U-17 pair beating an U-19 pair. Mark Chan (Stella Maris) beating Nick Strange (Great Orme) 13-15, 15-7, 15-13. The 2nd game of the semi-finals between 2nd seed Paul McCracken (Flintshire) and Carl Crossfield (Great Orme), after a poor 1st game Carl buckled down to give the 2nd seed a very different game in the 2nd.

Other games : In the ladies singles, Leanne Mason (Great Orme) v Laura Hartley-Williams (Great Orme) in which Leanne won 11-6, 11-8. This was a match between two 13 year old girls of different styles. In the ladies doubles, Leanne and Laura playing together, as yet did not have the court experience to beat the mother and daughter pairing of Julie and Hayley Turner (Stella Maris). Leanne then played with her brother Anthony (Great Orme) to gain revenge over Julie and Hayley, to become the runners-up in the mixed doubles defeating Hayley playing with Steven Gibbons and Julie playing with Chifong Chan.

 

October 2002

October 28th - Youngsters Anthony Mason and Nik Strange both (GOBC) won the Association Senior Mens Doubles beating Andy Goulding and Steve Danzi , who were on a stiff handicap, in the final.

October 26th - North Wales Satellite Series. The 1st event of the 4 County held tournaments took place at Deganwy on Saturday 26th October 2002 with 7 Great Orme players competing. 3 events were won by players from the club.

The U-11 Girls singles was won by Stephanie Marti-Jones who beat Amy Paton (Flint, Flintshire) 11-5, 11-4 in the final. Stephanie beat Lisa Hother (Llanfairfechan, Conwy) 11-8, 11-9 in the semi-finals. Giorgia Hughes was 3rd in her group but she did beat Lisa Hother, who progressed to the 2nd semi-final with a better points score, 11-8 in the group games. Stephanie and Giorgia lost the final of the U-11 Girls doubles to Lisa & Zoe Hother 2-11, 11-2, 11-4 . Sarah Jones beat her doubles partner Aimee Danzi to win the U-13 Girls singles. Sarah beat Catrin James (Mold, Flintshire) 11-1, 11-2 in the 1st semi-final with Aimee beating Zoe Moorcroft (Flint, Flintshire) 4-11, 11-9, 11-3 in the 2nd semi-final. Sarah & Aimee then won the doubles event beating Hannah Hogan & Catrin James (Mold, Flintshire) in the final group game. In the U-13 Boys singles Kristian Edge reached the semi-finals where he played and lost to the eventual winner Andrew Jones (Connah’s Quay, Flintshire) 15-3, 15-10 Jamie Hogan was 3rd and Carl Hughes was 4th in their respective groups. Kristian and Carl playing together for the 1st time were 3rd in the boy’s doubles. Next event in the North Wales series will be held in Rhyl, Denbighshire.

The Junior Shuttle Series is a higher standard series of tournaments running throughout Wales and is on open event.

In the U-11 Girls singles, Stephanie Marti-Jones was 3rd in the group although she did beat one of the semi-finalists in the group games. Giorgia Hughes was 4th in the group even after beating Stephanie Marti-Jones in the group games. Christopher Roberts playing in his first tournament was 4th in his group of the U-11 Boys singles because he lost his last match 15-14 overall this was a good result for him. Christopher did however taste success winning the U-11 boys doubles final playing with Jonathon Savory (Flintshire). In the U-13 Girls singles, Sarah Jones was 3rd in her group which contained the eventual winner and Joanne Harrison was 4th in her group which contained the eventual runner-up. In the U-13 Boys singles, Danial Islam, reached the quarter-finals. Danial, however, went one better in the U-13 Boys doubles, playing with Andrew Dawson (Anglesey) he reached the semi-finals of the event. Leanne Mason and Laura Hartley-Williams both reached the semi-finals of the U-15 Girls singles and playing together were 3rd in the Girls doubles. Leanne won the U-17 Girls singles and doubles playing with Hayley Turner (Stella Maris). Rohit Srinivasan was 3rd in his group of the U-15 Boys singles. Rohit is getting more results in the level doubles. In the U-15 age group he was the runner-up playing with Ashley Dixon (Flintshire) and in the U-17 age group was a winner with Nick Strange. Matthew Roberts was 4th in his group and Sam Rathbone was 5th. Nick Strange playing in his first tournament was the runner-up in the U-17 boys singles but with Rohit won the level doubles.

For a more comprehensive report on the tournament visit the WBU WebSite.

October 22nd - the Great Orme Badminton Club played hosts to a “friendly” against 1st division opposition, Rhos. The Great Orme team was Neil Cottrill, Steve Danzi, Anthony Mason, Gareth Williams, Nikki Cottrill, Karen Roberts, Sue Brown and Leanne Mason beat the Rhos team of Mark Williams, John Smailes, Andy Puddle, Barry Jones, Sue Edwards, Helen Atkins, Lynda Gledhill and Pam Gibbons. Both sides enjoyed the game with a return being planned; also being planned is a match with another 1st division team, Llanfairfechan “A”. Next event will be the trip to Crewe to play Crewe and District.

October 17th - Senior Mixed A, B and C teams start the season well - all winning their first matches 5-0.

October 14th - The Great Orme Junior Tournament was again a great success in its 4th year .
The tournament attracted 80 entries including 8 from England, which meant it had the biggest entry for a North Wales tournament for many seasons and goes on to prove that junior badminton is continuing to flourish........ CLICK HERE FOR TOURNAMENT RESULTS !

 

September 2002

Due to the revamp of the league structure, the 1st team will unfortunately have to play in the second division for another season. Matches start early October.

August 2002

The 2002/2003 season starts on Tuesday 3rd September and will be the club's 4th year.

The club hopes to field 5/6 men's teams, 2/3 ladies teams and 3 mixed teams in the Conwy County Badminton League.

Last season the club's first team won the 2nd division and the 2nd team were 3rd. The men's 1st team won the new men's league and the club's 2nd team were runners up.

July 2002

Neil Cottrill competed for Wales in the Commonwealth games in Manchester. The Welsh Team (seeded 4) just failed to reach the semi final stages losing to a strong Singapore team with Ronald Susilo in great form.

March 2002

The 1st team were unbeaten in the 2nd division and have gained promotion to the 1st division. The 2nd team were 3rd in the division only beaten by the 1st team and Llanrwst. The club have put forward proposals for discussion at the league AGM in May.

The club hosted a day of Badminton on Sunday 24th. The 1st team of Andy and Meryl Golding, Steve Danzi, Mark Williams, Anthony Mason, Rhian Jones, Helen Jones and Sue Brown beat Blaenau Ffestiniog 7 games to 5. The 2nd team of Gareth Williams, Joe Hill, Chifong Chan, Sue Brown, Leanne Mason and Leanne Roberts lost to a league select team 5 games to 7. The 3rd team of Joe and Ryan Hill, Nick Shacklady, Alex and Leanne Roberts, Rhian Jones, Helen Rees and Leanne Mason lost to a Stella Maris select team 6 games to 12. The men's team of Jon-Mark Owen, Nick strange, Jim Brown and Alex Roberts lost to a Stella Maris team 5 games to 7. Considering we were without 3 men and 3 women (hence the doubling up of some players) the matches were very close and enjoyable.

February 2002

Neil Cottrill retained the Senior National titles in Men and Mixed doubles, he then went to Holland to play for Wales in the Thomas Cup (World men's team tournament) winning all his games and helping Wales to win all their 1st round group matches.

January 2002

The Conwy County team played and won thier first two matches in the Welsh Badminton Union Inter County Championship 1st Division. The County were represented from the club by Neil and Nikki Cottrill, Gurt Kunka, Karen Roberts and Rhian Jones.

Gurt Kunka won the U-19 Men's doubles at the Welsh National Championships held in Cardiff and was runner-up in the singles to Liam Ingram a member of the Senior National Team.