badminton

We’ll take a break from the reviews today to mention one of the best descriptions of badminton I’ve seen in a while. The Chicagoland Badminton group linked to this column by Robert Crampton at the Times Online in England, where they take their badminton pretty seriously. In his essay on getting older he talks about… Continue reading

This past weekend, we hosted another small badminton tournament with players from Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin and California.  There were sixteen teams in the men’s doubles event and six in the mixed doubles.  The overriding theme that came out of the weekend was the surprisingly good play by the members of the host club.  It… Continue reading

Sai teamed up with Chris from WI, won their first match, but lost to Norman and Keng in the Rd of 16. They dropped into the B draw, but lost to Kevin Hussey and Hermann from Omaha. Hull and Rohit also lost in the rd of 16 to Sandro Rossi and Nick Schaefer of WI.… Continue reading

Turns out that Norman did not beat Paul Rubin in the quarters. Rubin played Hetschel and despite several wonderful fakes at the net and stellar defense, he fell 23-21 in the second of two games. Matt and Ben played the other semi. Ben won the first game easily through several Wrobel errors, but Matt effectively… Continue reading

It’s 1:20 and things are progressing well. calling open womens singles semis and the last mens quarter is in the third game. Hentschel will play Norman in one semi and Hussey awaits the winner of Matt Wrobel and Ang Nguyen (winner at Omaha earlier this year) in the other. Sai is back out on the… Continue reading

1-1, 2-1 on nice attack, need more attack, 3-1, error to 4-1, smash error 4-2, 4-3, nice drop 5-3, 6-3 set up with nice serve, 6-4, losing most of net play, error 6-5, good drop 7-5, good attack 8-5, error 8-6, error 8-7, good drop 9-7, 9-8 on drop, 9-9, return error 9-10, god clear… Continue reading

sai dropped intot the C singles and is back on court. serving a bit better. not using the wrist hold we worked on earlier this week. using his smash effectively. need to get smash return a bit closer to net. smash return on fh going xcourt all the time. still a close game, but I… Continue reading

5-3, short serve 4-5, 5-5, nice smash 6-5, return error 7-5, short, smash return 8-5, error 9-5, 9-6, 10-6, 11-6, 12-6, long rally 12-7, 12-8, 12-9, bh error 13-9, 13-10, serve not even reaching doubles line 13-11, nice shot by serge 13-12, smash error 13-13, return error 13-14, drop error 13-15, nice clear 14-15, short… Continue reading

serve error 0-1, 1-1. got it to his backhand 2-1, 2-2. serve return error 2-3. nice smash 2-4. serve error 3-4. again bh error 4-4. 4-5. smash 4-6. 5-6. 6-6 on serve retunr error . smash 6-7. smash error 7-7. nice drop 7-8. 7-9. 7-10. net winner 7-11. 8-11. good serve forces error 9-11. smash… Continue reading