Stuart Gomez still holding No 1 Spot for Australia for Olympics... so far

**jump_smash** · 04-05-2008, 05:43 PM

Stuart Gomez still holding No 1 Spot for Australia for Olympics... so far

Stuart Gomez is still ahead of Jeff Tho in the race to be the Australian sole Men's Singles representative at the Bejing Olympics.

But he will have to maintain this form until May.

See atttached Advocate artticle by Steven Dearne, dated 20th March 2008.

**jump_smash** · 04-30-2008, 05:20 AM

REVENGE FOR GOMEZ IN CANADA
24.04.08 12:07 Age: 6 days

Stuart Gomez ranked 76 in the world at the moment 36 places behind the number one Oceania player, John Moody, beat him this week in Canada at the Atwater International Challenge 21-17, 21-7

Stuart Gomez, Australia's number one mens singles player has been training with the players from the BWF World Training Centre in Saarbrucken and recently flew to Canada to meet the other Australian's to play in the Atwater Canadian International.

Stuart met John Moody in the second round but reversed the result from the recent Oceania Championships to beat John 21-17, 21-7. He now plays Carl Baxter from England in the next round.

More at (Inlcuding Ladies Singles and Doubles):

http://www.badminton.org.au/index.php?id=22&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=264&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=3e178211a3

Other Australian's playing were Jeff Tho in the mens singles. Jeff lost a very close match in the first round the Raju Rai (USA) 21-19 21-19.