2007 USAB Team USA Trials at GGBC!!!

[GGManagement]

GG will be posting the draws and schedules for the USA Trials within the next two days here at BC. Thank you for your patience. Apparently the turn out is FANTASTIC and a wave of last minute entries have prompted us to recruit more umpires! Alas... the cream of the crop of USA players! It will be a great tournament as we have our unfallible Director Chris Lawrence once again and of course, our Captain, Mike Yang. Please do stay tuned. GG is also itching to find out WHO will play WHO and WHO is coming! Let's give them our support and cheer them on ! With your whooping and cheering, I'm sure we will get their adrenalines pumping!

Regards, GG Management !

[GGManagement]

GG will be posting the draws and schedules for the USA Trials within the next two days here at BC. Thank you for your patience. Apparently the turn out is FANTASTIC and a wave of last minute entries have prompted us to recruit more umpires! But only the cream of the crop from USA. It will be a great tournament as we have our unfallible Director Chris Lawrence once again and of course, our Captain, Mike Yang. Please do stay tuned. GG is also itching to find out WHO will play WHO and WHO is coming! Let's give them our support and cheer them on ! With your whooping and cheering, I'm sure we will get their adrenalines pumping!

Regards, GG Management !

[ctjcad]

...sounds exciting!!...GGBCManagement, just wondering, how many slots are the USAB looking to fill for its National team??..Will it be the same number of slots as in previous yrs?? Or are they expanding??..

[Qidong]

Any player on the USA team must have US Citizenship. Tony was given a grant to represent US last time. I don't know if this can continue and don't know if he has received his US ID. Alot of good players are not qualified cos they don't have the US citizenship. Our own Coach GG Chandra cannot play cos he is not US Citizen .Tony is now busy teaming up with ole buddy Chandra Wijaya playing many International Opens all over the world and they marathon tourny next year cos this is the first year BWF has managed to obtain huge sponsorship worth millions of dollars. I think it's called the World Series. Correct me if I'm wrong. My memory stinks . I think Tony is still at odds on who he will play for, but surely Chandra is his good buddy and they said they really enjoy great chemistry together. They have been friends since young training in INdonesia. They are quite the team and pretty much can beat the best of them. I think their biggest competitors are the 2 China Men's Doubles guys, Fu and the other great player (forgot name) . Tony is coming to GGBC to oversee his own students in OCBC. He won't be playing and he is coming to GGBC after just returning from Korea (he's there now actually and told Mike very tired but doing very well) and then he is off to All England to compete on March 6th. With all the jetlag this can be exhausting! Howard will be playing. Everyone else will be vying to represent US in the Sudirman Cup 2007. Sorry, that's all I know, don't know if it answers your question!

Sally

Thanks. That answered my question. So badminton is more like swimming, you have to win in a trial in order to join the national team, unlike basketball, the committee picks the players.

[GGManagement]

Regarding team selection, at the end of the Trials we will end up with four men and four women on the US Team who will represent the USA in the Sudirman Cup in June and in the Pan-American Championships in May. The winners of each event (Mens Singles (one man), Womens Singles (one woman), Mens Doubles (two men), Womens Doubles (two women), and Mixed Doubles (one man and one woman) automatically get to be on the team. If someone wins more than one event then the additional man (men) or woman (women) who gets to be on the team is determined by a set of tiebreakers (based on how they did in specific events in the Trials with preference given to Singles results) that USAB has published on the web-site. If interested in reading more about the team selection process, go to the "news" link on www.usabadminton.org and look for the news item giving information about the Team USA Trials.

Chris

[ctjcad]

..thanks again, GGManagement & Mr. Lawrence, for finding out and giving us some clarifications on this..Hmm, so i guess the no. of players needed will be roughly the same as it was in 2005...

[GGsally]

Hello Everyone,

The draws are out for the US Team Trials. Please go to the link below and click on NEWS, PLease look for GGBC US Team Trials Draws 2007 should be first in line as it is most recent event. They will prompt you to another link to download the draws on excel. Thank you very much and hope you will come to enjoy the games. We do not have the play schedule yet. I will post as we get them!

http://www.usabadminton.org/

Regards, Sally

[GGManagement]

Dear Friends at BC,

Howard Bach will be live on Sing Tao Radio tommorow, on FM 96.1, February 1st, Thursday, starting 9:20AM, talking about Badminton, his career achievements, and his appearance in the USA Trials at GGBC this weekend. Please listen if you have time!

Regards, GG Management

[vtdl88]

Good to see Sally is posting here

May I suggest GG Management to post at the venue the latest draw, game results, and games in progress (on which court), so spectators like us can follow the tournament and the game better. It makes it more exciting. Do it in big print or projection screen would be nice. Look forward to the tournament this weekend.

[kwun]

i have attached the draw here for convenience.

[kwun]

looks like there will a lot of good matches throughout the weekend. i will be there from Friday onwards.

if you are going, come say "hi"! look for a tall, skinny, nerdy looking Chinese guy with a big camera, and wearing a BadmintonCentral.com t-shirt.

[GGsally]

Good to see Sally is posting here

May I suggest GG Management to post at the venue the latest draw, game results, and games in progress (on which court), so spectators like us can follow the tournament and the game better. It makes it more exciting. Do it in big print or projection screen would be nice. Look forward to the tournament this weekend.

Latest draw and game results, are usually posted on this big green wall we have which you will see as you enter the courts in GGBC. games on which court, which players, will be announced as each game commences.

I must compliment our Tournament Director Mr. Chris Lawrence. For every tournament we've had, there have been NO delays. Everything is SPOT on time, much to my detriment last time. I was hoping for some REST between games and just couldn't ! You have a great time now! I do ENVY you!

Sally

[Qidong]

Latest draw and game results, are usually posted on this big green wall we have which you will see as you enter the courts in GGBC. games on which court, which players, will be announced as each game commences.

If Kwun or someone else can take a picture of the big green wall every day and post it in this forum, that would be great. At least we can see the latest draw and game results from here.

[kwun]

here are the results for the day. not completed. but here should be the rest:

WS:

B1: Eva Lee
B2: Lili Zhou

MS:

D1: Eric Go
D2: Bartolo Chen

[kwun]

here are a few pics i took. it is getting late, i will post more later.

[monto]

Thanks kwun. Both flights look mighty interesting, I wonder where the fellow who did so well at the GGBC/UBC tourney last year (2nd place), Zi Wei Qin, is? Anyone know if Lili Zhou is still coaching Lauren Todt, would be a rematch of teacher-student if they reached the finals again.

[ctjcad]

..hehe, thanks for taking and putting them here, kwun ...Btw, the pics look great!! Lots of close up shots; did you get up close to the court or were you using one of those tele-lens to take them??..
A few inquiries:
*Re the last pic up there, is that Ben Hussey??..wow, seems like he's a bit "older" than most other players..
* In the draw pic(2nd pic, post #31), unlike the other winners, I noticed Arnold Setiadi has more wins than Howard Shu, but he finished in 2nd place while Howard finished in 1st??..
* who is the young lad in the 1st pic and the young lady in the 5th pic(both in post #32)??..
* where's Raju Rai?? is he participating or is he "officially" not competing for a spot??..
* whoah, i noticed you stayed up quite late last night in posting the pics up..looking fw to more