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World Junior Badminton individual championships 2015 – Lima Peru
Guyanese players continue good showing
After a great Team tournament where Guyana is now ranked 39th in the world, the players
Pic – Narayan & Priyanna Ramdhani after they defeated PERU in Mixed Doubles.
continued their good performance in the Individual World Junior Badminton Championships which started November 10th and continued on November 11th 2015 at the Centro De Alto Rendimiento “ La Videna” in Lima Peru.
The three players, Sun Burst Champion Narayan Ramdhani and Copa Airlines Champions Priyanna Ramdhani and Ronald Chang Yuen participated in the Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles where over 50 countries participated, totaled 128 top world ranked players.
The Guyanese Top players Narayan Ramdhani and the youngest player in the tournament Priyanna Ramdhani got to the second round in Mixed Doubles after defeating the top pair of the host Country, Peru, Jose Guevara & Ines Castillo 21-19, 21-17 in straight sets against a packed hall filled with fans that were backing the home players. They performed well against, not only the high level of the game, but also the home crowd, high altitude and first world juniors.
All three players will get higher world ranking points and this will be released at the end of the month.
Results of the other matches player were:
Ladies Singles: Priyanna Ramdhani lost to Tiffany Ho of Austrilla: 21-8, 21-13
Men Singles: Ronald Chang Yuen lost to Martin Cerkovnik of Slovenia: 21-6, 21-9
Narayan Ramdhani lost to Umana Ruiz Mario of Guatamala: 21-12, 21-19
Mix Doubles Round Two: Narayan & Priyanna Ramdhani lost to Francisco Rafael Trevino Buenrostro & Anahi Paola De La Torre Martinez of Mexico: 21-14, 21-15
Men Doubles Round Two: Narayan Ramdhani & Ronals Chang Yuen lost to No. 3 seeded players Kenya Mitsuhashi & Yuta Watanabe of Japan: 21-9, 21-11
Ladies Doubles Round Two: Priyanna Ramdhani & Monserrat Soto of Mexico lost to Erena Calder-Hawkins & Deborah Yin of New Zealand: 21-14, 21-16
The GBA would like to thank Continental Group of Companies, Copa Airlines, C & V Shipping, Bounty Farm and all our well wishers for making it possible for us to attend this Championship.
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