BMT National Championships: Day 1 Recap
ROUND 1
ACAA vs ACAA Host: The ACAA Team defeated the ACAA Host 4 matches to 1. ACAA Host Women’s Doubles Team Michelle Doane and Sarah Pepperdine from Dal AC defeated Isabelle Choumiline and Maddy Morrissey in a hard fought three-game match for the Host’s lone victory.
OCAA vs OCAA Wildcard: The OCAA Team defeated OCAA Wildcard 4 matches to 1. This round was highlighted by the OCAA Wildcard’s lone victory in Men’s Singles, where Yuge Zeng defeated Ramnish Kumar 21-18, 21-15.
ACAC vs ACAC Wildcard: The ACAC Team defeated the ACAC Wildcard 4 matches to 1. This round had two exciting three-game matches in Men’s Singles and Men’s Doubles, the closest being Nicholas Pittman defeating Narayan Ramdhani 21-13, 12-21, 21-14.
ROUND 2
ACAA Host vs ACAC Wildcard: The ACAC Wildcard Team defeated the ACAA Host 5 Matches to 0. This highlight of this round was Mixed Doubles where Luc-Ly Nguyen and Connie Juang defeated Azeem Munawar and Kelsey Mackinnon 21-15, 21-15.
ACAA vs OCAA Wildcard: The OCAA Wildcard Team defeated the ACAA Champion 5 matches to 0. This round featured a pair of exciting matches in Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles. The Men’s Doubles team of Eric Kern and Alex Chao pulled out a close 21-18, 23-21 victory over Bryce Mason and Benn Van Ryn. In Mixed Doubles, Chirag Dave and Jia Yi Feng defeated Sam White and Sam Lawther 22-20, 23-21.
ACAC vs OCAA:The last match of Round 2 came down the fifth and final game between Narayan Ramdhani and Ramnish Kumar. Ramnish gave a valiant effort but ultimately lost 21-16, 16-21, 21-11 giving ACAC the Round win. The Men’s Doubles match between Arpit Taneja and Ayubu Touray vs Jeffrey Ko and Ronuelle Mendina was the highlight of the round with the OCAA team winning 21-12, 19-21, 23-21.
ROUND 3
OCAA Wildcard vs ACAC Wildcard: The OCAA Wildcard team won this round in convincing fashion 5 matches to 0. OCAA Wildcard finish the day with a 2-1 record.
ACAA Host vs ACAC: Despite a strong effort by the host team the ACAC team won this round 5 matches to 0. The ACAC finish with a strong showing on Day 1, winning all three rounds.
ACAA vs OCAA: This round featured some very close exciting games. The highlight match was Mixed Doubles, where the team from the OCAA, Mike Ra and Angeline Alviar, defeated Sam White and Sam Lawther from the ACAA 20-22, 23-21, 24-22. The OCAA team finished the day winning 2-of-3 rounds.
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