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Sam and Vincent Finish Second in 2009 Badminton Team USA Trials
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Sameera Gunatileka and Vincent Nguy from Maryland
traveled to the Bay Area on New Year’s Day hoping to become part of the US team
to various continental and/or BWF adult team competition in 2009. They
participated in the 2009 GGBC USA
Badminton
(USAB) Team USA Trials, which ranked the top eight national
players/teams for the five events (MS, WS, MD, WD, MX). The event was held on
January 2nd-4th, 2009 at the Golden Gate Badminton Club. Sam and Vincent
placed second in the men’s doubles event, right behind the 2005 World Champions
Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach, who won all their matches by wide margins.
Finishing third in this event was another Northeast player, Ted Shear and his
partner James Young. Ted also finished third in men’s singles after beating top
ranked Nicolas Jinadasa in an exciting 3 game match. Ted is currently a coach
at GGBC. It is also interesting to note that Vincent and Rulan Yeh placed 5th
while Sam and Rulien Yeh placed 7th in mixed doubles.
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