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Pan Am Victories Around the World

4 November, 2019
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Outstanding athletes from our region took podiums at international tournaments around the world.

Michelle Li defended her title at Macau Open 2019 and won the gold for second time in this event.

The Macau Open is a BWF World Tour Super 300 level tournament, featuring some of the top badminton players in the world!

Michelle faced China’s Yue Han in the women’s singles final. After a close first game (21-18) Michelle proved too much to handle as she dominated the second game (21-8) on her way to claiming her second Macau Open title.

Now, she will compete at Fuzhou China Open starting tomorrow, November 5th, and she will face Cheung from Hong Kong China in the first round.

This weekend, also canadian athletes took the podium of the 44th YONEX Hungarian International Challenge 2019, held in Hungary. Pan Am Games champions Rachel Honderich/Kristen Tsai won gold in WD, while Joshua Hurlburt-Yu/Josephine Wu in Mixed Doubles, Jason Ho-Shue and Brittney Tam in Singles won bronze medals. Peter Briggs and Hurltburt-Yu reached the second place in Men’s Doubles.

Peru’s duo, Daniela Macias/Danica Nishimura also had good results during last weeks. The duo participated in 3 tournaments during last month starting at Bahrain International Series 2019 with gold medal in Women’s Doubles. In this tournament, Jason Ho-Shue got the silver medal in Singles. Then, Peruvian duo flew to Egypt for the Egypt International and got a bronze medals in Doubles and Macias did the same in Singles. The Algeria International 2019 saw Macias/Nishimura won a new gold in their careers. They defeated seede one duo Hany/Hosny (EGY) and won the crown, also Macias got thr bronze in Singles last weekend.

Also, outstanding players from USA, Beiwen Zhang, Phillip Chew, Howard Shu, among others, are competing at World Tour looking for the best results.

Our Pan Am Players continue adding experience and points in the World Ranking seeking the qualification for the next Olympic Games. Good luck to everyone!!!

Photo Credit: BPAC|BadmintonPhoto|SN