68th Annual Tournament

Wan Huzaini and I are participating in the Lancaster, Morecambe and District Badminton League 68th Annual Tournament. We registered for two categories, Gents Doubles Championship and Gents Doubles Handicap 'A'. The first category was held today and we were grouped in the Group 1 with three other doubles. We need to become a group winner or runners-up if we want to proceed to the semi final. In the end, we lost all our matches.

Considering that the other players hail from Division One, I do not have high hope of advancing to the next round but still hoping that we could win a set or two. Our first match was against one of the top seeded doubles (R Parkinson & C Foote) and we duly lost 4-15 and 1-15. In the second match we lost first set 5-15 to M Kearns & A Forrest but were leading 11-6 in the second set. However, they managed to overturn the deficit and won 15-12. Our last match is against another top seeded (B Stephenson & J Mitchell) and this time the defeat was the heaviest as we lost 0-15 and 4-15.

This Sunday morning we will play in other category and it's a knock out format. Since we are playing at the Morecambe College, the place of a car boot sale, I might as well bring my family along. We are scheduled to play in the quarter final and were given a handicap of +5, meaning that we will only need 10 more points to win the set. Our opponent are more likely to be a certain B Stephenson & J Mitchell and they were given a handicap of -8 1hd, meaning that they had to get 23 points to win a set and were given one serve per turn only. Given that we lost easily to them today, I don't expect them to have any problem of getting those 23 points with one serve. But then, who knows, we might get lucky this Sunday.