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Khoo, Wu double up for Oceania badminton titles
- Updated: February 17, 2015
AUSTRALIAN pair Lee-Yen Khoo and Alice Wu were the undisputed stars of the Oceania Junior Badminton Championships in Auckland, each finishing with not one, but two titles each to their name.
Australia claimed three titles on finals day with Khoo and Wu teaming together to take out the girls’ doubles, while they were also successful in the mixed doubles and girls’ singles, respectively.
Khoo joined with Huaidong Tang to defeat fellow Australians Tiffany Ho and Justin Lee in the final of the mixed doubles, the number-one seeds recording a 22-20, 21-15 win.
That match was the first of two all-Australian finals with Wu relegating Ho to her second runner-up finish in the girls’ singles playoff, defeating her in two hard-fought games, 25-23, 21-17.
It was a different story in the girls’ doubles final, with Wu and Khoo trouncing the New Zealand team of Gaea Mari Galvez and Alyssa Tagle in quick time, 21-8, 21-8.
The boys’ singles and boys’ doubles finals were all-Kiwi affairs, with Oscar Guo defeating countryman Benjamin Hillier for the singles title, and Niccolo Tagle and Daxxon Vong beating Guo and Christopher Steeghs in the doubles.
Source: Badminton Australia
