(MENAFN- Arab Times) Some of the top players in Kuwait in the Professional & Advanced category were seen in action this week in the"1 Day Pro+Advanced Doubles Tournament" that was organised by Filipino Badminton Association in Ahmadi (FBAA) on Friday at the Fahaheel Sports Club.
Aneef Lateef and Rajesh Vasuderan bagged championshipafter topping the standings in the Elimination Round and advanced to the semifinals with their powerful team-up and finally, emerging as the Pro+Advanced category champion, beating Jabbar Farooqi and Dr Asim Areef in the finals match in a thrilling 3 sets 17-21, 21-15, 21-20.
Meanwhile, the Toyo Tires and Robinsons Land Corporation failed to shake off each other as they continued to share the top spot at the end of the second week of matches in the foursome team tournament, called the FBAA 39th Conference "12th Toyo Tires Badminton Cup."
After a lot of tough games, Toyo Tires and Robinsons Land Corporation had compiled identical records of 12 match wins and 43 points to sit jointly on top. There was a slight shift in the standings as Proteins Co.-Ali Café moved up to third spot with 8 match wins and 37 points while HITCO slid to fourth place with 7 match wins and 28 points.
FBAA would like to thank the following sponsors contributing to this event namely Sunil Nanda, Abhay Chaturbedi, Monty Oberoi of Abdulhadi Almailem Trading Company € Exclusive distributor of Toyo Tires, Marc Antonio, Alene Valencia and Kris Clarinan of Robinsons Land Corporation, Mathew Abraham of HITCO-Hightech Instrument Trading Co. and Medo Aboud of Proteins Company € Ali Café.
All badminton enthusiasts who are interested in joining the tournament may visit the FBAA website on www.fbaakuwait.org or email info@fbaakuwait.org
Group/Team Standings
Rank Team Matches Won Points Won
1 Toyo Tires 12 43
1 Robinsons Land Corporation 12 43
2 Proteinsc Co - Ali Café 8 37
3 HITCO 7 28
Team Standings
Class A
Rank Team Team # Win Loss Points Won Games Played
1 Robinsons Land Corp 1 3 1 12 4
2 Toyo Tires 3 3 1 9 4
3 Proteins Co - Ali Café 4 1 3 7 4
4 Hightect Instrument 2 1 3 4 4
Class B
Rank Team Team# Win Loss Points Won Games Played
1 Proteins Co - Ali Café 3 3 0 11 3
2 Toyo Tires 1 3 1 11 4
3 Robinsons Land Corp 4 2 2 9 4
4 Hightech Instrument 2 1 3 3 4
5 Hightech Instrument 5 0 3 2 3
Class C
Rank Team Team# Win Loss Points Won Games Played
1 Robinsons Land Corp 1 3 1 10 4
2 Proteins Co - Ali Café 4 3 1 10 4
3 Toyo Tires 5 2 1 7 3
4 Hightech Instruments 3 1 2 7 3
5 Robinsons Land Corp 2 0 4 2 4
Class D
Rank Team Team# Win Loss Points Won Games Played
1 Toyo Tires 4 4 0 16 4
2 Hightech Instruments 6 4 0 12 4
3 Robinsons Land Corp 2 3 2 11 5
4 Proteins Co - Ali Café 1 1 3 7 4
5 Toyo Tires 5 1 3 4 4
6 Ali Café 3 0 5 2 5
Class E
Rank Team Team# Win Loss Points Won Games Played
1 Leala Jayne Palado € 8 0 24 8
2 PJ Ramirez € 7 2 19 9
3 Eandrey Jose Tantiangco € 5 3 14 8
4 Psyche Yvette Palado € 4 3 14 7
5 Sally Sorillo € 3 5 10 8
6 Jeri Rimando € 2 6 5 8
7 Zoe Lesaca € 1 6 4 7
8 Kris Clarinan € 0 5 0 5
Pro/Advance
Rank Team Team# Win Loss Points Won Games Played
1 Aneef & Rajesh 2 3 0 9 3
2 Sanju & Ajay 3 2 1 5 3
3 Jabbar & Azim 1 1 2 3 3
4 Relin & Saiju 4 0 3 1 3
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