New national champions on 3 continents

Canada, India, Denmark, Sweden, and Estonia were playing their own national championships a week later than most of the European countries.  Canada saw no fewer than three champions repeat but Andrew D’Souza (pictured top) reached the top of the podium at the nationals for the first time in his career.

Alex Bruce (pictured right) was the only double winner in Canada.  She won mixed for the first time ever but her partner Toby Ng won his 4th mixed title in 5 years, as Bruce did in women’s doubles.  We show here photos of some of the Canadian winners, live from Gatineau courtesy of Badmintonphoto’s Yves Lacroix.

While in Denmark, all favourites won – with the exception of Fischer-Nielsen/Pedersen in the mixed doubles – India came with new names as most favourites, including Saina Nehwal and Kashyap Parupalli, had skipped the event.  Sweden’s winners all took just one title each, while in Estonia, Kati Tolmoff won all three of her finals while her mixed partner Raul Must won two.

Europe’s top players will be in the Badmintonphoto lens when the European Mixed Team Championships kick off later this week in Leuven, Belgium.

Here are the new national champions:

2015 Canadian Women's Doubles finalists: (from left) Rachel Honderich / Michelle Li (silver), Alex Bruce / Phyllis Chan (gold) © Yves Lacroix for Badmintonphoto

Canada
XD: Toby Ng / Alex Bruce beat Philippe Charron / Phyllis Chan 21-23, 21-13, 21-14
WS: Michelle Li beat Rachel Honderich 21-17, 21-9
MS: Andrew D’Souza beat Joseph Rogers 18-21, 21-18, 21-10
WD: Alex Bruce/ Phyllis Chan beat Rachel Honderich / Michelle Li 21-15, 22-20
MD: Adrian Liu / Derrick Ng beat Kevin Li / Nyl Yakura 21-13, 21-17

India
WD: Siki Reddy / Pradnya Gadre beat Prajakta Sawant and Aparna Balan  21-12, 16-21, 21-18
WS: Ruthvika Shivani / Rituparna Das 21-13, 21-13
MS: Sai Praneeth / Sameer Verma 19-21, 21-15, 22-20,
XD: Arun Vishnu / Aparna Balan beat Tarun K. / Siki Reddy N. 21-16, 11-21, 21-15
MD: Manu Attri  / Sumeeth Reddy beat Akshay Dewalkar / Pranaav Chopra  17-21, 21-13, 21-17

Denmark
WD: Rytter-Juhl / Pedersen beat Fruergaard Sørensen/Thygesen  21-13, 21-10
MD: Boe/Mogensen beat Pieler Kolding/Conrad Petersen  26-28, 21-16, 21-17
WS: Line Kjaersfeldt beat Mette Poulsen   21-15, 21-16
MS: Jan Jorgensen beat HK Vittinghus  21-17, 21-7
XD: Pieler Kolding/Rytter-Juhl beat Fischer-Niselen/Pedersen  21-23, 21-18, 21-17

Sweden
XD: Nico Ruponen / Amanda Högström beat Morgan Lidman / Moa Sjöö  21-9, 21-10
MD: Richard Eidestedt / Tim Foo beat Mattias Borg / Andi Tandaputra  21-18, 21-15
WD: Clara Nistad / Moa Sjöö beat Klara Johansson / Ebba Strid  21-17, 16-21, 21-16
WS: Ellinor Vid beat Johanna Magnusson  21-14, 21-12
MS: Gabriel Ulldal beat Magnus Sahlberg  21-7, 21-9

Estonia
XD: Raul Must / Kati Tolmoff beat Raul Käsner / Karoliine Hõim 21-15, 22-20
WS: Kati Tolmoff beat Karoliine Hõim  21-16, 21-17
MS: Raul Must beat Mikk Järveoja  21-3, 21-9
WD: Karoliine Hõim / Kati Tolmoff beat Kati-Kreet Marran / Sale-Liis Teesalu  21-16, 21-16
MD: Kristjan Kaljurand / Raul Käsner beat Karl Kivinurm / Vahur Lukin 21-17, 21-16

For a list of links to 2015 national championship results, click here

Five-time Canadian men's doubles champions Derrick Ng and Adrian Liu © Yves Lacroix for Badmintonphoto