2018 Oceania Badminton Championships


The XIII 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships is the continental badminton championships in Oceania sanctioned by the Badminton Oceania, and Badminton World Federation. This championship is organized by Badminton New Zealand, and will be the 13th edition of the Oceania Badminton Championships. It is being held in Hamilton, New Zealand from 6 to 11 February 2018. The team event will start on 6 February, and will be the qualification stage for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals to be played in Thailand, while the individual event will start on February 8.

Venue

The tournament will be held at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, Hamilton East, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Medalists

Individual event

Team event

Individual event

The individual event of the 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships were held from 8 to 11 February, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand. Australia had secured four titles in the women's singles and three doubles event, with Sawan Serasinghe and Setyana Mapasa winning two doubles titles each, and the men's singles title goes to New Zealand.
The three doubles event present all the Australian pair. Serasinghe who was teamed-up with Matthew Chau beat their compatriot Robin Middleton and Ross Smith in the final with the score 21–17, 23–21. Mapasa claimed the women's doubles title after beat Renuga Veeran and Leanne Choo with the score 21–14, 22–20. In the mixed doubles event Mapasa and Serasinghe again became the champion defeat Chau and Choo 21–19, 21–18. The women's singles final also present the Australian players, and Wendy Chen claimed the title after beat Louisa Ma 21–7, 21–14. Abhinav Manota of New Zealand broke the Australian stranglehold on the Oceania championships by winning the men's singles gold medal. Manota beat Remi Rossi of Tahiti in the straight games 21–12, 21–14 in the final.

Men's singles

Seeds

  1. Anthony Joe
  2. Pit Seng Low
  3. Ashwant Gobinathan
  4. Jacob Schueler
  5. Dylan Soedjasa
  6. Daniel Fan
  7. Niccolo Tagle
  8. Nathan Tang

    Finals

Women's singles

Seeds

  1. Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu
  2. Jennifer Tam
  3. Joy Lai
  4. Louisa Ma

    Finals

Men's doubles

Seeds

  1. Matthew Chau / Sawan Serasinghe
  2. Simon Leung / Mitchell Wheller
  3. Jonathan Curtin / Dhanny Oud
  4. Oscar Guo / Dacmen Vong

    Finals

Women's doubles

Seeds

  1. Setyana Mapasa / Gronya Somerville
  2. Jasmin Chung Man Ng / Erena Calder-Hawkins
  3. Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran
  4. Grace Cai / Sarah Cai

    Finals

Mixed doubles

Seeds

  1. Sawan Serasinghe / Setyana Mapasa
  2. Dhanny Oud / Jasmin Chung Man Ng
  3. Oliver Leydon-Davis / Susannah Leydon-Davis
  4. Anthony Joe / Joy Lai

    Finals

Team event

The 2018 Oceania Team Championships officially crowns the best male and female national teams in Oceania and at the same time works as the qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 4 teams both in the men's and women's team have entered the tournament. Australia men's and women's team were clinched the Oceania Team titles, and qualified for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals, after topping the standings both in the men's and women's team. New Zealand men's and women's team were placing second both in the men's and women's team, while Tahiti men's team and Fiji women's team were in the third place.

Seeds

The seeding, which is based on BWF world rankings, for both the men's and women's competition is the same:

  4. Men's team

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