Qatar won GCC Badminton Open at Bahrain
Doha, 6th July 2009
Qatar has created a history of sorts in the recently concluded GCC Open Badminton Tournament at Bahrain by becoming Champion of the Tournament for the year 2009. Players from Qatar has finally been able to leap forward Qatar into the top position in the GCC open badminton tournament amongst the top players from KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai & Abu Dhabi. Mr. Arun Vijaykumar from Qatar became champion of the tournament by winning the Men's Single title.
The Qatar success story continued with team of Mr. Pavan Kumar and Mr. K.O. George becoming champion in the above 40 Category doubles event. Apart from winning two events, Manoj Sahibjan from Qatar reached the Semi Final in Men's singles, Pavan Kumar and Arun Vijaykumar in the Men's Doubles, Sairah Jain Roberts in the Ladies Singles, Sarah Jain Roberts and Shehna Girish in the Ladies Doubles and Manoj Sahibjan and Sairah Jian Roberts in the Mixed Doubles events. This is a commendable achievement despite having very limited and scarce Badminton facilities for players in Qatar. It is imperative to make available of international standard facilities for the badminton in Qatar, which could bring in more success stories.
Qatar Badminton Academy, the body which is keen to develop badminton in Qatar, has conducted various trainings to the young talents in the Country (of different nationalities including Qatar nationals), is planning to conduct a Qatar Grand Prix GCC Badminton tournament during Nov. 2009. This tournament includes Qatar open Junior and sub junior championship, Qatar Open championship (seniors) and GCC Open Badminton tournament.
Team Qatar
From left : Arun Vijayakumar, Sarah Jane Roberts, Shehna Girish, Girish Kurup, Liston J , Manoj S , Pavan Kumar , K.O.George.
kudos to the players,whether, mallu, indians or qataris, it was the love for the game and the effort that went into it,u who r responding should not call urself global citizens unless u really elevate ur attitudes!!! 3 cheers for the young players and the coach!!!
is it true that they are holding a badminton tournament in nov 2009? pls anyone answer this.. thnx
I know a few of them... were national level (or state level.... not a 100% sure) players in India... but its not a mean task... beating the UAE, Saudi etc... and Bahrain had fieldedmtheir national team... great show!
I hope the sports authorities take note...
brit i meant 2022 :)
drsam I disagree with you. I'm sure more than being found they were good thats y they were included in the team. FYI badminton in south India is real big and most of the nationals players are from South India and if this team were to play against an indian team they'd so lose miserably. LMAO at what you just said. Training my foot!
"Ali Baba and 40 thieves" are now "Ali Baba and 30 thieves" ; 10 were laid off.
You can't because we would have to qualify first :O(
brit am thnking of entering a Team Qatar in the next World cup football Championship.
It is Team Qatar, not Qataris..
i suppose that you have to be a resident to be eligible..
I'm tinking of entering a Team Qatar in the next World Tiddlywinks Championship.
Anyone interested ?
WHEN WE GO THORUH ALL COMMENTS WE FEEL THAT THERE IS A BIG CONFISSION ABOUT QATAR TEAM, WE NEVER SAY QATARIES WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP, BUT ONLY SAID QATAR TEAM (IT MEANS WHO REPRESENT FOR QATARAND ALL ARE EXPATRIATES, REALLY SORRY FOR THE CONFUSSION).MORE OVER THIS TEAM WENT TO BHR WITH THERE OWN EXPENCE JUST BECOZ OF LOVE TO THE SPORTS NOTHING ELSE.
FIRST OF ALL I WISH TO TELL YOU ALL THAT THERE IN GCC NO COUNTRY HAVE BADMINTON FEDARATION OR ASSOSIATION EXEPT BAHRAIN AND KUWAIT. AS A REAL GCC PLAYER WE CAN SAY ONLY 2 BHR PLYRS ARE THERE AND WE (QATAR) BEAT THE SAME PLR IN FINAL ALSO. REST A
IN QATAR WE ARE TRYING HARD TO CONVINCE QOC TO MAKE BADMINTON AS A SPORT IN QATAR AND HOPE ALL OF OUR DREAM WILL COME TRUE.
ONCE AGAIN SORRY TO ALL FOR THE CONFUSSION.
THANKS FOR ALL COMMENTS
except for one lady in that, all others are from KERALA, India.
LOL .. I know all of them.
ashwin.. Bling bling in the malls and airports, flash flash on the roads :)
for keeping Qatar proud!! :)
...and not as a representative for each of their own respective countries.
Oh well...as long as you get paid, why not?
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
I just hope, this turn of events, will start to create more badminton courts here in Qatar... We can never tell, this might only be the tip of the iceberg. There might be a lot of talented badminton players and rising badminton stars out there, but the prob... playing courts...
"I strugle I win"
Anelle
@stevethetyke...none of them is Qatari, not a strand of hair
QL they still are..:-)
The General Administration of Border Passports and Aliens Affairs consists of three constituents:
Expatriates Affairs Department.
Search and follow up Department.
Borders passports Department.
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Do you know that expats were called aliens?! Sounds funny I imagine them with antennas lol
I think fun aside. Well done to those who representing Qatar abroad, no matter what their Nationalities are..
Go Qatar..:)
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We have Aliens in Qatar as confrmed by our very own Qatarilady. The indigenous population of Qatar?
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If those are Qataris then I'm an "alien"!
Kerala now part of Qatar?
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they might not be of qatari lineage (in fact who is?), but still, they were "found", trained and raised in qatar. same thing happens for many nations. However, i hope that they don't strip them of their qatari passeport at the airport. they are qatari representing qatar outside qatar, but inside qatar, they're non-qatari.
These Qataris have strange names.
Mabrook...
Only Game Qataries love to play is Flash-flash on Land Cruiser....
All other games are for rest of the world... :)
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Reality is a Illusion Caused Due to Deficiency of Alcohol
Any of those players actually Qatari?