9 Numbers to Know: 2016 Badminton Asia Team Championships - VICTOR Badminton

9 Numbers to Know: 2016 Badminton Asia Team Championships

2016-02-21

1 – This is the 1st edition of Badminton Asia Team Championships, organized by the Badminton Asia and equipment sponsored by VICTOR.

2 – 2 countries have earned a medal in both men’s and women’s events. They are Korea, supported and sponsored by VICTOR, and Japan.

Son Wan Ho, Badminton Asia Team Championships

Team Korea's top men's singles player Son Wan Ho

8 – The 8 medal winners will be automatically qualified for the BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals taking place in May in Jiangsu, China.

17 – 9 of the world’s top 15 men’s singles players and 8 of women’s top 15, totaling at 17, played in this week for their countries in the inaugural team event.

34 – Highest string tension requested in the VICTOR Professional Stringing (VPS) stand by Korean singles player Lee Dong Keun who strings his VICTOR MX-80 racket at 33/34 lbs.

38 – The longest rally of the tournament when China’s Luo/Tian won a huge 38-shot rally in the women’s final tie against Japan’s Takahashi/Matsutomo, ended by an unreturnable steep drop shot.

106 – Malaysia’s 16-year-old Goh Jin Wei, using her VICTOR HX-800, caused the biggest upset of the tournament when the World Junior Champion stunned world no.11 Chinese Sun Yu, who is ranked 106 places higher, in straight sets in the Group A tie.

387 – Fastest smash speed of the tournament. Ginting Anthony of the men’s champion team Indonesia launched a 387 km/h bomb in the finals against Sho Sasaki. Japan’s second doubles team Fukuman/Yonao hit a female record of 335 km/h.

2952 – The number of VICTOR MASTER ACE, the Official Shuttlecock of the Badminton Asia Team Championships, consumed for the entire 7-day event by athletes from 26 nations.