Medal Matches Set at CCAA Championships
The Seneca Sting will look to capture three CCAA Championships bronze medals as Tanya Sharma and Hedeih Abbasbeiglou (Women's Doubles), Anthony Tso and Eric Peng (Men's Doubles) and Moti Shams (Women's Singles) will compete for a bronze medal.
Women's Singles
Ritu Shah of the University of King's College Blue Devils is one match away from successfully defending the national championship. Shah advanced to the gold medal match following a 21-3, 21-12 win over Seneca's Moti Shams. Shah will take on Jasleen Kaur of Concordia, the 2023 national bronze medalist in mixed doubles (Jonathan Su). Kaur advanced to the final with a 21-12, 21-12 win over Centennial's Prarthana Deuba. Kaur has been the only one to score more than 13 points against Shah, doing so twice in the round robin in a three-set thriller. Shams and Deuba will meet for the bronze medal.
Men's Singles
Colin Zhou of the Centennial Colts will look to repeat as Men's Singles champion following a 21-12, 21-9 win over Eason Wong (SAIT) in the semi-final. Zhou continued to cruise through the competition on day two and will meet the University of King's College's Thomas Ashton in a rematch of the 2023 gold medal match. Ashton defeated Smit Patel of NAIT, the 2022 CCAA Men's Singles national champion, in straight sets 21-14, 21-11 to set up the rematch. Zhou took round robin match 21-11, 21-11.
Women's Doubles
Abby Ledda and Cecilia Wolski of the The King's University Eagles will look to complete a storybook ending after defeating Anna Dugandzic and Anna Gillies (University of King's College) 21-17, 21-13 in the semi-final. The Eagles tandem is looking to avenge losses in each of the past two national championship gold medal matches, sporting a 6-0 record going into the final match. On the opposite side of the net will be the OCAA Champions Giselle Kochapanya and Monique Lee from George Brown, who advanced with a 22-20, 21-17 win over the host Seneca Sting (Hedeih Abbasbeiglou and Tanya Sharma). Kochapanya and Lee avenged a round robin loss to Seneca, previously falling in three sets.
Men's Doubles
Jason Chiu and Pau Ouano of the SAIT Trojans maintained an unblemished record on day two to punch their spot in the gold medal match. The Trojans defeated Seneca's Eric Peng and Anthony Tso 21-12, 21-18 to advance to the final. Opposing the Trojans will be Roshan Jacob and Arpi Sinha of the Fanshawe Falcons. The Falcons upset Greg Friske and Anirudh Sharma (NAIT) 16-21, 21-11, 21-14 in the semi-final, avenging a round robin loss. Sinha will be playing for a first national championship after capturing a CCAA bronze medal in 2022 in Men's Doubles (San Dang). Seneca's Tso will be looking to capture a third CCAA medal to go with a 2022 national championship (Akara Chooprawad) and bronze medal (Kevin Shah) this past season.
Mixed Doubles
Mahdi Ahmadi and Khushi Vaniya of The King's University dominated the round robin, going 5-0 and failed to drop a game, outscoring their opponents 211-114. The duo breezed through their semi-final match, defeating Gokul Kumar and Zeel Rohit (Humber) 21-11, 21-11. Joining the gold medal match will be Krishna Vaibhov and Sydney Arseneault of the University of New Brunswick Saint John Sea Wolves who finished the round robin 4-1 before defeating Davis Wong and Manasi Pandit (NAIT) 21-16, 21-17. Vaibhov/Arseneault and Wong/Pandit will meet for the bronze medal with the former winning the first time the two met 21-18, 10-21, 21-12.
The championships will continue on Saturday at 10am with the consolation matches (5th/6th) and bronze medal matches. The gold medal matches will start at 1:30pm.
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