Memorable victory for Crestwood Badminton Association

In a recent NSW Badminton club level contest against Homebush Korean Badminton Club, the Crestwood Badminton Association players won 28 off the 33 games played on Saturday 20th August, 2011 to emerge dominant winners in the contest.

The Crestwood Badminton was represented by MadanAlagaraja, Hitesh Bansal, Satish Dhond, Adil Khan, Koshi John, Sandip Khanal, Nivi Rattan, Spoorthi Rattan, Rikki Wei, Neni Tiwary, Amitabh Mukherjee, Bob Yost, Michael Sooben and Palanivelan Sivaperuman.

Crestwood Badminton Association has excellent players who have been playing at state and international level. Our front line players include, Spoorthy Rattan, Sandip Khanal, Adil Khan, Madan Alagarajah, Bob Yost, Sateesh Dhond and Michael Sooben.

Spoorthy Rattan was NSW’s number one badminton player between 2005-2009. She was in the Junior Australian Squad 2009-2010, and also represented Australian the World Junior Team in 2002. Spoorthy is a BSC Business IT UNSW graduate.

Sandip Khanal, a former national player for Nepal and winner of a Regional tournament in Nepal in 2009, currently plays at UTS Kurungai Campus and Crestwood Badminton at Baulkham Hills. Sandip is a BBS (TU)

MPA graduate from University of Ballarat, Victoria.

Bob Yost is the club’s senior player. Bob is 70 and one of the frontline badminton players. the Director of an insurance brokerage company and a regular at Crestwood Badminton Association playing at Model Farms High School, Baulkham Hills.

Sateesh Dhond is former champion badminton player of the University of Mumbai, India. Sateesh is the Group Assurance Manager at Westpac Bank and a regular player of Crestwood Badminton.

Adil Khan, Madan Alagaraja and Michael Sooben have won a number NSW local badminton tournaments and are regular players of Crestwood Badminton. Khan is Strategic Business Manager NAB. Madan Alagarajah is Australian qualified Accountant and a regular player with great sense of humour and sportsmanship. Michael Sooben is a Program Manager at Centrelink. Michael is one of our loyal members and swift player with great sportsmanship. Michael has been playing with Crestwood Badminton for over 12 years.

Nivi Rattan (sister of Spoorthi Rattan) a very talented young player already competing against top players in NSW. Nivi and Spoorthi are coached by their father Praveen Rattan. Nivi is a year 10