Fine badminton win
The three times national champion, Graeme Robson, and the Auckland cricketer, Phil Home, registered one of New Zealand’s finest badminton doubles victories in the Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh on Saturday. Robson and Home beat the No. 1 ranked pair in the Commonwealth, England’s Andy Goode and Nigel Tier, 14-17, 15-8. 15-
An elated Kiwi coach, Richard Purser, attending his sixth Games, leapt in the air at courtside on the winning shot and said afterwards he could not remember New Zealand winning a men’s doubles against England before. He rated It as one of the best performances by a New Zealand men’s pair., England, the top seed, won the. other matches, tie, 4-1. (
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Press, 28 July 1986, Page 20
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