Badminton success
NZPA staff correspondent Edinburgh New Zealand’s leading women badminton players, Toni Whittaker and Katrin Lockey, advanced to the second round of the Commonwealth Games singles last evening (New Zealand time). Whittaker beat Hong Kong’s Chun Tong, 12-9, 11-5, and Lockey thrashed the Scots-born Guernsey doubles champion, Susan Gammie, 11-0, 11-0. Tong won the Silver Bowl international tournament last
year, beating Australia’s Julie Mcdonald in the final. However, Whittaker beat Tong in the international final at Auckland earlier this year and repeated the dose at Meadowbank yesterday. Whittaker will meet the seeded Gillian Gowers, aged 22, in the second round. Lockey, an Auckland fitness adviser, aged 23, will meet Troke, the , British and European champion. Troke, aged 21, is the No.l seed and defending Commonwealth champion.
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Press, 30 July 1986, Page 8
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