Badminton Out & About: Edina Triangular First Singles 5.2.2024

The first singles mirrored the team outcomes at the Edina Presidential Triangular. The Hornet’s Tenzin Tsephel roared back from a loss on Wednesday to Harding’s Kimberly Tobar and in the process picked up two wins. Washington’s Ariel Fang won once. Kennedy’s Morgan Aufdenkamp was shut out.

Tsephel did a massive clean up on her game limiting errors from a sky high 30 to a combined 16 in the two matches Thursday. On top of that Tsephel slammed the door shut on both Aufdenkamp and Fang when it came to the side out game. Tsephel only allowed five total service points all day after Tobar feasted on 25 Wednesday. In fact, Tsephel won combined service points 57-5 for the day. No service points (or a lack thereof) means runs are hard to come by. Tsephel shut out her opponents 15-0 in that all important category.

All matches were over quickly with the Fang/Aufdenkamp contest the longest at over 15 minutes. Looking at stroke categories the fast points (two strokes or less) led in all three matches.

First singles are usually played on court one at Edina (to the far left as you enter the gym) and once again poor serving reared its head. Could it be air circulation?  On Wednesday Tsephel missed five serves. Thursday Aufdenkamp had eight alone in the first contest against Tsephel. She cut that in half in the match against Fang. The Washington player took over the lead in that dubious category with five in that match against Kennedy. Serving (thankfully) was strong in the final set with both players off on one.

ALERT: I only recorded one first doubles match—Edina vs Washington. That analysis will come out over the weekend.

GAME 1: Tenzin TSEPHEL 2, Morgan AUFDENKAMP 0 (21-13, 21-7)

Category TSEPHEL AUFDENKAMP
Side out 12/16-.750 6/18-.333
Longest side out string 4 3
3+ Runs 7 0
Longest point string 7 2
SERVING    
First serve 1, 2  
First point 2 1
Service points 27 4
Serving % 40/43-.930 12/20-.600
Point generated off serve .628 .200
POINTS 43 20
Points after 11 21 9
Points after own errors 10 7
Winners after own errors 4 1
STROKES 152 53
Strokes per point 3.302 2.650
5+ rallies (%) 13 3
2- rallies (%) 14 10
WINNERS 10, 15-25 6, 3-9
Aces 4 0
Blocks 0 0
Clears 7 3
Drives 1 4
Drops 1 0
Soft drives 5 2
Smashes 7 0
Even Stroke Winners 5 8
2nd Stroke Winners 2 3
Odd Stroke Winners 20 1
ERRORS 7, 4-11 12, 6-18
Deep 1 2
Net 4 4
Wide 3 4
Serve 3 8
Even stroke errors 3 6
2nd stroke errors 3 0
Odd stroke errors 8 12
WINNER LOCATION    
Left 12 5
Right 13 4
Largest Lead 9, 14 2, 0
W:E Ratio 2.273 0.500
Margin 11.50  
Set Point % 2/2-1.000  
Time 12:02  

 

GAME 2: Ariel FANG 2, Morgan AUFDENKAMP 0 (21-14, 21-16)

Category FANG AUFDENKAMP
Side out 10/18-.556 6/18-.333
Longest side out string 3 2
3+ Runs 7 1
Longest point string 5 5
SERVING    
First serve 1, 2  
First point 1 2
Service points 24 12
Serving % 37/42-.881 26/30-.867
Point generated off serve .571 .400
POINTS 42 30
Points after 11 20 18
Points after own errors 11 11
Winners after own errors 6 4
STROKES 150 90
Strokes per point 3.571 3.000
5+ rallies (%) 10 7
2- rallies (%) 15 17
WINNERS 13, 7-20 4, 5-9
Aces 2 1
Blocks 0 0
Clears 1 2
Drives 1 0
Drops 3 2
Soft drives 7 2
Smashes 6 2
Even Stroke Winners 8 5
2nd Stroke Winners 5 4
Odd Stroke Winners 12 4
ERRORS 10, 11-21 8, 14-22
Deep 5 3
Net 8 10
Wide 3 5
Serve 5 4
Even stroke errors 12 11
2nd stroke errors 4 7
Odd stroke errors 9 11
WINNER LOCATION    
Left 7 4
Right 13 5
Largest Lead 8. 5 0, 2
W:E Ratio 0.952 0.409
Margin 6.00  
Set Point % 2/4-.500  
Time 15:19  

 

GAME 3: Tenzin TSEPHEL 2, Ariel FANG 0 (21-6, 21-6)

Category TSEPHEL FANG
Side out 11/12-.917 4/12-.333
Longest side out string 9 2
3+ Runs 8 0
Longest point string 10 2
SERVING    
First serve 2 1
First point 1, 2  
Service points 30 1
Serving % 40/41-.976 12/13-.923
Point generated off serve .714 .083
POINTS 42 12
Points after 11 20 6
Points after own errors 2 3
Winners after own errors 2 2
STROKES 172 34
Strokes per point 4.095 2.833
5+ rallies (%) 12 1
2- rallies (%) 14 6
WINNERS 11, 12-23 2, 5-7
Aces 0 0
Blocks 2 0
Clears 3 0
Drives 2 2
Drops 7 0
Soft drives 3 2
Smashes 6 3
Even Stroke Winners 8 7
2nd Stroke Winners 4 5
Odd Stroke Winners 15 0
ERRORS 4, 1-5 10, 9-19
Deep 2 1
Net 1 10
Wide 1 7
Serve 1 1
Even stroke errors 1 15
2nd stroke errors 0 8
Odd stroke errors 1 11
WINNER LOCATION    
Left 6 4
Right 17 3
Largest Lead 15, 15 0, 0
W:E Ratio 4.600 0.368
Margin 15.000  
Set Point % 2/3-.667  
Time 10:55  

 

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