By RJ Mitchell CALLUM SMITH is hoping that a promising showing at last week’s FZ Forza Dutch International will help put behind a frustrating spell of injury and illness. The three-time Scottish Men’s Singles champion missed most of the recent European swing after suffering a back injury but last week [...]
The first ever Lanarkshire Under 13/17 Junior Open is taking place at the John Wright Sports Centre in East Kilbride on the weekend of 20/21 May 2023. The Under 13 event is Open to players born in 2011 and after, while the U17 event is open to players born in [...]
Well done to everyone who took part in this weekend’s Scottish National Junior Championships. There were 77 entries over 10 events, hosted at the Academy of Sport and Wellbeing UHI Perth on 15 and 16 April. Under 13s Jaagruti Mannem had a fantastic tournament. She won the girl’s singles beating [...]
The funeral service for John Britton will be held on Saturday 29 April at the Wilson Memorial Church at 11am. Ronnie Conway and Mac will be in attendance along with plenty of others particularly from Edinburgh. Our thoughts are with his mother Mae, beloved wife Traci, children Tom, Andrew and [...]
We'd like to say a huge well done to our U15s, Arnav Saraswat, Alfie Martin, Tushara Senthilrajaram and Qingyang Xiao who travelled to Edegem-Kontich, Belgium over the weekend to play in the VICTOR JOT Tournament 2023 accompanied by one of our Regional Performance Squad Coaches, Ciar Pringle. A [...]
By RJ Mitchell INGO KINDERVATER has tagged the five tournament European Swing as a “positive” period for our elite players. Badminton Scotland’s Head of Performance has overseen a whistlestop tour of Germany, England, Switzerland, Spain, and France which has been filled with drama, outstanding victories, gut-wrenching defeats but also punctuated [...]
A great Easter Weekend was had by all at the 2023 Scottish Hua Xia Cup, held at the Oriam Sports Hall in Edinburgh on 8 and 9 April. We were delighted to see over 80 participants involved in the badminton activity (which was one of four sports played at this [...]
A huge congratulations to Peter Chiu who has received confirmation of his appointment as a line judge at the TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2023 in Suzhou, China, from 14-21 May 2023. Peter has been an official for Badminton Scotland since February 2016 and has been involved in a number [...]
By RJ Mitchell CHRIS GRIMLEY has set a world top-32 ranking as the primary target for his partnership with brother Matthew. The Scottish No.2 men’s doubles pairing currently sit at No.42 in the Badminton World Federation rankings which are updated every Thursday, and this week’s edition could see the twins [...]
By Colin Campbell This year’s Yonex East of Scotland Championships were again held at the Oriam, Scotland’s Sports Performance Centre, at Heriot-Watt University. We were very pleased to have an extremely large entry in the tournament which resulted in a large number of extremely competitive games on Saturday. As a [...]
