The 2018 West of Scotland Championships was held at the Sir Craig Reedie Badminton Centre at the weekend. With the majority of the current Scottish senior and junior squad playing, as well as some of the previous senior Scottish squad, we were expecting some exiting games and we were not [...]
ATHLETES from all over the world will head to Glasgow next month to compete in the Scottish Open Badminton Championships, being held at the Emirates Arena from 21-25 November. On display will be more than 300 players from 37 nations, travelling to Glasgow from as far afield as Canada, China [...]
Colin Leslie and Denmark’s Cathrine Rosengren finished off their Denmark Para-Badminton SL3-SU5 mixed doubles campaign with a comprehensive 21-11 21-9 win over Ukraine’s Oleksandr Chyrkov and Ivanna Redka to finish second in the group, but Mary Wilson and her Brazilian partner lost out to Jan-Niklas Pott and Helle Sagoy to [...]
Kirsty Gilmour was knocked out in the opening round of the women’s singles today at the Danisa Denmark Open in Odense but Scotland’s players got off to a good start in the Victor Denmark Para-Badminton Championships, being held at the same venue. Gilmour was unable to replicate her heroics of [...]
Scotland’s under 15 players enjoyed a successful weekend at the U15 Surrey Gold tournament in Guildford. Although unseeded, Vibha Raman won the girls’ singles gold without dropping a game. After two straightforward wins in group E and a comfortable quarter-final victory over Carly Stevenson, Raman faced second seed Gopika Leenesh [...]
Christopher Grimley finished off his individual Youth Olympic Games in style, beating Hungarian Balazs Papai 21-17 21-12 to finish second in group G. But with only the top player in each group, that brought Grimley’s participation in the individual events to an end as eighth seed Shiaucheng Chen topped the [...]
The Daihatsu Japan Para-Badminton International 2018 took place between the 26th and 30th September and Scotland had only one competitor, Mary Wilson in attendance. The Bronze came in the SL3-SU5 Women’s doubles event where she was partnering Frances Veronique Braud. The pair came through to the semi-finals, having finished second [...]
Christopher Grimley’s Youth Olympic Games campaign got off to a good start on Sunday. He opened his singles campaign with an excellent 21-8 21-14 win over New Zealand’s Oscan Guo but he was unable to make it two wins in a row on Monday against Shiaucheng Chen. It was always [...]
Matthew Grimley won a record fourth U19 boys’ doubles title today at the U15/19 National Junior Championships at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell. And in the U15 events Brooke Stalker won a hat-trick of girls’ singles, doubles and mixed to become the only treble winner on the day. In [...]
Top seed Adam Pringle faces a difficult challenge if he is to reach the final of the U19 boys’ singles at the National Junior Championships in Motherwell this weekend. That’s because joint third seed Matthew Grimley is likely to be standing in his way in the semi-final after today’s draw [...]
