The Dundee Area Badminton leagues were up and running again on Sunday with the first round of fixtures in the Gents and ladies leagues. The Gents and Ladies doubles leagues continue to go from strength to strength, with an extra Division in each this season. In Ladies league Division 1 [...]
The Arctic Open in Finland has seen some intense competition over the first two days, with Scottish players delivering commendable performances across all events. Day 1: Mixed Doubles Challenges and Singles Success The opening day brought mixed fortunes for Team Scotland. Both of the nation's mixed doubles pairs faced challenging [...]
Few people embody the spirit of badminton in Scotland like Christine Black. With a career that spans over four decades, she has seen and done it all—from representing Scotland on the international stage to guiding the next generation of players as a team manager at multiple Commonwealth Games, it felt [...]
Last month Alfie Martin and Charlie Junnor surpassed all expectations at the Under 15 European Championships in Poland, winning a bronze medal in the mens doubles. Despite a relatively new partnership between the two, Junnor and Martin have been playing in the Badminton Scotland structure since they were much [...]
Scotland's Callum Smith has taken a silver medal at the Kampala Open in Uganda, marking his first international medal. Speaking to Smith on his preparation for the tournament he said "Before coming to Uganda, I had a solid 3 week block since my most recent tournament in Latvia. My training [...]
Renowned international tournament The Scottish Open Badminton Championships will return to Glasgow this November BADMINTON SCOTLAND is delighted to announce the return of The Scottish Open Badminton Championships at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena from 21 – 24 November 2023 and that tickets are now live on our LokkaRoom platform and JustGo. [...]
Kirsty Gilmour has comfortably won her opening game at the China Open 2024, a BWF World Tour Super 1000 tournament. This is Gilmour's first tournament since the Paris Olympics and it started confidently as she beat India's Imad Faroqui Samiya in two games 21-9, 21-7. Head Coach Ingo Kindervater was pleased [...]
In July five of Badminton Scotland's players travelled to Malaysia to compete in the Friendship Cup as well as experience some world class training at the National Training Centre. Jonathan Paris, Lewis Haan, Scott Theodus, Ciaran Henderson and Peter Yang were accompanied by Isa McArthur who has been taking Badminton [...]
Over 70 people attended the Inaugural Scottish Chinese Cup this Saturday. Over ten teams competed against each other across the day with gold in mind. Regional Development Officer Rita Yuan Gao organised the event after being involved in many multi sport Chinese Cups that included badminton but wanted to provide [...]
Scotland's Juniors had an incredibly promising tournament at the Under 19 Championships in Dublin Ireland but across the performances there was one that stood out. Brooke Stalker came away with Gold in the mixed and women's doubles after an incredibly intense schedule playing 12 matches in three days. Speaking to [...]
