Sofia Mazzoni is part of the Scotland Para Squad and Aberdeen University Badminton Club. Sofia only started competing this year, but she has already made her mark at the regional competitions in Scotland, and travelled down to Sheffield to attend her first UK Para Badminton Championships. "This was my first [...]
The Scottish Open concluded in perfect fashion, as home pair Alexander Dunn and Julie MacPherson secured the mixed doubles title over Ruben García and Lucia Rodríguez. Dunn said: “Going into the game, we knew if we focused on ourselves then we’d win, obviously it wasn’t as smooth as that but [...]
Debora Jille and Sara Thygesen produced an incredible deciding game to beat English duo Chloe Birch and Estelle van Leeuwen and claim the Scottish Open Women’s Doubles title. Jille said: “We’re happy. It was a good match, we lost a bit of focus in the second game but we started [...]
Number one seed Julien Carraggi maintained his composure to overcome Joran Kweekel in the Scottish Open Men’s Singles final in Glasgow. Carraggi said: I feel exhausted after a long week but super happy, there’s no better way to finish the week so I’m looking forward to heading home now!” Kweekel [...]
Denmark’s Julie Dawall Jakobsen secured the 2024 Scottish Open Women’s Singles Trophy, beating Huang Ching Ping of Chinese Taipei 21, 21 to 19, 16. Jakobsen said: “It feels good to end the season with a win, I’m ready for the Christmas holiday now with this good feeling!” Whilst Jakobsen came [...]
Brothers Christopher and Matthew Grimley’s Scottish Open journey has come to an end for this year. They lost out to French duo Leo Rossi and Eloi Adam in the men’s doubles semi-final on Saturday. The pair brought lots of energy to their semi-final, with volleys so intense that one brother [...]
Scottish athletes Alexander Dunn and Julie MacPherson faced Christian Faust Kjaer and Maiken Fruergaard of Denmark in the mixed doubles semi-final on Saturday. The teams have already played each other at the Hylo Open earlier this year in Germany. Dunn and MacPherson went on to win silver there - and [...]
The Grimley brothers are through to the semi-finals of the Scottish Open Badminton 2024. They took on Canadian’s Jonathan Bing Tsan Lai and Nyl Yakura in the intense two set quarter-final match. The brothers fought it out in a tough first set to win 21-17. They continued to maintain their [...]
Over on Court 1 another exciting match took place between Julie Dawall Jakobsen from Denmark, who is top seed in the qualifications, and Kaloyona Nalbantova from Bulgaria, who is the 5th seed. The players battled it out in an intense three set game. Jakobsen claimed the first set 21-16. However, [...]
Scotland’s Alexander Dunn and Julie Macpherson have kickstarted the third day of the Scottish Badminton Open 2024 with a win. For the first Scotland match of the day, over on Court 1, the pair took on fellow Scot Mathew Grimley who was partnered with Sara Thygesen from Denmark. This win [...]
