Kirsty Gilmour played her first match of the 2024 Paris Olympics this morning against Azerbaijan's Keisha Fatimah Azzahra, winning confidently in straight sets. Gilmour opened the first set with a confident consecutive two points. The Scottish number one had never before played the young 20 year old Azerbaijan player, [...]
Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour is headed to Paris for her third Olympics representing Team GB, where only 14 other badminton athletes competing in France are attending their 3+ Olympic games. “With each Olympics that goes by I feel like I am in a better place physically and performance wise and it [...]
Top-level sporting competitions are challenging enough but for Scotland’s Colin Leslie, the 4 Nations Para-Badminton International presented unprecedented obstacles. Personal tragedy struck Leslie with the loss of his mother the weekend prior to the event. At that moment, he was on the reserve list for the tournament but this [...]
Badminton Scotland were privileged to be invited for the 2nd time to the Shonai U16 International Badminton Invitational in Japan with Alfie Martin and Jaagruti Mannem representing Scotland in this prestigious event. The athletes were away from Wednesday 26 June- Tuesday2 July. The tournament itself was singles only [...]
The 4 Nations Para Badminton International was a huge success, both the competition itself, as well as the morning development activities taking place in the velodrome. These activities were targeted at disabled young people and adults and encouraged them to take up badminton through learning basic skills and playing fun [...]
Hong Kong’s Chu Man Kai avenged his gold medal loss in the Tokyo Paralympics to take the gold in the men’s singles SH 6 final against Krishna Nagar. In another three-game epic between the two, Kai got the better of his Indian counterpart this time winning 21, 17, 19 to [...]
Indonesia’s Ikhtiar Syakuroh proved too strong for Manasi Joshi, winning both games to take gold in the women’s singles SL 3 final. Syakuroh, a World Championship silver medalist this year, looked comfortable throughout as she took the first game 21 to 6, then saw out the victory 21 to 12 [...]
Thulasimathi Murugesan produced a standout performance to take home the women’s singles SU 5 gold in an all-Indian clash with Manisha Ramadass. Winning both games, Murugesan was electric throughout as she dismantled the 19-year-old Ramadass in impressive fashion 21, 21 to 8, 14. Murugesan’s form was apparent from the offset [...]
Indonesia’s Leani Ratri Oktila overcame the odds to beat top seed Helle Sofie Sagøy in straight games to win gold in the women’s singles SL 4 final. The Paralympic silver medalist never lost control of the match, taking the first game 21-18 and then closing out the match with a [...]
Top seed Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan clinched gold in the women’s singles SH 6 final, overcoming Giuliana Poveda Flores 21, 15, 21 to 16, 21, 17. A bright start for the Indian player saw her take the opening set, but four-time Pan-American champion Flores fired back with an impressive second [...]
