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The former para-badminton national team head coach, Kaity Hall, has been nominated for Badminton Europe’s Diversity Award. Like many great Scottish players, Hall started her badminton career at the Games Hall in Mauchline. Playing after school and during the holidays, her love for badminton grew under the watchful eye of […]

  Held in the Carnegie Centre on 7th, 8th & 9th January the tournament attracted an entry of over 70 players travelling from as far afield as the Borders, to the North of Scotland including Orkney. A very strict Covid protocol was in place preventing the presence of spectators but […]

Badminton Scotland is pleased to announce the appointment of Josh Neil as National Junior Performance Network Manager. Josh first joined Badminton Scotland as competitions coordinator in 2019 following his early retirement from the Senior National Squad as a full time athlete. He also coaches the West of Scotland Regional Performance […]

Scotland’s involvement in the 2021 BWF World Championships concluded on Thursday but there were plenty of encouraging performances in Huelva. Kirsty Gilmour got her tournament off to a flyer in the women’s singles, defeating Aya Ohori and 15th seed Yeo Jia Min to set up a third round clash with […]

Christine Black won gold in the 65+ women’s doubles at the World Senior Badminton Championships 2021 as the successful Scots came away with a clutch of medals. The tournament was held in the Carolina Marin Arena in Huelva, Spain, over the weekend and saw over 1000 players competing in 45 […]

Angus Meldrum, Abbie Brooks and Iona Muir each won a hat-trick of titles at the last national event of the year, the U15/19 National Junior Championships, held on 4 & 5 December at the Sir Craig Reedie Centre in Glasgow. In the under 19 events Meldrum and Brooks rounded off […]

We recently spoke to David Wilson, a Level 2 Badminton Coach who works for North Lanarkshire Leisure (NLL) and East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture (EDLC) and over a year ago setup a Ladder League in North Lanarkshire.  We had the opportunity to ask him a few questions about the league: […]

By Jack Lacey-Hatton Matthew and Christopher Grimley topped off a first-class week of badminton by becoming Scottish Open men’s doubles champions. Roared on by a passionate crowd inside the Emirates Arena, the Glaswegian twins produced a wonderful display to beat the talented Malaysian pair of Junaidi Arif and Muhammad Haikal. […]

Asian stars Wen Chi Hsu and Tze Yong Ng were crowned singles champions on the final day of action at the 2021 Scottish Open. The women’s singles kicked off finals day in Glasgow, with Hsu meeting Line Kjaersfeldt in a rematch of last week’s Irish Open final. Hsu, made a […]

Scottish hopes are still alive in Glasgow after Matthew and Christopher Grimley pulled off a sensational late win to reach the men’s doubles final at the 2021 Scottish Open. The last remaining home players in the tournament beat former world number two’s Kim Sa Rang and Kim Gi Jung 21-19, […]

It will be an all-Malaysian contest in the men’s singles final at the 2021 Scottish Open. This was after the two highest-seeded players had already both exited the competition at the quarter-final stage on a Saturday of surprises in Glasgow. Tze Yong Ng will be going for his third title […]

Badminton Scotland is pleased to announce the appointment of three new directors; two Independent Board Directors and a new Chair of the Engagement Committee. Bill Blacoe and Paul Morgan took up their roles as Independent Board Directors following the Half Yearly Meeting on the 21st November 2021, during which John […]