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The 2022 European Mixed Team Championships Qualifier will take place at The National Badminton Academy, Scotstoun from Thursday 15 – Sunday 18 December 2022. View Team Selection. Appeals need to be made by 5PM on Friday 2 December 2022. Appeals will only be considered on the grounds that the selection [...]

By RJ Mitchell The five strong Scottish challenge in the men’s singles will face the daunting prospect of a high quality 64-draw in the BWF International Challenge Tournament tomorrow. Scottish No.1 Callum Smith will open his 2022 Welsh Open campaign against Denmark’s Marcus Viscovitch at the Sport Wales National Centre, [...]

By RJ Mitchell It’s the perfect question for any badminton quiz: ‘Who won the Scottish Women’s Championship twice in one year?’ The answer of course is Rachel Sugden and the Scotland No.2 will be leading a powerful Scottish challenge at this week’s 2022 Welsh Open when she begins her campaign [...]

The HULIC DAIHATSU BWF Para Badminton World Championships 2022 was held from 1- 6 November 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. The international badminton competition is for athletes with physical disabilities. We caught up with Colin Leslie who competed in the Men’s Singles and Men’s Doubles to chat about the importance of [...]

Rajani Tyagi was awarded sportscotland’s Community Club Coach of the Year at the Coaching, Volunteering and Officiating (COV) Awards on 4 October 2022. Last week she sat down with BBC ALBA to talk more about how she got into badminton through Scottish Ethnic Minority Sports Association (SEMSA) and the importance [...]

Young Scottish talent, Brooke Stalker came away with a silver medal at the Swedish Youth Games in the Women’s Doubles U17s and Bronze in the Mixed Doubles U17. The 2022 Swedish Youth Games is part of the Badminton Europe circuit and took place in Malmö from November 17-20. We caught up [...]

By RJ Mitchell MATTHEW GRIMLEY has admitted that he and twin brother Chris were beaten by the better pairing on the day after they were defeated by Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu Chieh and Su Li Wei 21-14 in the deciding stanza in the quarterfinals of the Irish Open Men’s Doubles. [...]

By RJ Mitchell ELEANOR O’DONNELL is hoping that a strong showing at the Irish Open has given her the perfect platform to achieve selection for the European Mixed Team Championships qualifiers in Scotstoun next month. The Paisley born doubles ace produced a strong showing with England’s Lizzie Tolman in the [...]

Western Isles Badminton Association hit the big screen following their challenge match with the Glasgow All Stars. The event was set up to give The Western Isles team practice and experience against strong teams ahead of the Island Games in Guernsey next year. Well done to everyone involved and a [...]

Intermediate Inter Area (November 13) 4 teams gathered at the Sir Craig Reedie Centre to contest the Intermediate Inter Area event. There were many close matches and the match scores in the early rounds did not show clearly how closely contested some of the games had been. The teams from [...]

The RSL BEC (Badminton Europe) Para badminton Event 2022 was organised in close cooperation with the National Badminton Association of Austria, from the 11 – 13 of November 2022. With the caption ‘learning, sharing, and making new friends in the European Para badminton community’, the Badminton Europe event consisted of [...]

By RJ Mitchell While Scottish No.1 Callum Smith will spearhead our entry in the Men’s Singles six other Scots will also be in action. In the top-half of the draw Scottish ranked No.90 Shaun Ally Aamir will face a step up in class against England No.17 Ben Hammond in a [...]