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This year’s Yonex East of Scotland Championships were held at the Oriam, Scotland’s Sports Performance Centre, at Heriot-Watt University which proved to be an excellent venue for the tournament. We had a large entry which resulted in many competitive games on the Saturday in both the main events and the […]

Two-time European Championship silver medallist Kirsty Gilmour has been seeded third for this year’s competition in Madrid as she looks to add an elusive gold to her collection. Gilmour, beaten by Carolina Marin in the 2016 and 2017 finals, earned her third European medal with bronze in Kyiv last year […]

Badminton is the 2nd biggest participation sport in the world and we are looking for the right person to join our committed team to develop innovative engagement strategies to connect up the sport and show case our world class players.   It is an exciting time to get involved in Badminton […]

Kaity Hall, the former para-badminton national team head coach, was awarded the Badminton Europe Diversity Award at the BEC Gala Awards in Malta on Saturday 9th April. She was nominated for the award in January for her many years of work with para-badminton athletes and thanked the badminton community for […]

It’s been a busy start to the year for the Scottish National squad and the team have just returned from a run of international tournaments. Following a long training block the squad are on top form and have shown the world what Scotland is capable of  – challenging world class […]

The 2022 U19 European Junior Championships  will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, from 18th – 27th August 2022. In order to pick the strongest team capable of challenging for team and individual medals, it was decided that a team of 5&5 should be selected due to the make-up of partnerships […]

Matthew Waring, Alfie Martin and Tushara Senthilrajaram all bagged a hat-trick of titles today at the U13/17 Scottish National Junior Badminton Championships at the Sir Craig Reedie Centre in Glasgow. Waring was on fire in the final of the U17 boys’ singles, dominating Lewis Coghill to take the gold having […]

Badminton is firmly back on the cards in the West region and there has been an abundance of activity since the start of the season. We caught up with Euan Murray, Regional Development Officer for the West region on the state of play in his corner of the country. Following […]

With the recent surge in Covid cases it felt inevitable this would lead to a number of late withdrawals, we wish all affected a quick recovery. Despite this, a strong entry gathered at NICC Perth over 26th/27th March to compete in the U15/U19 Midland Junior. Lingyun Xiao claimed a fine […]

The 2022 U15 Quadrangular will take place in Dublin, Ireland,  from 28th April – 1st May 2022. The team selected for the U15 Quadrangular is as follows:  Boys: Callum McWhirter Arnav Saraswat Tushar Senthilrajaram Lewis Smith Lingyuan Xiao Non-Travelling Reserve:               Lucas Chin   Girls: Abigail Barrie Tushara Senthilrajaram Pranavi Singh […]

Iona Muir is well placed as top seed to defend her singles title as the U13/17 National Junior Championships get underway in Glasgow this weekend. Muir took both the U15 and U17 Singles titles last year and is on fine form following her U17 Spanish Open gold last month. The […]

Kirsty Gilmour reached the semi-finals of the Swiss Open after a fearless fight against some of the world’s best players. The eighth seed started her campaign with a straightforward win over Japan’s Asuka Takahashi before taking a close match against India’s Ashmita Chaliha. Iris Wang was next to face the […]