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Edinburgh Badminton Academy first club in Scotland to achieve Shuttlemark Gold Club Award On 2nd October 2020, Edinburgh Badminton Academy (EBA) became the first club in Scotland to achieve the Shuttlemark Gold Club Award.  Founded in 2013, the EBA has became one of the biggest badminton clubs in Scotland.  Their […]

Jim McNeillage, the talented all round sportsman, died aged 80 on 20th October 2020. Jim was an accountant by profession.  He had not been in the best of health recently and, though he was still playing an occasional nine holes of golf with his wife Gill, was certainly not anything […]

Callum Smith has reached the quarter-finals of the boys’ singles at the U19 European Junior Championships in Lahti, Finland. The Duns teenager upset the formbook, beating eighth seed Jacobo Fernandez 21-18 22-20 today to follow up yesterday’s opening 21-10 21-16 win over Ivan Kovacevic of Serbia. Smith was also competing […]

Kirsty Gilmour scored one of the best results of her career over the weekend, winning her first title since the 2018 Scottish Open as she took gold at the SaarLorLux Open in Germany. Gilmour put together a series of outstanding results, including a win over reigning Olympic and three-time World […]

We regret to announce that Violet Davidson recently passed away Violet was a lynchpin of Stirling and Midlands badminton. She started playing as a young teenager and played in the Stirling league for the Allan Church in Bannockburn where, incidentally, she met her husband Arthur. She quickly became the best […]

Roger Mills, previous Scottish National Coach in the seventies, has sadly passed away earlier this month. Tribute written by Daniel Travers  Roger was an All England Mixed Doubles Champion in 1969 partnering the Great Gillian Gilks. We (Scottish team members) had the pleasure of being coached by Roger in the […]

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020 TEXT BY DEV SUKUMAR | BADMINTONPHOTO Scotland mixed doubles duo Alexander Dunn and Ciara Torrance struck big at the DANISA Denmark Open 2020 today, beating fifth seeds Rodion Alimov and Alina Davletova. The Scots progressed into the second round after a tight finish, 11-21 21-18 21-19 over the Russians, the only […]

Date: 10/14/2020 12:30 PM Published by : Rasmus Bech (BEC) Adam Hall and Alexander Dunn won their opening match at Denmark Open and are ready to face German opponents in the second round. World number 37 against world number 38. On paper it should be an intense opening game for Adam Hall and […]

Date: 10/14/2020 12:30 PM Published by : Emilie Sommer (BEC) One, who had a very tough first round at Denmark Open, was the Scottish women’s singles player, Kirsty Gilmour as she was facing world number 4, Nozomi Okuhara.  In the first game Okuhara showed why she is second seed at this tournament when […]

Due to the current situation with Covid 19 and the guidance provided by the Scottish Government and sportscotland, we have taken the decision to cancel all formal competitions until the end of the year. Unfortunately, this includes two national events – the U11/15/19 National Junior Championships scheduled for 5/6 December […]

David Johnston was known to many as DJ. He was a lifelong supporter & developer of badminton with his first club starting in Cumbernauld 28 years ago. His sessions catered for everyone, children as young as 5 and up to older adults attended running across various venues.  His influence went […]

Shuttlemark On July 16th 2020 Lothian Disability Badminton Club (LDBC) became the first club to achieve the Shuttlemark Award in the Lothian Group area. LDBC is the 20th club in Scotland to sign up to Badminton Scotland’s accreditation scheme. Carolyn Young, Convenor of the Lothian group is delighted about the […]