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Rachel Andrew and Sarah Sidebottom made it through to the last four for the first time this season at the YONEX Slovenia International. Elsewhere in Maribor, there was success for Jack MacGregor and Adam Pringle as they reached the quarter-finals in the men’s doubles. Andrew and Sidebottom took just 23 [...]

Scotland claimed two superb silver medals at the 2022 European Championships with Kirsty Gilmour and Alex Dunn and Adam Hall all finishing on the podium in Madrid. Despite not taking the top step of the podium Dunn and Hall can console themselves with an outstanding silver medal, becoming the first [...]

Scotland have two medal hopes remaining at the 2022 European Championships, with both Kirsty Gilmour and the men’s doubles pairing of Alexander Dunn and Adam Hall in action this afternoon (Friday). Gilmour, twice a silver medallist in this competition, is set for a crunch clash which pits third seed against [...]

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 [...]