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It’s with regret that we can confirm that the Robert McCoig International match, which was due to be held alongside the Yorkshire Masters in March 2021, has been cancelled. Unfortunately Badminton England have informed us that the Yorkshire Masters itself has been cancelled, and therefore they have also taken the [...]

Scotland took a title double at the Portuguese International yesterday, being held in Caldas Da Rainha. Unseeded Lauren Middleton and Holly Newall claimed the women’s doubles while an all Scottish final saw Christopher Grimley and Eleanor O’Donnell beat Adam Pringle and Rachel Andrew to win the mixed doubles crown in [...]

Scotland took a title double at the Portuguese International today, being held in Caldas Da Rainha. Unseeded Lauren Middleton and Holly Newall claimed the women’s doubles while an all Scottish final saw Christopher Grimley and Eleanor O’Donnell beat Adam Pringle and Rachel Andrew to win the mixed doubles crown in [...]

Scots progress in Portugal but Smith misses out on European Junior medal A number of Scots are going well at the 55th Portuguese International, being held this week at Caldas da Rainha from 5-8 November but Callum Smith narrowly missed out on a medal at the European Junior Championships in [...]

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 [...]