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This year, BWF is celebrating the 25th edition of one of the biggest tournaments in the world, the TOTAL BWF World Championships. To celebrate, many former medal winners have been invited to this year’s edition of the Championships, including Billy Gilliland and Joanna Flockhart who were Bronze medal winners of [...]

Adam Hall and Alex Dunn are through to the next round of the TOTAL BWF World Championships. The pair were not the big favourites before the match and they have shown exactly what they could do given half a chance. Hall/Dunn went into the clash having been beaten by the higher-ranked [...]

Kirsty Gilmour is out of the TOTAL BWF World Championships.  Despite going into the Worlds in top form, and with the confidence gained as a result of some recent excellent results, European Silver medallist, Kirsty Gilmour, was unable to convert her recent successes into a win against Japan’s Sayaka Takahashi [...]

Adam Hall/Julie MacPherson have unfortunately exited the TOTAL BWF World Championships in straight games against Japanese opposition. The Scottish pair went into this match ranked No.57 in the World Rankings, while Wakana Nagahara/Takuro Hoki, their opponents from Japan were ranked No. 22, in the World. Despite a challenging first set, [...]

Badminton Europe has opened up voting to elect a Para-badminton representative to the European Athletes Commission, and Alan Oliver from Scotland is one of the two nominees. The BEC Athletes’ Commission consists of four members. The nomination of this spot is for a para-badminton player. The role of the BEC Athletes´ [...]

Christopher Grimley, who played at the Hellas Open 2019 last week, believes there is improvement despite a podium place for him and his twin brother Matthew Grimley in men’s doubles. A number of players from Scotland travelled to Greece for the tournament, and several scots reached, the latter stages, some [...]

Dan Travers was on the podium at the BWF World Senior Championships on three separate occasions in Poland last week. Including one being a gold medal. Last week brought success for a number of Scottish representatives at the BWF World Senior Championships in Katowice, Poland. There were several podium places [...]

The BWF World Senior Championships are well underway with several Scottish representatives still involved, late into the tournament today. The quarterfinals for the tournament will commence today, in Katowice, Poland, before the semi-finals are played on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday. Who is still competing for a medal? Dan [...]

The draw has been made by BWF for the TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, and the team of Scots heading to Basel is up for the challenge ahead. The tournament will begin in Switzerland on 19 August and will continue until 25 August 2019, with four representatives traveling from Scotland. [...]

There are different ways for you to secure your seats the for tournament, with the first offer for members who are entitled to free tickets on Friday and Thursday of the event. Early bird offer If you purchase your tickets before 16 September, you will be entitled to a reduced [...]

Players from Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles returned from the 2019 Island Games at Gibraltar with their heads held high. After a very intense week of competition, starting with the team event before moving on to the individual events, players left the Europa Point Sports Complex having given it [...]

Kirsty Gilmour is through to the women’s singles semi-finals at the Russian Open, being held this week in Vladivostock. The top seed opened her campaign with a win over Maria Ulitina, surviving a late come back from the Ukrainian to win 21-12 24-22 on her fourth match point. She followed [...]