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Colin had recently retired but was still active in badminton. Colin had been heavily involved in supporting the development of junior and schools’ badminton over the years and held several roles in LASBA, the LBG and the SSBU. For many years Colin was the focus the school’s badminton team events [...]

It was good to see a couple of local pairs entering and experiencing a higher level of competition. The semi-finals played on Sunday resulted in a hard fought win for top seeds Josh Apiliga & Rachel Sugden over Callum Smith & Erin Waddell and in the other half of the [...]

Badminton Scotland has been awarded funding from sportscotland to give 20 clubs £100 each to provide free period products for members. The £2000 grant is part of a £50,000 fund awarded to sportscotland by the Scottish Government. By supporting clubs to offer free period products to participants and visitors, the fund [...]

Brooke Stalker will be aiming to defend her Under 15 title treble of girls’ singles, doubles and mixed when the U15/19 Scottish National Junior Championships gets underway at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility on 14 December 2019. The thirteen-year-old year old prodigy first won the girls’ doubles in 2017, then followed [...]

Huge congratulations to all the finalists. The games were all highly contested and a special congratulations goes out to Deepti Vijayakumar and Abbie Brooks who both won the treble, Deepti at under 13 winning singles beating Shannon Leslie in the final, level doubles with Qing Yang Xiao beating Gemma Foulis [...]

Ciara Torrance was over the moon to clinch her first international title last week after claiming the mixed doubles title with Alex Dunn at the VICTOR Welsh International. The Scottish pair teamed up and defeated England’s Matthew Clare and Hope Warner 21-14 20-22 21-17 in the final, holding their nerve [...]

Throughout Scotland, there is a community bringing people together. Whether it is a story of high performance, family fun, social banter, new friends or simply a nice excuse for some tea and biscuits – they all have one theme in common; badminton. Badminton Scotland is proud to present “Scottish Badminton [...]

This year’s Scottish Open was not just hugely successful for our performance players but also for our National Club League pilot, aiming to place club competition as a key part of what we do at Badminton Scotland. Josh Neil, the organiser of the event, stated: “This was a pilot event [...]

Adam Hall and Alex Dunn made history as they became the first Scots to win the Scottish Open men’s doubles for 36 years on a thrilling final day at the championship. Not since Billy Gilliland and Dan Travers held the famous trophy aloft in 1983 have a home pairing seized [...]

It proved a Saturday night to remember for Adam Hall and Alex Dunn as they waltzed their way into the men’s doubles final at the Scottish Open with an imposing win over Taipei duo Chiang Chien-Wei and Ye Hong Wei. The popular pairing glowed under the Emirates Arena lights, dismissing [...]

Adam Hall powered into two semi-finals on the Saturday afternoon of the Scottish Open as he secured men’s and mixed doubles victories with partners Alex Dunn and Julie MacPherson. The 23-year-old was in resurgent form in front of a raucous Emirates Arena crowd, first toppling Danish duo Daniel Lundgaard and [...]

Matthew and Christopher Grimley lit up night two of the Scottish Open with an imperious 21-15 21-10 triumph over English pairing Ethan Van Leeuwen and Rory Easton, cruising into the men’s doubles quarter-finals and sending a statement of intent to the rest of the competition. It was a dominant showing [...]