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You are invited to apply to be a member of the above squad if you play competitive badminton and wish to increase your knowledge and improve your skills of the game.  Please complete both sides of the application form and send it to Mrs I R Blair. Click here to download [...]

Scotland’s top badminton players were joined by seven of Scotland’s Court Officials at the Total BWF World Championships and Para-Badminton Championships in Basel, Switzerland which took place from 19-24th August 2019. The officials, who all also worked at the 2017 Total BWF World Championship in Glasgow, enjoyed the experience of [...]

A total of eight Scots travelled to Basel to compete in the BWF World and Para-Badminton World Championships. Four of those players competed in the Para-World Championships with one defying the odds to return to Scotland with some well-deserved silverware. Bobby Laing and his English partner Rebecca Bedford were unseeded [...]

Alex Dunn and Adam Hall are out of the TOTAL BWF World Championships after losing to Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan, despite a battling performance in Basel. Following their superb first-round win against Thailand’s Bodin Isara and Maneepong Jongit (ranked 35 places above the Scots), Alex Dunn and Adam Hall, [...]

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 [...]