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With Para-Badminton being included in the Paralympics for the first time in Tokyo, we will keep an eye on those Scottish players who are going on the road to try and qualify. The period of qualification will go from March 2019 to May 2020 and will start with events in [...]

Defending champion Kirsty Gilmour has been confirmed as top seed in the women’s singles at the Yonex Scottish National Championships, to be held at Bell’s Sports Centre, Perth, from 1-3 February 2019. It will be Gilmour’s first competitive outing on home soil since retaining her women’s singles crown at the [...]

Kirsty Gilmour scored her best result in international competition in 2019 today when she won a silver medal in the women’s singles at the Orleans Masters. But despite a tough battle lasting an hour, Scotland’s No.1 couldn’t quite take the top spot on the podium as Japanese player Saena Kawakami [...]

Kirsty Gilmour has reached the quarter-finals of the women’s singles at the Orleans International, while Alex Dunn and Adam Hall are also still in contention at the quarter-final stage of the men’s doubles. Gilmour won her opening women’s singles tie in convincing fashion, downing Canadian Brittney Tam 21-12 21-10. Her [...]

Scotland Select arrested the winning streak of the Police Sport UK Team on Wednesday night as they won their annual encounter with the finest the law has to offer for the first time since 2016. A youthful team ran out 7 – 4 winners overall, taking a clean sweep of [...]

A youthful Scotland Select side will take on Police Sport UK, looking to win their annual encounter for the first time since 2016. The Sir Craig Reedie Badminton centre will once again host the action tonight, which will feature 11 full-blooded ties between some of the nation’s best young shuttlers [...]

The Yonex East of Scotland Championships was held for the second year at the Jack Kane centre. It was encouraging to see entries up considerably on last year and as always, there were some excellent, highly competitive matches throughout the weekend. There was a new name on the men’s singles [...]

Badminton is the most popular sport in Asia. It is the fastest racket sport in the world, provides a great work out and is easy to play whatever age you are. In Asia, a lot of people play at professional level but even more play for pleasure, to get some [...]

Christopher and Matthew Grimley scored their first podium result in senior international competition over the weekend when they won men’s doubles silver at the Portuguese International Championships. The 19-year-olds have plenty of experience competing in the latter stage of competitions, having won silverware in various international junior events, but this [...]

Badminton Scotland is sad to announce the death of Chris Hann a stalwart of the badminton scene in North East Fife. Chris will always be associated with NEFBA Jaguars. He worked tirelessly for badminton and for NEFBA. He was instrumental in ensuring the club became one of the first in [...]

Holly Newall scored a good win in this morning’s women’s singles first round, beating Getter Saar of Estonia 21-14 21-18. But she faces a tough test this evening if she wants to progress to the quarter-finals, with a clash against top seed Porntip Buranaprasertsuk to negotiate. Newall had won through [...]

The U13/17 National Junior Championships will be held at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, Motherwell, on 6 & 7 April 2019. The closing date for entries is Monday 18 March 2019 – any player who intends to enter should do so by this date. Click here for further information including how to enter