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Joshua Apiliga and Rachel Sugden both won title trebles at the U15/19 West of Scotland Championships, held on 2 & 3 March at the Sir Craig Reedie Centre in Glasgow. Top seed Apiliga had to battle hard for his U19 boys’ singles crown, coming from behind to beat Callum Smith [...]

Badminton Scotland’s Shuttlemark initiative has made a strong start to the new calendar year. Three clubs – Cults Junior and 71 Club from the Grampian region as well as Orkney Badminton Association from the Highlands – have achieved one of the awards for the first time, joining the 12 other [...]

The Yonex East of Scotland Championships will be held on 16 & 17 March 2019 at the Jack Kane Sports Centre in Edinburgh. The closing date for entries is Friday 1 March 2019. Any player who intends to enter should do so by this date. More information about how to enter [...]

Badminton Scotland is pleased to announce that up to two coaches will be nominated to attend the 2019 Badminton Europe Summer School for coaches. The 38th edition of the Summer School will take place in Podčetrtek, Slovenia from 6 – 13 July 2019. Who is it for?  Level 1+ or Level 2 [...]

Rachel Sugden was the only person to retain a title at the tournament at the weekend – she played very well throughout the whole weekend and defeated no. 2 seed Lauren Middleton in the final of the ladies’ singles. Rachel, with partner Alice Campbell, just lost out to Caitlin Pringle [...]

Adam Hall and Julie MacPherson reached the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at the 2019 Austrian Open, being held this week in Vienna. The Scottish sixth seeds beat China’s Yuan Ao and Wu Qianqian 21-14 21-17 in their opening match, following that up with a good 21-12 21-17 win over Danes [...]

Players from Lothian Disability Badminton Club enjoyed a successful weekend at the Scottish 4 Nations Disability Championships, held at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility from 15-17 February. Several of Lothian’s players were multiple medal winners with three – Fiona Christie, Richard Lean and Michael McCraw – winning title trebles. In the [...]

On Friday 8th and Saturday 9th February the Black Isle Leisure Centre hosted the Highland U17 Championships then on Sunday 10th February Inverness Royal Academy hosted the Highland U14 Championships.  Over 90 Players travelled from all over Scotland and the Highlands to compete for the singles, doubles and mixed titles. [...]

Kirsty Gilmour won her eighth consecutive women’s singles final today at the Yonex Scottish National Championships at Bell’s Sports Centre, Perth. She beat Holly Newall 21-16 21-10 in the final, setting a new record of consecutive titles and taking her one step closer to Anne Robertson’s overall tally of nine [...]

Kieran Merrilees is still on course to win his third consecutive singles title and his seventh overall at the Yonex Scottish National Championships, being held this weekend at Bell’s Sports Centre in Perth. The top seed and defending champion was ruthless in his progress, opening with a 21-4 21-9 defeat [...]

Michael McCraw and Diane Gillan were both treble winners in the LD division 1 events at the inaugural Scottish National Disability Championships, held at Dalkeith Sports Centre on Saturday 26 January. McCraw finished ahead of James Pert in the singles, before teaming up with Kevin Dobson to beat Dean Bernard [...]

Kieran Merrilees and Kirsty Gilmour will be aiming to win their seventh and eighth singles titles respectively when the Yonex Scottish National Championships get underway at Bell’s Sports Centre in Perth this weekend. Merrilees, hoping to win his third consecutive title, opens his campaign against James Leggate on Saturday morning [...]