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When we started teaching badminton at Merkinch Primary School the rackets we had were old and mostly broken. Now, with the support of Badminton Scotland, we have a well-resourced and well attended Badminton Club in its third year. Badminton Scotland, and in particular Jane Grant, has been a wonderful advisor [...]

Badminton Scotland is the national governing body for badminton in Scotland.  We now wish to appoint a Head Coach who will have the unique opportunity to deliver the high performance element of Badminton Scotland’s Strategic Plan. The key responsibility will be to ensure that high performance players and coaches are [...]

On 2 & 3 February we are running two club development workshops, in conjunction with Scottish Archery. The workshops are both in Perth, with Volunteer Management being held at Dewars Centre from 12.30-16.00hrs on Saturday 2 February and Club Development Planning taking place at Bell’s Sports Centre from 10.00-12.00hrs on [...]

Christopher Grimley retained his Men’s Singles title with an easy final win over second seed Joshua Apiliga, although he was tested in his semi final, when Callum Smith took the second game and forced him to a decider. Although not seeded in the Women’s Singles due to a drop in [...]

Kieran Merrilees today confirmed his retirement from full time professional badminton. He has been by far Scotland’s best male singles player over the last decade and his announcement comes just over a week after he claimed the men’s singles title at the Yonex Scottish National Championships. Merrilees stopped training full [...]

Alice Campbell and Rachel Sugden won the girls’ doubles at the Hungarian Junior International over the weekend. They had a first round bye before beating Slovakian duo Natalia Tomcova and Lucia Vojtekova 21-17 21-12. That sent them into a quarter-final clash against second seeds Nina Becker and Hannah Jaenichen of [...]

The closing date for entries to both the Scottish National Disability Badminton Championships and the Scottish 4 Nations Disability Championships is Friday 11 January 2019. Any player who intends to enter either of these events should submit their entry on or before this date. The National Disability Championships will be [...]

The Babolat Dunfermline Open Badminton Championships return to Carnegie Leisure Centre on Saturday and Sunday 12th and 13th January. A strong field in the Men’s Singles is led by current holder of the event and nominee for Badminton Europe Young Player of the Year Award, Christopher Grimley. His strongest opposition [...]

The Yonex Scottish National Championships will be held at Bell’s Sports Centre, Perth, from 1-3 February 2019. The premier event on the domestic Scottish badminton calendar, the Nationals brings together the best players from all over the country. Competition is spread across three days and five events, with men’s and [...]

Kirsty Gilmour’s Ahmedabad Smash Masters finished their group campaign with two losses, but despite losing both her matches Gilmour showed she is more than capable of competing with the best. On 4 January against the Awadhe Warriors Gilmour was first up for the Smash Masters, facing world No. 10 Beiwin [...]

Christopher Grimley has been nominated for the Badminton Europe Young Player of the Year award. He is one of four candidates to have been nominated – the others are Frenchmen Fabien Delrue and Arnaud Merkle as well as Line Christophersen of Denmark – with the award to be made at [...]

Kirsty Gilmour’s Ahmedabad Smash Masters are sitting in third place in the Indian PBL, being held from 22 December – 13 January. Gilmour is the only Scot and one of only six British players – Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith (Bengaluru Raptors) and Raj Ouseph and Chris and Gabby Adcock [...]