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With the courts laid, the volunteers in place and the players ready and raring go, the countdown to the start of the 2018 Scottish Open Badminton Championships is almost over. A world class field of more than 300 hundred athletes from 37 nations have descended on Glasgow for the third [...]

With the Scottish Open Badminton Championships about to get underway at the Emirates Arena, a world class field of more than 300 athletes from all over the planet have been arriving in Scotland. A host of Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medallists will compete in Glasgow from 21-25 November with [...]

Fourth seed Rajiv Ouseph is expecting a tough run if he is going to make the latter stages of the Scottish Open. The Englishman begins the tournament in Glasgow against a qualifier or Bulgarian Ivan Rusev in round two due to a bye. Ouseph, the world number 35, is the [...]

Jack MacGregor and Ciar Pringle warmed up for the Scottish Open in fine style this week by reaching the final of the Forza Irish Open. The unseeded pair took the silver medal after losing out to the second seeds, Korea’s Choi Solgyu and Seo Seung Jae, in today’s final. But [...]

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Marcus Ellis thinks he has every chance of clinching his first Scottish Open win alongside partner Chris Langridge. The pair are gearing up for the tournament at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, where they face Scottish teenagers Ciar Pringle and Jack MacGregor in the first round. [...]

An Edinburgh coach has been recognised for his dedication to badminton after winning sportscotland’s Young Person’s Coach of the Year Award. Greg Broadbent set up Edinburgh Badminton Academy (EBA) in 2013 and has driven its success ever since, the Academy was able to make badminton coaching accessible for 250 children [...]

The Scottish Open has always been a happy hunting ground for England’s badminton stars over the years, with Toby Penty the latest in a long-line of success stories. The 26-year-old clinched the men’s singles titles in impressive style in 2017 and five-time Commonwealth Games medallist Rajiv Ouseph contributed a pair [...]

Christopher and Matthew Grimley narrowly missed out on a place in the quarter-finals of the boys’ doubles at the World Junior Championships, being held in Markham, Canada this week. The Scots recorded a superb win on Wednesday by beating the No. 1 Japanese pair of Hiroki Midorikawa and Hiroki Nakayama [...]

Christopher and Matthew Grimley scored a superb victory to reach the last-sixteen of the boys’ doubles event at the World Junior Championships in Canada. Standing in their way were Hiroki Midorikawa and Hiroki Nakayama, the top ranked Japanese pair who, although unseeded, were always likely to provide a huge challenge [...]

Plenty of Scots face a sizeable challenge at the Scottish Open but Ciar Pringle and Jack MacGregor arguably have the toughest draw of all the homegrown players. They will face England’s Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge, Commonwealth Games gold medallists and number one seeds, in the opening round of the [...]

Three Scottish pairs are still in contention in the individual events of the World Junior Championships. Adam Pringle and Rachel Andrew are still going strongly in the mixed doubles while Christopher and Mathew Grimley and Lauren Middleton and Sarah Sidebottom are in contention in the boys’ and girl’s doubles respectively. [...]

On Friday 30th November, 6 Scottish LD (Learning Disability) athletes (3 female and 3 male) will travel to Lisburn, Northern Ireland to play a badminton match against 6 Irish LD athletes. This is a pilot development project  that we hope will one day develop into a 4 Nations Quadrangular event  [...]