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Two homegrown pairs are hoping to spring some surprises in front of the Glasgow crowd in the mixed doubles at the Scottish Open Badminton Championships. Adam Hall and Julie MacPherson take on Canada’s Nyl Yakura and Kristen Tsai in the first round while Alex Dunn and Eleanor O’Donnell will face [...]

2018 saw the first Yonex East of Scotland Junior tournament to take place following the closure of Meadowbank Sport Centre. Given the size of the entry, two venues were required to host the event, with the main location being the Jack Kane Centre and St Augustine’s School being used for [...]

She may be the reigning women’s singles champion, but Kirsty Gilmour knows she can take nothing for granted at this year’s Scottish Open against a field packed with world-class talent. The Glasgow-based 25-year-old defeated Denmark’s Mia Blichfeldt to finally claim the title last year, having previously suffered several near misses [...]

The Glasgow crowds at last year’s Scottish Open Badminton Championships were left speaking Double Dutch after the exploits of the Netherlands’ finest at the Emirates Arena. Dutch duos were victorious in each of the three doubles competitions, with Jelle Maas and Robin Tabeling taking the men’s, Selena Piek and Cheryl [...]

Scotland finished as the second highest European team and twelfth overall in the World Junior Mixed Team Championships Three good wins in the opening three matches guaranteed Scotland would finish at least second in Group F and a 5-0 defeat to third seeds Korea confirmed the Scots as group runners-up. [...]

Glasgow School of Sport is having its annual open day on Saturday 17 November 2018. The School of Sport at Bellahousten Academy is a National Centre of sporting excellence, funded by the Scottish Government. Sport pupils follow specialist training together with a balanced curriculum of academic studies and applications are [...]

With the reigning champions, a pair ranked in the top ten in the world and the European silver medallists all in the field, the women’s doubles could prove to be the most fiercely-contested of all the events at the upcoming Scottish Open Badminton Championships. Bulgarian sisters Stefani and Gabriela Stoeva [...]

Scotland’s juniors continued their fine form at the World Junior Team Championships yesterday with comprehensive wins over the Czech Republic and Spain. A 4-1 defeat of Spain was followed by a 5-0 whitewash of the Czechs to leave the Scots second in Group F on game difference behind joint third [...]

cotland got off to a winning start yesterday at the Li Ning BWF World Junior Championships in Canada. The young Scots opened their Mixed Team campaign with a comprehensive 4-1 win over Slovakia, winning every match except the girls’ doubles, by which time the overall result was secure. Matthew Grimley [...]

While some of the world’s best shuttlers will descend on the Emirates Arena for the Scottish Open this year, Badminton Scotland are making sure that it isn’t all about the pros. A comprehensive programme of interactive events has been put in place for all ages and abilities in Glasgow, with [...]

An exciting young team including three debutants will represent Scotland in the qualification stage of the European Mixed Team Championships next month. Christopher Grimley, Matthew Grimley and Ciara Torrance will all make their senior squad debuts in Chisinau, Moldova from 7 to 9 December 2018, when Scotland face Russia, Ukraine [...]

Scotland’s players returned from the VYV BWF European Para-Badminton Championships in France with a haul of three bronze medals. Fiona Christine, Bobby Laing and Colin Leslie all stood on the podium in a successful event in which the Scots medalled across all three categories. Playing in her last European Championships, [...]