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Fiona Christie reached the semi-finals of the wheelchair women’s singles today, guaranteeing that she will return from her last European Championships with at least a bronze medal. Christie beat Spaniard Esther Torres 21-16 24-22 to reach the semi-finals and now plays Turkey’s Narin Uluc for a place in the final [...]

Five of Scotland’s best players are competing at the VYV BWF European Para-Badminton Championships this week. Fiona Christie, Bobby Laing, Colin Leslie, Deirdre Nagle and Alan Oliver have all travelled to Rodez, France, in search of silverware in their various events. In Group 3 of the SL3 men’s singles, third [...]

Thursday was a day of mixed results for Scots competing in international competition. At the SaarLorLux Open in Germany, Alex Dunn and Adam Hall won their opening men’s doubles match yesterday, beating Russians Anton Ivanov and Egor Okolov 21-9 21-11. But today they were up against China’s Ou Xuanyi and [...]

This week sees Scotland’s players competing in events in Germany and Hungary. At the SaarLorLux Open in Saarbrucken, Germany yesterday, Adam Hall and Julie MacPherson were knocked out in the first round of the mixed doubles by second seeds Mark Lamsfuss and Isabel Herttrich. But the Scots can be happy [...]

Kirsty Gilmour has been drawn in the same half of the women’s singles as China’s Cai Yanyan at the Scottish Open Badminton Championships, to be played at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena from 21-25 November 2018. Gilmour, the reigning women’s singles champion, will have to overcome a number of difficult challenges if [...]

Keryn Swan hit double top over the weekend, winning U17 girls’ singles and mixed doubles gold at the Yorkshire U17 Silver tournament. Although unseeded, she won all her matches in Group A, including a superb 15-11 11-15 15-7 win over top seed Annie Zhu, to reach the semi-finals. A straightforward [...]

A productive weekend for Brooke Stalker saw her return from the U13 Forza Finnish Youth International with two gold medals and one silver. Seeded 5/8 in the singles Stalker came through Group B with ease, winning all three of her matches including a 21-8 21-4 trouncing of Finland’s second seed Tuulia [...]

Newly appointed Badminton Scotland chief executive Keith Russell has targeted becoming the country’s leading participation sport as his principal goal. Appointed to the post on a permanent basis this month after a short spell as interim chief executive, the highly experienced sports administrator and his family have a long association [...]

Kirsty Gilmour will have to overcome some strong opposition if she is to retain her women’s singles crown at the Scottish Open Badminton Championships, to be held at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow from 21-25 November 2018. The Scot is the third seed in a high quality women’s singles draw [...]

The 2018 West of Scotland Championships was held at the Sir Craig Reedie Badminton Centre at the weekend. With the majority of the current Scottish senior and junior squad playing, as well as some of the previous senior Scottish squad, we were expecting some exiting games and we were not [...]

ATHLETES from all over the world will head to Glasgow next month to compete in the Scottish Open Badminton Championships, being held at the Emirates Arena from 21-25 November. On display will be more than 300 players from 37 nations, travelling to Glasgow from as far afield as Canada, China [...]

Colin Leslie and Denmark’s Cathrine Rosengren finished off their Denmark Para-Badminton SL3-SU5 mixed doubles campaign with a comprehensive 21-11 21-9 win over Ukraine’s Oleksandr Chyrkov and Ivanna Redka to finish second in the group, but Mary Wilson and her Brazilian partner lost out to Jan-Niklas Pott and Helle Sagoy to [...]