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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, [...]

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 [...]