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Kirsty Gilmour was knocked out in the opening round of the women’s singles today at the Danisa Denmark Open in Odense but Scotland’s players got off to a good start in the Victor Denmark Para-Badminton Championships, being held at the same venue. Gilmour was unable to replicate her heroics of [...]

Scotland’s under 15 players enjoyed a successful weekend at the U15 Surrey Gold tournament in Guildford. Although unseeded, Vibha Raman won the girls’ singles gold without dropping a game. After two straightforward wins in group E and a comfortable quarter-final victory over Carly Stevenson, Raman faced second seed Gopika Leenesh [...]

Christopher Grimley finished off his individual Youth Olympic Games in style, beating Hungarian Balazs Papai 21-17 21-12 to finish second in group G. But with only the top player in each group, that brought Grimley’s participation in the individual events to an end as eighth seed Shiaucheng Chen topped the [...]

The Daihatsu Japan Para-Badminton International 2018 took place between the 26th and 30th September and Scotland had only one competitor, Mary Wilson in attendance. The Bronze came in the SL3-SU5 Women’s doubles event where she was partnering Frances Veronique Braud. The pair came through to the semi-finals, having finished second [...]

Christopher Grimley’s Youth Olympic Games campaign got off to a good start on Sunday. He opened his singles campaign with an excellent 21-8 21-14 win over New Zealand’s Oscan Guo but he was unable to make it two wins in a row on Monday against Shiaucheng Chen. It was always [...]

Matthew Grimley won a record fourth U19 boys’ doubles title today at the U15/19 National Junior Championships at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell. And in the U15 events Brooke Stalker won a hat-trick of girls’ singles, doubles and mixed to become the only treble winner on the day. In [...]

Top seed Adam Pringle faces a difficult challenge if he is to reach the final of the U19 boys’ singles at the National Junior Championships in Motherwell this weekend. That’s because joint third seed Matthew Grimley is likely to be standing in his way in the semi-final after today’s draw [...]

On Saturday 29th September 2018 Black Isle Leisure Centre hosted the 2nd Highland Restricted Team Event.  There were 6 teams competing for the coveted title: Culloden (last years’ winners), Nairn, Inverness Royal Si2B, Highland Squad, Lochcarron Warriers & Tarzans All Starts (Lochcarron). The format was 6 rubbers in a team [...]

Dan Travers and Christine Black won 60+ mixed doubles gold over the weekend at the 2018 European Senior Championships in Guadalajara, Spain. Seeded second, they upset the form book by beating top seeds Ian Purton and Christine Crossley of England in the final to avenge their defeat in the final [...]

Dan Travers and Christine Black are guaranteed to return from the European Senior Championships with at least one medal each in the 60+ age group. The women’s singles unfolded according to form with the top four seeds all reaching the semi-finals and Black will now face top seed Heidi Bender [...]

Kirsty Gilmour’s run at the Korea Open came to an end today when she was knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Beiwen Zhang of the USA. Scotland’s No. 1 had beaten Zhang in their only previous encounter but the American sixth seed was too hot to handle today, winning [...]

27 September 2018 Kirsty Gilmour scored one of the best wins of her career today, beating world no. 6 Ratchanok Intanon at the Victor Korea Open. It was Gilmour’s first win in four meetings over the former World Champion and she was the better player throughout the match. Not once [...]