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Matthew Grimley will be aiming to win the under 19 boys’ doubles crown for an unprecedented fourth time early next month when the U15/19 National Junior Championships get underway in Motherwell. Not since the 1972/73 season, when Allan Gilliland and Gordon Hamilton won the third of their boys’ doubles titles, [...]

Dan Travers and Christine Black eased through their opening 60+ mixed doubles match at the 2018 European Senior Championships. The second seeds beat German pair Jurgen Becker and Christel Schindler 21-12 21-16 and now face a clash against Alan Edgley and Reggie Baker in their quest to reach the top [...]

Over the weekend there were some fantastic matches at the Glasgow Junior Championships with 49 of the 213 matches played going to three sets! In the U19 events the finals were contested by only eight players. Joshua Apiliga defeated Adam Pringle in an exciting 3-set match in the final of [...]

Dan Travers and Christine Black will be hoping to strike Spanish gold for Scotland when the European Senior Championships get underway in Guadalajara next week. The pair are second seeds in the 60+ mixed doubles and will be hoping to improve on the silver medal they won at last year’s [...]

Kirsty Gilmour suffered a disappointing defeat in the first round of the Victor China Open today. Scotland’s No.1 went into the match having won two of her previous three matches against Sayaka Takahashi but she was unable to improve that record as the Japanese player won 21-18 21-9. Gilmour pushed [...]

It was a great weekend for Brooke Stalker at the Swedish Youth Games over the weekend where she won a silver and a bronze medal. Stalker won bronze in the U13 girls’ singles, reaching the semi-finals without dropping a game, the only British girl to reach that stage. She lost [...]

Christopher and Matthew Grimley have won men’s doubles silver at the European Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. A quarter-final win over England’s William Jones and Ethan van Leeuwen 21-15 21-8 in Friday night’s quarter-final guaranteed them at least a bronze medal. A comfortable 21-14 21-16 victory yesterday over French pair [...]

Christopher and Matthew Grimley are through to the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at the 2018 European Junior Championships being held in Tallinn, Estonia. The top seeds beat Danes Rasmus Espersen and Sebastian Gronbjerg, coming from behind to win 12-21 21-15 21-14 to set up a showdown against England’s William [...]

Christopher and Matthew Grimley ensured Scotland’s day ended on a high note on Thursday evening when they won their opening men’s doubles match at the European Junior Championships. Having received a first round bye, the Scottish top seeds wasted no time in despatching their second round opponents, Finland’s Eero Lauri [...]

The second Central Badminton Association Smash In2 doubles festival was held at Grangemouth High School on 02 September 2018. The event was attended by players of all levels from different clubs and social groups playing in central Scotland who enjoyed competitive games at their own pace. The event took the [...]

A mixed day in international competition saw contrasting fortunes with some good results for Scotland’s senior internationalists in Belgium but results in Estonia more disappointing. At the Belgian International in Leuven, Adam Hall and Julie MacPherson continued their fine form and scored an easy first round win over Michael Roe [...]

Scotland’s next generation of stars continued their good form today at the European Junior Championships in Estonia. Adam Pringle and Rachel Andrew beat Austria’s Nicolas Rudolph and Serena Au Yeong 21-19 21-19 to progress to the third round where they will face English fifth seeds Ethan Van Leeuwen and Sian [...]