8 May, 2024 Here at Badminton England we are constantly striving to add more value to your membership. Earlier this year, we teamed up with Gateley – our new legal partner – to provide affiliated clubs and coaches with direct access to legal advice. The badminton community can now access this advice as a benefit to their membership to Badminton England. This means that all affiliated clubs and coaches can now obtain free support over the phone on any legal matter. This includes 30 minutes of triage time to review your enquiry, followed by 30 minutes of advice over the phone with an expert ..read more

5 May, 2024 Chloe Birch and Estelle van Leeuwen reached the women’s doubles final at the YONEX Luxembourg Open. Japan’s Miki Kanehiro and Rui Kiyama came out on top 21-14 21-13 to strike gold after Birch and Van Leeuwen had battled brilliantly to make Sunday’s showpiece. The pair started their deep run with a comfortable 21-8 21-12 victory over Poland’s Paulina Hankiewicz and Kornelia Marczak before easing past Dutch duo Kelly van Buiten and Kirsten de Wit 21-12 21-10. A quarter-final against French fourth-seeds Tea Margueritte and Flavie Vallett followed and Birch and Van Leeuwen raised t ..read more

2 May, 2024 England’s men bowed out of the TotalEnergies BWF Thomas Cup in the group stage after a young side fell short to strong opposition in Group C. Reigning champions India and a dominant Indonesian team both advanced to the knockouts as England lost out to the two countries and Thailand. The team’s first bout in Chengdu was against Indonesia, whose depth proved too powerful as they won 5-0 in the opening matches. YOXEX All England Badminton Championships men’s singles winner Jonatan Christie came up against Nadeem Dalvi and won 21-16 21-12 while Ben Lane and Sean Vendy fell to old f ..read more

5 May, 2024 Dorsa Yavarivafa, IOC Refugee Scholarship Holder in badminton for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has been selected to the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. Yavarivafa will be the second badminton player to represent the IOC Refugee Olympic Team after Syria-born Aram Mahmoud, who participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. IOC President, Thomas Bach announced the news from Olympic House in Lausanne on Thursday 2 May. Bach congratulated all the members of Refugee Olympic Team, hailing their persistence and courage in the face of adversity. Bach said: “We welcome all of you wit ..read more

May 2, 2024 Welcoming new EDI Committee members     Badminton England are excited to appoint two new members to our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee – Bhavni Shah and Rohan Mapara.   They will join our existing seven members and will bring their expertise, lived experience, and passion for equality, diversity and inclusion to the group.   Badminton England’s EDI Committee brings together expert representatives across equality, diversity and inclusion to advise on the future development, implementation and monitoring of our approach to eq ..read more

30 April 2024 Bexley Badminton are revelling in the success of their recent programme to encourage more women into badminton.  The club in Welling, south east London, identified that they had fewer women playing regularly compared with men. They also found that they were struggling to attract women to take part in mixed or women’s doubles as part of their league team. To combat the issue, the club started a 10-session programme aimed at beginners to encourage and motivate them to join the club. Their effort was two-fold as they also interacted with their existing pool of fem ..read more

29 April, 2024 Shuttlers from across the country struck gold throughout April with highlights aplenty among England’s finest age-group, senior and county players. England came out on top in the U15 Quadrangular against Ireland, Scotland and Wales at the National Badminton Centre while Glasgow & North Strathclyde and Surrey 2 secured Senior County Championships promotion from Division 1. Leinster defended their Under-18 Inter-County Trophy title as the National Schools Championships impressed with the level of talent on display. England on top in U15 Quadrangular The National Badminton ..read more

29 April, 2024 Glasgow & North Strathclyde and Surrey 2 triumphed in the Senior County Championships Division 1 play-offs to book their spots in next year’s Championship. Alongside Suffolk 1 and Devon 1, Division 1 North and South’s collective top four teams battled it out over two days in a round-robin play-off at Babington College and English Martyrs Catholic School in Leicester. Glasgow & North Strathclyde started their campaign strong against Suffolk 1, winning seven matches to Suffolk’s four to put their first points on the board. Standout matches included two mixed doubles cl ..read more

April 28, 2024 Rachel Choong and Jack Shephard roared to gold for the second successive week at the Spanish Para Badminton International in Toledo. Just as in Vitoria, the SH6 mixed doubles pair strolled to victory while Choong also reached the women’s singles semi-finals. The red-hot first seeds dropped just 15 points across their two group-stage victories over Maxime Greboval and Anastasiia Zavalii and Hector Jesus Salva Tunque and Rubi Milagros Fernandez Vargas. Their latest run to glory came in reverse to last week’s brilliant gold, with last week’s beaten finalists Sivarajan Solaimlai ..read more

26 April, 2024 Performance Director Morten Frost believes the travelling English squad are well set to make the most of a perfect learning opportunity at the Thomas Cup in Chengdu, China. The world’s finest men’s badminton teams will face off across nine days of action at the 33rd instalment of the prestigious event. England field a young squad of nine, who qualified by winning bronze at the European Men’s Team Championships in Poland earlier in the year. Experienced pair Ben Lane and Sean Vendy lead the side in the men’s doubles while Nadeem Dalvi, Harry Huang and Cholan Kayan represent E ..read more