GB Badminton

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

This has been going under the radar but it looks like we're heading for a big reduction in the size of our Badminton team going into Paris.

 

Kirsty Gilmour is safe in women's singles and we should get a spot in the men's doubles with Lane/Vendy but that could be it - no mixed doubles, no women's doubles and no men's singles (although that's not as surprising given the retirement of Toby Penty). 

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  On 4/29/2024 at 8:33 PM, Rafa Maciel said:

This has been going under the radar but it looks like we're heading for a big reduction in the size of our Badminton team going into Paris.

 

Kirsty Gilmour is safe in women's singles and we should get a spot in the men's doubles with Lane/Vendy but that could be it - no mixed doubles, no women's doubles and no men's singles (although that's not as surprising given the retirement of Toby Penty). 

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In the big hitter sports for GB : Athletics, Swimming, Cycling, Rowing, Canoe Slalom, Triathlon, Sailing, Equestrian - things still seem pretty solid for the system.

 

But in certain outlier sports there seems to be swift moves backwards - Badminton, Judo, Table Tennis, Archery, Fencing

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Team GB results from this week's Yonex German Open.

 

 

Men's Singles:

No British representation.

 

 

Women's Singles:

Kirsty Gilmour was the 8th seed but lost in the first round 21-17 / 17-21 / 19-21 to  Sin Yan Happy Lo.

 

 

Men's Doubles:

Ben Lane & Sean Vendy were the top seeds. They took out  Wen Jun Sun & Yi Jun Zhu 21-16 / 21-12 in the first round before taking out  Ching Heng Su & Guan Xun Wu 19-21 / 21-13 / 21-7 in the round of 16. A 21-11 / 21-14 win over  Cheng Kuan Chen & Bing-Wei Lin in the quarter-final set up a semi-final against 7th seed  Won Ho Kim & Seung Jae Seo where they lost 14-21 / 19-21.

 

Alexander Dunn & Adam Pringle lost out to 7th seed  Won Ho Kim & Seung Jae Seo 16-21 / 18-21 in the first round.

 

Christopher Grimley & Matthew Grimley dispatched  Hang Yee Low & Eng Cheong Ng 21-14 / 21-14 in the first round before losing out to 5th seeds and eventual finalists  Christo Popov & Toma Junior Popov 14-21 / 21-14 / 14-21.

 

Callum Hemming & Ethan Van Leeuwen lost in the first round to  Pruthvi Krishnamurthy Roy & Sai Pratheek.K 20-22 / 19-21

 

 

Women's Doubles:

4th seeds Julia MacPherson & Ciara Torrance defeated  Lucie Amiguet & Caroline Racloz 22-20 / 21-16 in the first round before advancing to the quarter-finals when they were awarded a walkover against  Tea Margueritte & Flavie Vallet. Their tournament came to end in the QF against 6th seed  Wen Mei Li & Yi Duo Wang 19-21 / 21-19 / 12-21.

 

Abbygael Harris & Lizzie Tolman ran the 8th seeds  Bengisu Ercetin & Nazlican close but came out on the wrong side of a 17-21 / 18-21 result in the first round.

 

Sian Kelly & Anne Lado lost in the first round against  pairing Debora Jille & Sara Thygesen 14-21 / 12-21.

 

 

Mixed Doubles:

Gregory Mairs & Jenny Mairs lost in the first round against  Rasmus Espersen & Amalie Cecilie Kudsk 24-22 / 15-21 / 17-21.

 

Callum Hemming & Estelle Van Leeuwen also fell in the first round in a close match against  Presley Smith & Jennie Gai 21-18 / 19-21 / 20-22.

 

Alexander Dunn & Julie MacPherson lose in the first round to  Jones Ralfy Jansen & Thuc Phuong Nguyen 18-21 / 11-21

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Team GB results from this week's Orleans Masters.

 

 

Men's Singles:

No British representation.

 

 

Women's Singles:

Kirsty Gilmour had a Walkover in the first round before getting revenge for her defeat at last week's German Open with a 21-10 / 21-12 victory over  Sin Yan Happy Lo. Her tournament ended with a 22-20 / 21-12 defeat to  Beiwen Zhang.

 

 

Men's Doubles:

Alexander Dunn & Adam Pringle failed to qualify for the main draw going down 21-13 / 9-21 / 17-21 to  Ching Heng Su & Guan Xun Wu in qualifying.

 

Rory Easton & Alex Green failed to qualify for the main draw going down 21-17 / 20-22 / 18-21 to  Wen Jun Sun & Yi Jun Zhu in qualifying.

 

Christopher Grimley & Matthew Grimley dispatched  Eloi Adam & Leo Rossi 18-21 / 21-11 / 21-18 in the first round before losing out to  Wen Jun Sun & Yi Jun Zhu 21-23 / 21-17 / 19-21 in round 2. 

 

 

Women's Doubles:

Julia MacPherson & Ciara Torrance lost in the first round against  Yin-Hui Hsu & Jhih Yun Lin 18-21 / 14-21.

 

Abbygael Harris & Lizzie Tolman failed to qualify for the main draw going down 16 - 21 / 21-14 / 18-21 to  Hsin En Hung & Chih Chen Lee in qualifying.

 

 

Mixed Doubles:

Rory Easton & Lizzie Tolman qualified for the main draw with a 17-21 / 21-16 / 21-18 victory over  Bing-Wei Lin & Chih Chen Lee. They then dispatched  Sathish Kumar Karunakaran & Aadya Variyath 21-18 / 21-19 in the first round of the main draw. Their tournament ended with defeat to the 7th seeds from  Jong Min Lee & Yun Jung Chae 8-21 / 21-19 / 6-21 in the second round. 

 

Alexander Dunn & Julie MacPherson suffered another first round loss, this time losing out to  Amri Syahnawi & Nita Violna Marwah 14-21 / 13-21