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GB Badminton


Rafa Maciel
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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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2 hours ago, 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). 

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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  • 10 months later...

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 :HKG Sin Yan Happy Lo.

 

 

Men's Doubles:

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Women's Doubles:

4th seeds Julia MacPherson & Ciara Torrance defeated :SUI 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 :FRA Tea Margueritte & Flavie Vallet. Their tournament came to end in the QF against 6th seed :CHN Wen Mei Li & Yi Duo Wang 19-21 / 21-19 / 12-21.

 

Abbygael Harris & Lizzie Tolman ran the 8th seeds :TUR 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 :NED:DEN pairing Debora Jille & Sara Thygesen 14-21 / 12-21.

 

 

Mixed Doubles:

Gregory Mairs & Jenny Mairs lost in the first round against :DEN 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 :USA Presley Smith & Jennie Gai 21-18 / 19-21 / 20-22.

 

Alexander Dunn & Julie MacPherson lose in the first round to :GER 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 :HKG Sin Yan Happy Lo. Her tournament ended with a 22-20 / 21-12 defeat to :USA 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 :TPE 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 :CHN Wen Jun Sun & Yi Jun Zhu in qualifying.

 

Christopher Grimley & Matthew Grimley dispatched :FRA Eloi Adam & Leo Rossi 18-21 / 21-11 / 21-18 in the first round before losing out to :CHN 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 :TPE 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 :TPE 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 :TPE Bing-Wei Lin & Chih Chen Lee. They then dispatched :IND 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 :KOR 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 :INA Amri Syahnawi & Nita Violna Marwah 14-21 / 13-21

 

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  • 5 months later...

Participants from Britain in BWF world championships starting next Monday in Paris

 

 

Men's Singles:

:ENG Harry Huang (Rank: 95) 

:ENG Ethan Rose (Rank: 106)

 

Women's Singles:

:SCO Kirsty Gilmour (Rank: 28) 

 

Men's Doubles:

:ENG Ben Lane & Sean Vendy (Rank: 13) 

:SCO Christopher Grimley & Matthew Grimley (Rank: 43)

:ENG Rory Easton & Alex Green (Rank: 57) 

:SCO Alexander Dunn & Adam Pringle (Rank: 85) 

 

Women's Doubles:

:SCO Julia MacPherson & Ciara Torrance (Rank: 45) 

:ENG Sian Kelly & Anne Lado (Rank: 70) 

:ENG Abbygael Harris & Lizzie Tolman (Rank: 73) 

 

Mixed Doubles:

:SCO Alexander Dunn & Julie MacPherson (Rank: 23) 

:ENG Callum Hemming & Estelle Van Leeuwen (Rank: 28)

:ENG Rory Easton & Lizzie Tolman (Rank: 46)

:SCO Adam Pringle & Rachel Andrew (Rank: 101)

 

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unless i've missed something a pretty miserable week for the badminton squad, only the mens doubles (ranked 14) made it to the R16, and then lost in straight sets to malaysia (ranked 7) 

 

no one really punched above their weight, bit of a long road ahead in this olympiad for badminton i fear

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:ENG men make it through to the semi finals of the European team championships after victories over :ESP and :FIN

 

I can't say that I understand the logic of the draw - it was 2 groups of 4 teams with the top two in each progressing to the semis. I would have assumed that winner of pool 1 would have taken on the runner up in pool 2 but here the winner of pool 1 plays the runner up of pool 1. This means that :ENG have to face :DEN again. Given they were soundly beaten 5-0 earlier in the week, I don't think the omens are looking good 

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