1 Might, 2025
Badminton England’s U17 stars proved that age is only a quantity as they struck silver on the U19 Cyprus Junior this month.
Children toppling older age teams was a operating theme all through April, with George Clare and Sajan Senthuran main the way in which in Nicosia.
England took an U17 group to compete at numerous occasions all through the month, bringing residence one silver and a bronze on the Cyprus occasion as Clare and Senthuran clinched males’s doubles silver.
An unimaginable run of outcomes took the duo into the ultimate, the place they put up a combat however had been finally pressured to accept silver in a 21-10 21-7 defeat to Lukas Thor and Vojtech Strejcek from the Czech Republic.
The English pair had been joined on the rostrum by teammates Yixiang Hou and Jasper Wong, who picked up bronze as Shraddha Gopalakrishnan and Martha Ng completed third within the girls’s doubles.
There was a equally robust exhibiting for English kids on the U19 FORZA Alpes Worldwide, with a mixture of U17 and U19 gamers attending the occasion.
The ladies’s doubles contenders led the way in which, with Mia Fox and Rajvi Parab alongside Lucy Brierley and Lucy Dodd all reaching the quarter-finals.
A group of U14 and U13 athletes took on the U15 Dwelling International locations Quadrangular in Glasgow, with a clear sweep of medals guaranteeing a wave of success.
The group took residence gold within the group occasion as Michelle Chen, one of many youngest gamers within the squad, went undefeated in 10 video games to get them over the road.
Chen went on to take girls’s doubles victory alongside Mutiara Mandala particular person occasion, as England clinched the crown in all 5 particular person disciplines.
Alongside junior tournaments, the longer term stars of Badminton England had been additionally handled to a number of nationwide camps in April.
The U17 Nationwide Camp at Wycombe Badminton Centre noticed athletes participate in health and leap testing, with totally different focuses for singles and doubles gamers , together with having the ability to lengthen rallies and creating area.
Whereas on the U12 Camp on the Nationwide Badminton Centre, there was a key give attention to stability and explosiveness throughout actions.
On the home circuit, April noticed the county season draw to a detailed as Essex and Leicestershire secured promotion to the highest division.
Again in March, Avon had been topped Premiership Champions for the primary time of their historical past, beating Surrey to the mark with a 7-4 victory.
However the conclusion of the regional season introduced with it two new groups as Essex and Leicestershire added their names to the Premiership desk for subsequent season, ending first and second within the Division One play-offs.
With the season having run from early November to the top of April, Essex sealed their promotion with an undefeated run within the finals, with Leicestershire additionally beating Suffolk and Middlesex to affix them within the high flight.
The Masters County Championships concluded with a superb weekend of finals on the College of Birmingham.
The highest 4 groups in every age group went head-to-head, with Yorkshire popping out on high in three of the eight age teams and taking the crown within the over 70s, over 60s and over 45s.
Within the Shires League, the U17 competitors wrapped up with Leicestershire named champions.
Following a robust third place exhibiting within the U18 Inter County Event, it was a jubilant month for the likes of U19 Cyprus silver medallist Clare, who teamed up with fellow Leicestershire gamers Oliver Sewell, Lucas Staves and lots of extra, to tackle the 2 home competitions.
