July 15 2024
Crew GB’s Paris-bound badminton trio have found who they’ll tackle following the Olympic draw.
The lads’s doubles will see Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in Group A alongside world no.1 pair Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang, who they defeated on the 2022 French Open.
The Chinese language pair have received each conferences since and Lane and Vendy will probably be decided to topple the highest seeds on the most important stage.
The group stage may even embrace a Commonwealth Video games reunion as Tokyo bronze medallists Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, of Malaysia, additionally line up in Group A.
Lane and Vendy have been victorious in Birmingham, successful the semi-final in entrance of an excellent residence ambiance, and can look to repeat the feat.
Canada’s Adam Dong and Nyl Yakura, who have been additionally crushed by Lane and Vendy on the Commonwealth Video games two summers in the past, full the group, with matches to be performed between July 27-30.
Prepared for #Paris2024! 🇫🇷 A tricky draw for Ben and Sean in Group A of the MD, however they’ve conquered these pairs earlier than and hopefully can accomplish that once more! 💪🔥 Let’s go crew!
Deliver on Paris 💪#TeamGB #Badminton
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— Badminton England (@BadmintonEnglnd) July 15, 2024
Within the girls’s singles, Kirsty Gilmour was positioned in Group N because the draw was carried out on the Badminton World Federation headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
The lads’s doubles draw, which can characteristic Ben Lane and Sean Vendy, was postponed following a Courtroom of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) listening to and can happen at a later date.
The final title to be drawn out, Gilmour will face the sixth seed He Bing Jiao of China and Azerbaijan’s Keisha Fatimah Azzahra within the girls’s singles group phases.
Gilmour has twice crushed the world No. 8 He along with her most up-to-date victory coming on the 2017 World Championships.
.@KirstyGilmourr will head to @Paris2024 for her third Olympics with one attention-grabbing ambition…
Not being afraid to lose 🏸
— Crew GB (@TeamGB) Could 30, 2024
He has received the 4 most up-to-date conferences between the 2 gamers, together with at June’s Indonesia Open.
Gilmour, who’s ranked twenty fourth on the earth, has solely confronted Azzahra as soon as beforehand, successful in straight video games finally yr’s European Girls’s Crew Championships Qualification in Azzahra’s residence nation.
The Bellshill shuttler is competing at her third Olympic Video games, having represented Crew GB within the girls’s singles at each Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
She is but to make it out of the group stage with damage hampering her Rio marketing campaign earlier than being drawn in opposition to residence favorite and fourth seed Akane Yamaguchi in Tokyo.
Solely the highest finisher in every of the 13 teams advances to the spherical of 16, with the very best finisher within the teams containing the three high seeds incomes an automated place within the quarter-finals.
The badminton will happen at Porte de la Chapelle Area with the competitors starting on 27 July and concluding on 5 August.
