13 February, 2025
It was one other busy month for England’s junior gamers and one crammed with medals as they loved success on the worldwide stage.
January noticed England take bronze within the Worldwide Ladies Cup U15 earlier than securing numerous golds throughout the age teams on the French Borders worldwide.
Michelle Chen and Jamie Choong led the way in which in what proved to be a sizeable haul, whereas again residence England Junior Efficiency camps have been readying gamers for future success.
Here’s a round-up of every thing that occurred…
Worldwide Ladies Cup U15
In solely the second iteration of the Worldwide Ladies Cup U15, defending champions England emerged from a troublesome group to say a bronze medal.
Owing to the success final day out, this 12 months featured an expanded subject with groups from Denmark, Czech Republic, Switzerland, England, Spain and France all collaborating.
England confronted a difficult group with France 2 and Denmark, however rose to the event.
A robust 3-1 victory over France was adopted by a 2-2 draw with Denmark, as they simply misplaced out on a second win within the golden set.
However a cushty 4-0 win over Spain noticed England safe a podium end.
England U15 ladies on the rostrum on the Worldwide Cup (Credit score: Badminton England)
U13 & U15 French Borders
Over in France, Michelle Chen and Jamie Choong have been standout performers as they loved success throughout all three doubles occasions within the U13 competitors.
Choong partnered with Vihaan Nair to storm to a gold medal within the boys doubles, whereas Chen loved equal success within the ladies doubles together with her associate Jennifer Ha.
The pair teamed up within the blended doubles so as to add to their rising assortment of golds as they defeated Kenji Pourret and Mila Borrelly within the closing.
Chen additionally medalled individually as she claimed bronze within the ladies singles, as did her teammate Abby Zyi en Gan.
Gan added a second bronze with Amitesh Purushothaman within the blended doubles, whereas Purushothaman had additionally earned a podium spot within the boys singles, taking a second bronze medal.
There was additionally purpose to have fun for England on the U15 Worldwide as they proved dominant within the ladies singles.
It was an all-England closing as Mudra Mayekar met Mutiara Mandala within the gold medal match. In an thrilling closing, it was Mandala that took the spoils, a very spectacular achievement given she continues to be underneath 13.
Silver medallist Mayekar would obtain one other two podium finishes, taking a second silver within the blended doubles with Phil Daniel and a bronze within the ladies doubles with Vedanshi Jain.
Daniel and associate Nikhil Pulikkottil took a powerful gold within the boys doubles towards Naim El Khadery-Perron and Lubin Racinne.
Pulikkottil additionally reached the ultimate within the boys single however narrowly missed out on gold, shedding 22-24 within the decider.
EJPP Camps
There have been EJPP camps for U13 and U15 England gamers all through January as gamers regarded to construct on their skillset.
Sara Sankey, Xu Huaiwen and Robert Golding all undertook an U13 camp with a singles focus the place they labored on rear courtroom neutralisation, tempo adjustments within the rally and different pertinent abilities.
At U15 degree, there have been camps with each a doubles and singles focus with Harry Wakefield becoming a member of Golding to focus particularly on doubles.
Golding had a busy month as he joined the U15s for singles coaching too, together with Harley Towler and Xu.
They labored on abilities together with defensive method to show the shuttle earlier than ending with matchplay.
The EJP camp in full swing on the College of Worcester (Credit score: Badminton England)
U17/U19 EJP Camp
Over the weekend of the 11/twelfth January, the U17s and U19s took up residence on the College of Worcester Area.
They have been put via the paces with bounce testing and the 30:15 check earlier than breaking into singles and doubles-focused coaching.
Key focuses of the camp have been courtroom presence and inspiring gamers to specific themselves on courtroom.
