A busy November noticed Badminton England’s brightest younger stars thrive on each worldwide and home shores.
From a powerful exhibiting on the World Junior Combined Crew Championships, to doubles victory on the Lithuanian Junior Open, it was an action-packed month.
Here’s a round-up of November.
BWF World Junior Combined Crew Championships
England narrowly missed out on a spot within the knockout levels of 2024 European Junior Crew Championships following a 3-2 defeat to the Netherlands.
The crew ended the event in Ibiza with two wins in Group 6 however the opening loss was sufficient to disclaim them prime spot and with it a spot within the final eight.
James Track was a standout performer as he held an ideal file within the males’s singles, profitable his matches towards the Netherlands, Spain and Austria.
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Worldwide Opens
Benjamin Horseman and Jia Bin Lee continued their latest positive type to propel them to males’s doubles victory on the Lithuanian Junior Open.
The U19 pairing reached the final 16 of the world occasion in October and soared to the highest of the rostrum a month later, beating Estonia’s Rasmus Roogsoo and Rasmus Talts 22-20 22-24 21-11.
Horsman and Lee had stormed via the sooner rounds of competitors in Lithuania, not dropping a recreation till they reached the ultimate and holding on to clinch the title in an exhilarating toe-to-toe battle.
Simon Laukaitis represented Badminton England within the males’s singles, falling to Poland’s Mikolaj Morawski 21-8 21-17.
Later within the month, Anish Nair narrowly missed out on the place within the males’s singles semi-finals on the Slovak Junior Open.
Nair bounced again in a tricky second match towards Slovakia’s Alex Petrovic, overcoming his opponent 21-19 15-21 12-8 earlier than beating Andrej Suchy 21-12 21-13.
However Ukraine’s Fedir Tiurin’s finally downed the Englishman 21-17 21-14.
U13 Babolat Cup
Away from the junior worldwide circuit, Badminton England’s new U13 Babolat Cup reached it’s closing chapter in November.
Berkshire’s Rooney Leung and Abby Zyi En Gan took gold of their respective female and male U13 occasions on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, profitable all of their group and knockout matches in emphatic fashion.
Leung, who began taking part in badminton when he was 5 years outdated, beat Nitai Wijetunge 21-17 21-11 within the closing whereas Gan noticed a tricky begin to her closing however finally overcame Alice Demina 22-20 21-10 to take the title.
Each aspiring athletes had been thrilled to be a part of the finals day, which noticed 29 children from all throughout the nation go head-to-head for the general title after profitable their respective county competitions.
Other than the busy day of competitors, the younger athletes recieved a shock go to from Badminton England worldwide star Chloe Birch.
