12 August 2024
Residence hopes Sofie Chong and Lucy Dodd triumphed on the YONEX All England Junior Badminton Championships 2024.
Throughout 4 days on the College of Birmingham, a few of the finest under-19 shuttlers from the world over competed within the junior model of the world’s oldest badminton match.
Within the girls’s doubles, Chong and Dodd of England beat out the highest seeds Mysha Omer Khan and Taabia Khan of the United Arab Emirates in a decider.
After a bye within the first spherical, Chong and Dodd beat fellow English pair Aayushi Dhelaria and Georgiana Gentles 21-11 21-7.
Then they got here up towards the second seeds Ishbel Mccallister and Brooke Stalker of Scotland in straight video games and arrange a gathering with one other prime seed.
This time they wanted three video games to beat the third seeds Saffron Morris of Wales and Carly Stevenson of England, reaching the ultimate with a 21-14 15-21 21-19 victory.
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Within the showpiece, Chong and Dodd once more needed to present their mettle to face up to the fightback from Khan and Khan, successful the opening sport, earlier than the UAE pair responded to drive a decider.
There, Chong and Dodd held their nerve to prevail 22-20 15-21 21-16 and win the ladies’s doubles title.
Mysha Omer Khan had already triumphed on Sunday having received the ladies’s singles title as considered one of solely two gamers to function in two showpieces in Birmingham.
The third seed beat out Suneri Chinthalapati of the USA 21-19 21-8 within the closing to make sure she left England with a gold and silver medal.
The UAE had winners on two podiums with Bharath Latheesh and Taabia Khan successful the combined doubles as the highest seeds.
The pair dropped just one sport on their approach to the highest spot of the rostrum, doing so within the semi-final as they beat Danish duo Aske Romer and Jasmin Willis 21-16 14-21 21-13.
All of the feelings on day 3️⃣👏🤩
Deliver on the semi-finals and finals tomorrow 💪
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Up towards the eighth-ranked pairing within the match, James Music of England and Kaja Ziolkowska of Poland, Latheesh and Khan dominated the ultimate, successful 21-14 21-7.
Having misplaced out within the combined doubles closing final yr, England’s Dillon Chong made it to the boys’s doubles semi-final earlier than struggling defeat alongside Switzerland’s Zhi Lun Ong.
They have been overwhelmed 21-15 21-18 by eventual runners-up Aske Romer and Salomon Adam Thomasen of Denmark who misplaced 11-21 21-16 21-15 to Arden Quan Lee and Stanley Xing of the USA.
Second seed Tiago Berenguer of Portugal fought again to assert the boys’s singles title, beating Sugi Sai Bala Singha Gopinath Singh of India within the closing.
Having misplaced the primary sport, Berenguer responded nicely to drive a decider and dominated from there to triumph 11-21 21-14 21-5.
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Berenguer didn’t drop a sport en path to the ultimate and stood as much as the check when he confronted it to assert the title.
With particular because of our Official Accomplice Yonex – the Official Gear Accomplice of the YONEX All England Junior Open Badminton Championships.
Photograph courtesy of Alan Spink.
