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Welcome to the Cambridgeshire Badminton Association (Cambs BA), a County association affiliated to Badminton England.

Cambridgeshire Badminton Association is dedicated to the development and promotion of badminton throughout the whole of Cambridgeshire.  The county consists of around 30 affiliated clubs as well as hosting Junior, Senior and Masters teams playing in the Inter-County Championships.

This web site is designed to enable Cambridgeshire Badminton Association to promote badminton through providing news and information on local, County and national badminton. Please visit this web site regularly to keep abreast of all the latest developments.

Cambs Players (Restricted) Tournament Entries Open

Cambridgeshire Badminton Association are pleased to announce that entries for the Cambridgeshire Players (Restricted) Tournament for 2014 are now open for submission.

For the first time this year, entries are online via the Badminton England Tournament Software system:

Please note that to try to encourage entries into the ladies singles competition, the entry fee has been reduced to only £4 this year.

This keenly anticipated tournament is the official opening of the County season around the Country.  Players from all over Cambridgeshire are encouraged to participate. 

If you are on Facebook and planning on playing the Tournament, then there are two events to register with:

Play well everyone, and have a great time! 

Cambs Trio to Represent England at European Senior Championships

Daniel Bates and Neil Place at the BWF World Masters Championships

Daniel Bates and Neil Place at the BWF World Masters Championships

Cambridgeshire players Daniel Bates, Olga Bryant and Neil Place have all been selected to represent England in the Badminton Europe 2014 European Senior Championships in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal from 21-27 September.

The trio return to England action following their appearances at the BWF World Senior Championships in Turkey last September, at which Daniel and Neil reached the quarter finals for O35 Mens Doubles, and Olga secured a bronze medal with a semi-final finish in the O40 Mixed.

Olga also represented England at the European Championships two years ago, when she travelled to Sofia in Bulgaria and won a silver medal in the O40 ladies doubles.

Cambridgeshire Badminton wishes them every success!

Battle Badminton

Places are still available for Battle Badminton this summer.

Badminton England has opened up 10,000 free places for this brand new, innovative social badminton initiative aimed at the 1.9 million players who make up the casual badminton audience.

Places are still available for badminton players and sports fans nationwide wishing to get involved.

Battle Badminton takes social badminton to the next level, letting users find new players (aged 18+) to play and issue and accept challenges to ‘battle’ it out for pride on court  in singles or doubles matches.

Players decide how, when and where to play and can even set their own rules and scoring system, if both agree.

Battle Badminton players earn points each time they get on court. New local and national leaderboards mean players can rise through the Battle Badminton ranks. Users can also create their own leaderboards, amongst friends, in workplaces, universities, or sports teams.

There are 9 Battle Badminton ‘status’ levels to achieve. 

Sign up to Battle Badminton also includes free Club England Social annual membership (usually £5).  This provides insurance cover to play Battle Badminton matches and enjoy pay and play court time in leisure centres (but excludes club league, county competition or circuit tournament match play).

Join for FREE at www.badmintonengland.co.uk/battle

Reminder: Cambs Badminton Association AGM

Please don't forget that the AGM of the Cambridgeshire Badminton Association is to be held at Comberton Village College on 21 May, and starting at 7.30pm.

It's really important that as many people attend the AGM as possible. There are important matters to discuss in relation to the running of the County Badminton Association, and also the way the the County competition is structured. 

If you care about badminton in Cambridge, please do try to make the effort to attend!

If you're a Facebook user, then there is an event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1419420251659249/

Cambs Juniors Give Excellent Showing at Eastern Region Tournament

Cambs U13 Teams

Cambridgeshire Badminton fielded a good range of teams in the Eastern Region Single Sex Tournament held at the Sportsdock at the University of East London on 26th April.

The teams were:

U15: Boys A
Leo Huang & Peter Du

U15: Boys B
Cameron Harris & Murray Reid

U15: Girls
Amy Zhang & Hannah Milton

U13: Boys A
James Xu & Harry Zhao

U13: Girls A
Chanumi Gamage & Sophia Abbott

U13: Girls B
Rachel Owen & Alice Bates

It was a long and gruelling, but extremely fun day of badminton, with teams playing a match consisting of a doubles, and two singles against each of their opponents.  This took a toll on a number of players, with some Cambs players feeling cramp or injuries as the day went on.

Despite their difficulties, the overall results were extremely creditable.  The U13 boys James and Harry enjoyed commanding victories over all but one of the other teams in their competition, and the tournament came down to a thrilling match against a very strong Essex pair.  All four boys plenty excellently, but eventually James and Harry walked away with a well-deserved silver medal.

In the U13 girls tournament, Hertfordshire and Suffolk had also fielded two teams each, and had strong players.  The Cambs girls showed a real desire to win though, and the day came to an end with an exciting crunch match between the Cambs A and B teams.  Played in excellent spirits, the game eventually went to Sophia and Chanumi who beat Alice and Rachel 2-1.  This meant that Cambs A had secured the silver medals overall, and Cambs B took the bronze spot.

In the U15 tournaments, the Cambs A won 4/6 matches and came 3rd (Leo won 6/6 singles and 4/6 doubles; Peter won 2/6 singles and 4/6 doubles) and the Cambs B team unfortunately came in last position.

The U15 girls team also came 3rd, even though Amy suffered an injury part-way through and had to pull out, and Chanumi stood in for the remaining games.

Congratulations to all the players, who put on a great show.