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.
Congratulations to everyone who turned out to play the U11 and U13 Fun Tournament on 17 March at Burwell.
Boys Singles
Leo Huang bt Cameron Harris 21-19
Boys Doubles
Cameron Foo/Harry Zhao bt Leo Huang/Keir Lauder 21-19
Girls Singles
Winner: Hannah Milton
Girls Doubles
Not played
Boys Singles
Winner: Dale Hellard
Boys Doubles
Not played (withdrawals)
Girls Singles
Winner: Chanuhi Gamage
Girls Doubles: Not played
If you're a budding U11 or U13 badminton player, there's another upcoming Fun Tournament at Burwell on 17th March from 12 noon.
You do not necessarily need to be in a club already to play in a fun tournament. If you want to give the sport a try, or have played at school and enjoyed it, this is a great introduction to a little competition.
For more details see the entry form. There should be some really fun badminton for lots of potential badminton stars!
Cambridgeshire's Badminton England Senior Silver Circuit Open Tournament was held at CRC on Friday and Saturday.
The mens singles largely followed the seeding, with Worcestershire's Richard Wrigley beating third seed Christopher Gilbert (Middlesex) in the final. However, with the withdrawal of first seed Emily Jeffs (Buckinghamshire) in the ladies singles, second seed Toni Blake (Buckinghamshire) eventually triumphed against a sturdy challenge from Mary Le Druillenec (Warwickshire), having also beaten Cambridgeshire's Natalie Taylor in a three-ended quarter final.
In the mens doubles, despite some long, exciting and close games, none of Cambridgeshire's pairs progressed beyond the second round. The surprise came when only the fourth seeds Dean George (Sussex) and Chris Tonks (Warwickshire) reached the finals, where they enjoyed a convincing victory against Ian Murphy (Norfolk) and James White (Leicestershire).
The ladies doubles also saw Cambridgeshire's players struggling to impose themselves against strong opposition, and unexpected unseeded victors in Kelly Holdway (Hampshire) and Claire Milward (Warwickshire) who defeated second seeds Toni Blake (Buckinghamshire) and Bethany Jeffs (Buckinghamshire) in a nailbiting 21-19 24-22 final.
Finally, it was in the mixed doubles where
Cambridgeshire found success, with Sara Mason teaming up with former
Warwickshire partner Chris Tonks to resoundingly defeat third seeds
James and Bernie Babington (Yorkshire) 21-9 21-8.
Overall, this year's tournament was of a very high standard, with some excellent performances from a very strong field over a couple of days of truly exciting badminton.
The full results are available online.
You can also now see the entries on the BE Tournament Website.
The finals of the Boys Singles at the Cambridgeshire Under 15 Tournament saw a very close match between Jordan Huynh and Ashley James. The early exchanges favoured Ashley who went into a good lead. However, Jordan gradually caught up and eventually after the game was set was successful by 22-20.
In the semi-finals Jordan had defeated Aaron May 21-12 whilst Ashley beat Xi Mian Quah 21-19. The match for third place saw Xi Mian beat Aaron 21-14.
For the doubles, Ashley teamed up with Xi Mian and they were successful defeating Jamie Rutter and Jamie Veitch 21-16.
There was no girls competition because there were not sufficient entries.
Match report by Ken Verney
The entry form for the Cambridgeshire Senior Silver Tournament 2012 is now available to download via the Tournament Entry Forms link.
The tournament will be held on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th January 2012 at Cambridge Regional College, entries close 7th January.
The Cambridgeshire Restricted Tournament produced a scintillating weekend of badminton over Saturday and Sunday, tinged with a little disappointment.
Most notable was the superb results for Olga Bryant - winning the ladies singles on Saturday, and then following up with the mixed title on Sunday with Stephen Pickering (against James Wilson and Sara Mason in the final), and also teaming up with Natalie Taylor to win the ladies doubles (against Sara Mason and Hannah Sharman).
Having been beaten in the first round by Olga and Stephen, Jess Sharman and Daniel Bates won through to take the mixed plate.
Joe
Pickering also fought a long and hard competition in the mens singles,
ending with success in the final in a showdown against brother Stephen.
The plate went to Tom Li with a very classy showing against a strong
draw.
The disappointment came in the mens doubles, where a succession of hard and close games in both the mixed and levels draw resulted in the day running long. With CRC unable to stay open, the final rounds of the mens doubles and plate could not be played. Strenuous efforts will be made to get the appropriate people together to finish the competition as soon as possible.
In all, a superb weekend of badminton. There were lots of excellent games, a large and strong draw (with the exception of ladies singles, where more need to get involved), and vocal and enthusiastic support all around. Thanks to everyone involved in organising and running the event, to everyone who supported, and to CRC for hosting.
Entry forms for the Cambridgeshire Players Tournament and the Cambridgeshire Under-15 Restricted Tournament are now available to download via the Tournament Entry Forms link.
The Players Tournament will be held on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September 2011 at Cambridge Regional College, entries close 10th September.
The Under-15 Restricted Tournament will be held on Saturday 15th October 2011 at Burwell, entries close 8th October.
