Cambridgeshire Badminton Association are pleased to invite entries to their U15 Restricted Tournament to be held on Saturday 22 November 2104, at Burwell Sports Centre.
To enter, download the entry form and submit it before 15 November.
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Restricted (players) Tournament Times
Just for information, the Restricted start times are as follows:
Mens singles : Saturday 12:00 for 12:30 start
Ladies singles : Saturday 2:30 for a 3:00 start
Mixed doubles : Sunday 9:30 for a 10:00 start
Level doubles : 12:30 for a 1:00 start
Looking forward to some excellent badminton!
Restricted Entries Closing 18 September
A quick encouragement to anyone planning on entering the County Players (Restricted) Tournament this year.
This is the first year where entries for the tournament has been run through Badminton England's Tournament Software system. This provides a great number of benefits, but requires that each user has their individual login, based on their Badminton England registration number.
(Please note that your user ID for Tournament Software should be your BE number, prefixed with "beuk", so eg. "beuk100226").
As entries have begun, it has become apparent that a small minority of people are having problems - either because they have mislaid their membership number, or because they are not actually registered through BE for some reason.
If you are planning on entering the Restricted, please get your applications in AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The closing date of midnight on 18th September is ABSOLUTE, because the Tournament Secretary Neil Place needs to make the draw on 19th before he leaves for the European Championships in Portugal. This means if you have any problems with your registration, if you have left it to the last minute it WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE to sort them out and you will not be included in the draw.
To avoid disappointment, please act now and complete your entries.
If you have problems, or questions about your registration, please contact County Registration Secretary Louise Tarbit at latarbit@gmail.com
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
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!
Cambs Juniors Give Excellent Showing at Eastern Region Tournament
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.
Cambs U19 Junior Restricted Results
The U19 Restricted was held at Burwell Sports Centre on 23 March 2014, and was the scene of some superb badminton from the County's young guns.
Girls Competition
Singles winner: Gemma McGuire
Runner up: Amy Zhang
Doubles Winners: Lily Matthews and Amy Zhang
Runners up: Gemma McGuire and Lele Chen
Amy Zhang had managed to squeeze a 21 - 20 win against Gemma McGuire in the Round Robin Section of the Girls Singles but in the Final Play off Gemma fought hard and pulled off a 21-19 win.
In the Girls Doubles Lily Matthews having won this competition last year with Gemma McGuire now paired up with Amy Zhang against Gemma and Lele Chen to regain the title with a new partner, 21-15, 21-13.
Boys Competition
Singles Winner: Tom Zhang
Runner Up: Kaylan Sutton-Ziaien
Doubles Winners: Kaylan Sutton-Ziaien and Aiden Foo
Runners up: Tom Zhang and Michael Duncan
The Boys Singles Round Robin section was tough of many players with multiple very close games, one group having the winner and runner up’s decided by points and one player missing out proceeding into the Knock Out quarter finals by a single point.
The quarters went with form and all the winners of the groups continuing to show their strength by knocking out all the runners up.
In the semi finals Jordan Huynh (15) made the older competitor Tom Zhang work hard to ensure a win and continue to the final .
The final saw Kaylan in the final for the 3rd year running having won it in 2012 and been a runner up in 2014 and this year he once again missed out with Tom Zhang winning with some aggressive play 21-15.
In the Boys Doubles the Round Robin saw a split between the stronger pairings and the up and coming challengers leading to good matches at the semi final stage of the competition. The final, however saw Tom and Kaylan again in battle with their partners Michael and Aiden. Kaylan and Aiden showed the strength of their 7 year partnership (having played together since they were 10 years old!) to win 21 - 17 after a greatly fought final.
More photographs are available to view in the gallery section.