In a fantastic festival of badminton, on Saturday 13th July Cambridgeshire Badminton Association hosted a Bronze tournament on the Badminton England National Circuit at the University of Cambridge Sports Center.
With a huge entry of 166 players from around the Country, the tournament was highly competitive.
Starting preparations at 8am, and going all the way through to the last match of the day - the men’s doubles final - just after 11pm, it was a long and exhausting day. By the end, 175 competitive matches had been played.
Photographs of the finalists are available in the Gallery, and they were:
Mens Singles
Winner: Syed Masood
Runner up: Thomas Macrae
Womens Singles
Winner: Holly Smith
Runner up: Kacy Chou
Mens Doubles
Winners: Zhi Lun Ng & Abid Sultan
Runners up: Paul Andrew Mayfield & Phil Sunderland
Womens doubles
Winners: Alicia Chu & Yoongeun Kwon
Runners up: Jenny Crump & Natalie Taylor
Mixed doubles
Winners: Zhi Lun Ng & Annabel Hong
Runners up: Phil Sunderland & Suzanne Brewer
For full results see Tournament Software.
Many congratulations and thanks, especially to Cambs’ Tournament Secretary Neil Place who put in so much effort in setting up and administering the tournament before the day, and so professionally managing the event on the day itself. Also great thanks go to the rest of the team who helped keep things running so smoothly on the day: Louise Place, Natalie Taylor and James Wilson.