Chris and Gabby Adcock fell to an agonising defeat at the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships on Saturday as Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen of Denmark advanced to Sunday’s mixed doubles final. In front of a sell out Barclaycard Arena, the married couple and world number seven pair looked set to take the
England’s world number seven pair Chris and Gabby Adcock ousted Indonesia’s three-time champions to keep their mixed doubles bid firmly on track after a brilliant display at the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships on Friday night. The Adcocks beat Indonesia’s Lilyana Natsir and Tontowi Ahmad 21-18, 21-16, as they atoned for their last eight
Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge set the YONEX All England Championships alight as they became the second English pair to reach the quarter-finals, joining Chris and Gabby Adcock in an eagerly-anticipated session on Friday night. Ellis and Langridge, displaying their famed on-court passion to a jubilant Barclaycard Arena, beat Korea’s seventh seeds, Kim Gi Jung
Chris and Gabby Adcock, England’s number one pair, went through the gears to advance to the last 16 of the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham on Wednesday. The world number seven duo were 14-5 up before being forced to save a game point in their first Superseries outing of the year. But
England saw glimpses of bright doubles’ futures in both victory and defeat as qualifying finals completed the main draw at the 106th YONEX All England Championships in Birmingham on Tuesday. Jenny Moore and Victoria Williams will play Danish fourth seeds Christinna Pedersen and Kamilla Rytter Juhl in the women’s doubles main draw. The unseeded English
Eurosport will show live and highlights coverage of the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2016, which runs for six days from next Tuesday, 8 March. Eurosport’s agreement with Badminton England will allow British and Irish fans the chance to watch the current world champions Carolina Marin of Spain and Chen Long of China, as
University of Bath-based badminton player Kirby Ngan will make her senior England debut this week on the back of a double success at the National U19 Championships. The 18-year-old, from Bristol, won both the ladies’ singles and doubles titles in Milton Keynes over the weekend before flying out to Kazan in Russia to compete in
Loughborough Sport produced the comeback of all comebacks to book their place in the AJ Bell National Badminton League Finals Day with one fixture still to play. A top of the table clash against Birmingham Lions was always going to be a close affair, but to come from 2-0 down to take victory 3-2 showed
University of Bath student Alex Lane produced some of the best badminton of his career so far to reach the men’s singles final at the English National Championships. Lane, who is studying Sports Performance and is supported by a Trendell Sports Scholarship, beat fellow Bath-based player Henley Ngan 21-10 21-8 in the quarter-finals. He then
Loughborough Sport kept their 100 percent record going in the 2015/16 AJ Bell National Badminton League (NBL) with a fantastic 4-1 victory over Team Derby at the Sir David Wallace Sports Hall on campus. The result was an important one for the Loughborough team, having lost out to Team Derby in last year’s final in
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