Category: Competitions

Junior Series Report by Josh Hart

Junior Series North Wales

The North Wales Junior Series event held by the North East Wales Badminton League (NEWBL) took place last weekend. The event was a huge success – with over 74 individual entries it is officially one of the largest junior competitions we have had in Wales in the last 10 years!

The event ran with the similar format seen across the junior series of events with U11, U13 and U15 being separated only into singles and doubles with no separation by gender. Whilst the older age groups of U17 and U19 were separated into the five usual disciplines. A novel scoring system (for the junior series) was used throughout the event with all games bar the final being best of 3 to 15 with the 3rd set being to 11, changing ends at 6 with no extended play.

The Tournament had junior players come from not just across Wales but also England as well. The competition got off to an early 08:30 start with fantastic matches being played all the way till the final match at 19:00. From a personal perspective it was fantastic to see individuals from all different areas and badminton experience come together and enjoy what competitive badminton has to offer.

Throughout the day a serving challenge and guess the shuttles in the box with prizes of a Racket and Yonex bottle took place allowing a break from the intensity of the competition inside the hall.

Congratulations to all of the winners;

U11S

  • Winner: John Britto (Gwynedd)
  • Runner Up: Alfie Pugh (Flintshire)

U11D

  • Winners: John Britto (Gwynedd) + Rocco Caton (Conwy)
  • Runners Up: Alfie Pugh (Flintshire) + Lauren Bignell (Flintshire)

U13S

  • Winner: Eden Harris (Blaenau Gwent)
  • Runner Up: Addhyan Saini (Staffordshire)

U13D

  • Winners: Aadi Shah (Cheshire) + Eden Harris (Blaenau Gwent)
  • Runners Up: Charlie Ren (Merseyside) + Marcel Chengalai (Merseyside)

U15S

  • Winner: Luke Betts (Flintshire)
  • Runner Up: Samara Britto (Gwynedd)

U15D

  • Winners: Eden Harris (Blaenau Gwent) + Luke Betts (Flintshire)
  • Runners Up: Harry McKenna (Cheshire) + Mason Harvey (Rhondda Cynon Taf)

U17BS

  • Winner: King Hin Cheung (Cheshire)
  • Runner Up: Bobby Lai (Cheshire)

U17/19GS

  • Winner: Samara Britto (Gwynedd)
  • Runner Up: Aaradhana Bharathwaj (Cheshire)

U17BD

  • Winners: Elgan Morgan (Carmarthenshire) + Surya Vijay (Neath)
  • Runners Up: Oliver Barnes (Cheshire) + Rory O’Keeffe (Cheshire)

U17/19GD

  • Winners: Isabel Williams (Conwy) + Serena Yang (Greater Manchester)
  • Runners Up: Aaradhana Bharathwaj (Cheshire) + Angelina Avinash (Denbighshire)

U17XD

  • Winners: Luke Betts (Flintshire) + Samara Britto (Gwynedd)
  • Runners Up: Luke Tunnicliffe (Cheshire) + Serena Yang (Greater Manchester)

U19BS

  • Winner: Cai Owen (Conwy)
  • Runner Up: Bobby Lai (Cheshire)

U19BD

  • Winners: Cai Owen (Conwy) + Surya Vijay (Neath)
  • Runner Up: King Hin Cheung (Cheshire) + Rahul Srinivasan (Cheshire)

U19XD

  • Winners: Cai Owen (Conwy) + Isabel Williams (Conwy)
  • Runners Up: Josh Lewis-Smith (Flintshire) + Charlotte Taylor (Flintshire)

I would also like to thank the main tournament organiser Heather and all the Volunteers from the NEWBL community who helped run the event.

Report by Josh Hart – Badminton Wales Regional Community Manager

Full results and photographs can be found at: https://www.staging.newbl.co.uk/wp62/play-badminton/juniors/bw-junior-graded-series-north/

Challenge Cup & Plate FINALS 2023-24

The Finals of the Challenge Cup & Plate 2023-24 competitions were held at Deeside Leisure Centre on Friday 15th March 2024.

Congratulations to Rossett A (-6) who beat Eros B (Scr) 12-6 in the Cup and Holywell A (+5) who beat Flint Phoenix A (-10) 12-6 in the Plate.

Full Fixtures and Results can be found here.

Huge thanks to Sheila Palmer for all her hard work coordinating the competitions as well as the handicapping committee and helpers on the desk for the semi-finals & finals.  Without these volunteers this long standing competition couldn’t happen!

Challenge Cup & Plate Semi Finals

The Semi Finals of the Challenge Cup took place at Deeside Leisure Centre on Friday 16th February 2024 and the Plate Semi Finals took place the week later on 23rd February.

Congratulations to the winning teams, Eros B and Rossett A (Cup) and Flint Phoenix A and Holywell A (Plate) who will go through to the Final on Friday 15th March 2024 8pm at Deeside Leisure Centre.

Full results can be found on Challenge Cup 2023-24 – NEWBL

Great Orme Senior Open Doubles Tournament

What better way to start the new year and work off those mince pies than with a tournament?!

Saturday 13th January 2024 will see the 7th Great Orme Badminton Club Senior Open Doubles Tournament at Bryn Estyn, Deganwy.

Entries close Saturday 6th January 2024 so you still have a few days to find a partner and send your completed entry form (below) to Joe Hill.

Great Orme Senior Open 13th January 2024

Good luck everybody!

Gold for Betts in Northumberland U13 Bronze

Congratulations to NEWBL junior Luke Betts and his partner Isaac Chen (Yorkshire) who took Gold 🥇 in the Northumberland U13 Bronze tournament on Saturday, winning the final 21-16 against a strong pair from Ireland 🇮🇪
Luke also competed in the singles event making the semi final and coming away with a bronze medal 🥉
Llongyfarchiadau Luke! ⭐

BW Graded Series – Ebbw Vale

Sunday 5th November 2023 saw the first tournament of the Badminton Wales Graded Series 2023-24 down in Ebbw Vale, South Wales.

NEWBL was represented on the winner’s podium by no less than 3 players with Ellen Liddle (Eros) and Jamie Noble (Eros) winning the Grade E/F Mixed Doubles, Jamie Noble winning his second event of the day in the Grade E/F Men’s Doubles, with his partner James Ellaway and Rhian Owen (Eros) winning the Grade G/H Mixed Doubles with her partner, Chris Jeynes.

Well done all of you!

We are also very excited to reveal that NEWBL will be hosting our very own Badminton Wales Graded event on Saturday 17th February 2024 and look forward to welcoming players from all over Wales to Deeside!