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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.

Results from The Cambs U15 Restricted Tournament 2014/15

This years Tournament at Burwell Community Sports Centre proved to be rather unique in that the Girls entry was larger than the Boys, this has not occurred in many years and was good to see. 

There was a range of ability in both Singles and Doubles competition but all enjoyed participating and a number of matches had close final scores.

Girls Singles

Winner: Chanumi Gamage (Chanumi won all her matches)
Runner Up: Hannah Milton (Lost only to Chanumi!)

Boys Singles 

Winner: Harry Zhao (Harry won all his matches)
Runner Up: Cameron Foo (Lost only to Harry!)

Girls Doubles

Chanumi Gamage and Hannah Milton

Winners: Cambs U15 Restricted Girls Doubles

The winner and runner up in the singles joined forces in the doubles and beat all the other pairs to win the title, the runners up place was more hotly contended with the eventual stronger pair winning a crucial tie.

Winners: Chanumi Gamage and Hannah Milton 
Runners up: Ghazal Seidi and Tianne World 

Boys Doubles

Cameron Foo and Harry Zhao

Winners: Cambs U15 Restricted Boys Doubles

Likewise in the Boys event the two new singles medal holders became a pair and proved to be too strong for any of the opposition. The runners up only met each other on the day and played well together.

Winners: Harry Zhao and Cameron Foo
Runners up: Benedict Taylor and Alex Chan

Well done to all the winners and thanks to all who entered and made the day so enjoyable for all.

Medal Rush for Cambs U15 Players in Local Bronze

Cameron Foo and Harry Zhao

Winners: Cambs U15 Bronze Boys Doubles

Cambridgeshire Badminton Association was proud to host the Badminton England U15 Bronze Circuit tournament at the One Leisure Centre in St Ives last Saturday, 25 October.  

Forty-six U15 players from around the country converged on the County to compete for the honours.  After a day's play, some of the top honours went to home grown players.

In the boys doubles, the gold medals were secured by the Cambs pairing Cameron Foo and Harry Zhao, who took the final match in a commanding 21-16 victory against the scratch pairing of Tommy Corteen and Daniel Hughes.

In the girls doubles, a close and hard-fought final was eventually also won by Cambridgeshire pair Chanumi Gamage and Hannah Milton, triumphing 21-18 against Rebekah Easy and Katie Scott.

Complete results

Boys Singles

Winner: Pranav Santhosh

Runner Up: Raymon Ramakrishnan

Bronze Medal: Amrit Brar

Bronze Medal: Luke Meehan

Boys Doubles

Winners: Cameron Foo & Harry Zhao

Runners Up: Tommy Corteen & Daniel Hughes

Girls Singles

Winner: Laura Anderson

Runner Up: Rebekah Easy

Bronze Medal: Katie Scott

Bronze Medal: Katelyn Harrington

Girls Doubles

Winners: Chanumi Gamage & Hannah Milton

Runners Up: Rebekah Easy & Katie Scott

Bronze Medals: Vinisha Agrawal & Atulya Singh

For the complete results and other information, please see the entry on Tournament Software.

 

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

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!