Badminton

Ireland’s Scott Evans bowed out of the World Badminton Championships in Copenhagaen, going down to the World Number 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia. The Irish number one lost out in straight sets, 21-11, 21-12 but managed to produce the toughest match yet for Lee Chong Wei. An impressive World Championships for Scott following on

Irish number one Scott Evans has booked his place in the last 16 of the 2014 World Championships after beating David Obernosterer of Austria in straight games. Evans has continued his good form after winning the Brazil Grand Prix event as he eased through the opening game 21-7. Evans started the second game a little

Chloe Magee lost to Yip Pui Yin of Hong Kong in the opening round of the women’s singles at the World Badminton Championships in Copenhagen today (Mon). Magee took some good points off the former world top 10 player but lost 15-21, 15-21. Later in the day, in the mixed doubles, Magee and brother Sam

Team Ireland will be full of confidence following recent success at the Brazil Grand Prix event but they have a number of difficult draws ahead of them in this prestigious event. Chloe Magee kicks the 2015 World Championships today Monday with a tough opening round against former world top 10, Yip Pui Yin of Hong

The draws have been published for the 2014 World Championships in Copenhagen at the end of August. Team Ireland have qualified players in three events at this year’s competition. To qualify you need to be ranked in the world’s top 64. Team Ireland kick off in Copenhagen from Monday the 25th of August. The team

Scott Evans secured Gold for Team Ireland in the finals of the 2014 Brazil Grand Prix today in Rio de Janerio. Evans showed great form throughout the tournament beating a number of seeds on his way to the final including number one seed Henri Hurskainen of Sweden. In the final Evans showed his fighting spirit by

Sam and Chloe Magee went out of the mixed quarter final losing to no 1 seeds Maneepong Jongjit and Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand. The Magee’s started the quarter well taking the first game. The Thailand pair fought back to take a close second game. In the final game the spectators were treated to a number

Sam and Chloe Magee  are through to the last 16 at the US Open GPG in New York after beating Hock Lai Lee and Eva Lee of USA in straights sets. They now face top seeds Maneepong Jongjit and Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand for a place in the quarter-finals. On a good day for the Irish,

Scott Evans has continued his winning ways at the 2014 US open grand prix gold beating Ka Long Ng of Hong Kong in a match that lasted over an hour. The match went to the deciding game with Evans winning in setting. Scott later posted “Delighted to get that win today. Close at the end”. Evans now

Congratulations to Chloe Magee as she took Gold and Silver in the 2014 Hellas Open. Magee was first on court yesterday against number one seed Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria. The final had followed the seeding as Magee who was seeded two for the event fought her way through some tough matches to set up the big

Irish progress to second round stage at 2014 European Championships Brother and sister partnership of Chloe and Sam Magee got the Irish of to winning ways at the 2014 European Championships in Kazan Russia. The Irish number one mixed partnership swept away their opponents Jakub Bitman and Alzbeta Basova from Czech Republic in the opening