Badminton

After a hectic year, badminton’s national coach Dan Magee will lead the Irish team at next month’s World Championships in Guangzhou, China, where getting through the qualification tournament and into the main draw is the first priority. Dan, the oldest member of the badminton-mad Magee family from Raphoe in Co Donegal, began his coaching career […]

Ireland’s No 1 Scott Evans has a tough assignment against top seed Viktor Axelsen of Denmark in  the quarter-finals of the Danish Open Evans, who is seeded fifth for the tournament, beat two other Danish players to make the last eight. He dropped the opening set of his first round match against against Emil Holst

In the Mixed doubles the Irish number one pairing of Chloe and Sam Magee kicked of their campaign with a three set Victory over the Swiss pairing of Anthony Dumartheray and Sabrina Jaquet winning 21-12 21-23 21-16. In the round of 16 they faced a much tougher ask as they were up against the German

Scott Evans warmed up for next week’s All England Open Championships with a good run in the German Open Grand Prix Gold in Mulheim. Evans beat Germany’s Lukas Schmidt in the opening round and in  his next match, took the first set off third seed Sho Sasaki from Japan ranked No 14 in the world.

In the 2013 Irish Nationals Men’s Singles final, Olympian Scott Evans beat Tony Stephenson 21-17 21-8. Fellow Olympian Chloe Magee followed beating Sinead Chambers 21-10 21-12. Inspired by the Olympians the under 15 National Championships running alongside the seniors saw Dublin’s Sam McKay beat Ulster’s Chin Nam Soong 21-9, 21-6 and Munster’s Moya Ryan beat

Double Olympian Scott Evans hopes to add to his collection of seven Irish titles when he plays in the Irish National Badminton Championships in Lisburn this weekend. Evans is in confident form after winning the men’s singles title at the Cyprus International in Nicosia last week. He has a tough match against Leinster champion Owen

After winning the Irish Open in December 2012, Irish number one Scott Evans has continued his good form as he won the 25th Li-Ning Winter Sun Cyprus International 2013 beating Andrew Smith (Eng) in 2 straight sets Mens Singles: Irish number one Scott Evans has looked in great form as he has made his way

Ex-pro player and Olympian Tom Reidy is the new high performance director of Badminton Ireland.   The appointment follows a decision by Badminton Ireland to strengthen its high performance  team after  the London Olympics where, for a second, time, two Irish players had qualified.   Reidy, originally from Adare, Co Limerick, played for the USA

Scott Evans and Chloe Magee both comfortably won their opening round matches at the Carlton Irish Badminton Open in Baldoyle this morning. Evand beat Maxime Michel 21-14, 21-11 in his opening round match. He players qualifier Daniel Groom of England later this afternoon (17.30) for a place in tomorrow’s quarter-finals. Magee was equally untroubled in