Badminton

Evans and Magee make quarter finals of Bitburger Grand Prix Gold. Irish number one men singles player Scott Evans who is seeded 12 in this event has made his way to the quarter final beating World number 33 Anad Pawar of India. Evans will now take on Kwong Beng Chan of Malaysia in the quarter […]

After taking a sensational Semi-final spot for in Belgium beating the English top seeds in Leuven, Belgium today, Chloe and Sam Magee lost their semi-final match this evening. The pair lost to Danish 4th seeds Rasmussen and Grebak 14-21 19-21. The Irish number one pairing of Sam and Chloe Magee booked their place in the

Scott Evans was first on-court against Flemming Quach of Denmark. The 21 year old Dane who is now ranked 80 in the World took the opening set 21-17. In the second set it was again a close encounter but Quach once again took the important points to win the second set 21-17 to proceed to

Irish involvement in the World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou ended today when Irish No 1 Chloe Magee lost in the opening round of the women’s singles to Hsaio Ma Pei of Chinese Taipei. Although Magee was no pushover and pulled off a number of good points in the 36 minute match,  Pei had clearly upped

For a third  year, Ireland’s Scott Evans will face the world No 1 in a major tournament when he faces Malaysia’s  Lee Chong Wei in the opening round of the World Badminton in China on Monday next August 5. Facing the world number 1 three times in a row doesn’t faze the Dubliner. ‘I don’t have a

At the age of 22, Irish international badminton player Sam Magee from the Donegal town of Raphoe already has a long list of achievement to his  credit. Since he started playing as a teenager, Sam, a doubles specialist, has won a European Junior gold medal in the men’s doubles, as well as Norwegian, Lithuanian and

Irish No 1 Scott Evans has drawn top seed and world No 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia for his opening match at the World Badminton Championships starting in Guangzhou, China on Monday August 5. That makes it third time unlucky for Evans – at both the 2011 World Championships and last year’s London Olympics,

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.