2017/18 Under 21 County Championships

The 2016/17 Under 21 County Championships will be held at Penryn College, Kernick Rd, TR10 8PZ on Sunday 17th December 2017.

Entry forms available to download here.

A Bonanza of Badminton

A Bonanza of Badminton, Sir Ben Ainslie Sports Centre, Truro, 19 November 2017

Over 60 badminton players from all over Cornwall, Plymouth and north Devon, gathered at the 8 court Sir Ben Ainslie Sports Centre in Truro at the weekend to take part in Cornwall Badminton Association’s latest Bonanza.

                                    

The idea of Badminton Bonanza tournaments is to give both social players and those who play league badminton a chance to try out and develop their skills against different players. The many regulars were joined this time by some very welcome new faces, some playing in a tournament for the first time, as the Bonanza goes from strength to strength, with any profits going towards developing badminton in Cornwall.

This year’s tournament at Truro was another great success, with some close fought battles in all the 5 different disciplines and a great day of badminton.

In the social events there were tightly contested matches, with some new winners in the men’s and women’s events. The men’s singles proved to be the final of the day and was won by Alan Spencer from St Ives for the first time, when he just beat Camborne’s Martin Penney in an exciting, evenly matched affair.

                                

                       Social singles finalists                      Social men’s winners                    Social mixed finalists

Once again, St Austell’s Sanaa Roff was the only women singles contestant, and she competed well in the men’s section. The men’s doubles was another close contest which saw St Austell’s Mansell Ahmed and Sha Uddin just beat Martin Penney and his regular partner Steve Knuckey. In the mixed doubles, again a St Austell pair took the title, as Ashley Southey and Tracey Cooke came top, with the luckless Martin Penney and his partner Dee Frost finishing runners up.

For the combined women’s doubles, last year’s winners from Pool, Kay Bossenger and Debbie Blight, once again triumphed, beating the Devon pair Michelle Wylde and Jackie Anderson to the title, with Dee Frost and Deborah Peters of Camborne winning the social doubles medals.

                                                                       

                                                                 Women’s doubles finalists – league and social

The league events also had some hard fought, skilful badminton, and in the men’s singles last year’s winner from St Ives, Tony Wong showed his fitness and experience in beating Rick Kisslay, a student from Falmouth.

                        

     League Men’s singles finalists                 Men’s doubles finalists                                   Mixed doubles finalists

There was another tight final for the men’s doubles with Stuart Larter and Gary Braunton from Pool taking on Camborne’s Danny Gillman and James Cassidy. Stuart and Gary finally repeated their success of last year with some more consistent, well-matched play to win in the end. The mixed doubles this year was won by the Devon partnership of Ben Hammill and Michelle Wylde who pipped runners up Gary Braunton and Debbie Blight to top spot, to complete an excellent day’s badminton.

Results  –

League men’s singles – winner Tony Wong, runner up Rick Kisslay                                                                                                   

Social men’s singles  - winner Alan Spencer, runner up Martin Penney

Social ladies’ singles – winner Sanaa Roff

League men’s doubles – winners Stuart Larter/Gary Braunton, runners up Danny Gillman/James Cassidy

League ladies’ doubles – winners Kay Bossenger/Debbie Blight,  runners up Jackie Anderson/Michelle Wylde

Social men’s doubles – winners Mansell Ahmed/Sha Uddin, runners up Martin Penney/Steve Knuckey

Social ladies doubles – winners Dee Frost/Deborah Peters

League mixed doubles – winners Ben Hammill/Michelle Wylde, runners up Gary Braunton/Debbie Blight

Social mixed doubles – winners Ashley Southey/Tracey Cooke, runners up Martin Penney/Dee Frost

Cornwall 1st team winning start

Cornwall 1st Team

Cornwall's top players began the season with the first two matches in Bristol at the weekend with some new and returning faces in the team. Liskeard's 14-year-old Cara Collins, the new county champion, was making her senior debut, alongside Tom Lyle from Launceston and Camborne's Kellen Moore returning to the first team to join the regular players.

Am - Match 1

The team began their campaign against Worcestershire in the singles with some hard-fought games. Cornwall's best men's singles player from Launceston, Liam Sillifant, lost a difficult match to a strong opponent while younger brother Tyler had success in the second singles, and St Austell's James Whetter narrowly lost in three tight ends. Both women's singles also went the distance, with Cara having an excellent victory and Kellen being unlucky to just lose after fighting back well.

The men's doubles started badly with James and regular partner Guy Michell beaten by a strong Worcestershire pair, but Tom and Ross Lashbrook, resuming their original partnership had an exciting win in three very close ends to make the match score 4-3 going into the women's doubles.

Once again, the top pair were too strong for the Cornish girls Johanna Philp and Bronwen Wotton, but Kellen and Amy Polglase, another established pairing, turned it round and did well to win in three.

Cornwall needed both mixed doubles games to take victory which suddenly looked possible after Guy and Bronwen comfortably took the first mixed to make the score 5-5 with the last game to play. 

Tom and Jo had the Cornish supporters on edge as they lost the first, won the second, and then just edged the third 22/20 to win the match overall.

Pm - Match 2

Next up was a powerful team from Guernsey for the tiring Cornish players, and this led to the match score being 4-1 to Guernsey after the singles, despite Tyler and James battling to three ends, and Amy easily winning her singles.

Worse was to come in the men's as both Cornish pairs were beaten, as well as Jo and Bronwen losing in three, but Amy and Kellen reversed the trend by winning convincingly and giving Amy a 100% success rate for the day.

Finishing the match Guy and Bronwen had run out of steam at first mixed but once again Tom and Jo had a fantastic close victory to take the final third end 22-20 for the second time, and finish the match 8-3 to Guernsey.

Team -

Liam Sillifant, Tyler Sillifant, James Whetter, Guy Michell, Tom Lyle, Ross Lashbrook, Cara Collins, Kellen Moore, Amy Polglase, Johanna Philp, Bronwen Wotton

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