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14th December 2003

Shires League Defeat for Notts U13's in Local Derby

On Sunday 14th December 2003 the Notts U13 team travelled to Leicester for their first away match of the season.

Notts were hoping for success in this match following their defeat by Leicester in the recent Team Challenge in Warwickshire. Unfortunately, Notts never seemed to find any momentum and lost the fixture quite heavily, not winning a single match. However, there were some excellent performances during the match and again Notts had 3 players making their Shires League debuts.

In the boys singles, Josh Gilmore of Hucknall National School had a very tight game with Avinash Chandarana eventually losing 15-13 and 15-8 as did Kabir Khan of CTC school losing to Peter Briggs 17-14, 15-13. Colum O'Shea and Angus Carrington also lost 15-10, 15-11 and 15-11, 15-10 respectively.

Jess Martin of Gedling School and Kabir narrowly lost their mixed doubles match 15-13, 15-13 and only Heidi Wiltshire took her singles match to a decider, eventually losing 6-11, 11-8 and 13-12 to C Burns. Jess Tandy and Jess Martin took their doubles match to deciders as did Josh Gilmore and Colum O'Shea.

Overall on the day Notts weren't quite strong enough and Leicester ran out easy winners. Notts can hopefully learn something from this in time for their next Shires match at home to Northants on 1st February 2003.

The full team representing Notts in this match were :

Josh Gilmore - Hucknall National School, Jess Tandy - Sir Edmund Hilary School, Kabir Khan - CTC Nottingham, Jess Martin - Gedling School, Colum O'Shea - Beckett School, Kate Fenton - Toothill School Bingham, A Carrington - Garibaldi School and Heidi Wiltshire.

28 November 2003

Notts Pair Win for England

Notts pair Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark won their doubles match as England beat Netherlands 3-2 in the four-match series.

They beat T Creemers and J Wouters 15-6, 15-6 as England extended their lead in the series to 3-0.

27 November 2003

50th Cap

Cotgrave's Nathan Robertson helped England to a 2-0 lead over Holland.

They pipped Holland 3-2 at Portsmouth, Robertson and Derby's Donna Kellog winning their mixed doubles.

He then teamed-up with Natalie Munt in the 4-1 win at Norwich, earning his 50th cap in the process.

15 November 2003

Robertson Bows Out

14 November 2003

Robertson Wins

He breezed through the 3rd round of the men's doubles with Anthony Clark after beating Japanese pair Ohtsuka and Masuda 15-2, 15-6.

And he reached the semi-finals of the mixed doubles with Gail Emms after dumping Danish pair Rasmussen and Olsen 15-6, 13-15, 15-13.

7th November 2003

Girls U13 Single Victory for Notts

Sunday 7th November 2003 at Stevenage Leisure Centre, saw Jess Martin win the Grade 4 girls National Singles Title. Jess who attends the Gedling School beat some of her main rivals on the way to the final beating Bernadette Westwood 15-8 to win the title.

Josh Gilmore of Hucknall National School won Silver in the boys grade 2 singles final, losing to James Lauder of Shropshire. Josh also won the Silver medal in the Boys main doubles with Chris Piff of Norfolk. Josh and Chris lost to James Lauder and Sam Isaacs of Oxfordshire.

Josh and Jess were very ably supported in their finals by other Notts players who were at Stevenage including Kabir Khan of CTC School, Angus Carrington of Garibaldi School, Ian Burton of Co Frank Seely school and Rohan Midha of Erenhale School.

19th October 2003

Successful Start to Shires League Campaign

11th and 12th October 2003

Success at Yorkshire Under 17 Open

11th and 12th October 2003

East Midlands Under 13 and Under 11 BAofE Junior Challenge

The Notts players competing over the weekend and the schools they attend were :

4th and 5th October 2003

Matthew Takes Tripple Title

August 2003

Badminton a Hit at Morven Park

Kirkby’s Morven Park Primary School pupils thoroughly enjoyed their first taste of badminton in the school’s new sports hall on 22nd and 29th July 2003.

The event was organised jointly by Helen Marriott, the school co-ordinator, and badminton coach Terry Broughton, with the intention of starting a regular After School Badminton Club.

The children were divided into ages 5 to 8 and 9 to 11, with each age group playing two three-hour sessions over the two-day event with the emphasis on fun games.

It was a tremendous success, the forty-three children who attended had so much fun that they wanted to stay for more and can’t wait for the after school classes to begin when they return from the school holidays.

Well done to all those who took part.

For information about badminton coaching with Terry Broughton, email him at t.broughton@btinternet.com.  Details of other local qualified coaches can be found by clicking here.

July 2003

Council Award for Mansfield Juniors

Mansfield Junior BC have been awarded £200 from Mansfield District Council for Provision of Professional Coaching.  
Pictured left to right :- Girish Ravat - Secretary and Coach MJBC, Cllr. Sutcliffe, Cllr. Heather Henshaw - Chair of MDC Council, Dave Goodall - Chairman and Coach MJBC

See also Mansfield Junior BC club details

July 2003

 

Tournament Success for Bluecoats and Manning Girls School  Nottingham’s success in developing Badminton at School/Junior level continues to gather momentum. Following on from our recent achievement at the National Schools Under 17 Inter Counties Tournament, where we were only narrowly beaten into second place by Yorkshire, funding was obtained for the Notts Junior Badminton Association from the National Lottery to organise a Nottingham City Schools Tournament. The funding was used to provide free After School coaching to 11 & 12 year olds, giving them an early introduction to the sport. Sixteen schools eagerly took the opportunity to participate, with the challenging prospect of going on to compete in the Tournament. The Tournament and funding, which was organised by Elaine Spray the Notts Badminton Development Officer, took place at the David Lloyd Rackets Club at Aspley in June, with 8 schools entering 25 teams and over 50 pupils taking part. The format was even doubles for boys and girls on a round robin basis (each pair playing all of the other pairs). The boy's section was won by Bluecoats School and the girls’ section by Manning Girls School. The winners were all presented with medals. The event was a huge success and the children enjoyed themselves immensely. It is hoped that they will continue to play and enjoy Badminton in the future, keep themselves fit and help to keep Nottingham at the forefront of the sport.   Ron Dennis - Notts BA Press Officer

July 2003

Fantastic Season for Mansfield Juniors

See also Mansfield Junior BC club details

June 2003

Fun Day at Ashfield School

Ninety six children between the ages of 6 to 8 from the family of schools feeding Ashfield School, namely All Saints, Greenwood, Jeffries, John Davies, Kirkby Woodhouse, Mapplewells and Orchard B and C were invited by Ashfield School to enjoy their first taste of various sports - Badminton, Athletics, Gymnastics and Hockey.

Teachers and sixth form pupils were on hand to assist the professional coaches. These coaches were from Sutton Harriers (Athletics) Ashfield/Mansfield Hockey Club (Barn Hockey) Ashfield School PE Department (Gymnastics) and Ron Dennis and Elaine Spray coaches from Nottinghamshire Badminton Association (Badminton)

Parents were invited to come and watch and judging from the noise and laughter the children enjoyed themselves immensely and energetically entered into the spirit of things. It is hoped that this initial introduction into sport in a fun non competitive environment, will encourage the children who took part to become interested in sport and to be involved on an ongoing basis, thus promoting a fit and healthy lifestyle and so avoid the couch potato syndrome.

The activities finally came to a close at 6.00pm when each and every participant received a certificate from Ashfield School who are trying to raise the profile of physical activity in their family of schools. It is hoped that Ashfield School's initiative will be followed by other schools to enable their children to enjoy a similar event. As one who took part I can vouch that the happy smiling children who left the school each clutching their certificates had had a fun day.

Ron Dennis - Notts BA Press Officer

June 2003

Crocodiles All Smiles

An article that recently appeared in the Mansfield Chad

Local badminton club Kirkby Crocodiles have achieved remarkable success in the 2002-2003 season, having won two titles in the Nottingham and District Badminton League and also having finished second in two others. In addition they reached the Semi Final of the Nottingham Badminton Association's knockout cup, only losing narrowly 5-4 in a hard fought contest to the eventual winners Bingham.

Pictured at the Notts BA presentation evening are some of Kirkby Crocodiles players, together with the trophies.

What makes these successes all the more amazing is that the club was only formed in July 2001. In that short time the club has attracted no less than 38 members and has seven league teams.

The Crocodiles are looking to build on this success by attracting local players of league standard to strengthen their squad. Any interested parties can contact Ron Dennis on 01623 559 207.

Two other local clubs Byron and Mansfield Oaktree also had their share of success, Byron winning one title, and coming second in three others, and Oaktree winning one title and finishing second in one other.

All in all quite a success for three of our local badminton clubs.

Ron Dennis - Notts BA Press Officer
See also Kirkby Crocodiles BC club details

April 2003

Cake and Ale

April 2003

Good Show From Notts Players

There were some good local performances in the British Grand Slam tournament at Burgess Hill.

N White (Notts) reached the men's quarterfinals before losing 15-12, 15-1 to eventual winner C Haughton (Lancs.).

Dave Lindley and Derby's K Roebuck lost in the semi- finals of the men's doubles, 15-12, 9-15, 15-11.

M Smith (Notts) and D Corby (Devon) went down 11-15, 15-13, 15-5 in the quarterfinals.

April 2003

Nathan's Turns Up The Heat At Korean Open

Cotgrave's Nathan Robertson made light of a fire in the arena and an injury scare to go through in the mixed doubles in the Korean Open in Icheon.

Robertson, and his partner, Gail Emms, were forced off court when smoke and flames filled the court. They went on to beat Patapol Ngernsrisku and Sathinee Chankrachengwong (Thailand) 11-4. 11-3.

And they followed up with a 13-12, 11-5 win over Koreans Lee Dong Soo and Vim Kyung Jin.

Robertson, suffering from an elbow injury and stomach upset, then teamed up with Nottinghamshire’s Anthony Clark to beat Danes Michael Sogaard and Jim Laugesen, 15-10, 15-4, in the men's doubles.

They also beat a Korean pair 7-15,15-6, 15-4, to reach the quarterfinals.

Clark and his mixed doubles partner, Jo Wright, went through 11-6, 11-4.

March 2003

The Manor School Accreditation for Nottinghamshire's Performance and Development Centre

The Manor school's new Sports and Recreation Centre in Mansfield Woodhouse Nottinghamshire, which had it's official opening on 11th of May 2002, has become the first such centre in the country to receive the prestigious Badminton Association of England accreditation award as a Badminton Performance and Development Centre.

The award was presented by Mike Kingsland, Project Officer of the Nottinghamshire Badminton Association at a presentation evening on 7th March 2003 which was attended by John Briggs Vice Chairman of the Badminton Association, Johnathon Hickman Head Teacher of The Manor School, Barbara Bakewell The Manor School's Director of Sport, Catriona Paterson Manager Manor Sports and Recreation Centre and Elaine Spray Notts Badminton Development Officer. This award is only made when all of the technical and integral facilities meet the Badminton Association's stringent requirements, which enable all levels of badminton development and performance to flourish, from the young beginner to the seasoned international.

This award is yet another milestone in the development of the school as a specialist sports college, and was achieved in partnership with the Nottinghamshire Badminton Association, who had formed this partnership with the school in the early days of the new sports hall conception, and had prepared a badminton development plan, which was incorporated into the school's lottery bid. Throughout the construction stage of the project the Nottinghamshire Badminton Association worked in conjunction with the Nottinghamshire county architect, to ensure that the final result was a sports hall that they could be proud of and one that would reach classification as an East Midlands Badminton Performance and Development Centre.

Since the centre opened the development of badminton has taken a high priority, and has provided badminton within the school's curriculum. In addition The Mansfield Meteors Junior Badminton Club has been established. This club is affiliated to the Nottinghamshire Junior Badminton Association, and is open to all youngsters in the community, between the ages of 8 and 16. The club meets on a Friday evening, and although the emphasis is on enjoyment, experienced coaches, Dave Goodall and Girish Ravat, are on hand to help those youngsters who want to progress to a higher level.

The centre has become the adopted home of the Nottinghamshire Schools' Badminton Association, and every week the Schools' junior county squads train at the centre, with teams entered in the National Shires Leagues in the under 13, under 15, and under 17 age groups. Most weekends individual players enter the Badminton Association of England's National Age Group tournaments.

The centre's "performance" classification is enhanced by having in place the East Midlands Cell for both the World Class Start, and World Class Potential elements of the Sport England World Class programme. These cells cater for the development of the young England players. Notts schools currently have 14 players in the programme who have all represented their country at International level.

Mike Kingsland - Notts BA

March 2003

Notts Successes At U15 Championship

Notts U15 players achieved resounding success at the recent U15 National Championships in Doncaster.

In the Boys Singles, an all Nottingham final ended in victory for Chris Adcock, beating Peter Mills 15-11, 16-17, 15-10.

Peter then took top spot in the Boys doubles.  Partnering Michael Whitehouse they beat Marcus Ellis and Christopher Hotchen 9-15, 15-7, 15-8.

February 2003

Mixed Luck For Robertson Again

Local stars Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark have had a good run in the Swiss Open, in Basel.

They beat Michael Lamp and Mathias Boe (Den) 15-11, 15-3 and followed up by dumping Choong Tan Fook and Lee Wan Wah (Mal) 15-8, 15-12.

But there was more disappointment for Robertson and mixed doubles partner Gail Emms. They lost 11-7, 11-6 to Cheng Rui & Zhang Jiewen(Chn).

February 2003

It All Ends In Tears For Gail and Nathan

Valentine's Day turned into heartbreak for Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson at the Yonex All England Championships at the NIA in Birmingham.

Emms retreated behind the courts in tears after she and her Notts team mate crashed out in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.

The world's No.2 pair lost to Olympic and world champions Zhang Jun and Gao Ling 11-3 11-8, despite leading 8-6 in the second game.

February 2003

Double National Title Winner

Robert Adcock (16) of Ravenshead, a pupil of Colonel Frank Seely School and a member of Byron and Mansfield Junior Badminton Clubs performed outstandingly last weekend to win gold in both the National Under 17 Mens Doubles and Mixed Doubles events held at Slough.

Robert who has been a regular England International for the last 5 years and is now ranked in the Top 5 in Europe, only recovered from a 3 month injury less than 2 weeks before the event and exceeded all expectations given the length of his lay off. The Doubles title was won with his Yorkshire based partner Ed Foster and the Mixed with partner Jenny Wallwark who is also from Yorkshire.

Whilst Robert has won numerous medals in events all across the UK and Europe during recent years these were his first individual National Titles. Earlier in the season he won individual medals for England in Germany and Sweden as well as an England team gold in the Danish Cup in Copenhagen.

Robert is now looking forward to the European Under 17 team Championships to be held in Denmark after Easter and is hoping to lead the Nottinghamshire Schools Under 17 squad to the National team championships to be held at Nottingham University during the Easter break.

Several other Notts Juniors performed really well at last weekends Nationals – Christopher Adcock (13 – Roberts younger brother) reached the quarter final stage of all 3 events along with Neil Ryves (16) from Worksop. Ruth Coleman from Colwick won a Bronze in the Ladies Doubles and Peter Mills (14) reached the quarter final in the Mens singles.

February 2003

Great Start For Jenny

Jenny Ward, from Eakring, a pupil at the Nottingham High School for Girls, has enjoyed a superb start to 2003.

In early January, the talented 15-year-old Mansfield club player won the Welsh National U-15 singles and doubles titles in her home city of Cardiff.

The following weekend she repeated the feat at U-17 level, a fantastic achievement for the Notts Schools County player.

To cap what had been a marvellous month, Jenny entered the Welsh Senior Nationals and stunned the senior players by reaching the semi-finals of the singles before losing to UK No.1 Kelly Morgan.

She then went on to the last four of the doubles, losing to top Welsh seniors, Muggeridge and Gallop. They represented Wales in the Commonwealth games in Manchester last year.

Jenny will be hoping to continue her good run for Notts in the U-17 National Team Championships at Nottingham University over Easter.

See also Notts Triumph at Welsh Nationals

January 2003

Notts Triumph at Welsh Nationals

Our picture shows Jenny Ward of Notts, who won the U17 and U19 Singles, U17 Doubles and was runner-up in the U19 Doubles in the Welsh Nationals at Wrexham earlier this month.  Also shown is Grant Weir of Derbyshire, who was the U17 Triple Champion.  Grant is currently a student at Bilborough College in Nottinghamshire.

See also Great Start For Jenny

January 2003

Nottinghamshire Sports Review of the Year - 2002
Life Time Achievement Award
for Gill Attewell

At the 11th Nottinghamshire Sports Review of the Year, held at County Hall on 16th January 2003, Gill Attewell was added to the county’s Roll of Honour for her services to Junior Badminton.

Gill has spent an incredible 50 years in badminton during the past 25 years of which she has been the inspiration, chair and secretary of Sunrise Junior Badminton Club.

It was way back in 1975 when in collaboration with her late husband, John, and Frank Hardy, the Nottinghamshire Junior Badminton Association was formed. This new Association brought together the few autonomous junior clubs playing in Nottinghamshire at the time and led to the formation of a junior league structure with three age levels.

Today Nottinghamshire is the only county in the country with a thriving independent Junior Association, the Association now having 18 affiliated junior badminton clubs.

Gill has made Sunrise Junior Badminton Club one of the most successful in the county and she has been completely dedicated to ensuring that junior players across Nottinghamshire have an opportunity to develop.

In addition to running a successful club Gill has been the inspiration behind the Sunrise Junior Badminton Tournament, which has been on the Nottinghamshire junior events calendar for as long as anybody can remember. This tournament takes place at the end of the season and is eagerly looked forward to by the young players of all the junior clubs. The tournament has raised hundreds of pounds for charities including Children in Need.

Congratulations to Gill, for a well deserved honour, from everybody associated with Nottinghamshire Badminton.

The honour to Gill was not the end of the badminton story at the Sports Review of the Year. In two other categories Nottinghamshire Schools’ Badminton were represented in the final three nominations for ‘Administrator of the Year’ and ‘School Team of the Year’.

Paul Adcock, Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Schools’ Badminton Association, reached final nomination for Administrator of the year and the Schools’ Under 15 Squad reached final nomination for School Team of the year.

In the short time Paul has been Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Schools’ Badminton Association he has reorganised the administration and coaching schedules to the advantage of both the parents and the children.  This is now arguably the strongest Schools Squad Nottinghamshire has ever had with some fourteen of the youngsters being selected by the Badminton Association of England to attend a World Class Start cell.

The Schools’ Under 15 Squad remained unbeaten all season and retained their champion status in winning the Shires League (consisting of 8 neighbouring counties). More impressively they won the National Team Championships. The squad included 6 England squad members and the Welsh No 1 and National Champion.

Congratulations to you all.

Mike Kingsland - Notts BA

January 2003

Big Lars a Winner with Four Counties

A Four Counties coaching seminar at the David Lloyd Tennis Centre and attended by coaches from Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire was a big success.

Two of England's top international team coaches gave the latest practical and theoretical ideas and information to the 45 coaches.  This will enable these coaches to pass on the most recent information from the BAofE to the players in the Four Counties, thus improving their overall playing ability.

Lars Sologub, who is also the British Olympic badminton performance director, was guest speaker, and gave an extremely interesting insight into the latest coaching techniques, and tactical analysis of players and their opponents.

The important issue of child protection was discussed, and all present welcomed the fact that in future coaches would be vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau, and be issued with certificates, and identification.

After lunch Lars Sofogub and Mike Adams gave practical demonstrations, with particular emphasis on the latest techniques in playing the backhand shots.

Elaine Spray, the Nottinghamshire Badminton Development Office, put the event together, and obtained Lottery funding of £2,450 to run the course.

Ron Dennis
From an article in the January 2003 edition of Badminton magazine 

January 2003

14th January 2003
Final Loss

Cotgrave’s Nathan Robertson and Hertfordshire's Gail Emms lost out in the mixed doubles final of the Siam Cement Thailand Open in Bangkok. 

They were beaten 11-4, 8-11, 11-0 by the Chinese pairing of Qiqiu CHEN and Tingting ZHAO.

13th January 2003
Nathan Through

Cotgrave's Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms from Hertfordshire reached the mixed doubles final of the Siam Cement Thailand Open in Bangkok.

The top seeds and world's number two pair beat Olympic gold medallist Tony Gunawan and his wife Etty Tantri of the United States, 11-8, 11-4.

11th January 2003
Brush Off

Cotgrave’s Nathan Robertson and Hertfordshire's Gail Emms brushed aside Thailand's Sudket Prapakamol and Kulchala Worawichitchaikul 11-5 13-11 to set up a clash against Tony Gunawan and Etty Tantri for a place in the final of the Thailand Open in Bangkok.

6th January 2003
Nightmare for Nathan

Cotgrave's Nathan Robertson had a nightmare trip to the Thailand Open.  His flight was delayed for ten hours and there was no time for a practice.  To make matters worse his luggage went missing.  "Nathan is really tired, is in a bad mood and hasn't any kit," said his playing partner Gail Emms.

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