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Juniors took centre stage in July with Michael Pang triumphing in a dramatic males’s singles ultimate on the YONEX All England Junior Badminton Championships 2023.
Dillon Chong partnered India’s Taarini Suri to blended doubles silver as Chloe Dennis and Leona Lee gained girls’s doubles silver.
The most effective of the para badminton crop have been in Sheffield in August as Dan Bethell beat long-time rival Pramod Bhagat on the 4 Nations Para Badminton Worldwide.
Elsewhere, there have been silver medals for Jack Shephard and Rachel Choong within the SH6 blended doubles, and Krysten Coombs within the SH6 males’s singles.
David Ng and James Track reached the quarter-finals of the 2023 European U17 Championships knocking out the fourth seeds en path to the final eight.
Jack Shephard impressed on the European Para Badminton Championships, successful two golds on the ultimate day.
He partnered Rachel Choong to SH6 blended doubles’ gold earlier than successful SH6 males’s singles title as Dan Bethell added one other gold to his assortment.
Zach Russ and Rory Easton made their World Championships debut in Copenhagen, with English involvement ending the second spherical.
Within the juniors, Oliver Butler gained two silver medals on the Danish Junior Cup, successful blended doubles silver alongside Chloe Dennis, earlier than partnering Jia Bin Lee within the males’s doubles.
September noticed Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith declare their first event win since 2020 with victory on the YONEX Belgian Worldwide.
In the meantime, Jim Garrett stormed to double gold in a glittering outing on the Masters Senior World Badminton Championships in Jeonju, Korea with males’s doubles and blended doubles wins within the 75+ age class.
The month rounded out with England ending 14th within the World Junior Combined Staff Championships in Spokane earlier than Robin Harper and Harry Wakefield beat high seeds within the particular person competitors originally of October.
The center of the month noticed titles gained on two continents on the identical weekend as Harry Huang gained the boys’s singles on the Egypt Worldwide.
On the Dutch Open, Callum Hemming and Estelle van Leeuwen gained blended doubles gold, whereas Zach Russ and Rory Easton triumphed within the males’s doubles.
Huang then backed up his win in Cairo by taking the Hungarian Worldwide title firstly of November.
On the SCC Champion of Champions, Avon’s Magda-Sabrina Lozniceriu struck gold for the primary time, making it third time fortunate within the girls’s doubles with associate Susanna Ogden.
Leona Lee stormed to the ladies’s singles title on the Spanish Worldwide as Nadeem Dalvi reached the boys’s singles showpiece in Blanca Dona.
There have been three causes for Rachel Choong to have a good time as she gained her fourth consecutive SH6 girls’s singles, blended doubles and ladies’s doubles titles on the UK Para Badminton Championships in Glasgow.
In December, Ben Lane and Sean Vendy reached the boys’s doubles finals on the Syed Modi Worldwide in India whereas Nadeem Dalvi scooped the South Africa Worldwide in Cape City.
On the identical weekend, Greg and Jenny Mairs and Cholan Kayan reached their respective finals on the Welsh Open.
Johnnie Torjussen introduced his retirement, going out because the reigning English Nationwide males’s singles champion.
Dan Bethell concluded the yr in dominant kind not dropping a sport on his approach to safe an excellent gold on the Fazza Dubai Para Badminton Worldwide.
All eyes will now flip to 2024 with the Olympics and Paralympics on the horizon.
