6 February, 2024
The Nationwide Badminton League has formally made its return to competitors after seven years away from the court docket.
With 4 groups within the combine, the model new 2023/2024 pilot season runs between December 2023 and March 2024 and explores a sustainable method of making participating aggressive and fan alternatives.
And with three totally different victors over three days of motion, the competitors is already heating up.
College of Nottingham 5-0 Excessive Wycombe Efficiency
The 2023/2024 season kicked off on 4 December because the College of Nottingham placed on a dominant exhibiting over Excessive Wycombe Efficiency.
The Midlands-based workforce gained all 5 of their matches to take the victory, with Harry Goode, Sian Kelly and Johnnie Torjussen doubling up on wins.
Goode and Kelly opened issues up with an 11-4 11-8 11-4 win over Isum Arachchige and Natalia Mitchell earlier than Kirby Ngan beat Freya Patel-Redfearn within the ladies’s singles.
Patel-Redfearn made an excellent comeback after a disappointing first sport however was finally downed 11-0 11-8 11-9 by Ngan.
Torjussen gained his first match of the day within the males’s singles earlier than linking up with Goode within the doubles to beat Adam Burden and Harley Towler 11-8 11-4 11-8.
In the meantime, Kelly and Chloe Dennis gained the ladies’s doubles in opposition to Mitchell and Patel-Redfearn.
Excessive Wycombe Efficiency 1-4 Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership
Excessive Wycombe noticed their second lack of the Nationwide Badminton League come by the hands of Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership on 2 January.
Felix Wright received Wimbledon’s debut off to a robust begin with males’s singles victory over Arachchige earlier than Georgia Bland triumphed over Patel-Redfearn in 4 video games.
Bland gained her second match of the night within the ladies’s doubles alongside Abigail Holden as Toby Penty and Hin Lung Lee fought again from one sport all the way down to win the boys’s doubles 8-11 11-10 11-5 11-10.
Harley Towler and Jessica Pugh ended Wycombe spirits on a excessive with combined doubles victory over Penty and Holden, with a hard-fought victory in 5 video games.
Towler and Pugh got here from behind to win 6-11 Sept. 11 11-9 11-7 11-8 in an excellent comeback.
Wimbledon Racquets and Health Membership 2-3 Group Skyfall
Group Skyfall edged a hard-fought 3-2 victory over Wimbledon of their opening check of the Nationwide Badminton League on 29 January.
Skyfall’s Nadeem Dalvi triumphed over Felix Wright within the males’s singles after a five-game battle in entrance of a sell-out crowd.
Dalvi took the spoils within the first sport earlier than falling behind, finally recovering and successful the ultimate two video games for the general victory as Skyfall’s Ethan van Leeuwen and Harry Wakefield gained the boys’s doubles.
Wimbledon made their mark within the ladies’s occasions as Alexandra Oprisan beat Aahna Bhatia 11-9 11-5 11-8 and Bland and Holden took their second ladies’s doubles victory of the collection by triumphing over Lucy Brierley and Annie Lado.
With two factors apiece, all of it got here all the way down to the combined doubles and Skyfall’s Annie Lado and Rory Easton weren’t happening and not using a battle, securing the win in 4 video games and handing their workforce the general victory.
Group Skyfall subsequent tackle the College of Nottingham on 20 February earlier than all groups take to the court docket in a last battle to find out the standings on 18 March.
