Lothians players featured prominently in the later stages of this year’s Yonex East of Scotland Gold Badminton Championships at the Jack Kane Centre.
Competitors travelled from Orkney in the north to Carlisle the south and there was a particularly large entry in the men’s singles where Danny Robson fought back from a set down to take his first East of Scotland title after a near hour long battle with Angus Meldrum, winner for the past two years.
The women’s singles final saw top seed, Sophie Ford, beat Lothian player, Qing Yang Xiao who had overcome the seed second, Jaagruti Mannem, 24-22 in the semi-final.
In the men’s doubles the results went according to seeding with Callum Crangle and Calum Flockhart taking the title by defeating Lothian players Richard Adams and Torben Trapp 21-9 21-10.
By contrast the women’s doubles final was contested by two unseeded couples with
Amy Craig and Madelyn Geng beating
Jody Groundwater and Yin Luo 21-9 17-21 21-16.
The mixed doubles final was an all-Lothian affair with two unseeded couples making it through. Torben Trapp, playing his second final of the day and Tsui-Yee Lau ran out winners against Alastair Campbell and Rachel Maclean.
Winners of the consolation events for players who lost their first match in the main event, received prizes sponsored by Gannon Sports and were:
Men’s singles – Jiang Xiaozhu; Women’s singles – Xuan Zhao; Men’s doubles – Gregor Brunton and Jacob Glass; Mixed doubles – Euan Campbell and Lanna Campbell
Prizes were presented by local star and triple world Masters champion, Christine Black, who is pictured track suited on the right of the winners; group.
