Another successful tournament for the Malta Employees Sports Association (MESA) Badminton team that participated in this year's edition of the World Company Sports Games +40 Category, held in La Baule-Escoublac in France. The team managed to win the silver medal after making it to the final. Read: MESA team makes it to the final In the [...]
Malta has won the bid to organise the 20th Edition of the Games of the Small States of Europe in 2023. This was officially revealed today during the GSSE General Assembly taking place right now in Montenegro. Having such games organised in our country is always positive news for our local sports scene. This will [...]
The Malta MESA Team has made it to the final in this year's edition of the World Company Sports Games which are being currently held in La Baule-Escoublac in France. They are participating in the 40+ Category. The team started the group phase and finished second in their group and then passed to the second phase [...]
Kenneth Vella, Sandra Spiteri, Aldo Polidano, Stephen Ferrante, Jacqueline Degiovanni, Jo' Anne Cassar and Edmond Abela together with other athletes from other sports are representing the Malta Employees Sports Association in the World Company Games that are being organised in Le Baule in France. The Maltese Badminton Team is participating in the Mixed + 40 [...]
The delegates have decided. Badminton will continue to be played with 3 games to 21 after the proposal wasn't backed by two thirds of the delegates. 129 delegates out of 252 votes cast were in favour but this was not enough to make the change. Another proposal to reduce on-court coaching and to introduce timeouts [...]
Badminton has reached a crossroads and big decisions will be taken tomorrow and Saturday at the BWF Annual General Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. 189 Member Associations will be gathering to discuss the future of badminton and the proposals for change. The changes proposed are: A new and enhanced scoring system (based on 5 games to [...]
21-19, 21-19. The score says it all. A very close final between Sadowski/Ferrante vs Ellul/Polidano yesterday for the title of the 5th Ranking Tournament this season. Well done to Fiorella and Stephen for the win, the four participants for the match and a big well done for all the participants for another successful Ranking Tournament [...]
Fiorella Marie Sadowski and Stephen Ferrante will be defending the Mixed Doubles win tomorrow against Michaela Ellul and Aldo Polidano. The game will start at 7:15 and will be played at the Cottonera Sports Complex. Sadowski and Ferrante had to face Rodney and Eleanor Abela in the quarter finals 21-9,21-12 and then had another challenge [...]
The body, the mind and the heart. Is that what coaching is about? How will we effect children and athletes in their life? How do you motivate athletes? What legacy will you leave as a coach? Are you thinking of starting coaching and would like to understand better this great role? This and much more [...]
5 young female players have participated in this year's Merano Junior Tournament and managed to gain a great deal of experience and successes back home. Francesca Clark, Annmarie Bezzina, Eleanor Abela, Maya Xuereb and Elenia Haber were the players who were part of this year's tournament and they had very good performances with Francesca, Annmarie [...]
