Badminton Europe Centre of Excellence Irish player Jonathan Dolan has proved to be too strong for Matthew Abela and has won 21-10 and 21-8. Though the score doesn't suggest a close game Abela had a good performance and had some close rallies. Read: Abela plays the Latvia International Dolan has continued his positive participation by [...]
Photo: Mark Phelan – Badminton Europe It's a Centre of Excellence challenge this morning at the Latvia International which is being played in Jelgava. Matthew Abela will be up to play against CoE colleague Irish Jonathan Dolan. It's going to be a very well participated competition with the organisers having to deal with 340 players [...]
We will be trying to get your closer to our members and we will be reproducing small interviews that we are doing with players, coaches, officials and even more. It's the first bio we are featuring Nigel Degaetano, 20, an MCAST Student currently undertaking a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management at MCAST. Nigel is [...]
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 [...]
