The Malta Junior Nationals is an annual badminton tournament that brings together some of the islands' best young talent. The event, this year held at St. Aloysius College Sports hall, provides a platform for our junior players to showcase their abilities, compete against one another, and gain valuable experience. The tournament is open to juniors [...]
Badminton Malta Academy players travelled to Trencin, Slovakia to compete in the Badminton Europe U19 Circuit and the U15 Youth tournaments with coach Rodney Abela. Francesca Clark competed in the U19’s Women’s Singles draw where unfortunately she lost a close first round match against Lucia Vasatova 17-21, 18-21. In the Women’s Doubles event Francesca [...]
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Sam Cassar and Francesca Clark managed to stand on the podium after reaching Semi-Finals in the Mixed Doubles category at the Yonex Israel Open 2022. More wins in the pocket of the Maltese players make this another successful tournament for the Badminton Malta National Academy athletes. . 10 players from the Badminton Malta National [...]
"It's great to participate in an official international tournament but it's even more exciting to be on the podium!" The satisfaction in their eyes was evident. It was a successful tournament for the players from the Badminton Malta Academy Cadets who participated in the Zagreb Youth Open in the end of September. Four players travelled [...]
Badminton Malta national finals day kicked off with the Women’s Singles between last year’s winner Francesca Clark and Michaela Ellul. A little nervy start from both players with the scores moving point for point to 3-2 before Francesca put together a run of a few points to extend the lead to the break 11-2. Francesca [...]
Francesca Clark, together with one of her coaches in the National Badminton Academy, Patrick Cassar travelled to Portugal last week to be part of the U17 Portugal Open. Good results came to Francesca’s way when she managed to arrive to the semi-final together with her Portuguese partner Jessica Almeida and only bowing down to the [...]
3 Academy players took on their second international participation for 2021. Following their participation at the Zagreb youth and u17 tournament, the three players made a noticeable improvement in their performances and results. Francesca Clark and Isaac Ellul took part in the u17 tournament, where they played mixed doubles together. After a shaky first set, [...]
The 2nd of September saw a small contingent of the Maltese National Academy travel to Greece to play in the Hellas International, a Future Series in the European Badminton Circuit. Among them was Tokyo 2020 Star, Matthew Abela. His first match was against 5th seed Jan Louda from Czech Republic. "The game started slow with [...]
Badminton Malta is delighted to announce the appointment of Matthew Haynes as the National Academy’s new Head Coach and Technical Director. This is another exciting step for a more professional setup at the National Academy. As our own Matthew Abela has recently participated for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Badminton Malta is excited to [...]
