Polidano surprises Sadowski to win the final Yanika Polidano surprised Fiorella Sadowski to grab the 4th Ranking Tournament this season. Winning against Michaela Ellul and Sarah Azzopardi, second seeded Polidano a ticket for the final against top seed Fiorella Sadowski, who eliminated Elenia Haber and Rebecca Spiteri in previous rounds. The final was played on [...]
A challenge of top ranks Last Saturday and Sunday we have seen the rest of the ranking tournament rounds up to the finals. The finals will be played tomorrow starting at 7:15pm at Cottonera Sports Complex. In the Women's Singles Fiorella-Marie Sadowski swiftly qualified to the final after winning two matches in the main draw, [...]
Cassar and Abela not strong enough against the Eastern Europeans Yesterday, Mark Abela and Sam Cassar continued their experience at the Israel Junior 2018 and started their commitment with the second round of the Mixed Doubles where Sam Cassar, paired with Danish Emilie Renee Bjerg Jensen lost against Russian pair Stanislav Proskura and Vilena Asfandiiarova [...]
Increased participation and now to the main draw Today we see the start of the main draw of the 4th Ranking Tournament - Singles this season with matches starting at 1pm. We start with the Men's Singles first round with 6 matches seeing different level of play giving more and more experience to younger players [...]
A win and a good match by Abela Matthew Abela, Sam Cassar and Mark Abela are currently participating in two different international tournaments. Matthew Abela participating in the Czech KaBal International Series and Sam Cassar and Mark Abela in the Israel Junior 2018. Yesterday was an intensive day for all players as they managed to [...]
Abela participates in the Czech KaBaL International Karviná 2018 A lot to follow internationally tomorrow. Apart from the much awaited All England, part of the HSBC BWF World Tour Super 1000, the participation of Mark Abela and Sam Cassar in the Israel Junior 2018, we will also have National Men's Singles Champion Matthew Abela to [...]
A busy week in the local and international scene Never a dull moment lately at Badminton Malta with the latest achievement qualifying at the European Championships with Matthew Abela and local competitions going on together with international competitions. Locally the Mixed Teams League, Ranking Tournament and three players part of International Tournaments. Two of them, [...]
Encouraging number of participants With a good number of participants for the 4th Ranking Tournament this season, we started the competition on court last Wednesday with the first round of qualifications. Klara O'Berg and youngsters Francesca Clark and Alisha Gauci Azzopardi passed the first stage. Tomorrow we will proceed with the qualifying stage of the [...]
Photo: Mark Phelan - Badminton Europe A great experience for young talent Another successful qualification for our country and this time one of ours is a protagonist! Matthew Abela has made it to this year's European Championships that will be held in Carolina Marin's Hall in Huelva Spain from the 24th-29th April. Abela is currently [...]
Rise of the Legend in cinemas soon... OK we don't want to get all the hopes up as it might not make it to the Maltese big screens but I'm sure it gives us all goosebumps just watching the trailer! The life of the legendary Lee Chong Wei will be featured in this movie called [...]
