After their quarter final win against Ibiza, Madrid faceed rivals Rinconada in the smei final of the Badminton Spain Club League.
 
The first leg last weekend in Madrid the return leg on the 27th March.

A tough team sheet for both teams here as both teams although strong contain several foreigners from the UK, China, Indonesia, Singapore, and only a maximum of 3 of the 7 ties in the team match can be played with the foreigners, so a lot of time spent pre-match attempting to second guess how the other team might play their combination and trying to steal an edge from the start with your own line up.

Top Danish badminton player Kenneth Jonassen has been named as the new Great Britain and England men's singles badminton coach.

The reigning European champion and former world No2, who will attend this week's All-England Championships in Birmingham as Danish coach, begins the role on 12 July.

The 35-year-old said he hopes to "develop new badminton talent that can compete with the best of China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea and Denmark".

RVBA Head Coach Richard Vaughan commented "I think Kenneth is a great appointment. I trained with Kenneth for two years in Copenhagen, the professionalism he will bring to the set up will be a huge bonus to the GB players. It will certainly give them the opportunity to maximise themselves".

The new logo for Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games even in 2014 has been revealed by the Commonwealth Games organisers.

The logo, which features red, yellow, blue and green parts of a circle around a letter G, was revealed at the city’s Clyde Auditorium - which will be the host of the games’ weightlifting competition.

The Scottish CG organisers claim the logo is based around the idea of time, data and measurement. It will now be used in promoting the event and attracting sponsorship to help fund the Games in four years time.

The Badminton All England Championships dates back to the 10 March 1898 when Mr Percy Buckley, secretary of the Guildford Badminton Club, organised the first ever Open Badminton Tournament. This tournament was held at the Drill Hall in the centre of Guildford and was a one-day event with only doubles being played. 

This first badminton tournament was such a success that the English Badminton Association decided to hold their own event the following year, with the first official Badminton Championships on 4 April 1899 at the London Scottish Drill Hall in Westminster.

The width of the net was only 16 feet and the posts had canes protruding above them to aid judgement whether the shuttle had past over the net. The lines of the courts were chalked out on the morning of the tournament before play commenced.

Team Bath badminton player Josh Green won the 2010 Yonex English National Under-19 Badminton Championships in Milton Keynes on Sunday.

Green defeated the number one seed Toby Penty in a thrilling semi-final before beating the joint-third seed Ben Tier (also Team Bath) in the final.

His thrilling semi-final was the longest match of the competition, finishing 22-24, 21-19, 25-23.

The Team Bath player then beat Tier 21-14, 19-21, 21-9 to win the men's title.

He was awarded his trophy from Derek Batchelor, the vice-chair of Badminton England.

The RVBA's Richard Vaughan commented "Its great to see two Team Bath players doing well. I trained with Josh in Bath and hes really developed under the eye of Peter Bush at the Team Bath training centre. Along with Ben Tier, Tim Stranks, and Chris Coles at the training centre the group is looking very strong at the moment.

This weeks selected Badminton Wales Club is the Arches Badminton club in Cardiff.

Arches is a well established badminton club in Cardiff. We run two club nights each week as follows:

Tuesdays 8.30-10.30 Jubilee Hall, Welsh Institute of Sport, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Thursdays 7.00-10.00 Howells School, Llandaff, Cardiff

The club uses feather shuttles and have about 40 members. They have mens, ladies and mixed teams in the Cardiff and District Badminton League.

Anyone intesrested should visit the Cardiff Arches Badminton Club website

The RVBA (supported by Memory Lane Cakes) Sarah Thomas has been seeded ¾ for the German Junior Open to be held in Berlin from the 10th to the 14th of March.

The German Junior Badminton Open is recognised as one of the World’s strongest Junior events with only the World Junior Badminton Championships receiving a stronger entry list.

In the first round the Head sponsored player is up against Anna Buchert from Germany.


The draw and results for the German Junior Badminton Open can be followed here!

Today it was announced which players are eligible to participate at the 2010 Yonex European Badminton Championships in Manchester, England.

40 European countries can be represented in Manchester - but it all depends on whether the national associations decide to accept the invitations send out today. Badminton Wales has qualified players in all events.

Badminton Europe today announced which players are qualified for the 2010 Yonex European badminton Championships in "Phase 1".

Craig Goddard and fellow professionals formed the Scotland Badminton Players’ Union on Friday as they launched a petition for a Vote of No Confidence in the Badminton Scotland management.

The development comes off the back of what the players see as their inexplicable omission from last week’s Thomas Cup squad and all the players have joined forces to provide a voice for the country’s players.

In last week’s News, Scotland’s number-two ranked player, Goddard, spoke of his fury after Badminton Scotland left him out of the big team event in Warsaw and he insists that was the final straw in a long battle with the governing body which has seen him and many other players overlooked for tournaments and crucial funding in recent years.

Quarter final stage second leg this weekend for the home match Madrid against Ibiza in the Spanish Badminton League. This match pretty much secured after a comfortbale 5-2 win in the first leg.

The second leg was played in Torrejon without Alistair required to compete this week, Richard Vaughan and Sarah Thomas made up the foreign contingent of the team.

Fielding a sligtly weaker team Madrid won the leg 4-3 and progress now to the semi finals against Badminton Rinconada from Seville, Richard Vaughan's previous club and Spanish Badminton Champions for the past 5 seasons.