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.

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

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".

Mid Glamorgan Badminton Team Defeated Wocestershire III 9-6 to top Division 3 in the English ICC Badminton Championship.

A great win for the Mid Glamorgan Badminton team who were without some of their top players but were boosted by Welsh International Vikki Jones, fresh back from the Uber Cup in Poland.

Keep an eye on Gareth Days blog for more news on the Mid Glam County Team.

The 3rd day of play at this year’s World Badminton Team Championships started with the Badminton Wales Men’s team taking on Portugal in Group F. The Men’s team took all 5 games in 2 hours 31 minutes which gave them the 5‐0 win against the Portuguese team and ending the group stage in 3rd position.

The Badminton Wales Ladies team faced the seeds of the group Bulgaria and put in a good performance but Bulgaria came
out on top 5‐0 winning the group with Wales taking 2nd place, with two very good wins against Hungary and Slovakia for the women’s team.

The RVBA players have been updating their blogs while away at the badminton tournament, view them in the badminton blog section.

Full results from the Badminton World Team Championships can be found here!

The World Team Badminton Championships Day 2 kicked off this morning at 1000 with the Mens Badminton Wales Team up against Group seeds France.

The Badminton Wales Womens Team were up against Hungary Team on Wednesday.

Click here for all the results from the World Badminton Team Championships!

The World Badminton Team Championships kicked off today in Warsaw, Poland, with both Badminton Wales Mens Team and Womens Team playing their first matches. The Welsh mens team took on the Ukraine, and the Welsh Womens team played Slovakia a team they would hope to beat.

The Badminton Wales mens team were first up at 1000 this morning against the Ukraine at the Polish National Badminton Stadium at Arena Ursynow.

51 teams have travelled to the Polish capital of Warsaw to compete in the 2010 European Men’s & Women’s Team Championships. 26 men’s teams and 25 women’s team are there to try and win a medal, and also qualify for the prestigious Thomas & Uber Cup badminton finals in May.
 
The home stars are ready to put up a good performance in front of their home fans.

The following players from Badminton Wales have been selected to travel to Poland on Monday to compete in the Thomas and Uber Cup, the equivalent of the Mens and Womens World Badminton Team Championships.