enquiries@badmintonscotland.org.uk May 2011 13 UNDER 15 FOCUS
HALLWINS FOUR NATIONS QUADRANGULAR
Hannah Laing & Megan Richardson
disappointed after losing to Hjelm of Sweden. Kirsty Gilmour (seeded 9/16) then secured a
comfortable win in the girls’ singles against Kuuba of Estonia. This left Rebekka Findlay to face the tough challenge of facing No. 2 seed Romina Gabdullina of Russia. Rebekka struggled initially to get into the match,
but at 13-11 and then 15-14 up in the second set looked on course to force a decider. But the much more experienced Russian raised her level when it mattered, to eventually win in two. The last match of the day paired Hannah Laing
andMegan Richardson against the Bulgarian opponents of Stoeva & Stoeva. The Bulgarian girls proved to be too physically strong for Hannah and Megan, winning in two games. The next morning putMichael and Caitlin against
the seeded French pair of Grosjean and Fontaine in the mixed doubles. After losing a close first game, Michael and Caitlin were unable to maintain their level and the French took the win. Kirsty then progressed to the last 16 of the girls’
singles with a routine victory over Nystrom of Finland. Patrick andMichael were next on court against
the French seeded pair of Grosjean & Corvee. In the team event, Patrick andMichael had lost 21-18 in the third game to the same pair, so hopes were high that they could spring a surprise, but they didn’t perform to the same level and lost in two games to the eventual bronze medallists. Emma and Caitlin then had a comfortable victory
over the Icelandic pairing of Johannesdottir & Arnadottir to progress to the last 16. The very last match of the day saw Kirsty take
on the No. 5/8 seed, Voytsekh of the Ukraine. Victory would put Kirsty in the quarter-finals and a real chance of a medal the next day. The Ukrainian girl won the first game 21-16, but when Kirsty led 19-16 in the second against a rapidly tiring oppo- nent, hopes were high that she could pull off the win. But, unforced errors at the end of the match cost Kirsty dear and she eventually lost 23-21. This only left Emma Cook and Caitlin Pringle in
the girls’ doubles. They were up against the seeded German pairing of Herttrich &Wienefeld in the last 16 the following day. Caitlin and Emma fought hard losing 21-16 21-16 to the eventual bronze medal winners.
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Above: Caitlin Pringle and Kirsty Gilmour. Below:Matthew Carder
MAUCHLINE’S Adam Hall was Scotland’s star at the Four Nations Under 15 Quadrangular atMilton Keynes earlier this month, winning the boys’ singles and reaching the semi-finals in both doubles events as well as helping the Scots to second place in the team event. In the boys’ singles Hall reached the final without
dropping a game, beating David King 21-16 21-18, Tsung FongMo 21-12 26-24 andMatthew Clare 21-14 21-13. In the final he survived a first-game scare to beat
England’s Ben Lane 9-21 21-14 21-10. Two of Scotland’s other hopes, Sean Leith and Jacob Reynolds (both Stonehaven) reached the last eight. In the boys’ doubles Hall and Edinburgh’s Alistair Gordon
reached the semi-finals by beating FongMo andMatthew Pritchard 21-12 21-14 before falling to eventual champions Lane andMatthew Clare 18-21 21-17 21-13. In the other half of the draw Robert Clark (Mauchline)
and Reynolds also reached the semi-finals before a 22-20 21-18 defeat to Adam Stewart andMatthew Vacher ended their hopes. And in the mixed Hall and Kirstie Baird scored two wins
on the way to the last four before losing to Lane and Jess Pugh 21-13 21-9 while Clark and Sarah Findlay (Erskine) and Gordon and JulieMacPherson (Edinburgh) both reached the quarter-finals. Baird also reached the semi-finals of the girls’ doubles
with Isabella Hatt by beating team-mates Findlay and MacPherson 21-17 21-19. But in the semi-finals they fell to Amy George and Nicola Gresty 21-18 21-5. In the team event Scotland defeated both Ireland and
Wales 7-2 but once again had to settle for second best over- all when they lost the deciding contest with England 6-3. Hall won both his doubles matches with Gordon and
Baird in the win over Ireland while Holly Newall won a tough three-game singles as well as another three-game contest in winning the doubles with Tammi Gibson. Jacob Reynolds also won a singles as well as his doubles with Robert Clark while Leith came from a game down to win his singles. AgainstWales Hall and Gordon gave Scotland a winning
start and a win for Newall and Gibson, as well as singles victory for Leith, Reynolds,MacPherson and Findlay sent Scotland on their way, with Hall and Baird finishing off the 7-2 triumph. Against England the young Scots won the first two
contests through Hall and Gordon and Reynolds and Clark. But England hit back to take the two girls’ doubles and make it 2-2. Leith andMacPherson then lost their top singles to give England a 4-2 lead and when Clark lost to Clare 21-16 23-21 the home team gained a winning lead. But Newall kept up the fighting spirit with a hard-fought 21-17 16-21 21-19 win over Gresty before Hall and Baird were edged out 24-22 23-21 by Lane and Pugh.
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