Badminton

Welcome to the SEMSA Badminton Club.

We are an open club for all individuals from all different backgrounds and ethnicity, and we bring together people from all over the world and share the lovely game of badminton! Whether you live here, or are visiting Scotland for afar, and enjoy playing badminton, then why not bring your skills to our club and mix with the likes of people from, Scotland, England, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Spain, Greece, Barbados, Nigeria or even as far as Australia!
Our Club has been around since 1989 at different venues and has welcomed almost every nationality possible!

Regular Mixed Badminton Meetups

SEMSA runs a mixed (male and female players) Badminton Group every Sunday from 5pm until 7pm at Scotstoun Sports Centre, Glasgow.

There is no joining fee for the group, but there is a cash charge of £6 for attending a session. You can come as an individual player and you will be assigned someone to play against at the meetings.

To join the Group, please contact Greg via WhatsApp on 07866 190137, you will be added to the SEMSA Badminton WhatsApp group where you will be kept up to date with the latest info, including any cancelations. Please message Greg with your name and telephone number to join and receive your welcome message with rules and regulations.

On entry to the sports centre, make your way to the badminton courts and look out for Greg to get you started. If asked, just mention that you are there with the SEMSA badminton group.

Please bring your own badminton racquet if you can, and wear appropriate attire with non-marking court shoes (trainers).

Mixed Doubles Badminton Tournament

February 2025

Congratulations to our winners and runners up at the SEMSA Mixed Doubles Badminton Tournament that took place on 9th Feb at the Sir Craig Reedie Badminton Centre.

Winners of the Competitive Players Group: Thomas Cairn and Dorothy Jim

Runners Up of the Competitive Players Group: Amanda Li and Shinyi Breslin

Winners of the Social Players Group: Victor Lee and Betty Leu

Runners Up of the Social Players Group: Lewis Cheung and Christina Cheung

To see more photos from the event, please click on the image below…

Men’s Badminton Tournament 2024

SEMSA held an over 16’s men’s badminton tournament on Saturday 16th November 2024 between 10am and 5pm. There was a fantastic turn out with 60 participants! Amazing games and players. Thanks to everyone who participated and made this a huge success for the organisation.

The Ai Yu cup 2024

(Scottish Chinese Team Championship)

SEMSA participated in the Ai Yu cup, the Scottish Chinese team championships for badminton, taking place in Edinburgh. The format was Sudirman cup style, where 2 clubs face off with a match for each discipline in MS, WS, MD, WD, XD. 10 clubs overall participated on the day, with a number of local businesses sponsoring the day and prizes.

Representing SEMSA was Shinyi Breslin, Amanda Li, Dorothy Jim, Kenneth Ip, Kiran Pamidimarry, and Rajdeep Katamreddy.

In the group stage with 2 groups of 5, top 2 got through to the top 4 playoffs.

In SEMSAs group we came third, with the top 2 eventually reaching the finals. We were able to take a Mixed Doubles win against 1 finalist and WD and XD against the other finalist.

For Group A 3rd Vs Group B 3rd place match, we won 4-1 overall giving us 5th place.

There were a great number of participants, and the format was good fun with plenty of cheering and support from teams in the hall. A successful event and a pleasure to represent SEMSA!

SEMSA Badminton Tournament 2023

SEMSA ANNUAL BADMINTON TOURNAMENT was held at The Sir Craig Reedie Badminton Centre on Saturday 16th December 2023. We had around 80 participants from all over Glasgow and various social and cultural backgrounds. We had five categories of participants and they were

Mixed Doubles
⁠Women’s Doubles competitive
⁠Women’s Doubles Social
⁠Men’s Doubles Competitive
⁠Men’s Doubles Social
Over 50s – extra category

The names and pictures of the winners are shown below .
We thank Badminton Scotland for the invaluable help in organising the tournament at SCRBC .
We also thank you our trustees who were there the whole day to help with organising and conducting the tournament. A special mention to Shinyi Breslin and Thomas Cairns for conducting the men’s doubles competition without any glitches.
Feedback from participants …
“ great competition with very good standards of players “
“ very well organised tournament “
“ The format of group stages and then knock out stage was a great idea as this gave participants few games to play “

Mixed Doubles Winners

Eko Sijabat and Jenny Tones

Mixed Doubles Runners-Up

Amanda Li and Amitabh Bhattacharya

Women’s Doubles (Competitive) Winners

Helen Furdyce and Rachel Denholm

Women’s Doubles (Competitive) Runners-Up

Pritty Mathew and Navya Saini

Men’s Doubles (Competitive) Winners

Arslan hall & Pravin Rajin

Men’s Doubles (Competitive) Runners-Up

Kiran and Faisal

Men’s Doubles (Social) Winners

Amitabh Bhattacharya and Razeeq

Men’s Doubles (Social) Runners-Up

Mohammad ibhrahim and Umair

Over 50s Winners

Brian McCaughey and Peter McCaughey

For more photos, please click on the camera icon below…

SEMSA Badminton Tournament 2022

The 2022 “open-to-all” badminton tournament took place on Sunday 22nd May 2022 at National Badminton Academy.

Tournament Categories were:

Men’s Singles
Men’s Doubles
Ladies Singles
Ladies Doubles
Mixed Doubles
Over 50’s Doubles
Under 16’s

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SEMSA Trustee (Rajani Tyagi)

BadmintonScotland Interview 2022

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Open Badminton Tournament Prize Giving 2021

The Open Badminton Tournament Prize Giving was held in Glasgow at the Ashoka Restaurant on 21st September 2021. Great to see Arun Khan (CEO Sporting Equals), Billy Garrett (Director of Sport – Glasgow Life), Kevin Ansell (Chairman of Sports Council for Glasgow), our friends from the armed forces, and past committee members as well as honoured guests. Special thanks to our host Sanjay and to Kash Taank for all your help and support.