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!
Our club runs every Sunday evening at 5pm to 7pm and we have 4 dedicated courts located at the National Badminton Academy at Scotstoun Leisure Centre.
We have members who have played the game for over 10 years to 10 months so our club is fully versatile with beginners to advanced tournament players. Simply turn up at the badminton building and ask to be directed to the courts booked by SEMSA or speak to a SEMSA coach.

The club is organised by SEMSA Trustees, Rocky Bagha & Gregory Thomas.

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

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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.