COUNTY ELIGIBILITY PROPOSAL The S&Y Board considered all the feedback received following our distribution of our original proposal, which was all positive, and after taking into account suggested amendments from counties agreed on the wording. The key principles were to come up with a proposal which was simple to implement, police and...

Harry Wright won the first tournament on the 2009-2010 Badminton Europe Circuit when he triumphed in the Panvita RSL Slovenia International. Picture: Alan Spink

Team England were forced to settle for sixth place in the Li Ning Sudirman Cup after going down 3-2 to Denmark for the second time in three months in their play-off match in Guangzhou tonight. Picture and copyright: badmintonphoto.com

The 2009 World Senior Badminton Championships are to be hosted by the Spanish Federation in Punta Umbria from 27th September to 3rd October. The World Senior Championships is the most prestigious and elite tournament for Veteran players, previously hosted in Taipei (2007) and Kuala Lumpur (2004), 2009 brings the opportunity to...

Team England take on old rivals Denmark tonight in the contest to decide fifth place in the Sudirman Cup in Guangzhou. Rajiv Ouseph comes in for his first match of the tournament but Elizabeth Cann is still injured.

Team England, who are preparing for tomorrow's fifth-place play-off at the Sudirman Cup following their 4-1 win over Japan last night, have two home internationals against Japan to look forward to in October. But right now they are focusing on a revenge match with Denmark in tomorrow's Cup play-off. Pictures and copyright: badmintonphoto.com