We are pleased to announce that Deidre Laurens Jordaan from South Africa has been elected as the new Chair of the BCA Athletes’ Commission. Deidre is a highly respected badminton player and coach with extensive experience both on and off the court. She is committed to promoting the interests of…
Presenting the all new AirBadminton National Championships 2023 from 28-29 April in Centurion, Gauteng. Enter now and join in on the AirBadminton buzz! The top players from the event will be selected as the first ever players to represent South Africa at the African Beach Games in Tunisia in…
Unfortunately, the sport we play and love does not have a great name: Badminton. It sounds very fancy, and according to ChatGPT, these are some of the words that rhyme with it: Hamilton, Clinton, dintin, linten, singleton, printin.I recently heard a new parent incorrectly call it Ben10. Awkward. So, our…
The team progressed to the knock stages of the tournament after been undefeated in the group matches commenced this past Monday, which included a hard fought 4 – 1 win over Team Uganda. A convincing performance from our Players today saw them take out team Zambia in the…
Catch all the action of the Opening ceremony this Monday morning on the following link https://youtube.com/live/BpHAZWkBul0?feature=share YOUTUBE.COM All Africa Senior Championships 2023 - Opening Ceremony John Barrable Hall,Benoni,South Africa
The official Mascot for the All Africa Senior Championships 2023 has been revealed and he is a super-skilled badminton player called Dlovu. The different Zulu, Tswana, Sotho and Tsonga names for an elephant all mean 'the forceful one', or 'the unstoppable one'. The name of the mascot (Dlovu) derives…
25 days left for the biggest event in 2023, Benoni, South Africa 13 - 19 February Are you ready?
A week of exciting badminton came to a close in Cape Town with the finals of the Open been played yesterday afternoon. The inter-provincials commenced last Sunday with 12 teams taking part from afar afield as Gauteng, KZN and Namibia. Play was of a high standard and after the section…
Ranked 212 in the world, South African badminton player Robert Summers couldn’t have asked for a tougher assignment in his opening encounter at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham than facing the reigning world champion. Singapore’s Kean Yew Loh rallied from an early exit at the Tokyo Olympics last year to…
On Friday 29 July, Eden Badminton Federation in conjunction with BSA held a BWF Shuttle Time Training session at Carpe Diem School in George that caters for physical, learning and intellectually impared learners between the ages of 6 to 18 years. 4 educators from Carpe Diem participated as well…