It was a busy month for our junior gamers, who took half in some large competitions each at residence and overseas.
The U19 and U17 Danish Cups had been attended by a small group of gamers chosen by Badminton England as a part of the brand new England Junior Efficiency Programme construction launched in the summertime.
There have been additionally some notable outcomes for our juniors in Slovenia and Eire, whereas the All England Junior Championships occurred in Birmingham earlier within the month.
There was additionally loads of England Junior Efficiency Programme Camps and actions for the U11 to U15 age teams all through August in addition to a joint EJPP camp for the U17 and U19s.
Here’s a round-up of August’s motion…
U17/U19 Danish Junior Cup
James Track’s run to the ultimate of the lads’s U17 singles was the spotlight of the motion at Hvidovre because the sixth seed battled previous Axel Boesen within the quarter finals earlier than defeating EJPP team-mate Anish Nair within the semi-finals.
Track was then defeated by Denmark’s Elias Martin within the last, whereas he additionally suffered defeat within the combined doubles semi-finals alongside Sofie Chong as they had been crushed by Jens Andersson and Julie Sogaard.
Chong additionally reached the semi-finals of the ladies’s doubles with Rajvi Parab, who herself reached the quarter finals of the ladies’s singles, the place Martha Ng and Aahna Bhatia fell on the spherical of 16.
Within the U19 competitors, among the many greatest performers had been Benjamin Horseman and Jia Bin Lee, who reached the quarter finals of the lads’s doubles, and Jason Ou, who put up a courageous battle towards prime seed William Bogebjerg within the quarter finals of the lads’s singles.
Lucy Brierley and Matilda Franklin acquired so far as the spherical of 16 within the girls’s doubles, whereas Franklin and Lee reached the identical stage of the combined doubles.
All England Junior Championships
There was glory for Sofie Chong and Lucy Dodd as they received the ladies’s doubles title in Birmingham by defeating prime seeds Mysha Omer Khan and Taabia Khan of the UAE 22-20 15-21 21-16 in an exciting match.
Chong and Dodd had crushed Carly Stevenson and Wales’ Saffron Morris 21-14 15-21 21-19 within the semi-finals whereas Shraddha Gopalakrishnan and Martha Ng had been simply unable to make it an all-English last in that competitors.
Ng misplaced out to the USA’s Suneri Chinthalapati within the semi-finals of the ladies’s singles and Tranthini Kumaravel was crushed 21-16 21-19 by Mysha Omer Khan in the identical match.
Dillon Chong was crushed alongside Zhi Lun Ong of Switzerland within the semi-finals of the lads’s doubles whereas James Track was a crushed finalist within the combined doubles alongside Poland’s Kaja Ziolkowska.
Benjamin Horseman and Jia Bin Lee reached the semi-finals of the lads’s doubles and Bhatia was narrowly crushed within the quarter finals of the ladies’s singles 24-22 17-21 12-21 by Chinthalapati.
TEM Slovenia Mirna U17 Worldwide
It was success throughout the board for our juniors in Mirna with the winners of all 5 tournaments having a St George’s flag subsequent to their identify.
Jaxon Clarke got here out on prime within the males’s singles as he defeated Hungary’s Zeno Agai 21-14 21-19 within the last with team-mate Hubert Ceglinski reaching the third spherical.
Within the girls’s singles, Mili Patel noticed off prime seed Ana Pranic of Croatia 21-19 21-19 earlier than she then doubled up within the girls’s doubles alongside Anna Stewart as they beat Serbian prime seeds Andrea Bogojevic and Teodora Latas 21-14 21-8.
There was extra success for Clarke as he received the lads’s doubles with Samuel Pulikkottil because of a good-looking 21-13 21-8 win over Polish pair Jakub Dulemba and Maciej Smarz.
Clarke and Patel then made it a hat-trick of titles in someday as they received the combined doubles by defeating Pulikkottil and Stewart 21-13 21-19 in what was an all-English last.
U19 Irish Open
Two English doubles pairings reached finals in Dublin, with Lucy Brierley and Matilda Franklin shedding out 21-16 21-18 to Scottish prime seeds Ishbel McCallister and Brooke Stalker.
Brierley then needed to settled for runner-up once more as she misplaced alongside Benjamin Horseman within the last of the combined doubles 21-15 24-22 towards Stalker and her associate, Lewis Coghill.
Horseman had earlier been crushed in an epic of a males’s doubles semi-final alongside Dillon Chong as they had been edged out 29-30 21-15 21-19 by French pairing Martin Bellot and Ewen Peres.
Daniel Wykes within the males’s was the decide of the singles performers as he reached the quarter finals the place he was crushed by Bellot 21-15 18-21 21-9.
England Junior Efficiency Programme Camps
Camps and actions had been delivered to U11, U13 and U15 age teams with an EJPP Power & Conditioning Coach in attendance to conduct health testing and soar testing and to steer warm-ups for periods.
The U11 camp aimed to develop the juniors’ capability to neutralise a rally when underneath strain, consistency in rallies whereas utilising all 4 corners of the court docket and an introduction to forecourt deception.
The U13 camp aimed to develop the juniors’ capability to introduce a sooner tempo and flatter type of singles gameplay, assemble rallies and attempting to develop tempo adjustments, enhance backhand containment from the rear court docket and doubles defence.
There was additionally a Working With Dad and mom in Sport Workshop delivered to a big guardian group with discussions targeted on life abilities, character improvement and the way that hyperlinks into the EJPP efficiency behaviours.
The U15 camp concerned senior nationwide squad teaching using netplay in singles with a concentrate on the spin web and bettering the flexibility to spin off a spin web in addition to using rotation and defending as a pair in doubles.
The U11 and U13 camps each delivered a singles match whereas the U15s additionally had an EJPP Wednesday Coaching Camp that regarded to enhance particular work areas of gamers for the Junior workforce competing on the U15 European championships.
This concerned using senior sparrers, senior nationwide workforce and U17 juniors to try to elevate the depth and high quality of coaching and matchplay.
This served as a great coaching block earlier than the U15 European Junior Championships to construct relationships and strategies of working.
EJPP U17 / U19 Joint Camp
Singles coaching evaluation
Following on from some constructive performances on the All England Junior, and in preparation for Danish Cup, the singles gamers labored on quite a lot of themes on the Nationwide Badminton Centre that from observations from the All England Junior, wanted some focus or weren’t being proven in matches.
These included some pace adjustments through the rallies and anticipation in rallies in relation to the almost certainly reply from an opponent. Focus was additionally on turning the shuttle and attempting to play extra counterattack in defence.
The gamers had been additionally in a position to practice alongside and combine at factors throughout the Camp with the senior singles squad, which was an awesome publicity.
Doubles coaching evaluation
At this camp on the Nationwide Badminton Centre, gamers had alternatives to observe working extra to place shuttles again into court docket with excessive strain assault, additionally integrating with the senior squad.
There was additionally a big concentrate on matchplay to assist gamers put together for upcoming tournaments, together with the Danish Cup.
Different focuses for the gamers included key practices across the web and mid-court to encourage them to commerce and interact extra in these areas.
The target was to see longer rallies when enjoying right here with elevated court docket protection, ensuring to have dynamic motion transferring on to the shuttle and to play with margins acceptable for the scenario.
Gamers had been additionally challenged to hyperlink photographs ensuring that when seeking to be early on the shuttle and inject tempo, or look to assault, that they’re then prepared for the probably responses and never overcommitting in these conditions.
