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 passed off 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 Music’s run to the ultimate of the boys’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.
Music was then defeated by Denmark’s Elias Martin within the ultimate, whereas he additionally suffered defeat within the blended 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 boys’s doubles, and Jason Ou, who put up a courageous struggle towards prime seed William Bogebjerg within the quarter finals of the boys’s singles.
Lucy Brierley and Matilda Franklin bought so far as the spherical of 16 within the girls’s doubles, whereas Franklin and Lee reached the identical stage of the blended doubles.
All England Junior Championships
There was glory for Sofie Chong and Lucy Dodd as they gained 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 ultimate 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 boys’s doubles whereas James Music was a crushed finalist within the blended doubles alongside Poland’s Kaja Ziolkowska.
Benjamin Horseman and Jia Bin Lee reached the semi-finals of the boys’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 ultimate 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 gained the boys’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 in the future as they gained the blended doubles by defeating Pulikkottil and Stewart 21-13 21-19 in what was an all-English ultimate.
U19 Irish Open
Two English doubles pairings reached finals in Dublin, with Lucy Brierley and Matilda Franklin dropping 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 ultimate of the blended 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 choose 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 Energy & Conditioning Coach in attendance to conduct health testing and bounce testing and to guide warm-ups for classes.
The U11 camp aimed to develop the juniors’ capacity to neutralise a rally when below stress, consistency in rallies whereas utilising all 4 corners of the courtroom and an introduction to forecourt deception.
The U13 camp aimed to develop the juniors’ capacity to introduce a quicker tempo and flatter type of singles gameplay, assemble rallies and making an attempt to develop tempo modifications, enhance backhand containment from the rear courtroom and doubles defence.
There was additionally a Working With Mother and father in Sport Workshop delivered to a big mum or dad 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 the usage of netplay in singles with a give attention to the spin internet and bettering the flexibility to spin off a spin internet in addition to the usage of 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 group competing on the U15 European championships.
This concerned the usage of senior sparrers, senior nationwide group and U17 juniors to attempt to elevate the depth and high quality of coaching and matchplay.
This served as a superb coaching block earlier than the U15 European Junior Championships to construct relationships and strategies of working.
EJPP U17 / U19 Joint Camp
Singles coaching assessment
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 velocity modifications in the course of the rallies and anticipation in rallies in relation to the probably reply from an opponent. Focus was additionally on turning the shuttle and making an attempt to play extra counterattack in defence.
The gamers had been additionally in a position to prepare alongside and combine at factors inside the Camp with the senior singles squad, which was an important publicity.
Doubles coaching assessment
At this camp on the Nationwide Badminton Centre, gamers had alternatives to apply working extra to place shuttles again into courtroom with excessive stress assault, additionally integrating with the senior squad.
There was additionally a big give attention to matchplay to assist gamers put together for upcoming tournaments, together with the Danish Cup.
Different focuses for the gamers included key practices across the internet and mid-court to encourage them to commerce and interact extra in these areas.
The target was to see longer rallies when taking part in right here with elevated courtroom protection, ensuring to have dynamic motion transferring on to the shuttle and to play with margins applicable for the state of affairs.
Gamers had been additionally challenged to hyperlink pictures ensuring that when trying 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.