6 December, 2024
England’s best young shuttlers took the next steps in their development at a competitive 2024 European Junior Championships.
Following the team event last month, 11 players were in action across five events in the individual competition, rubbing shoulders with the finest young players across the continent at the six-day event in Ibiza.
In the men’s doubles, Benjamin Horseman and Jia Bin Lee continued their fine form by reaching the quarter-final stage, winning two matches in straight games before being edged out in a nail-biting decider by Danish pair Phillip Kryger Boe and Jesper Ostergaard Christensen.
James Song and Dillon Chong also tasted victory on two occasions in the same event before they were narrowly beaten 18-21 21-18 19-21 by Mikolaj Morawski and Krzysztof Podkowinski of Poland.
Sofie Chong and Lucy Dodd sailed through to the last 16 of the women’s doubles events following two impressive…
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