1 May, 2025
Badminton England’s U17 stars proved that age is just a number as they struck silver at the U19 Cyprus Junior this month.
Youngsters toppling older age groups was a running theme throughout April, with George Clare and Sajan Senthuran leading the way in Nicosia.
England took an U17 team to compete at various events throughout the month, bringing home one silver and a bronze at the Cyprus event as Clare and Senthuran clinched men’s doubles silver.
An incredible run of results took the duo into the final, where they put up a fight but were ultimately forced to settle for silver in a 21-10 21-7 defeat to Lukas Thor and Vojtech Strejcek from the Czech Republic.
The English pair were joined on the podium by teammates Yixiang Hou and Jasper Wong, who picked up bronze as Shraddha Gopalakrishnan and Martha Ng finished third in the women’s doubles.
There was a similarly strong showing for English youngsters at the U19 FORZA…
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