Our Welsh international badminton star James Phillips cleared up at the recent Welsh nationals winning both the mens and mixed doubles events!James reported that the doubles was straight forward until the semi finals. He knew he had a tough match against Daniel Font and Oliver Gwilt, one of the top British junior pairs. But James and his partner came through 25-23 21-17.
In the final James' opponents included fellow Ashaway player and Welsh International player Joe Morgan.
"Come the final again confident we could win, however anything can happen in the nationals, so remained 100% focused. We managed to come through the match winning 21-14, 21-14. I am so use to playing with Joe it was strange playing against him. in fairness to Joe he has just come off the back of a serious injury keeping him off the court for almost a year"
In the mixed doubles James team up with with Jordan Hart, an U15 quad singles gold medalist and very talented junior player. Jordan now U17 trains at the South West Wales High Performance Centre where James and Joe lead up the coaching.
"We had a potential tough match in the group defeating the 2nd seeds and doubles partner Nic Strange and Vikki jones 21-11, 21-11. Come the Semi final had finals we had comfortable wins against Daniel font and Kate Ridler 21-15, 21-14 and Oliver gwilt and Bethan higginson 21-16, 21-17"
James has recently signed a new contract with Goode Sport, just in time to recieve a win bonus for the nationals and now looks to go and represent Wales in the Thomas Cup ... hopefully with Joe Morgan.
James uses the Viper XT900 racket strung with ZyMax 67 at 28lbs.
