26 February 2013
BUCS 2013 - Mark Middleton Double Medalist!
The BUCS Gatorade Nationals Individual Badminton Championship in Association with Ashaway ended with a roll of honour for Ashaways player team.
Top of the list was Mark Middleton with a Silver Medal in the Mens Doubles and Bronze Medal in the Mixed event. Well done Mark!
Full List of Team Ashaway Medalists:
Mark Middleton - Silver - Mens Doubles
Mark Middleton - Bronze - Mixed Doubles
Dan Groom - Bronze - Mens Singles
Chris Evans - Bronze - Mens Singles
Emma Smethurst - Bronze - Ladies Doubles
Narrowly missing out on medals James Lauder (Quarter Finalist - Mens and mixed), Jamie Pugh (Quarter Finalist - Mixed)
Our thanks to Maurice Robinson Sports, our official retailer over the weekend. Particuarly to Andy Hartley, who was ever present stringing rackets all weekend. A total of 61 rackets were restrung by Andy, often in poor light and sometimes with Black string .. a real effort and well done.
Breakdown of strings used is as follows:
ZyMax 62 - 6 re-strings (10%)
ZyMax 65 - 12 re-strings (20%)
ZyMax 67 - 25 re-strings (40%)
ZyMax 70 - 12 re-strings (20%)
6 restrings with other brands - players own strings (10%)
22 February 2013
BUCS Badminton Championships 2013
The Boys from Swansea |
Ladies Singles 3 of 16 courts! |
It is certainly the most fun, that's for sure!
The championships are run in association with Ashaway, with Ashaway International Shuttlecocks being used throughout the nearly 800 matches over the weekend. The standard of badminton at the championship is vast with club players coming up against some of the best players in the country, it really makes the event unique and very special.
Ashaway are well represented at the championships with Dan Groom 2nd seed in the huge mens singles draw and Mark Middleton 2nd seed in the equally large Mens doubles draw.
Maurice Robinson Sports are Ashaways appointed retailer at the championships offering a superb stringing service at an event special of £12 per restring with highest quality ZyMax string.
Follow Ashaway at the event on our facebook page.
15 February 2013
MATHIEU CASTAGNET SIGNS FOR BK ASHAWAY
Goode Sport in conjuction with our french distributor SportFun are pleased to announce the signature of World No. 31 and French No. 2 Squash player Mathieu Castagnet to the Black Knight Ashaway team
Mathieu started as a memeber of the Ashaway BK team at the French National Championships where he finished runner up.
Mathieu is using the Ion Cannon PS with PowerNick 18 string.
Also in France we have added Cyriel Peltier, world no 85, 21 years old and up and coming French star, the rookie Christophe Andre and the experienced pro Johan Boquet to our ranks.
Mathieu started as a memeber of the Ashaway BK team at the French National Championships where he finished runner up.
Mathieu is using the Ion Cannon PS with PowerNick 18 string.
Also in France we have added Cyriel Peltier, world no 85, 21 years old and up and coming French star, the rookie Christophe Andre and the experienced pro Johan Boquet to our ranks.
07 February 2013
JOE AND NIC - CAN'T STOP WINNING!
Welsh National Champions! |
The Dynamic welsh duo also bagged the Welsh National title last weekend! Amazing victory and puts the commonweath games firmly on the radar ...
Report from the Cyprus Open (BWF - International Series Event):
Due to recently doing so well in the season the draw saw the Welsh pairing seeded 2nd for this event. This meant that with a bye they were straight into the Quarter Final where they took on the Israeli pair of Geffen and Sade. The Welsh pair were far too strong for the Israelis and took the match in 2 sets 20-10, 21-7.
After a short rest it was onto the Semi Final where a young Danish Pair were waiting. After having some good results this season the Welsh knew it wasn’t going to be an easy task. After a close first set and being down a set point some experience play saw the welsh take the first set 22-20. Seeming a little disheartened the Welsh were never down in the second set and took it 21-17.
Joe morgan and Nic Strange - Cyprus International Champions
Joe and Nic - Cyprus Open Champions! |
Nic commented, ‘this is another great win for us in some difficult playing conditions. It is good preparation for the Welsh Nationals this weekend where I hope to retain my title with Joe Morgan’.
Joe commented, ‘winning the third title of the season is brilliant for us. It will really help improve our world ranking, now onto Nationals on the weekend’.
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