Ireland 🇮🇪 have lost out in their last 16 matches at the Italian Open. Ryan & Flynn 🇮🇪 lost to De Witt & Loos 🇳🇱 21-18 21-10 Reynolds & Guildea 🇮🇪 lost to Gardon & Goulin 🇫🇷 13-21 27-25 21-14. Two very competitive matches to finish day 3 of the event. 💪☘️

Bulgaria Junior International Michelle Shochan 🇮🇪 reached the quarterfinal of the Bulgaria Junior International. Michelle beat Popov 🇫🇷 and Pashova 🇧🇬 before losing out to Kalidasan 🇦🇪 in her quarterfinal this morning. Well done Michelle on a good competition 💪☘️

Badminton Ireland Press release on the departure of National Singles coach Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin Click link 🔗 badmintonireland.com/s/news/C6mnh7I…

🚨World Tour Last 16 for Reynolds & Guildea in 🇨🇦🚨 Paul Reynolds & Scott Guildea 🇮🇪 are through to the last 16 of the Canada Open World Tour 300 event after beating Daniel Leung and Timothy lock 🇨🇦 22-24 21-19 23-21 in a match that lasted 61 minutes in total 👏💪☘️

Paul Reynolds & Scott Guildea 🇮🇪 lost out in the last 16 of the Canada Open World tour 300 event losing to Chang Ko-Chi & Po Li-Wei of Chinese Taipei 21-14 21-11. Rachael Darragh 🇮🇪 is up later today against Kateřina Mikelová 🇨🇿 in her opening round in France. 💪☘️

A competitive return to play for Rachael Darragh 🇮🇪 at the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Series in France 🇫🇷 Rachael won the first against Kateřina Mikelová 🇨🇿 21–11. In the 2nd game Mikelová came back strong winning 21-13. The deciding game was a close, with Mikelová winning 21-17.

Yorkshire U17 Gold Rasa Norvaisaite is through to three semifinals at the Yorkshire U17 gold event. Jeffrey Rong will partner Rasa in the mixed semifinal tomorrow and also reached the quarterfinal of the singles today. Well done and best of luck tomorrow 👏💪☘️

Gold and Bronze at Yorkshire Gold Congratulations to Rasa Norvaisaite who took gold 🥇 and two bronze 🥉 at Yorkshire Gold Rasa won the doubles event and took bronze in the singles and in mixed doubles with Jeffrey Rong. Full list of today results in 📸 👏☘️

Nhat Nguyen 🇮🇪 has lost out in the Japan Open World Tour 750 event to World number 21 Koki Watanabe 🇯🇵 22-20 21-13 ⏱️61 Minutes Next up for Nhat will be the China Open World Tour 1000 which starts on the 22nd of July 💪☘️

The U13, 15 and 17 squads getting the the third of our National trainings underway at the Sport Ireland National Indoor arena 💪☘️

Para, U19, Senior, Masters and Graded international squads trainings to finish of another busy day of National squads. Well done to everyone involved today. It was a fantastic day of badminton 💪☘️

Day one of the European Youth Olympic Festival. Hannah and Luke start their group stage matches. Hannah Shochan 🇮🇪 v Matilda Simma 🇦🇹 Luke Marks 🇮🇪 v Ivan Dzhus 🇺🇦 Goodluck team 💪☘️

Hannah Shochan delivered a flawless performance to win her opening match at the 2025 European Youth Olympic festival. Hannah 🇮🇪 beat Matilda Simms 🇦🇹 21-11 21-13 In her next group match Hannah will face number 6 seed Maja Pranić 🇭🇷

Luke Marks comes through thrilling opening match at the European Youth Festival Luke played a brilliant match to beat Ivan Dzhus 🇺🇦 21-5 17-21 21-17 After a fast start by Luke,Dzhus took the 2nd game & led at the mid game interval of the 3rd game. Luke fought back winning 21-17

Hannah Shochan 🇮🇪 had a thrilling 44 minute match against the number 6 seed Maja Pranić 🇭🇷 in her 2nd group match at the European Youth Olympic festival. Hannah lost the opening game 19-21 but fought back winning the second game 21-12. Praníc took a close 3rd game 21-19 👏💪☘️

Nhat Nguyen 🇮🇪 is through to the last 16 of the China Open WT 1000 event with an impressive win over Gemke 🇩🇰 Nhat lost the opening game to the World ranked number 29, Gemke 22-20 but bounced straight back winning the second game 21-16. Nhat won the third game 21-11. 💪☘️

Luke Marks 🇮🇪 makes it two wins out of three so far at the European Youth Olympic Festival. Luke has won his match against Marko Šurina 🇭🇷 23-21 21-18 which sets up an exciting final group match against Jakub Dulemba 🇵🇱 later today 💪☘️

EYOF results update Hannah Shochan 🇮🇪 has beaten Abiramy Kokilan 🇳🇴 21-12 21-17. This win sets up an exciting final group game with Daria-Irina Gherasim 🇷🇴 Luke Marks 🇮🇪 had a close final group game losing out Jakub Dulemba 🇵🇱 21-17 21-19 💪☘️

Luke Marks & Hannah Shochan have played their last match at the 2025 European Youth Olympic festival. The Irish lost to Bajars & Gaure 🇱🇻 14-21 17-21. Luke & Hannah have gained valuable experience over the week they had wins over opposition from 🇳🇴 🇦🇹 🇺🇦 & 🇭🇷 Well done to team

China Open World Tour Nhat Nguyen 🇮🇪 lost out in his last 16 match to World number 2 Shi Yu Qi 🇨🇳 21-15 21-8. Next for Nhat will be preparation for the World championships in August where he will compete with the other qualified Irish athletes. Photo credit 📸 Badminton Photo