Junior Archive

Junior players from around the world gathered in Sydney, at the sports halls at Olympic Park, from 17-21 January, to compete for medals in the teams and individual championships at the Youth Olympic Festival.  Badminton...

The final day of the 2006 Incheon World Junior Badminton Championships had a lot of thrills for a day when all the favourites ended up winning. China showed that there is no reason to doubt...

Semi-finals day at the World Junior Championships had everything one looks for in a big tournament: big stars, promising new faces, upsets, nail-biting rallies and thrilling comebacks. It also assured us that this tournament would...

Hosts Korea took the team championship trophy with Han Ki-hoon adding his men’s singles point to the two expected wins in boys’ and mixed doubles. Although China looks set to maintain its superiority in the...

The top two seeds, Korea and China, secured their places in the final of the team competition at the World Junior Championships in Incheon, Korea. They beat Malaysia and Indonesia respectively, with both ties finishing...

More Asian Dominance in Badminton’s Future?   If Day Two of the World Junior Championships is any indication of the future of badminton, then it looks more than ever as if that future lies in...