Westgate Badminton Centre

England Call up for Panuga Riou

Panuga Riou will have her first chance for an England cap as she has been named in the England team for the forthcoming Uber Cup Well Done Panuga

Team Westgate players reached three out of four finals at the Warwickshire event.

Most successful on the day was Libby McMorrow, winning the Gold in the girls singles beating Sophie Arrighi of Wales in the final 15-8, 11-15, 15-5. She and her partner, Evie Burbidge (Northampton), then went on to reach the final of the Girls’ Doubles. They won the Silver medal, losing out 11-15, 14-15 to the Welsh pair Gean Sou Mo and Emilie Gwilt. There was also success in the boys’ events. Thomas Hume, with fellow Team Westgate team-mate Alex Horner, got to the Boys’ doubles final losing out to Tim Mooney and Sterling Burrow.

With the absence of three of the top U 17's , 15 year old Lynnlette Aung had a comfortable passage winning the U17 Gold Star Girls Singles in Nottingham at the weekend. She showed great maturity to overcome Joshwey Bong, who she had lost to in the group stage of the last U17 tournament, comfortably in two sets 21-11,21-16 and then went on to beat unseeded Tsui Yee lau in the final 21-9,21-15.

Another Gold medal came from Team Westgates Under 15 player Ira Banerjee with her partner Jess Pugh went through to win without dropping a set beating Serena Midha and Jenny Moore 21-15,21-17 in the semi and Brodie Miller and Joswey Bong 21-13,21-19 in the final.

Team Westgates Libby McMorrow and her partner Evie Burbidge (Northampton) got to the semi finals of the girls’ doubles winning a bronze medal. They beat the number 1 seeds Sophie Brealey and Devon Minnis 12-21, 21-11, 21-8. They also beat last year’s U13 National champions Kerry Anne Leaney and Holly Garrett 21-18, 21-11.

Team Westgates Chris Dix Picked up a Gold medal in the Northants U15 Bronze boys doubles with Ryan Newcombe. Beating Charlie Hersant/Vincenzo Pratley in the final.

Team Westgate Chris Dix picked up Bronze in the Kent U15 boys doubles with Ben Richards, losing out in the semi final to Andrew Baird/Samuel Newlove 18-21, who went onto win the final 21-16 against Robert Micklewright/Tom Owen.

Team Westgate's Lynnlette Aung and Panuga Riou took part in the Middlesex Gold at the weekend of 21st and 22nd Jan Lynnlette had a tough draw meeting 3rd seed Jo Dix in the first round. Their last encounter was a one sided afair in the final of the Bournemouth Silver Tournament but Lynnlette almost causing an upset by taking the first set convincingly only to run out steam in the second and third set 21-15. Jo went on to reach the semi final but had to pull out due to injury. Panuga was top seed and comfortably went through to win the event beating Helena Lewzenska in the semi final and Georgina Bland 21-8 21-13 in the final. This gave Panuga a great confidence boost ahead of the English Nationals in two weeks where she is 4th seed.

Team Westgates Max Flynn played up into U17 Silver in Luton. He came 2/4 in box and lost to D Robertson Bu in 2.

In doubles, fared better reaching QFs with Alex Mitchell Bu, before losing to Team Westgates Sicum Chen and Jason Wong they played late at 9.30pm.On the way to the QF's Max and Alex had 2 exciting tough three set battles in box, taking out no1 singles seed K Jasper (Co) and S Sacco( Bd) and A Brockie/ H Brewis Ox.

A number of Team Westgate girls attended the U19 tournament in Nottingham in the last weekend of January which had a very strong field and would be representative of the U19 Nationals which is coming up at the end of March. Two of our girls did extremely well reaching the semi final stage. Viki Williams was back to Singles form with a string of good results including beating second seed and England ranked no. 18 player Claire Weaver in 2 sets. The shock of the Tournament was when Team Westgates 14 uear old Ira Banerjee beat giant killer Joshwey Bong in 3 sets in the first round, Lucy Mason who she had lost to in the last three meetings our own Lynnnlette Aung with her recent run of good results recently has now given her a No. 25 England ranking at only 15 years old. Ira lost to Lynnlette in the first set then made an unexpected come back to win in three sets. In the Quarter finals Ira went on to beat the ex Team Westgate and number 23 ranked player Keri Scott in two sets. Ira couldnt however continue her form when she lost in the semi the next day to Chloe Birch from Yorkshire who is ranked number 16. Viki also lost to Yorkshires number one seed Natalie Chan Lam in two sets but had her chances to close out the second. Natalie went on to beat Chloe in the final.

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