Exeter & District Badminton League

Sarah Preece (Queens) successfully defended her singles crown as this competition has not been held since Sarah won the event in 2014. The Ladies Doubles was not contested this year due to lack of entries. Sadly, for the first time ever, all the level competitions were run as round robin events due to the low number of entries.   Therefore, the League Committee are considering holding the tournaments on weekday evenings next season to try and attract more entries.

There were some close game in the round-robin Handicap Tournament. The Men’s Singles was split into two groups where John Carter and George Suliauskas each dropped just one point on the way to winning their group and then John defeated George in the final to win this event for the second year running. There was a close finish in the Ladies Doubles between Kay Brewer and Sue Banks and Verity Greenaway and Freya Harris who both won 7 games but Kay and Sue scored more points to make it a double celebration for Sue on her birthday! Only one point separated the top two pairs in the Mens Doubles which was won by Chris Bowker and Jack Southcott who won 7 of their 8 games, their only defeat being 21-14 to the runners-up Adrian Midmer and Ben Boyland who won 5 of their 8 games. Just 9 points separated the top 3 pairs in the Mixed Doubles which was won by Ben Boyland and Helena Williams who won all their games and finished 6 points ahead of Tom Laver and Verity Greenaway with Tom Phillips and Nikki Anslow in third place.