Whereas the final month has seen a few of our elite gamers look in the direction of the YONEX All England Open, February has additionally offered loads of home motion within the Senior County Championship.
The large shock of the month within the Premiership got here the place Middlesex’s exceptional 18-match successful streak was ended by mid-table Buckinghamshire, in a crushing 9-2 defeat.
When Ben Hunt and Robert Golding each scored singles rubber wins to place the all-conquering Middlesex staff 2-1 up, they seemed heading in the right direction for yet one more win.
However Buckinghamshire roared again with doubles pair Ethan Van Leeuwen and Steven Stallwood significantly impressing.
The table-toppers did at the very least reply the very subsequent day, returning to successful methods towards Cheshire with an 8-3 victory.
Hampshire aren’t far behind in second place, with a document of 4 wins from their opening six matches on the finish of February.
They’d a formidable weekend with three victories, getting previous Leicestershire (6-5), Hertfordshire (7-4) and an 11-0 dismantling of Leinster who endured a troublesome return to Premiership motion.
Surrey have been additionally on the transfer within the desk, recovering from shedding the primary rubber towards Leicestershire to win six in a row, finally triumphing 8-3.
It was an ideal return for Avon who defeated Hertfordshire 8-3 again in SCC competitors for the primary time this 12 months, having missed the opening weekend in January.
Together with Leinster, they weren’t capable of head over to compete because of journey restrictions in Eire however have been now capable of get again on court docket.
Leinster had a tough return with three defeats from three and shall be seeking to enhance within the March fixtures and transfer away from the relegation locations.
By way of the person scoring gamers, no participant who has performed two weekends retains an ideal document.
Buckinghamshire’s Ethan Van Leeuwen and Hampshire’s Ollie Baczala lead the efficiency charts with 12 wins every, with Surrey teenager Will Jones shut behind with 11 and Middlesex’s Angus Pedersen the one different participant reaching double figures, with 10 wins from 13 for his county.
Leicestershire’s Jessica Allen is the main girls’s participant with an excellent document of eight wins from 9, carefully adopted by team-mate Sarita Patel, simply barely behind with eight victories from 10 matches.
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The YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships return to Utilita Enviornment Birmingham with the perfect gamers from all over the world from sixteenth – twentieth March 2022.
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