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The Journey of a Circuit Badminton Player
by Chris Evans
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Badders.com very own 'Luncheon' keeps it real on the English badminton circuit.
Name - Christopher Evans
County - Hampshire
DOB - 06/11/1980
Highest Ranking - 15 MX, 16 MD
Greatest Badders Achievement - Representing Hampshire and playing in the 1st team. (full profile)
What a 6 months. I finished playing in April at the last county weekend. Then went to Kenya for 2 weeks honeymoon – Wife was ill first week, but second week was amazing….saw cheetahs, lions, elephants, hippos, giraffes and more on safari as well. For work I had to travel to Sheffiel...
Last Saturday I played at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes against the Scottish National Champions. oh how the Wednesday night was different when I played in our club’s mens team. We have several men at the club, but only one mixed team and thus only 3 of the 10 or...
We were in the hunt for promotion, 2nd in the league, joint points with Leicester, with Lanarkshire 1 point behind. We had to play Avon, Lanarkshire and Yorkshire 2nd…..a tough weekend. With a BIG match against Lanarkshire……we were expecting that they had all their top players. Left j...
First tournament of 2010 = Devon Open. Last year had a big loss in the semis with Graham Hurrell, losing to two Welsh Internationals. So a plan to avenge that this year. Adam had been in Oz for 4 weeks from New Year, he’d hit shuttles once whilst out there…..so we were hoping fo...
After the big Hertfordshire comeback, I suffered from some elbow and shoulder pain. Was it linked to the previous shoulder problems or something new? I thought it was tennis elbow, as Herts was the first full day of smashing I had suffered since March. I limped my way to the Restricted – 3 weeks la...
Last Season finished early for me……the last weekend in March, which was the County Weekend. Way back when, at the Nationals the brilliant Badminton England physio advised to fix my shoulder I should limp to the end of the season, then have 6 weeks …..then he promised my shoulder would be fixe...
Most of the week was spent resting my thumb, I played Wednesday night at our County practice, and tried some strapping and that wasn’t much fun. The practice was poor for a night just before the county weekend, but made the most of it. Travelled up Friday night, stayed at th...
A week and a half before the Bournemouth I managed to sprain my thumb, playing a ball game with 7 year olds……they were too tough for me! I was hoping it would heal in a couple of days…..oh how wrong was I!!!!! I only played doubles at the Bournemouth, playing with a fellow Hampshirei...
It was really strange to have chosen to only play one event rather than having to only play one event because I couldn’t find a partner, but this was the situation I was in for the Wimbledon. Adam and I had won the doubles the year before, so when he asked if I was playing I said yes….believi...
It is one of the high moments of the season for me, it’s a great experience for a circuit player to go along to the Nationals. Whether some people think circuit players should be allowed to play the top tournaments is a whole massive debate I don’t want to get in to. But if qual...
