RACHEL HOWARD'S BLOG

Follow Ashaway's England International Rachel Howard though the season in this Blog in association with Direct Sports

Monday, 14 December 2009

RACHEL REACHES WELSH OPEN SEMI FINAL

Update from Rachel ...

Having spent the summer reocvering from my ankle injury, I started my 09/10 season with the Bulgarian IC in October. Since then I've played 5 other tournaments and my level has improved with each one. I was particularly pleased with reaching the semi-final of the Welsh IS last week! My english ranking is now at 4 and international ranking at 98. This puts me in a good position to hopefully gain a seeding at the Senior Nationals in February. My results have been as follows:

October
Bulgarian IC: Second round
Oxford Satallite: Winner! (beating Caroline Westley and Jo Dix)
Hungarian IS: losing narrowly in the second round to No 2 seed Bibik 21-18, 12-21, 17-21

November
Norweigan IC: losin narrowly in the second round to Jorgenson 21-19 16-21 15-21
Bucs Individual Badminton Championships: Bronze Medal
Welsh IS: Semi Finalist (beating Robertshaw and 3/4 seed Magee)

Next tournaments are Irish IC this week, followed by Turkey IS just before Christmas.

We wish Rachel the best of luck as she continues to climb the rankings!

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