Title Treble For Shona
TITLE TREBLE FOR SHONA
Longniddry’s Shona Whillans performance was outstanding throughout the week end winning a title treble at the U13/17/23 Scottish National Junior Badminton Championships held at Meadowbank Sports Centre.
The U13 event was dominated by Whillans who won the girls singles comfortably not dropping a set throughout the championships and had a comfortable win in the final beating Edinburgh’s Rachel Lu 21/15 21//6.
She then teamed up with fellow Longniddry player Sarah Brogan in the girl’s doubles both players playing a good solid match in the final to beat Ciara Torrance (Prestwick) and Annabel Young (West Linton) 21/10 21/11.
And Whillans completed her title treble after winning the mixed doubles with Glen Lewington (Edinburgh) in a thrilling three set match 21/19 17/21 21/19 over Christopher Grimley (Glasgow) and Lauren Middleton (Dundee).
In the U23 event Haddington’s Hannah Laing teamed up with Glasgow’s Viktoria Tsvetanova to win the Scottish ladies doubles title 22/20 19/21 21/11 after a close fought match over Lynne Dargie (Prestwick) and Mauchline’s Emma Cook.
Hannah also reached the semi finals of singles and mixed doubles with Duncan Leith but lost out in both events to the eventual winners.
East Lothian Badminton Development Officer Christine Black commented on Shona’s performance as an exceptional display of talent and how such a young girl copes so well in pressure situations but wanted to also applaud her doubles partners for their good performances.
Black also wanted to congratulate Hannah Laing on a great achievement as a 17 year old having now won National ladies doubles titles at U17, U19 and now U23 level.
