Badminton Euro 2002 - England

13. - 20. april, Baltiska Hallen, Malmö, Sweden

The English Team

As announced on 8. April 2002

Team Tournament

Men's team d.o.b Home town/playing cty

1 Colin Haughton 12.11.72 Denton, Manchester/Lancs 2 Mark Constable 15.9.76 Milton Keynes/Warks 3 Andrew South 22.6.80 Newark/ Nottingham 4 Nathan Robertson 30.5.77 Northampton/Notts 5 Anthony Clark 1.11.77 Leicester/Notts 6 Simon Archer 27.6.73 Worcester/Worcs 7 Graham Hurrell 7.5.75 Bournemouth/Hants

Women's team d.o.b

1 Julia Mann 9.8.71 Twickenham/Warks 2 Tracey Hallam 24.3.75 Burton-on-Trent/Staffs 3 Gail Emms 23.7.77 Bedford/Herts 4 Joanne Goode 17.11.72 Tewin (Herts)/Sussex 5 Sara Sankey 29.6.67 Milton Keynes/Lancs 6 Ella Miles 7.11.76 Milton Keynes/Cheshire

Individual Participants

(See above for missing d.o.b, home town and playing city.)

Men's singles d.o.b Home town/playing cty

1 Colin Haughton 2 Mark Constable 3 Andrew South 4 Aamir Ghaffar 1979 London/Middlesex

Women's singles d.o.b Home town/playing cty

1 Julia Mann 2 Tracey Hallam 3 Elizabeth Cann 22 yrs Jersey 4 Rebecca Pantaney 7.10.75 Cheltenham/Glos

Men's doubles d.o.b

1 Anthony Clark/ Nathan Robertson 2 Simon Archer/ Graham Hurrell

Women's doubles d.o.b

1 Sara Sankey/ Ella Miles 2 Gail Emms/ Joanne Goode

Mixed doubles d.o.b / Home town/playing cty

1 Nathan Robertson/ Gail Emms 2 Simon Archer/ Joanne Goode 3 Anthony Clark/ Sara Sankey 4 Robert Blair/ Natalie Munt (Blair) 7.8.81 (Munt) 8.11.77 (Munt) Ware/Herts

Comments from BAofE

The draw is to be made later this week and the seeding should place England in the opposite half to reigning champions Denmark. "It means facing Holland in our group will be a key challenge at that stage", said BA of E Performance Director Finn Traerup Hansen today. "If we then meet Denmark later on, it will not be as easy as two years ago when we had a chance of beating them by winning three doubles matches. We are not as strong now in women's doubles in particular. However, we would give it a shot and see if we could at least tease them a little".

England's medal hopes in the individual tournament from 16 - 20 April must rest mainly with doubles pairings. Olympic mixed doubles medallists Simon Archer and Jo Goode are returning to form after long lay-offs through injury (Archer) and maternity leave (Goode). "Their performances are improving all the time and they can be really competitive when it counts", said Traerup Hansen.

Manchester's Colin Haughton is the leading men's singles player but could find the going tough against top Danish opponents. Robert Blair, formerly of Scotland, has made his first English squad since moving South to improve his game. He will play in the mixed doubles with Natalie Munt.

The England team will be weakened by the failure of Derbyshire's experienced Donna Kellogg to win her fitness battle in time for the European Championships.

Donna was one half of the successful partnership that won gold in the ladies doubles at the 2000 European Championships in Glasgow and it is particularly disappointing that she will not have the opportunity to defend her title.

She was also a member of the silver medal winning team in the last European Championships and would have taken part in the team event this year if she had been fully fit.

Finn said;"If Donna had been match fit, she would have made a good contribution to the team and it would have allowed us to spare some of our other players, rather than playing the same players all the time"

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