Badminton: Ireland Beat Canada 4-1

Ireland took a 4-1 win over Canada in an in international match held last night in the Irish national training centre. Canada, the Commonwealth 5th seeds, travelled to Ireland to prepare for the upcoming Commonwealth games.

Ireland won the match winning 4-1 winning women's doubles, men's doubles, women's singles and mixed doubles. The Canadian team did pick up some conciliation taking the men singles. Next up for the Irish team will be a match today (Sat) against South Africa in the Galway lawn tennis club at 15:30 - the match will be streamed live on www.BadmintonIreland.TV.

Ireland v Canada
Women Singles
Chloe Magee (IRE) bt Rachel Honderich 21-13 21-14
Men Singles
Andrew D'Souza (CAN) bt Joshua Magee (IRE) 21-14 21-15
Women Doubles
Sinead Chambers/Caroline Black (IRE) bt Alex Bruce/Phylis Chan (CAN) 25-23 17-21 21-19
Men Doubles
Sam Magee/Joshua Magee (IRE) bt Toby NG/Andrew D'Souza 23-21 21-16
Mixed Doubles
Sam Magee/Chloe Magee (IRE) bt Toby Ng/Alex Bruce(CAN) 21-18 21-17