Badminton Goes For Bronze

BBA has sent a four member team to the tournament held in Cotonou, Benin from August 22 to September 1. The local junior team will be making a return to the continental scene after more than half a decade.

The team has rather less podium place ambitions as the BBA says the tournament will be used to as yard stick to prepare the country's junior players for the future international tournaments. "This is the first time the particular set of players play at a major competition so our biggest accomplishment from them competing on a platform of this magnitude would be for them to get exposed to a higher calibre of badminton. We are however hopeful and optimistic to at least come home with a bronze (medal)," BBA's public relations officer, Modisaotsile Badubi told Monitor Sport. The quartet of local youngsters is also to gain its first international rankings.