No luck for Irish badminton stars in Baku
Ireland’s badminton campaign at the European Games got underway with two defeats this morning in Baku.
Chloe Magee has been beaten by Estonias Kati Tolmoff 21-18 21-17 in her opening match in Group F, while in women's doubles, Sara Boyle and Rachel Darragh have been beaten in their opening match 21-15 21-15 by Finnish pair Mathilda Lindstrom and Jenny Nystrom.
Men’s top seed Scott Evans plays Georgios Charalambidis of Greece in his opening this afternoon.
Later, the Magee siblings face into further doubles action as Sam and Josh meet Danish duo Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen in the men’s doubles, while around 5:30pm this evening in the mixed doubles, Chloe and Sam take on the Czech combination of Jakub Bitman and Alzbeta Basova.
