U12s overcome Isleworth in convincing fashion

by Manav Vasanth

In March 2023, an U12A badminton fixture against Isleworth and Syon school took place at Hampton School. with the home side emerging victorious winning 23 games, compared to Isleworth’s 13. This was the first and last badminton match for the First Year team, and they were really looking forward to starting and ending the season on a high. They went into the game nervously, but were extremely excited and wanted to put their best foot forward.

Manav Krishna Kallamvelli Vasanth (one of the Hampton badminton players) said: “We were aware that the Isleworth team had a good coach, who trained the Hounslow Borough team, and we also knew that they would not leave the game to us as they had come quite far to Hampton, meaning that losing without a fight was not an option.”

Overall, Hampton and Isleworth knew that this was going to be a tight set of games, and it would be a good fight to see who would come out on top. There were six pairs for Hampton (it was a doubles match, only in pairs), each playing at the same time. The school that had the greatest number of pairs winning, would win the fixture.

The first game that each pair played went well. Five out of six pairs for Hampton won their games, which made for an extremely promising start.