Gold for Dalvi at Leicestershire Senior Silver tournament

Tournament win for youngster
Nadeem DalviNadeem Dalvi
Nadeem Dalvi

Luton badminton player Nadeem Dalvi won gold at the Leicestershire Senior Silver tournament recently.

Given a bye in the first round, he then defeated Harry Jones 21-10, 21-8, before seeing off Luke Hoult 21-15, 21-10 to reach the semi-final.

There he came up against Oliver Butler, easing through 21-9, 21-13, to race Garrylee Mcmullen in the final, as he came through 21-16, 19-21, 21-14 to take the title.

Dalvi had also reached the semi-final of the Nottingham Senior Gold event last month.

Seeded fifth, he again had a bye in the first round, before getting past Tighe Cook and Zack Bobrowski to set up a quarter-final tie with Ben Hunt.

Winning 21-13, 21-14, that saw Dalvi go up against first seed and England’s senior number one player Toby Penty, ranked in the world top 50, putting up a brave fight before losing 21-9, 21-10.

Dalvi has now been nominated for Team England Futures and will experience the behind the scenes activities at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

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