THE badminton season is expected to start today with the annual Gumdac Open Doubles Tournament to be held at the Queen’s College auditorium.The tournament will be the first of many planned for the Guyana Badminton Association’s 2015 season.

Players have been in training since the early part of this year and the tournament will see the country’s top and upcoming players in action, as they prepare for the year’s much bigger events.
Some of these events include the Pan American Junior set for Mexico, the Caribbean Championships in Dominican Republic, the World Junior Championships in Peru, while the Guyanese will compete against some of the top ones in the Caribbean when Guyana hosts the Easter Junior International, which expects players from Trinidad, Suriname and French Guiana.
In other plans on the front burner, the GBA will visit schools as part of its developing programme to spread the sport. This month the programme will start in the County of Berbice.