GB set for golden Sunday at Para-Badminton Euros

Jack Shephard and Krysten Coombs will face off in an all-British battle in the men’s SS6 final at the BWF European Para-Badminton Championships in France.

Shephard dispatched home favourite Fabien Morat 21-4, 21-9, in his semi-final while Coombs beat compatriot Andrew Martin 21-11, 21-13, with neither player having dropped a game as of yet.

The match will be a repeat of the World Championship final last year, in which Shephard claimed victory, and the world number one is relishing another battle against his close friend.

“We both want the gold, but tomorrow it’s going to be one or the other,” he said.

“We’ll both hopefully come away with a gold, with the doubles, but one of us will come away with two!

“Either way it’s great to say that we both got to the final as teammates and friends and play another final this year.”

The pair also maintained their perfect start to the men’s doubles competitions, beating the Serbian duo of Milan Grahovac and Djordje Koprivica 21-3, 21-4, and will go for gold in Sunday’s final against compatriots Isaak Dalglish and Andrew Martin.

Dan Bethell will look to complete a hat-trick of European Championship titles as he goes for gold in the SL3, with just the Ukrainian Oleksandr Chyrkov in his way.

The Brit beat Frenchman Mathieu Thomas 21-7, 21-11, but his opponent got his revenge in the doubles, as he and partner Guillaume Gailly defeated Bethell and Bobby Griffin at the semi-final stage.

Antony Forster and Colin Leslie were also defeated by German duo Jan-Niklas Pott and Pascal Wolter, but both will claim bronze after reaching the last four.

Martin Rooke faces world number one Amir Levi in the final of the WH2 after defeating German Rick Cornell Hellmann.

He will face the Israeli again in the final of the doubles alongside German partner Thomas Wandschneider.

In the women’s SS6 Rachel Choong will play teammate Rebecca Bedford in the final, as the pair also maintained their perfect record in the doubles event. 

Choong partners compatriot Andrew Martin in the final of the mixed doubles, and will go up against Englishman Isaak Dalglish and Pole Maria Bartusz for gold.