YONEX All England 2023: Vendy hoping to build on key learnings

Valuable lessons learnt at the YONEX All England Open helped Sean Vendy scale new heights in 2022. Vendy and doubles partner Ben Lane made huge strides on the doubles circuit last season, beating several of the world's best pairs and reaching a career high of 13th in the BWF rankings. Ad A large part of their improvement stemmed from what was a challenging defeat at the tournament 12 months ago against Japanese pairing Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi.

BadmintonYONEX All England 2023: Ben Lane builds on important experiences26 MINUTES AGO Hoki and Kobayashi were seeded third and were reigning world champions at the time, and Lane and Vendy were close to pulling off a significant upset. The English pairing rallied from a game down to hold match points in the decider, and Vendy does not shy away from how difficult failing to close that out was. «Last year at the All England was good and bad.

We had chances in the second round against one of the very best pairings,» Vendy said. «We were leading at 19-15 in the third game, and then we lost. That's a memory that I have — whether that's good or bad, I'm not sure.

»When you get into that position it almost hurts so much when you lose, especially at the All England. We had a chance to get to a quarter-final against a pair who we'd previously beaten in the three months prior to that. It was a good shot at a semi-final of an All England and ended up being a second-round loss.

We were really trying to understand why it happened and we have done. «From then I think, across the end of the year, we put everything into practice and then it all came together across the tournaments which is nice. »Towards the end of the year, everything really fell into place.