Mark teams up with Scott Evans

Local man Mark Phelan has teamed up with Scott Evans, Ireland's number 1 men's singles and world number 45 badminton player, to create and maintain his daily blog and website in the lead up to The Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.



Scott has qualified for the Olympics and is only the second Irish man ever to do so. He hails from Dundrum in Dublin but now lives and trains in Denmark, which to all serious badminton players is the Mecca for European Badminton. At only 20 years of age his world ranking has improved from 120 at the beginning of 2007 to his current ranking of 45.

Scott's reputation has been steadily building over the course of the past year and he is now widely known as Europe's next big hope to take on and challenge the might of the Asians in the sport of badminton. He has already taken on and beaten many of the world's top players and in the Denmark Super series final took his place amongst the worlds top 32 shuttlers, which was a first for Irish badminton.

Mark Phelan has been involved in badminton all his life and spent many years at Kilcullen Badminton Club and now plays for Donoughmore Badminton Club who are a senior club that play in the Dublin & District league. Mark met Scott through his involvement in the online badzine.net website and they just struck up a partnership and the result of that partnership is Scott's blog and website.

As always in minority sports funding plays a crucial part in an athletes development and for Scott to develop further he needs additional funding to take part in all the major events world wide. So if you or your company want to be a part of the dream just email Mark and he would be delighted to talk to you.

James Raymond.