Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Badminton England announce sudden death of chairman Mike Sertin at All England Open

By Rod Gilmour 128PM GMT eleven March 2010

The 66 year-old, who had overseen key changes at Badminton England over the last integrate of years, died on Wednesday night at his road house in Birmingham. England"s players were due to wear black armbands prior to dusk fool around on Thursday where there will additionally be a minute"s silence.

Chief senior manager Adrian Christy pronounced "It is a distressing shock, done worse by the actuality that it comes right in the center of the Yonex All England 100th Championships, an eventuality in that Mike has been such a pushing force.

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"He was main in the organising of the 100th Championships and was so ardent and eager about the celebrations we have been planning.

"His unrestrained has burnished off on everybody and he was quite penetrating to move behind most of the good past winners to this week"s Championships. We wish the rest of this week to be a wise mental recall to Mike.

Sertin was seen as forward-thinker inside of the competition and was additionally authority of Somerset Badminton.

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