RECORD ENTRY REPORTED FOR WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
by Mike Grossman

November 12, 1996 (New Shuttlenws) - The International Badminton Federation announced that a record number of countries will be represented at the world junior badminton championships scheduled for November 19 to 24, 1996 in Silkeborg, Denmark. 54 nations will be fielding entries at the tourney in Silkeborg, an increase of 16 over the 34 nations in Malaysia in 1994. 570 entries across the five badminton disciplines are expected to compete.

The badminton federation also announced that a second division competition will be provided for those players or pairs who lose their first round matches. This will allow these players a chance to play at least one more match with their peers from other countries.

The second division competition will use the experimental 5x9 scoring system (best-of-5 9-point games) that is being tried by the badminton federation in Europe.

The federation also advised that the world junior championships will be televised in Denmark by DK4 and in Asia by STAR-TV.