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'It's been a rollercoaster': The rise of UK's Ultimate Badminton League
26.10.26, 06:00 Updated 06.11.26, 09:00 4 Minute Read
Innovative is one word to describe the Ultimate Badminton League, the independent franchise competition set up five years ago by an all-sports aficionado to create “something different, new and fresh” and which can be hailed as the first to use “every point matters” and 3x15 scoring.
From the start of November, the UBL will be played across 17 Sundays at the Wycombe Badminton Centre. From 30 local players there are now 500 across the UK signed up for its fifth season and an ever-growing number of franchises who have brought into the league’s ethos of putting the players at its heart.
“It has been a rollercoaster and I never imagined how the UBL would be where it is today,” says UBL's creator Mez Islam, a computer networking and marketing expert.
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Rod has written for every UK national newspaper in a sports journalism career spanning more than 20 years. He has covered badminton for Reuters and the Daily Telegraph at a time when the Lin Dan v Lee Chong Wei rivalry was in full flow. He is also founder of The Hockey Paper and Squash Mad.