Glasgow's Kieran Merrilees strolled through to the second round of the men's singles as the individual events in the badminton competition at the Commonwealth Games go under way today.

The Scotland No.1, who helped his team reach the last eight of the team event, defeated 43-year-old Norfolk Islander Richard Cribb 21-4 21-3 in just 20 minutes to earn a second-round test tomorrow against either Ashley Hutchings of Jersey or Victor Munga of Kenya.

The seventh seed's first real test should come if he reaches the quarter-finals where England third seed and GB training partner Rajiv Ouseph, the 2010 silver medallist, should be waiting.

But Scotland suffered their first casualty of the individual event when Paul Van Rietvelde and Jillie Cooper fell in the mixed doubles first round.They lost the first game 21-13 to Adrian Liu and Michelle Li but looked like they were going to level the contest when they led 17-12 and 18-15 in the second.

Although the Canadians caught up the Scotland pair still had two game points before Liu and Li took the contest 24-22 on their second match point.

Murcia, Spain – September 8^th to the 14th

Following from the English International Para-Badminton Championships in June the Scottish Para-Badminton team has now been selected for the European Championships.

Congratulations to all the players Colin Leslie, Alan Oliver, Nail Jarvie, David Purdie, Bobby Laing, Fiona Christie and Deirdre Nagle. Kaity Hall is the National Coach and will accompany the Team, along with Bobby's dad, Alan.

After some good performances at the English event, the team will be looking to show further development and compete for medals in Spain.

Fiona Christie, who took two golds in England, will be highly ranked and even though the level of play will be a step higher, with continued improvement, Fiona will be looking to come away with another strong performance.