The 100th edition of the annual Easter Open will be taking place this April and organisers’ ambitions of a suitably grand occasion have been boosted by the TMB, who have placed it among a select few events to receive financial backing.
‘It’s wonderful news,’ the Guernsey Badminton Association’s Daniel Jehan said.
‘We have circulated it to visitors now and are ambitious that we will see many returning old faces but also new ones.'
The open already has 30 entries, the majority of which are visitors, and sign-up is still available for nearly two months.
Overall, the TMB have split £123,000 of funding across 18 different organisations for 2026, including further sporting interest in rallying, bar billiards, yacht racing and cricket.
The first TMB-backed sporting event of 2026, this year’s Guernsey Rally currently has a record 39 crews – nearly half of which are visiting – on the entry list ahead of taking place later this month.
The Guernsey Open bar billiards tournament has brought upwards of 60 visitors in recent years and organisers are hoping to repeat that in May.
The biennial, week-long Classic Channel Regatta takes place in July and features Guernsey as a stop, potentially bringing over 80 yachts if the 2024 turnout is matched.
Racing starts in Dartmouth before a leg to Guernsey, followed by a rest day within the Channel Islands, and subsequently heads to Lezardrieux and Paimpol in France.
Guernsey Cricket will be utilising the funding to stage an U19 World Cup Qualifier in July – for which further details are yet to be revealed.
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