CHAMPION Basia Grodynska has made it a hat-trick of titles on the badminton court.

The Longniddry athlete won her third consecutive East of Scotland Badminton Championship Women’s Singles title at the Oriam Sports Centre in Edinburgh over the weekend.

Impressively, the third title came without regular training and practice over the last year due to the demands of her Masters course in evolutionary genetics at the University of Edinburgh.

She was up against a number of talented players, including Abbie Brooks and Sophie Ford, who are part of the Badminton Scotland Development squad.

She need not have worried, though, as she succeeded in winning all of her matches.

After receiving a bye in the first round, Grodynska defeated Sophie Barrie 21-7, 21-15 to secure a spot in the quarter-finals.

In the last eight, she knocked out Lanna Rose Campbell 21-7, 21-6 before reaching the final with a 21-17, 23-21 win over Brooks.

Grodynska faced the number two seed Ford in the final and came through 21-15, 21-11.

She was attempting to secure a double but, alongside partner Sophia Schubert, came unstuck at the quarter-final stage.

Eventual winners Kirsten Berry and Ford came through after a tight contest saw them win the first game 21-11 before Grodynska and Schubert levelled it by winning the second game 21-17.

However, Berry and Ford took the decider 21-13 to progress.

Meanwhile, in the men’s events, Finlay Jack progressed to the semi-finals of the men’s singles. He defeated Peter Sawkins (21-10, 21-14), Hamish McCallister (21-10, 21-11) and Alastair Campbell (21-13, 21-12) to reach the last four.

However, the North Berwick man lost out to second seed Ganesh Balaji, despite taking the first game 21-16.

Balaji fought back to win the second game 24-22 and then the decider 21-19.

In the men’s doubles, Jack and his partner Theo Johnston lost their quarter-final match (18-21, 13-21) to title-holders and finalists Kenneth Cheung and Callum Crangle.