JERSEY badminton player Elizabeth Cann has recently returned to her base in Milton Keynes following good performances in competitions in Norway, Greece, Denmark and Germany.

National champion Cann is now preparing for the Yonex Irish International Badminton Championship and will then compete in the National Elite Final in December.

Cann, currently ranked No 2 in the UK, qualified for the final after scoring a maximum 540 points by winning all three Asics National Elite Opens.

She will face Eleanor Cox of Surrey, ranked 17th – who reached the final with a score of 240 – a player she met recently and defeated 11-5, 11-1.

After a short Christmas break in Jersey, Cann will be straight back into her new training regime with a men’s team, having recently changed coaches to Lee Jae Bok.

Cann said of previous coach Yvette Yun Luo: ‘She helped me improve my game so much, but we didn’t have the best of relations.

We tried to make things work but in the end we didn’t see eye-to-eye and so it was best to go our separate ways’.

With the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne coming up in March, Cann is now training as hard as ever and seems excited about the change as she says: ‘Lee Jae Bok has a different style of coaching, so I’m having to adapt to something new.

I’ve gone from the top of my previous training squad to the bottom, as I’m now training with men.

But it was the right decision to change coach and move forward.’ Cann is looking towards the Commonwealth Games in March in which she has been selcted to play for Jersey.

However, as she is funded by England, if she is chosen for the England team, she is contracted to compete for them.

Cann says: ‘I would love to play for Jersey but the decision really is out of my hands.

If the team was being chosen today I think I would be selected for England, but there’s still some time before the team is decided’.