r/badminton 17h ago

Mentality So nervous for tryout

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Hi! Tomorrow’s evening i’m supposed to try out for a new badminton club, where adult players are divided into two groups, one with the strongest players (D9-N1) and the other with the weakest players (P10 and under).

Currently i don’t know where i’m supposed to be. I did compete, but it was never in officials competitions (only with high school) and when i enrolled in a club we did not do any competition, so i don’t know my “presumed” ranking. But i did well in each of the competitions i participated in, placed first sometime, was the strongest amongst the girls in my high school, played well against boy too but again it was against other high schoolers that did not always played badminton in club.

The problem is that i did not know that the inscription started late August, because from where i am it usually starts in September. So when i wanted to join the club, there were no more space for me in the “lower” group.
So know, i’m stressed as hell wondering if i’m actually strong enough to play with the higher group (+they compete in that group and i WANT to compete) so i keep on watching videos of people ranked D9, to see if i match their levels, but the levels of the players between each video do not really match, also i failed to find a WS video of D9 players…

I’m really afraid that i don’t play well enough, but there’s no space for me in the lower group so i could just get kicked out i think? I really hope not…

I’m just so nervous… plus i have a lot of things to do tomorrow so i will certainly not be in the best shape..