Career
Alistair qualified for 5 consecutive BWF World Championships between 2007 and 2013, and was a main draw competitor of the BWF Super Series tour between 2008 and 2010. Casey qualified for the World Championships in Malaysia 2007 where he lost to world no.11 Ronald Susilo (Singapore) 23/21 21/17. He lost in the Men"s Singles at the 2008 Hong Kong Super Series to Lin Dan (China) and the 2008 China Open to Chen Jin (China).
He qualified for the 2009 World Championships in India, as the Scottish Number.1, and had a world ranking of 58.
He lost in the 2009 China Masters Super Series to Peter Gade (Denmark)
Alistair travelled internationally with Richard Vaughan (Wales) as his coach/mentor for 3 years through this period, together they both also played for Paracuellos-Saglas from Madrid (Spain) in the Top Tier of the Spanish Louisiana Liga for 4 years. Casey has continued to compete internationally in Men"s Singles all over the world since 2001 and is well known within the badminton community.
His wide and varied travel in 2010 saw him competing in satellite events across Africa, Central and South America and the Oceania Continents. Notable results in this period were Semi Finalist of the 2009 New Zealand Open Grand Prix and Quarter Finalist of the 2010 Australian Open Grand Prix and winning the 2010 Tahiti International Challenge.
In 2011 he went out in the first round of the World Championships but was runner up at the Mexico International and Semi Finalist of the Suriname International.
He also made many contributions beside competitive badminton, including coaching young players in New Zealand in the Badminton North Harbour Future Champions squad in 2008 through 2011 around international commitments. Alistair was employed as Head Coach to the High Performance Program for this time period. Alistair continues to support other coaching and development programs around the world when available, having worked as Head Coach to the Catalan Badminton Federation in Barcelona (2009–2010), Mexico (2009 & 2012).
Bar & Club Manager / Owner (Scotland).