Playing in a World Championship in her home city could be enough to persuade Scotland's top badminton player to remain in the sport but only if she things she can compete for a gold medal.

Imogen Bankier, who has won silver at badminton's top competition before, revealed last month that she is taking something of a sabbatical from full-time involvement in the sport to start a business career.

However the 27-year-old admitted that this week's confirmation of the dates and venue for the 2017 World Championships had placed new temptation in her path.

"It's funny when you say that it is only two years away," she said.

"It seems so far away but I know the way things sneak up on you. When we played at the Olympics the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow seemed a long way off but they came around so quickly."

Far from badminton retirement Bankier is committed to continuing to play with her French club Chambly, defending the national title.

Along with claiming a Commonwealth Games medal that victory provided one of the highlights of last season when, in partnership with Kirsty Gilmour, they claimed the decisive victory in the women's doubles against, bizarrely, an Aix University combination of Jillie Cooper, with whom Gilmour had won the previous year's Scottish National title and Petya Nedelcheva, with whom Bankier had won a string of titles around Europe.

"I'm having to work out a different schedule to accommodate my job, but I'm actually going to be very busy with my badminton in the next few months," she explained.

"It will be pretty much weekend on, weekend off playing club matches and I won the French International Challenge in mixed doubles with Robert (Blair) last season and the women's doubles with Petya, so the club are keen for me to play in that again with one of my clubmates Robert Mateusiak.

"He is 39 and won the European Championship in 2012, beating Chris Adcock and me in the semi-final and he's still bouncing about so I suppose that demonstrates that there is plenty of time left."

The issue for Bankier is, however, that of finding the right partner if she is to continue and with Adcock now ranked in the world's top 10 in partnership with wife Gabby there is no real prospect of forming a combination with another British player that will allow her to compete for the one slot available at next year's Olympics.

All the moreso because she and Blair have, after last week's performance at the European Mixed Team Championships where they helped Scotland reach the knockout stages for the first time beating defending champions Germany in doing so, decided the time is right to call time on their partnership which saw them successfully defend their Scottish Open Grand Prix title last season, as well as earning that Commonwealth bronze medal.

"We discussed the fact that the Olympics was out for us and I think we both agree that we've run our course having had a great career together," Bankier explained.

"Last week was a special moment between Bob and me. We played awful and lost to that German pair (world top 10 ranked Michael Fuchs and Birgit Michels) before the Commonwealth Games and they also knocked Chris and me out of the Olympics and I had never beaten them, so it was a special win and so good to seal the deal with Bob beside me."

Where the World Championships offers a different incentive is that there is no need to confine herself to a compatriot as a partner and offers have inevitably come the Glaswegian's way, however she sets standards for herself that go way beyond merely turning up at a hometown party.

"Having it at the Emirates is a carrot, but I've competed in five or six World Championships and in a home World Championships in London, a home Olympics in London and a home Commonwealth Games in Glasgow," she pointed out.

"The most important thing is that I perform which doesn't mean turning up and playing, I'm always looking for the next best thing and what I can do better."

Having reached a World Championship final at London four years ago that sets the bar very high, but for all that Bankier enjoys her sport merely playing is not what motivates her.

"I am very ambitious, some would say overly so and I've already achieved so much at a young age, but I don't do it for the lifestyle or for the love of the game, so I will only be there if I think I can perform," she said.