Having become a bit better known, if not perhaps famous, at this year's Commonwealth Games, Scotland's medallists have a chance to start building their fortunes when play gets underway at the Axiata Cup in Indonesia tomorrow.
Imogen Bankier, Robert Blair and Kirsty Gilmour make up half of the European All Stars team in the big-money event which offers insight into where the power lies in world badminton and just how big the sport is.
Even without the involvement of the dominant Chinese, or a Japanese team, it is an Asian-dominated event in which the Scots are part of the solitary team from outside that continent who are competing for a million dollar prize pot with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and an Asian All Stars team comprising players from Chinese Tapei, India and Hong Kong.
The preliminary stages are played on a round-robin format with seven matches over the next week, the top four advancing to the finals in Malaysia the following week where the winning team will pick up a prize of $US400,000.
Placing the scale of the challenge in perspective the European team, which contained Carolina Marin - the Spaniard who was to go on to win this year's world singles championship - failed to get to the finals last year.
Just taking part, however, will see the Scots, as well as Frenchman Brice Leverdez, last year's Scottish Open Grand Prix men's singles champion and Russian men's doubles specialists Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov, share $US50,000.
"It's quite an honour to be asked, to be honest," said Bankier, who won a World Championship silver medal three years ago and has competed in the Olympics.
"We'll play against all the top teams in Asia, at least seven matches and it should be a fantastic event because it's in Indonesia in Jakarta and they do love their badminton."
She and Blair make the trip on something of a high having successfully defended their Scottish Open title last weekend in spite of having played very little competitive badminton previously this season.
For Gilmour the trip is the ideal pick-me-up after the disappointment of failing to live up to her top seeding at the Emirates, where she had performed so well earlier a few months earlier in claiming a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games.
The 21-year-old was visibly and audibly struggling with a heavy cold throughout, but did not seek to use that as an excuse at any point for failing to find her best form before exiting in the semi-finals to Japan's Sayaka Sato, who went on to take the title.
She is consequently looking forward to enjoying herself over the next week or perhaps two, without quite the same sense of responsibility as she has when competing for Scotland or in front of a home crowd.
"It's only been around for a couple of years so it will be fun not to have the pressure of an international tournament, but still playing in a really competitive environment," said Gilmour.
"It's a weird kind of twist on things, but we have a really strong team and we're hoping to do quite well."
This starts a six-month process which allows her to develop her game with a view to the big challenge ahead.
"Right now it's kind of a transitional season because the Olympic qualifying doesn't begin until May, so I can be selective about my tournaments and really develop my game in training, not having to do the circuit," she explained.
"I didn't play all the tournaments I did in the autumn last year, which is why my ranking would appear to have dropped, but I'm really working hard in training and then come May we're ready for the full slog of the Olympic qualifying year."
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