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China storm into semis in Sudirman Cup
www.chinanews.cn 2007-06-13 10:35:39
(Source: Xinhua)
Cai Yu of China plays a shot alongside his partner Fu Haifeng during
their doubles match against England's Robert Blair and David Lindley at
the Sudirman Cup World Team Badminton Championships in Glasgow, Scotland,
June 12, 2007.
June 13 - Title holders China became the first team into the semifinals
of the Sudirman Cup world team badminton championships after a second
consecutive 5-0 victory over England on Tuesday.
The five-time winners, who whitewashed Thailand 5-0 in their opening day
fixture, did not surrender even a single set after the first two Division
one Group A ties.
As Malaysia beat Thailand 3-2 in the other Group A match, Malaysia and
England both collected one win out of two while Thailand were left with
two defeats.
Earlier in Group B matches, Asian powerhouse South Korea took a major
stride towards the last four with their 4-1 victory over Chinese Hong
Kong, making it two wins out of two.
"Our shuttlers played better games than the first day. We didn't lose a
singe set but usually you have weaker opponents in group stage," Chinese
team coach Li Yongbo told a press conference after the match.
"The real battle hasn't started yet. We'll wait and see what'll happen in
the semifinals," he added.
Li tried a different lineup from the previous night but the Chinese
seemed just unstoppable on the way to their sixth title.
Mixed doubles Zheng Bo and Gao Ling claimed the opening point 21-14,
21-16 against Anthony Clark and Donna Kellogg while Andrew Smith gave
men's singles world number one Lin Dan a fright before going down 21-19,
21-11.
"Smith pressured me much in the first set," Lin said afterwards, "but as
long as I adapted to his game, I took control of the court."
"The first set was quite good. He's always difficult to play against, but
I have played him a couple of times before and taken him to three sets,"
Smith said.
"Lin played very well on game point in the first and the second set was
hard and it just frittered away."
Chinese veteran Zhang Ning replaced Xie Xingfang to play in the women's
singles and she gave no chance to Tracey Hallam before wrapping up the
victory for China with a 21-9, 21-15 comfortable win.
Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng then disposed of Robert Blair and David Lindley
21-14, 21-7 in the men's doubles and the whitewash was capped when Gail
Emms and Donna Kellogg were brushed aside 21-12, 21-13 by Wei Yili and
Zhang Yawen.
South Koreans started strong against Chinese Hong Kong as Han Sang Hoon
and Hwang Yu Mi eased to a 21-10, 21-11 win against Yohan Hadikusumo and
Hoi Wah Chau, and Park Sung Hwan made it 2-0 with a convincing 21-12,
21-13 men's singles victory over Wei Ng.
Pui Yin Yip hit back to win a close women's singles against Jang Soo
Young, but Lee Jae Jin and Hwang Ji Man put the result beyond doubt with
a comfortable 21-16, 21-16 triumph over Albertus Susanto Njoto and
Wiratama.
Indonesia, who fell victim to the Koreans on the opening night,
re-ignited hopes of matching their 1989 success in the tournament with a
narrow 4-1 win over Denmark, with Tine Rasmussen grabbing the Danes' only
rubber in the women's singles.
The opening men's singles proved to be the key as Olympic champion Taufik
Hidayat emerged as the hero with a 21-18, 18-21, 21-13 victory over world
No. 7 Peter Gade.
"In big part of the game I played very good and Taufik also played a good
game today," said Gade.
"I had a good chance winning the first game but Taufik controlled the net
and it's very important unfortunately. The first game very decisive, he
is lucky but also very good."
Denmark will have to face a tough challenge of beating South Koreans on
Wednesday to clinch a semifinal spot.
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