England's three hopes fall in Swiss quarter-finals

Singles hope Andrew Smith was toppled by third seed Chen Jin of China 21-10 21-5 to bring to an end his promising run.Earlier eighth seeds Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark failed to avenge their doubles defeat in the final of the European Team Championship in Liverpool last month when they went down to Danish third seeds Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen.But it was close. The England pair took the first game 21-18 before the Danes edged the second 21-19 and moved clear in the third to take the match 21-14.England's other doubles hopes, Chris Adcock and Robert Blair, were unlucky to run into Yonex All England and former world champions Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng and the Chinese sixth seeds cruised home 21-10 21-11.Andrew Smith is through to the quarter-finals of the Wilson Swiss Open on a day when England players found it tough in the second round.Smith beat Wong Choong Hann of Malaysia 16-21 21-12 21-16 to earn a last-eight clash with third seed Chen Jin.Doubles pairs Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark and Robert Blair and Chris Adcock were bidding to join him in late-night action in Basel.But the other England hopes fell by the wayside in the second round.First to go were doubles pair Richard Eidestedt and Andrew Ellis, who were overwhelmed 21-10 21-13 by Yonex All England champions Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng.The big disappointment came next when fourth seeds Clark and Donna Kellogg were brushed aside by China's Xu Chen and Zhao Yunlei 21-7 21-13 in the mixed doubles.Next to fall was Jersey's three-times English National champion Elizabeth Cann, who was outplayed by China's third seed Lu Lan 21-8 21-13.And a disappointing afternoon was complete when women's doubles hopes Jenny Wallwork and Gabby White, bidding to follow up their All England quarter-final place last week, fell to Taipei's top seeds Cheng Wen Hsing and Chien Yu Chin 21-16 21-6.That left England's hopes resting with Adcock and Blair against Japan's Shintaro Ikeda and Shuichi Sakamoto and the England pair won 21-19 21-15.In the last match of the night Robertson and Clark took on Kwon Yi Goo and Yoo Yeon Seong and made it three England contenders in the quarter-finals with a straight-games win, 21-18 21-14.European champions Anthony Clark and Donna Kellogg were a pair in a hurry today as they raced past Chris Adcock and Gabby White to reach the second round of the mixed doubles at the Wilson Swiss Open in Basel.The fourth seeds were even more ruthless than when they met their young team-mates at the Yonex All England Championships last week in Birmingham.Today they raced to victory 21-7 21-5 in just 23 minutes, taking the contest on their first match point to earn a second-round clash with China's Chen Xu and Zhao Yunlei.But there was disappointment for Robert Blair and Imogen Bankier as the sixth seeds lost 19-21 22-20 21-13 to Taiwan's Hsieh Yu Hsin and Chien Yu Chin.
And David Lindley and Suzanne Rayappan also went out in the first round despite putting up a determined display against double world champions and top seeds Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir before losing 21-12 18-21 21-13 in 43 minutes.White returned to the action with Jenny Wallwork and the Yonex All England quarter-finalists got off to a winning start with a 21-18 21-17 victory over Malgorzata Kurdelska and Agniezska Wojtkowska in the women's doubles.In the women's singles Jersey's three-times English National champion Elizabeth Cann stunned All England quarter-finalist Nanna Brosolat Jensen with a 21-18 21-9 victory. Cann now meets third seed Lu Lan.In the men's singles Andrew Smith knocked out Petr Koukal 21015 14-21 21-10 to earn a crack at Malaysia's Wong Choong Hann.Three of England's four men's doubles pairs went through with narrow victories for both Richard Eidestedt & Andrew Ellis and Robert Blair & Chris Adcock while Nathan Robertson & Clark cruised into the second round. But the odd ones out were Lindley and Chris Langridge, who fell 21-16 19-21 21-11 to Polish seventh seeds Michel Logosz and Robert Mateusiak. Eidestedt and Ellis's reward is a second-round clash with Yonex All England champions Cai Yun & Fu Haifeng.
Source : http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk