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Peter Gade trounces Pedro Yang

Peter Gade trounces Pedro Yang

ANAHEIM (U.S.): Third-seeded Peter Gade advanced to the second round at the badminton World championships on Monday by routing Guatemala's Pedro Yang, 15-0, 15-1.

Three of the four remaining top seeds will begin play on Wednesday. China's Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen, Olympic gold medallists in women's doubles last year, will face Bulgaria's Diana Dimova and Linda Zechiri next.

The results: Men's singles (first round): Peter Gade (Den) bt Pedro Yang (Gua) 15-0, 15-1; Chen Hong (Chn) bt Przemyslaw Wacha (Pol) 17-14, 15-2; Hafiz Hashim (Mas) bt Kaveh Mehrabi (Iri) 15-3, 15-3; Ng Wei (HKg) bt John Moody (NZ) 15-12, 15-4; Kennevic Asuncion (Phi) bt Andrew Smith (Eng) 17-14, 5-15, 17-15; Shoji Sato (Jpn) bt Dicky Palyama (Ned) 15-10, 15-8; Ville Lang (Fin) bt Vladislav Druzchenko (Ukr) 13-15, 15-9, 15-6; Rasmus Wenberg (Swe) bt Jan Vondra (Cze) 15-7, 17-16; Andrew Dabeka (Can) bt Eric Go (U.S.) 9-15, 15-3, 15-1; Olivier Fossy (Fra) bt Ronald Susilo (Sin) 9-15, 3-13 (retd.); Sony Dwi Kuncoro (Ina) bt Craig Goddard (Sco) 15-1, 15-1; Niels Christian Kaldau (Den) bt Niluka Karunaratne (Sri) 15-6, 15-7; Hyun Ii Lee (Kor) bt Jim Ronny Anderson (Nor) 15-3, 15-7; Tien Minh Nguyen (Vie) bt Marc Zwiebler (Ger) 15-13-17-16; Poompat Sapkulchananart (Tha) bt Raju Rai (U.S.) 15-7, 9-15, 15-2.

Women's singles (first round): Kanako Yonekura (Jpn) bt Marketa Koudelkova (Cze) 11-2, 11-0; Kaori Mori (Jpn) bt Linda Zechiri (Bul) 11-3, 11-0; Li Li (Sin) bt Susan Hughes (Sco) 11-3, 7-11, 11-4; Elena Nozdran (Ukr) bt Cristina Aicardi (Per) 11-4, 11-2; Nathalie Descamps (Bel) bt Rachel Hindley (NZ) 11-4, 9-11, 11-9; Huang Chia-Hsin (Tpe) bt Hui Ding (Ita) 5-11, 11-1, 13-10; Yip Pui-yin (HKg) bt Laura Molina (Esp) 11-1, 7-0 (retd.); Sutheaswari Mudukasan (Mas) bt Nina Weckstrom (Fin) 11-4, 11-3; Kati Tolmoff (Est) bt Eva Lee (U.S.) 10-13, 13-11, 11-1; Xu Huai-wen (Ger) bt Simone Prutsch (Aut) 11-2, 11-8; Salakjit Ponsana (Tha) bt Hwang Hye-Youn (Kor) 11-7, 11-1; Ella Karachkova (Rus) bt Clare Flood (Irl) 11-0, 11-0.

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