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Thursday, Jan 19, 2006

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Chen Hong starts well

BIRMINGHAM : Defending champion Chen Hong reached the second round of the men's singles at the All-England Open badminton championships on Wednesday.

The seventh-seeded Chinese, also the 2002 champion, needed 34 minutes to beat Yousuke Nakanishi of Japan 15-8, 15-7 as the last major tournament played under the traditional scoring system opened with a 96-match programme.

There were no upsets in the early singles matches as the Asian players looked strong. Yeoh Kay Bin of Malaysia became the first opening-day winner when he beat Ukrainian qualifier Vladislav Druzchenko 15-7, 15-7 in 37 minutes.

The results:

Men: First round: Lin Dan (Chn) bt Jang Young-Soo (Kor) 15-5, 9-15, 15-9; Kasper Oedum (Den) bt Eric Pang (Ned) 9-15, 15-4, 15-2; Wong Choon Hann (Mal) bt Arvind Bhat (Ind) 15-9, 15-9; Aamir Ghaffar (Eng) bt Zhang Yi (Chn) 15-5, 15-1; Kenneth Jonassen (Den) bt Sho Sasaki (Jpn) 15-6, 15-11; Sainal Amar Ayob (Mal) bt Jean-Michel Lefort (Fra) 15-5, 15-11; Vidre Wibowo (Swe) bt Peter Mikkelsen (Den) 15-13, 15-11; Lee Chong Wei (Mal) bt Geoff Bellingham (NZ) 15-3, 15-2; Bjoern Joppien (Ger) bt Bo Rafn (Den) 15-9, 15-7; Chen Hong (Chn) bt Yousuke Nakanashi (Jpn) 15-8, 15-7; Niels Christian Kaldau (Den) bt Poompat Sapkulchananart (Tha) 17-16, 15-12 Boonsak Ponsana (Tha) bt Rajiv Ouseph (Eng) 15-9, 15-13; Joachim Fischer Nielsen (Den) bt Pedro Yang (Gua) 15-4, 15-2; Chen Jing (Chn) bt Muhammad Hafiz Hashim (Mal) 17-14, 15-5; Koichi Saeki (Jpn) bt Kasper Ipsen (Den) 15-8, 15-10; Ng Wei (HK) bt John Gordon (NZ) 15-9, 15-13; Pei Wee Chung (Mal) bt Martyn Lewis (Wal) 15-9, 15-3; Peter Gade (Den) bt Park Sung-Hwan (Kor) 15-4, 15-9; Christian Lind Thomsen (Den) bt Andrew Smith (Eng) 15-6, 5-15, 15-11; Kuan Beng Hong (Mal) bt Bobby Milroy (Can) 15-10, 15-8; Michael Christensen (Den) bt Petr Koukal (Cze) 15-12, 15-11; Lee Hyun-Il (Kor) bt Chetan Anand (Ind) 15-0, 15-3; Lee Tsuen Seng (Mal) bt Sony Dwi Kuncoro (Ina) 15-5, 15-8. — Agencies

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