Badminton England

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    Badminton England blast 'ill-informed' critics as sport aims to relaunch Olympic bid

    By Rod Gilmour 7:43AM GMT 30 Dec 2010

    Badminton England's chief executive Adrian Christy has hit back at critics who led a "whispering campaign" against the national governing body and vowed to restore order within the sport's administration following a year of unrest.


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    Resigned: Andy Wood left his post as head coach after only four months

    In the last six months alone Badminton England has seen performance director Ian Moss quit his post, a relatively poor showing at the Commonwealth Games and, earlier this month, UK Sport cut badminton's funding by £540,000 in the build-up to London 2012. It culminated last week when Andy Wood, the GB head coach, left his job after only four months with under two years to go until the Olympics. Wood, a key figure in the sport for over a decade, resigned after claiming that he lost control of his position after interference from senior officials.

    In a strongly-worded statement, Christy said: "The past 12 months have been really challenging for our Olympic programme and I don't hide from the fact that it has caused far too much disruption to the development of our players.

    "A lot has been said recently about the relationship between coaches, players and staff and there are elements of those comments that are true, there are others that are completely inaccurate. I am happy to take on board constructive criticism but refuse to rise to the bait when it descends into ill-informed gossip."

    Wood reportedly also quit over a row involving Nathan Robertson and Robert Blair, who rejoined the Scotland squad this month after switching allegiance to England eight years ago. It is understood that Blair was banned from attending training sessions at Badminton England's headquarters in Milton Keynes.



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    06.01.11 Robertson and Wallwork cling on in Super Series finals

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    NATHAN Robertson and Jenny Wallwork suffered their second consecutive defeat at the Victor Super Series Finals in Taiwan today – but were then handed an unexpected lifeline in their bid to reach the semi-finals.
    The Commonwealth silver and European bronze medallists lost to China’s Yonex All England champions Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei 21-15 21-14 to follow on from their three-game defeat by former world champions Thomas Laybourn and Kamilla Juhl on day one.
    But the Danish pair then pulled out of the tournament – Laybourn has been troubled by a hip problem – and that opening win was deleted from the Group A standings.
    England coach Julian Robertson said: “It means Nathan and Jenny have to beat their Thai opponents in straight games tomorrow to reach the knockout semi-finals on Saturday." Songphon Anugritayawan and Kunchala Voravichitchaikul had won their opener against the Chinese third seeds in three games on day one.
    Tomorrow's match will be the first time the England and Thailand pairs have met.

    Source: http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/show_news.asp?section=13&sectionTitle=News&itemid=3662

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    07.01.11 Robertson and Wallwork bow out in Taiwan

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    NATHAN ROBERTSON and Jenny Wallwork’s bid for a place in the semi-finals of the Victor BWF Super Series finals ended in disappointment in Taiwan today.
    The Commonwealth silver medallists needed to win their final group match in straight games to go through but instead they lost 21-16 14-21 21-17 in 45 minutes against Songphon Anugritayawan and Kunchala Voravichitchaikul.
    It meant the Thai pair went through in top spot in Group A while joint third seeds Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei, China's Yonex All England champions who beat the England pair in straight games yesterday, go through to tomorrow’s knockout semi-finals.
    Top seeds Thomas Laybourn and Kamilla Juhl beat Robertson and Wallwork in three games on day one but the Danish pair’s result was deleted when injury forced them to pull out on day two.
    The qualifiers in Group B were still to be confirmed with one match still to play.
    Robertson and Wallwork will now turn their attention to the Korean and Malaysian Open Super Series events later this month.
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    15.01.11 England stars back in the Super Series swing

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    England's top players start their countdown to the Yonex All England Championships at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in March when they tackle the first two Super Series events of the year in Malaysia and Korea this month.

    European bronze and Commonwealth silver medallist Rajiv Ouseph will be looking to consolidate his place in the top 16 of the world rankings when he contests the Proton Malaysia Open, starting on Tuesday.

    He is joined in the men's singles by team-mate Carl Baxter, his big rival when the English National Championships take place in Manchester from February 4-6.

    Ouseph will start against a qualifier but Baxter faces a tough test against Sony Dwi Kuncoro of Indonesia.

    After the Malaysian event, the England squad will move on to the Victor Korea Open, the first of the new Premier Super Series events which also includes the All England, from January 25-30.

    In Seoul the England squad will be joined by European bronze and Commonwealth silver medallists Nathan Robertson and Jenny Wallwork, who are ranked No.7 in the world.

    England suffered one setback this week when Peter Mills was forced to withdraw from the Malaysian men's doubles through illness, ruling out him and partner Marcus Ellis, the Bank of Scotland International champions who are up to No. 25 in the world.

    Their absence in Malaysia means that Andrew Ellis and Chris Adcock and Robert Blair with Indonesia's Flandly Limpele will lead the GB challenge in men's doubles.

    Ellis and Adcock begin their bid against Malaysia's Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari and Ong Soon Hock while Blair and Flandy, an All England runner-up and former England sparring partner, must tackle Tuesday's qualifying, starting against Malaysia's Marcel Simon and Tan Wee Gleen.

    Blair will also partner Gabby White in mixed doubles in both Malaysia and Korea, while Adcock and Scotland's Imogen Bankier will be looking to build on their success at the end of 2010.

    Adcock and Bankier have earned a place in the main draw but must face third seeds Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei, last weekend's BWF Super Series final winners from China.

    Blair must against go through qualifying with White and they start against Malaysian pair Ow Yao Han and Hoo Vivian Kah Mun.

    Kenneth Jonassen will be team manager and Pete Jeffrey the coach in both Malaysia and Korea.


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    The Robert Blair/Flandy partnership, actually works quite well. I can see them going quite far in Malaysia and Korea.
     
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    All England Badminton 2011: Rajiv Ouseph leads Britain's youthful charge as Olympics

    Birmingham will be awash with fast, frenetic and vociferous action this week. The Yonex All England Badminton Championships take place at the National Indoor Arena, while on the outskirts of the city it's Crufts, the annual dog jamboree.


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    By Rod Gilmour 7:30AM GMT 08 Mar 2011 Rod's Twitter


    The world's best in show, though, will be found at the badminton. The Chinese, who won all five events in 2009, will be omnipresent again. The Danes always threaten.

    Meanwhile, England's youthful crop of burgeoning talent continue to grow on the international stage. Where once we relied on Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms for success at doubles, home-based players are also blossoming at singles.

    Middlesex's Rajiv Ouseph is one such leading light ahead of London 2012, the 24 year-old benefiting from Badminton England's raft of changes at the top of the game after Kenneth Jonassen started his role as men's singles coach last July.

    Ouseph won the US Open in Los Angeles, his biggest tournament win, the same week as the Dane, who retired in 2008, moved to Badminton England's headquarters in Milton Keynes. The Briton is now hammering on the door of the world's top 10 after a leap-bounding 18 months.

    "He has completely changed how we are training," the world No 14 says of Jonassen. "He has upped my level of intensity and has tried to make me more aggressive and harder to play against.



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    Robert Blair and Gabby White take German Open title

    I know I'm being late...but congratulation to Blair/White. Well done!

    P/S: sport journalist got their fact wrong again...Sigh...
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    Robert Blair and Gabby White won the title in Mulheim


    Robert Blair earned some compensation for having to retire in the mixed doubles final of last season's German Open by winning it this time around.
    The Scot, who partnered Imogen Bankier last year, and England's Gabby White defeated Japan's Shintaro Ikeda and Reiko Shiota 16-21 21-16 21-15.
    Their win in Mulheim was ideal preparation for the sixth seeds ahead of the All England Championships.
    Blair and White defeated Bankier and Chris Adcock in the semi-finals.
    That 21-17 21-17 victory over the Anglo-Scottish pair ranked 43 in the world, as well as a quarter-final win over number 25 duo Alexandr Nikolaenko and Valeria Sorokina, is expected to boost their own ranking further.

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    And the wrong part would be?
     
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    Apology. It's my mistake. In the last paragraph of BBC news(on the link I provided). I found this

    I thought they were saying about Blair and White playing against Ikeda/Shiota for the first time. Apparently, I misread.
     
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    Ah, I thought perhaps you had interpreted them being #6 seeds for the AE ...
     
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    Gail Emms tells GB badminton to write off London 2012

    By Matt Slater
    BBC sports news reporter

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    British badminton should forget about London 2012 and focus its efforts on the 2016 Games, according to Gail Emms.
    The former Olympic medallist and world champion was talking on the day the sport was forced to admit it has almost no chance of success in London.
    In the four-monthly review of Team GB's preparations, badminton and handball were the only two sports to get "reds" in a traffic-light rating system.
    "I'm not at all surprised - this should have come two years ago," said Emms.
    "They should have had a complete overhaul after the Beijing Olympics and started from scratch.
    "But instead of being honest about who they had in the team, and who was going to be around in London, they got a bit carried away with the excitement of having a home Olympics."

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    Jens Grill takes charge in British badminton shake-up

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    Jenny Wallwork and Nathan Robertson are among Britain's leading players


    British badminton has made two key appointments as the sport undertakes a major restructure.
    Jens Grill is the new performance director for the GB and England performance programme, while Kenneth Jonassen becomes GB singles head coach.
    Grill takes the reins at a time when underachievement and infighting have hampered the sport.
    Badminton England chief executive Adrian Christy said the game had "no illusions of the challenges we face".
    He added that British badminton needed to learn some "hard lessons" as it enters a new phase.
    Grill's appointment follows an internal review conducted by the Great Britain World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) as it prepares for the run-up to London 2012.
    In addition to the appointment of Grill and former European men's singles champion Jonassen, a GB doubles head coach and a head of performance operations will also be appointed.
    Last year badminton, which failed to win a medal at the Beijing Olympics, was the only summer sport to have its funding reduced by UK Sport in its annual review, and head coach Andy Wood then quit in the wake of infighting in the squad.
    British players endured a disastrous All-England championships in March, with none making it past the second round.



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    Can't go wrong with a German first name and Grill qualities to boot :p (apparently Jens is actually Scandinavian in origin. Can't say I've encountered it much in those parts, especially when compared to Germany)
     
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    London 2012 Olympics: GB badminton play down Games medal chances

    Jens is a Dane:p. Scandinavian indeed. See below.
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    By Rod Gilmour


    British badminton's new performance director has admitted that winning medals for Team GB at London 2012 is a "tough ask".

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    Prospect: Rajiv Ouseph (centre) is considered a "great prospect" by Jens Grill Photo: LOCOG



    Jens Grill was last week handed the task of driving Great Britain's team – a mix of experience and youth – towards the Olympics after Andy Wood quit his post in December.

    The Dane, who has twice worked for Badminton England in coaching roles over the last decade, takes over after last year's poor showing at the All England Championships, where there were no home seeded players for the first time in the competition's history.

    Badminton England has been heavily criticised for recent performances and, following several high-profile retirements, doubles specialist Anthony Wood claimed Britain had fallen behind in the sport.

    However Grill told Telegraph Sport: "I think that was a very a strong statement. There are always going to be ups and downs.

    "We can't expect to get top players every year and a superstar doesn't come through like that. Even in Denmark that doesn't happen.

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    Now that you mention it a Rasmus Grill is a name that just popped up in my head, perhaps related ...
     
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    British badminton states its case

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    (let's preserve it for the ages and copy in full sans the videos)

    Ollie Williams | 13:39 UK time, Monday, 8 August 2011

    "British badminton has had its problems. Earlier this summer, those in charge outlined to BBC Sport the steps they hope will put things right. Now, during this week's World Championships at Wembley Arena, we may see whether that plan is starting to work.

    In-fighting between top players and a lack of leadership sent the sport plunging from the high of Olympic silver at Athens 2004 to the low of being told by former star Gail Emms - one half of that silver medal - to expect nothing at their home Games in 2012.

    Badminton England, which runs a national training centre in Milton Keynes and is responsible for most of the British stars preparing for 2012, subsequently asked for a chance to demonstrate to us that things are changing.

    There are three individuals behind the scenes in British badminton who may prove crucial to the sport's turnaround. The first of them, Vikki McPherson, has already left the organisation.

    McPherson arrived from UK Sport last August as an interim performance director, to find out what was going wrong within British badminton and start to tackle the problems.

    I met McPherson and the two other members of that critical triumvirate, new performance director Jens Grill and coach Kenneth Jonassen, at the national centre earlier this summer. They were keen for the organisation to appear as open as possible about its recent problems.

    "The players were hugely frustrated," said McPherson. "There was no clear and consistent leadership, and a history of issues not being properly tackled and allowed to fester."

    The big issue facing McPherson on her arrival was a falling-out between star player Nathan Robertson and team-mate Robert Blair. The disagreement, described as "kids in the playground" by one observer, culminated in Robertson refusing to play in the same team as Blair - just as McPherson was settling down at her desk for the first time.

    Is British badminton ready to move on? BBC Sport's Jessica Creighton reports.

    "Inevitably in an environment like this, working with the same people day in, day out, you're going to get tensions developing," she said.

    "You have to deal with them and move on but that hadn't happened. Things needed to be calmed down and one of the most important things was telling the players we wanted their feedback.

    "The real surprise for me was the number of players who said nobody had asked for their opinion before. These were people who'd been funded by the programme for five or six years. We asked why they hadn't been more proactive and knocked on doors, but they said they didn't think they'd be taken seriously and it might prejudice their selection on teams.

    "People hadn't felt the programme was listening to them so they were giving their feedback to other forums instead - the badminton community and the media. They weren't doing that as a first port of call, they were doing it because they felt nobody was listening to them.

    "It was very difficult to get back to the root cause of the issues, because there was a lot of emotion running quite high and some strongly-held opinions which weren't necessarily evidence-based," McPherson concluded, in beautifully diplomatic language from which one might reasonably infer some people were both outspoken and wrong.

    Over the winter months, McPherson sat players and coaches down in small groups - usually no more than half a dozen - and told them "be as blunt as you like, but we have to hear it now". The players duly covered sheets of paper on the walls with suggestions and criticisms.

    "They really responded to that," said McPherson. "I got some fantastic, honest feedback from the players that was also very balanced: a good combination between 'this is what it feels like for me' and 'these are my perceptions more generally'.

    "For example, the players wondered whether we were giving their coaches enough chance to develop. They were thinking very holistically."

    The players had hit on something: coaching at the national centre wasn't working, primarily because a lack of leadership left the players unsure who to speak to, afraid to raise issues, and often filling the vacuum themselves to the detriment of team morale. McPherson entirely understands how they felt.

    "The players have to be very focused on what they're trying to achieve and if they feel the programme isn't delivering for them, they'll start to take control themselves," she said.

    "And why wouldn't they? They may only get one shot at an Olympics and they have to make sure it's their best shot. Because of the lack of clear leadership, the players started to tackle things themselves.

    "But they don't want to do that and they're not here to do that. When you tackle those areas properly, they'll quickly fall back and focus on what they're actually here to do."

    Jens Grill, a veteran of two stints at Badminton England now elevated to the position of performance director, is the man who must act on McPherson's findings. He insists he has learned lessons from the year gone by and his priority will be to give the players the guidance they lacked.

    "We can't have five leaders, we need one or two," he said. "Then we can move things forward. If you have five guys then nobody decides, everybody's a bit careful and nothing gets done. My first action has been for everyone to understand their job and that this is the guy who makes decisions."

    Grill was in charge of Swedish badminton before returning to the British fold in June last year. He says he missed most of the fracas between Robertson and Blair, and he wouldn't comment specifically on their troubles.

    But, asked if players de-selecting themselves could occur in future, he did say: "If you're picked to represent us, you play. If they say, 'I don't want to play in that, I'll play in the next championships,' then our investment is for nothing.

    "This is a competitive environment, though. The guys are training together, helping each other, advising each other sometimes - but they are competitors. Some of them don't get on.

    "It's like in a business, you've got colleagues you don't like that much but you're professional, you have a job to do and you get the most out of it, even if there are people you don't ask out for a drink on a Friday night. And we're the same here.

    "These are characters thinking about themselves first, thinking they should be picked, and it's our job to manage it - but I don't want to remove it, because it's key to what we do."

    The leadership problem has been resolved by replacing previous head coach Andy Wood, who quit in December believing he had been undermined by senior management, with two new posts: a head singles coach and head doubles coach.

    The singles coaching post has gone to Kenneth Jonassen, a man in whom Britain's badminton players appear to have near-unshakable faith.

    Jonassen is a master of the singles game, having been European men's champion as recently as 2008 and having spent time as the world number two. He is the final piece in the three-person puzzle.

    "As a player Kenneth was very determined - not a lot of outbursts, but very physical," said Grill, who saw plenty of his fellow Dane in action when he was coaching while Jonassen was playing.

    "His real strength was the mental side of his game. He was never the most elegant but he got the results and got the wins."
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    Jonassen, sitting bolt upright when we meet in a windowless room used to view tapes of matches, exudes the aura of the formidably driven. He talks formidable talk, too. We discussed his reasons for taking the post and recent British failure at the sport's flagship All-England Championships - where no British player made it past the second round - and he spoke as though a vision for British badminton played across his eyes.

    "I enjoy it here, I like working with the players, they are very forthcoming and you can see they desperately want to achieve," he said.

    "That's what I need. If I saw they were happy with the way things were, with the results they have now, then I'm not the right man for the job. When they lose, I lose as well, and it hurts me - it hurts me bad when we don't win and we had a chance to win. The All-England Championships? That was a bad day for me. That hurt.

    "There's good talent there - some of them are a bit raw and need to be worked with to produce any form of champion. We need to be better at competing, they all know I want to see an improvement there.

    "It's about your attitude when you go on-court. Getting that right every day in training is more important than at the tournament. People think they can just switch it on when they go on court in a tournament, and they can't. I want hungry players who will do whatever it takes to win."

    Jonassen seems to hold a good number of the British squad under his spell. When asked about him, Chris Adcock - one half of the top British men's doubles pair, alongside Andy Ellis - leans in and says simply: "He's class."

    Adcock and Ellis agree that Jonassen sees things others don't in their game, despite the Dane being nominally the head singles coach and not involved with doubles. The duo are visibly animated talking about the effect he has on them.

    Rajiv Ouseph, Britain's best singles player and possibly the best hope at London 2012, knows more than most what Jonassen can do. When Jonassen arrived last year he made it his priority to work with Ouseph, 24, who duly gained 10 ranking places. He's now looking to break into the world top 10.

    "I won't lie, Raj was a player that lured me here," said Jonassen. "He's massively skilful and I thought it could be interesting to work with a player like that.

    "I've been able to push him a bit and work with very small details. If he gets them all right he'll have a huge impact. It's a huge step up to number one and two in the world but we're not that far behind the next bunch, and that will be interesting over the next six to 12 months."

    Ouseph said: "I was at an age where I needed to press on and Kenneth coming in was crucial - it showed in the first tournament after he came, which I won.

    "He can use so much of his own experience to help us. He's been there and done it. His badminton brain is the best thing about him - he's sitting behind our court and he'll see things very quickly and relay the messages to us.

    "He's brought in a bit more competition between us all. Sometimes he gets involved as well and you don't really like losing to your coach, but Kenneth never wants to lose at anything: even when he's playing against us he never, ever wants to lose. He's brought a high intensity to training that can only be beneficial to us."

    McPherson's identification of the failings, Grill's plan to set things right and Jonassen's marshalling of the troops at ground level will be the foundations on which British badminton's future is based.

    Whether it's enough to make a real mark at Britain's home Olympics is another matter, and results have yet to experience any seismic shift since the changes took place.

    But McPherson - who has now handed over to Grill and moved on - wants the players to understand that standards have to rise.

    "UK Sport offers sports funding for a number of podium [i.e. top-tier] and development [second-tier] athletes - but you don't have to fill those places," she explained.

    "Badminton did in the past. It wasn't a case of 'we've got 11 players good enough for podium so we'll fund them'. It was a case of saying 'we've been given 11 places so we'll find people for them all'.

    "That's not the attitude of a lot of the other sports, who say you won't be funded at podium level until you've really earned it. That's something we've started to change.

    "Some arguments from players who weren't offered a place on the programme have been entirely the wrong arguments, which shows they haven't understood that. 'I won the national championships,' is one of those arguments. Fine, but this isn't about funding people to win the national championships - where's the evidence that you're going to compete at Olympic level in future?

    "For London next year we're looking at a minimum of one top-eight and a maximum of one medal. That's realistic. Then a lot of work over the next couple of years will be building sound foundations for the future.

    "The goals for Rio 2016 haven't been set but that will happen after London and be informed by that. They will be based on a hard and honest assessment of our sport."
     
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    WORLD BADMINTON: Adcock and Bankier stun more seeds to guarantee bronze

    Posted: Friday 12th August 2011 | 23:30
    By Gerard Meagher, Sportsbeat, at Wembley Arena



    TWELVE months ago British badminton were told to refocus their Olympic medal ambitions on Rio - clearly no-one told Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier.

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    IMPRESSIVE: Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier stunned their Chinese rivals to progress to the world mixed doubles semi-final (Sportsbeat)

    The unseeded mixed doubles pair progressed to the semi-finals of Yonex BWF World Championships at Wembley Arena by dumping out third seeds Tao Jiaming and Qing Tian of China 21-16, 21-18.
    They have now claimed the scalps of three seeded pairs, guaranteed themselves an improbable bronze and announced their intentions for the podium when the Olympic Games are staged at the same venue in 12 months time.
    Cheered by a vocal home crowd, they raced into an early lead and never let their advantage slip, despite some wobbles on match point - which they secured at the third time of asking.
    Bankier slumped to the floor in disbelief while Adcock ripped off his shirt and threw it into the crowd.
    In truth, the Chinese pair, who have been in the world's top four in mixed doubles since the turn of the year with final appearances at both the Malaysian and Korean Super Series events, had little answer to the tenacity and passion of the British duo.
    Adcock and Bankier now face Indonesian second seeds Tantowi Ahmad and Liliyana Natsir with brimming confidence.
    “The whole thing was a blur," admitted Adcock, after a victory that took just 41 minutes.

    REad More at: http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/b...-and-bankier-stun-more-seeds-guarantee-bronze
     
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    UNBELIEVABLE but have to believe it. They beat tjm and tq of china in straight games:eek:
     
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    Honestly I never heard theese two names before.. One from England and the other from Scotland, but I think both will represented Great Britain in the next year Olympic I believe.
     
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    chris adcock is actually a runner up in world junior championship not sure when with current gf gabrielle white...they really impressed me...from the start fast play...chinese probably too unexpected to play at their best...
     

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