19 August, 2023
Ben Lane and Sean Vendy will probably be trying to emulate final 12 months’s BWF World Championships heroics when this 12 months’s motion will get underway in Copenhagen on Monday.
Twelve months in the past in Tokyo, Lane and Vendy prompted arguably the upset of the event after they knocked out prime seeds Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sukamuljo on their method to a powerful quarter-final exhibiting.
On the Royal Enviornment within the Danish capital, Lane and Vendy begin their marketing campaign within the opening spherical towards Guatemala’s Anibal Marroquin and Jonathan Solís.
Tenth seeds Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin await the winners within the second spherical, earlier than a possible quarter-final towards second seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.
Additionally in males’s doubles motion in Copenhagen are Rory Easton and Zach Russ, who will probably be making their World Championships debut this coming week.
Easton and Russ will open their marketing campaign versus Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan; ought to they beat the Chinese language Taipei pairing, they’ll play prime seeds Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto.
Stable rally from the boys earlier this week 💪🏼
The staff is preparing for the BWF World Championships, developing 21-27 August 2023. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/PZMExCDKdL
— Badminton England (@BadmintonEnglnd) August 10, 2023
Additionally making their occasion debut are Abby Harris and Annie Lado, the English pairing competing collectively within the ladies’s doubles.
Harris and Lado start their event towards Brazilians Jaqueline and Samia Lima in spherical one, earlier than a possible second spherical versus sixth seeds Zhang Shuxian and Zheng Yu.
Becoming a member of them within the ladies’s doubles draw are Lauren Smith and Chloe Birch, who missed final 12 months’s competitors by an damage for Smith.
They face Jin Yujia and Crystal Wong of Singapore of their spherical one contest, and, ought to they win, would go on to play twelfth seeds Li Wenmei and Liu Xuanxuan.
Smith may also be in motion within the combined doubles competitors alongside Marcus Ellis, with a first-round conflict towards Australians Kenneth Choo and Gronya Somerville incoming.
