23 August, 2023
Ben Lane and Sean Vendy fell to a battling defeat on the BWF World Championships as English curiosity got here to an finish on the third day of motion in Copenhagen.
Quarter-finalists a 12 months in the past, Lane and Vendy dropped simply 11 factors in a complete first-round win on Tuesday to e book a spherical two contest in opposition to Indonesians Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin.
Former junior world champions Carnando and Marthin are seeded tenth within the draw and had received each earlier conferences with Lane and Vendy, however the English duo began brightly contained in the Royal Area.
Lane and Vendy battled their solution to the opening recreation and practically rallied from a big deficit within the second, although the Indonesians held agency to power a decider.
And the tenth seeds have been finally too medical, closing out a 18-21 21-19 21-10 triumph to progress to the third spherical.
In the meantime, earlier within the day Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith noticed their marketing campaign come to an finish with defeat to fellow Europeans Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue.
