October 27, 2023
Ben Lane and Sean Vendy registered a BWF World Tour victory for the third event in succession as they reached the spherical of 16 on the YONEX French Open.
The lads’s doubles duo have loved a stellar European swing, tasting success in Finland, Denmark and now Rennes to make for a powerful finish to 2023.
Their victims have been the younger Chinese language pairing of Bo Yang Chen and Yi Liu, who beat Muhammad Shohibul Fikri and Bagas Maulana within the last to win April’s Orleans Masters – the one different French cease on the Tour.
It was a rematch of the earlier week’s first-round encounter in Odense, that went to 3 video games, however this time Lane and Vendy dominated proceedings to expire 21-13 21-14 winners.
Within the subsequent spherical, they’d the reigning world champions on the run. The Englishmen received the opener 21-19 after which took Kang Min Hyuk and Search engine optimization Seung Jae to 13-13 within the second.
Precision and placement 👌🏼
Watch how Ben Lane does it ⤵️🎥 BWF pic.twitter.com/jXsdDgAoA4
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The Koreans then received 9 of the following ten factors and crashed by the open door within the decider, which they wrapped up 21-10 to say victory in 67 minutes.
“I assumed we performed a strong match once more aside from a small patch within the second set which managed to offer them the momentum,” mentioned Lane.
“It’s at all times robust enjoying in opposition to the present world champions who’re clearly enjoying effectively and assured.
“We’ve loads of tournaments arising so these previous couple of weeks have been an excellent begin to this block.”
For Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith, a primary assembly with Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong since 2019 provided a reminder of the Chinese language pairing’s class.
It wasn’t meant to be for our XD pairs Marcus and Lauren and Greg and Jenny. Each pairs confronted robust opposition within the first spherical of the S750 French Open. ➡️ Subsequent cease is the S750 Halo Open in Germany subsequent week 💪 #badminton #badmintonengland #bwftour pic.twitter.com/FqBI3GAEe4
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The blended doubles pair couldn’t get a glance in as they went all the way down to a 21-12 21-11 defeat.
There was helpful Tremendous 750 expertise for Greg and Jenny Mairs, who matched up moderately effectively with Japan’s Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsutomo however have been outlasted 21-18 21-18.
