WORLDS 2015 Day 3 – Brits top Taipei seeds

England’s Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge opened Day 3 by upsetting the highest-seeded doubles pair so far this week, beating Lee/Tsai of Chinese Taipei in two games. By Don Hearn, […]

England’s Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge opened Day 3 by upsetting the highest-seeded doubles pair so far this week, beating Lee/Tsai of Chinese Taipei in two games.

By Don Hearn, Badzine Correspondent live in Jakarta.
Video: Loïc Meuriot.  Photos: Badmintonphoto (live)

Just as in June, Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge of England came to Jakarta and got off to an amazing start.  At the Indonesia Open, they beat last year’s World Championship bronze medallists before losing a close one to the silver medallists.  Today, they got up early to send packing world #8 Lee Sheng Mu and Tsai Chia Hsin of Chinese Taipei.

“Before we came to the tournament we had a lot of preparation for that match,” said Marcus Ellis after the match.  “We knew that was the match that would make or break our tournament…It went just as we planned.”

The English pair now look await the winner of the match between Mads Conrad-Petersen / Mads Pieler Kolding of Denmark and India’s Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar, as the field begins to narrow to include a parade of seeded and otherwise dangerous pairings.

Watch the complete post-match interview and highlights below:

Don Hearn

About Don Hearn

Don Hearn is an Editor and Correspondent who hails from a badminton-loving town in rural Canada. He joined the Badzine team in 2006 to provide coverage of the Korean badminton scene and is committed to helping Badzine to promote badminton to the place it deserves as a global sport. Contact him at: don @ badzine.net