Sporting Digest: Badminton

7-UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Birmingham; selected results): Men's singles fourth round: H Arbi (Indon) bt Ong Ewe Hok (Malay) 15-12 11-15 17-14; J Olsson (Swe) bt Kim Hak-kyun (S Kor) 15-1 12-15 15-7; H Susanto (Indon) bt Wan Zhengwen (Ch) 15-7 15-6; S Kookasemkit (Thai) bt D Hall (Eng) 8-15 18-15 15-4; T Stuer-Lauridsen (Den) bt R Liljequist (Fin) 15-8 15-3; Liu Jun (Ch) bt T Johansson (Swe) 10-15 15-8 15-3; Foo Kok Keong (Malay) bt A Antropov (Rus) 15-6 15-3; A Budi Kusuma (Indon) bt S Butler (Eng) 15-18 15-4 15-0; F Permadi (Indon) bt A Nielsen (Eng) 15-9 15-10; R Sidek (Malay) bt Dong Jiong (Ch) 15-11 15-8; A Wiranata (Indon) bt Pan Teng (Ch) 15-7 15-11; Wu Wenkai (Ch) bt Wong Wai Lap (HK) 15-6 15-6; P-E Hoyer-Larsen (Den) bt P Knowles (Eng) 15-10 15-3; Park Sung-Woo (S Kor) bt C Bruil (Neth) 12-15 15-9 15-12; E Lia (Nor) bt P Uvarov (Rus) 10-15 15-6 15-9; J Suprianto (Indon) bt P Pelupessy (Neth) 15-4 15-5. Women's singles fourth round: Hu Ning (Ch) bt S Louis-Lane 11-5 11-8; S Susanti (Indon) bt A Sondergaard (Den) 11-6 11-0; Lee Heung-soon (S Kor) bt Si-an Deng (Can) 11-4 11-5; J Kartika (Indon) bt H Mizui (Japan) 12-10 12-11; Ye Zhaoying (Ch) bt F Smith (Eng) 11-1 11-6; J Santoso (Indon) bt S Dimbour (Fr) w/o; S Jaroensiri (Thai) bt N Baldewein (Ger) 11-7 11-1; Lee Wai Leng (Malay) bt Cheng Ying Sat (HK) 11-5 11-2; Tang Jiuhong (Ch) bt A van der Knaap (Neth) 11-3 11-0; S Kusumawardhani (Indon) bt N Ivanova (Rus) 11-2 11-5; Guo Jing (Ch) bt I Serova (Aut) 11-4 5-11 11-4; Bang Soo-Hyun (Kor) bt A Humby (Eng) 11-1 11-4; Liu Yuhong (Ch) bt M Yakusheva (Rus) 11-1 11-2; M Timur (Indon) bt I Gritchenko (Kaz) 11-2 11-6; C Magnusson (Swe) bt Wong Chun Fan (HK) 11-1 11-5; Chung Eun-hwa (S Kor) bt Zhang Ning (Ch) 11-6 5-11 11-1.