Taufik eases through at badminton worlds<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia faced little
\nproblems in the opening round of the world badminton
\nchampionship, which began in Anaheim, California, on Monday.<\/p>\n
Taufik, who is seeded sixth in the tournament, thumped
\nPeruvian Rodrigo Pacheco 15-7, 15-3 in 38 minutes, according to
\nwww.o5worlds.com.<\/p>\n
Sony Dwi Kuncoro, Indonesia's other men's singles contender,
\nalso won in his first match, breezing past Craig Goddard of
\nScotland 15-1, 15-1 in 21 minutes on Monday.<\/p>\n
Taufik's next opponent is Eric Pang of the Netherlands while
\nSony has to tackle 12th seed Niels Christian Kaldau of Denmark.
\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on Wednesday evening
\nlocal time.<\/p>\n
In the men's doubles matches, Flandy Limpele\/Eng Hian took
\njust 17 minutes to stop Anil Seepaul\/Kerwyn Pantin of Trinidad
\nand Tobago in a 15-2, 15-3 victory.<\/p>\n
They play Hwang Ji Man\/Han Sang Hoon in the next round. The
\nKorean pair defeated Khan Bob Malaythong\/Raju Rai of the United
\nStates 15-7, 15-8.<\/p>\n
Indonesia's other pairs -- Candra Wijaya\/Sigit Budiarto and
\nLuluk Hadiyanto\/Alvent Yulianto along with mixed doubles Nova
\nWidianto\/Lilyana Natsir -- had byes and will open play in the
\nsecond round.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has no representatives in the women's singles or
\ndoubles.<\/p>\n
England's best hopes of a world badminton championships medal
\nhas been sunk after Nathan Robertson sprained an ankle in
\ntraining, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n
Robertson and mixed doubles partner Gail Emms, world ranked
\nnumber one and silver medalists at the Athens Olympics, have had
\nto scratch from their event.<\/p>\n
England coach Ian Wright told worldbadminton.net: \"This is
\nvery frustrating because we all felt like they were ready to go
\none more step than the Olympics this time.\"<\/p>\n
England's squad arrived late in the U.S. after being hit by
\nthe strikes that crippled Heathrow Airport over the weekend. The
\nmixed doubles pair were due to fly out together last Friday but
\nhad to split up and make various alternative arrangements.<\/p>\n
Four of the team members took a total of 40 hours for their
\njourney to California, driving the last section from Las Vegas.<\/p>",
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