Sporting Digest: Badminton

JAPAN OPEN (Tokyo) Mixed doubles first round (selected): C Hunt and G Clark (GB) bt Lee Wei-jen and Jou Yu-ling (Tai) 15-2 15-2. Second round: N Ponting and J Wright (GB) bt A Imai and M Kai (Japan) 15-11 15-7; M Sogaard (Den) and G Gowers (GB) bt S Sylvester (Gren) and M Tabata (Japan) 15-9 15-3; A Miranat and R Rosalina (Indon) bt J Robertson (GB) and F Tamura (Japan) 15-8 15-4; Hunt and Clark bt S Matsuura and M Sakamoto (Japan) 15-4 15-10.