Sporting Digest: Badminton

FRENCH OPEN (Paris) Men's singles, second round: (Selected results): P Bush (Eng) bt Hu Zhilan (Ch) 15-7 15-7; S Isaac (Eng) bt K Scott (Sco) 15-7 15-12. Third round: Bush bt Marco Desjardins (Can) 15-4 15-0; D Bhattacharya (Ind) bt Isaac 15-3 15-7.

Women's singles, second round: L Sorensen (Den) bt T Groves (Eng) 12-9 11-4; Hu Ning (Ch) bt J Davies (Eng) 11-2 11-1; J Muggeridge (Eng) bt J Still (NZ) 11-1 11-4; L Andersson (Swe) bt G Martin (Sco) 11-2 11-5; J Mann (Eng) bt A Carter (NZ) 10-12 11-5 11-5; A Sondergaard (Den) bt A Gibson (Sco) 12-11 8-11 11-4; Yao Yan (Ch) bt A Humby (Eng) 11-5 11-1; M Timur (Indon) bt T Dineen (Eng) 11-4 11-3. Third round: Muggeridge bt Anderson 11-0 11-1; L Djaelawidjaja (Indon) bt Mann 11-1 11-8.