Sporting Digest: Badminton

SUDIRMAN CUP WORLD MIXED TEAM TOURNAMENT (National Indoor Arena, Birmingham): Group One: Denmark 5 England 0 (T Lund and M Thomsen bt N Ponting and G Clark 15-4 15-5; P Nedergaard Jessen bt S Louis Lane 11-4 11-8; T Stuer-Lauridsen bt P Knowles 15-6 15-1; L Olsen and L Stuer-Lauridsen bt G Clark and G Gowers 16-18 18-14 15-7; Lund and J Holst- Christensen bt D Wright and J Robertson 15-12 15-10); China 5 Sweden 0. Group Two: Netherlands 4 Malaysia 1; Japan 2 Thailand 3. Group Three: Scotland 3 Australia 2; Russia 3 Canada 2. Group Four: New Zealand 3 India 2; Germany 4 Hong Kong 1. Group Seven: Switzerland 4 France 1; Bulgaria 3 Wales 2. Group Eight: Ukraine 3 Kazakhstan 2; Hungary 3 Belgium 2. Group Nine: Cyprus 0 Slovenia 5; Peru 5 Malta 0. Group 1B: China 3 Sweden 0.