The world's best badminton players have gone about their business cautiously after the nearby England v the Netherlands football international at Wembley was called off because of riots in the streets of the capital
The world's best badminton players have gone about their business cautiously after the nearby England v the Netherlands football international at Wembley was called off because of riots in the streets of the capital.
u00a0Wembley Stadium is only two hundred metres from the Wembley Arena which is staging the badminton, which will continue with a somewhat altered atmosphere.
Olympic men's singles champion Lin Dan, who beatu00a0 Lithuanian Kestutis Navickas, 21-11, 21-10 yesterday, said: "So far it's okay but we shouldn't go to the street aloneu00a0-- we should have company," the Chinese star said via an interpreter.
A similar reaction came from Rajiv Ouseph, the England No 1. "We did hear something close by here, so everyone is cautious," he said. "But I don't think anyone thought about not playing at all."
The closest a badminton player came to the trouble was when Peter Gade, the former World No 1 from Denmark, had an evening out near to the worst of the rioting. "I went out early and alone in Ealing, and although I didn't feel too unsafe it hurts when you see the riots and see all the people harmed by these things," he said.
Kumar-Sanave exit
India's Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas bowed out losing 21-19, 11-21, 12-21 to Indonesians Alvent Chandra and Hendra Aprida Gunawan.
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