Badminton World Championships
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- Preliminary matches being played today
- Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour wins against Rituparna Das
- England's number one Rajiv Ouseph through to third round
- England's Marcus Ellis & Chris Langridge through in men's doubles
- England's Lauren Smith & Sarah Walker lose to Korea's Shin & Jung in women's doubles
- Scotland's Martin Campbell & Patrick MacHugh lose to Russias's Ivanov & Sozonov in men's doubles
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All times stated are UK
Today's order of play
Ahsan/Saputro (Idn) bt Li/Liu (Chn) 19-21, 21-18, 21-18
Langridge/Ellis (Eng) bt Stipsits/Zirnwald (Aut) 21-15, 21-10
Shin/Jung (Kor) bt Smith/Walker (Eng) 21-10, 21-14
Kidambi (Ind) bt Corvee (Fra) 21-9, 21-17
Chung/Kim (Kor) bt Tan/Goh (Mas) 21-18, 21-16
Lin (Chn) bt Holst (Den) 21-19, 8-21, 21-16
Machugh/Campbell (Sco) 14-21, 14-21Ivanov/Sozonov (Rus)
Son (Kor) 21-13 21-9 Krausz (Hun)
Ouseph (Eng) 22-20 21-9 Verma (Ind)
Das (Ind) 16-21 21-13 Gilmour (Sco)
Takahashi/Matsutomo (Jpn) 21-10 21-5 Chang/Yang (Tpe)
Yip (Hk) 13-21 15-21 Marin (Spa)
Are there any Brits competing?
English number one Rajiv Ouseph and Kirsty Gilmour are set to carry British singles hopes.
Chris and Gabby Adcock are competing in mixed doubles plus Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge are in the men’s doubles draw.
Competition schedule
Wednesday 23 August - Preliminaries
Thursday 24 August - Round of last 16
Friday 25 August - Quarter finals, session one & quarter finals, session two
Saturday 26 August - Semi-finals, session one & quarter finals, session two
Sunday 27 August - Finals
BBC Sport to show BWF World Championships
August's badminton World Championships will be streamed live on the BBC Sport website and available via this page, with an hour-long television highlights show to follow the final.
The coverage will include live online video from two of the courts at Glasgow's Emirates Arena.
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