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Semifinal Match Results All England

Birmingham, England (AFP / Reuters) - The results of the championship semi-final badminton All England, Saturday (number in front indicates seed, * new result)

Singles Kenichi Tago (Japan) beat 6-Bao Chunlai (China) 18-21 22-20 21-18 1-Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) beat 5-Peter Gade (Danish) 21-17 21-14

Women's singles Tine Rasmussen (Danish) beat 7-Saina Nehwal (India) 21-19 21-17 1-Wang Yihan (China) beat 5-Wang Xin (China) 21-17 26-24

* Men's doubles Lars Paaske / Jonas Rasmussen (Danish) beat 3-Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan (Indonesia) 14-21 21-13 23-21 * 4-Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen (Danish) beat 7-Guo Zhendong / Xu Chen (China) 21-16 21-16

Women's doubles * 1-Du Jing / Yu Yang (China) beat Pan Pan / Tian Qing (China) 24-22 21-10 * 3-Cheng Shu / Zhao Yunlei (China) beat 2-Ma Jin / Wang Xiaoli (China) 21-17 21-18

* Mixed Doubles Zhang Nan / Zhao Yunlei (China) beat 4-He Hanbin / Yu Yang (China) 21-14 23-21 * 2-Nova Widianto / Liliyana Natsir (Indonesia) beat 3-Lee Hyo-Yong-dae/Lee jung (South Korea) 21-16 18-21 21-8