Sporting Digest: Badminton

JAPAN OPEN (Tokyo; selected results) Women's singles first round: J Muggeridge (GB) bt A Tsuda (Japan) 11-12 11-1 11-5; Chan Oi-ni (HK) bt J Bradbury (GB) 11-5 11-7. Women's singles second round: K Yunekura (Japan) bt J Muggeridge (GB) 11-6 12-9. Men's doubles first round: C Hunt and S Archer (GB) bt M Muhamedorazoy and M Hadjiberdiyev (Turkmenistan) w/o; N Ponting and J Robertson (GB) bt Jiang Xin and Huang Zhanzhong (Ch) 15-10 15-7. Men's doubles second round: C Hunt and S Archer (GB) bt K Miya and F Machida (Japan) 15-7 15-6; N Ponting and J Robertson (GB) bt T Katayama and Y Kubota (Japan) 15-9 18-15.