Sporting Digest: Badminton

WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS European Zone Qualifying (Glasgow): Thomas Cup: Group W: Russia 4 Austria 1; Denmark 5 Belarus 0. Group X: Netherlands 4 Switzerland 1; Finland 3 Canada 2. Group Y: England 5 Poland 0 (D Hall bt J Hankiewicz 15-3 15-2; A Nielsen bt D Zieba 17-14 15-11; P Knowles bt R Msteusiak 15-7 15-4; S Archer and M Adams bt Hankiewicz and Zieba 15-5 15-12; C Hunt and J Robertson bt Mateusiak and D Plawecki 15-7 15-9); Scotland 5 Iceland 0 (D Gilmour bt B Kristjansson 18-16 15-9; B Flockhart bt T P Hangsson 15-4 18-16; J Mailer bt T Nielsen 15-6 15-5; R Hogg and K Middlemiss bt Kristjansson and A Hallgrimiss 18-15 15-5; A Gatt and G Haldane bt Hangsson and G Adolfsson 15-5 15-6). Group Z: Sweden 4 Norway 1; Germany 4 New Zealand 1. Uber Cup: Group W: Germany 4 Poland 1; Denmark 5 Norway 0. Group X: England 5 Iceland 0 (S Louis-Lane bt E Nielsen 11-2 11-0; F Smith bt V Asgeirsdottir 11-3 11-3; A Humby bt G Juliusdottir 11-2 11-2; G Gowers and J Wright bt Juliusdottir and B Petersen 15-3 15-7; J Bradbury and J Davies bt T Edwald and E Nielsen 15-1 15-4); Netherlands 3 New Zealand 2. Group Y: Russia 5 Switzerland 0; Canada 5 Czech Republic 0. Group Z: Sweden 5 France 0; Scotland 5 Bugaria 0 (A Gibson bt N Nedjalkova 10-12 11-7 11-7; E Allen bt D Koleva 4-11 11-7 11-4; G Martin bt V Hristova 11-6 11-5; E Allen and J Allen bt Nedjalkova and Hristova

15-2 15-6; J Haldane and A Travers bt Koleva and E Dimitrova 15-5 13-15 15-10).