CHINA CERTAIN OF WORLD JUNIOR FEMALE DOUBLES CROWN
by Mike Grossman (from information supplied by Sheila Patel at the World Junior Championships Press Desk)

November 23, 1996 (New Shuttlenws) - Two Chinese female doubles teams won the semifinals today at the badminton world junior championships at Silkeborg in Denmark to assure China of at least one world junior title this year.

The middle-seeded Lu Ying and Zhan Xubin beat the top-seeds from Denmark, Britta Andersen and Jane Jacoby, 15-7 and 15-12, while the second-seeds Gao Ling and Yang Wei defeated Koreans Chung Jae Hee and Yin Kyung Jin 12-15, 15-10 and 15-1.

The loss by Andersen and Jacoby ended the host country's hopes for a world junior title. The two were the only Danes and only non-Asians to survive into the semifinal stage.