WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: SIGIT AND WIJAYA ROLL ON IN MEN'S DOUBLES 16'S

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May 29, 1997 (NEW SHUTTLENWS) - Men's doubles top-seeds Sigit Budiarto and Chandra Wijaya of Indonesia continued to make their way forward in the world badminton world championships in Glasgow, Scotland. Sigit and Wijaya won their round-of-16 matchup today against Sergej Melnikov and Artur Khachaturyan of Russia. The top seeds breezed past the Russians in the first game 15-2 and then let up in the second before winning at 15-8.

Second seeds Cheah Soon Kit and Yap Kim Hock of Malaysia kept pace with the top seeds with their 15-7 and 17-15 victory over sixteenth seeds Victo Wibowo and Tony Gunawan of Indonesia.

Olympic champions Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja of Indonesia, seeded third here, eliminated the ninth seeds from China, Tao Xiaoqiang and Ge Cheng, 15-6 and 15-11.

The fourth seeds, Antonius Iriantho and Denny Kantono were upset by the Swedish pair of Peter Axelsson and Par-Gunnar Jonsson, seeded eleventh (score unconfirmed).

Seventh seeds Nikolaj Zuev and Andrej Antropov of Russia beat Jens Eriksen and Jesper Larsen of Denmark 15-7 and 18-16.

Eighth seeds Liu Yong and Zhang Wei of China were upended by the twelfth seeds from Korea, Lee Dong Soo and Yoo Yung Sung, 11-15 and 13-15.

Thirteenth seeds Thomas Stavngaard and Jim Laugessen of Denmark beat Nick Ponting and John Quinn of England 15-3, 16-18 and 15-13.

Fifteenth seeds Jon Holst-Christensen and Michael Sogaard defeated Bjorn Siegemund and Michael Helber of Germany 15-8 and 15-4.

(migrossman)