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DANISH OPEN: CHEAH AND CHOONG CLICK AGAINST THIRD SEEDS

October 16, 1998 (NEW SHUTTLENWS) - Malaysia'a new men's doubles combination of Cheah Soon Kit and Choong Tan Fook, champions at last week's Dutch Open badminton championships, continued to click early today in second round play at the Danish Open being staged in Vejle. Cheah and Choong upended the third-seeded pair of Zhang Wei and Zhang Jun from China in two stirring and tightly contested games, both of which went into tiebreaks.

The new pairing will have another strong test tonight in the quarterfinals where they will face world champion Chandra Wijaya and his partner for the tournament, Yumono Harmono. Wijaya and Harmono, both from Indonesia, were extended in their second round match by Julian Robertson and Nathan Robertson of England and had to play a third set before emerging the winners.

Following are the results of today's early matches:

Men's Doubles
Second Round
Tony Gunawan/Heryanto Halim (Indonesia) beat Frederik Bergstrom/Henrik Andersson (Sweden) 15-7, 15-3
Jens Eriksen/Jesper Larsen (Denmark) beat Chen Wei/Ji Xinpeng (China) 15-7, 15-6
Ricky Subagja/Rexy Mainaky (Indonesia) beat Cheng/Chen (China) 15-11, 15-3
Chris Hunt/Simon Archer (England) beat Patrick Ejlerskov/Jonas Rasmussen (Denmark) 15-2, 15-4
Chandra Wijaya/Yumon Harmono (Indonesa) beat Julian Robertson/Nathan Robertson (England) 15-13, 14-17, 15-4
Cheah Soon Kit/Choong Tan Fook (Malaysia) beat Zhang Wei/Zhang Jun (China) 17-15, 17-14
Peter Axelsson/Par-Gunnar Jonsson (Sweden) beat Jesper Mikla/Lars Paaske (Denmark) 6-15, 15-6, 15-3
Limpele Flandy/Hian Eng (Indonesia) beat Fumihiko Machida/Seiichi Watanabe (Japan) 15-4, 15-7

Women's Doubles
Second Round
Yang Wei/Huang Nanyan (China) beat Ann-Lou Jorgensen/Tine Rasmussen (Denmark) 15-2, 15-3
Catrine Bengtsson/Marina Andrievskaya (Sweden) beat Jo Davies/Sarah Hardaker (England) 15-6, 10-15, 15-7
Marlene Thomsen/Rikke Olsen (Denmark) beat Ye Zhaoying/Han Jingna (China) 15-8, 15-7
Nicole Van Hooren/Lotte Jonathans (Netherland) beat Johanna Persson/Anna Lundin (Sweden) 15-10, 15-8
Helene Kirkegaard/Pernille Harder (Denmark) beat Joanne Goode/Donna Kellogg (England) 17-14, 15-8
Qin Yiyuan/Tang Hetian (China) beat Jenny Karlsson/Margit Borg (Sweden) walkover
Ann Jorgensen/Majken Vange (Denmark) beat Yao Jie/Zhou Mi (China) 15-13, 10-15, 15-6
Deyana Lomban/Eliza (Indonesia) beat Karen Stechmann/Nicole Grether (Germany) 15-5, 15-9

(eso/dsimmons)