Ben Lane and Sean Vendy will face Chinese language Taipei pairing Lee Jhe-Huei and Yang Po-Hsuan on Day 3 of the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2025.
Lane and Vendy noticed off Malaysia’s Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi 21-18 21-19 with a scientific and gutsy efficiency within the males’s doubles first spherical.
In the meantime, Lee and Yang have been taken to a deciding sport by Japan’s Kenya Mitsuhashi and Hiroki Okamura however ultimately received 21-13 16-21 21-7.
This would be the first assembly between the 2 pairs on the YONEX All England with the Chinese language Taipei gamers main the head-to-head file between the groups.
Their first assembly got here within the 2019 Indonesia Masters with Lee and Yang successful in straight video games 22-20 21-13.
Two months later they met once more within the remaining of the Polish Open with Lee and Yang taking the title in straight video games, triumphing 21-19 21-16 on that event.
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It was three years till the pairs crossed paths once more on the 2022 Hylo Open when Lane and Vendy once more didn’t take a sport off the Chinese language Taipei pairing, shedding 21-9 21-17 within the semi-finals.
Nevertheless, the Englishmen lastly obtained the higher of their Spherical of 16 opponents in October 2024 once they battled previous them in a detailed deciding sport 21-16 14-21 23-1 within the Spherical of 16 on the Denmark Open.
Lane and Vendy shall be buoyed by their current victory over the pair and likewise go into the conflict tomorrow with a greater win file this yr having received seven out of their 10 video games collectively, in comparison with Lee and Yangs three wins from eight matches.
The lads can’t be separated within the BWF World Males’s Doubles Rankings with Lane and Vendy rated eleventh and Lee and Yang ranked tenth.
Yang shall be going into tomorrow’s contest in good kind nonetheless as, alongside Hu Ling Fang, he beat Lane and Vendy’s compatriots Callum Hemming and Estelle Van Leeuwen 17-21 21-12 21-19 within the blended doubles.
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