it follows a surprise loss for olympic silver—medallist lee chong wei in the men's singles. ul through the competition and they headed here after winning the asian championships earlier in the year. they were out forced in their opening game. they were up against the indonesian pair, who were unseeded, though it is worth pointing out they have one previous world titles with previous partners. this duo teamed up late last year but despite losing the opening set to the chinese they fought back to ta ke to the chinese they fought back to take the next two. two of the favourites progressed in the singles to the next round, chen long defeating the indonesian in straight sets and the other was long's other teammate, lin dan, who beat emil holst/ lijunhui/ teammate, lin dan, who beat emil holst/ li junhui/ liu teammate, lin dan, who beat emil holst/ lijunhui/ liu yuchen. lin dan, looking for a sixth career world title this week recovered to win in three. —— lin dan. thursday's action will see all of those who made it through to the round of 16 can pick and friday will be the quarter