Ouseph into second round at World Championships
Rajiv Ouseph opened his World Badminton Championship campaign with a 21-15, 21-13 victory over Adam Mendrek in Glasgow.
Hounslow-born Ouseph, the 16th seed, started to show his class in the latter half of the first game, a run of six straight points opening up an 18-12 lead.
And when world number 117 Mandrek went wide, Ouseph took the game after 19 minutes.[phone]
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The Englishman then won the first six points of the second game and at the halfway point led 11-4.
His Czech opponent won some of the longer rallies but could never really cut the gap, and at 20-10, Ouseph had 10 match points.
He took it at the fourth attempt when Mandrek netted, and will face Sameer Verma, the world number 29, in the next round.
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