4 March, 2025
Sean Vendy and Ben Lane have been introduced with a beneficial opening draw within the prestigious 2025 YONEX All England Open because the English pairings uncover who they’ll face within the spherical of 32.
The draw has been made for all 5 disciplines within the competitors because the countdown to the world’s oldest badminton event that kicks off in Birmingham’s Utilita Area on March 11 continues.
Lane and Vendy will play Malaysian duo Yew Sin Ong and Ee Yi Teo within the males’s doubles spherical of 32 and can hope to raised their efficiency on the competitors final 12 months.
Ong and Teo are presently ranked twentieth on the World Tour, with the English duo ranked twelfth, although each had been defeated in R32 on the occasion final 12 months.
Ought to Lane and Vendy progress, they might meet eighth seeds Jhe-Huei Lee and Po-Hsuan Yang from Chinese language Taipei, who had been semi-finalists on the event final 12 months, within the subsequent spherical.
England have two representatives within the blended doubles, with Gregory Mairs and Jenny Mairs handed a draw towards eighth seeds Hiroki Midorikawa and Natsu Saito from Japan.
Neither pair, nonetheless, made it previous the spherical of 32 final 12 months and the Mairs duo will probably be hoping they are often those to raised their putting this outing.
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Callum Hemming and Estelle van Leeuwen make up the opposite English pair to compete within the blended doubles, having not featured on the competitors final 12 months.
They may face a troublesome check within the type of fourth seeds Po-Hsuan Yang and Ling Fang Hu from Chinese language Taipei.
Whereas the pair solely reached the spherical of 32 final 12 months, Yang positioned third within the males’s doubles and can hope to raised that efficiency within the blended doubles this 12 months.
Rounding off the English illustration in Birmingham, Van Leeuwen will be part of Chloe Coney to compete within the ladies’s doubles.
They’ve been drawn towards Danish pair Amalie Cecilie Kudsk and Signe Schulz within the spherical of 32.
