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 medical 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 document between the groups.
Their first assembly got here within the 2019 Indonesia Masters with Lee and Yang profitable in straight video games 22-20 21-13.
Two months later they met once more within the closing of the Polish Open with Lee and Yang taking the title in straight video games, triumphing 21-19 21-16 on that event.
It was three years till the pairs crossed paths once more on the 2022 Hylo Open when Lane and Vendy once more did not take a sport off the Chinese language Taipei pairing, dropping 21-9 21-17 within the semi-finals.
Nevertheless, the Englishmen lastly bought the higher of their Spherical of 16 opponents in October 2024 after they battled previous them in an in depth deciding sport 21-16 14-21 23-1 within the Spherical of 16 on the Denmark Open.
Lane and Vendy will probably be buoyed by their current victory over the pair and in addition go into the conflict tomorrow with a greater win document this 12 months 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 will probably be going into tomorrow’s contest in good kind nevertheless 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 combined doubles.