Robert Blair and Gabby White lose their opening match at the Li-Ning BWF World Superseries Finals in China. England hopes Elizabeth Cann and Nicola Cerfontyne bow out in Rome but Mariana Agathangelou and Heather Olver reach the last eight in the women's doubles.

Center Parcs Sherwood Forest claimed the local bragging rights after winning the annual Center Parcs Inter-Village Badminton Championships hosted at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes - home of Team England.  

Robert Blair and Gabby White face a tough group after today's draw for the Li-Ning BWF World Superseries finals in Liuzhou, China. But Rajiv Ouseph was celebrating today after receiving an invitation to the Copenhagen Masters.

If it was shocks and surprises you were after then the place to be was at the 17th English National Masters Championships, in association with Carlton and Case Security - as 27 titles were played out.

Mariana Agathangelou and Heather Olver, the Yonex Irish International women's doubles runners-up, will lead England’s charge in Rome as the XI Italian International gets under way tomorrow. Elizabeth Cann leads the women's singles challenge.  

Marcus Ellis and Heather Olver won the mixed doubles and Rajiv Ouseph lifted the men's singes title at the Yonex Irish International in Lisburn today.