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.
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.
