Badminton: Scot gives Chinese high flyers a fright

Scotland's Imogen Bankier and England's Robert Adcock came close to causing an upset before going out to China's Nan Zhang and Yunlei Zhao in yesterday's semi-finals of the mixed doubles at the Bitburger Open in Germany.

Bankier and Adcock are a new partnership and don't have a world ranking but they pushed Zhang and Zhao, the No.5 seeds, to three games and even held a match point at 21-20 in the decider.

But it was the Asian pair, currently ranked No.59 in the world, who eventually edged it 21-17 18-21 24-22 in just under an hour and they will now meet Germany's Michael Fuchs and Birgit Overzier in today's final.