England miss out on All England seedings as world badmintons best lead entries

By Rod Gilmour Published: 3:49PM GMT 20 Feb 2010

Top seed: Malaysia"s Lee Chong Wei is men"s No 1 seed Photo: AP

Singapore Open men"s doubles winners Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark lead the home entries for the tournament, which runs from March 9-14.

In the mens badminton singles Malaysias Lee Chong Wei, who has won the first two BWF Super Series events of the year in Korea and Malaysia, is again No 1 seed with Chinese rival Lin Dan, who has won four All England titles, at No 2. Rajiv Ouseph, the recent British National champion, will be looking for a decent run on home soil.

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Four-times European champion and 1999 All England winner Peter Gade is the only Western player seeded. The Dane, who will be bidding to regain his European title at the Yonex European Badminton Championships at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester in April, is seeded No 5.

Denmarks world mixed doubles champions Thomas Laybourn and Kamilla Juhl, runners-up to Robertson and Gail Emms in 2005, will be aiming for title glory but they are only seeded No 5 behind favourites Zheng Bo and Ma Jin.

Zheng Bo and former partner Gao Ling defeated Clark and Donna Kellogg in the 2008 final while 2009 All England winners He Hanbin and Yu Yang, who won in Korea last month, will be in contention behind Olympic champions Lee Yong Dae and Lee Hyo Jung.

Europes other seeds are Denmarks Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen at No 4 but Englands Robertson and Jenny Wallwork, Chris Adcock and Gabby White and Clark and new partner Heather Olver will be aiming to upset the seedings.

All England seedings

Mens Singles:

1 Lee Chong Wei (Mas)2 Lin Dan (Chn)3 Chen Jin (Chn)4 Taufik Hidayat (Ina)5 Peter Gade (Den)6 Bao Chunlai (Chn)7 Boonsak Ponsana (Tha)8 Tien Minh Nguyen (Vie)

Womens Singles:

1 Wang Yihan (Chn)2 Wang Lin (Chn)3 Jiang Yanjiao (Chn)4 Pi Hongyan (Fra)5 Wang Xin (Chn)6 Lu Lan (Chn)7 Saina Nehwal (Ind)8 Zhou Mi (Hong Kong)