US shuttlers looking forward to Chinese match-up

US badminton duo Howard Bach and Bob Malaythong seem almost pleased by the prospect of having a partisan home crowd against them when they face the Chinese second seeds in the Olympic men's quarterfinals.

The pair beat South Africa's Chris and Roelof Dednam 2-0 on Tuesday to become the first Americans to make it to the last eight since the sport was introduced in Barcelona, and now face world nNo 3 pair Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng on Wednesday.

"My goal is, hey, feed off the energy. If they don't want me to succeed, man, I'm going to exactly do the opposite," said Bach, a 29-year-old immigrant from Vietnam who started playing at the YMCA when he was 6. Malaythong was born in Laos and emigrated to America in 1990.