(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-08-14 09:33

Results from the opening day of the world championships in Kuala Lumpur on Monday (prefix number denotes seeding)

Men's singles

Wei NG (Hong Kong) beat Roman Spitko (Germany) 20-22 21-15 21-12

15-Dicky Palyama (Netherlands) beat Kaveh Mehrabi (Iran) 21-15 21-13

Nabil Lasmari (Algeria) beat Kennevic Asuncion (Philippines) 21-17 21-10

8-Taufik Hidayat (Indonesia) beat Jose Antonio Crespo (Spain) 21-13 21-7

Anup Sridhar (India) beat Juergen Koch (Austria) 21-15 21-9

13-Muhd Hafiz B Hashim (Malaysia) beat Stuart Gomez (Australia) 21-8 21-7

Tseun Seng Lee (Malaysia) beat Petr Koukal (Czech Republic) 21-16 21-8

Scott Evans (Ireland) beat Eric Go (U.S.) 21-12 14-21 21-17

10-Shoji Sato (Japan) beat Bobby Milroy (Canada) 21-9 21-15

Hyun Ii-lee (South Korea) beat Yen Hui Kendrick Lee (Singapore) 21-7 9-21 21-18

7-Kenneth Jonassen (Denmark) beat Pedro Yang (Guatemala) 21-4 21-8

12-Przemyslaw Wacha (Poland) beat Ville Lang (Finland) 21-6 13-21 21-16

Nicholas Kidd (England) beat Kestutis Navickas (Lithuania) 21-15 10-21 21-12

Simon Maunoury (France) beat Klaus Raffeiner (Italy) 23-21 21-16

Women's singles 15-Maria Kristin Yulianti (Indonesia) beat Maja Kersnik (Slovenia) 21-8 21-9

Li Li (China) beat Chloe Magee (Ireland) 21-11 21-6

16-Tracey Hallam (England) beat Li Ya Lydia Cheah (Malaysia) 21-16 19-21 21-11

Ella Karachkova (Russia) beat Anu Nieminen (Finland) 21-14 10-21 21-12

Kamila Augustyn (Poland) beat Elena Prus (Ukraine) 21-13 21-12

Charmaine Reid (Canada) beat Filipa Lamy (Portugal) 21-15 21-14

Saina Nehwal (India) beat Jeanine Cicognini (Switzerland) 21-12 21-12

6-Chen Wang (Hong Kong) beat Lucia Tavera (Spain) 21-2 21-11

Pei Xian Julia Wong (Malaysia) beat Linda Zechiri (Bulgaria) 21-8 21-16

12-Tine Rasmussen (Denmark) beat Agnese Allegrini (Italy) 21-16 21-10

Claudia Rivero (Peru) beat Shannon Pohl (U.S.) 21-11 21-9