Rio 2016 Olympics: Marcus Ellis, Chris Langridge make badminton semi-finals

Published 15/08/2016 at 19:12 GMT

Team GB pair Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge overcame Japan’s Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa to progress to the semi-final stage of the badminton.

Chris Langridge (GBR) of Britain and Marcus Ellis (GBR) of Britain play against Kim Ki-Jung (KOR) of South Korea and Kim Sa-Rang (KOR) of South Korea.

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Ellis and Langridge, ranked 22nd in the world, beat Endo and Hayakawa 21-19 21-17 to set up a semi-final clash with China’s fourth seeds Fu Haifeng and Zhang Nan.

“If you had told me before the start that we would make the semi-finals I would have bitten your hand off,” Langridge told the BBC.

"It is amazing - we are one of these pairs that are quite up and down - but this tournament we have shown our ability."

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Marcus Ellis/Chris Langridge (Britain) beat Hiroyuki Endo/Kenichi Hayakawa (Japan) 21-19 21-17

Chai Biao/Hong Wei (China) beat Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov (Russia) 21-13 16-21 21-16

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