Robertson and Wallwork crash out in Paris quarter-finals

NATHAN Robertson and Jenny Wallwork's hopes of a second Super Series final in as many weeks are over after quarter-final defeat in the French Open.

CRASHING OUT: Nathan Robertson and Jenny Wallwork fail to reach another Super Series final in Paris, crashing out in the quarters

The Commonwealth Games silver medallists crashed in the last eight in Paris in a thrilling clash, eventually going down 22-20, 17-21, 21-19 to Sudket Prapakamol and Saralee Thoungthongkam of Thailand.

The England duo, seeded sixth, made an impressive start and found themselves 17-12 up in the first game, against the pair they defeated in the Denmark Open semi-final last week.

But Prapakamol and Thoungthongkam clawed their way back to 19-19 and took the opener on their second game point.

Robertson and Wallwork made no such slip-up in the second game, leading all the way to take it on their fifth game point.

But there was nothing to choose between the pairs in the decider until the Thai pair edged clear from 16-16 to 19-16 and clinched the contest with their second match point after 71 minutes.

Meanwhile, European bronze medallists Mariana Agathangelou and Heather Olver also endured disappointment in the women's doubles, going down 21-19, 21-11 to Denmark's Christinna Pederson and Kamilla Rytter Juhl.

In the men's singles, Commonwealth silver and European bronze medallist Rajiv Ouseph faced second seed Taufik Hidayat.

England's sixth seed lost the opening game 21-13 but led 11-5 and 13-8 before the 2004 Olympic and 2005 world champion hit back to win the second 21-18.

In the women's singles Elizabeth Cann, who knocked out third seed Pi Hongyan of France in the second round, led at the midway stage of both games against Thailand's Porntip Buranaprasertsuk before going down 21-15, 21-18.

And there was yet more disappointment in the men's doubles where Andrew Ellis and Chris Adcock, who had already downed the third seeds in Paris, came within two points of beating Danish fifth seeds Mads Conrad-Petersen and Jonas Rasmussen before crashing 23-25, 22-20, 21-14.