Adcock and Blair stun Clark and Robertson in Denmark

CHRIS Adcock and Robert Blair secured a superb comeback victory over national champions Nathan Robertson and Anthony Clark at the Denmark Super Series.

Seventh seeds Robertson and Clark stormed into a one-game lead and squandered two match points before Adcock and Blair came roaring back to seal an 11-21, 23-21, 21-18 victory.

Robertson and Clark, who won the Singapore Open title in June, look set to romp to a comfortable victory after taking the first game and had chances to win the match at 20-19 and 21-20.

With the scores tied at 12-12 in the decider, it was Adcock and Blair who had more in the tank to book their place in the quarter finals.

England's other men's doubles hopes, Chris Langridge and Robin Middleton, put up an admirable fight against top seeds Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan before going down 23-21, 21-15.

But there was no stopping Adcock, who also reached the mixed doubles quarter-finals with Gabby White as they edged out Indian fourth seeds Diju Valiyaveeti and Jwala Gutta 11-21, 22-20, 21-19.

And Robertson and Clark gained some consolation in the mixed.

Robertson and Jenny Wallwork defeated qualifiers Kenichi Hayakawa and Shizuka Matsuo of Japan 14-21, 21-15, 21-16 while European and national champions Clark and Donna Kellogg knocked out Shintaro Ikeda and Reiko Shiota of Japan 21-17, 21-14.

The reward for the two England pairs is an all-English quarter-final showdown in a repeat of this year's National final.

In the singles three-times National champion Elizabeth Cann, who beat Scotland number one Susan Egelstaff in straight games in the first round, went down in the second round 21-15, 21-12 against Indonesia's second seed Adriyanti Firdasari.

And in the women's doubles China's sixth seed Pan Pan and Zhang Yawen where too strong for Heather Olver and Scotland's Emma Mason, winning 21-16, 21-7, while Mariana Agathangelou and Scotland's Jillie Cooper fell to Bulgaria's Petya Nedelcheva and Russia's Anastasia Russkikh 21-13, 21-12.