Denmark's Tine Rasmussen continued the demolition of China in the women's singles by knocking out the No.4 seed Zhu Lin in the second round at the All-England Championships on Thursday.
Following the shock exit of the top two seeds in round one, Rasmussen claimed world No.5 Zhu's scalp with a comfortable 21-14, 21-15 victory.
It took her through to quarter-final against Pi Hongyan.
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The Chinese-born French player, who is the No.6 seed, had earlier defeated Canada's Anna Rice 21-7, 22-20.
Wang Chen, from Hong Kong, claimed her place in the quarter-finals with a 21-17, 14-21, 21-18 win after a close deciding game with Taiwan's Cheng Shao-chieh.
Yao Lie, who had knocked out Zhang Ning, could not follow-up and went out in straight games to Japan's Yu Hirayama.
Bao Chunai, the No.3 seed, survived a scare against teammate Chen Yu to reach the quarter-finals of the men's singles.
There was another huge blow for China in the men's doubles with top seeds Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng, going out 22-24, 21-7, 18-21 to Hong Kong's Albertus Susanto Njoto and Yohan Hadkusumo Wirayama.
In the women's doubles competition, Taiwan's Chien Yu-chin and Cheng Wen-hsing, seeded six, beat Indonesia's Liliyana Natsir and Vita Marisssa 21-19, 21-17.
In the mixed doubles, Taiwan's Chen Hung-ling and Chou Chia-chi lost to England's Robert Blair and Scotland's Imogen Bankier 21-14, 21-12.
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