Chris Adcock and Gabby White’s exciting run at the Victor Korea Open ended today when they went down in straight games to top seeds Xu Chen and Ma Jin.

The English National champions, who defend their title in Manchester at the start of February, fell 21-13 21-17 in 43 minutes against the 2010 world champions and 2012 Olympic silver medallists.

It was level pegging in the first game up to 8-8 before the Chinese pair pulled away to take the opener.

Adcock and White made a good start to the second game and opened up 7-1 lead. But Xu and Ma responded strongly and recovered to draw level at 8-8 before pulling away, just as they had at the same stage in the first game.

Even so, Adcock and White can be encouraged by their performances in this week’s first of five Premier events on the 2013 OSIM BWF World Superseries where they beat Poland’s European champions Robert Mateusiak and Nadiezda Zieba on the way to the last eight.

Now they will move on to Kuala Lumpur for next week’s Maybank Malaysian Open Superseries event.

To view all today’s results go to www.tournamentsoftware.com

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