Badminton-World championship semi-final results

Aug 13 (Reuters) - World championship badminton semi-final results from Wembley Arena, London on Saturday (prefix denotes seeding)

                                                                   

Men's singles
1-Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia) beat 6-Chen Jin (China) 21-13 21-9
2-Lin Dan (China) beat 3-Peter Gade (Denmark) 22-24 21-7 21-15

                                                                   
Women's singles
  7-Cheng Shao Chieh (Taiwan) beat 9-Juliane Schenk (Germany)
21-18 21-6
2-Wang Yihan (China) beat Wang Xin (China) 21-14 21-15