Badminton All England 2010: GBs lost generation need success, says Anthony Clark

By Rod Gilmour 540PM GMT 09 March 2010

Key twin Nathan Robertson, front, and Anthony Clark in movement Photo AFP

The Championships begin on Wednesday in Birmingham with the daunting thought of England carrying to contest with no seeded players for the initial time and China, the sports widespread force, seeking to repeat last years five-medal purify sweep.

Clark, who will partner Nathan Robertson in the mens badminton doubles as England bid to win a initial home pretension given 2005, pronounced "Having no seeds isnt a great state of where English badminton is at the moment. But we were unseeded at the Singapore Open last year and came afar with the title. Hopefully we can trip underneath the radar.

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"The complaint is that we have lost a generation. Weve lost a decade where no players came by and right away we are relying on girl after a little high-profile retirements.

"Were at the age right away where we dont hold you can fool around at the tip of your diversion for the complete deteriorate and you need to rise for the vital tournaments such as the All England."

However the not all severe threat and gloom. Robertson and new churned doubles partner Jenny Wallwork are commencement to freshness as a partnership whilst Englands childish opinion is led by twenty-three year-old Rajiv Ouseph, the universe No 23, in the mens singles. That foe will additionally see dual of the biggest players of the last decade, Malaysia"s Lee Chong Wei and China"s Lin Dan, go head-to-head.

Clark pronounced "We have a little great younger players and that is the plea for the coaches. We have an Olympic Games entrance up and UK Sport final really high levels. That is the kind of vigour they are putting on sports such as ours. We havent delivered in the last couple of big events but we have to target high."

Despite England being seedless, the National Indoor Arena is still approaching to declare cacophonic outbursts from the sports traditionally-noisy spectators over the five days - generally from the Asian fans.

Clark combined "I find that it regularly rises me. If you can overpower the throng afterwards you know you are you do well.

"However most thousand Indonesian and Chinese fans spin up, though, they will regularly be outnumbered by the Brits."