Chris and Gabby Adcock fall at the quarter-final stage of the China Open while Ed Ling is hopeful his third Olympics can be the best of his career. Here's our review of the last 24 hours.
Chris Adcock was left to rue a slow start as he and mixed doubles partner Gabby Adcock lost out at the last eight stage of the China Open.
Bidding to reach the semi-final of the competition for the first time, the English number one pairing struggled to click into gear initially losing out 21-0 to Liu Cheng and Bao Yixin in the first game.
But they hit back in the second, recovering from 8-3 to lead 10-9 and raise hopes of levelling the match.
However the Chinese pair regained their composure to take the game and wrap up the 21-10, 21-18 win in 36 minutes.
The Adcocks, who did nevertheless still pick up valuable Olympic qualification points, will now head to next week's Hong Kong Open, the last stop on the world circuit before the year-end BWF Superseries Finals in Dubai.
"Not the result we hoped for tonight!" Chris admitted on Twitter afterwards.
"We got off to a slow start which cost us the first, the second was much better but they just had the luck at the end of the set.
"Credit to them as they came out stronger in the first. We would have loved a third set had we managed to take that second though."
Andy Murray believes he is in a strong position to claim World Tour Final victory in London next week.
After defeat to Novak Djokovic in Paris the Olympic champion faces a tricky end to the year with the hard-court World Tour followed by the Davis Cup final on Ghent's clay.
And while the world number two admits the preparations will be challenging he is confident of turning in some good performances and finishing the season on a high.
“I think definitely I have a chance to win here,” Murray said. “But I do think that I have to be a bit realistic in the first few days.
“I have just switched surfaces and balls and now I will be going back again and I might not be timing the ball perfectly at the beginning of the week but, as it goes on, hopefully I will start to play better tennis.
“I do feel I have an opportunity here. I think the conditions in Paris [where he reached the final last week] are fairly similar to here so it will be interesting to see how I get on. But I do think I am playing well enough to go far.”
Ed Ling believes it could be a case of third time lucky at next summer's Rio Olympics.
Ling is part of a six-strong Team GB shooting squad confirmed this week and can't wait for another Olympic appearance following his previous appearances in Athens and London. He was just 21 when he made his debut in 2004, finishing 25th in the men's trap event, while eight years later he ranked 21st. But a silver medal at last year's World Championships in Grenada gives the 32-year old hope that age and experience could be decisive in the heat of Rio. "My first Olympics was just a huge learning curve and I was really pleased with how I performed in London, even though I didn't quite make it on the last round," he said. "Since London I've had some good successes. I've had big wins before but to win a silver medal at the World Championships, it really gave me self-belief. I know that on my day that I can really compete with the best of the best and challenge for the medals. "To go to a third Olympic Games is something I never expected and it's a real achievement and perhaps that's going to be easier at the third attempt.” Read more here. Sportsbeat 2015