Hong Kong's shuttlers suffered mixed fortunes at the world championships but were left satisfied as men's doubles duo of Liu Kwok-wa and Albertus Susanto Njoto reached the second round along with Agus Hariyanto in the men's singles.
After all of Hong Kong's entrants registered opening-day victories, coach Chan Chi-choi had to be content with a 50 per cent success rate as the SAR suffered their first defeats of the tournament at Anaheim's Arrowhead Pond centre.
In the women's doubles, the world's 44th-ranked pair Li Wing-Mui and Louisa Koon Wai-chee put up a brave fight before losing 15-8, 13-15, 15-5 to Taiwanese 12th seeds Chien Yu-chin and Cheng Wen-Hsing in the second round.
That was followed by a defeat in the mixed doubles for Koon and partner Liu, beaten 15-11, 15-10 by Danish ninth seeds Thomas Laybourn and Kamila Rytter Juhl.
But coach Chan Chi-choi understandably preferred to dwell on the positives in the men's singles and doubles on a day when the drafty conditions continued to cause problems.
'Overall we are satisfied,' Chan said. 'The players have adapted well to the wind and we won the matches that we were expected to win. So far, so good.'
Liu and Njoto, who have reached the last 16 in their previous appearances at the world championships in 2001 and 2003, stayed on course to emulate that feat by sweeping aside England's Paul Trueman and Ian Palethorpe in straight games.
