Korea's number two seed Lee Jyun Il lost out on a place in the quarter-finals at the hands of Indonesian Rony Agustinus.

With his great netplay and smooth drops Rony secured the win in a surprisingly short time – 7-4, 7-2 and 7-1, leaving the left-handed Korean with no real possibility of controlling the match at any time.

The fast Rony (pictured) will now meet Denmark''s Kasper Oedum in the quarter-finals, who beat Malaysian Ramesh Nathan in four games to reach the last eight.

Another Dane, Anders Boesen, also made it to the quarter-finals - Boesen defeated Germany''s hopes by ousting national champion Bjцrn Joppien in three straight games, in a carbon-copy of their meeting in the Thomas Cup preliminaries in Eindhoven just a few weeks ago. Boesen (pictured below) will now play the top seeded Indonesiachampion Marleve Mainaky, who defeated England''s top singles player Colin Haughton 7-3, 7-5 and 7-2.

Ardiansyah, who profited from the withdrawal of Oliver Pongratz (who had strained a muscle during training), lost against the young Malaysian Ayob Sairul Amar. In the first round Ayob had beaten Michael Edge in a clear and precise manner, and played in much the same way to defeat the Indonesian today. Perhaps a promising player to look for in future… Tomorrow he must go on court against teammate James Chua to reach the semi-final.

Kenneth Jonassen lost to James Chua, who had a good day in Basel. It was a really bad first game for the tall Dane, which he lost 2-7 but than took control and grabbed the second 7-0. With each of them winning another game the match went to a deciding fifth and Chua, who has a good defense, won 7-3 to storm into the quarters.

Dicky Palyama of the Netherlands beat Jens Roch of Germany in four sets, and will now meet Ng Wei on Friday. The young player of Hong Kong played a superb match against Welshman Richard Vaughan. Because of a lot of jumpsmashes and fast net attacks from the Hong Kong boy, the Welsh Roslin–killer could only keep up in the first, which he lost 7-8 and in the third set, which he won 7-5. The rest was a clear affair for Ng Wei. “I am very disappointed, because I expected to win after I had beaten Roslin. Of course I was tired after the five sets the match before, but Ng Wei played well today,” said the British number one before leaving for the airport.

report and pictures by Manuel Roesler