Chloe and Sam Magee have reached the last 32 of the mixed doubles at the Badminton World Championships after beating Americans Yan Tuck Chan and Yuko Kawasaki in their first match.
The Donegal siblings, who claimed Ireland's first European medal in the sport when finishing third in Denmark in April, won 21-6 21-11.
They will play the Japanese pair and number 16 seeds Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino tomorrow in their round of 32 match.
Sam had to deal with disappointment later on Monday as he and younger brother Joshua lost 21-19 15-21 14-21 to Bastian Kersaudy and Julien Maio of France in the men's doubles.
Rio Olympian Scott Evans was also in action, pushing Chinese world number four Shi Yuqi all the way in a 21-23 20-22 loss.
The 29-year-old Dubliner was ranked a full 89 places below his opponent but made his work very hard for bictory.
