Danish veteran Kenneth Jonassen and Chinese Bao Chunlai both cruised through the first round of the 250,000 US dollars China Open badminton championships in south China's Guangzhou on November 9 while British Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms, current world No. 1 mixed pair, walked over due to injury.

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