Blair focused on Commonwealth Games

Blair, from Edinburgh, and Malaysian men's doubles partner Bin Shen Tan lost out to Japanese fourth seeds Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa 17-21, 21-13, 21-14 in the second round. However his progression from round one of qualifying to round two proper in Birmingham has given Blair an idea of what he needs to do to reach next year's Commonwealth Games in Scotland. "I'm aiming for the Commonwealths," said 31-year-old Blair, the last remaining Brit who won mixed team silver and men's doubles bronze medals at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. "I think most of the Scottish players are starting to aim for that, to find out what the qualification roads are and what tournaments they have to play. "For Scotland, everyone is looking forward to that. Hopefully we'll be in a good position to try and get some medals. "Scotland are looking to going to the World Championships, the Sudirman Cupm, so a lot of the build-up is for that and I think there's a chance to qualify the team for the Commonwealths. "It would be fantastic to represent Scotland at a home Commonwealths. After the Olympics, everyone is still excited and the Commonwealths are the biggest thing after that. "It's a bit disappointing because we started well, we were able to compete. But the second and third set the levels dropped a bit and made a thing our fitness and getting older." Meanwhile the first seeds in the men's doubles draw Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen were upset by Chinese duo Xiaolong Liu and Zihan Qiu 11-21, 21-11, 27-25 in the second round. However the first seed in the men's singles draw, Lee Chong Wei, and the first seeds in the mixed doubles, Chen Xu and Jin Ma, suffered no such shocks. Lee defeated Zhengming Wang 21-17, 21-19 to reach the quarter-final while Xu and Ma overcame Chinese teammates Zihan Qiu and Yixin Bao 21-10, 21-17.