China beat Chinese Taipei 5- 0 with an all-win record in their group and marched into the final stage of the Thomas Cup Men's Team Badminton World Championship Asian Zone Qualifier in New Delhi Friday.

The match, however, was of little significance for both sides, as China, following two consecutive victories against Thailand and Hong Kong, China, had been assured to qualify as group winner on Thursday.

Chinese Taipei, losing their first two matches to Hong Kong, China and Thailand, had lost all hope to reach the Thomas Cup finals due in May in Malaysia.

As in the first two matches, China's head coach Li Yongbo sent in three young singles players Chen Hong, Ji Xinpeng and Xia Xuanze, whom Li described as "being in desperate need of team match experience", and continued to rest the team's top player, world number two Sun Jun.

Chen Qiqiu, a young Chinese doubles player also with no team play experience, was given his first chance to play on the court of the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium as Li used him to replace veteran doubles player Liu Yong this morning.

Chen, along with his partner Yu Jinhao, didn't fail Li's trust and beat their Chinese Taipei opponents 2-0, 15-1 in the second game. China also took the four other matches easily, all at a game score of 2-0.

In a decisive clash in the same group, Thailand edged Hong Kong, China 3-2 to clinch the remaining qualifying berth. The match was much more even-odded, but Hong Kong's fate was decided as their first singles player Tam Kai Chuen lost 1-2 to his Thai opponent Polsana Boonsak in a fierce opening match.

Boonsak, who beat China's world No. 11 Chen Hong 2-0 on Wednesday, won over Tam although Tam made a miraculous comeback from 11-14 to win by 17-15 in the first game.

In the other group of the Thomas Cup qualifier, India beat Singapore 5-0 to qualify as group number two, while Japan, losing to South Korea (1-3 by press time) this afternoon, was denied a step further in the qualifier.

In fact, Japan's fate was early decided as they lost to India 1- 4 in the opening match of the group. South Korea, also with an all- win record in group matches, qualified as group number one.

In the final group matches of the Uber Cup women's team qualifier February 18, Indonesia won a significant 4-1 victory against Chinese Taipei to avoid the fate of being disqualified in the early stage of the Uber Cup.

All coaches and players of Indonesia, three-time Uber Cup winner and runner up of last women's team world championship which suffered a shameful 2-3 defeat to Hong Kong on Thursday, jumped up in great joy and clapped their hands in celebrations as the team's second doubles players Tantri Etty and Tuwankotta Cynthia won a hard victory against Chinese Taipei's Chien Hsui Lin and Cheng Wen Hsing and put Indonesia at a 3-1 lead.

Hong Kong, which had been secured the group number one position after their surprise victory against Indonesia, sent in their reserve players to play against India and lost 1-4.

The team's top two players, Ling Wan Ting and Wang Cheng, who took all the three winning points for Hong Kong on Thursday, didn' t appear on the court at all.

In the other Uber Cup qualifier group, South Korea and Japan, and Thailand and Singapore played two much less important matches. South Korea beat Japan 3-2 while both teams, with two previous wins, qualified as group winner and runner-up. Thailand beat Singapore 4-1 to find some consolation for itself.

Starting Saturday, teams that have qualified will have cross matches to make their final dashes to the Cup finals in Malaysia, while only three of the four teams in the men's and women's competition will be granted admission.

The lineup for matches on Saturday is as follows: Thomas Cup: China vs India at 11 a.m. and South Korea vs Thailand at 3 p.m. Uber Cup: South Korea vs Indonesia at 11 a.m. and Hong Kong, China vs Japan at 3 p.m.

Winners of each match will directly get the ticket to the Cup finals while losers will fight each other on Sunday for the only remaining seat.

Experts in New Delhi said that faced with strong contenders like South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong, the Indonesian women's team, young and quite inexperienced, might still have a long way to go before they can reach the Uber Cup finals.