1-Chen Hong (Cina) vs Dicky Palyama (Belanda) 15-10, 15-13
Allan Tai (Malaysia) vs Yuichi Ikeda (Jepang) 17-15, 15-1
M Roslin Hashim (Malaysia) vs Irwansyah (Wales) 15-7, 15-11
Abhinn Shyam Gupta (India) vs Vitikko Antti (Finlandia) 15-12, 15-9
Ronald Susilo (Singapura) vs Ismail Saman (Malaysia) 15-2, 15-7
Yousuke Nakanishi (Jepang) vs Juergen Koch (Austria) 1-15, 15-13, 15-6
Rasmus Wengberg (Swedia) vs 9/16-Wacha Przemyslaw (Polandia) 15-9, 15-13
Muhamad Hafidz Hashim (Malaysia) vs Park Tae Sang (Korea) 15-9, 15-11
Sony Dwi Kuncoro (Indonesia) vs Jim Ronny Andersen (Norwegia) 15-3, 15-3
Pulella Gophicand (India) vs Aamir Ghaffar (Inggris) 15-2, 15-7

Tunggal Putri :
1-Zhang Ning (Cina) vs Wong Mew Choo (Malaysia) 11-2, 11-0
Yao Jie (Belanda)( vs Lenny Permana (Australia) 11-5, 11-0
Judith Meulendijks (Belanda) vs Xu Huaiwen (Jerman) 5-11, 11-7, 11-4
Miho Tanaka (Jepang) vs Maja Tvrdy (Slovenia) 11-0, 11-1
Zhou Mi (Cina) vs Marissa IP (Indonesia) 11-7, 11-0
Kelly Morgan (Wales) vs Karina De Wit (Belanda) 5-11, 11-5, 11-1
Kaori Mori (Jepang) vs Julia Mann (Inggris) 11-5, 11-7
Woon Sze Mei (Malaysia) vs Kostiout Nadezhda (Polandia) 11-3, 11-5
Wang Chen (Hongkong) vs Chia-Hsin-Huang (Taiwan) 11-5, 11-2
BR Meenakishi (India) vs Priyanti Cahyaning (Indonesia) 11-4, 11-3
Cheng Shao-Chieh (Taiwan) vs Julien Denysee (Kanada) 11-1, 11-1
Yoo Mi Song (Korea) vs Miyo Akao (Jepang) 11-7, 11-2
Pi Hongyan (Perancis) vs Agnese Allegrini (Italia) 11-2, 11-4
Yuki Shimada (Jepang) vs Anu Weskstrom (Finlandia) 11-4, 11-13, 11-4
Jub Jae Youn (Korea) vs Yuli Marfuah (Indonesia) 11-6, 11-6
Li Li (Singapura) vs Marco Dolores (Spanyol) 13/11, 11-1
Simone Prutsch (Austria) vs Nina Weckstrom (Finlandia) 3-11, 11-4, 11-3
Petra Overzier (Jerman) vs Harriet Johnson (Wales) 11-1, 11-0
Seo Yoon Hee (Korea) vs Lucas Kellie (Australia) 6-11, 11-6, 11-3
Xie Xingfang (Cina) vs Luxi Xiao (Singapura) 11-0, 11-0
Yuan Wemyss (Skotlandia) vs Kamila Augustyn (Polandia) 11-3, 11-2

Ganda Putri :
1-Wei Yili/Zhao Tingting (Cina) vs Chieh Shao-Chien/Chang Ya-Lan (Taiwan) 15-4, 15-1

Ganda Campuran :
1-Zhang Jun/Gao Ling (Cina) vs Mega Berlian/Greysia Polii (Indonesia) 15-4, 15-1
Tsai C Hsien/Cheng Wen-Hsing (Taiwan) vs Wang Wei/Chen Lin (Cina) 15-10, 4-15, 15-6
Svetoslav Stoyanov/Victoria Wright (Prancis) vs Anggun Nugroho/Eny Widiowati (Indonesia) 6-15, 15-4, 15-8
Sudket Prakapamol/Saralee Thungthongkam (Thailand) vs Simon Archer/Donna Kellog (Inggris) 1-15, 15-8, 15-6
Chris Bruil/Lotte Jonathans (Belanda) vs Jose Antonio Crespo/Marco Dolores (Spanyol) 15-6, 15-8
Robert Blair/Natalie Munt (Inggris) vs Daniel A Shirley/Sara Runesten P (Selandia Baru) 15-13, 8-15, 15-2
Kim Yong Hyun/Lee Hyo Jung (Korea) vs Kristof Hopp/Katrin Piotrowski (Jerman) 15-8, 15-2
Hendri Kurniawan Saputra/Li Yujia (Singapura) vs Tadshi Ohtsuka/Shizuka Yamamoto (Jepang) 15-11, 15-11
Nova Widhianto/Vita Marissa (Indonesia) vs Philippe Gourret/Denise Julien (Kanada) 15-0, 15-2
Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif/Wong Pei Tty (Malaysia) vs Bjoern Siegemund/Nicol Pitro (Jerman) 15-11, 15-8
Kim Dong Moon/Ra Kyung Min (Korsel) vs Frederik Bergstrom/Johanna Persson (Swedia) 15-4, 15-3
Anthony Clark/Kirsteen McEwan (Inggris) vs Yim Bang Eun/Yim Kyung Jin (Korea) 15-11, 15-9
Chen Qiqiu/Zhao Tingting (Cina) vs Albertus Susanto Njoto/Wing Mui Li (Hongkong) 15-6, 15-2
Bambang Supriyanto/Emma Ermawati (Indonesia) vs Yau Tsz Yuk/Wan Ting Ling (Hongkong) 15-2, 15-2
Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms (Inggris) vs Mathew Hughes/Joanne Muggeridge (Wales) 15-7, 15-4

INA open seems to be better organised than Sing Open, with respect to the fact that no one played until 3am. In Sing Open, some matched lasted till 3am but this is not happening in Batam. Maybe future organisers should see how they are doing it.

I really don't think it is in the interest of the game to have matches lasting until wee hours in the morniong. Sing Open and the All England main draw only starts from Tuesday. I think Main Draw should start Monday, and qualifying rounds should be played in th preceeding weekend. Peter Gade and Peter Rasmussen only fininshed their match at 3.15am in Singapore...ridiculous.

The other solution is to have many many courts during the first 2-3 rounds. That way, main draw can still start on Tuesday. However, this will require a lot of manpower and courts. Also, the players that came through the qualifiers will be very exhausted. I think this is what INA is doing in Batam.

I still think each tournament duration is still too short. Start on tuesday and finish by Sunday. Heck, one cricket test match between 2 countries can take that long...but that is taking the other extreme....hahaha. Best is still start Main draw on Monday, finish by Sunday and have qualifiers on the Saturday and Sunday before.

Hey Zhang Ning bestows another love set, this time on

Wong Mew Choo.

The web site doesn't seem to be updated today... has any one got today's results??

Here are a few results :

* WS :

Pi Hongyan beats Jun Jae Youn 11-3 11-9
Hallam beats Wemyss
all other seeded players are through (?)

* MS :

qualified today :
Chen Hong, Ronald Susilo, Lee Hyun Il, Ng Wei, Shon Seung Mo, Wu Yunyong, Taufik Hidayat, Lee Tsuen Seng

Choong/Lee and Chan/Chew both passed convincingly.

other MD results?

No news yet.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wl2172
[B]INA open seems to be better organised than Sing Open, with respect to the fact that no one played until 3am. In Sing Open, some matched lasted till 3am but this is not happening in Batam. Maybe future organisers should see how they are doing it.


I was there and I had to leave after the first game of the last match at about 3 am. and I agree it was not pleasant or fair to the players, spectators and officials at all!

But as reported in Singapore's "Today", Aug 22, 2003, by Stanley Ho, apparently "the worst dellay ever, according to some players, was in an Indonesian Open tournament (no exact date given) where some unlucky shuttlers only started play at 5 am." So Singapore, fortunately. did not hold the record. It appears that at the recent World Championships in Birmingham, the matches also consistently dragged on till after midnight.

I also did not understand why such a thing should happen, when an extra day like starting on a Monday, instead of a Tuesday, should solve the problem until I read the newpaper report which clarified the issue.

Actually the organizers, ie, the SBA should not be held wholly responsible for the exhaustive hours. It appears that the "IBF's competition guidelines state that the first and second round of a singles' competition must be completed in one day.

Apart from the record number of entries (despite being trimmed down to save another qualifying round), the matches were highly competitive with long rallies making it longer for players to settle their matches. Again according to IBF guidelines each match would last approx. 40 min for women and 45 min for men. But on that day, an average of 44 minutes per match for a total of 80 matches were played over four courts, thus causing a delay of three hours. Should the number of entries be further reduced? What about those so keen on participating but were being deprived of a chance?

The SBA had acknowledged the unique situation and promised to look into the players' feedback and concerns to review the current situation and I hope they will make recommendations to the IBF to make for a more pleasant tournament in future.

Not sure if the matches dragged on until after midnight at worlds, but chen hong was playing shon seung mo until 11pm. It is difficult when matches can last from 30 mins to nearly two hours. In the quarters there were two courts, with 20 matches, if each had gone on for 90 mins say, then it could take 15 hours, plus turn around time of 10 mins each time is just over 16 hours, starting at 12pm means could be there until 4am, however at quickest could be 10* 30 mins 5hours and 1 1/2 for turn around, would finish at 1830. It must be difficult for oganisers when the times can vary so much, 10 hours a day in this case.

I'm just checking results and read that Ra/Lee beat Wei/Zhao in WD 15-3, 15-0!!?? Was the scoreline really that one-sided? Did one of the Chinese shuttlers get injured, cuz there's no way the Koreans can pull off that kind of victory on Wei/Zhao.

Why not? The Chinese are good, but not invincible.

But such scoreline is rather alarming, at least for the Chinese team, don't you think so?;)

Originally posted by Hugo
I'm just checking results and read that Ra/Lee beat Wei/Zhao in WD 15-3, 15-0!!?? Was the scoreline really that one-sided? Did one of the Chinese shuttlers get injured, cuz there's no way the Koreans can pull off that kind of victory on Wei/Zhao.

Yup why not?? Ra/Lee are not that far off from the Chinese. If they have beaten Gao/Huang numerous times, there's no reason why they cannot achieve this kinda result against Wei/Zhao, who evidently are not in the best of shape recently. In fact, Ra/Lee has the highest chances of winning playing against Wei/Zhao than against the other two Chinese pairs. It might only be surprising if they could achieve this against Gao/Huang.

Zhao TT doesn't seem to be playing too well. Her XD is suffering too.

Originally posted by nauknip
Zhao TT doesn't seem to be playing too well. Her XD is suffering too.

Not sure whether she's injured :confused:

Could be. Her knee is always strapped up.

By the way, a 50% participation of China women in WD semis is like very rare in such a high ranking tournament. ;)

GO RA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO KOREA!!!! I cheer with all my might, but at the same time am all prepared for yet another all-Chinese final. *fingers crossed*

I agree with Nauknip. All chinese finals all the time will kill off interest for badminton. If interest goes down the drain, then participation goes down. If that happens, badminton as an international sport will become meaningless.

It would be even great if the finalists are both the 2nd ranked pairs from China and Korea (meaning Ra/Lee and Gao/Huang lose in semis).:)

Gao/Huang bt Korean 2nd pair 15-5, 15-4
Btw, Huang Sui looks like Flora Chan (HK TVB star):D

FINALS :

XD : ??? vs Kim Dong Moon/Ra Kyung Min

WS : Wang Chen vs Xie Xingfang

MS : Chen Hong vs Taufik Hidayat

WD : Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen vs Gao Ling/Huang Sui

MD : Sang Yang/Zheng Bo vs Pramote Teerawiwatana/Tesana Panvisvas

Just one mixed missing...

YES! Zhang Jun/Gao Ling won the game!

FINALS :

XD : Zhang Jun/Gao Ling vs Kim Dong Moon/Ra Kyung Min

WS : Wang Chen vs Xie Xingfang

MS : Chen Hong vs Taufik Hidayat

WD : Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen vs Gao Ling/Huang Sui

MD : Sang Yang/Zheng Bo vs Pramote Teerawiwatana/Tesana Panvisvas

I will go for

XD: Kim DM/Ra KM
WS: Xie XF
MS: Taufik Hidayat
WD: Gao Ling/Huang Sui
MD: Sang Yang/Zheng Bo

Taufik vs Chen Hong : 4-0
- Taufik's latest victory was last year's final, winning 15-12, 15-12

Sang/Zheng vs Pramote/Tesana : 0-0
- Have not play each other before. Pramote is the super-senior among the 4 finalists
:)

Wang Chen vs Xie XF : 0-2
- Xie trashed Wang Chen in their last meeting in Tokyo this year, winning 11-3, 11-0

Gao/Huang vs Yang/Zhang : 2-2
- Yang/Zhang were the winner in their last week's clash. However, Gao/Huang will be eager to prove their no 1 status.

Kim/Ra vs Zhang/Gao : 6-3
- The Koreans are inching further away, score emphatic wins in last 2 meetings.

Taufik seems invincible at home, but not the other Indonesians.

Is Taufik too many levels above his teamates?

If I were Chen Hong, I will just pull out from tomorrow's final and conserve my energy for next week's Malaysian Open.
Why exert yourself when you almost have no chance of winning?:D
He has not beaten Taufik before and what else can be expected from him.... more so in front of his rival's fans?

There is talk that CH might skip Malaysian Open....wonder if this is true.

Originally posted by whizkelv
If I were Chen Hong, I will just pull out from tomorrow's final and conserve my energy for next week's Malaysian Open.
Why exert yourself when you almost have no chance of winning?:D
He has not beaten Taufik before and what else can be expected from him.... more so in front of his rival's fans?
Li Yongbo is certainly happy that you are not Chen Hong :). Chen Hong certainly has a chance of beating Taufik, eventhough the odds are heavily aganist him. The chance of Chen beating Taufik is probably comparable to the chance of Zhang/Gao beating Kim/Ra (ie possible but not likely), but if Chen Hong plays his best game, there is no gurantee that Taufik beat him.

Originally posted by whizkelv
If I were Chen Hong, I will just pull out from tomorrow's final and conserve my energy for next week's Malaysian Open.
Why exert yourself when you almost have no chance of winning?:D
He has not beaten Taufik before and what else can be expected from him.... more so in front of his rival's fans?

I dont think there is no chance for Chen Hong to beat Taufik in the final. Just take a look at WS in the recent Spore and Indo Open, Zhang Ning and Wang Chen have never beaten Zhou Mi in the past international match. However, both of them have break the spell.....
Therefore Taufik may seems to have a higher bet but i think that it is a 50-50 winning! :)

Poor Zhang and Gao again lost to the Koreans, Kim and Ra, this time the Chinese almost caused an upset when the took the first game 15-10 and was leading in the second before losing out 11-15. The Koreans attacked more in the later stages to pile up the points. In the third game, the Koreans maintained their composure and steadily built up a strong lead to change sides first. From thence on, there was no stopping them with the erratic Zhang make most of the unforced errors. The rubber ended in a disappointing 15-6 in favour of the Koreans.

Wonder whether the Chinese can avenge their two recent defeats in the forthcoming Malaysian Open?

I was able to watch the Open live by courtesy of TV Malaysia. Now, at about 3 pm, S'pore time, the MD between the Thais and the Chinese are in progress. I'm looking forward to the MS between Taufik Hidayat and Chen Hong, who will certainly face a hard time in front of the largely "native fans". It will prove he is the undisputed World No. One, if Chen Hong manages to win in such an "unfavourable" setting.

The older Thai pair of Pramote/Tesana almost created an upset over their younger Chinese opponents of Sang/Zheng when they eventually lost 17-16, 15-17 and 5-15.

In the second game the Thais were leading 14-9 at one stage but when Pramote was faulted for service, there was no turning back for the Chinese who gained confidence and slowly creeped up on their more experienced counterparts.

The Chinese were on the verge of taking the second game when they were up 16-14, but Pramote, who had surprised with his tricky net play again won with a net shot to take back the service. He won another point for the Thais, 15-16, with his favourite overhead backhand whip rather than a smash. But the Chinese soon won back the service and the last point was the most thrilling with the Chinese relentlessly punishing the Thais with a string of smashes, one of which was a sure winner which the Thais managed to save, but not the last one which clinched the winner for the Chinese and an extension of the match to three games. Unfortunatley the rubber proved to be a rather relatively timid affair which the Chinese won convincingly.

It was really unfortunate for the Thais who came so close to winning the second game and the Indonesian Open crown, which will certainly give them valuable Olympic points.

Promet, the older of the two Thais, was magnificent at the net and time and again he caught the Chinese by surprise, although he made a few net mistakes during the third game possibly through fatigue. His overhead backhand whip is a delight to watch, which he executes with speed, surprise and accuracy. His partner, Tesana, who is stockily built, has a booming smash which he played to great advantage and from which he scored a number of vital points.

In the end, the Thais made more unforced errors, especially at the net and defensively, lifted the bird outside the baseline on too many occasions to give the Chinese an easy win in the rubber.

Hi

Just saw the live telecast, Taufik BT Chen Hong 15-9, 15-9

Originally posted by whizkelv
If I were Chen Hong, I will just pull out from tomorrow's final and conserve my energy for next week's Malaysian Open.
Why exert yourself when you almost have no chance of winning?:D
He has not beaten Taufik before and what else can be expected from him.... more so in front of his rival's fans?

That's just what Chen Hong did, going thru the motions.

I dont think its because crowd bothered him, its likely to be because of playing too

many tournaments continuously with no rest and the risk of getting injured.

Good commentary by Loh but Zheng and Sang should have realised that they were

playing someone 36 years old and could have saved some of their own energy.

Just saw the result from the website.. Anybody know what had happened to the WD? Gao/Huang had obtained a WO... :confused:

Shuyi: Hip injury of Yang Wei.

Are you going to Malaysian open next week?

The results of the Woman's singles are still not posted on Indo Open website. Are Wang and Xie still playing?

Originally posted by Loh
Poor Zhang and Gao again lost to the Koreans, Kim and Ra, this time the Chinese almost caused an upset when the took the first game 15-10 and was leading in the second before losing out 11-15.

Ra was obviously tired out from her long WD semifinal match yesterday. She made even more un-Ra errors than she would usually, hitting into the net and way off the sidelines. Kim made more mistakes than usual too. Luckily they managed to recover in time. :) It was quite surprising when the Koreans just surged ahead after being tied-up at 6-6 all in the third game.

Congrats to Ra and Kim!! Hopefully they can maintain their form over the year (that's a long time really) and retire with their dreams fulfilled.

Thanks Zax. :)

Nope, I'll not be going to Malaysia Open as it will play in another state which is quite far from where i stayed. However, i went for singapore open last week which were much nearer.

Originally posted by Patrick
Hi

Just saw the live telecast, Taufik BT Chen Hong 15-9, 15-9

Truly as what I expected!;)
Chen Hong is deservely the better player, but there's no way for him to secure his first over Taufik in Indonesia.
However, there's always another chance to humiliate Taufik in other side of the globe, just like what Bao CL did in Birmingham!:)

Originally posted by whizkelv
Truly as what I expected!;)
Chen Hong is deservely the better player, but there's no way for him to secure his first over Taufik in Indonesia.
However, there's always another chance to humiliate Taufik in other side of the globe, just like what Bao CL did in Birmingham!:)
Wouldn't it be sweet if Chen Hong faces Taufik in this year's China Open and gets his revenge?

Originally posted by edwin
Wouldn't it be sweet if Chen Hong faces Taufik in this year's China Open and gets his revenge?

Nope, it will be sweeter to achieve it in a big tournament played at a "neutral" ground like the Danish Open, which comes before the China Open. Then, only repeat it at his "home".:)