the GP circuit will now take a 3 weeks break, and then we will be greeted with another triplets of large (no, huge!) tourneys: 6* HK Open, 4* Taipei Open, and then 6* China Open, back to back! it will be a very exciting 3 weeks, i am really looking forward to it.

i think i will experience tournament withdrawl, 3 weeks? but i hope the players will get their well deserved rest as they have been playing almost non-stop since the Singapore Open.

Yeah.. the players need to have some rest...but some are already in their trainning sessions in preparation for those tournaments. I hope we can hear new champions or unexpected winners in those tourneys..

Since the 4 * Taiwan Open is stuck in a small span between the larger 6* HK and China Opens, will there be a lack of big names at it? Is China skipping it again this year. 4* tourney will still garner significant amount of points so some players could take advantage of that lack of big guns.

next week is Asian championship.

No world ranking grade.
But China stilll send Xia, Chen Yu and Wu.