European championship for individuals

[Gade supporter]

The draw is out on www.worldbadminton.net (http://www.worldbadminton.net)

Possible winners

MS: Peter Gade
WS: Mia Audina/Camilla Martin
MD:Paaske/Rasmussen
WD: Jørgensen/Olsen
MX:Olsen/Rasmussen

[Syaoran_Style]

for the ms i'm agree =)
but for the ws i don't think that camilla can won after her lose against nicole grether she's not at her best form contrary to mia after her won at the japan open she's in a good mood
MD humm...maybe lundgaard and eriksen will
WD i'm agree =)
Mx i'am agree =)

Syaoran style :D

[Gade supporter]

MS:

QUARTERFINALS :

Jonassen-Palyama
Kaldau-Joppien
Wacha-Boesen
Andersen-Gade

Preditions:
Semifinals :

Jonassen-Kaldau
Boesen-Gade

Final:

Jonassen-Gade

Champion

Gade

[seven]

seems like you're still as chauvinistic... :p:p:p

I think Joppien is the favourite against Kaldau, the other Danes should get through.

[SmartCivet]

If DICKY VS KALDAU or BORSEN, I think he can be in semi-final.
Even this, I think he has 40% chance to beat Jonassen.

[Johnny]

Dicky Palyama used 3 sets and 79 minutes to beat Per-Henrik Croona from Sweden yesterday, likewise Björn Joppien also had to use 3 sets and 71 minutes to beat Kasperi Salo from Finland.

I don't think it's likely to become easier for them today :rolleyes:

Björn has got the best chance of the four non-Danes... I think he will lose though ;)

[SmartCivet]

The WS top 16's match is very interesting. Yao Jie, Pi Honyan, Xu Huaiwen all lost the fist game, even Xu Huaiwen got a zero :confused:
but they all resume in the last two games. :D
Mia also lost the sencond game to Petya. :confused:
Among the potential champion Only Martin has a good performance.

[woop.]

I'm gonna wave the English flag and back Robertson and Emms for the mixed.

[SmartCivet]

Björn has got the best chance of the four non-Danes... I think he will lose though ;)

Indeed ,Björn beat KALDAU
15-12 15-7 :D :D :D

[Zax]

Pi beat Xu 11/6 11/6
Jonassen beat Palyama (a few points short of going to Athens)...
4/15 - 15/12 - 15/8

[Johnny]

Originally posted by SmartCivet

Indeed ,Björn beat KALDAU
15-12 15-7 :D :D :D

Damn! That'll teach me not to make predictions about the future ;)

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

[Nrlll9]

The draw is out on www.worldbadminton.net (http://www.worldbadminton.net)

Possible winners

MS: Peter Gade
WS: Mia Audina/Camilla Martin
MD:Paaske/Rasmussen
WD: Jørgensen/Olsen
MX:Olsen/Rasmussen

imo mia audina will destroy camilla martin
there is also the probability that audina/bruil might beat jorgensen/olsen
their head to head is 2-1
same thing with robertson/emms vs rasmussen/olsen

[hcyong]

I'm going to come out and say that Boesen will beat Peter, officially that is.

[jamesd20]

I presume You are saying that in reference to the fact tha park tae sang may qualify in front of him (Boessen)in the olympics if he doesnt beat gade?

Ordinarily I dont think he has a chance, but you never know. It would be harsh on Park. Hopefully they both get through to qualify!

[hcyong]

I presume You are saying that in reference to the fact tha park tae sang may qualify in front of him (Boessen)in the olympics if he doesnt beat gade?

Ordinarily I dont think he has a chance, but you never know. It would be harsh on Park. Hopefully they both get through to qualify!

I have made some rough calculations. If both Park and Boesen enter the final, both go though on the expense of Lee CW. If not, then if both Park and Boesen lose on the same stage (semi-final), Park go through with Lee. If Park loses in the quarters (unlikely), Boesen is through.

But that's just keeping it simple. Let's not forget there's a Taufik somewhere in the 20s. If he wins the tournament, he still cannot catch Lee CW but he can upstage both Park and Boesen if they both slip up.

[Syaoran_Style]

SEMI-FINALS:
mens singles : Jonassen Vs Joppien and Gade Vs Boesen
ladies singles : Audina Vs Martin and Yao Vs Pi
mens doubles: Rasmussen/Paaske Vs Robertson/Clarke and Eriksen/Lundgaard Vs Logosz/Mateusiak
ladies doubles : Olsen/Jorgensen Vs Grether/Schenk and Audina/Bruil Vs Schjoldager/Harder
mixte double : Emms/Robertson Vs Eriksen/Scholdager and Bergstrom/Persson Vs Rasmussen/Olsen

[jamesd20]

hcyong:

Given that Archer/kellog are ranked 17th today, and are only 40 points behind The taiwanese pair, and they got at least one stage further in their respective tournaments, (Archer/kellog QF, TAI ???, but not qf) does that mean in next weeks rankings, before the 30th april deadline, that they will move to 16, and therefore qualify for OG?

[woop.]

According to this story on the BAofE site they have missed out.

missed out (http://www.baofe.co.uk/?session=2131379286&selected=2392&)

[Gade supporter]

Well this is not a very good match. I had hoped that Park Tae Sang, lost at ABC, but he didnt and therefore Boesen has to beat Gade, I still hope that Gade wins, because if Boesen should get to the olympics he hasnt got any chance, and Gade is my favourite player, and has always been.

My guess : Gade beats Boesen, and Jonassen beats Joppien.

Final: Gade beats Jonassen

[SmartCivet]

I think ARCHER Simon/ KELLOGG Donna still have a chance to top 16 ranking although they lost in the quater-finals.
TSAI Chia-Hsin/ CHENG Wen-Hsing now is 16, NUGROHO Anggun (INA) / 10361 - WIDIOWATI Eny now is 15, but they all stop at the second round in ABC.So, next week ARCHER/ KELLOGG could exceed them.But DENNEY Travis/ WILSON-SMITH Kate maybe exceed ARCHER/ KELLOGG if they can get into the OBC final.

[Pecheur]

I think ARCHER Simon/ KELLOGG Donna still have a chance to top 16 ranking although they lost in the quater-finals.
TSAI Chia-Hsin/ CHENG Wen-Hsing now is 16, NUGROHO Anggun (INA) / 10361 - WIDIOWATI Eny now is 15, but they all stop at the second round in ABC.So, next week ARCHER/ KELLOGG could exceed them.But DENNEY Travis/ WILSON-SMITH Kate maybe exceed ARCHER/ KELLOGG if they can get into the OBC final.

I would have though Trav and Kate would be in since they are the top Ocenia, or is it different for mixed?

[seven]

I would have though Trav and Kate would be in since they are the top Ocenia, or is it different for mixed?
yes, the Australians are qualified anyway, but the question is to know whether Archer/Kellogg can qualify as THIRD brittish pair, and they absolutely need to be in the world top 16 for this...
(that's why everyone is calculating who they can overtake and who can overtake them...)

[seven]

Mixed doubles :

1-ROBERTSON Nathan (7572/ENG)EMMS Gail (7734/ENG) beat
3-ERIKSEN Jens (1837/DEN)SCHJOLDAGER Mette (8494/DEN) 17-16 17-14

2-RASMUSSEN Jonas (9578/DEN)OLSEN Rikke (4789/DEN) beat
5/8-BERGSTROM Fredrik (6979/SWE)PERSSON Johana (11932/SWE) 15-3 15-10

Women's singles :

1-AUDINA Mia (4327/NED) beat
3-MARTIN Camilla (1839/DEN) 11-4 10-13 11-8

Men's singles :

1-JONASSEN Kenneth (4762/DEN) beat
5/8-JOPPIEN Björn (11809/GER) 15-4 15-8

[seven]

Find the live results here : http://www.aotb.org/tournoi/2004/ceindi-fr/compet.htm

Pi Hongyan is currently playing (should I say thrashing) against Yao Jie => 11-4 8-3 ...

in WD Grether/Schenk are leading 10-4 in the first set against Jorgensen/Olsen

[seven]

That's it, Pi Hongyan has beaten Yao Jie 11-4 11-6 and will face Mia Audina in the final.

Mia Audina will be the favourite, but she might be tired from her match against Camilla Martin today...

[Syaoran_Style]

yesssssssssss!!!! hongyan is in the finals!! i wish so much that now she will beat mia!! GO GO GO GO HONGYAN!!!!!!!!

[demolidor]

;) pleasssseee .... :D not the way Mia is playing @ the moment

[demolidor]

Pi beat Xu 11/6 11/6
Jonassen beat Palyama (a few points short of going to Athens)...
4/15 - 15/12 - 15/8

Yup, such a shame 11-3 up in the 2nd game, wonder what went wrong ...
Maybe Kenneth J. used stalling techniques to disrupt his play as he didn't seem too friendly towards him according to a news article*picture [in AD] (don't know Kenneth or what he is usually like or maybe Dicky just got tired).
They should send him anyway ;) I mean how much could it possibly cost, greece is right around the corner :)

[Matt Ross]

Mixed Final..

Robertson / Emms lead 1 game to 0 against Rasmussen and Olsen

However, Rasmussen leading 13-8 in the second...rasmussen serving, 1st serve

[Matt Ross]

lost serve, 8-13

[Matt Ross]

English lost serve, 13-8

[Matt Ross]

Two quick points and the Danes win 15-8

1 game all

Now into the decider

[Matt Ross]

final game, English lead 6-4

[Cheung]

Matt, who are you supporting in this match? :rolleyes: :p

[Matt Ross]

Robertson and Emms changed ends 8-4 up!

[Matt Ross]

9-4 to the English

[Matt Ross]

10-4, Danes serving

[Matt Ross]

Danes lost serve, but gained a point 10-5

[Matt Ross]

11-5, seems all over now

[Matt Ross]

Robertson and Emms beat Rasmussen and Olsen:

15-3 8-15 15-5 in 78 mins

[seawell]

mia beat pihongyan
11:1,11:0 :)

[Mag]

Quick one for Mia indeed, much as expected.

Gade's leading 4-3 in 1st game over Jonassen. I don't think Peter's going to let Kenneth beat him more than once in his career...

[Mag]

Make that 8-3...

[Syaoran_Style]

mia beat pihongyan
11:1,11:0 :)

11:1 11:0.........oh my god!!!!!!!! poor hongyan :(

[Syaoran_Style]

peter lead 12-5 in the first set

[Syaoran_Style]

13-5 for peter

[Syaoran_Style]

13-6 peter serve

[Syaoran_Style]

13-7 jonassen up slowly

[Syaoran_Style]

ahhhhh 14-7

[Syaoran_Style]

first set for peter 15-9

[Syaoran_Style]

second set 4-2 for peter kenneth serve

[Syaoran_Style]

4-5 for peter

[Syaoran_Style]

9-9 i think this match will be in 3 games

[Syaoran_Style]

peter lead 11-9

[Syaoran_Style]

kenneth not say his last word 11-10

[Syaoran_Style]

peter is angry hahahah 12-10

[Syaoran_Style]

13-10 only two points

[Mag]

That's it. Gade is the new European Champ, beating Jonassen 15-9, 15-10 in 67 minutes.

[Mag]

MD final is up next, between Clark/Robertson and Eriksen/Lundgaard. Under normal circumstances this should be a Danish win, but the Danes struggled against a Polish pair they shouldn't have been troubled by, and the English beat Jonas/Lars in the semi. If Jens Eriksen is inspired it will be a quick win for the Danes, if not, it could be just as quick a win for the English...

[Mag]

Looks like the Danes are totally in control. Won first game by 15-3...

[Syaoran_Style]

eriksen and lundgaard are new european champs 15-3 15-9
the last final is the womens double

[Gade supporter]

Well the final in MS was definetely the best match in the whole tournament, i watched on the tv, Gade and Jonassen played very well both, but when Gade is playing his best Jonassen cant beat him. Gade was very happy about the victory and he almost cried when Jonassen hit the ball out. Gade said to danish tv that he know looks at Thomas cup and then going to get the olympic gold medal.

[Faisal]

Which channel was broadcasting?

[taber]

TV2 Zulu showed the matches on danish tv

[Syaoran_Style]

3 pix from european championships

[Syaoran_Style]

kenneth seems to be very sad..... :(

[demolidor]

(Preservation project ;))

Gade, Camilla Martin enter quarters

GLASGOW, April 27 (AFP) — World number one Peter Gade was made to battle hard in defence of his European men’s singles title here yesterday, needing to save four game points to avoid going the full distance against Dicky Palyama, the former European junior champion from the Netherlands, before reaching the quarterfinals.

Gade found it harder than usual to control the shuttles and difficult to adapt to the difference between the two ends. But the champion was also ambushed by his young opponent’s enterprising attack and was slightly fortunate to finish him in straight games 15-5, 17-16.

Palyama took advantage of Gade’s problems with the drift in the second game to advance to leads of 9-5 and 12-9. He arrived early to the net and played deftly when he got there, sometimes setting up chances to attack the resulting lifts.

The titleholder made a run from 9-12 to 13-12 which looked likely to carry him to victory, and when he reached 14-14 the umpire incorrectly called match-point to the Dane.

But in fact Palyama had opted for a three-point setting, and shortly came within a whisker of winning it. On his second game point, at 16-14, the Dutch player’s blocked lift sailed just a couple of inches wide.

Gade next plays Tomas Johansson, runner-up six years ago in Den Bosch, but only two and not three of his fellow Danes were able to join him in the last eight.

Fourth-seeded Anders Boesen, who narrowly survived the previous day against German Oliver Pongratz, failed to pull it off again against Martin Hagberg of Sweden.

The four points which Hagberg took from 11-11 to win the first game proved crucial, because when Boesen made his second comeback in two days he did not have enough energy to complete the job, fading to a 11-15, 15-7, 8-15 defeat.

However, Kenneth Jonassen and Poul-Erik Hoyer made it a Danish trio in the last eight, with the Olympic champion Hoyer looking particularly well-placed for progress further in his first tournament in two months.

Gade’s girl-friend, Camilla Martin, also reached the last eight in defence of the European title, next unseeded Dutch Lonneke Janssen, who saved a match point at 10-10 in the second game against a tiring seventh seed, Margit Borg, and ran out a 1-11, 11-10, 11-6 winner against the Swede.

Three Danes similarly reached the quarterfinals of the women’s singles, with Mette Sorensen and Mette Pedersen making untroubled progress.

Meanwhile, England’s leading singles player Peter Knowles, who withdrew from the men’s singles on Tuesday citing a pulled gluteal muscle, has been omitted from his country’s team for the Thomas Cup world team finals in Kuala Lumpur in two weeks time (May 11-16).

Knowles claimed that he had been punished for his withdrawal on Tuesday — one day after having qualified for the Olympic Games — but England manager Finn Traerup phrased it differently.

“He has had far too many injuries over a long period of time and we have decided not to take him for that reason,” Traerup said. “We have taken this action in response to what happened.”

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[demolidor]

Gade enters semis

GLASGOW, April 28 (Reuters) — World number one Peter Gade surprisingly dropped a game yesterday before claiming his European badminton semifinals place with a 15-1, 11-15, 15-5 success over Sweden’s Tomas Johansson.Top seed, Gade, the European titleholder, seemed set to sweep through but Johansson had other ideas and his heavy, steep smashing unsettled the talented Dane on several occasions during the second game.

But in the decider, Gade rapidly regained his concentration, raced into a 5-0 lead and never looked back.

Gade’s compatriot, Olympic champion Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen, posted an emphatic 15-1 15-2 quarterfinal victory over unseeded German Jens Roch and, at the age of 34, appears as if he can still entertain hopes of a stout defence of his title at the Sydney Games.

Hoyer-Larsen sat out last month’s All-England Championships to be with his sick wife but he remains in the top three in the world rankings and a seasoned campaigner.

While Denmark celebrated the safe passage of their big guns, there was good news for Wales, not normally noted as a force in badminton, as they continued to upstage hosts Scotland and neighbours England.

Richard Vaughan reached the last four of the men’s event with a battling 15-13, 15-13 victory over Sweden’s Martin Hagberg, while in the women’s quarterfinals, Commonwealth champion Kelly Morgan brushed aside fifth seed Judith Meulendijks of the Netherlands 11-1, 11-1.

Both Welsh players have booked their Olympics berth, with Vaughan having risen to world No 18 and Morgan, who has been a top 10 player, at 15 semifinal against Gade, however, will pose Vaughan with a searching test.

Morgan, who has bounced back after a disappointing show at the All-England tournament, also faces a stiff examination in the semifinals where she meets top seed Camilla Martin, Gade’s fiancee and world No two.

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[demolidor]

Gade, Martin lift European titles

GLASGOW, April 30 (AFP) — Peter Gade and Camilla Martin, badminton’s famous love couple, won European gold medals on the same day for the second successive time when they defended their singles titles with very contrasting performances.

Martin, the world champion, had to struggle with herself and her mental and physical tiredness, as well as her Swedish opponent, Marina Andrievskaya, before becoming the first player to win the European women’s singles three times.

Gade, the world number one, who was scheduled to play simultaneously and alongside his girl-friend, gave a far fresher performance than her, containing far too much speedy court coverage and too many sudden rapier attacks for the Olympic champion, Poul-Erik Hoyer.

Gade’s winning margin was 15-5, 15-11, and Hoyer, who had not competed for two months during which his wife had been seriously ill, clearly has some way to go before regaining full match fitness.

Martin’s scoreline was 13-10, 11-3, and it might have been closer still had not Andrievsakaya unaccountably let drop a high clear into court on her game point at 10-9. But for that the contest might have developed into a dangerously long drawn out affair.

“I’m glad it’s all over — I had to yell at myself at times,” said Martin, who also indulged in slapping, cursing and head-shaking to keep her tired body working.

By contrast Gade might well have won more easily had he not started to miss with a few acrobatic jump smashes, allowing his Danish compatriot to climb back from 4-11 to 9-12.

But he was generous to the colleague with whom he will be trying to help Denmark win the Thomas Cup world team title for the first time in Kuala Lumpur next month from May 11 to 21.

“In the first game I played about as well as I can,” Gade said. “But it was my hardest match, because we know each other so well.”

The success gave Denmark, which won the team event on Monday their fourth European title out of four, because in the day’s opening encounter Michael Sogaard and Rikke Olsen won the mixed doubles.

Later Denmark came within just a few points of winning all six titles — something which has been achieved only once before in the 32-year history of the European championships.

They managed five when Jens Eriksen and Jesper Larsen ended the hopes of Sweden’s Par-Gunnar Jonsson in his last Europeans, beating the 36-year-old and his partner Peter Axelsson in straight games.

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[demolidor]

:D <- stupid. This is of course for 2000. Was looking for 2004 results/reports at the same time ...