Big win for Thomas Laybourn and Kamilla Rytter Juhl, they beat Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen in three sets in the second round!

Danish mixed doubles pairs seem to all be on big form...

England MD players have aexcellent performance in this open. Now there are 3 pairs of England in the quarters.

6 danish pairs in the quarters in mixeddouble - Thats great.

Johansen
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Lin Dan and Xia Xuanze in the semis, it looks like we might get a remake/revenge (?) of Denmark Open final...

Japanese men seem to be on good form currently too...

It's surprised for PALYAMA Dicky to beat NG Wei while he lost the first match with the poor score 2-15. Good for the Dutchman!

Kanako Yonekura was thrashed 11-1 11-1 by Pi Hongyan!! :confused:
I thought they were closer than that...

Also surprised at ARCHER Simon/BLAIR Robert lost to japan temporary pairs SATO Shoji/SASAKI Sho(15:10/11:15/6:15), maybe they are too tired.

The MS is most likely gonna be a repeat of Danish Open. Lets go Xia!!!

The MS is most likely gonna be a repeat of Danish Open. Lets go Xia!!!

that would be good... but what's happened to chen hong? i remember seeing him in the head to head draw line up..

and what's up with the german open website? i can't seem to load it.

Also surprised at ARCHER Simon/BLAIR Robert lost to japan temporary pairs SATO Shoji/SASAKI Sho(15:10/11:15/6:15), maybe they are too tired.
well, they are not 'temporary' pair, strictly speaking, they were playing at major international competitions as single players mainly, though. (they were playing MD with other Japanese players at small international competitions, by the way)

that would be good... but what's happened to chen hong? i remember seeing him in the head to head draw line up..

and what's up with the german open website? i can't seem to load it.

The site is slow some times. And I was wondering the same thing too.. I thought I saw both Chen Hong and Chen Yu in the draw??

The same goes for Sony Dwi Kuncoro and Alven/Luluk. They cant be knocked out before the quarter-finals but I don't see them

They now have livescores on Peter Steffensen / Lena Frier against Bergström / Persson.

As far as I know Steffensen / Frier was beaten yesterday against Carsten Mogensen / Rikke Olsen.

Does anybody know what happens?

Johansen
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They now have livescores on Peter Steffensen / Lena Frier against Bergström / Persson.

As far as I know Steffensen / Frier was beaten yesterday against Carsten Mogensen / Rikke Olsen.

Does anybody know what happens?

Johansen
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This also puzzled me!!!
yesterday, the score show Carsten/Rikke win the match, but marked "ret." in "Carsten/Rikke ".

On the resultpage they have corrected it to Mogensen / Olsen, but it is still wrong on the livescore page.

Johansen
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yeah~ Xuanze won........ 15-6, 15-7
but i dont see Lin Dan's scores.......... anyone know??? :confused:

once again Lin Dan enjoy a walkover.......
tomorrow's final will be Lin Dan vs Xuanze again..... hahaha
who will win this time???

too bad tv not broadcasting the match........ hiaz :(

Another walkover for Lin Dan...wow..he is lucky..or he jinx all his opponents? :p Hope Xuanze will prevail in the finals tomoro..Xuanze jia you!@@

Both Lin Din and Xie Xingfang won their semi-final matches. Look like the Golden Couple shines again in Germany. :)

not so fast! there is Xia the "light bulb" in the way. :)

Lin Dan won the 1st game 17-16

so close~!! shessh...I really hope Xuanze can win this time

the chinese couple won again in German Open
Lin Dan won... 17-16, 15-9
Xie Xingfang won.... 9-11, 11-6, 11-7

i really believe they influence each other alot :p

not so fast! there is Xia the "light bulb" in the way. :)

Look like Xia and Lin Dan are buddies and knew what he should do in order not to be a "light bulb". :)

Well, well, Carsten Mogensen bags two titles at once! Although little sooner than I'd have thought, it was really just a question of when, not if. As I've said before, Carsten is without doubt the most promising Danish doubles player in a looong time.

Good job! :D

In Denmark Open Rikke played mixed with Jonas.

Now a week later she and Carsten win German Open together!

1 week!!! :eek: Amazing!


Granted, some of the best payers did not participate, but Chen Qiqiu and Zhao Tingting are number three in the world.

Cheers!

And I am looking forward for tomorrow evening, where Rikke Olsens club Værløse are going to play against KBK Copenhagen. The mixeddouble will propably be Rikke Olsen / Thomas Laybourn against Nicola Riis / Lars Paaske - worldclass. And in 2. mix there will be players as Kamilla Juhl, Lena Frier and Simon Mollyhus.
So if you are in the neighbourhood...

Johansen
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Xia Xuan Ze lost!?!?!?....i thought that he might've actually won...but the scores were quite close....was anybody watchin it live?....any comments on their performances?