Nothing much happened in qualifying yesterday. Both Chen Li and Wang Rong qualified for the main draw, the latter halting the comeback of Wong Mew Choo, not unexpectedly.

Matches of the day (all 1st rounds):
MS (R64)
Lee TS v P Gopichand (two players aiming for a comeback)

WS (R32)
Koari Mori v Mia Audina (two feisty players who can retrieve like crazy; Mia has been missing for a while)

MD (R32)
Guo Zhendong/Xie Zhongbo v Sudket/Patapol (promising Chinese pair v experienced Thai hands)

WD (R32)
Jiang Yanmei/Li Yujia v Ooi Sock Ai/Mooi Hing Yau (Singapore's first v Malaysia's second; well, the other matches are not interesting)

XD (R32)
Thomas Laybourn/Kamille Juhl v Chen Qiqiu/Zhao Tingting

The website is really good too, you can see all the scehduled matches for each of the events, with thescores as they come in, and click on a particular match for more details of it.

We will see whetherthe updates are any good though!

http://www.german-open-badminton.de/RESULTS.8.0.html?&L=1

Matches of the day (all 1st rounds):
MS (R64)
Lee TS v P Gopichand (two players aiming for a comeback)




LTS won 15-7 15-4

Lin also through easily.

Cant see many surprises so far in MS/XD

Only KKK/WPT (Mas) losing to an unknown (to me anyway) ukrainian pair in XD :eek: :eek:

Hope their intial run of form wasnt just a flash in the pan.

Can anyone understand the walkovers? there are serveral matches with walkover on them, but I cant work out who has who/who hasnt. amongst the matches with walkovers are xxz/bobby milroy, roslin/ronny andersen and Thomas Laybourn/kamille Juhl vs Chen/zhao.

Cant see many surprises so far in MS/XD

Only KKK/WPT (Mas) losing to an unknown (to me anyway) ukrainian pair in XD :eek: :eek:

Hope their intial run of form wasnt just a flash in the pan.

Can anyone understand the walkovers? there are serveral matches with walkover on them, but I cant work out who has who/who hasnt. amongst the matches with walkovers are xxz/bobby milroy, roslin/ronny andersen and Thomas Laybourn/kamille Juhl vs Chen/zhao.

KKK/WPT's lost is a bit surprise to me.but I think indeed the ukrainian are a little strong pair, not a unknown pair.They are single player before.

xxz、roslin、Chen/zhao get a walkover.

xxz、roslin、Chen/zhao get a walkover.

Thanks smartcivet, do you know why Laybourn/Juhl didnt play?


WCh + BCL go through, but take three sets to do so.

Thanks smartcivet, do you know why Laybourn/Juhl didnt play?


WCh + BCL go through, but take three sets to do so.Laybourn had a small injury from the clubsemifinals in Denmark. I guess it must be the reason.

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[QUOTE=jamesd20]Cant see many surprises so far in MS/XD

Only KKK/WPT (Mas) losing to an unknown (to me anyway) ukrainian pair in XD :eek: :eek:

yup..why their lost????
:(

Intresting result that Chen Jin beat jang (Kor), he lost to him in Korean open.

2nd big surprise of the day for me Elizabeth Cann (Eng) beat Tine rasmussen! :eek: :eek:

She has had a good season domestically, winning all the English elite opens and is national champion. she has beaten Tracey hallam twice in the past month!

Anybody know how she plays?

i must give credit to the outstanding official tournament website for the coverage it has provided thus far! :)

Men Single highlights!

Gopichand takes only 7 and 4 points from Lee Tsuen Seng. the return of LTS? the magic of Li Mao? time will tell.

Kaldau falls to the BAM discard Sairul Amar Ayob (this seems to be what the press are calling him now a days) in 3 sets

Wong Choon Han stretched to a hard fought rubber by lesser known Mikkelsen (danish)

Singapore's US Open Champ Kendrick takes down England's Andrew Smith in a rubber after dropping the first set

Boesen stops the 'malaysian hariyanto arbi' Kuan BH in straights

ENG Ghaffar doesnt put up a fight againts Dutch's Palyama

the Ronald Susilo's return to international tounaments sends Wacha packing.

All Chinese march to the next round. Only Bao was pulled to a 3rd set by Danish Persson

Shon and Lee continue where the younger koreans do not


thats all for now

8man

Wow.. we will see how the msians will fare latr in the tourney.

Mia audina lost!

11-6 11-4 to mori Kaori of Japan

Wow, Mia Audina lost in straight sets to Kaori Mori?????...Hope we are not seeing a sign that her career is coming to an end??..Is she saving herself for the All-England next week??..

Wow, Mia Audina lost in straight sets to Kaori Mori?????...Hope we are not seeing a sign that her career is coming to an end??..Is she saving herself for the All-England next week??..
I dont think she want to go there just to lose and prepare for All england.

MD (R32)
Guo Zhendong/Xie Zhongbo v Sudket/Patapol (promising Chinese pair v experienced Thai hands)



The thais won in three.


Ha/Yim took three sets to beat NZL pair.

Wow, Mia Audina lost in straight sets to Kaori Mori?????...Hope we are not seeing a sign that her career is coming to an end??..Is she saving herself for the All-England next week??..
this is her first tournament since the Olympics. i doubt she is in shape. but then, to lose to Mori is quite surprising.

GOng Ruina lost to Hirose, Enriko of Japan :eek:

GOng Ruina lost to Hirose, Enriko of Japan :eek:
Gong just recovered from a back injury. she had to skip some of the winter training and tournaments as a result.

Japan seems to be doing well, knocked out Olympics #2 and #4 in one day!

Not to mention her other activities!

I have looked for it in the web-site but couldn't find it.
What is the links of German Open online score ?
Anybody knows ?

Thx.

It's good to see she's still in court! :p I thought she was gone for good when she announced her intention to go into media

Gong just recovered from a back injury. she had to skip some of the winter training and tournaments as a result.

Japan seems to be doing well, knocked out Olympics #2 and #4 in one day!

..she must be *really out of shape*...i mean she lost in straight sets, in the first round to say the least, esp. with her talent & experience level, at least she could've forced a rubber set...

this is her first tournament since the Olympics. i doubt she is in shape. but then, to lose to Mori is quite surprising.

..she must be *really out of shape*...i mean she lost in straight sets, in the first round to say the least, esp. with her talent & experience level, at least she could've forced a rubber set...
but you know Mia, she is hardly ever in shape when compared to the Chinese. no offense, but she normally last only 1 1/2 sets and then then she is a spent force. her form drastically improved before and during the Olympics but still was unable to catch up with her final opponent, Zhang Ning, in the Olympics.

i can imagine taking a few months break will take a while to recover.

we are all guessing though, this is only the most logical explanation. it would be nice to hear from someone who have actually seen the match.

..(phew)another close match for Tony G. and Howard B, they barely won in 3 sets..And I believe their opponent(from Taiwan), they've faced them before here last year in the U.S. Open...Either they're still jetlagged or other players are catching up to them...
I believe all but 1 WD and the MD from Indonesia are out??..

In your first competitive match after out for a long period, the last player you would want to meet is somebody who will run for every shuttle with a never-say-die attitude. Koari Mori, when I last saw her, was exactly that kind of player.

but you know Mia, she is hardly ever in shape when compared to the Chinese. no offense, but she normally last only 1 1/2 sets and then then she is a spent force. her form drastically improved before and during the Olympics but still was unable to catch up with her final opponent, Zhang Ning, in the Olympics.

i can imagine taking a few months break will take a while to recover.

we are all guessing though, this is only the most logical explanation. it would be nice to hear from someone who have actually seen the match.

Intresting result that Chen Jin beat jang (Kor), he lost to him in Korean open.

2nd big surprise of the day for me Elizabeth Cann (Eng) beat Tine rasmussen! :eek: :eek:

She has had a good season domestically, winning all the English elite opens and is national champion. she has beaten Tracey hallam twice in the past month!

Anybody know how she plays?

I saw her some weeks ago in the Swedish International, which she won. I only saw one match (the semi) and there she played quite a fast and attacking game. Great potential. She's quite small and fast compared to Tine Rasmussen, perhaps she simply managed to make her run.

Only KKK/WPT (Mas) losing to an unknown (to me anyway) ukrainian pair in XD :eek: :eek:

Hope their intial run of form wasnt just a flash in the pan.
Vladislav Druzchenko and Elena Nozdran are clearly not "unknown", they have been on the circuit for many years and are very good players (Elena used to be in the top 20 in WS before being pregnant and same for Vladislav who already reached the final of the German Open in MS a few years ago).

Still we could expect the Malaysians to win, but they probably lacked experience compared to the Ukrainians...

Hi!
I´ve been there yesterday (Tuesday). I would like to tell you my impressions.
Before i´ve only visited the german masters a few years ago.

We arrived and the first person i saw aws lin dan who was on the tribune warming up. Wow he`s really! impressive. I thought he would perhaps look small in reality, but he`s very tall and looks super-fit.

By the way, i know why badminton is so upopular in germany now...There were almost no hints to the tournament, we were looking for the hall for quite some time. As there are so many stars i think it should be promoted much better.
There weren`t many spectators either...

Back to the topic: The first game we saw was LinDan versus some unknown player. LinDan played very well. My neighbour said to me: "Look the footworkk of this (unknown) guy is brilliant, The chinese - He moves too fast to see his movements...".

My two friends were most impressed by the match of bach_gunnawan vs 2 singapore players. And yes this was a great match although i think we were the only 3 people who watched this ;( .
Bach had super big legs and always jumpsmashed. Tony always talked to him and leat the whole game. I gave a tape of the AE final match Tony_Halim vs. Sigit_Candra to one of my friend before and told him during the tournament that gunnawan is one of the guys of the tape. The third person who didn`t watch the tape thought we talked about Bach, because he was so impressed about his jumpsmashes :) .

About Mia: I only watched her warming up. Wow she was doing exercises for 30 minutes, a lot of stuff for the back, i think it`s important for her flexible back :) .
I watched the first 5 points of the game. She was 0-3 back because of three errors of her. I thought the match wouldn`t get interesting, because i thought mia would win easily.
Beside her gong ruina was playing. The japanese lady played very well against her and screamed very loud when she won.

Very interesting was the match of chenHong vs. Marc Zwiebler (the new german champion, he won against joppien). Zwiebler got 13 points in the first set, but man - Everytime Hong could lift himself up in the air you knew what would happen, while Zwieblers smashes were not so well placed. ChenHong always hit the lines, one time he backhand-smashed at Zwiebler and he couldn`t handle it. So it was really a different world...

Very interesting game between Bao and Persson. Bao lost the first set against Persson who played very aggresively. Then the chinese coach came over and talked a lot to bao...

I was so disappointed i couldn`t see XiaXuanze. He did his warm-up and walked to the court until the game was cancelled (The tournament speaker had already advertised the world champion...

Eriksen/Lundgard were very impressive, too. My friend was allowed to touch the freshly stringed racket (36 lbs ;) ). It´s a pitty i cannot visit the tournament again this week....

I forgot to mention the funniest thing: We watched many korean double pairs playing and they shouted at each other ("Ho") before each rally, even before the first serve was played. One pair complained to the judge after the first rally ...
The pair shouting most lost against eriksen/lundgard i think...
And i saw our local stringer at the tournament - Now i know he`s good.

My two friends were most impressed by the match of bach_gunnawan vs 2 singapore players.


You mean two Taiwanese players, HU, Chung Shyan and
TSAI, Chia-Hsin.

Vladislav Druzchenko and Elena Nozdran are clearly not "unknown"

I did say unknown to me! :)

Thanks for info though, i wont make that mistake again now!

I did say unknown to me! :)

Thanks for info though, i wont make that mistake again now!
No problem! ;)
Anyway they are certainly not a "young and upcoming" Ukrainian pair, their best results are probably far behind them now... :o

Vladislav Druzchenko and Elena Nozdran are clearly not "unknown", they have been on the circuit for many years and are very good players (Elena used to be in the top 20 in WS before being pregnant and same for Vladislav who already reached the final of the German Open in MS a few years ago).

Still we could expect the Malaysians to win, but they probably lacked experience compared to the Ukrainians...

The real story behind all this is ...
how did Vladislav become pregnant?

The real story behind all this is ...
how did Vladislav become pregnant? lol...i knew someone would point this out:D

maybe there is hope in chen hong and xia converting to XD players:)

If memory serves me right this is the same Valdislav who beat Ong Ewe Hock at the world championships some years back... boy wonder how old he is by now.

If memory serves me right this is the same Valdislav who beat Ong Ewe Hock at the world championships some years back... boy wonder how old he is by now.

http://www.worldbadminton.net/Portal/desktopmodules/biography.asp?pnumber=4850&firstrec=0&recno=7&recs=49&searchnation=UKR

He was born in 1973.

The real story behind all this is ...
how did Vladislav become pregnant?
OK! :p :p
Same for Vladislav meant he was also in the top 20, not that he was pregnant. I realize my sentence wasn't very clear! :o :p