The first round has seen a number of notable upsets. There should be some potential upsets today. Here's the full lineup with predictions in bold.

MEN'S SINGLES
Lin Dan vs Martyn Lewis
Dicky Palyama vs James Chua
Andrew Dabeka vs Wu Yunyong
Park Sung Hwan vs Kasper Ipsen
Yousuke Nakanishi vs Juergen Koch
Roman Spitko vs Xia Xuanze
Chen Hong vs Vladislav Druzchenko
Lu Yi vs Chan Yan Kit

Kang Woo Kyum vs Chen Jin
Peter Mikkelsen vs Ng Wei
Li Yu vs Eric Pang
Jean Michel Le-Fort vs Lee Hyun Il
Agus Hariyanto vs Bjorn Joppien
Simon Santoso vs Sato Shoji (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
Kasper Oedum vs Bobby Milroy
Arief Rasidi vs Bao Chunlai


-- the most competitive field

MEN'S DOUBLES
Hwang Ji Man/Han Sang Hoon vs Kristoff Hopp/Ingo Kindervater (the German beat Sang Yang/Guo Zhendong in the first round)

Anthony Clark/Robert Blair vs Erwin Hehlhoffner/Thomas Quere

Yoo Yeon Seong/Kang Myeong Won vs Robert Adcock/Robin Middleton (another upset in the first round as the 4th seeded Shirley/Gordon were beaten by the young Korean pair)

Liu Kwok Wa/Albertus Susanto Njoto vs Travis Denney/Boyd Copper

Simon Archer/David Lindley vs Tadashi Ohtsuka/Keita Masuda (MATCH OF THE ROUND)

Geoff Bellingham/Craig Cooper vs Michael Logosz/Robert Mateusiak

Simon Mollyhus/Anders Kristiansen vs Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae

Roman Spitko/Michael Fuchsvs Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun
-- barring a disaster, Fu/Cai should win the title)


WOMEN'S SINGLES
Zhang Ning vs Eriko Hirose
Yao Jie vs Lee Yun Hwa
Pi Hongyan vs Hirayama Yu
Tracey Hallam vs Zhu Lin
Wang Lin vs Mia Audina Tjiptawan
Cheng Shao-Chieh vs Wang Chen (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
Lu Lan vs Xu Huaiwen
Kaori Mori vs Xie Xingfang

-- it could be all Chinese (or ex-Chinese) players in the quarter-final

WOMEN’S DOUBLES

Gao Ling/Huang Sui vs Nina Vislova/Valeri Sorokina

Chien Yu-Chin/Cheng Wen-Hsing vs Claudia Vogelgsang/Steffi Struschka

Ha Jung Eun/Hwang Yu Mi vs Carina Mette/Caren Hueckstaedt (the Korean pair beat my favourite Japanese pair Ogura/Shiota…huhu…)

Zhang Dan/Zhao Tingting vs Sara Runesten-Petersen/Nicole Gordon

Mia Audina Tjiptawan/Lotte Bruil vs Du Jing/Yu Yang (MATCH OF THE ROUND)

Birgit Overzier/Michaela Peiffer vs Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen

Natalie Munt/Suzanne Rayappan vs Zhang Yawen/Wei Yili

Nicole Grether/Juliane Schenk vs Lee Hyo Jung/Lee Kyung Won
-- Lee/Lee will have to face 3 Chinese pairs to win the title.


MIXED DOUBLES
Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung vs Kristof Hopp/Birgit Oversier
Guo Zhendong/Yu Yang vs Robert Adcock/Jenny Wallwork
Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen vs Vladislav Druzchenko/Elena Nozdran
Robert Blair/Natalie Munt vs Keita Masuda/Tomomi Matsuda (MATCH OF THE ROUND)

Robin Middleton/Sarah Bok vs David Lindley/Suzanne Rayappan
Andrew Bowman/Kirsteen Mcewan-Miller vs Daniel Shirley/Sara-Runesten-Petersen
Simon Archer/Ella Trip vs Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty
Ingo Kindervater/Katrin Piotrowski vs Zhang Jun/Gao Ling
-- the quarter-final will offer some mouth-watering clashes

MIXED DOUBLES
ROUND 2
Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung bt Kristof Hopp/Birgit Oversier 15-5, 15-2
Guo Zhendong/Yu Yang bt Robert Adcock/Jenny Wallwork 15-5, 15-3
Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen bt Vladislav Druzchenko/Elena Nozdran 15-13, 15-9
Robert Blair/Natalie Munt bt Keita Masuda/Tomomi Matsuda 11-15, 15-3, 15-9
David Lindley/Suzanne Rayappan bt Robin Middleton/Sarah Bok 15-6, 15-4
Daniel Shirley/Sara Runesten-Petersen bt Andrew Bowman/Kirsteen Mcewan-Miller 15-5, 15-12
Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty bt Simon Archer/Ella Trip 15-4, 15-3
Zhang Jun/Gao Ling bt Ingo Kindervater/Katrin Piotrowski 15-4, 15-6

QUARTER-FINAL
Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung vs Guo Zhendong/Yu Yang
Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen vs Robert Blair/Natalie Munt (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
David Lindley/Suzanne Rayappan vs Daniel Shirley/Sara Runesten-Petersen
Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty vs Zhang Jun/Gao Ling

Simon Santoso (INA) leads Shoji Sato (8) (JPN) 15-8, 7-2.
Bobby Milroy (CAN) leads Kaspar Oedum (GER) 15-9

Other MS results:
Lin Dan bt Martyn Lewis 15-3, 15-1
Dicky Palyama bt James Chua 15-10, 15-6
Wu Yunyong bt Andrew Dabeka 15-7, 15-8
Park Sung Hwan bt Kasper Ipsen 15-0, 15-7
Yousuke Nakanishi bt Juergen Koch 15-5, 15-2
Lu Yi bt Chan Yan Kit 15-10, 11-15, 15-12
Chen Jin bt Kang Woo Kyum 15-1, 15-8
Ng Wei bt Peter Mikkelsen 15-13, 17-14
Chen Hong bt Vladislav Druzchenko 15-2, 15-12
Xia Xuanze bt Roman Spitko 15-7, 15-8
Li Yu bt Eric Pang 9-15, 15-12, 15-2
Lee Hyun Il bt Jean-Michel Lefort 15-7, 15-3

Simon Santoso bt Shoji Sato 15-8, 15-3.

He will face the winner between Agus Hariyanto (HKG) and Bjorn Joppien (GER), currently in the rubber game later. Technically, he should win and face Bao Chunlai in the quarter-final. But, you know Simon....he can play brilliantly in one game and totally screws things up the next game. I am still keeping my fingers crossed.

Team Indonesia's performance is better this time round, with one quarter-final placement and possibly one more from Simon. At least Simon beats a seeded player this time round. I hope Anggun/Yunita can at least take a set from the waning Zhang Jun/Gao Ling tomorrow. A semi-final place will be considered a bonus.

MEN'S SINGLES ROUND 3

Lin Dan vs Dicky Palyama
Xia Xuanze vs Wu Yunyong
Chen Hong vs Park Sung Hwan
Yousuke Nakanishi vs Lu Yi
Chen Jin vs Ng Wei
Li Yu vs Lee Hyun Il
Bjorn Joppien vs Simon Santoso
Kasper Oedum vs Bao Chunlai

lots of up sets in the 2nd day,
2 seeds from holland bow out by younger oppenent from china. Mia audina and yao jie surprisingly lost 3 sets to up comming chinesse top WS.

MS also create some up sets.
simon santonso from indonesia show exit to the 8 seeds shato soji from japan. mean while Li, yu from china sent back seeds numebr 14 Eric Pang from netherlands. and also the young danish kaspar oedum won over canadian which seed number 9, bobby milroy.

MEN'S SINGLES ROUND 3

Lin Dan vs Dicky Palyama
Xia Xuanze vs Wu Yunyong
Chen Hong vs Park Sung Hwan
Yousuke Nakanishi vs Lu Yi
Chen Jin vs Ng Wei
Li Yu vs Lee Hyun Il
Bjorn Joppien vs Simon Santoso
Kasper Oedum vs Bao Chunlai
from your predection i'll say that this will be chinese national competation? hehehhe
chinese book 6 out of 8 place in quater final...
what a country

nice work by the young england players adcock and middleton.. taking the korean pair in three games..

coops

nice work by the young england players adcock and middleton.. taking the korean pair in three games..

coops

Hmm...I observe that Team England seems to have a good stock of young and upcoming players in the doubles, especially in mixed. Besides Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms, which I currently rate as the no 1 pair in mixed, Team England have 2 other solid senior pairs in Robert Blair/Natalie Munt and Anthony Clark/Donna Kellogg. There are also other young pairs such as David Lindley/Suzanne Rayappan. They should be in the top 20s within the next 1-2 year.

A couple of upsets in WS and as I mentioned earlier, it's almost an all-Chinese field.

WOMEN'S SINGLES QUARTER-FINAL


Zhang Ning vs Lee Yun Hwa
Pi Hongyan vs Zhu Lin
Wang Lin vs Wang Chen (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
Lu Lan vs Xie Xingfang

Pi Hongyan vs Zhu Lin


Pi Hongyan just lost to Zhu Lin 2:11, 3:11 last week at Swiss open

Recent results from Swiss open last week also indicated:

Lu Lan > Xu HW > Wang Lin > Mia
Lu Lan > Xu HW > Zhu Lin > Pi HY

is Lu Lan better than Wang Lin and Zhu Lin ? Some posts said Zhu Lin is the China's #3. I'm wondering why? Wang YH looks best fit to me. :rolleyes: but she skipped the current 3 opens :(

MEN'S DOUBLES QUARTER FINAL

Hwang Ji Man/Han Sang Hoonvs Anthony Clark/Robert Blair
Robert Adcock/Robin Middleton vs Liu Kwok Wa/Albertus Susanto Njoto
Tadashi Ohtsuka/Keita Masuda advances to the semi-final --> WO against Michael Logosz/Robert Mateusiak
Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong DaevsFu Haifeng/Cai Yun (MATCH OF THE ROUND)

Lin dan, Xia Xuanze are back to stage now. Wow, 2 matches a day, must be very tired.

WOMEN’S DOUBLES QUARTER-FINAL

Gao Ling/Huang Sui vs Chien Yu-Chin/Cheng Wen-Hsing
Ha Jung Eun/Hwang Yu Mi vs Zhang Dan/Zhao Tingting
Du Jing/Yu Yang vs Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen
Zhang Yawen/Wei Yili vs Lee Hyo Jung/Lee Kyung Won (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
-- again, it could be an all-Chinese affairs in the semi-final.

A bad start by Simon, he was trailing Bjorn Joppien 7-1 before he leads 8-7.

It's also pretty tight for the other 2 matches between Lee Hyun Il vs Li Yu (12-13) as well as for Kaspar Oedum vs Bao Chunlai (7-9).

Chen Jin continues his impressive form by taking the first set against Ng Wei 15-6.

Lee Hyun Il (KOR) leads Li Yu (CHN) 15-13
Kaspar Oedum (DEN) leads Bao Chunlai (CHN) 15-11 :eek: :eek:
Simon Santoso (INA) leads Bjorn Joppien (GER) 15-11.

Chen Hong and Chen Jin also progressed to the quarter-final after beating Park Sung Hwan and Ng Wei respectively.

Lee Hyun Il (KOR) leads Li Yu (CHN) 15-13
Kaspar Oedum (DEN) leads Bao Chunlai (CHN) 15-11 :eek: :eek:
Simon Santoso (INA) leads Bjorn Joppien (GER) 15-11.

Chen Hong and Chen Jin also progressed to the quarter-final after beating Park Sung Hwan and Ng Wei respectively.
simon lead joppien 15-11

Lee Hyun Il (KOR) leads Li Yu (CHN) 15-13
Kaspar Oedum (DEN) leads Bao Chunlai (CHN) 15-11 :eek: :eek:
Simon Santoso (INA) leads Bjorn Joppien (GER) 15-11.

Chen Hong and Chen Jin also progressed to the quarter-final after beating Park Sung Hwan and Ng Wei respectively.

Bao lost? :eek:

Bao lost? :eek:

Bao withdraw. :( Let bottom quauter open

Bao lost? :eek:

I don't know. The match is not on live-score anymore. One of the player must had retired??

Once again, Bjorn Joppien leads 7-1 in the second set. Simon is stuck at his first point for very very long!

Lee Hyun Il beats Li Yu 15-13, 15-5.
Simon is still trailing 4-12 in the second set.
I hope he regains his composure in the rubber.

A couple of upsets in WS and as I mentioned earlier, it's almost an all-Chinese field.

WOMEN'S SINGLES QUARTER-FINAL


Zhang Ning vs Lee Yun Hwa
Pi Hongyan vs Zhu Lin
Wang Lin vs Wang Chen (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
Lu Lan vs Xie Xingfang

That's 7 out of 8 Chinese. Hope you counted Miss Pi and Miss Wang (Chen) as "Chinese" too :p

Lee Hyun Il beats Li Yu 15-13, 15-5.
Simon is still trailing 4-12 in the second set.
I hope he regains his composure in the rubber.

Simon is doing his best to infuriate the PBSI. His lack of consistency is astounding :confused:

So far, the MS QF will be
Lin Dan vs Xia Xuanze
Chen Hong vs Lu Yi
Chen Jin vs Lee Hyun Il
Odeum vs ??Santoso or Joppien

Simon is doing his best to infuriate the PBSI. His lack of consistency is astounding :confused:

He lost the second set 4-15 :confused: :confused:
It's now an open chance for him to reach PBSI's semi-final target. If he lose the chance, then I really don't know what to say abt him.

A much better start by Simon in the rubber game, leading 8-1 before the change of court.

A much better start by Simon in the rubber game, leading 8-1 before the change of court.
10-3 for simon now.. and i hope with withdraw of bao chunlai will open his way to semis final...
hhhmmm... what an luck

Phew Simon finally won the match 15-11, 4-15, 15-7. Kaspar Oedum awaits tomorrow.

MEN'S SINGLES QUARTER-FINAL
Lin Dan vs Xia Xuanze
Lu Yi vs Chen Hong
Chen Jin vs Lee Hyun Il (MATCH OF THE ROUND)
Simon Santoso vs Kaspar Oedum
-- China is guaranteed one final place.

finnally simon win 15-7 in rubber set... after 15-11 in the 1st and 4-15 in the 2nd game

BAO BAO w/o due to injury???

how come? AE is coming...

BAO BAO w/o due to injury???

how come? AE is coming...

Good for Simon and Sony though :D Both are drawn to meet Bao.