RUSSIAN OPEN GRAND PRIX BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008




Russian Open Badminton Championships 2008 will be scheduled from November 04 – 09, 2008 at Moscow, Russia.

This event was sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation as a Grand Prix tournament. The total prize money is USD 50,000.00. The prize money will be distributed in accordance with the BWF Grand Prix regulations.



http://www.badm.ru/news/anonces/753

Unfortunately, Russian Open tournament level is decreased from GP Gold (US$120,000) last year to GP (US$50,000) for this year edition.

2007 Winners :

MS -- Lu Yi (CHN)
WS -- Wang Yihan (CHN)
MD -- Kristof Hopp/Ingo Kindervater (GER)
WD -- Du Jing/Yu Yang (CHN)
XD -- Robert Mateusiak/Nadiezda Kostiuczyk (POL)

any reason for it??

Unfortunately, Russian Open tournament level is decreased from GP Gold (US$120,000) last year to GP (US$50,000) for this year edition.

2007 Winners :

MS -- Lu Yi (CHN)
WS -- Wang Yihan (CHN)
MD -- Kristof Hopp/Ingo Kindervater (GER)
WD -- Du Jing/Yu Yang (CHN)
XD -- Robert Mateusiak/Nadiezda Kostiuczyk (POL)

surely....affected players who want to participate in this tourneys..?

The entry list of this tournament has already released by BWF, most of them are home players. No any Asian country will send their players to Moscow.

M/Q reports :

http://www.internationalbadminton.org/Russia/Russian%20M&Q%20Report%20Version%20%201.xls

Taken from BWF website, the draw of Russian Open 2008 has been postponed to Wednesday (22 October), and some players withdrew from this tournament :

MS -- Kestutis Navickas (LTU), Stefan Wojcikiewicz (CAN), Maxime Renault (FRA), Georgios Charalambidis (GRE)

WS -- Karen Foo Kune (MRI)

Unfortunately, Russian Open tournament level is decreased from GP Gold (US$120,000) last year to GP (US$50,000) for this year edition.
Yeah. It affects the ranking pts for the players as well as PAW pts. :p

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And the tournamentsoftware for the Russian GP 2008 is now up and running:
click here (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/seeds.aspx?id=25389)
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I don't think interests on this tourney will be high. At least I would have 1 week of rest :D Next week's NZ Open is quite relaxing as well since only a few INA players are involved.

The entry list of this tournament has already released by BWF, most of them are home players. No any Asian country will send their players to Moscow.


More distribution of wealth for non-Asian players is good for badminton worldwide... ;) I see this as a good thing... :D Let the Eastern Europeans prosper in badminton... We will then see them clamoring for the Olympics to still be included in the Olympics [forever]... ;) A good thing for Badminton [overall]...

The Asians want to save their money for tournaments within the Asian continent this time... The US$ exchange rate is killing most of our Asian currencies... :o Ticket prices to Moscow are just too high for a single GP level tournament...

Today's qualification will stage MS, WS, XD matches between local players and small number of Ukrainian shuttlers. This GP tourney is full of lesser known names with Dicky Palyama and Pi Hongyan as MS and WS top-seed respectively.

Today's qualification will stage MS, WS, XD matches between local players and small number of Ukrainian shuttlers. This GP tourney is full of lesser known names with Dicky Palyama and Pi Hongyan as MS and WS top-seed respectively.

Pi Hongyan has withdrawn :o

Pi Hongyan has withdrawn :o

Oh, I see...then Petya has bright chance to win another GP title after Bulgarian Open last month.

seem not many good player join this tourney
mostly russian....

anyone know how old are petya???

so who`s the big winner here?:)

not finish yet lar...just 2nd and 3rd round today

anyone know how old are petya???
she was born on July 30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30), 1983.. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983)
age 25 now..

she was born on July 30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30), 1983.. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983)
age 25 now..

oh...thanks...i tot she young like saina:o

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Lost my PAW on Misha Zilberman [13] in the MS. Didn't realised that he played a rubber match in his MD just 2 hours before he played his MS.

So surprised that he has been given so little time to rest. :o:o:o
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Lost my PAW on Misha Zilberman [13] in the MS. Didn't realised that he played a rubber match in his MD just 2 hours before he played his MS.

So surprised that he has been given so little time to rest. :o:o:o
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haha...chris...we have same fate...sad...:crying:...

not finish yet lar...just 2nd and 3rd round today
surely i know la..
im just teasing `someone` here:D:D:D

surely i know la..
im just teasing `someone` here:D:D:D

oh...i see...hehe...:p...

oh...thanks...i tot she young like saina:o
of course she`s not young like saina!!
if she`s that young, then she will be competing in the recently concluded WJC already

of course she`s not young like saina!!
if she`s that young, then she will be competing in the recently concluded WJC already

hehe...i mean...around saina age...:p

Ella took the 1st game after having trailed 12-18 at one stage...

...player tat i pick after day 2 can blame me...as who i pick...they sure lost...sad...

Local hope Ella Diehl beat Petya Nedelcheva 21-19 ; 21-9.

Local hope Ella Diehl beat Petya Nedelcheva 21-19 ; 21-9.
Almost everyone PAW-ed on Petya. I suspect Petya injured towards end of 1st game...

Petya didn't make it to the final on WS, but will play final on WD... Great, after all :)

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About the semi-final WS:
It is 18:15 for Petya, when she splits/tears thigh muscle on her racket leg... 7-10 days for recovery. Despite that, she and her partner won the WD semifinal and tomorrow they are playing on the final.

Home players dominate today's finale of Russian GP which will be started on 10.00am :

MD -- Vitalij Durkin/Alexandr Nikolaenko >< Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov (all-RUS-Final)

MS -- Dicky Palyama (NED) >< Stanislav Pukhov (RUS)

WD -- Valeri Sorokina/Nina Vislova (RUS) >< Petya Nedelcheva/Dimitria Popstoykova (BUL)

WS -- Larisa Griga (UKR) >< Ella Diehl (RUS)

XD -- Alexandr Nikolaenko/Valeri Sorokina >< Vitalij Durkin/Nina Vislova (all-RUS-Final)

Nice to see that Dicky won something ;). The only dutch guy in the tournament. Now let's hope Larisa Griga wins as well (used to play in Holland at the same club as Dicky) and the Bulgarian pair ;).

WD -- Valeri Sorokina/Nina Vislova (RUS) >< Petya Nedelcheva/Dimitria Popstoykova (BUL)
It seems like a walkover in this match.

It seems like a walkover in this match.



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It looks like Petya's injury (torn thigh muscle on her racket leg) is a serious one. :(:(:(
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It seems like a walkover on this match.
:o Sorry. My livescores stuck...

Another title for the host after Ella Diehl eliminates Ukrainian player Larisa Griga, 21-10 ; 17-21 ; 21-12.

The Winners :

MS : Dicky Palyama (NED)
WS : Ella Diehl (RUS)
MD : Vitalij Durkin/Alexandr Nikolaenko (RUS)
WD : Valeri Sorokina/Nina Vislova (RUS)
XD : Alexandr Nikolaenko/Valeri Sorokina (RUS)

Russian shuttlers almost create clean-sweep at their home tournament...

The Winners :

MS : Dicky Palyama (NED)
WS : Ella Diehl (RUS)
MD : Vitalij Durkin/Alexandr Nikolaenko (RUS)
WD : Valeri Sorokina/Nina Vislova (RUS)
XD : Alexandr Nikolaenko/Valeri Sorokina (RUS)

Russian shuttlers almost create clean-sweep at their home tournament...
but dicky from holland prevents it:D:p