(here's the latest infos i've received from the organizer)..apparently they are scheduling it until Saturday, the 11th, not Sunday.

2009 Yonex/OCBC U.S. Open Grand Prix Championships July 7-11, 2009

Participating countries:
Athletes from China, Denmark, Indonesia, England, Korea, Wales, Chinese Taipei, Jamaica, India, Canada, Malaysia & U.S.A.

Championship schedule:
(Possible qualifying round - Monday, July 6...12 noon-9pm ***NOT confirmed)

Tues July 7..........9am- 9pm 1st round

Wed July 8..........2pm- 9pm 2nd round

Thurs July 9........... 4pm-9pm Quarter Finals

Fri July 10.......... 6pm-10pm Semi-Finals

Sat July 11.......... 6pm-10pm Finals

..more infos on the players participating in the coming days..

..and guess who else is coming from CHN?? Yup, Gao Ling! (perhaps as part of her honeymoon vacation)??..;)

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r310/ctjcad/Misc/2009USOpenPoster2Ar1-2.jpg

wow, already warming up eh?;)

..(as per the tourney's organizer):

Other big names/teams are scared off by Swine flu fears.

Taufik is planning to make an appearance at SGVBC the Monday of US Open week. Arrangement is through Yonex. He may also make appearance at Bay Badminton Club during their $25K tournament (->->for all of you NorCal baddy followers).

Yonex is also promoting tickets to be purchased at other badminton clubs. They are giving away a t-shirt (limited supply) with US Open ticket purchase..Clubs need to preorder their tickets soon to get this deal.

..stay tuned for the list of participating players..

..and guess who else is coming from CHN?? Yup, Gao Ling! (perhaps as part of her honeymoon vacation)??..;)

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r310/ctjcad/Misc/2009USOpenPoster2Ar1-2.jpg
Are you she is coming_ her name is not there

ENTRY LIST///

Very weak entry indeed :

MS:

Taufık Hıdayat
Dıcky Palyama
Carl Baxter
Rajıv Ouseph
Aston Chen
Derek Wong
Andrew Dabeka
Stefan S
Davıd Snıder
Zhang Kaılaı
Dan Kaı,
Lee Hock Laı
Martın Bılle Larsen
Alıstaır Casey
Shueh Shuan Yı
Harıawan ( TH,s sparıng partner)
Lu Chı Yuan
Bobby Mılroy

WS:
only 18 players...no Laurent Todt

Eva Lee
Chen Kuı Ya
Mıchele lı
Charöeın Reıd
Anna Rıce
Sarah Thomas
Rachel Thomas

ın MD...

Not ınterestıng ..only Tony and Howard
Jurgen Koch and Peter
Alvın Lau and Zhang Kaı Laı

No Chınese and Korean players

Are you she is coming_ her name is not there
...
..i can't confirm & there's no confirmation she's not coming either; as i was going by what's shown on the poster.;)
ENTRY LIST///

Very weak entry indeed :

MS:
...
WS:
only 18 players...no Laurent Todt
...
ın MD...
...
No Chınese and Korean players
..from what i received as of today (from the organizer), the list of players shown @ tournamentsoftware.com is a partial list/not complete. Currently it's showing 97 players, but there should be around 150 players registered.
As for Lauren Todt participating, the last time i got in touch with her she mentioned that she's going to play (before heading back to Denmark, after the U.S. Open, to continue her Danish League action).:cool:
Also, hopefully Holvy DePauw will come and participate.:cool:

Stay tuned til Friday/Saturday for another update...and cross your fingers there won't be any further withdrawals..:cool:

U.S. Open tourney info is up @ tournamentsoftware:
http://tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=EE3E4B3F-1EDD-4ADA-80EB-31422C5D1F3D

Are you she is coming_ her name is not there
..i can't confirm & there's no confirmation she's not coming either; as i was going by what's shown on the poster.;)
...
..currently, as per the tourney's organizer's & Hiro's (from Yonex) info, yes, Gao Ling is still scheduled to come..:)

:p..one very minor update on the tourney's poster. It's now showing the inclusion of India with the rest of the visiting countries staying the same. Hope this will be it.:cool:

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r310/ctjcad/Misc/USOpen2009Poster-update.jpg

I believe that Gao Ling may play mix with Tony Gunawan

I believe that Gao Ling may play mix with Tony Gunawan
This is gonna be interesting!!:)

btw, any mas players here???:)

..representing M'sia is Lee Hock Lai (who also competed last yr)..
There are a couple of S'porean players representing: Ashton Chen & Derek Wong

..barring any last minute cancellation, the list of participating players has been updated (see above link to tournamentcentral.com). Other than the recent withdrawal of the 2 S'pore players (due to Swine flu), there are 161 players participating.

Some big, well known players outside of North America who'll come are:
Taufik H., Tine Rasmussen, Gao Ling, Dicky Palyama, Andrew Baxter, Rajiv Ouseph, Simone Prutsch..
Gao Ling will only play Women's Doubles, with Wei Lili.

Here they are, starting with the U.S. Open's most loyal and biggest contingent, our neighbor the Canadiens..;):cool:

CANADA:
Bruce, Alex
Chan, Phyllis
Cloutier, Milaine
Dabeka, Andrew
Foley, Kyle
Gao, Grace
Grether, Nicole
Huang, Ruilin
Kai, Dan
Ko, Stephanie
Lau, Alvin
Li, Kevin
Li, Michelle
Lian, Jianxue
Liang, Melody
Mckee, Fiona
Mckee, Tommy
Milroy, Bobby
Milroy, William
Ng, Derrick
Ng, Toby
Reid, Charmaine
Rice, Anna
Rogers, Joseph
Snider, David
St. Jacques, Valerie
Wojcikiewicz, Stefan
Yang, Sun
Zhang, Kailai

INDIA:
Abdul Raheem, Aditya elango
Gangani, Aravind
Ghosh, Sabyasachi

DENMARK:
Bille Larsen, Martin
Chemnitz, Jacob
Juhler K, Camilla
Klose, Mikkel
Pedersen, Mette katrine
Rasmussen, Tine
Wiyaja, Agus
Yrfelt, Jacob

ENGLAND:
Baxter, Carl
Bhokanandh, Arak
Cann, Elizabeth
Ellis, Andrew
George, Dean
Ouseph, Rajiv

WALES:
Morgan, Joe
Phillips, James
Sheppard, Kerry Ann
Thomas, Rachel
Thomas, Sarah
Vaughan, Richard

CHINA:
Gao, Ling
Wei, Lili

INDONESIA:
Hariawan
Herlina, Reni
Hidayat, Taufik

AUSTRIA:
Koch, Jurgen
Prutsch, Simone
Zauner, Peter

CHINESE TAIPEI:
Hsueh, Hsuan Yi
Lu, Chi Yuan

AFGHANISTAN:
Waiz, Syed Abdul Jalil

NETHERLANDS:
Palyama, Dicky

KOREA:
Lee, Haeng Ham (playing with the Canadian team)

NEW ZEALAND:
Ellis, Thomas

JAMAICA:
Pyne, Charles

SCOTLAND:
Casey, Alistair

Ah, I could've confirmed w/ Lauren if I read this sooner, I saw her at Smash City with her mom a few days ago.

After absent in last three SS tourneys, Tine will participate this GP. Absolutely she's overwhelming favourite to win WS title.

amy pict of Lee H L ?? haven't see this person compete before

..under '2008 U.S. Open'. His pics and videos should be aplenty.;)

After absent in last three SS tourneys, Tine will participate this GP. Absolutely she's overwhelming favourite to win WS title.

Look at the WS fields, I doubt if any one can get more than 10 pts against her. Same as Taufik, every match will be 21-3 21-4.... :)

After absent in last three SS tourneys, Tine will participate this GP. Absolutely she's overwhelming favourite to win WS title.
tine rasmussen will participate in this tournament?:)

wow Tine will play there ......

Look at the WS fields, I doubt if any one can get more than 10 pts against her. Same as Taufik, every match will be 21-3 21-4.... :)


Taufik plays three set matches lot of times. So may be he will play some close matches.

Tine isn't participating.

..that'll even out the WS playing field even more...

..with abt 1 week to go, here are the latest withdrawals:
- Tine Rasmussen (DEN). Apparently she withdrew 2 days before the deadline. Don't know the reason.
- Gao Ling & Wei Yili (CHN) citing H1N1 flu scare as the probable "excuse"..
- Ashton Chen & Derek Wong (SIN) also citing H1n1 flu scare as the probably "excuse"..

H1N1 flu has been pretty bad..even in my area here nowadays:(

..i'm still eating my KFC, El Pollo Loco..

i thought usa has been very bad too?:confused:
nothing wrong with KFC for sure:p

..but it is also a big country. However, the percentage affected is probably too small; last heard abt.............20 cases. 20 people out of 300 million+ is only .006% of the population.

Oh, sorry, kept thinking of the bird flu. I'm still chowing down on my BBQ Char Siu Pork & Tony Roma's Pork Rib dishes...mmm..

Hey, everyone,

Just want to chit-chat,

is it only me or are there anybody else

thing that US Open is Indonesian badders reunion party?

Bcoz I found these players' name are like Indonesians' (but representing USA).

[INA] Taufik Hidayat [1]
[USA] Ricky Rachmat
[USA] Thomas Wijaya
[USA] Andrew Susanto
[USA] Arnold Setiadi
[USA] Nicholas Jinadasa
[USA] Nicholas Hardi
[DEN] Agus Wiyaja (is it Agus Wijaya????)
[USA] Imam Darmawan
[USA] Chandra Kowi
[USA] Mona Santoso

etc :D

- Nick Jinadasa's surname might sound like a Malay/Indo name, but he is neither one of those.;)
- Is Taufik representing USA now??
- Yes, it's Wijaya. Not Wiyaja.
- Indonesia badders reunion party?? Hmm, some of them are much younger than others. Some don't even know each other/haven't met each other.
- There's also another INA player, Reni Herlina (hopefully she hasn't withdrawn).
- You forgot to list the other INA greats: Tony Gunawan, Rudy Gunawan (no relation to Tony), Halim Haryanto.:eek:
- Other Indonesians you didn't list: Claudia Hardi, Steven Jonatan, Ignatius Rusli (used to coach @ OCBC), Dalery & David Riwu, Hendry Ranawijaya, Tiffany Prajudha (used to play up north in NorCal but now playing for UCI), Jamie Subandhi..

..got another confirmation withdrawal:
Dicky Palyama will not come because of illness. That leaves Taufik as the sole remaining main draw for this tourney...Hope he won't withdraw at the last minute...:p

..got another confirmation withdrawal:
Dicky Palyama will not come because of illness. That leaves Taufik as the sole remaining main draw for this tourney...Hope he won't withdraw at the last minute...:p
yes, keep your hands together and pray hard:p;)

..i'm crossing my fingers and toes as well..:cool:

Taufik will definitely come, because it is related to yonex promotion THL against Li Ning Brand :) Good idea...

How about Chong Wei Speed Line? :p

Taufik is leaving tomorrow to USA....he is coming...dont worry!

Taufik is leaving tomorrow to USA....he is coming...dont worry!
our chris will surely tumping and jumping happily now:D

No Gao Ling, but Jiang Xuelian will be there, she used to be in Chinese national team, retired around 2004, lives in Vancouver and represents Canada. She won 2001 Hong Kong Women's Doubles.

Too bad that Gao Ling withdrew.....Looks like Th ,Ardi BW and Anne Rice will play at BBC...

Too bad that Gao Ling withdrew.....Looks like Th ,Ardi BW and Anne Rice will play at BBC...

Hi Rudy, did you or someone else post pics or anything from Taufiks last trip to Vancouver with Andre and PG?

Hi Rudy, did you or someone else post pics or anything from Taufiks last trip to Vancouver with Andre and PG?
Yes....they did...Madbad did...go to the thread" Places to play"..click Canada....No PG but Joachim

Yes....they did...Madbad did...go to the thread" Places to play"..click Canada....No PG but Joachim

oh cool, missed it as i was looking in the Tournament 09 section. there are also videos from the event... good, thank you ;)

I have been told there is a reason why Gao Ling/Wei Yi Li withdrew...
There is a mandatory quarantine for a week if you come back from US...anyway..they will go to Thai Open

..was already mentioned in one of the posts on the previous page (pg. 2)..;)

I have been told there is a reason why Gao Ling/Wei Yi Li withdrew...
There is a mandatory quarantine for a week if you come back from US...anyway..they will go to Thai Open
that means taufik will be having quarantine for a week too after the usa open?:eek:
will this affect his preparation for the WC?

the US is close to Mexico so is common action taken by the respected Minisirty of Health...

I have been told there is a reason why Gao Ling/Wei Yi Li withdrew...
There is a mandatory quarantine for a week if you come back from US...anyway..they will go to Thai Open


If that's the case, all players from US, Mexico and central America playing in WC or other tournaments need to arrive 1 week earlier so to be quarantined? :)

If that's the case, all players from US, Mexico and central America playing in WC or other tournaments need to arrive 1 week earlier so to be quarantined? :)
I guess so....they talked about it....I am just not sure...:D ( for example : Singapore)..