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Greetings,

Today, Tuesday 13-Oct-2009, the Dutch Badminton Open has begun.

There are 232 players participating.
The top Mens Singles player is Wong Choon Hann from Malaysia.
The top Womens Singles player is Petya Nedelcheva from Bulgaria

For more information, refer to this link (from tournamentsoftware.com):
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draws.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82

Cheers... chris-ccc
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chris, I think this tournament level is GP (not GP Gold) according to its total prize money US$50,000.

2008 Winner :

MS -- Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA)
WS -- Yao Jie (NED)
MD -- Fran Kurniawan/Rendra Wijaya (INA)
WD -- Lena Frier Kristiansen/Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN)
XD -- Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN)

www.bwin.com (http://www.bwin.com) have there at least 1 camera up also...

at the moment showing the 2nd court:
https://www.bwin.com/livebets.aspx?eventID=1717857

Our very own bc member, nick smaling was in action yesterday in the qualifying round. Unfortunately, he lost. it's ok, nick. try better next time:)

My club's coach, Ginny Severien is also playing XD and WD... Any support is appreciated ^_^

This player - Taufiq Akbar Hidayat is certainly not the Sir Taufik I knew till date?? He is not Indonesian and has no seeding!!!! :confused::confused:

This player - Taufiq Akbar Hidayat is certainly not the Sir Taufik I knew till date?? He is not Indonesian and has no seeding!!!! :confused::confused:
He is Indonesian, but at the moment he's not playing for Indonesia. Obviously, he's not the famous Taufik Hidayat... :)

then what country does he play for?:confused:

According to tournamentsoftware, he's playing for Italy...

Maybe there's a mistake there.

Maybe there's a mistake there.
I don't think so. There are other websites stating the same thing. Also, he lives in Milan according to his facebook profile.

chris, I think this tournament level is GP (not GP Gold) according to its total prize money US$50,000.



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Hi CLERY,

Thank you for correcting the info. I just took it from our BC Forum heading.
Perhaps, kwun can correct the thread's title and the BC Forum heading.

There are not many reports in this thread. Where are our Dutch BCers? :o:o:o

Anyway, from tournamentsoftware we've found 2 surprises:
Olga Konon and Carola Bott have both made it into the Womens Quarter-Finals Rounds.

Congratulations to Olga and Carola !!! :):):)
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I'm going there from friday till sunday to watch all matches obviously, hoping to get on a picture with Uncle Wong

I'm going there from friday till sunday to watch all matches obviously, hoping to get on a picture with Uncle Wong

uncle wong is a nice man^^:D

get some pics with the beautiful Carola Bott too :D

get some pics with the beautiful Carola Bott too :D

She had today a good fight;)
unfortunately the bwin cameras are so far away and thew video cannot be zoomed:(... so all the beauty was not seen worldwide:(
Beginning of the 1st game was awful (0-9, 3-16) but she came back and lost 1st only 17-21... and finally won:)
all the best for tomorrow also...;)

She had today a good fight;)
unfortunately the bwin cameras are so far away and thew video cannot be zoomed:(... so all the beauty was not seen worldwide:(
Beginning of the 1st game was awful (0-9, 3-16) but she came back and lost 1st only 17-21... and finally won:)
all the best for tomorrow also...;)



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Today, Friday 16-Oct-2009, Olga Konon and Carola Bott have a chance to make it into the Semi-Finals. All the best to both of them.

Wonder if they will be playing against each other in the Finals.
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Hi CLERY,

Thank you for correcting the info. I just took it from our BC Forum heading.
Perhaps, kwun can correct the thread's title and the BC Forum heading.
There are not many reports in this thread. Where are our Dutch BCers? :o:o:o
Anyway, from tournamentsoftware we've found 2 surprises:
Olga Konon and Carola Bott have both made it into the Womens Quarter-Finals Rounds.
Congratulations to Olga and Carola !!! :):):)
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Yeah, let's see Olga & Carola journey in this GP...Will both of them cruise into the last four?

I see Olga have the better chance;)

I see Olga have the better chance;)



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Carola Bott had a tough match last night, Thursday 15-Oct-2009, defeating Linda Zechiri (Seeded 6) with scores of 17-21, 21-19, 21-16.

And for today, Carola is scheduled for the day session. And she is meeting Larisa Griga (Seeded 3). Looks like Carola might be too tired for today's match.

Anyway, we wish Carola all the best.
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Both Carola and Olga enter semifinal...and likely to meet home players, Judith and Yao Jie?!

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Carola Bott had a tough match last night, Thursday 15-Oct-2009, defeating Linda Zechiri (Seeded 6) with scores of 17-21, 21-19, 21-16.

And for today, Carola is scheduled for the day session. And she is meeting Larisa Griga (Seeded 3). Looks like Carola might be too tired for today's match.

Anyway, we wish Carola all the best.
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Thankfully she won today....

Carola looked today much better:)
Good fighting spirit, not so many mistekes by herself and of course she had more supporters beside the court;)

So we can see her tomorrow again:)
Anybody knows if the semis or finals are shown on TV somwhere also?

Wong Choong Hann is worrying...

Rajiv doing a good game:-)

is there any where i can watch live now?

is there any where i can watch live now?

later today you can see from bwin.com the semis...
but you had to register and make the deposit in amount of 10 euros...:(

on better side is that they have often 2 cameras in European badminton competitions (in other sports also:-)... the stream is mostly very good, microphone is behind the umpire;) (so you can hear the converstions between games or coaches instructions sometimes:-) but the video box is rather small and cannot be zoomed to full screen:(

for myself I had got a lot of fun for that money so i don't complain;)

Wong Choong Hann is worrying...

There goes Choong Hann :(

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In a few minutes' time, this Womens Singles Semi-Final match will be played:
Carola Bott (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=217)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/GER.gif[GER] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=GER) - http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/NED.gif[NED] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=NED)Judith Meulendijks [2] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=155)

Dutch fans will be in full force to support Judith.

Let's hope that Carola can fight on and do all her best to make it into the FINALS.
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Unfortunately chris@ccc favourite, carola bott lost out in 2 sets to judith just now.
carola can improve more:)

Just came back from Dutch Open. A little bit disappointed with Dicky's performance and Ikeda/Shiota loss, but enjoyed Yao Jie vs Konon, Judith vs Bott, and the Russia/Bulgaria vs Germany WD...

Unfortunately chris@ccc favourite, carola bott lost out in 2 sets to judith just now.
carola can improve more:)

Improve more on what?

Both Carola and Olga enter semifinal...and likely to meet home players, Judith and Yao Jie.



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Both home players, Judith and Yao Jie, defeated Carola and Olga at the Semi-Finals.
At the Finals, Chetan Anand is the only player from Asia left standing to battle on.
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Russian players grabbed 2 title here through WD and XD. Host Netherlands, India and Germany won 1 title each.

MS -- Chetan Anand (IND)
WS -- Yao Jie (NED)
MD -- Kristoff Hopp/Johanness Schoettler (GER)
WD -- Valeria Sorokina/Nina Vislova (RUS)
XD -- Alexandr Nikolaenko/Valeria Sorokina (RUS)

Congratulation Chetan Anand, is this his first GP title........?

Congratulation Chetan Anand, is this his first GP title........?

He cleaned up in europe last year/last few years(?), probably not all GP's but at least Bitburger 2008 was one.

Other "news" I've picked up is Yonex Japan will be sponsoring the dutch federation for the next 7(!) years bringing in a comparatively pitiful sum of 3.2 million euro. (pitiful compared to football shirt sponsorship deals, let alone equipment deals). A similar deal in structure to Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan requiring all national team and junior national team members to wear Yonex equipment. Well I'm not sure if those other countries have that requirement but I heard that's in the dutch deal, leading to possible/probable conflict since at least three members of the national team have other deals.

Also many Indian players were wearing Li-Ning (Anand, Bhat, Sridhar ... more?) but not all like Kashyap Parupalli, Sanave Thomas and partner Rupesh Kumar (all Yonex), I think Marc Zwiebler was using the ArcSaber Z-Slash and I'm surprised "everyone's" is suprised by Olga Konon's success. What a difference a different flag makes? Some people actually think she's polish :p. The other young talent Kasper Ipsen was actually quite dissapointingly boring in style. A no frills hard worker whom probably bored Peter Gade to death by running down every single shot when he became the first dane in who knows how many years to beat him a while back ;).

...... I'm surprised "everyone's" is surprised by Olga Konon's success. What a difference a different flag makes? Some people actually think she's polish :p.



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Hi demolidor,

Please give us more info about Olga Konon.

Yes, she has done quite well at the 2009 Dutch Open GP. However, there is still little known about her.
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..she is still very young and she actually did pretty well in last yr's OG.
Here are more infos on her; metalmon1188 seems to know quite a bit about her & she has her own website:cool::
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58799
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56741
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59235

...she is still very young and she actually did pretty well in last yr's OG.

Here are more infos on her; metalmon1188 seems to know quite a bit about her & she has her own website:cool::
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58799
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56741
http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59235



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Thanks ctjcad, for giving us Olga Konon's thread.

And I posted in her thread. At the 2009 Dutch Open GP (from October 13th to 18th), Olga Konon did very well, almost reaching the Finals:

Tue 10/13/2009 WS - Qualification 1 (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&draw=4)
Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=114)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=POL) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/NED.gif[NED] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=NED)Soraya de Visch Eijbergen (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=163) 21-7 21-11 (19 mins)

Tue 10/13/2009 WS - Qualification 2 (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&draw=4)
Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=114)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=POL) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/NED.gif[NED] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=NED)Iris Tabeling (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=160) 21-13 21-11 (21 mins)

Wed 10/14/2009 WS - Round 1 (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&draw=5)
Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=114)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=POL) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/BUL.gif[BUL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=BUL) Petya Nedelcheva [1] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=5) 18-21 17-21 (48mins)

Thu 10/15/2009 WS - Round 2 (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&draw=5)
Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=114)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=POL) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/ENG.gif[ENG] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=ENG)Helen Davies (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=76) 21-19 21-10 (35 mins)

Fri 10/16/2009 WS - Quarter-Finals (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&draw=5)
Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=114)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=POL) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/NED.gif[NED] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=NED)Patty Stolzenbach (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=158) 21-10 21-15 (23 mins)

Sat 10/17/2009 WS - Semi-Finals (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&draw=5)
Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=114)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=POL) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/NED.gif[NED] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&c=NED) Yao Jie [4] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=D21D1968-0D82-438D-92F9-16E539B19F82&player=156) 8-21 17-21 (35 mins)


Today, at the 2009 Denmark Open SS (from October 20th to 25th), Olga is playing again.
Tue 10/20/2009 4:00pm
Amalie Fangel (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=DC4CD6A1-2500-4DC4-876C-1E2062DA09FD&player=202)http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/DEN.gif[DEN] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=DC4CD6A1-2500-4DC4-876C-1E2062DA09FD&c=DEN) vs http://static.tournamentsoftware.com/images/flags/POL.gif[POL] (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=DC4CD6A1-2500-4DC4-876C-1E2062DA09FD&c=POL)Olga Konon (http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/player.aspx?id=DC4CD6A1-2500-4DC4-876C-1E2062DA09FD&player=291)

Wishing all the best to Olga Konon.
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He cleaned up in europe last year/last few years(?), probably not all GP's but at least Bitburger 2008 was one.

Other "news" I've picked up is Yonex Japan will be sponsoring the dutch federation for the next 7(!) years bringing in a comparatively pitiful sum of 3.2 million euro. (pitiful compared to football shirt sponsorship deals, let alone equipment deals).

3.2 million Euros in 7 years is indeed a very pitiful amount :mad: Downright monopoly by Yonex and even INA is trying to break free of Yonex.

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Hi demolidor,

Please give us more info about Olga Konon.

Yes, she has done quite well at the 2009 Dutch Open GP. However, there is still little known about her.
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Other Chris coming through with the links as always http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif. The badzine link is especially usefull (http://www.badzine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1202:mark-p&catid=16:playersspotlight&Itemid=56). I'm not exactly sure why she chose Poland but reading the article I guess it's the closest to home. I think she left the belarussian team/federation because they messed up her entry more than once, failing to submit the paperwork in time to compete in certain tournaments. I think one was the German Open in 200x (8?) where she already arrived at the tournament only to find out her federation hadn't sent in the paperwork. Perhaps there was some waiting period after the switch before she could compete again, perhaps coupled with an injury, dropping her ranking so much she even has to qualify for regular GP tournaments (Dutch Open 2009 qualify, 2008 seeded 5th).

3.2 million Euros in 7 years is indeed a very pitiful amount :mad: Downright monopoly by Yonex and even INA is trying to break free of Yonex. Well, money was getting tight I heard so they really didn't have much choice. Especially in a time when sponsors are hard to come by. They seem to be pleased so whatever they used to get was either even less or something similar. €500.000 a year + free equipment(?) for all teams ...

Just now reading the website of the brother of the federation's president: turns out there are 39 players who are not sponsored by Yonex counting the ones in the youth team, that will be more or less forced to switch or pay their own cost (entry fees, travel etc.). To be continued ... :D.