Venue : Odense Sports Park, Odense-DEN Total prize-money : US$650,000 Tournament website : http://www.badmintondenmark.com/cms/?cmsid=133& pageid=1493 BWF Superseries website : http://bwfworldsuperseries.com/tourn...ark-open/?uc=1 Tournament time-table : http://www.badmintondenmark.com/cms/?&pageid=1668 DEN time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wt...ma=Find%20Time BWF YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/bwf Alternative Live Streaming : - http://livestream.com/bwfbadminton/sspodense2015court2 -http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/videoPage.php?g=c2J2b2JoK2F0Y3ZsbmhZ&c=en&i=eWlhaXVidGd1bA№f№f ROUND OF 16 Order of Play (11.00am local time, 3 courts) : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...410764-3F53-4BE8-9FCF-51A92DC74D74&d=20151015 No setback for the faves All top contenders march on, the most notable first round casualty is current KOR SS winner Maheswari/Polii who lost to Chang YN/Lee SH, the Korean pair took revenge over their Seoul defeat.Top seed Chen Long had little trouble to overcome last year Macau Open GP Gold runner-up, Vincent Wong WK while another favourites Lee Chong Wei, Lin Dan and home hopeful Jan O Jorgensen cleared their first hurdle with relatively comfortable fashion. Two intriguing tie at this stage should be Sugiarto v Srikanth and Axelsen v Son WH. Both Lin D & Lee CW will up against Hong Kong MS, Hu Yun and Wei Nan respectively while Chen L gets local tricky opponent, Vittinghus. Jorgensen is predicted to pass this round against Rumbaka. Nehwal, Sung JH and Wang YH had tough opening round to eliminate their rivals yesterday including defending champion Li XR who got scare against recent WC bronze medalist Fanetri. Reigning world champion Marin had no problem to dispose Sun Yu also Wang SX and Tai TY who outclassed their lower ranked opponent. Some interesting clashes are on the way, Nehwal v Mitani, Li XR v Yamaguchi, Hashimoto v Wang YH, Sindhu v Tai TY and Michelle Li v Okuhara. Top-seed Nehwal and both Chinese WS, Li XR and Wang YH suffered losing in their last meeting against their Japanese foes. China and Korea have secured 1 MD quarterfinal slot as their shuttlers meet each other, Liu XL/Qiu ZH v Li JH/Liu YC and Lee YD/Yoo YS v Ko SH/Shin BC. More interesting encounters at lower half of draw, local star Boe/Mogensen had another hard test, INA #2 Pratama/Suwardi. 6th seed Chai B/Hong W will find their Korean nemesis, Kim GJ/Kim SR and Japan #1 Endo/Hayakawa will up against towering Russian Ivanov/Sozonov. Current world champion Ahsan/Setiawan will be challenged by China new combo Liu C/Lu K. Top ranked Japanese WD, Matsutomo/Takahashi is surrounded by Korean pairs as today they will face another KOR combo, Jung KE/Shin SC and if they pass this stage, either Chang YN/Lee SH or Chae YJ/Kim SY will waiting them at last eight. Three Chinese pairs at bottom half draw, they're expected to prevail also home hopeful Pedersen/Juhl as well against Malaysian Vivian Hoo/Woon KW as well. The top three seeds and defending champion will continue their good run today, current Japan SS winner Fischer/Pedersen dropped first game before they stamped authority in next two games yesterday to defeat Wang YL/Luo Yu. Two second round interesting matches will pit English married couple Adcock/Adcock v Jordan/Susanto also China youngster Liu C/Bao YX v Choi SG/Eom HW. LIVE TV (court 1, 05.00pm local time) matches : 1) Lee Chong Wei (MAS) v Wei Nan (HKG) 2) Saina Nehwal (IND) v Minatsu Mitani (JPN) 3) Viktor Axelsen (DEN) v Son Wan Ho (KOR) 4) Liu Cheng/Lu Kai (CHN) v Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan (INA) 5) Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN) v Kenta Kzuno/Ayane Kurihara (JPN)
All 8 MS match Predictions: Chen Long vs HK Vittinghus -> Chen Long Lee Chong Wei vs Wei Nan -> Lee Chong Wei Lin Dan vs Hu Yun -> Lin Dan Viktor Axelsen vs Son Wan Ho -> Viktor Axelsen Tian Houwei vs Chou Tien Chen -> Chou Tien Chen Hsu Jen Hao vs Kento Momota -> Kento Momota Kidambi Srikanth vs Tommy Sugiarto -> Kidambi Srikanth Jan O Jorgensen vs Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka -> Jan O Jorgensen
Why was so much match advertisement and talkings for Sun Yu??? A comfortable straight set thumping win for Marin.
“There’s very few like him, you know, who have such a purely attacking, aggressive mind,” Gade says, soon after the World No 5, India’s highest ranked men’s singles player has finished off Ajay Jayaram’s challenge with a typically smash-all game 21-10, 21-14 in little over half an hour. “It’s not so often you see players like him, because everyone strives to be a complete player and has the ‘defense’ part of their game that’s visible. Not to say his defense is bad, but Srikanth thrives in this on-court personality of someone who has that killer-like aggression in his game,” Gade adds. He need to reduce his speed and concentrate on stroke play and defense. This is my humble opinion.
So to become like all the others? No way, go on attacking SK! You are still young, don't try to play like oldies!
I am looking forward to the following: 1. Tian HW vs CTC 2. Viktor v SWH 3. Liu C/Bao YX vs Choi/EOM 4. Z/Z vs Shin/Chae 5. Kim/Kim vs Chai/Hong 6. LYD/YYS vs Shin/Ko Also of interest, will MJ/TYT prevail to the end? Will they make it to Rio? Lastly, is Yu Yang gone for good?
In the strickest sense of the term, yes a victory of Yamaguchi would be an upset, but it would not be a surprise!
Quite an achievement for our XD pair of Danny & Vanessa to be able to beat Germany's top XD. Our duo has been underperforming for most part of this year. Today against INA'S top pair will be a huge mountain to climb. Will they be able to surprise us again?
