Canadian Open 2012

[phil-mm]

Pretty thin turnout compared to last year. But Nozomi Okuhara is on the list

But there is quality nonetheless.
Nozomi may not even win the title. She has to contend with Sayaka, who is on a roll.
And Yui Hashimoto has been recently playing well too, though I don't think she will be able to beat Nozomi.
The WD will most certainly go to Japan, (george@unisys has been coughing already ),
as will likely the MD and XD.

[phil-mm]

Just realised not too long ago that this isn't a GPG event.
Nozomi's possible semi-final and final opponents:

[madbad]

A few Brazilians and Norwegians have withdrawn resulting in a bunch walkovers. Nozomi's opponent, Bayrak from Turkey is also a no show. As a result, no match for Noz tonight.

The draw looks like a Canadian Closed with a sprinkling of invitees from other countries.

[madbad]

Matches are relatively on time thanks to the withdrawals.

TS finally updating on time. Was not earlier.

BC'er Nick Bonkowsky on court but having it tough against Shatenko (a Canadian!) 3-11

[aZn_Popcorn]

it'll be a a good win for young Nyl Yakura if he can beat the experienced Scottish dude, Alistair Casey.

[phil-mm]

There will be more stronger players tomorrow.

[badMania]

Jenna Gozali/Komala Dewi will play their first match tomorrow against Suneeta Khare/Ha Luong. If they win, they will face Takeisha Wang/Josephine Wu for a place in the SF against the home favorite Alex Bruce/Michelle Li or Koharu Yonemoto/Miki Yuriko.

It will be a tremendous achievement if they can progress to the Final. Let's see.

[madbad]

it'll be a a good win for young Nyl Yakura if he can beat the experienced Scottish dude, Alistair Casey.

This was a match that could have gone either way. Nyl pulled back to 19-19 in the rubber but then made a couple of unforced errors to hand the match to Casey. Casey fell to his knees like he'd won Wimbledon, haha.

[madbad]

Lots of pretty insipid efforts this afternoon and I swear people were nodding off. Anyway, I am back home for a bit then going back to the Oval later to catch a bit of the evening session.

[Fidget]

Livescore has stopped updating. At least for me. The Yakura-Casey match is forever locked at 4-3 in the third set.
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With no big international names involved in the Canadian Open, I'm going to put my cheers behind Dr. Suneeta Khare, the pathologist from Ontario who must be as old as I am, yet is out there competing on the national /international stage.

[madbad]

Bumped into poor old Nick Bonkowsky who admitted Sergiy was way too sharp and pounced on his every mistake.

The Ng brothers, Toby & Derrick on court up 5-4 on TPE pair.

[CLELY]

The sole representative of Myanmar here, Aung Ye Min passes first round def. local player K.Tamasauskas in rubber games.

[Cillu]

That Myanmar guy did real well coming back for the win after he was down a set. Very close match.

[nbonkowsky]

Matches are relatively on time thanks to the withdrawals.

TS finally updating on time. Was not earlier.

BC'er Nick Bonkowsky on court but having it tough against Shatenko (a Canadian!) 3-11

It was a tough time Sergiy is levels above my play I simply could not win rallies against him. I was to inconsistent, to inexpirenced, didn't play the right strategy and all that led to many unforced errors by me. All in all I am mad yet happy at the same time, mad that the score was so low, happy that I was able to have some decent rallies with him.

[phil-mm]

Kento Momota is the Asian U-19 BS gold medallist in the tournament that was concluded last week.

[aZn_Popcorn]

Kento Momota was clearly a popular figure at the Asian Junior Championships according to Badzine, so get some good pics and autographs of him Madbad(Kel), not just the pretty women ok? haha :P

Kento Momota may have a tough match against the #1 seed, the "Giant Killer" Henri Hurskainen, who has been playing really well the last few months.

[madbad]

Unfortunately, I won't be at The Oval until the SF, so I'll leave it to other BCers to take pics.