Swedish International Stockholm Torunament

**twobeer** · 01-16-2013, 04:36 PM

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Can Henri shine on home soil?
Date: 1/15/2013 12:23:05 PM

The second tournament on the 2013 Badminton Europe circuit will be hosted by Badminton Sweden in the city of Stockholm, starting the 17th January with the finals held on the 20th January.

The Swedish favorite, and silver medalist of last year's European Championships, Henri Hurskainen (WR 37) will fight as the top seed trying to bring home the men's singles crown to the Swedish fans. Henry will face stiff competition from a strong field with many young and up-coming players, but also from top contenders like Brice Leverdez of France, Eric Pang from Holland, and an in-form Vladimir Ivanov of Russia, who last week reached a quarter-finals of the huge Premier Super Series tournament in Korea.

One of the up-coming players to keep an eye on in the tournament is the reigning World Junior Champion Kento Momota of Japan. He is one of the younger players that may well be one of the title contenders in the men's singles. Japan have a tradition of sending some of their hottest young talents to the Swedish International in Stockholm, like current Japanese number one and international star smasher Kenichi Tago, who went through qualification and kickstarted his career when he won the title at the Swedish International Stockholm back in 2007.

The women's singles category will be an exciting event with the top seed is only 19 years old. The Spanish super talent Carolina Marin (WR 34) is facing challenges from Czech Kristina Gavholt, Japan's Kaori Imabeppu, who has won the Swedish International two times as well as in-form Sashina Wignes Waran of France, Michelle Chan Ky from New Zeeland - and Karina Jørgensen, representing Sweden's big badminton brother across the pond, Denmark.

In the women's doubles, Sweden put its hope in the strong pairing of Emma Wengberg and Emelie Lennartsson. The top seeds in the women's doubles however are one of Malaysia's top women doubles, Ng Hui Lin/Ng Hui Ern.

In the men's doubles, the Netherlands are represented with three pair out of four top seeds, with Jorrit De Ruiter and Dave Khodabux as the highest ranked pair. Second seeds is the Polish duo of Lukasz Moren and Wojciech Szkudlarczyk, but Poland also have a very interesting pairing with former topsingles player Przemyslav Wacha teaming up with younger doubles specialist Adam Cwalina to pose a serious challenge in the tournament.

The Netherlands are also dominating the rankings in the mixed doubles as they grapped three out of the four top seeding spots. Sweden put their hopes in form of a wildcard with talented Amanda Högström and Nico Ruponen.

The tournament will kick off with the qualification on the 17th of January, with the finals played on Sunday the 20th in the venue Eriksdalshallen in the Södermalm district of Stockholm.

For a full draw please click http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sp...A-E7CAC9F39419.

To see all previous champions of the tournament click HERE.

Article by Torbjörn Jansson, Photo by BadmintonPhoto.
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I will be highly involved in the tournament, so If you want some info etc. post it here..

I will also try to post some pictures of the players from MAS, Japan, Indonesia etc...

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**LD rules!** · 01-16-2013, 04:49 PM

1080HD Video of all of Kento Momota's matches, would be great thanks!

**twobeer** · 01-16-2013, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by LD rules!

1080HD Video of all of Kento Momota's matches, would be great thanks!

Centercourt will at least be covered in HD :-).. Ill try to get what I can catch from Kentos matches ;-) He will most likely face-off with 1:st seed Henri Hurskainen in the second round..

**Beta2k** · 01-17-2013, 02:11 AM

sorry to bug you again, but i'm just curious: when will live streaming be available?
thank you for all the info already.

**twobeer** · 01-17-2013, 03:51 AM

I think they will start streaming from first round tommorrow. from court no. 2. Don't have the links yet..

There is a one page http://www.badminton-tv.nu/ that is commonly used here for live-streaming of the Swedish legaue etc. but I talked to some of the web-streaming guys and they where investigating if there would be HD optins or suing the youtube accounts etc.. But as soon as there is info on the stream I will post it here!

Cheers,
T

**Beta2k** · 01-17-2013, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by twobeer

I think they will start streaming from first round tommorrow. from court no. 2. Don't have the links yet..

There is a one page http://www.badminton-tv.nu/ that is commonly used here for live-streaming of the Swedish legaue etc. but I talked to some of the web-streaming guys and they where investigating if there would be HD optins or suing the youtube accounts etc.. But as soon as there is info on the stream I will post it here!

Cheers,
T

thx! that is immensely appreciated.

edit: what is the name of court no2?
Eh - Sthlm Visitors Board
Eh - Badm Stockholm
Eh - Kista RC
Eh - Wilson
Eh - Enskede RH

**demolidor** · 01-17-2013, 06:39 AM

Bruun vs Momota would be an interesting enough one to record

. For mere mortals it would be far too early in the morning but ...

**twobeer** · 01-17-2013, 10:45 AM

some pictures from todays qualifying:

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**twobeer** · 01-17-2013, 10:53 AM

And some more:

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**twobeer** · 01-17-2013, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Beta2k

thx! that is immensely appreciated.

edit: what is the name of court no2?
Eh - Sthlm Visitors Board
Eh - Badm Stockholm
Eh - Kista RC
Eh - Wilson
Eh - Enskede RH

According to my info it will be livestreaming on court Wilson (as they are main sponsor of this years S.i.S.)

**twobeer** · 01-17-2013, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by twobeer

According to my info it will be livestreaming on court Wilson (as they are main sponsor of this years S.i.S.)

Btw. I got info that they where only planning to straem saturday and sunday.. I am currently looking into providing an exclusive BC stream for some matches tommorrow :-)

**Fidget** · 01-17-2013, 07:27 PM

Good work twobeer! Keep up the updates.

Nice pictures, too. You seem to have a lot of pics of blond female players!

Out of curiosity (pure scientific disinterested curiosity, of course) who is the player in blue in picture 13 of post #9?

**george@chongwei** · 01-17-2013, 09:57 PM

CMIIM, post #8 pic 4.. is that carola bott of germany?

**twobeer** · 01-18-2013, 02:38 AM

I put up a livecam view exclusive for BC... I will try to catch som of Henri and Momotas action...

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/...events/1813340

**twobeer** · 01-18-2013, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by george@chongwei

CMIIM, post #8 pic 4.. is that carola bott of germany?

Yes, It is Carola.. She wasn't able to qualify however.

**twobeer** · 01-18-2013, 02:46 AM

Sorry for the bad view and resoultion of the stream.. I just tried to at least get some of the action.. will see if I can improve it..

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/...events/1813340