The oldest and full-packed badminton tourney will begin today, started from Qualifying Round on 11.00am local time, using 5 courts at the nia. One WD pair has been promoted into main draw, Canadian Nicole Grether/Charmaine Reid to replace Russian Nina Vislova/Valeri Sorokina. Tournament website : http://www.allenglandbadminton.com/ ENG time : http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_GB.aspx Schedule & Result : http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=2CA59D61-4728-46BA-A9CD-1FB8AC4FDDB5 2012 WINNERS -- http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...8E19F0-EF7A-406C-8521-B862219B169A&d=20120311 MS : Lin Dan (CHN) WS : Li Xuerui (CHN) MD : Chung Jae-sung/Lee Young-dae (KOR) WD : Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei (CHN) XD : Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir (INA) Giant-killer Sayaka Takahashi who shocked Li Xuerui last week will play today and if she's qualified we'll see her v Jiang Yanjiao tomorrow. Looking forward to many interesting clashes during this tournament
Hope Towi/Butet can defend their title in here and Ahsan/Setiawan to show another significant improvement, they might be able to win a title in here.
Zhao Yun Lei finds herself playing in the qualifier again in WD with Shu Cheng. But at least in XD, ZYL is paired back with bf ZN, and they are in the same halves as MJ/XC (where they have a better head to head record). But first, ZYL/ZN faced Danish XD pair Mads/Kamilla in R32. ZYL "un-usually" do not have have good records against Danish.
I hope Sayaka Takahashi will qualify today for the main draw and give a very good battle against Jiang Yanjiao. Jiang is a left hand player. No idea how sayaka will play against left hand players. Lets see how she overcome first hurdle. If she does, she need to hope for wang shixian/carolina marin. If corolina marin prevails over shixian, again it would be a left hand battle between two. Interesting. Tough games ahead for this youngster .
There is a stream available (HahaSports, Kakibara, StopStream) but i can't post links until a moderator approves them? The stream is very poor quality though. Following on Live Score is easier. ----------- Easy win for Adcock - White. Ouseph up next
Anand Pawar took the first game. 22-20 against England player Rajiv Ouseph.. Come on. Anand. You can do it in straight games.
Just taken a quick look at the draw, I'll be suprised if there's a single English player left in the Tournament come Wednesday evening...
Rajiv is completely dominating in the third. Home favours him that enthu which makes him move faster . Good to see.
[TABLE="class: ruler matches"] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Rajiv OUSEPH [1][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Anand PAWAR[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]20-22 23-21 21-7[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] First casuality to India. Anand did give a real good fight in first two game. I don't have idea of what happened to him in the third. He does not give a fight at all.