Venue : Agile Stadium of Lingshui Culture and Sports Square, Lingshui-Hainan Province, China Total prize-money : US$50,000 M/Q Report : http://badmintonasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MQ-Report-China-IC-2015.xlsx DRAW date : 13th January 2015 2014 WINNERS => http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/s...7AC972-CE38-4271-A092-AFCD895769B4&d=20140216 MS - Ng Ka Long (HKG) WS - Liu Xin (CHN) MD - Wang Yilu/Zhang Wen (CHN) WD - Luo Ying/Luo Yu (CHN) XD - Wang Yilu/Ou Dongni (CHN)
From the withdrawal lists, you can tell whom were released from the national team. It is nice to see more participants coming from other BA's.
Sorry, I don't quite get you? You mean those who are 'removed' are the ones dropped or demoted from the national team? Say, Deng Xuan, Suo Di and Qin Jinjing? What about the MS? Chen Yuekun, I'm not surprised, but Shi Yuqi is a highly promising junior ?! But if you mean the other way round, then it's just as puzzling - He Bingjiao (though unsurprising for Yao Xue to be axed) and Lin Guipu, both CHN's potential future stars. Perhaps you are only referring to the more senior players like Yao Xue or Deng Xuan and Suo Di as well as Chen Yuekun ?
I said "from the withdrawal lists". This is obviously not absolute. Yao Xue was supposedly released but not removed in this version of M&Q report. Zhang Nan was certainly not released but his partner was.
DRAW has been released by BAC => http://badmintonasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Draws-China-International-Challenge-2015.xls
tournamentsoftware link => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...C05303-0D21-47BB-BCB8-6F499E6E23B2&d=20150128 This IC will kick off tomorrow (28th January), started from main draw. No qualification round as lack of participant to take part here.
Correct me if I am wrong. I don't think Qin and Shi are even in the national team yet. They were both juniors last year. Not possible for them to be released from the national team when they are not in the team yet, They could have withdrawn from this competition because they may not have recovered fully from sickness or injury or for other reasons. Chen Xiaoxin is still a junior. She did well in last year's WJC, loosing 21-19, 21-19 to Akane and is still available for this year's version together with HBJ and CYF. She too is not yet in the national team. Frankly it is a blessing in a way that so many Chinese WS players have withdrawn. The foreign entries are not really very strong except for NO If the players who are removed have been drawn to face the foreign players in the first round, how many of the foreign players will go through to the second round. The competition will become very boring.
I guess so, the national team and the junior team are separate entities though a couple of outstanding juniors are sometimes given opportunities to play at the senior international level. As this is only an IC level event and there are so few as well as rather weak foreign participation, with the exception of the clear favourites, namely WS Nozomi Okuhara and MS Kazumasa Sakai,including perhaps WS Shizuka Uchida, there's really little point for CHN to enter too many of their second tier national or 'strong' junior players in the tournament; makes more sense to have an even balanced and better mix of contestants. Still,in WS the draw pits He BJ with the 2nd seed but in-form and rising Nozomi in R2, unlucky for both contenders in an early encounter. However, no such problem for MS Sakai whom I expect to cruise at least to the semifinals in his half of the draw.
Unfavourable draw for both players, these two young talents are so early to meet each other. Sakai is expected to face Liao JW at last four and from top half draw we'll see WJChamp Lin GP, Guo Kai or Qiao Bin who stunned World #1 Chen Long at CBSL last Saturday as potential names to cruise into semifinal.
Right, it was a shock defeat for Chen Long at the hands of Qiao Bin in three straight sets of best of five 11-pt scoring system in the CBSL. In that matchup, Chen Long playing for Xiamen in the away match with Qiao Bin had to travel 10 hrs by coach to Qingdao, this coupled with the uncertainty of the new scoring system could have affected his performance somewhat as he is known to be a slow starter as well; anyway, no excuse given by the man himself, and I don't think he should as he would be fully aware that any CHN second stringers or relative unknowns might well be capable of causing an upset as indeed quite a number foreign established players have been known to come to grief at their hands. Remember, even the great Lin Dan, no less, had once fallen victim to Tian Houwei and Xue Song in succession in the space of 48 hours, thus ending his unbeaten record in the CBSL, in last year's edition of the league albeit, I hasten to add, it occurred during his long hiatus.
Qiao Bin is actually quite a good player about the same age as THW. After performing quite well in Europe but badly against LCW in Australia in 2013 he disappeared from the international scene for one whole year in 2014. What actually happened to him? Injured or sidelined by CBA? Is he still in the national team? Hope that the China IC will not be his last international competition in 2015. Has any one uploaded his latest match against CL? Saw the earlier match.
Barring any massive shocks ala 2012's Li Xuerui , both Lin D and Chen L will represent CHN for Rio 2016. Don't see any juniors or another CHN MS like Wang ZM, Tian HW or Xue S could topple their position. Yup, just wondering what happened to him in 2014?
Both WJC Lin Guipu and Liao Junwei are out. The real upset today is the elimination of 4th seed JPN WS Shizuka Uchida by the unknown TPE WS Lin Ying Chun.
After drubbing He BJ, Nozomi is looking unstoppable here. Of late she has even stole the limelight from her younger colleague, the teenage sensation Akane Yamaguchi. In fact, Nozomi has recently already scalped the likes of P V Sindhu (twice), Sun Yu, Carolina Marin, and Sayaka Takahashi, apart from Akane Y.
She has good prospect to break top 10 and join the bright talents club, Intanon, Tai TY, Marin, Sindhu.