Date: 3 July 2005 Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium Status: 6 star World GP (correct) Defending Champions 2004: MS: Kenneth Jonassen (crash out to CH in QF) WS: Zhang Ning (again face ZM in 2005 SO final) MD: Luluk Hadiyanto/Yulianto Alven (crash out to Boe/Mogensen in QF) WD:Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen (crash out to GL/HS in SF) XD: Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir (crash out to CQQ/ZTT in QF) LINE UP FOR AVIVA SINGAPORE OPEN 2005: XD: [6]Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thungthongkam (THA) vs [2]Zhang Jun/Gao Ling (CHN) Head to Head: SP/ST 1-4 ZJ/GL (Last one won by SP/ST, AE 2005 QF, 2-0) Time: 1.00pm WS: [2]Zhang Ning (CHN) vs [8]Zhou Mi (CHN) Head to Head: ZN 4-11 ZM (Last previous three won by ZN) Time: approx 2.00pm following after XD a repeat of last year Aviva's final WD: [3]Gao Ling/Huang Sui (CHN) vs [7]Zhang Dan/Zhang Yawen (CHN) Head to Head: GL/HS 2-0 ZD/ZYW (Last previous two won by GL/HS) Time: approx 3.00pm following after WS MS: [8]Taufik Hidayat (INA) vs [7]Chen Hong (CHN) Head to Head: TH 6-1 CH (Last one won by CH, Japan Open 2005, 2-0) Time: approx 4.00pm following after WD MD: [4]Chandra Wijaya/Sigit Budiarto (INA) vs [6]Mathias Boe/Cartsen Mogensen (DEN) Head to Head: CW/SB 1-0 MB/CM (Swiss Open 2005, 2-1) Time: approx 5.00pm following after MS I suppose all matches will be held at a same court right? Can Chen Hong make a hat-trick in Singapore? He won it in 2002 and 2003. Taufik is out to win his first trophy after OG. Chen Hong certainly won't have an easy game, Taufik sent lin dan packing in straight sets Can the 1997 world champion Chandra/Sigit help Indonesia to defend the MD title won by Luluk/Alven last year? and show they are back to top form again? Or Boe/Mathias could be another rising fearful Danish pair after JE/ML and JR/LP in very soon future? Can Prapakamol/Thungthongkam again defeat Gao/Zhang this year after they did it in All-England, to again prove themselves they are at a same level with NR/GM, ZJ/GL etc? What about Zhou Mi? I can't wait to see her revenge over Zhang Ning for last year's SO final straight sets defeat. Aiya, Guangxi ma
My opinion: MS: Taufik 55:45 MD: Chandra/Sigit 60:40 WS: 50:50 WD: Gao/Huang 55:45 XD: 50:50 Note: Gao/Huang beat 5th seed Andersen/Schjoldager by 15-0, 15-0 in QF en route to final, but I dunno what happen???
My prediction: MxD: Zhang/Gao WS: Zhang Ning WD: Gao/Huang MS: Taufik MD: Candra/sigit also, if OG = olympic games, then i think this is not the first trophy that taufik is aiming to win (he won indonesia open 2004 remember )
My Prediction MS : TH vs CH 60:40 Taufik will likely follow IO 2004, defeat LD in SF then win from CH in final WS: ZN vs ZM 55:45 MD: Candra/Sigit vs Boe/Mongensen 55:45 if only indos can finish in straight set WD: Gao/Huang vs ZD/ZYW 55:45 XD: 50:50 though i prefer thai win, so chn don't win many titles
I guess there will be a lot of off-court relaxed(?? I hope so) players during or not during match times, like fangfang, bao, cai/fu etc, all the players who are not going to play in the final, so don't forget to snap their photos when they are cheering for teammates la..!!
Taufik's the MAn manz...if u saw hom against peter gade u know wat i mean.. hm zhou mi's nursing an injury rite? and zhang ning has more experience but older....tough fight i guess...as for men doubles...that candra/sigit pair to win..they're world class!!! i dunno bout rest tho...
XD - Zhang Jun/Gao Ling WS - Zhang Ning WD - Gao Ling/Huang Sui MS - Taufik Hidayat MD - Chandra Wijaya/Sigit Budiarto Once again, Gao Ling proves she's still the best women double player. And Chandra/Sigit prove a big mistake the Indonesian not play them together in TC last year.
Zhang Ning, Singapore Open champions of 2001, 2003, 2004.. Can she win the fourth? And a 3-consecutive champion!!! Another match much looking forward to: XD!! Hehe.. don't know should support who, hope it will be 3-game decider
I think the problem Lin Dan lost is more on himself rather than Taufik's game.. Same goes to Xie Xingfang, she was "disinterested" on the court.. That's why tomorrow we can see a close match between Chen Hong and Taufik
Well Lindan have to prove himself again this coming malaysian open. It is definately not going to be easy for him.
LD has played Taufik quite a bit lately so if he had lost at any time his confidence would obviously have been lost. So it's probably better that he loses now and finds his mistakes so that he can fix for Malaysian Open and be ready for the World Champs.
i dont think many will be here today. only xxf and baobao were here to cheer lindan during his match.
