FROM: IBF Website Philippine Open 2006 New Date for Inaugural Event March 03, 2006 The Philippines Open 2006 which was postponed recently will now be held from 24 to 28 May 2006 at the Philippine Sports Multi Purpose Arena in Manila. For more information, please contact: Philippine Badminton Association Badminton Hall, Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Malate Manila, Philippines Tel:+ 632 303 1070; +632 338 2431 Fax: +632 303 1070 E-mail: joebm_13@yahoo.com Website: www.philippineopenbadminton.com
thanks for the info, MikeJ it's nice to know that the event will be on May not September as mentioned in Philippine Daily Inquirer..can't wait for the inaugural event. at last, the Philippines is now included in the "badminton map".
That's great news! I'm expecting only a few top tier players to join the tournament so that news about Chunlai coming over is most welcome.
bao chunlai and chen hong are supposed to come. i want to see them in action! i've seen lin dan before
For Philippine Open Malaysia will send Mens Singles Mohd Hafiz Hashim, Kuan Beng Hong, Lee Tsuen Seng, K. Yogendran, James Chua. Mens Doubles Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari-Lin Woon Fui. Womens Singles Julia Wong, Norsyahliza Baharum, Anita Raj Kaur, Wong Miew Kheng. Womens Doubles Chin Eei Hui-Wong Pei Tty, Ooi Sock Ai-Fong Chew Yen, Mooi Hing Yau-See Phui Ling.
team china i heard that china is backing out of the philippine open. :crying:neither is bao chun lai and chen hong coming. not even their training team.
sigh ...... It's just too bad that most of the players who I, and I'm sure most Filipino badminton fans were hoping to see play are not joining the Philippine Open. They are LCW, Bao Chun Lai, Chen Hong, PG, KJ, etc., in other words those who we get to see on TV only. I would say that the tourney turned out to be "medyo supot" meaning "falling short" (in Filipino) of my initial expectations. But then again, who knows, the matches might just turn out to be quite exciting.
Well, having no Chinese players means that there will at least be some drama in the women's events unless they decide to send their 3rd string women, in which case you get to see the entire non-Chinese field get demolished by a bunch of nobodies from the nation that wins everything. Sort of a worst-case scenario. I think the women's matches should be exciting with the best of Indonesia and Malaysia - and, who knows, maybe Thailand or some European countries - battling it out for gold. One thing I like about the Korean Open is that if I have time off during the tournament, I can take in the early rounds. This means you get to see more matches and you see a bunch of players you've heard about but never see on television (or on streamed broadcasts of someone else's TV stations as so many of us are relegated to). I mean, when was the last time you saw Wong Mew Choo, Agus Hariyanto, Kennevic Asuncion, Dicky Palyama, Anders Boesen, Kuan Beng Hong, Sairul Amar Ayob, Pullela Gopichand, Ong Ewe Hock or Mohammed Roslin Hashim on TV streaming or otherwise? I mean you see your world #12's on the IBF rankings every time you look but only big tournaments are televised and usually only the quarter-finals and later or semis and later so usually #12 in the world has lost by the time the TV coverage starts. Some of those 2nd-tier players are really exciting to watch. One of the best matches I saw was Dicky Palyama beating Bao Chunlai in Korea and Sairul beating Roslin was pretty amazing, too. Enjoy the tournament. I hope you get a chance to see the action live.
... from now... kennie and kennievic asuncion hav reached the finals in mixed doubles... and Nashim also in the finals in men's singles competition... and that's all i know from now ^_^
