The first round will start tomorrow and here's a few interesting tie. As usual, predicted winners are in bold. MEN'S SINGLES Chetan Anand vs Kennevic Asuncion Ng Wei vs Hendra Wijaya Lee Tsuen Tseng vs Poompat Sapkulchananart (the Thai beat Sony in Jaipur) Alamsyah vs Kendrick Lee Arvind Bhat vs Sairul Amar Ayob Nguyen Tien Minh vs Shoji Sato (MATCH OF THE ROUND) -- it will not be a shock if the upcoming Viet manages to beat the Japanese Anup Sridhar vs Boonsak Ponsana Lu Yi vs Simon Santoso -- a tough first test for Simon WOMEN'S SINGLES -- surprisingly, nearly all the matches are interesting Wang Chen vs Julia Wong Wang Yihan vs Soratja Chansrisukot Eriko Hirose vs Chien Yu-Chin (MATCH OF THE ROUND) Lydia Cheah vs Saina Nehwal Cheng Shao-Chieh vs Lee Yun Hwa Li Li vs Wong Sin Yee Jiang Yanjiao vs Yu Hirayama Trupti Murgunde vs Xing Aiying Meemek Monthila vs Kanako Yonekura Chen Li vs Wong Meow Choo Jun Jae Youn vs Yip Pui Yin -- Jun is a qualifier Lee Hyun Jin vs Seo Yeon Hee -- bad draw for Korea MEN'S DOUBLES Shen Ye/He Hanbin vs Sudket Prapakamol/Patapol Ngernsrisuk -- CCM/KKK withdraw from the tournament, making it easier for Candra/Sigit to cruise through to the final. Note that Shen/He is the World Junior runner-up 2 years ago. Hendra Gunawan/Joko Riyadi vs Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah (MATCH OF THE ROUND) -- I am expecting an upset from Indonesia's no 4 pair Albertus Susanto Njoto/Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama vs Gan Teik Chai/Abdul Latif Mohd Zakry Shuichi Sakamoto/Shintaro Ikeda vs Luluk Hadiyanto/Alvent Yulianto WOMEN'S DOUBLES -- most seeded pairs receive a bye to the second round...not much interesting match Chou Chia-Chi/Ku Pei-Ting vs Jiang Yanmei/Li Yujia -- the Singaporean pair shoud win and face the 2nd seeded Kumiko Ogura/Reiko Shiota in the second round. MIXED DOUBLES Songphol Anukritayawan/Kulchala Vorawichitchaikul vs Hoon Thien How/Ooi Sock Ai Tsai Chia-Hsin/Cheng Wen-Hsing vs He Hanbin/Zhao Yunlei Tan Bin Shen/Ooi Yu Hang vs Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty Kennevic Asuncion/Kennie Asuncion vs Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thungthongkam (MATCH OF THE ROUND) -- can the Asuncion bro-sis combo beat the not-in-form Sudket/Saralee?
chong wei not playing meh??? anyway, whether he is playing or not... he will be there to support his girlfriend...
Interesting... Go Vic! Ng Wei! Shoji Sato! Alven/Luluk! Reiko/Kumiko! Sudket/Saralee! Wan Wah/Tan Fook! And Favourie Choong Hann of course!!!
Ageed with most except; Chong/Lee - I don't think they will lose at home. Too experienced. Chen Li to beat WMC Lydia Cheah v Saina Nehwal- My match of the round. I am fascinated by this young Indian lass. Beating Li Li and Tracey Hallam so easily in the CG. She is perhaps the most talented young non-chinese female single player to emerge in a long time.
The first round of XD matches had completed. The results are in http://bam.org.my:8080/abc2006/upload/results/xd.html No upsets here except the more prominent Taiwanese pair, Cheng/Tsai lost to the Chinese Youngsters, He HB/Zhao YL
Latest news All seeds cruise to the 2nd round for XD. One upset though: the Chinese youngsters: He Hanbin/Zhao Yunlei beat Tsai Chia-Hsin/Cheng Wen-Hsing MIXED DOUBLES ROUND 2 Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir vs V. Diju/Jwalla Gutta Gan Teik Chai/Fong Chew Yen vs Shen Ye/Pan Pan -- could be a problem for the Malaysian Songpol Anukritayawan/Kulchala Vorawichitchaikul vs Keita Masuda/Tomomi Matsuda Devin Lahardi/Vita Marissa vs Zhang Wei/Yu Yang (MATCH OF THE ROUND) -- tough first test for Devin/Vita, hope they will win! Tran Thanh Hai/Le Ngoc Nguyen Nhung vs Mohd Rizal/Endang Nursugianti -- no problem for Rizal/Endang Shintaro Ikeda/Satoko Suetsuna vs Hendri Saputra Kurniawan/Li Yujia He Hanbin/Zhao Yunlei vs Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty -- a tricky tie for the Indonesian no 2 pair, but, they should win! Gong Weijie/Tian Qing vs Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thungthongkam -- by right, also no problem for the second seed.
Any Chinese players cannot be overlooked. They are mysterious and often you don't know what to expect. So, I am not so confident of Wong MC winning, but I hope so. It am fairly confident that Jun Jae Youn would have no problems against Yippy. Choong/Lee would face some problems but I think they should prevail.
Lydia lost. feel that she need more exposure. Saina Nehwal and Lydia is the same age but Saina Game hv matured. She need to be sent for more tournament like this for exposure.
There is nothing to worry about really. It is very hard to tell with juniors. They can blossom at different times. Give it time. Don't pile pressure on the young ones.
Quite a number of surprising results in the WS. http://bam.org.my:8080/abc2006/upload/results/ws.html Soratja bt Wang Yihan Lee Yun Hwa bt Cheng Shao-Chieh Pai Min Jie bt Salakjit Ponsana Trupti Murgunde bt Xing Aiying (Indian players on fire) Ng Ka Shun bt Huang Chia-Shin Chen Li bt Wong Mew Choo Hirose took some trouble beating Chien Yu Chin. At the time of writing, the last four matches have no results yet.
Some WS results are out, with a few notable upsets. Soratja Chansrisukot bt Wang Yihan 17-21, 21-12, 21-19 -- when was the last time a Thai WS player beat a Chinese player? Lee Yun Hwa bt Cheng Shao-Chieh 21-4, 21-12 -- surprisingly easy win for the Korean. Pai Min Jie bt Salakjit Ponsana 21-19, 16-21, 21-19 -- another upset win for the Taiwanese player...again a close shave in the third set Trupti Murgunde bt Xing Aiying 21-12, 23-21 -- both players are in the CG and overall, the Indian players have caught my attention since their performance in Jaipur. Although India did not qualify for the Uber Cup, their singles have really improved a lot. Trupti and Saina won their matches today. Both face Japanese players tomorrow. Trupti will face Kanako Yonekura, while Saina will face Eriko Hirose Ng Ka Shun bt Huang Chia-Hsin 21-13, 13-21, 21-11 Chen Li bt Wong Mew Choo 22-20, 21-11 -- a tight first set and I think Wong must have been exhausted after the CG outing. Yes, I agree that any Chinese women player can't be underestimated.
Chen Li bt Wong Mew Choo 22-20,21-11 so sad to hear about that result....but anyway Mew Choo already got a lots of improvement........jia you WMC!!!!!!
another suprise, Jun JY lost to Hkg player, Yip in 3 tight matches. Very interesting result from this ABC 2006 specially in women singles. All the best Asian female players except China participate in here. Shockingly, lots of seeded players lost. The Japanese trio who will be likely play the 3 singles all cruise to second round. (Kaori, Kanako and Hirose) Meanwhile Korea so far only had 2 singles after Jun shocking lost . So Korea will probably hesitated to place Jun as their third WS in Uber. Taiwan lost 2 of their top WS. Bad sign. Hkg only lost one from 3 WS. Singapore lost 1 win 1. So far Japan seems like top contenders beside Netherland to fight for runner up spot for Uber Cup. (if the Netherland pretend to loose in their group so they will not meet China in SF)
In ABC 2006, most of Asia country sent their best players (specially the Thomas and Uber participants) Curiously, China only send all their junior or second class shuttlers. If their junior players can reach final or even won , (maybe in WS or WD) , their confidence will be soaring up.
Another wrong and very dumb move from PBSI. Why they didn't send any WS and WD in ABC 2006? If the reason cause they lost in Uber Cup, what a pathetic reason. Thailand and India who fail in Uber Cup send their best shuttlers. ABC 2006 is 4 star events. And in women field, the competition is not very strong cause China didn't send their best shuttlers and all the European girls cannot compete here. So it is a perfect event for Indonesia women singles and doubles to play here , gain experience and some ranking pointscause the opponents are easier. If this still continued (and I strongly believe PBSI still will do it), our women players still cannot win Uber qualification for 2 or 4 years from now. What a waste, cause we Do have some potential women players.