Muhammad Roslin Hashim, Nathan Robertson, Gail Emms, Robert Blair, Tracey Hallam, Donna Kellogg All of them participated in matches in the Danish league last night together with all of the best Danish players.. And Tony G is supposed to participate in the coming matches.. 8 teams participate.. playing on a weeknight.. Each match consists of 2 MS, 1 LS, 1 MD, LD, 1 MX... ending with a golden set if the score is 3-3... and one of the matches is televised on TV2 Zulu.. Makes it quite interesting to be a Danish badminton fanatic..
u can find results in here! http://www.infosport.dk/cgi-bin/MMS.dbf/kddny.hms?kn=00169087&fb=DBF&rk=Badmintonligaen more details http://www.badminton.dk/Badmintonligaen/Ligahistorier/2006.aspx
must be cool to see the retired players like Peter Rasmussen and Helene Kirkegaard out in action. wish i could have seen that! G
thanks for the update, klaphat.. wow, it looks like fun...definitely a real nice treat for the Danish badminton fans.. Re Tony G., please keep us updated on his matches. Pictures of them playing will be gladly accepted as well..
Incase the Link Dies here are the results: 1XD Jesper Thomsen 21 21 Christinna Pedersen Rasmus Mangor Andersen 18 14 Gail Emms 1WS Anna Rice 22 11 9 Atu Rosalina 24 21 21 1MS Muhammad Roslin Hashim 21 21 Anders Boesen 16 15 2MS Peter Rasmussen 19 13 Joachim Persson 21 21 1WD Lena Frier Kristiansen 15 15 Yu Qi Helene Kirkegaard 21 21 Annastasia Russkikh 1MD Robert Blair 16 21 21 Thomas Røjkjær Jensen Nathan Robertson 21 17 17 Jesper Christensen GS Robert Blair 21 0 Thomas Røjkjær Jensen Nathan Robertson 12 0 Rasmus Mangor Andersen Winners in Bold. I presume the GS is in the event of a tie?
Golden Set Each coach takes turn in disqualifying one of the 5 events (MS, LS, MD, LD, MX). The fith event is they chosen. Each coach then pick what players to use between the players who have already played. And then one decisive set. (as far as I understand)
But "expensive" league.. The matches Tuesday night here in Denmark resultet in a knee injury to Kenneth Jonassen who is out at least for 12 weeks.. and therefore will miss the Wold Cup.. and Mette Schjoldager was also injured.. and might not recover in time for the World Cup..
that's an interesting concept ... hmmm .... maybe they could make this format a new international tournament ... ummmmm ... the Hartono cup!
more links for Badminton in DK http://www.badminton-nyt.dk/ pictures of the league matches : http://fjerbolden.dk/ Yannie you can see Taufiq Akbar's pictures there too.....
Maybe you already met him ? He participated on Team Vestsjælland in the latest match against current Danish champions (soon to be ex-champions) Hvidovre... He played MD with Rasmus Mangor Andersen against Jesper Hovgaard/Jacob Juhl and won confortably...