Swiss Open 2007 - Day 6 (17 Mar) - Semi-final

[Krisna]

Fellow Malaysians- stop arguing and pull our resources together and support Kin Keat and Boon Heong tonight.

Fellow Indonesian Badminton fans... we have not done this well since the 2007 Superseries began:

2 MD [well, if you wanna be technical, then 1.5 ...but Tony still holds an Indonesian passport ]
1 MS
1 WD
1 XD
...in the semifinals.

Let's support them all out tonight!!!

[spchu]

Of course. No matter what, I will support fellow Malaysians. I will always hope that they win. But prediction is a different matter. You must try to detach yourself emotionally when you make predictions.

Yong, Why bring in onlooker(me) into the argument....

[markchan]

According the Astro Programme Listing:

Sat, 17 March 2007: 9pm.
Sun, 18 March 2007: 2am and 7pm.

Too bad I'm in AU right now.

That's rite, the schedule doesnt say Court 1 or 2, instead it is session 1 and 2. starting from 2 pm i.e 9pm malaysian time. So, tonite, we gonna get a "marathon" of probably 10 hours of badminton.....woohoo!!!!!!!!!

[alfa-2]

KKK/TBH you're unstoppable now.....just get it done as usual boys !!!!

[emmsfan]

I think TG-CW are going to win again........
They will not look down on them again especially after KKK-TBH won them at MO. So, instead, they will be striving....
They MIGHT succeed, if Candra stops making errors,
I think it'll be 51% in favour of TG-CW..

[CLELY]

Fellow Indonesian Badminton fans... we have not done this well since the 2007 Superseries began:

2 MD [well, if you wanna be technical, then 1.5 ...but Tony still holds an Indonesian passport ]
1 MS
1 WD
1 XD
...in the semifinals.

Let's support them all out tonight!!!

Agree! Although INA only send the youngsters but the result so far in Suisse really satisfied.

MS -- Underdog position for Simon hopefully will boost his spirit to defeat the hardest obstacle. Probably any surprise in this division when no CHN representatives for Finale?!

WS -- China all the way

MD -- T/C vs KKK/TBH, match-of-the-day for the super-duper MAS pair victory. Boleh lagi2...And not so sure Rian/Eng Hian can dump the Grand Old Dane Eriksen/Lundgaard Hansen.

WD -- 2nd SS final for Gress/Vita, why not?

XD -- M.Rizal/Gress meet the Korean tomorrow.

Indonesia bangkit!

[jeyel]

Hope KKK/TBH can pull it off but could be difficult as they may be exhausted by playing so many games already and also winning the All Eng.

But they're young so their conditioning should be good enough for them to recover fast.

[phualc]

KKK/TBH beat CY/FHF again in QF! can anyone shares the video in bitcomment/??

[alfa-2]

KKK/TBH are too fast to be halted by the combo.IMO. KOR are the ones who can stop them by the way KOR MD are playing, they have the similarities in MD strategies and tactics....they resemble former world MD champion Rexy/Ricky in the past. If less unforced errors are to be made by our superheroes, they can prevail as they should. I think it'll be 70% in favour of KKK/TBH + Rexy.......

[Dimduo_81]

My guess for TG/CW against KKK/TBH is 50/50%.

As for the singles, a finals btwn LD & PG would be an interesting watch.

[byelnats]

Agreed! All Indonesians, let's support our heroes! Looks like they are doing better in the SO with all the youngsters, except CW/TG. GO INDO!

[Inky2000]

KKK/TBH are too fast to be halted by the combo.IMO. KOR are the ones who can stop them by the way KOR MD are playing, they have the similarities in MD strategies and tactics....they resemble former world MD champion Rexy/Ricky in the past. If less unforced errors are to be made by our superheroes, they can prevail as they should. I think it'll be 70% in favour of KKK/TBH + Rexy.......

Agree, KKK/TBH may be beaten tonight, largely due to weariness. However, in a long run, TG/CW will find it harder and harder to beat KKK/TBH. To date, KKK/TBH has only be beaten three times in the international tournaments and two of them were by the same pair - LJJ/HJM of Korea. We will see if Rexy and KKK/TBH could outwit S. Korean pairs in the future.

[cooler]

tg/cw has the edge in experience while the younger MAL pair kkk/tbh has better quickness. However, with rexy on the sideline, the young pair wouldn't be really short on experience. I give a slight winning edge to the MAL pair.

[Ching293]

Hey.. Those who have astro and understand chinese can watch 'talking issue' sunday 8.30pm.The topic they discuss is 'why malaysia need to wait for 25years to get gold medal from all england. Stay tune..

[Krisna]

Ok, well...

Eng Hian is not very young. He is 29 or 30 this year. He is only a few year away from TG-CW. Vita is maybe 27 or 28. [Badmania should correct me on this, but I am pretty sure they are not in their early 20s]

As for Rian, Simon, Gresya, Rizal, yeah they are all between 21-22...
Note: KKK-TBH are also young.
So it is about time INA's 'youngsters' to perform consistently at the world stage...

Today's matches will be BIG tests. I would be jumping up and down if Indonesia can have 3 representatives in tomorrow's finals... It is unrealistic to wish to have 4 representatives. Most likely, INA will get one or two representatives in the finals.

1. In my opinion so far, Gresya-Rizal and TG-CW are the most likely candidates to go to the finals at this time... [50% chance]
2. Rian-Eng Hian and Gresya-Vita is the next most likely to go to the finals. [45% Chance]
3. As for Simon... maybe next time. This time still Lin Dan... [30% chance] But we will support you anyway, Simon!!!

[alfa-2]

Hey.. Those who have astro and understand chinese can watch 'talking issue' sunday 8.30pm.The topic they discuss is 'why malaysia need to wait for 25years to get gold medal from all england. Stay tune..

on which channel?

[doremi]

KKK/TBH, go kick butt! You can't leave all the butt kicking to Nicol David you know.