According to the SBA website, the Cheers Asian Satellite Badminton Championships 2007 will be held at Singapore Badminton Hall from next Wednesday 30th May to Saturday 2nd June. Details: http://www.singaporebadminton.org.sg/announce/detail/CAS07RR.pdf See you there
About 7 days to Cheers Asian Satellite 2007. No Draw No Website Seems like last year was the same case as well. What've happened to Singapore Efficiency we've come to love? Or is Singapore now a strict practitioner of extreme JIT practices?
Cheers Asian Satellite 2007( May 30-June 2) The draw has been available thru www.tournamentsoftware.com Suprisingly Zhou Mi takes part in this tourney ( 3 weeks in a row)
There have no Indonesian players from Djarum after 2 tournament in a row, NZ and Vietnam Challenge. I think better they prepare for Phillipines or Thailand GP, mainly for rising star Andre and Wahyu. MS only Fauzi Adnan, others never heard before. WS only represented by Feby Angguni, 15 y.o, and Melicia Kurniawan, I have no idea, is she also from Pelatnas or P.B Djarum. MD, Bona/Ahsan seem pushed by Pelatnas as 3rd or 4th MD after Luluk/Alvent bad performance in recent tournaments, Subekti/Fernando as well. WD we still see Nadya/Devi Tika and Lelyana Dessy/Yunita Tetty. Yunita Tetty actually good player, but can't through top world. XD represented by Tantowi/Yulianti, Indra/Dili, and Lingga/Devi. I think Indonesia can get the title from XD, specially from Tantowi/Yulianti.
In this week also held local tournament, Jakarta Open. That's why a lot of non Pelatnas player won't play in here although they prefer to play in here Febby Angguni is youngest Pelatnas player and she also come from Djarum. Actually her performance wasn't too far with Maria Febe in U-15 local tournament when they played for Djarum. In my mind training in Djarum is much better than Pelatnas in this time
I thought Adnan Fauzi has already moved to SG? Melicia Kurniawan was there competing in the Cheers Satellite last year and I watched one of her match against a Thai opponent. Sandy said she was from Tangkas and Liang Chiu Hsia is her coach. Yup...Bona Septano/Mohd Ahsan seem to be prepared for the more rigorous tourneys ahead. It will be good if they can win a title or two in the Satellite or Challenger levels. Fernando Kurniawan/Subakti need more time....perhaps another one or two years at the Satellite levels. Yunita Tetty has already left Pelatnas and rejoined her old club, Suryanaga Gudang Garam. So, it seems that they want to experiment more with Nadya Melati/Devi Tika. Tantowi/Yulianti will be a good backup pair...Lingga/Devi Tika as well.
Sandy, since you know well of Indonesian players and what tournamets they follow, I am gld if you can update Jakarta Open as well in 2007 tournaments. I think this tournament is good as Cheer Singapore Satellite since many Indonesian talented players participate. Thanks.
I hope I can see this tournament since I prefer to watch junior player, unluckily this tournament "only" national circuit since BWF decided only one Satellite event in every country (too bad, it was against to made badminton more popular and pull up the prize money).
Really? too bad....they should allow each country to have more challengers....good for players and money wide as well.....
Let's see.. ..if this tourney can challenge the just ended Vietnam Challenge tourney, in terms of being posted and read most in BC??..
Hahahahaha, that's seriously sooo funny!!! Maybe, maybe not, but Erin will be away huhuhuhuhu.. on holidays somewhere and can not online :crying::crying::crying:
Hmm.. ..what i meant was, "..in terms of being posted and read most in BC, as a non-SS and/or non-GP event??"..Hmm, let's see if huangkwokhau has the extra energy to keep us all abreast and informed on the tourney..
Yeah, I know that!!! What I was trying to say was that one less person (Erin) will post in/read this read..
Hmm, if... ...only a few people(consistently posting), rather than the whole M'sian BC contingent, can "blow" a Challenge tourney "out of proportion", let's see if *much less people* can bring the same effect..
I am in HKG currently, so won't be in SG to watch the Satellite like last year Anyway, I will be keeping track of the results. Strangely, like last year, no Sunday Final....
Ranking points for the Satellite tourneys are only 2500 for the winners, compared to Challenger events (4000). So, might not be that interesting....