It's gonna be a breeze for most seeded teams, with only 1 interesting tie in the Men's Team (Group B) encounter between Singapore and Vietnam. Predictions: Men's Team Japan bt Pakistan Singapore bt Vietnam Hong Kong bt Sri Lanka Thailand bt Macau Women's Team Japan bt Sri Lanka Chinese-Taipei bt Vietnam Korea bt Cambodia
looks like it's all going to be 5-0 encounters. the women's event is definitely going to be more interesting than the men's, for me.
It is tough for HK women to qualify without Zhou Mi...especiall against Taiwan...can be 3-2 for Taiwan.....
The rtm website state that rtm 1 will broadcast this event on 23 Feb which is Saturday for the semi final matches.Hopefully this is true.
Really? Very good news as this may be the first time RTM is showing live for Thomas/Uber qualifiers. Or is it daily highlights?
The matches between SIN and VIE were close as expected. Kendrick Lee just managed to beat Nguyen Tien-Minh 22-20, 21-19. Derek Wong also just beat Nguyen Quang-Minh 23-21, 21-18. Strangely, Hendri Kurniawan Saputra was not playing...instead Kendrick Lee was also playing in the doubles, partnering Hendra Wijaya to beat Nguyen Hoang-Hai/Nguyen Huy-Giang 21-15, 24-22.
VIE gave a tough fight to SIN. 3 of the 4 matches (don't know what happened to the MD2 match) were pretty close, but SIN did not drop a single set. With Kendrick, Ashton and Derek spearheading the singles section, it's a truly Singaporean victory.