Today is All England 1st round ady...since more interesting match will on midnite like LCW,KKK/TBH matches.Anyone of u will watch until midnite?
Watch where? There is no free webstream anymore ... (2 GBP per day from now on or 7 I think for the rest of the week. Correction 5.99 for the whole tournament/1.99 for a single day). But I see (at least) 2 men's doubles matches should be interesting .
Some interesting R1 matches to watch: - WS Xingfang XIE [1] v Pui Yin YIP - will Yippy be able to trouble the # seed? - MD Lars PAASKE/Jonas RASMUSSEN v Zhendong GUO/Zhongbo XIE - naturally cheering for our Jonas - MS Sho SASAKI v Sung Hwan PARK. Can Park get revenge for his GO defeat? - WS Mi ZHOU v Huaiwen XU [7]. Battle of 2 former CHN players - MS Shoji SATO v Boonsak PONSANA. Is Boonsak ready to step it up again? - MD Mohd Zakry ABDUL LATIF/Mohd Fairuzizuan MOHD TAZARI v Mathias BOE/Carsten MOGENSEN. The underrated DEN pair could go far with an initial win - MD Kien Keat KOO [3]/Boon Heong TAN v Shintaro IKEDA/Shuichi SAKAMOTO. It's time to shape up or ship out for the MAS glamour boys - MS Chunlai BAO [3] v Muhammad Hafiz HASHIM. You never know what to expect from Hafiz. I would laugh my ass off if.... - MS Yi LU v Yen Hui Kendrick LEE. Kendrick faces a tricky tie. Needs to rebound from last week - WD Kumiko OGURA [7]/Reiko SHIOTA v Miyuki MAEDA/Satoko SUETSUNA. Battle of Japan could turn out closer than what many think - MS Andre Kurniawan TEDJONO v Sony DWI KUNCORO [6]. Can Andre pull off an upset as he fights for the last TC MS spot?
mayb i just wait for the live score until midnight.. mayb will sleep at 7am malaysian time... afternoon is my day to sleep... too many sports this week.. football liverpool vs westham also...
This will be a long day for Team INA. 11:15am Hendra A. Gunawan/Joko Riyadi vs Michal Logosz/Robert Mateusiak -- a stern test for the perrenial unlucky guy AG/Joko. Hopefully, they will win this one. 11:35am Tony Gunawan/Candra Wijaya [5] vs Kristof Hopp/Ingo Kindervater -- a tricky one for Tony/Candra, but, they should take this one here. 12:45pm Rani Mundiasti/Endang Nursugianti vs Petya Nedeltcheva/Diana Dimova -- as always, Rani/Endang can win at most 1 match for SS level tourneys. 2:15pm Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun [1] vs Rian Sukmawan/Yonathan Suryatama Dasuki -- it will be a major shock if the Djarum pair can topple the top-seed. 3:00pm Gail Emms/Donna Kellogg [8] vs Jo Novita/Greysia Polii -- a tough match for Jo/Grace, but, if they can beat Emms/Kellogg, they have a good chance of making it to QF. I hope they can win! 3:00pm Haw Chiou Hwee/Lim Pek Siah vs Lita Nurlita/Nitya Krishinda Maheswari-- another Malaysian hurdle and I think Lita/Nitya can manage it. 3:00pm Vita Marissa/Lilyana Natsir vs Kamila Augustyn/Nadiezda Kostiuczyk -- should be a manageable tie for Vita/Butet. 4:30pm Wong Mew Choo [8] vs Maria Kristin Yulianti -- Wong to win, unless her injury bothers her! 4:30pm Pia Bernadet Zebadiah vs Cheng Shao-Chieh -- the Chinese-Taipei player to win...but...Pia has a chance for an upset. 4:50pm Adriyanti Firdasari vs Lu Lan [3] -- no chance for Firda. 6:00pm Andrew Dabeka vs Taufik Hidayat [7] -- either now or never for Taufik for an All-England title, after 2 years of absence. Should be a good match to stretch his muscles. 6:20pm Tommy Sugiarto vs Andrew Smith -- Tommy has done well in qualifying, beating the more fancied Dicky Palyama. He should have a good chance against Andrew Smith. 7:30pm Devin Lahardi Fitriawan/Lita Nurlita vs Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir [2] -- an all-INA contest and Nova/Butet will progress! 8:15pm Tadashi Ohtsuka/Keita Masuda vs Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan [2] -- a good opener also for Kido/Hendra. 8:15pm Peter Buur Steffensen/Rasmus Mangor Andersen vs Luluk Hadiyanto/Alvent Yulianto [8] -- a tough and tricky test for Luluk/Alvent. I hope they progress. 9:45pm Andre Kurniawan Tedjono vs Sony Dwi Kuncoro [6] -- Sony should prevail! 10:05pm Robert Blair/Imogen Bankier vs Flandy Limpele/Vita Marissa [3] -- a breeze for the third-seed. 10:05pm Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thoungthongkam [7] vs Mohd Rijal/Greysia Polii -- Rijal/Grace need to start beating top pairs regularly. Let's see if they can spring a surprise here.
yup.. pray hardest for it... MALAYSIA BOLEH... btw,i cant watch all the match coz it it will air midnite.... if i at home now,then for sure i will overnitez.... but i'm at campus,its impossible for me to go to tv room alone...
You know, the INA team in 2008 is waaay stronger than the INA team of 2006, eh? What a difference 2 years make. We have competitive players and pairs in all sectors [except WS, of course... ] It is time we win something in All England! Taufik, you don't have many more chances... win one now! Rian-Yoke, ...er... Cai-Fu might still have jet-lag! Catch them when they're asleep and finish them quickly... INA 3 WD will kick-@$$ in All England! Hey, where's Simon Santoso? Is he injured or something?
Hey, where's Simon Santoso? Is he injured or something?[/QUOTE] Nope, PBSI decided to prepare him at home for Thomas cup is more useful . In the other he doesnt have enough point for olympic. He needed to be drill in some sector such as serve.
Hendrawan mentioned it already in the press. Simon is being grounded in JKT to prepare him for the Thomas Cup He has no chance of getting an Olympics place anyway
after XXZ and XXF in OG 04, the same case was happened again. MS top 10 player can't participated in OG. I'm really sure Ina's fans can't complained about this, coz they had already got the biggest advantage in OG 04
Even XXZ participated, there was no quarantee that he would win..MS was very competitive...you had witnessed that LD, even lost to Ronald..who would ever thought that??? again..dont tell me it was luck for RS to win that day.......
it doesn't matter if XXZ or Anders Boesen can't win the title. at least, if they can beat TH, it's more than enough.
in overall, CHN biggest rival is Indonesia. until now, CHN had already won 8 golds, Ina 5. if TH failed, CHN 8 vs 4 Ina
yes, yoyo king Hafiz Hashim (former AE champion) was world wide known as Mr. Inconsistent, but who knows if he can win the OG 04?
Why you hate TH so much...?? then you complain other forumers toward your players too??? so dont complain!