Polish Open 2008

**Krisna** · 03-29-2008, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by badMania

Mel/Shendy and Fran/Shendy have won their QF matches, while Sylvi lost her's as expected.

XD SF
Fran Kurniawan/Shendy Puspa Irawati vs Chris Adcock/Gabrielle White [5] -- Fran/Shendy have done well so far, qualifing for SF. Can they go all the way to the Final?

WD SF
Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati vs Kamilla Augustyn/Nadiezda Kostiuczyk [3] -- I hope Mel/Shendy can surprise me later...

They did!!!!

Two INA pairs in the finals!!!

Fran-Shendy defeated Chris-Gabrielle [5] 21-17, 21-14... One BIG test tomorrow: hometown favorites and #1 seed: Robert Mateusiak-Nadiezda Kostiuczyk

Mel-Shendy defeated Kamilla-Nadiezda [3] 21-19, 15-21, 21-17... So, they have defeated the #1 and #3 seed. Tomorrow they will face one more test: #2 seed Elin-Johanna

**Krisna** · 03-29-2008, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by jsteve

Kurniawan&Wijaya played 2nd game on the worse side of the court (light). But they lost 1st game too...

Originally Posted by george@chongwei

wow! what a surprise!
fran/rendra lost?
anyone knows what happen?

Originally Posted by huangkwokhau

Shocking!! Frans/ Rendra lost to Polish pair 15-21,20-22

Originally Posted by badMania

Oh dear...Fran Kurniawan/Rendra Wijaya have just lost to the home pair Adam Cwalina/Wojciech Szkudlarczyk 15-21, 20-22

Originally Posted by Krisna

I am shocked that an unknown Polish pair can defeat Fran-Rendra...

Some Poles are really playing serious badminton over there eh?

The only good thing I can gather out of this Fran-Rendra defeat

is that badminton is really becoming tougher all around the world...

Apparently, Adam Cwalina-Wojciech Szkudlarczyk is quite a tough hometown MD pair... They are now in the finals to challenge local established heroes Logosz-Mateusiak...

Now I don't feel so bad that Fran-Rendra lost... they lost to a capable hometown pair, not some random unknowns...

I got reports from the INA representative in Poland that Adam & Wojciech are playing with unbelieveable confidence right now...

**badMania** · 03-29-2008, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Krisna

Fran-Shendy defeated Chris-Gabrielle [5] 21-17, 21-14... One BIG test tomorrow: hometown favorites and #1 seed: Robert Mateusiak-Nadiezda Kostiuczyk

Mel-Shendy defeated Kamilla-Nadiezda [3] 21-19, 15-21, 21-17... So, they have defeated the #1 and #3 seed. Tomorrow they will face one more test: #2 seed Elin-Johanna

Yup...what a result for Mel/Shendy especially

Let's see how they fare today. I hope Team Djarum goes home with at least 1 title.

**Krisna** · 03-30-2008, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

Yup...what a result for Mel/Shendy especially

Let's see how they fare today. I hope Team Djarum goes home with at least 1 title.

Realistically, INA will most likely get one title here. Hope we can get 2...

**geebees90** · 03-30-2008, 01:05 AM

Richard Vaughan seems to have recovered and gained his form now......He played good in the last three or four tournaments.......

**badMania** · 03-30-2008, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Krisna

Realistically, INA will most likely get one title here. Hope we can get 2...

Team Djarum continues to do well in European tourneys....

Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati have won the WD title after they beat the second-seed Johanna Persson/Elin Berglom 21-11, 21-19. They have beaten the top 3 seeds (ranked 17th, 24th and 25th) in this tourney and collected 4000 ranking pts! Congratulations to them!

**apontoh** · 03-30-2008, 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

Team Djarum continues to do well in European tourneys....

Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati have won the WD title after they beat the second-seed Johanna Persson/Elin Berglom 21-11, 21-19. They have beaten the top 3 seeds (ranked 17th, 24th and 25th) in this tourney and collected 4000 ranking pts! Congratulations to them!

what's their current rank? how do they compare to other INA WDs? e.g. Lita/Nitya?

**badMania** · 03-30-2008, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by apontoh

what's their current rank? how do they compare to other INA WDs? e.g. Lita/Nitya?

Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati should be ranked in the top 35 now after their victory in Poland this week, slightly above Lita Nurlita/Nitya Krishinda. They have won 1 International Series (Bahrain) and 2 International Challenge events now (Indonesia and Poland). They also finished runner-up in the NZ Open GP last year. They should now focus to win a GP event this year and achieve some creditable results (QF) in the Asian GP Golds (Philippines, Thailand, Macau) and Super Series (esp Singapore & Indonesia).

Meanwhile, the experienced home pair Robert Mateusiak/Nadiezda Kostiuczyk proved to be too much for Fran Kurniawan/Shendy Puspa Irawati as they won in straight sets 21-14, 21-13. A very creditable achievement by Fran/Shendy considering that XD is not their main events. Their ranking will shoot up from 129 to the top 90 next week.

**Krisna** · 03-30-2008, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati have won the WD title after they beat the second-seed Johanna Persson/Elin Berglom 21-11, 21-19. They have beaten the top 3 seeds (ranked 17th, 24th and 25th) in this tourney and collected 4000 ranking pts! Congratulations to them!

I just found out too. Excellent!!!

Originally Posted by apontoh

what's their current rank? how do they compare to other INA WDs? e.g. Lita/Nitya?

Lita-Nitya is ranked 36 now, with accumulated total points: 24560
Mel-Shendy is ranked 38 now, with accumulated total points: 22930... but after this win... their total should rise to 26500. which should put them to rank 34 or something around that after the Polish Open result is calculated by BWF.

Another 4000 points at the Finnish Open next week will make the total 29330, which could make the rank #29...

*I'm hopeful*

**badMania** · 03-30-2008, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by Krisna

Another 4000 points at the Finnish Open next week will make the total 29330, which could make the rank #29...

*I'm hopeful*

IMHO, its a tough draw for them at the Finnish International Challenge

I just saw that PBSI also sends a sizeable contingent (including some newly recruited Pelatnas players) to the Osaka International Challenge next week, concurrent to the Finnish International Challenge as well as the India Open GP Gold. It will be a busy week for INA second-stringers and Olympic hopefuls .

**Krisna** · 03-30-2008, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati... should now focus to win a GP event this year and achieve some creditable results (QF) in the Asian GP Golds (Philippines, Thailand, Macau) and Super Series (esp Singapore & Indonesia).

Exactly! They should endeavor to win a GP tournament this year... *actually, they should have done so last year too*

Candidate GPs: Vietnam, Bulgaria, Bitburger [Luxemburgh], Dutch...
USA and NZ this year coincides with PON [the Indonesian national multi-event championship]. Russia coincides with the Indonesian Badminton National Championships.

**Krisna** · 03-30-2008, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

IMHO, its a tough draw for them at the Finnish International Challenge

I just saw that PBSI also sends a sizeable contingent (including some newly recruited Pelatnas players) to the Osaka International Challenge next week, concurrent to the Finnish International Challenge as well as the India Open GP Gold. It will be a busy week for INA second-stringers and Olympic hopefuls .

Osaka, really? Coooolll!!!

**huangkwokhau** · 03-30-2008, 10:22 AM

wow..I am glad that Mel/Shendy won....very critical to win as they need confident as they have not played well in last 6 months...Shendy is actually more talented than Mel but she is not focus and no fight during matches....being in final in XD and WD , Shendy has proved her better attitude of winning....

**badMania** · 03-30-2008, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by huangkwokhau

wow..I am glad that Mel/Shendy won....very critical to win as they need confident as they have not played well in last 6 months...Shendy is actually more talented than Mel but she is not focus and no fight during matches....being in final in XD and WD , Shendy has proved her better attitude of winning....

Maybe she has learnt a lesson during these few mths?

**huangkwokhau** · 03-30-2008, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

Maybe she has learnt a lesson during these few mths?

I do hope so..............

**Krisna** · 03-30-2008, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by badMania

Maybe she has learnt a lesson during these few mths?

Deni Kantono [a.k.a. Chen Yuming] has returned to PB. Djarum after an absence of 2 years from coaching [to help grow his trading business]. Deni now was charged with all the WD squad since early this year, I think... Mel-Shendy are his top elite pupils, of course...

**huangkwokhau** · 03-30-2008, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Krisna

Deni Kantono [a.k.a. Yuming] has returned to PB. Djarum after an absence of 2 years from coaching [to help grow his trading business]. Deni now was charged with all the WD squad since early this year, I think... Mel-Shendy are his top elite pupils, of course...

Shendy has to use her advantage of being tall...her smash is powerful...