. Greetings, In just a few hours, Day 1 of the Singapore Badminton Open 2008 will begin with its Qualifying Rounds. For the Mens Singles, many are hoping for participants, Kuan Beng Hong, Jan O Jorgensen, Poompat Sapkulchananari, Mohd Arif Abdul Latif, Gong Weijie, Tommy Sugiarto, etc... could make it into the Main Draw. However, only 4 would be able to do so. For the Womens Singles, Lydia Cheah should be able to make it into the Main Draw. We hope to receive some reports from BC members who will be there on Day 1. Cheers... chris@ccc .
tommy sugiarto play?up dates from kompas (indonesias newspaper) this morning, tommy withdrew from s'pore ss...wich one is true?
Singapore Open 2008: Tommy Sugiarto withdrew . arumdaun ... You are correct. Tommy Sugiarto has withdrawn and this would allow Andreas Adityawarman an easier path into the Main Draw. .
Mohd Arif Abdul Latif took 59 minutes to beat Lee Cheol Ho . KlasseE ... Yes, Mohd Arif Abdul Latif took 59 minutes to beat Lee Cheol Ho. Hope that Arif won't be too tired for his next match 2 hours later. .
MS Qualification Results Results can be found: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=21955&y=2008&m=6&d=10 Kirt Soon TANG [SIN] - [SIN] Yan Zhong Lenny TAN 21-14, 21-15 Beng Hong KUAN [MAS] - [SIN] Zong Ren NG 21-6, 21-7 Poompat SAPKULCHANANART [THA] - [SIN] Robin GONANSA 22-20, 21-9 Yong Zhao Ashton CHEN [SIN] - [SIN] Febriyan IRVANNALDY 21-11, 21-18 Mohd Arif ABDUL LATIF [MAS] - [KOR] Cheol Ho LEE 22-20, 19-21, 21-15 Chun Seang TAN [MAS] - [CHN] Weijie GONG 21-15, 22-20 Ji Hoon HONG [KOR] - [DEN] Rune ULSING 21-13, 21-16 Andreas ADITYAWARMAN [INA] - [MAS] Wee Chung PEI 21-12, 15-21, 21-13 Allan TAI [MAS] - [SIN] Chao HUANG 19-21, 21-7, 21-16 Guo Rui CHEN [SIN] - [TPE] Yu Hsin HSIEH No match So far, the Malaysians have done well, with the exception of Pei Wee Chung who lost to Andreas in 3 games.
Shocking defeat of Lydia Cheah in the hands of Gu Juan. Juan GU [SIN] - [MAS] Li Ya Lydia CHEAH 21-13, 21-15 0:26 1
Round 2 of MS Qualification should be very interesting to determine who will enter Round 3 for a crack at the Main Draw: 11:20 AM Zi Liang Derek WONG [SIN] - [MAS] Beng Hong KUAN 11:40 AM Yong Zhao Ashton CHEN [SIN] - [MAS] Mohd Arif ABDUL LATIF 11:40 AM Chun Seang TAN [MAS] - [KOR] Ji Hoon HONG 12:00 PM Allan TAI [MAS] - [SIN] Guo Rui CHEN Allan Tai seems to have an easier opponent.
Nicole GRETHER [GER] - [SIN] Bo LI 21-8, 21-1 0:17 1 Moon Hi KIM [KOR] - [SIN] Shi Yan Samantha NEO 21-9, 21-13 0:20 4 Jiayuan CHEN [SIN] - [SIN] Ting Ting THNG 20-22, 21-7, 21-10 0:46 3 Juan GU [SIN] - [MAS] Li Ya Lydia CHEAH 21-13, 21-15 0:26 1 Mingtian FU [SIN] - [TPE] Pei Hsin CHIANG 21-8, 22-20 0:24 Beng Hong KUAN [MAS] - [SIN] Zi Liang Derek WONG 21-15 21-12 0:26 Looks like Beng Hong had quite an easy win over Derek Wong.
Hope to get news reports from those who are at the venue watching . Loh ... Are you at the venue watching? Yes, I thought Lydia Cheah should be able to make it into the Main Draw with no problem. Hope to get news reports from those who are at the venue watching. .
The qualification round today will search 8 qualifiers from MS and WS to enter main draw tomorrow. At this moment Germany WS player, Nicole Grether has secured one place.
Who are the 4 MS you predict will enter the Main Draw? Chris, I'm not there yet. Will drop over after lunch to witness the last few but important matches for the qualifiers.
