Greetings, Without some of the top players, the Singapore Open 2008 Super Series Tournament still provides some interesting matches. Round 1 will be played on DAY 2, Wednesday 11-Jun-2008. For the Mens Singles, we have the following matches: (1) 4:45 pm : Hans-Kristian VITTINGHUS (DEN) vs Sairul Amar AYOB (MAS) (2) 5:05 pm : Eric PANG (NED) vs Joachim PERSSON (DEN) (3) 5:05 pm : Anup SRIDHAR (IND) vs Yu Hsin HSIEH (TPE) (4) 5:25 pm : Andrew SMITH (ENG) vs Kenichi TAGO (JPN) (5) 5:25 pm : Yi LU (CHN) vs Petr KOUKAL (CZE) (6) 5:45 pm : Tsuen Seng LEE (MAS) vs Choong Hann WONG (MAS) (7) 5:45 pm : Yan Kit CHAN (HKG) vs Shoji SATO (JPN) (8) 7:00 pm : Przemyslaw WACHA [5] (POL) vs Arvind BHAT (IND) (9) 7:00 pm : Ronals SUSILO (SIN) vs Boonsak PONSANA [8] (THA) (10) 7:40 pm : Yu CHEN [7] CHN) vs Kay Bin YEOH (MAS) (11) 8:00 pm : Chong Wei LEE [1] (MAS) vs Sho SASAKI (JPN) (12) 8:20 pm : Tien Minh NGUYEN (VIE) vs Jan O JORGENSEN (DEN) (13) 8:20 pm : Peter Hoeg GADE [4] (DEN) vs Chun Seang TAN (MAS) (14) 8:40 pm : Wei NG (HKG) vs Poompat SAPKULCHANANART (THA) (15) 9:40 pm : Beng Hong KUAN (MAS) vs Muhammad Roslin HASHIM (MAS) Usually, I don't have time to play Sandy's Pick-A-Winner (PAW), the Predictions Game, but here I will attempt to make my predictions (highlighted) to see how many (out of the 15) I could score. Cheers... chris@ccc .
agreed except (4) 5:25 pm : Andrew SMITH (ENG) vs Kenichi TAGO (JPN) lots of improvement from andrew (klrc player) (9) 7:00 pm : Ronals SUSILO (SIN) vs Boonsak PONSANA [8] (THA) ronald is getting older (10) 7:40 pm : Yu CHEN [7] CHN) vs Kay Bin YEOH (MAS) chen is getting slower (14) 8:40 pm : Wei NG (HKG) vs Poompat SAPKULCHANANART (THA) poompat in good shape
Good attempt but you need not choose every match in the PAW game in just Round 1. You should only choose those you are confident of which can score many points for you. And the limit is 28 picks for the entire SO proper!
Currently, Ronald SUSILO (SIN) and Yu CHEN [7] CHN) have better fitness . KlasseE ... From what I have heard... Currently, Ronald SUSILO (SIN) and Yu CHEN [7] (CHN) have better fitness. And for that reason I have picked them to win. .
Without much time, I just went all in one go . Loh ... Without much time, I just went all in one go. .
Lee Chong Wei Is The Man, Says Gade . From BERNAMA.COM , click here June 09, 2008 18:45 PM Chong Wei Is The Man, Says Gade From Dan Guen Chin SINGAPORE, June 9 (Bernama) -- If Peter Gade is forced to pick a winner for the Aviva Singapore Open men's singles crown, his choice is obvious - Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei. Not because the field is depleted with the spate of withdrawals of the big names from the US$200,000 championship starting at the Indoor Stadium Tuesday, but Chong Wei's current form makes him the outstanding favourite. In a tournament where there is no Lin Dan, the world's No 1; no Taufik Hidayat, the reigning Olympics champion from Indonesia and no Park Sung Hwan, newly-crowned Asian champion, Chong Wei, is the No 1 seed and rightly so. "For me, the two best players in the world today are Lin Dan and Chong Wei. Lin Dan is not here and therefore Chong Wei is the red-hot favourite. Those who want to win the crown must beat Chong Wei first. "For me, if I clear my early rounds I will have to come up against Chong Wei in the semis and that's a very tricky match. I saw Chong Wei at the Thomas Cup in Jakarta last month and the signs are all there that he is in top form," said Gade who is seeded No. 4 in the tournament. For the 30-year-old Gade, it has been a season of extreme high and low. Low when he suffered a lung infection which saw him broke two rib bones early in the year but yet he came back strongly in the Thomas Cup to give Denmark a place in the semi-finals. "I am feeling good at the moment and my performance at the Thomas Cup has given me a lift especially after the long lay off I had early in the year. "Singapore is special to me. I have been playing here a long time and won the title in 2006. I like to have another win here and as I say if I can reach the last four and then beat Chong Wei, I have a chance," Gade told a press conference. But yet the injury jinx continues to haunt him. After he returned home from the Thomas Cup, Gade suffered a freak injury on the small finger of his left hand which saw his hand all bandaged up. "I was in the kitchen and then the plate I was holding slipped from my hand. And while trying to retrieve it, I ended up suffering a deep cut. It was quite bad but that's no excuse. I can still play badminton. No, it will not affect my performance here," he said. Gade is down to play a qualifier in the opening round before he meets Hong Kong's Ng Wei in round two and a possible meeting with Malaysia's Yeoh Kay Bin in the quarter-finals. -- BERNAMA .
interesting matches of the day Zhou Mi vs Salakjit Wang Chen vs Julia Wong Yippie vs Gu Juan Muhammad/Bona vs Hoon/Ong Ronald vs Boonsak Chen Yu vs YKB Gade vs TCS Lee Yun Hwa vs WMC KBH vs Roslin
Danny Bawa/Vanessa Neo forced Nova/Liliyana in 3 sets It's pity PBSI didn't hire Danny Bawa to Pelatnas although he was Junior Kejurnas winner in MD (with Afiat Yuris) and XD (with Debby Susanto)
(9) 7:00 pm : Ronald SUSILO (SIN) vs Boonsak PONSANA [8] (THA) This is definitely the match of the night. Both are excellent players but I hope Susilo to beat the defending champion...
No to worry Jimbo, I will be behind you, supporting our foreign import, now a citizen, Ronald at the SIS this evening! Good Luck Ronald!
I don't think I've seen this young man Danny in action yet but that was a tremendous show against Nova and Butet. Vanessa, our local girl, must have improved a great deal! Very good and keep it up Danny and Vanessa!
1ST UPSETS OF THE DAY: FLANDY/MARISSA LOST TO A THAILAND PAIR. IN RUBBER GAME.. 2ND UPSETS OF THE DAY: THOMAS/KAMILIA FROM DENMARK LOST TO A TAIWAN PAIR..
The huge upset that Flandy/Vita as defending champion got early exit in tight scoreline, 22-20 ; 20-22 ; 18-21.
It's nice to know that another foreign import Singapore XD pair of Chayut Triyachart and Shinta Mulia Sari beat the Taiwanese pair of Chen Hung Ling and Chou Chia Chi 24-22, 13-21, 21-19. I also notice that the Taiwanese are making quite an impact on the badminton scene of late.
Songporn/Kunchara were not pushover too compare with sudket/Saralee.. Congrats to the Thai XD , brilliant perfomance for a start
