From the draw and list of entries, it seems that Bulgaria's first GP tournament has a lighter draw for MS than Bittburger Open GP... More players ranked 100 or worse, less players from the top 30-60 like next week...
Looks like for the first time that Bulgarian Badminton has GP level tournament which sponsored by KLRC. Yeah, many lesser known players will come to Sofia, INA's Djarum shuttlers has good prospect to grab title here. Additional info : Date : 07-12 October 2008 Venue : Sofia Hall "Borisova Garden", Sofia Total prize money : US$50,000 Website : www.badmintonbg.org/index.php?lang=eng
I personally think INA's WD [Mel-Shendy] has the best chance of winning a title for INA in this tournament... Chance of team INA members winning the title: Mel-Shendy 50% [they have all the abilities to defeat #1 seed Valeri-Nina] Fran-Shendy 45% [INA XD are almost always awesome lately...] Fran-Rendra 40% [Boe-Mogensen will probably stop them in the finals] Andre Kurniawan Tedjono 30% [his chances will go up significantly if Joachim Persson and Lee Tsuen Seng pulls out] Maria Elfira 20% Mel-Rendra 15% Ari Yuli Wahyu 10% Rosaria Pipin Pungkasari 8% Maria Febe 5% Hayom Rumbaka 1%
^^Clean sweep possibility??..^^ ...if not maybe an INA/Djarum representative in all the Finals events??..
I CAN GO AND SEE IT LIVE!!! Hope Nedelcheva (2) and Pi (1) make it to the final, so I can watch some nice badminton Petya won "PRINTCOM Bulgarian International Championships 2008" yesterday (a $15K). // Link not working -- don't know why
Yup, congratz to Petya as she won over Scotland player Susan Hughes 21-11 ; 21-15. Here's the complete result : www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=24553&d=20081005
I am sure he will find a way to contact us. I forgot to tell him that we need updated matches for PAW shake..,. He may not be happy to find out.........
Tournamentsoftware Link Here's tournamentsoftware link : www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=24767 Looks like there's no live-score facility for this tournament, only updated match result.
Seeded Entries MS 1 Joachim PERSSON 2 Andre Kurniawan TEDJONO 3 Tsuen Seng LEE 4 Yu Hsin HSIEH 5 Ari Yuli Wahyu HARTANTO 6 Rajiv OUSEPH 7 KASHYAP P 8 Jan VONDRA 9 Yuhan TAN 10 Brice LEVERDEZ 11 Henri HURSKAINEN 12 Ajay JAYARAM 13 Christian BOESIGER 14 Simon MAUNOURY 15 Pavel FLORIAN 16 Dionysius Hayom RUMBAKA MD 1 Mathias BOE / Carsten MOGENSEN 2 Fran KURNIAWAN / Wijaya RENDRA 3 Robert ADCOCK / Robin MIDDLETON 4 Adam CWALINA / Wojciech SZKUDLARCZYK 5 Kok Leong AU / Ying Jin GOH 6 Chris ADCOCK / Robert BLAIR 7 Dean GEORGE / Matthew HONEY 8 Rupesh KUMAR / Sanave THOMAS WS 1 Hongyan PI 2 Petya NEDELCHEVA 3 Elizabeth CANN 4 Maria Elfira CHRISTINA 5 Aditi MUTATKAR 6 Maja TVRDY 7 Linda ZECHIRI 8 Elena PRUS WD 1 Valeri SOROKINA / Nina VISLOVA 2 Shendy Puspa IRAWATI / Meiliana JAUHARI 3 Jwala GUTTA / Shruti KURIAN 4 Chew Yen FONG / Hing Yau MOOI XD 1 Robert BLAIR / Imogen BANKIER 2 Chia Chi CHOU / Hung Ling CHEN 3 Suzanne RAYAPPAN / David LINDLEY 4 Yu Chin CHIEN / Yu Hsin HSIEH 5 Shendy Puspa IRAWATI / Fran KURNIAWAN 6 Meiliana JAUHARI / Wijaya RENDRA 7 Nina VISLOVA / Vitalij DURKIN 8 Laura CHOINET / Baptiste CAREME
Pi Hong Yan, Chie Umezu, Yu Wakia and Masayo withdrew. Robert Blair/Bankier, also Japanese MIX also withdrew Adcock and Blair also withdrew
Good chance??.. ..for an INA WS representative in the Final, since Pi has withdrawn??.. Btw, is the Bulgaria Open PAW game still on??..
at least 1 or 2 INA WS in SF..... I wish Maria Febe can continue her good performance during bitburger open into this Bulgaria open... PAW?? I hope still on....... hahahaa...... I never do good PAW since my first PAW on CMO....