European Badminton Team Championships / Liverpool / 10-15 Feb 2009

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  1. Loh

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    Thursday, January 29, 2009

    Gade in Denmark Squad as England prepare for Euro bid

    TEAM ENGLAND today learned that they will have to overcome Denmark at their strongest if they are to win the European Team Badminton Championship at the Echo Arena Liverpool from February 10-15.

    With just under two weeks to go to the start of the Championship, all 32 competing nations submitted their squads to Badminton Europe today.

    And after weeks of speculation about the Denmark line-up, former BADMINTON England Performance Director Finn Traerup Hansen, who is now Denmark’s head coach, has relented and named his strongest possible squad – including singles stars Peter Gade and Tine Rasmussen.

    Gade is the man in form having just won the Korean Open Super Series men’s singles title while Rasmussen is the 2008 Yonex All England women’s singles champion as well as this month’s Korea Open winner. The Danish team, who are holders, 12-times winners and top seeds, have named 18 players in their squad although Traerup may well hold back his big guns until the knockout stages.

    Team England were among the first to name their squad at the start of this month and team manager Ian Wright can draw on the experience of new European mixed doubles champions Anthony Clark and Donna Kellogg as well as the men’s doubles partnership of Clark and Nathan Robertson, who reached the Malaysian Open semi-finals in early January. Those three players have nearly more than 250 international appearances between them.

    In contrast Liverpool’s Helen Davies is the rookie in the team, having been selected after making a winning debut against Poland in Warsaw in December.

    Fourth seeds Poland or fifth seeds Holland are Team England’s likely semi-final opponents if the second seeds and former champions (1978 and 1984) come through Group 8 to earn their place in the knockout quarter-finals. There they are expected to face eighth seeds Ukraine.

    Poland have named world No.9 Przemyslaw Wacha and doubles specialists Michel Logosz, Robert Mateusiak and Kamila Augustyn in their line-up while the Dutch have also named their strongest squad with Eric Pang and Dicky Palyama for men’s singles and 2002 European champion Yao Jie and Judith Meulendijks for women’s singles.

    Third seeds Germany are Denmark’s likely semi-final opponents and their strength lies in the women’s events where they can call on 2006 and 2008 European champion Xu Huaiwen or Juliane Schenk to play both singles and doubles if necessary.

    England start their campaign in the evening session (6pm) on Tuesday, February 10 against the Czech Republic before facing Wales on the Wednesday and Scotland on the Thursday evening.

    The Scotland squad includes Jillie Cooper, who recently won the Bank of Scotland International and Yonex Welsh International women’s doubles titles with England squad member Mariana Agathangelou while Super Series Masters mixed doubles finalists Imogen Bankier and Edinburgh-born England player Robert Blair are also in opposing camps

    When Wales and Scotland meet on the opening night it will bring Andrew Bowman up against Martyn Lewis in the doubles. The pair won the Welsh International men’s doubles together in November.

    A total of 410 players representing a total of 32 nations were confirmed today and can be viewed on www.europeanbadminton.com

    BADMINTON England Chief Executive Adrian Christy said: “It’s great for the fans that Denmark have named players like Peter Gade in their squad and I am delighted to see such a top-quality entry for the Team Championship. It will whet the appetite for the Individual Championship when it comes to Manchester in April next year.

    “But first we want to get behind Team England. The home fans can play a vital part if England are to end that 25-year wait for another team title.”

    The groups competing over the first three days of the European Team Championship (with seeding in brackets) are:

    GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3 GROUP 4

    Denmark (1) France (7) Germany (3) Russia (6)
    Spain Cyprus Slovakia Latvia
    Slovenia Portugal Estonia Norway
    Ireland Switzerland Sweden Belarus

    GROUP 5 GROUP 6 GROUP 7 GROUP 8

    Netherlands (5) Poland (4) Ukraine (8) England (2)
    Austria Finland Italy Czech Republic
    Israel Lithuania Hungary Wales
    Belgium Bulgaria Iceland Scotland


    Final positions in the 2008 European Team Championship:

    1 Denmark, 2 England, 3 Poland, 4 Netherlands, 5 Germany, 6 Russia, 7 France, 8 Ukraine, 9 Scotland, 10 Bulgaria,11 Sweden, 12 Czech Republic, 13 Iceland, 14 Finland, 15 Ireland, 16 Estonia.

    Denmark have won the last seven European titles and 12 in all since the competition began in 1972. England have been the champion nation five times but have not struck gold since the 1984 Europeans in Preston – the last time the event was staged in England.

    Sweden are the only other nation to have been champions (1992 and 1994) and they are in Group 3 with third seeds Germany, Slovakia and Estonia.

    It is the first time the European Team Championship has not been played concurrently with the European Individual Championships. Instead, Manchester’s MEN Arena will host the European Individual Championship in April 2010.
     
  2. CLELY

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    Definitely Denmark is strong favourite for this tournament. And England team has chance to overcome Danish squad if they win all doubles departments.
     
  3. george@chongwei

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    once again team Denmark will be the power house in the europe side;) imo
     
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    Gade is NOT playing.

    These are the players according to danish badminton federation website:

    http://www.badminton.dk/Nyheder/Nyhedsarkiv 2009/Januar 2009/EM-holdet udtaget.aspx

    Joachim Persson, Team Skælskør Slagelse
    Jan Ø. Jørgensen, Team Århus
    Carsten Mogensen, BS København
    Mathias Boe, Team Skælskør Slagelse
    Thomas Laybourn, BS København
    Joachim Fischer Nielsen, Bs København

    Tine Rasmussen, Værløse
    Nanna Brosolat Jensen, BS København
    Kamilla Rytter Juhl, Værløse
    Marie Røpke, Gentofte
    Christinna Pedersen, Greve
     
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    i would like to see team like poland beat denmark...^^...
     
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    The world's fastest racket sport will hit the North West as Liverpool and Manchester are set to stage one of its premier tournaments, the European Badminton Championships. The star-studded Championships will be split into two events for the first time ever with the Echo Arena, Liverpool holding the 2009 European Team Championship from 10th-15th February 2009.
    Tickets for the Team Championship, which are set to feature many of the world's top players from over 30 different nations including stars from Beijing such as British Olympians Nathan Robertson, Anthony Clark and Donna Kellogg, have gone on sale today at www.accliverpool.com with prices starting at just £12 for adults and £3 for children.

    With the championships fast approaching, you must book in advance to be sure of your ticket!
     
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    any PAW game for this? haha
     
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    this game will start tomorrow...
     
  10. CLELY

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    Top seed and the defending champion Denmark will start their campaign on Wednesday against Spanish team.
     
  11. Loh

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    Which events do you think England can win against Denmark? The new Clark/Robertson MD partnership seems to be going places. :D
     
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    Probably England XD pair Clark/Kellogg has chance to beat Laybourn/Juhl...
     
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    france does not participate?
     
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    france team is there for this tournament;)
     
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    I doubt France has been left out. Probably baddy fans here do not think France stands much of a chance since France can't boast of many high world ranking players, except Pi Hongyan.
     
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    So Gade isn't playing... dame i was lookin forward to that lol, i'm lucky enough to go to this one, going on last day so i get to see finals. Anyone else?
     
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    what is the time difference with mas time? thanks
     
  18. RichF

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    We're 8 hours behind you, Malaysia is GMT (UTC) +08:00.

    Here's a silly question, but here goes....

    ....will there be any TV coverage in the UK?
     
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    Pablo Abian beat Joachim Persson??...
    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
     
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    relax...jp is not on form lately...he is not consistence...:(
     

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