It seems mostly Japan, Taipei,Hongkong,Nigeria ,KOREA and Nigeria participate in this thourney... Here is the entry list:
Nigeria?!?!? Oh wow... maybe next time they might send some to the Indonesia Challenge tournament too... It is just more fun to have people from different continents competing...
The poster shown the Beauties - Hirose, Ogura & Shiota. Can't find them on the participants list, why? Ants will take pictures there and they are truly photogenic.
partial results of round 1 n round 2 http://www.badmintonasia.org/attachment/Osaka International Challenge 2009 - Results 010409.xls
Dont th9nk they posted any results yet...only qualification..as predicted...Nigerians did not show up.....
addt'l results for round 2 http://simplybadminton.blogspot.com/2009/04/results-of-polish-intl-open-cships-2009.html
Watch out for the Korean MS!! 4 out of 4 to the semis. WS semis spots shared by Korea and Japan. I think Ai Goto will take this one. But Kim Moon Hi and Sung Ji Hyun beat some pretty good players to get here. Doubles controlled by Japan almost absolutely, almost because the top seed in XD Hsieh/Chien (who I think will win) are sticking around.
I thought the KOR MD pairs like Kim Dae Eun/Kim Ki Eung and Shin Baek Cheol/Kim Ki Jung will be able to create some upsets. Unfortunately, they fell to Japanese pairs That also basically confirms that without Lee Yong Dae's presence, Shin Baek Cheol is still inexperienced enough to even reach QF of an International Challenge tourney. Kenichi Hayakawa/Kenta Kazuno continue to show good form after their recent showings in Europe. They will be a force to contend with I will expect them to lift another title, this time at home to further boost their ranking. They are surely now JPN's second representative in the World Championships 2009 later this year. Park Joo Bong is indeed a genius...having transformed the two senior JPN pairs into decent pairs and now, he has a rising young pair up his sleeves to contend with INA, MAS, KOR, and DEN pairs.