INA participants: MS Tommy Sugiarto Nugroho Andi Saputro [a.k.a. Gepeng] Yoga Pratama Andre Kurniawan Tedjono Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka Andreas Adityawarman WS Aprilia Yuswandari Linda Weni Fanetri Maria Febe Kusumastuti Fransiska Ratnasari Rizki Amelia Pradipta MD Edo-Lingga Wifqi-Alfiat WD Anneke-Anissa Komala-Keshya Debby-Pia XD Tantowi-Richi Fran-Pia Rijal-Debby I think we can reasonably expect 'regular' participants from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, just like past New Zealand Opens... Last year [NZ Open was in October, I think] was a bit unpleasant for the Indonesians because the National Team was disbanded and INA players who want to go to NZ had to finance themselves...
this is a huge improvement compared to last year's line up (5 players only from INA) hopefully other countries will send their players as well.. btw, do you guys think that KLRC will ask all of the sponsored players to come? that'd be awesome, cos we'd get Lars/Jonas, Andrew Smith, Zhou Mi, etc..
Among the contenders for the MD title: Rupesh Kumar/Thomas Sanave Gan Teik Chai/Tan Bin Shen Hirokatsu Hashimoto/Noriyasu Hirata XD: Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama/Chau Hoi Wah WD: Aparna Balan/Shruti Kurian INA has a strong chance to win the titles from WD and XD!
The contenders for the MS and WS titles are aplenty. MS: Chan Yan Kit Lee Tsuen Tseng Anup Sridhar WS: Yip Pui Yin Eriko Hirose, Megumi Taruno, Sekiya Mayu, Sayako Sato Trupti Murgunde
Yes! I pick Debby-Pia to win WD. Rijal-Debby for XD... Fran-Pia is the next possible winner... Andre and Hayom will play those 3 MS well... and among the WS, I say Sayaka Sato is the most likely person to win...
Here is the draws file, No Tommy & Nugroho in drawing Bad Draw in WD, Pia/Debby will meet Anneke/Anissa too early Good Draw in XD
The live Score and other info in here, http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=C4C04688-AA19-489D-A17A-D4F0D69EEB48
Some of the seedings are a bit of a surprise - especially Kritteka Gregory & Mary O'Connor being seeded in womens doubles.
Hi guys, I just received this from email. Anyone here in NZ able to record? Unfortunately I don't have sky :-(
It should be more fun for the NZ audience if not all of the seeded players are Asians... I actually prefer that NZ win one title... Badminton in NZ will grow better if there are local heroes...
Hope the Djarum guys will do well. Same goes to our Malaysian boys... which i think only the doubles will go far.
i put my hope on Linda to go far in this tourney..if she can beat Sayaka Sato in 2nd round,pretty sure she's gonna win this tourney
