Venue : Wiener Stadthalle (Hall B), Vienna Category : International Challenge Total prize-money : US$15,000 Official website : http://www.austrian-international.at/ Player entries through ts.link : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/players.aspx?id=BFBBC6AF-3C3E-4796-A3A7-12339185AFEA INA squad -- Andreas Adityawarman, Andre K.Tedjono, Fransiska Ratnasari, Viki Indra Okvana, Ardiansyah Putra, Andy Hartono Tandaputra, Gustiani Sari Megawati.
If he maintains his skill level like last week's Kejurnas [where he defeated Simon and pushed Sony to the limit], I will not be surprised if Andre wins... Oh, Nana also can win this Austrian Challenge...
Nana won the Astec Indonesia IC and Vietnam Open GP titles last year, so, another IC won't be a challenge for her I expect her to win at least one GP (or hopefully GP Gold) title this year.
The only name that I saw on the WS list that have a good chance of stopping Nana from winning this is: Petya Nedelcheva of Bulgaria... Petya deserves to be seeded #1 [if she does not withdraw or anything]... Nana deserves to be seeded #2. In the MS... I cannot recognize most of the names... Maybe some of them are new pros... Andre can realistically win this tournament... Hopefully Adit will be on the other side of the draw, so we can see Andre vs. Adit in the finals... I wonder if Petra intends to play: Austria Challenge German GP All England SS Swiss Open SS ???!?!? If I were her, I will just concentrate on All England SS and Swiss Open SS... Orrr... play in the Austria Challenge, get confidence, skip German Open, concentrate on All England. That will also make sense... Playing 4 tournaments in a row... mmmm.... maybe too tough. "Chase 1 horse and maybe you'll catch it. Chase 4 horses at the same time... errr....." hehehe...
Looks like Nana will not get seeding position #2, there're 3 WS player in the entry list who have WR higher than Nana, Susan Egelstaff-Rachel Van Cutsen and Larisa Griga...
Looking at the entry list Andre should definitely win. Only european to not underestimate should be Brice Leverdez but normally should be no problem. Japanese, don't know them?? Ladies should be as said above Petya or Nana, maybe Wang Linling and the japanese(?)... Who is Petra?
maybe..petya (nedelcheva) ? typo..?? http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1364652&postcount=5
The drawing is out... ts.link -- http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draws.aspx?id=BFBBC6AF-3C3E-4796-A3A7-12339185AFEA
After looking at this draw, I predict: MS final: Andre Kurniawan Tedjono vs. Christian Lind Thomsen WS final: Petya Nedelcheva vs. Fransisca Ratnasari
Hey! Greetings from Austria! It is nice to see that you are already discussing about the tournament in Vienna. In Mens Single I think Anand Pawar from India could win as well. He has already won the tournament in 2008 (at that time it was a Int. Series tournament).
Andre Kurniawan Tedjono is seeded 3rd and will face: R32 vs Q3 R16 vs Kasper Ipsen QF vs (possibly) Yuhan Tan SF vs (possibly) Brice Leverdez [1] or Anand Pawar [8] F vs (possibly) Christian Lind Thomsen Andreas Adityawarman has to progress through the Qualifying Rounds: R1 vs Hannes Kaesbauer R2 vs Manuel Batista or Julien Warnotte R3 vs (possibly) Shohei Hoshino R32 vs Raul Must [6] Fransiska Ratnasari is seeded 4th and will face: R32 vs Q3 R16 vs Camilla Overgaard or Simone Prutch QF vs (possibly) Wang Linling SF vs (possibly) Jeanine Cicognini [6] or Susan Egelstaff [2]
Andre's uniqueness is his strength and endurance. Andre usually have problems with fast players. He will perform well against most Europeans because most are not that fast.
Not a good start for Adit as he's being forced to rubber-set and is still trailing 8-11 at the interval
Andreas Adityawarman is through to the second qualifying round, but not before a struggle against Hannes Kaesbauer 23-25, 21-8, 21-17.