From INA players: Taufik Hidayat Andre K. Tedjono Vita Marissa/Hendra AG Markis Kido/Lita Nurlita Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan Alvent/Hendra AG
is this true? hidayat is going to defend his title? kido and setiawan are playing as well? nobody in the US can beat these guys.
The hope is not someone in US to beat this players rather players from other nations like Malaysia, China, Denmark, Korea to participate and make US open more interesting to watch.
TONY gunawan is here don't write him out doubles is a game that everyone have a chance if they work hard and don't give up Taufik .. maybe no one can beat him if none international player is comming ? Mostly they come to promote their own product !! trying to sell some of their stuff they are sponsor.
Plosih MDs and German MDs are coming as well....I can say that this year more international players are participating
I believe there will be more international players coming out to the US and Canadian Open this year because these 2 tourneys are 1 after another. In the previous years, I think it was much more divided. Now its not just a waste of a trip to come all the way here.
latest news..Kido/Hendra, Vita are not coming to US..I have not got any confirmation on alvent/Hendra AG yet. Heard Joachim Persson is coming
Updated List.. http://internationalbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=21531 (Main & Qualifying Rd.) http://internationalbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=21532 (Seeding) MS (the defending champ is back): 1 Taufik HIDAYAT INA 2 Dicky PALYAMA NED 3 Rajiv OUSEPH ENG 4 Yu Hsing HSIEH TPE 5 Carl BAXTER ENG 6 Wan Ho SHON KOR 7 Andrew SMITH ENG 8 Brice LEVERDEZ FRA 9 Matthieu LO YING PING FRA 10 Petr KOUKAL CZE 11 Scott EVANS IRL 12 Christian LIND THOMSEN DEN 13 Kestutis NAVICKAS LTU 14 Stephan WOJCIKIEWICZ CAN 15 Rune ULSING DEN 16 Dieter DOMKE GER WS (the defending champ is back): 1 Tine RASMUSSEN DEN 2 PI Hongyan FRA 3 Juliane SCHENK GER 4 Linda ZECHIRI BUL 5 Judith MEULENDIJKS NED 6 Jeanine CICOGNINI SUI 7 Nicole GRETHER GER 8 Anna RICE CAN Some other notable names: Tai Tzu Ying (WS Runners-up at recent S'pore Open SS; one of limsy's fave junior WS player) Zhu Lin MD (the defending champs will try their luck & try to beat the CHN TPE pair whom they've lost twice to recently): 2 Alvent Julianto CANDRA Hendra Aprida GUNAWAN INA INA 3 Chieh Min Fang Sheng Mu Lee TPE TPE (Winners of the recent S'pore Open SS & INA Open SS) 4 Howard Bach Tony Gunawan USA USA 5 Hung Ling Chen Yu Lang Lin TPE TPE (finally got to see the Harry Potter of badminton) 6 Ki Jung Kim Baek Cheol Shin KOR KOR 7 Hendri Kurniawan Saputra Chayut Triyachart SIN SIN 8 Jürgen Koch Peter Zauner AUT AUT Some other notable names: Holvy DePauw (finally he's competing playing MD!).. WD: 1 Wen Hsing Cheng Yu Chin Chien TPE TPE 2 Shinta Mulia Sari Lei Yao SIN SIN (Winners of this yr's S'pore Open SS) 3 Nicole Grether Charmaine Reid GER CAN 4 Kyung Eun Jung Hyun Young Yoo KOR KOR 5 Sandra Marinello Birgit Overzier GER GER 6 Rie ETO Yu WAKITA JPN JPN 7 Claudia Zornoza Katherine Winder PER PER 8 Grace Bo Gao Joycelyn Ko CAN CAN Some other notable names: Jiang Xuelian (one of the partners from last yr's WD winners) XD: 1 Robert MATEUSIAK Nadiezda ZIEBA POL POL (Winners of this yr's INA Open SS) 3 Nathan ROBERTSON Jenny WALLWORK ENG ENG 4 Sheng Mu Lee Yu Chin Chien TPE TPE 5 Baek Cheol Shin Hyun Young Yoo KOR KOR 6 Hung Ling Chen Wen Hsing Cheng TPE TPE 7 Toby Ng Grace Bo Gao CAN CAN 8 Flandy Limpele Britta Andersen INA DEN
update for the MD field: Alvent J. Candra and Hendra AG are not coming.. Chieh Min Fang & Sheng Mu Lee are the top seeds..
1 word.. WOW.. yeah.. u can compare the entry list of last year usa open with this year upcoming usa open.. so much difference..
..well, only 2 (unknown) reps from your homeland, george..1 additional one has been living in the U.S. for at least 2 yrs..
M/Q Report version 2 (updated 5th July 2010), some withdrawals : MD -- Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan (INA), Alvent/Hendra AG (INA) WD -- Jung Kyung-eun/Yoo Hyun-young (KOR), Vita Marissa/Minarti Timur (INA/PHI), Lita Nurlita/Lili Wang (INA/PHI) XD -- Hendra AG/Vita Marissa (INA), Markis Kido/Lita Nurlita (INA), Kim Ki-jung/Yoo Hyun-young (KOR)
..i'm looking fw to another possible rematch between Tony & Howard vs. the TPE pair...hopefully in the Final..that should be one heck of a cracker match..