It seems the Germans are bent on losing their shirt everytime they win ..... Yup, no wonder someone made out with Xu Huaiwen's shirt in last year's Thomas/Uber finals. Thais return to the top fold with a comprehensive victory over th Russians.
Zhang Beiwen not in form and the Singapore challenge draws to a close. Glaring misses on easy putaway.
1MD Wai Ho Hui[HKG] Albertus Susanto Njoto[HKG] - [JPN] Kenta Kazuno [JPN] Kenichi Hayakawa 3 2WS Pui Yin Yip[HKG] - [JPN] Mayu Sekiya 3 3MS Yan Kit Chan[HKG] - [JPN] Sho Sasaki 3 4WD Chen Wang[HKG] Mi Zhou[HKG] - [JPN] Miyuki Maeda [JPN] Satoko Suetsuna 3 5XD Yohan Hadikusumo Wiratama[HKG] Hoi Wah Chau[HKG] - [JPN] Shintaro Ikeda [JPN] Reiko Shiota 3
1XD Thomas Laybourn[DEN] Kamilla Rytter Juhl[DEN] - [ENG] Anthony Clark [ENG] Gabrielle White 4 2MS Jan O Jorgensen[DEN] - [ENG] Rajiv Ouseph 4 3MD Carsten Mogensen[DEN] Mathias Boe[DEN] - [ENG] Robert Blair [ENG] Christopher Adcock 4 4WS Nanna Brosolat Jensen[DEN] - [ENG] Sarah Walker 4 5WD Kamilla Rytter Juhl[DEN] Lena Frier Kristiansen[DEN] - [ENG] Jennifer Wallwork [ENG] Donna Kellog 4
Afternoon session has ended, now boarding the bus back to the hotel with some of the Singapore and Holland team members.
interesting wc/zm in wd again hope last till last match to c chau/yohan vs reiko in xd hope someone record it tq
Time to see some cute Japanese stuff in 1 hours time, meanwhile I need to do some snacking because dinner will be horribly late. Come to think of it, maybe the cutie Reiko will not be able to feature in the match after all, if all is decided in the 1st 4 matches.
all players finished their "on court warm up", and referee is testing the shuttle cock in court four...looks like Kenneth Jonassen do the honour to serve the cock while referee is watching... KJ finished his task, and sit beside Finn Traerup-Hansen. Only two of them sit on Denmark bench, while England team are complete and enjoy some snacks and fruits...
Danish supporters outside psych themselves up to play the olde enemy, England. Christinna Pedersen is giving them some pep talk..
Hmmm, werent you the one who said it's possible for HK to beat Msia, citing scores of reasons? If you can say that, then others also........ Not necessarily the point must come from WS, there's also XD, if it's played early, depends on order of play & who Msia field - as either WPT or KKK will need to do double duty. Of course, of course, the expectation is Msia to lose 0-3 or 1-3, hopefully to get 1 pt thru MD, China's weakest dept.
Aah, Gillian Clark is seated almost diagonally opposite me. The videos at the Li Ning booth outside showed how the Chinese squad underwent "torturous military training".
Pity the Mongolian girl, only equipped with 3 racquets, not even a racquet bag. But it's an honour seeing Mongolia compete.