Daunting task for shuttler Chong Wei PETALING JAYA: Malaysia's top singles player Lee Chong Wei (pic) faces an uphill task in his bid to win the Danish Open title for the second time after 2005. Chong Wei is the second seed and have formidable opponents in his half of the draw in the tournament scheduled for Oct 23-28. They are Indonesians Taufik Hidayat and Sony Dwi Kuncoro and Chinese Chen Jin and Bao Chunlai. Chong Wei will open his campaign in the ninth leg of the Super Series against a qualifier and should meet Boonsak Ponsana of Thailand in the next round. He has Sony in the same quarter. Chong Wei performed impressively to win the Japan Open last month but in the next tournament, the Taiwan Open, he was eliminated by Indonesian Simon Santoso in the quarter-finals. He did not play in the Macau Open last week. The unseeded Taufik, who was the runner-up in Japan, Taiwan and Macau, is tipped to play against the fourth seeded Chunlai in the quarter-finals. Mohd Hafiz Hashim has a first-round match against his elder brother, Roslin. Macau Open semi-finalist Wong Choong Hann has the toughest first-round match among the Malaysian shuttlers. He will be up against local favourite Peter-Gade Christensen and in the same quarter as the top seeded Chinese Lin Dan. Yeoh Kay Bin also has a stiff opening test against Denmark's number two Kenneth Jonassen. The top Malaysian doubles pair of Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong have a fairly good draw. They are expected to play against world champions and top seeds Markis Kido-Hendra Setiawan in the semi-finals and are comfortable in the fact that they were winners in all four previous encounters – the latest was a straight-game victory in the semi-finals of the Macau Open. The other Malaysian pair, Choong Tan Fook-Lee Wan Wah, have in their quarter Danish veterans Jens Eriksen-Martin Lundgaard Hansen. China's Fu Haifeng-Cai Yun are the second seeds.
NOPE it should be : MS = LEE CHONG WEI MD = KOO KIEN KEAT - TAN BONG HEONG MXD = CANCELLED WD = WONG PEI TY - CHIN EN HUI
How abt: MS: Lin Dan WS: Zhang Ning MD: Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun WD: Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen XD: Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen
, long time no see, indra, how are u? no wonder taufik cannot win in the last 3 finals....u were not here to support him...
it should be a good tournament, i'd like to see the danish players do well here on home ground, they have been performing rather below their usual high standards in the SS so far.
MS: Taufik Hidayat(100%) WS: Adriyanti Firdasari MD: Markis/Hendra WD: Liliyana Natsir/Vita Marissa MX: Vita Marissa/Flandy Limpele
very obvious too high expetation another too high expetation Ahh...badmania's mad is showing now (sometimes as I said before) We know he was not serious Nope, now Lx Dx Qxxx has changed his mind 180 degree , look at his prediction quoted below : Li, have you just changed your nationality and mind a few hours ago Anyway, you are very humble and a real humorist
apart from my real predictions in my blog (The Badminton Blog), I will fight LI De Quan's power: MS: LIN DAN LIN DAN LIN DAN ALL THE WAY!!!! HE IS DA BEST!!!!! (runner up Bao Bao) MD: CAI YUN AND FU HAIFENG ARE UNBEATABLE!!!!!!!!!! (Markis and Hendra look invincible too!) WS: ZHANG NING AND XIE ARE THE ULTIMATE QUEENS!!! WD: ZHANG/WEI WILL RULE!!! (will not curse Zhang Jiewen ) XD: aiya this one no point curse anyone
haha, you guys are a strange lot. what a weird strategy, we'll need to see if it actually works on the big stage.
Some big names were missing..... 1. Tony G/Candra W 2. Gao l/Zheng Bo other wise....will be a total complete set of top players in the world.. Ms is quite complete...Chn, Mas, Ina, Den,...Kor (minus Lee HI),.......
TH have quite a tough one....BCL/Ronald in the 2nd round,...Chen Jin in QF....Semi LCW/Sony/Boonsak....then maybe Lin Dan/Peter Gade...really tough for him...only two weeks of rest....
