Today (Wed), there shall be 2 rounds in MS. WS main draw starts tomorrow. MS (1st round) Lee TS v Shoji Sato Chen Yu v Kendrick Lee Chen Jin v Boonsak MS (2nd round - 1st round bye) Bao v Gong Weijie (qualifier) Lee CW v Ronald Among the qualifiers, Lee Cheol Ho (v Zwiebler) and Niu Jiaping (v Jim Ronny Andersen) have good chances. MS (possible 2nd round matches) Hafiz v Boesen Chen Yu or Kendrick v Chen Jin or Boonsak Roslin v Dicky Kuan BH v Kaldau MD (1st round) Guo Zhendong/Xie v Andersen/Lamp Boe/Mogensen v Chan/Koo Laybourn/Steffensen v Sang/Zheng WD (1st round) Gao/Huang v Emms/Kellogg XD (1st round) Robertson/Emms v Zheng Bo/Huang Sui Nugroho/Tetty v KKK/Wong Ha TK/Ha Jung Eun v Laybourn/Juhl Saputra/Li v Blair/Munt
Well, shock of all shocks ... Zheng Bo/Huang Sui have done what Zhang Jun/Gao Ling failed to do recently. They bundled Robertson/Emms out in the first round.
Robertson/Emms retired early in the first game trailing 0-2 after 2 mins of play. Probably due to some injury.
The only other seeded XD pair to lose is the 8th seeded English pairing of Blair & Munt. Singapore's Hendry and Yujia beat them in 3 games.
yeah! SIN made it thru the 1st round ! Can i ask where u get the results from? is there any live scores?
There is no live score, at least not yet. Still hoping and praying that the organisers will do something about this. However, the results are updated here : http://www.yonexopenjp.com/Draw/index_en.html
Err... sorry to bother.. but i dun find any live results update at that website? is there any corner i've missed?
Mixed doubles results are in. http://www.u-netsurf.ne.jp/nichiba/2005/yoj/exd.htm Saputra/Li bt 8th seeds Blair/Munt. Although not that surprising, this result further condemns the English camp in their favourite event. The other seeds and favourites advanced to the last 16. KKK/WPT survived a three-setter against Nugroho/Tetty. Clark/Kellogg kept the English flag flying. Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen easily dispatched of Njoto/Wang Chen. Laybourn/Juhl also survived three sets against Ha Tae Kwon/Ha Jung Eun.
Though Zeng Bo and Huang Sui is a new XD pairing but they make quite a formidable pair based on their respective MD and WD rankings.
I think the English pair Robertson/Emms may have overdo themselves in England Masters just before the Japan Open. Mixed doubles competition is open now. Hoping for the MS results to come in anytime now.
i only managed to see the draw n the time they playing.. i cant see the results. Izzit my pc problem?
Presently, only the 1st round "Mixed Doubles" (Main Draw) and all the Qualifying Round results are updated. The 1st round "Men Singles" results should be updating soon. Did you click on the wrong button ?
As much as I like the new pairing of Xie Zhongbo and Zhang Yawen, I want them to lose to Zheng Bo/Huang Sui just so I can see them play Zhang/Gao. That would be an interesting match.
Korean Mixed Doubles Trivial I noticed that Korea has 3 mixed doubles pairs in the main draw. The partners for each pair have the same surnames, namely : Ha Tae Kwon & Ha Jun Eun, Hwang Ji Man & Hwang Yu Mi, Lee Jae Jin & Lee Hyo Jung. Just wondering whether if this is merely a coincidence or done so intentionally for whatever reasons ... lol