Congrats to the Koreans, they are the big winner here. Haha..Korean players won 3 titles, WS (Seo Yoon-hee), WD (Lee Kyung-won/Kim Min-seo), XD (Cho Gun-woo/Kim Min-seo) meanwhile Vietnam (MS-Nguyen Tien Minh) and Japan (MD-Hiroyuki Endo/Kenichi Hayakawa) bagged 1 title each, congrats to all winners![]()
.Congrats to the Koreans, they are the big winner here. Haha..It is actually nice to watch some grand prix tournaments as we can see some young rising stars of each country playing.
.chris-ccc, can you tell me more about the Japanese players? Especially their age and their potential. Some of these players are unknown to me such as Hajime Komiyama, Sayuri Asahara and Yuko Kanamori.
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But, Minatsu Mitani (the runner-up for the WS title) comes from the NTT East Club. She came with teammate, Megumi Taruno (the No.1 WS seed), separately from the UNISYS Club. Minatsu Mitani and Megumi Taruno came with a separate coach. They told me that you can check out their NTT East Club activities from this link, located at:
http://www.ntt-east.co.jp/symbol/badminton/
BTW, Minatsu Mitani is really cute and new to international tournaments. After she lost her match, she returned our JPN camp feeling most discouraged . She just sat at my feet (on the floor) feeling so disappointed. And when she found out that the prize money for winning the WS title (to be presented) was valued at US$3,750; she said to her coach, something along this line: "How come you didn't tell me that the prize money is so good? I would love to win that prize money to buy plenty of presents from Australia to take home."
Before, we were talking about the WS player with potential, Misaki Matsutomo. She is from the UNISYS Club. IMHO, Misaki is stronger than Minatsu. But Misaki was injured. So let's follow these two 18 years old JPN players in future tournaments; to see who would one day be representing as No.1 WS for JPN.
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.hey chris
u should tell her that she get mine support since ajc 2009
hehe
anyway
i dont think misaki is better
hehe
misaki lack of something minatsu had
hehe
go go go
.Enough of the talkings, i want pictures please![]()
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Actually, we were guessing that the 2 JPN MM's, Hwang Hye Yeon and/or Kang Hae Won could win the WS title.
But Seo Yoon Hee surprised all of us. She defeated all the 4 guesses.
BTW, Misaki is a great strokes player. But Minatsu has more power play.
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No japanese cuties there.
I have already given BCers the link (from our official tournament photographer):
http://www.warrenwoolcock.com/Warren_Woolcock/Events___Badminton.html
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.No japanese cuties there![]()
.Interesting to see that, apart from the men's singles, no seeded players reached the finals! How were the seedings calculated? Do the world rankings have much meaning outside the top 50 or so?
.misaki is upgrade version of wong mew choo
run everyway to return birdie
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while minatsu have better killing shot
welll
let see in the future
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very interesting
zhang ning will be headache with ratchanok,tai tzu ying,saina,MMx2
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..yes, typo; Misaki was the runners-up at this yr's WJC..I thought Ratchanok Intanon won it, which makes her the runner-up this year?
..you sure there is no mention of him in any of the links??...
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* Hajime Komiyama (not mentioned in the link) is the XD partner of Sayuri Asahara. Hajime Komiyama lead the UNISYS Club to this tournament. His role was captain, coach and player.
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It is anyone's guesses.
For me, Misaki Matsutomo will be JPN No.1 in the near future.
Why? It's just the way I like how she plays Singles (with good patience, correct strokes technique and great footwork).
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.I agree with you. She is the upcoming talent in the making. Very nice and sweet. She love soft toys btw..