Venue : Wuhan Sports Centre, Wuhan-Hubei Province, CHN Total prize-money : US$200,000 Category : Continental Individual Championships Grade : Superseries Tournament prospectus : http://badmintonasia.org/upload/Don...-Championships-2016-Tournament-Prospectus.pdf "How many gold medals will China win?" Please vote there. The Poll will close on Friday 29 April at 5:49pm (local time) : http://www.badmintoncentral.com/for...a-championships-2016-entries-and-draw.162093/ Live Streaming (Court 1) : http://www.zoptv.com/live/cctv-5 http://www.zoptv.com/live/cctv-5-plus https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqIYoBi8GLVhj7F3XW4utjg Badminton V Youtube link (past matches video) : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfJwT6SO_rWs9YMaT3fX1XkzvC5JR2_Cz CHN time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=3596&forma=Find Time QUARTERFINAL (04.00pm local time, 4 court) => http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...570B8E-D2AA-401B-96B5-D873594B6690&d=20160429 Korean mixed doubles pairs do well here, the most stunning triumphant was scored by Kim GJ/Shin SC to down recent All England champion Jordan/Susanto. It’ll be CHN-KOR affairs at top-half draw, the Olympic champion Zhang/Zhao will up against Kim/Shin and Lu K/Huang YQ have Korean top-ranked Ko SH/Kim HN. The in-form second seed Ahmad/Natsir overcame home pair Xu/Ma convincingly and expected to book semifinal spot against Choi SG/Eom HW. One more Korea combination Shin BC/Chae YJ get Thailand rival Issara/Amitrapai who spent only 12 mins to progress due to Liu C/Bao YX retired at early of first game. The underrated Japanese WS player, Sayaka Sato showed her best to stop the world number one Ratchanok Intanon winning streak in gruelling rubber games and she will be challenged by her nemesis next Sung Ji Hyun, fifth meeting in this year. The arduous journey for top-seed Li Xuerui in this event from the very early round, she fought hard to eliminate Porntip Buranaprasertsuk and Akane Yamaguchi and the projected tight battle will be happened tomorrow against Tai Tzu Ying. Chinese Taipei talent also got trouble to dispose Indian number two P.V.Sindhu at last sixteen. The two Wangs as predicted cruise to last eight, Wang Shixian will meet familiar foe, former world number one Saina Nehwal while Wang Yihan also finds heavyweight opponent, Nozomi Okuhara who thrashed Bae Yeon Ju in two quick games. Three last eight ties will be close contest, Sung JH has advantage to overcome Sayaka Sato, considering her 11-1 head to head statistics. Three home men’s singles players check into quarterfinal, top-seeded Chen Long will up against Indonesian number one Tommy Sugiarto, their last meeting happened six months ago in DEN Premier final. Last year beaten finalist, Tian Houwei had comfortable winning over two resilient shuttlers at previous round, Son Wan Ho and Angus Ng Ka Long, he has Taiwanese rising star Wang Tzu Wei to chase semifinal spot. At bottom half draw, one step closer for Lin-Lee classic showdown if both of them could pass their opponent tomorrow, Lee Chong Wei had difficult first game against Vincent Wong Wing Ki before he totally controlled second set, the Malaysian hero will be tested by 6th seed Chou Tien Chen in last eight while his archrival Lin Dan outmaneuvered Vietanamese Nguyen Tien Min and finds Korean hurdle next, Lee Dong Keun. A big blow for reigning world champion Ahsan/Setiawan as they extended slump performance here, sent packing early by home young duo Li JH/Liu YC, the former world junior champion also won over the world number two couple weeks ago in Singapore, the giant-killer Li/Liu will take on surprising quarterfinalist, Chen HL/Wang CL who thwarted Endo/Hayakawa to go further in this event. Title-holder Lee YD/Yoo YS keep their good run and will up against 2015 world championships silver medalist, Liu XL/Qiu ZH. Another CHN-KOR clash will pit Fu HF/Zhang N v 2014 World Champion Ko SH/Shin BC, one remaining quarterfinal ties will see the on-fire Kamura/Sonoda against Indonesian upcoming pair Gideon/Sukamuljo who disposed 7th seed Kim GJ/Kim SR. Current best women's doubles pair, Matsutomo/Takahashi passed stern test at their first appearance here after got first round bye to eliminate Chinese potential pair, Chen QC/Jia YF. The world number one has another blossoming pair hurdle, Supajirakul/Taerattanachai tomorrow. The Olympic Champion Tian Q/Zhao YL has Korean rival Chang YN/Lee SH, both pairs finished last sixteen ties comfortably. A thrilling match at lower-half of draw witnessed Jung KE/Shin SC spent 99 minutes to dump recent SUI Open champion Matsuo/Naito with the match ended 24-22 at deciding game. The Korean will up against 2014 Asian Games gold medalist Maheswari/Polii, the Indonesians almost found the exit door by Vivian Hoo/Woon KW, at the brink of losing they saved two match points and grabbed four consecutive points to force rubber games. Former Asian Champion, Luo Ying/Luo Yu will get Japanese number two, Fukuman/Yonao for a place in semifinal.
Regarding RI's defeat and the possibility of keeping her WR of 1 after this early exit : In some ways, getting the number one seed in Rio is not important for WS. Because there are 5 or 6 ladies of equal strength. To avoid one is just to get another.
If anyone wants to make good money Lee Dong Keun is your answer. We will surely witness the classic Lee - Lee rivalry in the semi finals.
She can drop no further than to Rank n°2 no matter who wins this tournament. I do agree it doesn't make much difference indeed, especially because as much as being N°1 or N°2 means avoiding playing Carolina M., CM is not actually the most dangerous opponent for Ratchanok.
Thanks CLELY for the amazing summary. Very important test in WS: Saina vs. WSX (H2H 6-7)should be a very tough match, although Saina has been really not playing much lately so we don't really what's her form now but this is sure an important match for her. WY-NO (H2H 2-3)is a another repeat of the Dubai Superseries Finale and All England QF. LXR - TTY (H2H 10-2) should be cracker too. TTY has shown some fabulous form in and out of this year and really made improvements on consistency. TTY has also won their last two encounters convicingly so she should be quite confident despite the overwhelming H2H advantage of LXR SS-SJH (H2H 1-11): I expect a straight sets affairs for SJH except if SS made miraculous improvement as her win yesterday migh suggest. However if this is the usual inconsistent and mentally weak SS, SJH -the definition of accuracy and consistency- will have no problem disposing of her, for 12th time. Maybe I'll be surprised, let's see if her win against the world n°1 gives her the confidence. . In MS: I don't think the top seeds will have any problem to pass to the next round.. This is the category that really suffers the most from the absence of the europeans top players JO/ VA/ HV/ MZ and obviously the dethroned Japanese KM. Without them, there isn't any real competition/ tough cookie for the top seeds until SF stage.MD as well to some extent -the russians and danes always spice up the competition against other asian players.
Live Schedule at Astro SuperSport 4 Friday • 04:00 PM LIVE: Badminton Asia Championships 2016: Quarter Finals, from Wuhan, China Saturday • 02:00 PM LIVE: Badminton Asia Championships 2016: Semi Finals, from Wuhan, China Sunday • 02:00 PM LIVE: Badminton Asia Championships 2016: Finals, from Wuhan, China (local time schedule)
Talking about Kento Momota, yesterday BWF deleted Kento's name completely from their ranking list. It also happened to Kenichi Tago. I think this is too much. Kento didn't break any BWF regulation and BWF doesn't have any right to do this. Japan Badminton Association must have suggested BWF to do this. This has gone too far. Kento should have a lawyer to defend his right.
I know I was so shocked :O Although it makes sense since they are not part of the Japanese Badminton Association anymore. What a huge loss for the sport :/ That's why players should be able to play outside of the national team..
Sadly indeed. For NBA and Japanese peoples, Kento Momota illegal gambling case has tarnished Japan badminton reputation, honour and dignity is really important, above all things even Olympic Games gold medal.
I totally agree. You are in the world ranking as an individual, not as an extension of your country. There are many independent players who are actively participating and in the ranking. Japan national team has the right to kick players off the team (and to select players for Olympics etc). But BWF has no right to take players off the list. As far as I'm concerned, Momota is an independent player. Even more amazing, Tago was an independent player when this whole fiasco unfolded. Did BWF say criminals (crime in the widest sense of the word) cease to become professional players? Edit: i should have quoted udin udik above Sent from my supercomputer using Tapatalk
so any independent player who is not part of his country badminton association for whatever reason, will not be ranked? silly BWF.
Suddenly i cannot check BAC website, then I check the domain whois: BadmintonAsia.org is hosted in Culver City, California, US at 72.47.228.129 and expires on 2016-04-28 Does the BAC's web admin forget about the domain expiry date?
BWF is a coward organisaiton that is afraid for standing up for the players. Does BWF think the people who decided to ban the players are more important for the sport than Momota and the other banned players?
Well.. How BWF stands is way better than.. for example NFL. . Momota and Co. violate some rules in their assoc., get taken down by the association, which means that he is banned from his association. At least for Japan, he cannot do anything until the ban is lifted, because the players got listed in BWF through their respective associations. He broke the rules of NBA. So be it. Should BWF meddle in the association for their respective decision? Would any of you agree if for example; BWF meddle in how PELATNAS or any national team selects their players, for whatever reasons? And still, Listing as a player from a country, independent or not, still require you to list yourself in the respective association.. So.. If the policy of NBA is to unlist and deregister any player if they do criminal activity... Yeah.. Momota and Co... must do it from other assoc.
What about tweeting to BWF official twitter account: @bwfmedia This is a big lose to badminton, and BWF should have considered it as their main consideration before making this stupid decision.
