QUARTERFINALS (
01.00pm, 3 court) =>
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*Match Highlights :
- Hans Kristian Vittinghus (DEN) v Son Wan Ho (KOR)
- Vincent Wong Wing Ki (HKG) v Tian Houwei (CHN)
- Tai Tzu Ying (TPE) v Sung Ji Hyun (KOR)
- Minatsu Mitani (JPN) v Chen Yufei (CHN)
- Lee YD/Yoo YS (KOR) v Kamura/Sonoda (JPN)
- Li JH/Liu YC (CHN) v Ahsan/Setiawan (INA)
- Goh VS/Tan WK (MAS) v Chai B/Hong W (CHN)
- Jung KE/Shin SC (KOR) v Fukuman/Yonao (JPN)
- Ou DN/Yu XH (CHN) v Pedersen/Juhl (DEN)
A disappointing ending for third seed Jan O Jorgensen as he couldn't go further in this Superseries, a fatigue is detected in physically demanding match, lost three games to local veteran Lee Hyun Il who will be tested by last year runner-up Ajay Jayaram next. Korean number one Son Wan Ho progressed smoothly and will set up a clash with the inspiring Dane Hans Kristian Vittinghus. Another home MS, 2013 World Junior Champion Heo Kwang Hee downed German fighter Marc Zwiebler and has Qiao Bin as his next hurdle. Fourth seed Tian Houwei played rubber-games once again to dump local lower-ranked Seo Seung Jae, he needs more endurance to face HKG resilient shuttler Vincent Wong WK.
WS top half of draw will see an intriguing tie tomorrow, local favourite and last year winner Sung Ji Hyun has stern test to pass, Tai Tzu Ying, head to head stats favour to Taiwanese player. Two stunners, Chen Yufei and Minatsu Mitani will eye semifinal berth after both of them trounce more fancied rival at last sixteen. Chen surprised former World Champion Ratchanok Intanon while Mitani disposed Japan Open latest champion, He Bingjiao. Japan has one more quarterfinalist, Akane Yamaguchi who has bright chance to eliminate home inexperienced teen Kim Hyang Im.
Men's doubles probably portrays the strongest competition of five departments here and three close encounters will be served at last eight round, Lee/Yoo edged past Chinese newest combo Liu/Lu at last sixteen and face the fast-paced Kamura/Sonoda, reigning World Champion Ahsan/Setiawan have chance to take revenge over Chinese young duo Li/Liu and rematch of gruelling Rio Olympic Games semifinal, the silver medalists Goh/Tan against Chai/Hong may find repetition tomorrow.
It's KOR-JPN affairs at top half of draw will indicate long duration quarterfinal tie tomorrow, two local leading pairs Jung/Shin who succeeded to bagged Rio bronze medal meet Fukuman/Yonao and Chang/Lee will take on Matsuo/Naito. China hope in WD category will rely on two combinations in the retirement of their core double specialists, former world top ten Ou DN/Yu XH will face tough foe, Danish finest Pedersen/Juhl while the vurnerable Luo twin sisters are expected to overcome Bulgarian Stoeva sisters, Gabriela & Stefani.
In mixed doubles discipline, two Danish relatively fresh partnerships, Astrup/Kjaersfeldt and Rasmussen/Thygesen will challenge the established pairs, world number one Ko SH/Kim HN and Rio silver medalist Chan PS/Goh LY respectively. China projected leading pair Zheng/Chen and Lu/Huang will face off after Japan Open semifinal last week, HKG Reginald Lee/Chau HW should grab rare opportunity to bounce back after string of unimpressive results lately, they will meet the underdog, #377 Chung/Yoo. The Korean stunned second seed Adcock, the English married couple score lacklustre performance in back to back Superseries.
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