I can't open the excel file. Can taufik-ist capture it into jpg format & post it here like what u did for the Danish & French Open? Thanks.
The seedings are a bit unexpected. Chen Hong is unseeded and so is Wong Mew Choo (both at 9th position). Wong/Chin are again unseeded at position 10th, right behind the tomboys. Sony and Taufik are seeded 7th and 8th respectively. I don't think this is final yet.
The seedings are out and are based on the rankings as of 1 Nov 2007. For MS: Taufik is not seeded. Sony is seeded 7th. For WS: Wong Mew Choo is not seeded. For WD: Gao Ling/Zhao Ting Ting (note, not Du Jing as in the early version) is seeded 5th. Thankfully, Vita Marissa/Lilyana Natsir are seeded 6th, which means no top Chinese pairs in the early rounds, although they might encounter pairs like Pan Pan/Tian Qing.
Full seedings: MEN'S SINGLES 1. Lin Dan 2. Lee Chong Wei 3. Chen Jin 4. Bao Chunlai 5. Peter Gade 6. Chen Yu 7. Sony Dwi Kuncoro 8. Kenneth Jonassen MEN'S DOUBLES 1. Koo Kien Keat/Tan Boon Heong 2. Fu Haifeng/Cai Yun 3. Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan 4. Tony Gunawan/Candra Wijaya 5. Jung Jae Sung/Lee Yong Dae 6. Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah 7. Jens Eriksen/Martin Lundgaard Hansen 8. Lee Jae Jin/Hwang Ji Man WOMEN'S SINGLES 1. Xie Xingfang 2. Zhang Ning 3. Lu Lan 4. Zhu Lin 5. Wang Chen 6. Pi Hongyan 7. Xu Huaiwen 8. Petya Nedeltcheva WOMEN'S DOUBLES 1. Wei Yili/Zhang Yawen 2. Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen 3. Lee Kyung Won/Lee Hyo Jung 4. Chien Yu-Chin/Cheng Wen-Hsing 5. Gao Ling/Zhao Tingting 6. Vita Marissa/Lilyana Natsir 7. Gail Emms/Donna Kellogg 8. Kumiko Ogura/Reiko Shiota MIXED DOUBLES 1. Zheng Bo/Gao Ling 2. Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir 3. Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms 4. Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen 5. Flandy Limpele/Vita Marissa 6. Anthony Clark/Donna Kellogg 7. Thomas Laybourn/Kamilla Rytter-Juhl 8. He Hanbin/Yu Yang
I think thats version 1...they have updated yesterday till version 3...I believe that they will use Version 3 for final seeding....if I am not wrong..
Hm..now they have Version 4....there is a note " oraganizer to rank the pairs"....what does it mean???
I just realised Version 2 is actually the correct one (and Version 4 is the wrong one, how misleading). Version 4 takes rankings on Oct 24, while Version 2 rightly takes rankings on Nov 1.
BWF confirmed that they will use Version 2 or by ranking by Nov 1, 2007...it is clear now....so why they need to update version 3 or 4.....haiya!! so misleading!
http://www.internationalbadminton.org/draws.asp 01-11-07 is the seeding date. They won't use other dates. This has always been the case. The M/Q Report is only to determine the main draw and qualifying draw entries (and also reserves if neccessary). The seedings for all events (based on ranking 01-11) are correct. I have checked.
The M/Q report is Version 4. The seedings are all Version 2. They are 2 different documents, it should not be misunderstood that Version 4 is newer than Version 2. A bit misleading, got a bit confused myself also. There could be new versions if there are withdrawals.
The draw date is TODAY, 6th November. The seeding for the Hong Kong Open is 8th November, with draws being made on 13th November.
