I couldn't find much on the badminton.dk website other than ticket sales and tournament history and stuff Copenhagen Masters
No, nothing's made public yet. Let's look at last year's tournament: MS: Wong Choong Hann Lee Hyun Il Peter Gade Peter Rasmussen Sony Dwi Kuncoro Chen Jin WS: Camilla Martin Judith Meulendijks Pi Hong Yan Zhang Ning Mia Audina Jun Jae Youn MD: Jens Eriksen/Martin Lundgaard Chan Chong Ming/Chew Choon Eng Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng Lee Dong Soo/Yoo Yang Sung Lars Paaske/Jonas Rasmussen Sigit Budiarto/Candra Wijaya Finals: Peter Gade, DEN - Peter Rasmussen, DEN 15/10, 15/5 Zhang Ning, CHN - Camilla Martin, DEN 11/4, 11/5 Sigit Budiarto/Candra Wijaya, INA - Jens Eriksen/Martin Lundgaard, DEN 15/9, 15/8 --- Since it's an invitational tournament, the Danish participants ought to be: Gade, Jonassen, Camilla, JR/Lars, Eriksen/Lundgaard. Then they basically try to attract some "interesting" or "hot" players, rather than just go by world ranking. It's been a tough season, as everybody's been gearing up for the Olympics. The Masters don't give any ranking or qualification points, so I suspect the field could be weaker than normal this year. The organizers will see a lot of invited players declining, and they'll be forced to go for second or even third choices. In any case, I'm going to be there this year. Does anybody want to meet up?
The field so far... MS: Peter Gade Kenneth Jonassen Wong Choong Hann M. Roslin Hashim Taufik Hidayat LS: Camilla Martin Tine Rasmussen Mia Audina Pi Hongyan Seo Yoon Hee MD: Lars Paaske/Jonas Rasmussen Martin Lundgaard/Jens Eriksen Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah Halim Hadyanto/Candra Wijaya Yim Bang Eun/Kim Yong Hyun Nathan Robertson/Anthony Clark Sorry if some of the names are misspelled, I took the information directly from a Danish newspaper. Here's the link: In danish As you can see, they still have to find one MS player and one LS player. The LS player will be from China, don't know about the MS player, but if they can get one of the strong Chinese players, I am sure that's what they will do.
Wonder why Chinese chose not to participate, I think Chen Hong or Chen Yu should be a good candidates for this event. Why Roslin Hashim? I rather pick Lee Chong Wei or Hafiz or even Boonsak P. I guess it's just not up to us, the real fan. IBF should consider the All-Star for badminton, East vs West like baseball, basketball... May be in my dream ...
the chinese single players have been found. In MS Chen yu will participate and in WS it will be Xie Xinfang. got the information from www.badminton.dk
You'll find the groups and timetable here MS group one: Gade, Taufik and Wong Interesting, to say the least...
ah.... Gade will be in home ground, and also without the darn wind in the stadium. this will be a more accurate gauge of how well he has recovered. good choice for Chen Yu and Xie. both needs more experience.
Who will be the Champ? My predictions MS : Wong Choon Han or Peter Gade WS : Camilla Martin MD : This one is hard... Close fight between LARS/ JR and CHOONG/ LEE
hmm.. predictions.. MS : Gade vs. Chen Yu - winner Gade WS: Martin vs. Xie - winner Xie MD: JR/LP vs. Choong/Lee - winner JR/LP
I saw in the tv that both Xia and Lin dan was choosed to participate in Copenhagen Masters but both withdraw because of injuries .. But Chen Yu is a good replacement
Oh,Chen Yu and XieXingFang must play two matches in one day! But I think they both can rush into the final.
MD: Sigit and Candra What is going on? Aren't Candra is partnering with Halim? i am getting dizzy....alot of changes in the MD of Indonasia.
my mistake..thank you i was happy for a second knowing they are getting back together. Where is Sigit and Trikus?
Sigit and Trikus are probably not chosen since the Copenhagen Masters is an invitational tournament. Sigit is a pretty decent doubles player but his partner is still a bit below him and they aren't consider one of the elite doubles pair so they are probably not chosen.
