A long day is in store tomorrow with 32 players each in MS and WS competing for 4 slots in the main draw. No INA players in both fields...luckily The draw size is 16 in both MD and XD, and only 8 in WD. INA's representative in QUAL: WOMEN'S DOUBLES Mie Schjoett-Kristensen/Christina Pedersen vs Lita Nurlita/Nitya Krishinda -- one of the DEN lady is a winner in the Dutch Open. Still, Lita/Nitya should win! The reward will be a manageable tie against Nicole Grether/Juliane Schenk. Meiliana Jauhari/Shendy Puspa Irawati vs Rachel Van Cutsen/Paulien Van Doormalen -- Mel/Shendy should have no problem clearing this obstacle and enter the main draw. Their opponent should be qualify will be the tricky Indian pair of Kurian Shruti/Jwalla Gutta. MIXED DOUBLES Anders Kristensen/Lena Frier-Kristensen vs Mohd Rijal/Endang Nursugianti -- since Greysia is focusing on WD, Rijal will play in the Denmark SS with Endang and later on in the Vietnam Open partnering Devi Tika. A tricky match esp with the experience of Lena Frier-Kristensen. I still predict a win for Rijal/Endang. The winner will face either Tim Dettmann/Annekatrin Lille or Chris Langridge/Joanne Nicholas. Hopefully, Rijal/Endang can enter the main-draw. A formidable for in the 7th-seeded He Hanbin/Yu Yang will await the qualifer.
Let's See How Taufiq Hidayat Akbar play against Kristian Middgaard.... How he play? is it like Taufik Hidayat??????
update from anne who just arrived at odense congress center: japan lost their luggages at the airport, but got them now.. hehe japan and malaysia just went training.. now it's like 11 pm
and apparently the internet connection in knudsens gaard is very bad? hahaha (some INA players stay there)
hahahaha cuz INA team is split in 2 hotels la.. in scandic the internet connection is good, in knudsens gaard it's not.. hahahaha.. faint.. tomorrow their training time is 9-11. zzzzzzz.. markis slept at 6pm already.. still jetlag.. hau ge arrived already.. everything is fine.. he's on the train with some austrian players i think.. on the way to odense.
Hehe...just arrived...saw some danish official meeting at hotel....Have seen revised draw. Inetrnet at Ansgar is excellent...yes..thats are Roman and Peter from Austria...we talked mostly about badminton in Europe, etc...
u arrived Odense Finally huh? That's good Any Latest withdrawal that u know of? Hopes not they will post the revised draw on tournament software
For sure Chen Hong, Chen Yu and WCH and women player, I forgot her name, replaced by Susan Hughes vs Zhou Mi. Chen Hong as I have reported, he withdrew as he did not get his visa on time....heard that he will be in French open for sure... Ansgar is small hotel with 3 floors, I think I saw Wacha and some players which I did not recognize yet....
Qualification round is on gong and we still don't have the revised draw out yet? How can players prepare not knowing who are the opponents? We can expect more upset in early round.
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