My guess : ZB/MJ vs Lee/Chien Women singles will be all chinese Women doubles hopefully the taiwan will be in the final. MD : Koo/Tan vs Kindra (tough call for both semifinal) MS : rematch of 1999 All England final ??? (yup ! 11 years ago Gade beat Taufik in All England)
The MD is the hardest to predict. 3 of the top 4 MD are in there with JJS/LYD being the top 4 MD out. Guo/Xu is not up to their standard but man, they can cause upsets... KKK/TBH better play this one properly. Prediction : KKK/TBH vs CY/FHF in the final. As for MS, many people seem to be ruling Chen Jin out...? I'm supporting Gade, but he needs to pull out his best game there. Now... Prediction : Taufik Hidayat vs Chen Jin in the final.
My QF predictions were 15W 5 L. So here we go for the SF: XD XB/MJ over Ko/Ha (straightforward win) He/Yu over Lee/Chien (could be close) WS Tine over WL (nail biter) WX over WSX (should be the final) MS CJ over PG (CJ, don't bother returning to camp if you don't win) PSH over TH (H2H means nothing now) WD Ma/Wang over Cheng/Zhao (boss's orders) Du/Yu over Cheng/Chien (tough, big hitting match) MD KKK/TBH over Guo/Xu (should be a formality if they stay focused) Fu/Cai over Markis/Hendra (the TC match is still vivid in my mind) This the final should contain: CHN = 7, KOR = 1, MAS = 1, DEN = 1 Awesome CHN dominates once again
Current standings of flags: CHN - 11 representatives! Wow... I think they will get 4... DEN - 2 INA - 2 KOR - 2 The badminton superpowerhouse is at tip top, and the rest of the badminton powerhouses have 2. TPE - 2. Very good performance by Taipei this time but I'm afraid zero by end of today. The non-badminton powerhouse who has 2. Congratulations! MAS - 1 By the end of tomorrow, predictions : CHN - 7 INA - 1 (Challenge CHN in MS) DEN - 1 (Challenge CHN in WS) MAS - 1 (Challenge CHN in MD)
XD: Bo ZHENG [8] / Jin MA - Sung Hyun KO [12] / Jung Eun HA (head-2-head - 1:1) WS: Wang LIN [7] - Tine BAUN [4] (h2h - 1:2) XD: Sheng Mu LEE [16] / Yu Chin CHIEN - Hanbin HE [6] / Yang (F) YU (h2h - 0:0) MS: Jin CHEN [4] - Peter Hoeg GADE [2] (h2h - 6:3) MD: Kien Keat KOO [1] / Boon Heong TAN - Zhendong GUO [4] / Chen XU (h2h - 2:0) WD: Jin MA [1] / Xiaoli WANG - Shu CHENG [4] / Yunlei ZHAO (h2h - 3:3) MS: Taufik HIDAYAT [5] - Sung Hwan PARK [13] (h2h - 7:0) WD: Wen Hsing CHENG [3] / Yu Chin CHIEN - Jing DU [2] / Yang (F) YU (h2h - 0:7) WS: Xin WANG [3] - Shixian WANG [6] (h2h - 2:1) MD: Yun CAI [5] / Haifeng FU - Markis KIDO [2]/ Hendra SETIAWAN (h2h - 4:3)
Just to note, KKK/TBH's H2H against Guo/Xu is actually 2:1. Guo/Xu beat them in rubber games at the SSMF'09.
In fact, all 3 meetings between them all went to the rubber. All Malaysians will be praying that it will be in 2... in favour of KKK/TBH. They beat JJS/LYD doesn't mean that this meeting will be easy. It will be very, very tough. Guo/Xu has been underrated despite their high world ranking.
What a disappointing result for Wang Yihan , Lee Chong Wei & Lin Dan . China now lies hopes on Zheng Bo & Ma jin on mixed doubles, Fu haifeng & cai yun have to win today to relishes any hopes, now Lin dan has , china will place all its hope on Chen Jin (Singles). At least there is going to be 1 representative for china in woman singles for the final.
can not, so we wanna see it! still possible, that's good, and the chances are really not bad to break the wall, that's good for badminton, so let's go for it!
first of all I hope they gonna realize that staying away from SS was a bad idea and they gonna change that! lets go for 'less than 3 titles'! to prefer the national matches was the worse thing that could happen to the badminton world, that needs to be punished in order to get back best players in all SS events!
Peter Gade over Chen jin..both not in top form.. TH over PSH h2h 7-0 for TH Wang Lin over Tine Wang Xin over Wang Shixian Taipei pair over du/yu Cheng/Zhao over ma/wang Hajeung/Ko over bo/ma He/yu over taipei pair Olympic gold medalist over the silver medalist Kkk/tbh over Chen/Guo so 4 chinese in final,3 lost in final,1 tittle from ws...
KKK/TBH shd keep their momentum and most importantly play with the 'right attitude' inorder to win today's SF............ Wish them luck !!
LCW mentioned he was injured yesterday. So TH should be careful and not get carried away and must know he's true condition. Having said that, the H2H record between TH and PSH stands as 7 - 0, PSH never won againts TH. So I hope history will repeat itself