CLELY
Regular Member
Venue : RWE Sporthalle, Mulheim an der Ruhr-GER
Total prize-money : US$120,000
Tournament website : http://www.german-open-badminton.de/en/home.html
tournamentsoftware link : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=19A76ABB-4E06-4B9A-B398-555205B7748B
GER time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=3651&forma=Find Time
2014 WINNERS => http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/s...C62064-9573-4195-B7EB-265662B7326D&d=20140302
MS - Arvind Bhat (IND)
WS - Sayaka Takahashi (JPN)
MD - Takeshi Kamura/Keigo Sonoda (JPN)
WD - Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi (JPN)
XD - Robert Blair/Imogen Bankier (SCO)
The tournament will kick off today, started from qualifying round (09.00am local time, 5 courts) for all 5 disciplines. MS R/64 also will be played on evening (05.00pm) as order of play released : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...A76ABB-4E06-4B9A-B398-555205B7748B&d=20150224
Some notable players have withdrawn according to ts com last updated, Tommy Sugiarto (INA), Marc Zwiebler (GER), Kento Momota (JPN), Rajiv Ouseph (ENG), Fuchs/Schoettler (GER), Goh VS/Tan WK (MAS), Bernadeth/Pradipta (INA), Kido/Bernadeth (INA), Chrisnanta/Neo (SIN).
A warming up tournament for top 10 shuttlers, prior to prestigious All England in following week. Both Jorgensen and Son Wan Ho are hot faves to lift trophy here while WS top two seed Sung Ji Hyun and reigning World Champion Carolina Marin are tipped to meet in Sunday's final, some potential darkhorses will coming from Japanese players, Yamaguchi, Okuhara, Mitani and last year's winner Sayaka Takahashi.
Lee SM/Tsai CH, Endo/Hayakawa, Matsutomo/Takahashi, Pedersen/Rytter Juhl, Fischer/Pedersen, Ko SH/Kim HN will be the frontrunners in doubles categories as we'll see them regularly in Superseries level. Overall, this GP Gold tournament is expected will deliver exciting matches from strong line-ups.
Semifinal and Final round will be broadcasted LIVE on Saturday and Sunday respectively.