Category : Venue : St.Jakobshalle, Basel-SUI Total : US$150,000 Tournament website : http://www.swissopen.com/en/home/ BWF World Tour website : http://bwfworldtour.com/tournament/3144/yonex-swiss-open-2018/overview/ LiveScore/Schedule/Result : https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=F9533AE1-4375-458C-BB11-E6B186C5EA21 DRAW (Excel Format) : https://bwfextranet.com/docs/events... 2018 _ DRAW _Updated 30th January 2018_.XLSX SUI time : https://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=13139&forma=Find Time Swiss Open 2018 Promotional Video : 2017 WINNERS => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/...73AD9A-7BEC-45DA-A677-E5E4165EFCC0&d=20170319 MS - Lin Dan (CHN) WS - Chen Xiaoxin (CHN) MD - Chai Biao/Hong Wei (CHN) WD - Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan (CHN) XD - Dechapol Puavaranukroh/Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA) Swiss Open has regular time-slot in March after All England but new-structured BWF World Tour arranges this tournament being stand-alone event and it impacts lack of elite players attendance. 2015 World Championships bronze medalists Kento Momota and Jan O Jorgensen certainly will be the spotlight of SUI Open 2018. Reigning European Champion Rajiv Ouseph is seeded first here and is scripted to meet Emil Holst at last eight and might be Jorgensen in semifinal if the Danish veteran could pass tricky test Malaysian rising star Lee ZIi Jia at opening round. Momota has possible quarterfinal clash with second seed Sameer Verma, another seeded players in lower-half of draw comprise Bitburger Open champion Rasmus Gemke, Netherland's Mark Caljouw and Brazilian Ygor Coelho. Two Japanese B players, Sayaka Takahashi and Minatsu Mitani occupy top two seeds and hard to see other participants could deny one of them to nail WS crown. Line Kjaersfeldt, Mia Blichfeldt, Beatriz Corrales, Linda Zetchiri are among seeded players who expected to steal the show against their Asian rivals. In doubles discipline, second layer pairs fill the draw, however world number two Boe/Mogensen have registered their name but doubtedly they will show up since Mathias Boe suffering injury that conceded walkover in Danish National Championships Final recently. Stoeva sisters will be the favorite to win WD title and Japanese Aratama/Watanabe are predicted to pose major threat for the Bulgarian pair. German combination Lamsfuss/Herttrich alongside with 2017 European Championships bronze medalists Labar/Fontaine are the front-runner to seek best result here.
I'm really disappointed about the lack of top stars. This must be the weakest players line-up in the whole history of the Swiss Open. Will definitely not be going there this year but instead save the money for an extra day at the 2019 World Championships.
The first thing I wanted to see when I checked the draw was MOMOTA! And he’s there! The only players I wanna watch in that tournament for MS draw. If he gets put on non tv courts it’ll be very disappointing.
ah that last year XD final between dechapol sapsiree vs ZSW dora .. that match was fun including the very last rally
It's a "Super 300" tournament (previously Grand Prix Gold) and on the same level as the German Open. And now compare the seeds: Swiss Open: German Open: This year's time slot for the Swiss Open is the worst possible. And on top of that, the new rule that all the Top 15 players must attend the top level tournaments (12?) will make them choose any other tournament besides the really big ones very carefully. IMO if BWF sticks to that rule in the long term, this would mean the death of several former GPG tournaments.
Exactly BWF may try to frame this tournament as a 'super 300' which is the same level as GPG BWF may say that the tournament is neither promoted nor demoted in the new system But sorry to say, the level of the participants certainly shows that it has been demoted to lower level, in this case GP They may fool others new to badminton, but they won't fool me Big problems for BWF in terms of inequality in tournament levels
In the end, the deciding factor of the former GPG's future will be the time slot. In this case, the German Open is scheduled (as in the past years) the week prior to the All England's. So many top level players will use the chance to arrive in Europe a week early and to acclimate and to get into "tournament mode". In the past years, the Swiss Open was scheduled the week right after the All England's. So again, some of the top level players were already in Europe and took the chance to participate in another decent and well organized tournament. There were many players who registered for the Swiss Open as a kind of backup if they get kicked out of the AE earlier than expected. This year, the Swiss Open is standing alone in a vast tournament-wasteland. And who is seriously taking a break from their AE-preparations simply to fly over to Europe and back for one single mediocre tournament?
HahahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhahaaHAHAHAHAHA Players untouched by the romantic sightseeing in the offering that NONE IS COMING. BWF - Big Wallet Fraudsters.
Sakuramoto/Takahata through to the next round, the semifinal with Shida/Matsuyama on the horizon. KM is scheduled after Langridge/Ellis, who are very close to the finish line.
Stream for games - http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/videoPage.php?g=c2J2b2JoK2F0Y3ZsbmhZ&c=en&i=eWlhaXVidGd1bA№f№f
Good match from Merkle, beating seed 6 Holst. Not 18 years old yet, and already some good results on senior. (Semi final in Sweden in january).
Former top-ten players also this tournament magnet as well, Momota and Jorgensen passed opening round without much trouble, the latter will face another MAS hurdle, Iskandar Zulkarnain who played excellent badminton in New Delhi early this month despite failed in semifinal to Shi Yuqi. No big upset so far except Emil Holst lost narrowly to French qualifier, Arnaud Merkle. Top-seed Rajiv Ouseph has bright prospect to grab semifinal ticket considering his opponent profile in next two rounds.
- tournament schedule: - very unfortunate, in addition to previous comments, locally it is carnival and school vacation week, that probably means a big loss of local spectators .... felt like this when I was there yesterday ..... - also visible at the exhibition stands, looked more "light" this year - players / lineup: - Jorgensen / Momota / Boe&Mogensen / Stoevas / Ellis&Langridge - that's still a good lineup Hope that the tournament survives in the future ....