WS Salakjit Ponsana - Jie Yao : 21-7 21-18 XD Yeon Seong Yoo/Min Jung Kim - Anthony Clark/Donna Kellogg [6] : 24-22 21-11 Bo Zheng/Jin Ma - Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thoungthongkam [4] : 21-11 21-11
XD Peng Soon Chan/Liu Ying Goh - Nathan Robertson/Jenny Wallwork : 25-23 11-21 21-17 MD Zhiben Chen/Tao Jiaming - Mohd Razif Abdul Latif/Wee Kiong Tan : 21-17 21-14
Off topic-As reported here... ...by arguably BC's biggest Gao Ling fan (Abby飘): http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52003&page=8 and here: http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61558
LOL, Robin7 is having the honours of doing CO2's "upsets list" duty. , surely will be kept busy, lots of upsets on 1st day itself, hehe.
First Round First Round MS Kai Wen - Marc Zwiebler : 21-15 14-21 21-12 Ji Hoon Hong - Eric Pang : 21-14 21-12 Weijie GONG - Yi LU : 22-20 21-15 WS Salakjit Ponsana - Jie Yao : 21-7 21-18 Chen Wang - Hongyan Pi [6] : 17-21 21-13 21-12 Xuerui Li - Lydia Li Ya Cheah : 21-14 21-11 Li Han - Anna Rice : 21-15 21-12 Nicole GRETHER - Charmaine REID : 21-12 21-10 MD Zhiben Chen/Tao Jiaming - Mohd Razif Abdul Latif/Wee Kiong Tan : 21-17 21-14 WD Siyun Wang/Jinkang Zhang - Nicole Grether/Charmaine Reid [7] : 21-8 21-19 XD Yeon Seong Yoo/Min Jung Kim - Anthony Clark/Donna Kellogg [6] : 24-22 21-11 Bo Zheng/Jin Ma - Sudket Prapakamol/Saralee Thoungthongkam [4] : 21-11 21-11 Peng Soon Chan/Liu Ying Goh - Nathan Robertson/Jenny Wallwork : 25-23 11-21 21-17
According to WR it is, as you know, the list follows WR, as everyone will have different opinions as to whether it's upset or not according to form, skills, etc,etc : Weijie GONG (WR# 69) - Yi LU (WR#34) : 22-20 21-15 There's another CHina MS player by the name of Li Yu. WR# 124 Chen Wang - Hongyan Pi [6] : 17-21 21-13 21-12 is WR# 8 beat WR# 6, minor upset And there's also one that's not in the list = Xu Chen/Zhao YUnlei beating Tan Wee Kiong/Woon Khe Wei as Xu Chen/ZHao for some weird reason are not in the BWF list, only Xu Chen/Zhao Ting Ting, XU Chen/Pan Pan are.
WS Lin Wang - Huaiwen Xu [8] : 21-17 21-15 (Well, as far as seedings are concerned, it is!) MS Choong Hann Wong - Peter Hoeg Gade [5] : 17-21 21-18 21-16 (What a comeback in 2nd & 3rd games!) Kai Wen - Joachim Persson [6] : 21-10 21-17 WD Jing Xie/Qianxin Zhong -Duang Anong Aroonkesorn/Kunchala Voravichitchaikul [6] : 16-21 21-11 21-17
It is pretty hard to quantify on what accurately constitutes an upset. Ranking is one way to quantify (i.e. lower-rank beat higher-ranked = upset). But it's not terribly accurate at times. And it's not easy to give a good indicative ranking to scratch pairs. So, it turns out that for most of us, gut-feeling is the way to go. Even recent results would not help. Example: Lin Dan was amazing in recent weeks. Suddenly, on match day, he got he flu, and lost to Lee Chong Wei. Upset? I don't think so, unless it's the stomach upset variety. Sometimes, it's pretty easy to spot a non-upset. Just look at the PAW game. Wang Lin [11] v Xu Huaiwen [9], and almost to the last PAWer, chooses Wang Lin. Upset ranking-wise yes, but upset in the minds of the people, no.