Looks like Wang Shixian has tougher draw than Li Xuerui here... Juliane Schenk, Saina Nehwal and Tine Baun are drawn in same half with Wang SX.
Even God does not want Wang Shixian to play in the Olympics, how cruel..... She must be hoping and cursing LXR to get upset in the early round or China to lose the Uber Cup because of LXR. This drama is full of deceit and contempt...tragic storyline
Can Ajay Jayaram prove himself against lee Chong Wei in the 2nd round? He is probably the only one olympic hope for India...
Korea sending full team to India Open... but not Australian Open... reason? =.=" Because it's Super Series?
LXR's half is just as tough,if not for her terrific form now, these are the players WSX would be struggling against, namely, Tai TY, Inthanon R, Sung JH, Chen Xiaojia(! who's playing in the qualification stage),not to mention Jiang YJ. LXR's opponents can only hope she is heady or jaded from her just-concluded ABC victory or for Chen XJ to upset her. She already won three strong tournaments in a row,it gets harder to win the 4th one after a two days break in the normal course of things;she's human,not goddess. I wouldn't be surprised to see WSX and Chen XJ in the final. LXR needs some time to consolidate her game,smoothe the rough edges and become a polished refined diamond. All the same,she might continue to sweep all before her,crushing everyone in her path - there just isn't anyone who can stop her at the moment.
interesting WS draw: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=3B18A3AB-FF73-4577-8A05-A4B8CFE1CA8F&draw=4 Even if LXR wins the India Open, she still has to fight it all the way till the very last day of the Uber Cup. Now I know why there was a slightest hint of joy from LXR or Zhang Ning when LXR won ABC a few hours ago. How can a 21 year old take this much of pressure! Crazy.
Wang Shixian facing the toughest tournament of her life...because it affects her physically and mentally...
the draw on tournamentsoftware.com was updated, many players withdrew, among them the new European Champion Marc Zwiebler and EC Runner-up Fuchs/Roth, moreover Ouseph, Abian, Jorgensen, Pi, Lindaweni Fanetri, Jonathans /Van Dooremalen , Agathangelou / Olver and the two british MX Adcock/Bankier and Robertson/Wallwork.
Thanks, I mistook (4) for Q4. In that case,WSX,Tine and Saina are in for a rough ride, Chen XJ is capable of knocking them all off.
I think an LXR-CXJ Final is a likely scenario,with CXJ causing all the upsets in her half unless WSX is in the form of her life, she ,WSX, surely needs to badly. But don't expect LXR to have it easy and progress smoothly to the final, with all three ROW rising stars in her half,namely Sung JH,Inthanon R and Tai TY (to me,they are the most promising).
Latest withdrawals according to ts com update : MS : Marc Zwiebler (GER), Jan O Jorgensen (DEN), Pablo Abian (ESP), Rajiv Ouseph (ENG) WS : Pi Hongyan (FRA), Lindaweni Fanetri (INA) MD : Michael Fuchs/Oliver Roth (GER), Ruud Bosch/Koen Ridder (NED) WD : Iris Wang/Rena Wang (USA), Lotte Jonathans/Paulien Van Dooremalen (NED), Mariana Agathangelou/Heather Olver (ENG), Savitree Amitrapai/Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA) XD : Chris Adcock/Imogen Bankier (ENG/SCO), Nathan Robertson/Jenny Wallwork (ENG), Maneepong Jongjit/Savitree Amitrapai (THA)