TOTAL BWF WORLD Championships 2015- Day 1(10th August 2015)-ROUND of 64 Venue: Istora – Gelora Bung Karno Tournament Website: http://bwfworldchampionships.com/ Tournament Software: http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=196570E9-BF0B-47C8-A3B9-1F766AAABC36 INDONESIA Time:http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=4010&forma=Find Time 2014 World Champions: MS:Chen Long(CHN) WS:Carolina Marin(ESP) MD:Sung Hyun Ko/Baek Choel Shin(KOR) WD:Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei(CHN) XD:Zhang Nan/Zhao Yunlei(CHN) [TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD]Order of play of Monday, August 10, 2015(9:00 am,4 Courts): http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=196570E9-BF0B-47C8-A3B9-1F766AAABC36 [/TD] [/TR] [TR="bgcolor: #FDFDFD"] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [/TR] [TR="bgcolor: #FDFDFD"] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] The most awaited tournament of the year has arrived and several close contests are expected in the opening rounds and Day 1 of the 22nd edition of BWF World Championships. While many seeds in all five categories have received opening round byes, others run into tough opponents. Local hope, Men’s Singles No.15 seed Tommy Sugiarto runs into European Games champion Pablo Abian (Spain),Korea's Lee Dong Keun will cross swords with Vietnam's Tien Minh Nyugen.Malaysia's Zulfadli Zulkiffli will have to overcome all the odds when he will face recent Chinese Taipei GPG finalist Chou Tien Chen. While No.4 seed Kento Momota (Japan), expected to go far in the tournament, faces Germany’s Dieter Domke in an evening match. No.16 seed Rajiv Ouseph (England) will be wary of his first round opponent, Thailand’s Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk, on an adjacent court. The final match on court 1 will feature Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) against Czech Republic’s Petr Koukal. Other interesting first-round matchups include Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (Thailand) against Kirsty Gilmour (Scotland, below) in Women’s Singles; the all-European Mixed Doubles clash between Gaetan Mittelheisser/Audrey Fontaine (France) and Jorrit De Ruiter/Samantha Barning (Netherlands) and the Canada-US duel between Toby Ng/Alex Bruce and Phillip Chew/Jamie Subandhi.
I really look forward to monday when it all starts. I always feel like a child the day before christmas before the WC.
Great to hear your enthusiasm, Sundis.I am also looking forward to this World Championship which turns out to be my first here at BC.
Star Sports 4 and Star Sports HD 4, my friend.Tune in the channel at 7:30 am on the Monday morning with a cup of tea or coffee if you are a free spirit student like me.
Just wondering who will win tomorrow, Rajiv Ouseph or Tanongsak? Tanongsak defeated Srikanth this year so my money is on him.
BWF preview for the opening round => http://www.bwfbadminton.org/news_item.aspx?id=97205 The second BWF major event of this year will kick off tomorrow (09.00am local time, 4 courts), most of big guns will start their campaign on Tuesday. There're 2 prospected close battle tomorrow in MS, 2013 WC bronze medalist Nguyen Tien Minh will oppose KOR Lee Dong Keun and Englishman Rajiv Ouseph against Thai #1 Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk. Other interesting contest will pit Scottish talent Kirsty Gilmour v Porntip Buranaprasertsuk.
Anybody knows if any TV in INA non-free (indovision: fox sports channel, CCTV4,etc)? or free/national network will broadcast the games early on? I just recently travelled home for summer vacation to Jakarta and actually caught the final Taipei Open on Fox Sports channel at my parents' house. It looks like many have subscribed to even the basic paid cable tv service and get a decent couple sports channels. Thank you -Indra
As usual, there is already the court #2 streaming scheduled starting on 1st day on livestream: http://livestream.com/bwfbadminton/2015worldchampscourt2 Then I think badmintonWorld BWF's youtube channel will start streaming starting from Qtr final on.
A bit off topic but why is the World Championships held during the mid season and not at the end of the season?
Because at the end, there's a Superseries Finals? Dunno... I also always wondered what's the difference between a WC and a SS premier.... the players turning up are about the same anyway, and players from other nations join a WC for the fulfilment, not really for that outside chance to be crowned world champion, isn't it....
BWF should held WC every two years like before. It would be more prestisious and add differences from other SSP event