Venue : SPICE Stadium, Penang-MAS Total prize-money : US$120,000 BWF Page : http://bwfbadminton.com/events/2331/malaysia-masters Schedule/Result/LiveScore : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=C25E58BA-9DC6-4161-B20A-16FD377EDD0D MAS time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=6544&forma=Find Time 2015 WINNERS => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/...CFA5AB-0E9F-4AFC-BFFB-40A7FE3E9938&d=20150118 MS - Lee Hyun Il (KOR) WS - Nozomi Okuhara (JPN) MD - Kenta Kazuno/Kazushi Yamada (JPN) WD - Christinna Pedersen/Kamilla Rytter Juhl (DEN) XD - Joachim Fischer Nielsen/Christinna Pedersen (DEN) [FONT="]Some of elite shuttlers kick off their 2016 journey in Penang where Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold begins today with qualification round. [/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]The overwhelming favourite Lee Chong Wei who had outstanding feat late last year to create hat-trick at Superseries tournaments in Paris, Fuzhou and Hong Kong is expected to pocket another title here. Another notable contentants and some seeded players here, second seed Srikanth Kidambi, former world number five Son Wan Ho, recent Indonesian Masters winner Tommy Sugiarto, Hong Kong's Hu Yun, Wei Nan, Ng KL. A string of promising talents fulfill the draw, Jeon HJ, Wang TW, Indonesian’s trio Mustofa, Ginting, Christie also Chinese back-ups as well, Qiao B, Huang YX and Shi YQ.[/FONT] [FONT="]R/64 highlights : Ajay Jayaram (IND) v Takuma Ueda (JPN), Lee Dong Keun (KOR), Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk (THA), Kenta Nishimoto (JPN) v Jeon Hyeok Jin (KOR), Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (INA) v Wei Nan (HKG), Shi Yuqi (CHN) v Jonatan Christie (INA), Chong Wei Feng (MAS) v Srikanth Kidambi (IND)[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="] In Women’s singles, Korean number one Sung Ji Hyun will be the player to beat, her major threat will coming from Japanese armada, Akane Yamaguchi, Sayaka Sato, Yui Hashimoto, Minatsu Mitani alongside with former champion P.V. Sindhu. Two Chinese teenagers, He Bingjiao and Chen Yufei who had scored impressive development in 2015 year-end Indonesia Masters will add more intensity in this category.[/FONT] [FONT="]R/32 highlights : Sayaka Sato (JPN) v Tee Jing Yi (MAS), Minatsu Mitani (JPN) v Lindaweni Fanetri (INA), Aya Ohori (JPN) v He Bingjiao (CHN)[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="] Two of current world's top ten members confirm their participation in this opening season of BWF Grand Prix Gold series and both of them is favoured to top podium on Sunday finale, recent China Open Premier Kim GJ/Kim SR and 2014 world champion Ko SH/Shin BC have different half of draw and they may meet in last round. Other names in the fray, 2015 WC silver medalist Liu XL/Qiu ZH, Chinese Taipei Lee SM/Tsai CH, reigning European Champion Ivanov/Sozonov, local hopeful Goh VS/Tan WK and former world number one Koo KK/Tan BH.[/FONT] [FONT="]R/32 highlights : Kim GJ/Kim SR (KOR) v Huang KX/Zheng SW (CHN), Ivanov/Sozonov (RUS) v Chen HL/Wang CL (TPE), Goh VS/Tan WK (MAS) v Liu XL/Qiu ZH (CHN)[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]Home women’s doubles combinations, Vivian Hoo/Woon KW and Anscelly/Soong FC have tough and arduous path to crown title at home, the in-form China young-old partnership Tang YT/Yu Y, Japan number one Matsutomo/Takahashi and two Korean leading ladies Chang YN/Lee SH and Jung KE/Shin SC will be hard task to overcome.[/FONT] [FONT="]R/32 highlights : Anscelly/Soong FC (MAS) v Fukuman/Yonao (JPN), Puttita/Sapsiree (THA) v Muskens/Piek (NED)[/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="] A series of uninspiring performances force world number two Ahmad/Natsir to make trip in Malaysia in the absence of China A-listers also defending champion as well in this discipline. Jordan/Susanto and Aussie Open winner Reginald Lee CH/Chau HW who awed badminton fans in Dubai Finals last month to beat heavy-weight opponents before lost to eventual champion Adcock/Adcock will pose closest rival to the top-seed here. Several pairs bagged GP Gold and GP title at the end of 2015, Shin BC/Chae YJ, Choi SG/Eom HW and home number one Chan PS/Goh LY and no impossible they may spring upsets here.[/FONT] R/32 highlights : Lee CH/Chau HW (HKG) v Sudket/Saralee (THA), Arends/Piek (NED) v Alexander/Oktaviani (INA) LIVE TV will be available only semifinal (23rd January) and final round (24th January). DAY-1 Order of Play - Qualification (08.30am local time, 4 court) & R/32 Mixed Doubles matches (07.30pm) :https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...5E58BA-9DC6-4161-B20A-16FD377EDD0D&d=20160119
WS qualification, Lim Yin Fun against 4th seed Fitriani FITRIANI. From 11-6 down took 1st set 22-20 .... hope she continue good run!!
Well done, Yin Fun... close the 2nd set with 21-15... through to main draw. Msian WS fan, next interesting match Ho Yen Mei vs strong JP opponent, Seena Kawakami. Too bad no live stream
Brother of K.Srikanth ,K.Nandagopal has started to play tournaments (Men's doubles) with Hemanagendra babu.
He Jiting and Tan Qiang are given the exposure to prepare them for this year's AJC and WJC, I presume. Doing Ok so far. Zheng Siwei is fast evolving into a very good doubles player, XD and MD. Who will be his permanent XD partner, C Qingchen or L Yinhui ? The former has a good reading of the game and very strong in front of the net, a ZYL in the making, the latter is faster and more powerful. Big headache for the coach. Congrats to Zheng and Li for a good win today. Huang KX and H Dongping disappointed me today.
Upset of the day: XD : Tan Kian Meng/Lai Pei Jing beat 3rd seed Jordan/Debbie in Straight game. way to go!! This newly paired show potential. Next up a French pair... See how far they can go... Hopefully at least Quarter finals
Another upset detected [TABLE="class: ruler matches"] [TR="bgcolor: #F8F8F8"] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"]ZHENG Siwei[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"]LI Yinhui[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]- [/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD][/TD] [TD]Tontowi AHMAD [1][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Liliyana NATSIR[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]21-15 10-21 21-17 [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
Right, Zheng Siwei and Li Yinhui caused a huge upset beating Tantowi/Natsir in the opening round. Indeed ZSW's partnership with Chen Qingchen has been very promising and now ZSW coupled with Li Yinhui is proving to be another potential winner. As both Chen QC and Li YH are still young and developing, ample room for improvement, as doubles players, it's still early to say who will be bigger star in future. For the time being, I think the CHN doubles coaches won't want to fix ZSW's partner yet, time is on their side. Huang Kaixiang/Huang Dongping's 1st round loss to an unfancied French pair is certainly a letdown. Hope the young pair (both of them are 19 years old) draws valuable lessons from it.
i see every tournament around the world, only this Malaysia Open GPG every first round start on 8.30am instead of 9am, why hah?
Double big blow for INA camp yesterday, their two leading XD pairs Ahmad/Natsir, Jordan/Susanto were shown the exit door by the unseedeed Chinese juniors Zheng SW/Li YH and home qualifier Tan KM/Lai PJ respectively. But the back-up pairs are doing well as they progressed into last sixteen and one quarterfinal spot has been assured through Sukamuljo/Haris v Faisal/Aulia. DAY-2 ORDER OF PLAY (08.30am, 4 courts) => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=C25E58BA-9DC6-4161-B20A-16FD377EDD0D MS players will play twice today, morning and evening session (R/32). First round is already started, Lee CW got easy path to pass early rounds.
INA SS Premier also started on 8.30am local time to avoid late night matches as the organizer using 4 court => https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/...625781-4100-42A2-AEB9-212D44C17A08&d=20150603
Live-streaming for court 1 & 2 => http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/videoPage.php?g=c2J2b2JoK2F0Y3ZsbmhZ&c=en&i=eWlhaXVidGd1bA№f№f