Now that All England is over. It is time to move on to Swiss Open 2016 Grand Prix Gold. Since no thread has been created, I have decided to create one.
BWF - Swiss Badminton Venue: St. Jakobshalle Address: Brüglingerstrasse 21 4052 Basel Switzerland Route at Google Maps Tournament contact Name: Swiss Badminton Association Phone: +41 79 320 73 11 Email: cak@swissopen.com ATTENTION: Schedule for qualification has significantly changed. Please double check your match times. Events MS, WS, MD, WD, XD Online entry Entry open: Friday, April 3, 2015 12:00 AM (GMT +08:00) Entry deadline: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 11:59 PM (GMT +08:00) Withdrawal deadline: Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:59 PM (GMT +08:00) Tournament days Tuesday, March 15, 2016 to Sunday, March 20, 2016.
The first match of the day will start at 12.00 pm Swiss time zone. Lots of exciting matches awaiting today. Today all the matches will start off with qualifying rounds for MS, WS, MD, WD and XD. The first round for the MS match will start at 6.00 pm Swiss time.
Found the live stream for the Swiss Open 2016. http://www.badvid.tk/2016/03/badminton-swiss-open-2016-live.html Seems like live streaming is available for all the 4 different courts from Tuesday till Sunday. For me myself I feel that this is indeed a good way to promote badminton by letting all the supporters watch the matches live at different courts.
For me myself personally I must admit that the timing of this match is really a mismatch for me so I didn't have such opportunity to watch any of the matches live. Two weeks of continuous no sleep to watch the German Open and All England open makes it impossible for me to stay up all night again this week. Anyway I did check the results online and I was extremely surprised to know that both Sho Sasaki and Takuma Ueda lost to unknown and unranked MS players in the first round of their MS tournament yesterday. What an upset created indeed.
Here is a summary of the first round MS results. 6:00 PM MS Indra Bagus ADE CHANDRA Italy - Germany Philip DISCHER 21-12 21-11 0:25 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 6:00 PM MS Petr KOUKAL Czech Republic - England Michael SPENCER-SMITH 21-8 21-11 0:20 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 6:10 PM MS XUE Song [14] China - Netherlands Erik MEIJS 21-17 21-8 0:32 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 6:10 PM MS Henri HURSKAINEN Sweden - Japan Sho SASAKI [8] 21-17 21-14 0:33 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 6:35 PM MS Pablo ABIAN Spain - Brazil Ygor Coelho De OLIVEIRA 21-13 21-15 0:32 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 6:35 PM MS Marius MYHRE Norway - Slovenia Iztok UTROSA 21-12 15-21 21-16 0:50 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 6:45 PM MS HSU Jen Hao [9] Chinese Taipei - Israel Misha ZILBERMAN 15-21 29-27 21-17 1:15 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 6:45 PM MS Anders ANTONSEN Denmark - Japan Takuma UEDA [15] 21-15 21-18 0:46 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 7:10 PM MS Blagovest KISYOV Bulgaria - Ireland Joshua MAGEE 21-12 21-13 0:33 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 7:10 PM MS Muhammad Bayu PANGISTHU Indonesia - Luxembourg Robert MANN 21-18 21-16 0:24 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 7:20 PM MS Joo Ven SOONG Malaysia - Switzerland Anthony DUMARTHERAY 21-10 21-16 0:25 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 7:20 PM MS B. Sai Praneeth India - Switzerland Mathias BONNY 21-14 13-21 21-6 0:45 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 7:45 PM MS Zulfadli ZULKIFFLI Malaysia - Algeria Adel HAMEK 21-11 21-9 0:29 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 7:45 PM MS Tzu Wei WANG Chinese Taipei - Bulgaria Stilian MAKARSKI 21-19 21-5 0:26 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 7:55 PM MS CHOU Tien Chen [2] Chinese Taipei - Brazil Alex Yuwan TJONG 21-18 21-18 0:35 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 7:55 PM MS Marc ZWIEBLER [7] Germany - Switzerland Joel KOENIG 21-8 21-13 0:28 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 8:20 PM MS Artyom SAVATYUGIN Uzbekistan - Switzerland Sivin MANJALY 21-12 21-9 0:22 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 8:20 PM MS Boonsak PONSANA [10] Thailand - Denmark Christian LIND THOMSEN 21-19 11-21 21-14 1:02 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 8:30 PM MS Iskandar Zulkarnain ZAINUDDIN Malaysia - Ireland Scott EVANS 18-21 23-21 21-11 0:52 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 8:30 PM MS Rajiv OUSEPH [6] England - Czech Republic Jan FROHLICH 21-13 21-10 0:29 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 8:55 PM MS Tanongsak SAENSOMBOONSUK [16] Thailand - Denmark Kim BRUUN 21-12 21-10 0:24 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 8:55 PM MS Kenichi TAGO Japan - Algeria Mohamed Abderrahime BELARBI 21-8 21-4 0:21 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 9:05 PM MS Mattias BORG Sweden - France Gradt-Urban SAMSON 21-12 21-6 0:23 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 9:05 PM MS Firman Abdul KHOLIK Indonesia - Ukraine Artem POCHTAREV 21-15 21-9 0:28 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 9:30 PM MS Kasper LEHIKOINEN Finland - Brazil Daniel PAIOLA 21-15 21-15 0:31 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 9:30 PM MS Rasmus FLADBERG Denmark - Switzerland Christian KIRCHMAYR 21-17 21-15 0:28 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 9:40 PM MS Ajay JAYARAM [11] India - Malaysia Jiann Shiarng CHIANG 21-8 21-17 0:26 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 9:40 PM MS Dieter DOMKE Germany - Switzerland Kyrill SCHAFFLUETZEL 21-8 21-8 0:21 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 10:05 PM MS Lars SCHAENZLER Germany - Uzbekistan Amrullo BAKHSHULLAEV 21-18 21-13 0:32 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 3 10:05 PM MS H. S. Prannoy [13] India - Finland Kalle KOLJONEN 21-19 21-19 0:38 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 10:15 PM MS WANG Zhengming [4] China - Uzbekistan Oleg SAVATUGIN 21-8 21-6 0:19 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 10:15 PM MS Sameer VERMA India - Denmark Emil HOLST 21-17 24-22 0:43 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4
First upset result. 0:32 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 6:10 PM MS Henri HURSKAINEN Sweden - Japan Sho SASAKI [8] 21-17 21-14 Second upset result. 1:15 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 4 6:45 PM MS Anders ANTONSEN Denmark - Japan Takuma UEDA [15] 21-15 21-18 Of course to be honest when I look at these 2 results o felt so sad. I know the Japanese players are extremely good and have been performing well in tournaments but then losing at the first round to unknown players is not what I am expecting from them.
For the 33-yr-old Sho Sasaki, it's his third consecutive tournaments in as many weeks, so not too surprising.
Yes indeed lots of upsets. Even Akane Yamaguchi is send packing too. Wow i guess lots of upsets will be expected in this tournament then.
Upsets detected. Oh I miss that match earlier on. Ultina Maria just won over Akane Yamaguchi in 2 straight sets. Oh wow.
Something interesting to say about this XD match. Second set Xu Chen / Ma Jin won 21-19, then the first set Japanese won 21-19. But I guess the third set of the march makes a big difference. Hence finally Xu Chen / Ma Jin win the third set 21-12 and seal the game. Wow.
Don't tell me a youngster like Akane cannot handle back-to-back tournaments with several days rest in-between as she didn't go deep in the prior tournament? Perhaps we should give more credit to Maria Ultina for her performance.
Akane lost to Maria Ultina Minatsu Mitani thrashed by Sun Yu Except NO other girl's graph aren't improving at all, I don't find any reason regarding JPN getting better of CHN atleast in WS! NO is an exception, an individual case!
Sameer did well yesterday def Emil Holst! Emil is no pushover even for top 15 players! He'll be up against WZM who is surely inconsistent and but is also extremely talented! It'll be a big test for youngster
Andres is a real rising star, + TU is going downhill both the reasons make this "UPSET" not so surprising for me! Watch out for Andres and Mia 2 young Danish stars and possibly future flag bearers
Sameer won the g1, 21-19 it was really close! He was up 13-10 and down 19-18 but did well to finish it early! Let go bro finish it in g2 only, a decider won't favor us
2 more new upsets created. Marcus ELLIS England Chris LANGRIDGE England - Indonesia Berry ANGRIAWAN Indonesia Ryan Agung SAPUTRA 21-16 21-19 0:50 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 1 Kim ASTRUP Denmark Anders Skaarup RASMUSSEN Denmark - Japan Takeshi KAMURA [7] Japan Keigo SONODA 21-15 21-19 0:45 St. Jakobshalle Basel - 2 Looks like most of the Japanese players unfortunately have been booted out from this tournament leaving behind Sayaka Sato and another WD. Too bad.
