Usually if you make it to top 16, you are usually of a certain standards. Imagine you are at rank 9-12 trying to fight for a place in year end tournment and your 1st rd opponent is a seeded no. 1 or 2 player. Ouch! Anyway, as what you said. Not possible to please everyone.
Yes, I can imagine that can be harsh. The rank 9-12 player would feel held back by unfair/unlucky draws. However, perhaps the randomness of the draws helped that player get to rank 9-12 more quickly in the first place. Perhaps, when the player was rank 17-32, he/she got some lucky draws not meeting rank 1-16 players in R1 thus being able to qualify to R2 just by beating other rank 17-32 players. The randomness can make the draw more forgiving for lower ranked players and can make it less forgiving for higher ranked (unseeded) players. Something for something. Impossible to give everyone an easier draw indeed.
They also played together at the ranking competion (All Members, iirc) a couple of months ago and lost at qf stage to Akane Araki/Aoi Matsuda. Video of that game:
Absolutely. Really hard to see your fav and arguably the best pair on the circuit going through a rough patch just because of confidence dip esp even after virtually winning almost everything. Desperately don't want to see them split.
Sure thing. You weren't wrong though, when you said "league match". Because on the first day of the S/J League at the beginning of this month, they also played together. Don't know if MM was injured (she was present), or if they really need a break from time to time.
Jeremy Gan, the ex-MS Double coach, jumped ship to JPN already ? I never thought that PJB will ever hire foreign coaches besides Reony Mainaky.
THW can't even earn 10 pt in each set. Has THW declined so much? He concentrates too much on his study.
I meant coaches who don't speak Japanese is hard to coach in JPN. Reony and PJB are fluent in Japanese language. Reony was not hired by JBA; He is a badminton club company employee.
CL will cruise against Wang Tzu Wei; LCW is shaky against Wei Nan and the score is going to be very close.
Round of 32 Summary Result of Hong Kong SS for Destination Dubai Ranking progress : MS • Battle for 7th & 8th : Lee Chong Wei, Wong Wing Ki Vincent, Chen Long, Prannoy HS, Anders Antonsen • Not qualified : Jonatan Christie, Anthony Ginting, Hans Kristian Vittinghus • Qualified (new) : Shi Yuqi, Ng Ka Long Angus (5th & 6th slots) WS • Battle for 7th : He Bingjiao, Chen Yufei • Not qualified : Sayaka Sato, Saina Nehwal • 8th player qualified secured by Nozomi Okuhara as World Champion MD • Battle for 7th & 8th : Duo Mads, Hoki/Kobayashi, Hendra/Tan, Ivanov/Sozonov, Astrup/Rasmussen • Not qualified : Angga/Ricky, Lu Ching Yao/Yang Po Han, Chen Hung Ling/Wang Chi Lin WD • Battle for 7th & 8th : Hsu Ya Ching/Wu Ti Jung, Huang Yaqiong/Yu Xiaohan, Greysia/Apriyani • Not qualified : Matsutomo/Takahashi, Fukuman/Yonao, Ponnappa/Sikki, Fruergaard/Thygesen • Qualified (new) : Jung Kyun Eun/Shin Seung Chan (6th slot) XD • Battle for 8th : Kenta Kazuno/Ayane Kurihara, Wang Chi Lin/Lee Chia Hsin • Not qualified : Wang Yilyu/Huang Dongping, Lee Chun Hei/Chau Hoi Wah Last updated Destination Dubai Ranking could be accessed through BWF Superseries Website (after this afternoon likely will have new update) or you could see the prediction here. Those battles will continue today as Round of 16 result will determine the further progress. R16 Highlights : https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/...3A18B4-508C-473A-BB77-ABC795C6D7D5&d=20171123 (starting at 1 p.m. local time) • Chen Long vs Wang Tzu Wei • Ng Ka Long Angus vs Lin Dan • Wong Wing Ki Vincent vs Shi Yuqi • Tai Tzu Ying vs Sayaka Takahashi • Chen Yufei vs Saina Nehwal • Sung Ji Hyun vs Yip Pui Yin • Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen vs Lim Khim Wah/Yoo Yeon Seong • Kim Won Ho/Shin Seung Chan vs Tang Chung Man/Tse Ying Suet • Mathias Christiansen/Christinna Pedersen vs Zhang Nan/Liu Xuanxuan Interestingly both XD pairs which in battle for Dubai SSF 8th slot, Kenta Kazuno/Ayane Kurihara and Wang Chi Lin/Lee Chia Hsin will meet their compatriots • Kenta Kazuno/Ayane Kurihara vs Takuro Hoki/Sayaka Hirota • Wang Chi Lin/Lee Chia Hsin vs Liao Min Chun/Chen Hsiao Huan
Defending champion meeting Lin Dan, looking forward to that one. SS Queen TTY against resurgent Takahashi, could be a cracker. CYF vs SN should be exciting as well, both have yet to play against each other. Twin Towers facing YYS with his new partner. Let's see how much the new pair can trouble them.
