I was hoping for Shi Yuqi to play Son Wan Ho first. Let LCW and VA to thrash it out before the final. Alas, not to be. SYQ vs VA can go either way.
Semi Finals The original (40) Representatives from the various countries are now reduced to: 1. China (10) 6 (60% Success Rate) 2. Japan (7) 4 (57%) 3. Denmark (4) 3 (75%) 3. Korea (4) 1 (25%) 3. Taiwan (4) - Surprised that TTY didn't make it in WS. 6. Indonesia (3) 2 (66%) 7. Hong Kong (2) 1 (50%) 7. India (2) 1 (50%) 7. Malaysia (2) 1 (50%) 10. England (1) 10. Thailand (1) 1 (100%) Will RI become the eventual WS champion? So in terms of Success Rate, Thailand tops the Board, followed by Denmark, Indonesia, China and Japan. Korea did rather poorly with only 1 out of 4 advancing to the semis. And SWH almost did not make it to the MS after being heavily tested by LCW. But how many from these countries will enter the Finals on Sunday? And who will emerge the ultimate champions in their respective events?
Korea's Olympic results were spectacularly poor. Is this another sign of Korean decline? It's strange, because they did manage to win the Sudirman cup ...
The Sudirman Cup win was basically produced 'because of the decline' if I can say, such that they basically has no pressure at all and winning against those big team with lots of pressure If LYD and friends were still there, I think Korea wouldn't win it
I predict LCW, VA; RI, PVS; LC/ZN, TK/KS; all Japanase final; TA/LN, TCM/TYS to make the finals. But quite hard to really predict, some very close calls And yes, bw.tv indeed shows all matches from now on. That's how it should be !!
BWF need extra money for those 16 extra tickets (2 single players, 6 double player/3 pairs) depart and vice versa, plus accommodation. And with the possibility a player could have an injury at practice session, those extra expenses couldn't stop the injury coming. How about the reserved players also got injured? Then BWF need more reserved players on the bench. Regarding Dubai SSF as last edition this year (based on 4 years contract), BWF will have a difficulty to have a big sponsor to replace Dubai and I think if BWF didn't find it, Dubai will remain available to continue the event.
Please, don't put everything into the money perspective. I know you are closely related with officials from one of national member and thus knows a lot about the management and financial part Anyway, you also know that this will solve many of their matches issue. In the long run when money is not a big problem anymore, I believe this will be put into practice. It's just a matter of when...... At the present, CL, LCW and SWH just gave BWF a friendly reminder that this will be necessary for the future to maintain the quality of the tournament
I predict Ratchanok to be the eventual winner here. And Sindhu as runner-up. LCW for title and Victor as runner-up Sent from my SM-G600FY using Tapatalk
It is for the title haha for SF: LCW-VA PV-RI Liu Cheng/Zhang Nan - Kamura/Sonoda Fukushima/Hirota - Aunties Tang/Tse - Siwei/CQC Some difficult choices here though
