Tine has arrived in Jakarta a few hours ago. She will be playing! I'm looking forward to her encounter with Maria Kristin in the Round of 16.
Yeah, it'll be one interesting match between Maria Kristin and the well-improved Tine. Thx Krisna for the updating info!
wong chong hann, lee chong wei, taufik hidayat, andrew smith and chen jin pulled out of MS main draw. all of them confirmed. evans, jørgensen, tago, bhat and sugiarto to replace them.
You are correct, badders7... Thus there shall be a MS-qualification redraw tonight. The results will be available 9pm Jakarta-time at Hotel Sultan... WD will also be re-drawn... due to the 8-seeds-requirement-in-a-Super-Series that they did not fulfill... MD-Qualification will also be redrawn due to the promotion of the seeds [in MD-Q]... who got promoted because Cai-Fu and Mateusiak-Logosz withdrew...
if u look at the tournamentsoftware website, the order of play for 2moro`s qualifying match had not yet update!!! maybe the skinny guy not yet update, huh?
Update of the redraw and playing-time schedule by 9pm Jakarta time... No, he won't. According to the latest news, still no...
What's the reason behind his withdrawal (considering this is a home event)??? If I were PBSI, I would drop his name from the Olympics list immediately and replace him with Simon Santoso
Truthfully? Taufik asked to be sent to SGPR SS, but PBSI said no, because even Coach Mulyo said Taufik is actually not fit and will probably loose in the early rounds. Taufik didn't like PBSI's decision and wrote a letter to the PBSI management that he will not play in this year's INA SS and the Olympics! Actually, I agree with you badMania... if this is Taufik's attitude, it is better that he retires now. Otherwise PBSI will fire him in disgraceful circumstances...
As a result of the WD redraw, among others we shall see on Wednesday: Mel-Shendy vs. Fong-Mooi, #42 ranked pair from MAS Nathalia-Yulianti vs. Kamilla-Lena [6] Previously, Mel-Shendy should play Nathalia-Yulianti As a result of the depleting MD participants, these pairs have entered the main draw: Rizky-Albert Dharma-Peter Aji-Suprobo Edo-Lingga Lu-Chen
So be it. Let PBSI take his bluff and don't send him to Olympic. With current condition, his chances are pretty low anyway. Also, expose all of these "demand" to the public so PBSI isn't the only one getting blamed. Lets see how far his "celebrity" status will take him once the public see his selfish attitude.
Even with that, Taufik still showed up in Singapore last week (presumably on his own expenses??). If that's what Taufik want, PBSI should just honor it straight away and give the chance to Simon. Who knows he might do a Sony and won a bronze medal??