Li Yinhui is leaving too many shots to Zhang Nan instead of trying to intercept as many as possible and being threatening at the front.
Congrats to Chan/Goh for beating Zhang/Li is a well earned victory. From a game down, they persistently fight for each points and finally ends with 23-21 and 21-17.
Sakai was probably the hottest of the qualifiers. He has been playing well for some time now. Good to see him getting his rewards. Zhao jumping is going out though. He is no match for axelsen.
MD top seed, Goh/Tan successfully reach QF after beating Liu Xiaolong/Xu Chen 21-12, 21-16 in straight games.
QUARTERFINALS (04.00pm) => https://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=9DD0E721-E845-4C5C-8775-88BDCEDCA622 The underdogs stole the show in All England second round, two reigning Olympic Champions got surprising exit... Losing three games to Taiwanese youngster, Wang Tzu Wei in GER Open semifinal last week, the ending even worse in Birmingham for China leading man, Chen Long as he repeated last year second round outing, this time downed to Tanongsak. This Thai player played more aggressive and fast attacking style while Chen produced so many errors and looked like an ordinary player instead of high calibre shuttler. A stunning victory also scored by Kazumasa Sakai who defeated second seed Jan O Jorgensen. The off-form Jorgensen had no answer to deal with the resilient Sakai. China still has three more MS in quarterfinal, defending champion Lin Dan will take on heavyweight opponent Viktor Axelsen, a rematch of Rio bronze medal match. Tian Houwei has an uphill task to face top-seed Lee Chong Wei and Shi Yuqi who ousted 8th seed Ng Ka Long yesterday gets giant-killer Sakai. One remaining tie will pit the on-fire Chou Tien Chen against Tanongsak, an intriguing match between these two resurgent players. As predicted, WS quarterfinal round is going to the script, offering high quality show. Tai Tzu Ying-Pusarla V.Sindhu, these two young ladies met in Dubai Finals late last year with Tai displayed her maximum talent with beautiful badminton trademark to beat Rio silver medalist there, both of them passed second round test with contrasting fashion here. The world number one had tougher match to eliminate the stubborn Minatsu Mitani while Sindhu got easy ride to outclass Indonesian Dinar Dyah Ayustine. Ratchanok Intanon-Carolina Marin, Thai prodigy Intanon seems back on top after plagued by injury last year, she booked fantastic record to create Superseries hat-trick in 2016 first half. Marin failed in all tournaments that she took part in 2016 but fortunately she won the biggest one, Rio Gold medal last Summer. The Spaniard showed her class to dispose Chinese talent He Bingjiao yesterday, dropped first game she took next two games with lop-sided game at decider. The stamina issue for He BJ, she needs slimmer body figure to move faster. Sung Ji Hyun v Saina Nehwal and Akane Yamaguchi v Sun Yu completed the last eight script, a highly-competitive landscape, hard to predict who'll prevail to next round. In doubles category, the nothing to lose Fukushima/Hirota bested their more illustrious teammates Matsutomo/Takahashi, leaving Rio sliver and bronze medalists, Juhl/Pedersen, Jung KE/Shin SC will be the favourite to snatch WD crown. But Japan shows their good development in this category so far with three pairs have progressed. China MD seize attention this time, represented by one pair for each quarter, Li JH/Liu YC will challenge world number one Goh VS/Tan WK, Chai B/Hong W have Indonesian duo Gideon/Sukamuljo. Two newest partnerships, Liu C/Zhang N get tough job to do, Japan energetic combination Kamura/Sonoda and Lu K/Zheng SW will up against Danish number two, Conrad/Kolding. All England surprise continued in mixed doubles discipline last night, hot favourite Zheng SW/Chen QC lost to the qualifiers Wang YL/Huang DP, the unthinkable plot for China camp. Chan PS/Goh LY took revenge over GER Open losing last week against Zhang N/Li YH Japan rising pair, Watanabe/Higashino keep the winning momentum and will see Korean fresh combination Yoo YS/Kim HN next. On bottom half, everything favours to seeded pairs, Lu K/Huang YQ v Fischer/Pedersen and three-time champion Ahmad/Natsir v home hopefuls The Adcocks. LIVE TV COVERAGE (Court 1, 04.00pm) : 1) Tai Tzu Ying (TPE) v Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND) 2) Goh V Shem/Tan Wee Kiong (MAS) v Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen (CHN) 3) Chris Adcock/Gabrielle Adcock (ENG) v Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir (INA) 4) Ratchanok Intanon (THA) v Carolina Marin (ESP) 5) Lin Dan (CHN) v Viktor Axelsen (DEN)
WS - only IND has 2 representatives. CHN could have none if Sun Yu's earlier opponent was someone else. MD - CHN has 4 representatives and may have an all CHN affair in the SF and also would have none but I think CB/HW would progress. WD - I am surprised Luo sisters still playing. I thought they were dropped by CHN.
India having two representatives in WS (most for any nation in that category) would have been impressive feat if not for the fact that all the other Indian players have already lost in the previous rounds.
The QF is usually the most interesting and value for money. As in most tournaments, surprises happen and in this AE the more notable ones are the early exits for the following seeds: MS R1 Son Wan Ho (4) KOR R2 Chen Long (5) CHN R2 Jan O Jorgensen (2) DEN R2 Angus Ng Ka Long (8) HKG MD R1 Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen (2) DEN R2 Ricky Karandasuwardi & Angga Pratama (7) INA WD R1 Huang Dongping & Li Yinhui (7) CHN R1 Chen Qingchen & Jia Yifan (5) CHN R2 Misaki Matsutomo & Ayaka Takahashi (1) JPN XD R1 Praveen Jordan & Debby Susanto (4) INA R2 Zheng Siwei & Chen Qingchen (1) CHN R2 Tan Kian Meng & Lai Pei Jing (8) MAS Unlike their male counterparts the WS stood out for not suffering any casualty to their seeded players. Unfortunately, China's most promising new doubles talent Chen Qingchen was knocked out early from further competition. Still, China have enough talents to register the most entries into the QF, followed by other countries: China - 12 Japan - 7 S Korea - 4 Denmark - 4 Malaysia - 3 India - 2 Indonesia - 2 Taipei - 2 Thailand - 2 England - 1 Spain - 1 With CL and JOJ out of the MS running, the SF slots will be hotly contested among: LD v VA* (Viktor's speed will be an advantage against Lin Dan's experience) LCW* v THW SYQ v KS* CTC v TS* (Boon is in great form to have defeated Olympic Champion, CL) * These are my dark horses to win. The WS is even more challenging with all the seeded players going all out for a SF place: TTY* (1) v PVS(6) RI(5) v CM*(2) SJH(3) v SN*(8) AY(7) v SY*(4) * Predicted to win.
What was the score in G2, 21-19, where HBJ was 19-17 up before she screwed up, and one game to the good 21-15 to justify your statement ?
Sun YU's easrlier opponent, Zhang Beiwen, not good enough, even if you belittle Chen Yufei who beat Busanan ?
