My predictions : MS Lin Dan bt Lee Hyun Il Peter Gade bt Chen Hong Lee Chong Wei bt Bao Chunlai -- match of the round Taufit Hidayat bt Kenneth Jonassen WS Zhang Ning bt Kaori Mori Pi Hongyan bt Xu Huaiwen -- match of the round...both former Chinese players now playing in their adopted countries Wang Chen bt Cheng Shao-Chieh -- would love to see the young junior world champion Cheng Shao Chieh going through to the semifinal, to confirm her status as an upcoming WS player (she's only 19 this year) Xie Xingfang bt Tracey Hallam MD Gunawan/Back bt Eriksen/Lundgaard bt Gunawan/Bach - I am predicting an upset here.... Luluk/Alven bt Jung/Lee -- the young Koreans can sneak a surprise unless Luluk/Alven is playing their best badminton Flandi/Eng Hian bt Chan/Koo Candra/Sigit bt Paaske/Rasmussen -- match of the round...a repeat of WC 2003 final. Candra/Sigit in top form, whereas Paaske/Rasmussen still has yet to win any title this year WD (SEMI) Yang/Zhang bt Lee/Lee -- match of the round....Lee/Lee have beaten Yang/Zhang, but they are pretty unstable Gao/Huang bt Zhang/Zhang XD Lee/Lee bt Shirley/Runesten Chen/Zhao bt Xie/Zhang Widianto/Natsir bt Bergstrom/Persson Zhang/Gao bt Sudket/Saralee -- match of the round...I hope the Thai pair can win
any 1 know what time is the play off of Quater MS I am from Malaysia. What time is our local time the match will play off. As, RTM1 (Malaysia) is showing live at 3am Sat morning. U have LCW play off time?? I m really his Fans.....
Lin Dan has been struggling against "worse" players so far. It is time to stop fooling around now, or he might well get toppled by LHI. I agree about Gade beating Chen Hong. Gade certainly looks on form, and with a 6-1 head-to-head it is clear that he knows how to handle Chen. Although his opposition so far hasn't been the best, Kenneth looks strong, and doesn't seem to be bothered at all by his injury. Taufik is perhaps the more likely winner, but this match has the potential of becoming a nail-biter... I am nominating this one for "the match of the round"! Gunawan/Bach vs Eriksen/Lundgaard... I am going to stick my neck out and say that I think the Danes need to under-perform badly to lose this. They're going to target Howard and try to break him, if they succeed this could be over quickly. If not, it might take a little longer... Tony is a blessed player but he can't win this alone. I think Flandi/Eng will beat Chan/Koo. Candra/Sigit vs JR/Lars... whew, tough call! I'll go with JR/Lars again, just based on what JR has said: "we are HOT" -- it is the first time for years that I hear him openly say that they are playing their best badminton... and if they do, Candra/Sigit are in for another defeat. Exciting it will be! There are a bunch of potentially classic matches in this round!
Could somebody watching it live on TV do a commentary or at least keep us updated on the scores? Like last year during the Olympics, that was great. Thanks
It will be sweet if Howard and Tony won. I'm predicting an upset here like many of you because of the draft which makes the match unpredictable, the home-crowd support which can be nerve-racking, and that TOny is just so good lol.
home crowd support alone may not be enough to upset the top seed. hopefully they have practiced/played long enough in the notorious hall hence more familiar and have better control on the draft problem.. yup, i wd love to see a big win for tony... btw, any problem of connecting to the livescore webbie?? hv bn trying since an hour ago bt thr was no connection
agreed, not saying LD can't win this match but it looks like it's a dangerous one !! agreed, I am in favore of Gade here. also agreed
Ok here's what I have got to say at this moment.... So far there has been no upset in all the MS matches and so I believe there will be no exception tomorrow. 1) LD vs LHI Winner - You guess it. Chances - 65 : 35 2) PG vs CH Winner - I would either put my money on PG or keep them in my wallet Chances - 60 : 40 3) LCW vs BCL Winner - LCW. Why? Psycology! On the records, BCL lost all the 4 matches to LCW and that will haunt him whenever he faces LCW. On the other hand, LCW should know how to beat BCL again by now. The only fear I have for LCW is that so far in this tourney, he has yet to face a real challenger of his level. Chances - 60 : 40 4) TH vs KJ Winner - I have a feeling that TH is more determined than KJ to win this tourney but KJ is not going to make it any easy for TH. Chances - 55 : 45 Summary - Wind factor will definitely affect the game but it affects all players and no player can capitalise on this because none of them were trained to play under this condition. (Perhaps with the exception of TG & HB which was why they beaten the M'sian pair?). All no more warm-up matches for the MS. Tomorrow will be the real test for all MS players.
hey i cant even get on the website... it says 'operation timed out when trying to excess www.tournamentsoftware.com..' So you guys better do some good updating... I say lin dan's chances of advancing are 4-6/10 by how he played yesterday, if he was up to his normal self I'd rank his chances at 8-9/10. Peter Gade has an almost straight record against Chen, 6-1. And By what I've seen so far, Peter Gade is in a better position than Chen Hong, who have stretched it to 3rounds twice already. Im saying Peter 7-8/10. LCW has the best scores in MS so far and normally has beaten BCL, so i think LCW will take its 7-9/10 Taufik had a relatively poor performance yesterday, we had some suspesions of him actually losing. Kenneth has beens trong through this tournament, barely breaking a sweat. By what happened yesterday, Taufik's chances are very low, I'd say Ken, 5-7/10. But Taufik at his best will beat Ken 7-8/10. Kenneth also is the msot 'muscular' out of the 8 remainders, he, In my opinion has the biggest chance of winning to far.
good ideal ms semifinal : LD vs LCW : it will become be lindan's sweet revenge, 55:45 Taufik Vs Gede : it will become the best full thriller game , tight game 3 sets, 50:50