MS (R32 & R16) - with predictions Lee CW v M Christensen Park SH v JO Joergensen R16: Lee bt Park NC Kaldau v S Brehaut Sairul Amar v Aamir Ghaffar R16: Sairul bt Kaldau (could go either way) Lee HI v Simon Santoso Dicky v Yeoh KB R16: Lee HI bt Dicky Wong CH v S Pukhov A Dabeka v K Oedum R16: Wong CH bt (whoever) Li Yu v Eric Pang Shon SM v V Druzchenko R16: Shon SM bt Li Yu J Persson v W Przemyslaw Hafiz v Xia Xuanze (match of the day) R16: Hafiz bt Persson J Moody v E Kehlhoffner Jang Young Soo v Kuan BH (think Kuan will lose to this promising Korean) R16: Jang YS bt Moody James Chua v B Milroy P Gade v A Rasidi R16: Gade bt James
WS (R16) predictions Pi HY bt Sutheaswari M J Schenk bt Lee Yun Hwa (but Lee can spring surprise) Zhu Lin bt Fransisca (match of the day) Seo YH bt J Meulendijks Wong MC bt Lee Hyun Jin Mia Audina bt Jang Soo Young Wang Lin bt Yuan Wemyss Xu HW bt Hwang Hye Youn
MD (R16) predictions Boe/Mogensen bt Wong/Choong (but the Danes need to be careful) Fairuz/Lin bt Yoo Yeon Seong/Kang Myeong Won (but Koreans unknown quantity) Guo/Xie bt Jung/Lee (match of the day) Rasmussen/Steffensen bt Kehlhoffner/Quere Sang/Zheng bt Tan BS/Ong SH (candidate for match of the day) Logosz/Mateusiak bt Mawet/Claes Laybourn/Paaske bt Hwang Ji Man/Han Sang Hoon Chan/Koo bt Clark/Blair (Malaysians cannot take English lightly)
WD (R16) predictions Lee KW/Lee HJ bt Persson/Bergblom Schjoldager/Andersen bt Runesten-Petersen/Gordon Augustyn/Kostiuczyk bt Wilson-Smith/Lucas Zhang Dan/Zhao TT bt Tuwankotta/Harder Mia/Bruil bt Grether/Schenk (match of the day) Wong/Chin bt Nozdran/Griga Chien/Cheng bt Wallwork/Day Du Jing/Yu Yang bt Ha Jung Eun/Hwang Yu Mi (Koreans knocked out second seeds Emms/Kellogg)
XD (R16) predictions Lee JJ/Lee HJ bt Hopp/Overzier Clark/Kellogg bt Travis/Wilson-Smith Roebuck/Wallwork bt Bowman/McEwan (both unknown to me, so I go for English pairing) Blair/Munt bt Druzchenko/Persson (but I think Ukraine/Swede pair will be quite tough) Zheng Bo/Zhao TT bt Lindley/Rayappan Shirley/Runesten-Petersen bt Mateusiak/Kostiuczyk Lee Young Dae/Hwang Yu Mi bt Palethorpe/Nicholas (Koreans beat Koo/Wong) Robertson/Emms bt Wouters/Van Cutsen
I admit it's hard to say between the two. But I feel Xia is over the hill. We'll see. It's 50-50 that Hafiz will have an off day anyway.
Simon the champion? I hope so, but I have to be realistic. I don't think he can win against lee hyun ill.
check out the mixed lineup... there is an english mixed pair in all but two of the fixtures.. truly a beautiful sight well.. in my opinion anyway
agree with most of this. think palethorpe and nicholas could cause problems and Bowman/McEwan could take Roebuck / Wallwork on experience - the english pair is only recently formed, but both individuals are very strong altho Roebuck has struggled with fitness this last 18 months.. Coops
totally agree with this.. prolly the best match of the round.. the english have a combination of youth, experience, speed, power, and a lefty/righty combination too.. hope somebody can get this on video.. would love to see.. speaking of vids - massive congrats to donpedro on the work on the copenhagen masters - got gade vs chunlai final - quality is excellent!! neway - pls stay on topic everybody
i wouldn't say silly - i would say optimistic and i'm sure he/she prefers inexperienced to under-developed..
hmmm..should be a close match..m'sians also have a combination of youth, experience, speed, power and is also a lefty/righty combination..
congrats to Roebuck and Wallwork for beating Bowman / Mcewan!!! 11:15 15:11 15:9 Nathan / Gail appear to be makign light work of the Dutch pair Palethorpe and Nicholas pushed the Koreans in the 1st game lost to 13 come on england (why is it that we only seem to be any good at mixed tho??? )
dont kmow coops but england has always been good in doubles as far back as i can remember. Anyway its good to see that England and Denmark can challenge the asians... And if the dutch and germans, specially germans make progresses like they have done the last 5-10 years its a little brighter for te future of european badminton. Looking forward to Park vs Jan even if I know Jan will lose hope he gives Park some trouble
