MD top-half draw is full of MAS and INA pairs with 6 and 4 doubles players respectively. Unfortunately, Nova/Lilyana have same half-draw with their compatriot third seed Flandy/Vita.
Hau-ge here the MS draw..... AVIVA SINGAPORE SUPER SERIES 2008MSBadminton Tournament Planner - www.tournamentsoftware.comMember ID Cnty Flag Round 1 Round 2 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Winner 1 50152 MAS Chong Wei Lee [1] 2 50905 JPN Sho Sasaki 3 9166 MAS Tsuen Seng Lee 4 4240 MAS Choong Hann Wong 5 8396 POL Przemyslaw Wacha [5] 6 12370 MAS Muhammad Hafiz Hashim 7 10319 NED Eric Pang 8 51053 DEN Joachim Persson 9 6926 DEN Peter Hoeg Gade [4] 10 Qualification - Q3 11 9662 HKG Wei Ng 12 Qualification - Q2 13 50931 CHN Yu Chen [7] 14 10302 MAS Kay Bin Yeoh 15 14107 VIE Tien Minh Nguyen 16 11464 SIN Yen Hui Kendrick Lee 17 51306 HKG Yan Kit Chan 18 50658 JPN Shoji Sato 19 15241 IRL Scott Evans 20 51599 INA Simon Santoso [6] 21 Qualification - Q4 22 9567 MAS Sairul Amar Ayob 23 51310 IND Anup Sridhar 24 10337 INA Taufik Hidayat [3] 25 Qualification - Q1 26 7790 MAS Muhammad Roslin Hashim 27 50170 SIN Ronald Susilo 28 11959 THA Boonsak Ponsana [8] 29 14868 CHN Yi Lu 30 15585 CZE Petr Koukal 31 14078 ENG Andrew Smith 32 4762 DEN Kenneth Jonassen [2]
oops! who wins, who go Olympics!? kkk/tbh will clash with ccm/cce in the 2nd round. MS final, could it be LCW vs Kenneth or Boonsak?
What a bad draw for many MAS MD pair 6 pairs were drawn in the top half while in the bottom half UNCLE vs Fuzzy showdown as early in the first round:crying: SAbrina & KheWei need to face their "senior" compatriots Lim Pek siah/Hau Chiew YEe for their first international matches The Danes were not having lady luck in the draw either : LP/JR; MLH/JE & Bow/Morgensen all placed in the same half
China's decisison to have lin dan out of this tour is questionable.But i agree with it.good for u Lin dan. Despite of the possibility of lcw to get injured,it may help lcw to gain some inspiring moral support from himself by winning that tour.
:crying: there are possibility he got injured in training too... LD is praticing very hard in china now... LCW should stay back
WANG LIN vs ZHU JING JING ist round..so much for china dark horses they get to fight on the first round tough draw
I'll just let them handle the pressure all by their own and see the outcomes. It is in their hand,whether to keep themselves in the cocoons,refused to wake up. Or,prove to the doomsayers what they are capable of. hard draw is a factor.But nothing can restrict u when u are ready for everything. Lets make it sweetheart!!
They are in the process of reclaiming back their confidence, a title in SO or IO doesnt meant anything much except for the higher seeding in OG08. History prooven they prompt to fail big if they were seeded high
If they go that is. Rexy said he's thinking of withdrawing KKK/TBH from Spore Open to have them train more for OG. They're not registered for Indonesia, may be training all the way till OG.
That is the more smart option to be taken in my opinion. They must peak in time for the OG to have a chance at the medals, and intense training is the way to go.
And..when will they learn to handle this pressure? If they have big win in olympic(lets say).Expectations will be back. So,downhill again? We cannot list them as one of the best doubles this way. i will not lose my faith on them.kkk is a special national player for me.Theres no way i will lose my hope on him.Wity the age of 23 and 21.Im glad time is still in their side.
With Kenneth Jonassen withdrawing, the chance is quite big for either Taufik Hidayat or Simon Santoso to make it to the Final. Taufik Hidayat [3] R32 vs Anup Sridhar -- tough first round match, but, I think he can still beat the Indian. R16 vs Sairul Amar Ayob or Q4 (likely to be Kenichi Tago) -- again, manageable tie. QF vs either Simon Santoso [6] or Shoji Sato or Chan Yan Kit -- ditto SF vs Boonsak Ponsana [8] or Ronald Susilo -- Boonsak will present a tough challenge for Taufik or Simon. Simon Santoso [6] R32 vs Scott Evans -- manageable R16 vs Chan Yan Kit or Shoji Sato -- tricky, but, Simon should stroll to the QF.
