. 2011 Dutch Open GP: Round 1 Wednesday 12-October Porntip Buranaprasertsuk (THA) is seeded No.1 in the Womens Singles event at this tournament. Let's follow her. Porntip Buranaprasertsuk will be facing Anu Nieminen (FIN) in Round 1. For Schedule of Matches; http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...389B26-7D2A-4EFC-831F-5D94C1BB1911&d=20111012 For time in the Netherlands; http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_NL.aspx Good Luck to all participants. .
. Someone asked why there is no thread for the Qualification Round for Tuesday 11-Oct-2011? There are 16 WS players involved in the Qualification Round on Tuesday 11-Oct-2011. Here is the link for the Qualification Round; http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx?id=60389B26-7D2A-4EFC-831F-5D94C1BB1911&draw=2 .
. P.V. Sindhu's first match is against Gu Juan (SIN), seeded No.4. It won't be an easy match for Sindhu. .
. As the first match of the qualification rounds starts, it is 12:00 midnight in Melbourne. So sad that Dutch time is so different from our Melbourne time. Got to go to bed now. Perhaps, our BCers from Europe can post comments as the matches unfold. Good Night. .
To not leave Chris hanging once again in his quest for obscure tournaments no one cares about as so much to start an optimistic "Day 1" thread , the first interesting result: Flemming Quach of Denmark unceremoniously dumped out/blitzkrieged by German based Yoga Pratama of Indonesia 21-15 & 21-16. Man in form Przemyslaw Wacha made to work hard for a spot in the next round by an also German based Indonesian Ari Trisnanto: 21-17, 17-21 & 21-19. Former Russian champ (2009) Vladimir Malkov also unceremoniously dumping out Dutch player (for reasons unbeknownst to man sponsored by Victor) Bart Gerits 21-9, 21-6. Yoga Pratama (pic source, unrelated article: http://www.waz-online.de/Gifhorn/AZ-Sport/Sport-allgemein/Gifhorns-Neuer-gleich-mit-erstem-Titel)
All R/64 MS matches have been finished, 2 seeded players tumbled. 4th seed TPE Hsu Jen Hao and 8th seed Ukranian Dmytro Zavadsky eliminated by MAS Chiang Jiann Shiarng and Englishman Carl Baxter respectively.
P.V. Sindhu won the match 21-12 21-19 against Gu Juan as did Arundhati Pantavane against Salakjit Ponsana.......
BCers are not interested in the 2011 Dutch Open GP . It looks like BCers are not interested in the 2011 Dutch Open GP. Anyway, here is the link for events held on Thursday 13-Oct-2011; http://www.badmintoncentral.com/for...-GP-Thursday-13-October?p=1771264#post1771264 .
Not entirely true, Chris!! Your efforts will never go unnoticed! Here's what I had posted in another thread: Good day at the office for Indian players! A pretty large Indian contingent were present at the Dutch Open, and they started off in style. Almost every one of them went through to the second round. Anup Sridhar retired with the score just 1-0 against his round 1 opponent, Anthony Dumartheray of Switzerland. And Nandagopal K went down in straight games to 7th seed Hsuan Yi Hsueh of Taiwan. In the Mens singles, top seed (Boonsak has withdrawn from the tournament) Ajay Jayaram, Prannoy H S, Anand Pawar, Sai Praneeth, Arvind Bhat and Chetan Anand all went through to the second round. In the Womens singles, both Indian players Arundhati Pantawane and Sindhu went through without much fuss, taking out much higher ranked players. In the Mens doubles, Tarun Kona/Arun Vishnu and Pranav Chopra/Akshay Dewalkar are still alive, having received a bye in round 1. In the Womens doubles, Pradnya Gadre/Prajakta Sawant got a bye in round 1, and have received a w/o from their round 2 opponents; so they advance to round 3 later in the day on Thursday without a shot fired! In the mixed doubles, both teams of Akshay/Pradnya and Pranav/Prajakta won their first rounds, and have booked themselves into round 2 tomorrow. Great job! I'm pretty sure there will be a strong representation in the quarter-finals as well!
Interestingly, the performance of Denmark this time in Dutch Open is quite good, with some new pairing and players having quite good result, like Karina Jorgensen, Rasmus Fladberg and Christian John Skovgaard/ Mads Pieler Kolding.
