. In less than 11 and a half hours, the Qualification matches will start at the Siri Fort Complex, New Delhi, India. All eyes would be on China's Chen Xiao Jia, the No.4 seed Qualifier. Just 3 days ago, she made it into the Semi-Finals of the Badminton Asia Championships. To have a look at her impressive results, click on this link; http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/profile/default.aspx?id=10B2FC42-AE3E-461F-B9C9-8536324C984C For this tournament's Schedule of Matches; http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=3B18A3AB-FF73-4577-8A05-A4B8CFE1CA8F For Time in New Delhi, India; http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_IN.aspx For our BC PAW Game; Sandy will be posting the PAW thread soon. For Live Streaming; Perhaps BCers from different countries can post the links that are working for their regions. Different countries sometimes cannot use the same links. In India, live telecast will be from the Quarter-Finals onwards by the new sports channel, SONY SIX. Total Sports Asia will be responsible for the international broadcast. .
2012 India Open SS: Live Streaming . BadmintonLink informed me that they will have the Quarter-Finals matches live-streaming starting from Friday April 27th, 3pm India time. http://www.badmintonlink.com/Event-Detail/31/2012_Yonex_Sunrise_India_Open .
Chen Xiao Jia's match at the Semi-Finals of the 2012 Badminton Asia Championships . For BCers who missed Chen Xiao Jia's match at the Semi-Finals of the 2012 Badminton Asia Championships, here is the video; http://www.badmintonlink.com/Watch-..._Championships_WSSF_Li_Xuerui_vs_Chen_Xiaojia .
. The Qualification matches have started. Prannoy H. S. (IND) has just won Game 1 over Ashton Chen (SIN) 21-14. .
. Ashton Chen came back in Game 2, winning 26-24. Now, after 60 minutes, in Game 3, they are at 11-all. What a close match. .
Also local MS Rohit Yadav C def.Russian Vladimir Malkov in 55 mins with 23-21 / 19-21 / 21-16. Another tight match here...
. Yes, that was the other tight match. Rohit Yadav C. Chen Xiao Jia is playing next. Let's see if Lydia Cheah can give her a tight match. .
Too bad it doesn't happen sis as Turkish Neslihan Yigit concedes walkover... [TABLE="class: ruler"] [TR] [TD="align: right"]10:45 AM[/TD] [TD]WS - Qualification[/TD] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Nichaon Jindapon[/TD] [TD][THA] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][TUR] [/TD] [TD]Neslihan Yigit [3][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]Walkover[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD="align: right"][/TD] [TD]Main Location - Ct-2[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
. Hope that BCers will update the scores. Soon, I shall be going for a Badminton Celebration Dinner (to give out Sports Awards to players in my victorious team). But LiveScores are not available on my Apple iPad. .
Enjoy your dinner chris Unfortunately, none of local MS advanced into main draw, it's very close margin for Sai Praneeth B. losing to Thai's Suppanyu Avihingsanon, 21-19 / 19-21 / 21-23. Meanwhile 4 WS players who qualified are Chen Xiaojia, Nichaon Jindapon plus two home shuttlers Neha Pandit and Arundhati Pantawane.
Celebration Dinner . If you were here in Melbourne, I would invite you along. The schools in Melbourne played against each other in a season of premiership over 10 weeks. The school that I coached won. The last time the school won was 11 years ago. Therefore, it was a Celebration Dinner with awards presented to the; * Captain * Best Player * Most Improved Player I also received a gift. .
