WFC should not have trouble in the rubber i guess.. He will use all his experience against this 18 year old boy
Top seed and defending champion, Chan PS/Goh LY is battling hard to defeat HKG XD Lee CH/Chau HW, 21-18 / 19-21 / 21-17.
One of local MS hopeful, 4th seed Chong Wei Feng lost to Indian youngster Sameer Verma, 15-21 / 21-16 / 19-21.
Sameer verma (World Rank . 190) has beaten WFC.. Its the biggest win of his career... Congratulations Sameer.. He will come better than his brother Sourabh verma i guess..
[TABLE="class: ruler matches"] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"]Sameer VERMA[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD][/TD] [TD]Wei Feng CHONG [4][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]21-15 16-21 21-19[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
Infact , having 5 match points as advantage, Sameer struggled to finish it off. When WFC used all his experience to close the gap to 19-20, its already too late.. Sameer sealed it.. Excellent for this young lad..
Wah CWF lost... so disappointed... Other than Daren, other MAS MS doesn't look promising... Actually Daren's chance also look slim..
CKB vs Alamsyah Yunus I've seen Alamsyah in action... never CKB though. Unless Li Mao has done more magic on this guy, maybe he can beat his opponent tomorrow.
I'm happy as well, but... I still think they need to be battle-proven against CHN/KOR/European heavyweights first before considered "strong".
as to today's ranking, INA has more XD pairs than any other countries; [TABLE="width: 500"] [TR] [TD][TABLE="class: grid, width: 150"] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]INA's XD[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]top 10[/TD] [TD="align: right"]4[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]top 24[/TD] [TD="align: right"]6[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]top 50[/TD] [TD="align: right"]9[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]top 100[/TD] [TD="align: right"]11[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] both in terms of quantities and qualities. if there is a team competition for XD only, they probably going to win it hands down.
Edi Subaktiar/Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja source : http://badmintonindonesia.org/app/funstuff/photofolder.aspx?%2f555
Well done Edi/Glo and Lukhi/Annisa Edi just turn 19 y.o Glo is still 19 y.o Lukhi is 20 y.o Annisa is still 19 y.o