Venue : The National Indoor Arena, Birmingham-ENG Total prize-money : US$400,000 Tournament website : http://www.allenglandbadminton.com/ Schedule/Result/LiveScore : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=6DA247C0-51DE-4A7E-A3A6-EED7607702D3 ENG time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=4872&forma=Find Time 2013 WINNERS => http://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/s...A59D61-4728-46BA-A9CD-1FB8AC4FDDB5&d=20130310 MS - Chen Long (MS) WS - Tine Baun (DEN) MD - Liu Xiaolong/Qiu Zihan (CHN) WD - Wang Xiaoli/Yu Yang (CHN) XD - Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir (INA) Here we go, the oldest and prestigious badminton tournament will kick off today, 104th edition of All England. Star-studded cast as usual and expected to deliver high class matches for all badminton lovers. Four defending champions will try to retain their titles except Tine Baun who announced retirement after her third memorable AE title last spring. All England always presents competitive atmosphere from the very first round as every shuttler has dream to become All England Champion, will we witness surprising winner this year? QUALIFICATION order of play (10.00am, 5 courts) : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...A247C0-51DE-4A7E-A3A6-EED7607702D3&d=20140304 Three pairs have pulled out : Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif/Mohd Fairuzizuan/Mohd Tazari (MAS), Johanna Goliszewski/Birgit Michels (GER), Michael Fuchs/Birgit Michels (GER).
Eh, US$400,000? I thought it is US$500,000. Why did the Germans pull out from the All England? Did Birgit Michels get injured?
It's US$400,000 as mentioned in its prospectus (page 3) : http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file.aspx?id=523031&dl=1
First MAS casualty : [TABLE="class: ruler matches"] [TR] [TD="align: right"][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR] [TD="align: right"]Nan Wei [/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD][/TD] [TD]Daren Liew [2][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]21-8 23-21[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
Followed by : [TABLE="class: ruler matches"] [TR] [TD]XD - Qualification[/TD] [TD="align: right"][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"]Hung Ling Chen[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD="align: right"]Wen Hsing Cheng[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD="align: center"]-[/TD] [TD][TABLE] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD][/TD] [TD]Teik Chai Gan[/TD] [/TR] [TR="bgcolor: transparent"] [TD][/TD] [TD]Hui Lin Ng[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD]2-0 Retired[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Same court. Jinx?
What a great battle between Holst - Lang Lang takes it 19-21, 23-21, 25-23, in the end. Plays Misbun (assuming he sees off Joachim Persson) later on. Misbun would be an overwhelming favourite unless he also has a long 3 set match. Nan Wei - DKL should be a good game later.
The very tight match between Finnish Ville Lang and Danish Emil Holst finally is over with close scoreline, 19-21 and two games need extra point, 23-21 and 25-23 for Lang victory.
I am most disappointed that Daren Liew could not even get through the 1st round of the qualifying rounds, losing to Nan Wei of Hong Kong 8-21, 21-23. He is Malaysia's number 3 MS player and he should have been able to qualify playing against the unheralded Nan Wei and yet he fluffed. I just hope that no excuses are proffered for the loss and that he should study videos of his recent performance and compare with that of his 2012 French Open win and hopefully learn a thing or two from that.