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Marin survived, Nehwal out
The knock-out stage draw has been conducted last night, some shuttlers once again will meet their group stage opponent =>
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draws.aspx?id=CA160B94-64E2-4C8A-8E18-9E269E9A46EB
Two Danish MS players finished as runner-up of their respective group, interesting semifinal clashes this evening. Two-time champion, Chen Long is drawn to face rising star Viktor Axelsen, they have met four times in this year and the young Dane will be motivated to score his first ever winning over the Chinese ace this time. Group B winner Kento Momota will be tested by world number two Jan O Jorgensen, a possibly tight contest here as the last two meetings finished in three games
What a turnaround in women's singles category as Indian jewel Saina Nehwal missed opportunity to book semifinal ticket after bounced back to overcome reigning world champion earlier. Nehwal lost three games to last year champion Tai Tzu Ying despite took first game convincingly. This result made her rival Carolina Marin through to last four. The left-handed Marin once again will take on Nozomi Okuhara who tamed two-time world champion yesterday while Thailand youngster Ratchanok Intanon has tough hurdle, Wang Yihan. A limping head to head for these two players as the tall Chinese always beat her in eleven meetings.
The same story repeats for Men's Doubles discipline, reigning world champion Ahsan/Setiawan will challenge defending champion Lee/Yoo, a tough task considering sluggish performance by the Indonesians. Another title-contender Boe/Mogensen is favoured to eliminate Chinese number two pair Chai/Hong as they did yesterday unless the Chinese players have another game plan to overcome the vast-experienced Danish pair.
Women's doubles rematches between title-holder Matsutomo/Takahashi against top-seed Luo Ying/Luo Yu and Danish combo Pedersen/Juhl will try their luck to thwart Indonesian star Maheswari/Polii this time after lost straight-sets yesterday. Japanese top-ranked and Incheon Asian Games gold medalist have slight advantage to book final ticket. Luo twin sisters are Chinese last hopeful in this department due to Zhao Yunlei injury and this pair looks vulnerable against foreign rival.
The Korean duo Ko SH/Kim HN look unstoppable for the moment, they will challenge Australian Open winner Lee CH/Chau HW. Ko/Kim scored perfect result in group stage to knock-out Jordan/Susanto, Fischer/Pedersen and Liu/Bao. The walkover by Zhang/Zhao delivered a surprise outcome for English pair Adcock/Adcock and they capitalise to top group A, defeated Hong Kong pair yesterday, next they will face Indonesian improved combination Jordan/Susanto.
LIVE TV (court 1, 01.00pm local time) matches :
1) Lee Yong Dae/Yoo Yeon Seong (KOR) v Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan (INA)
2) Chris Adcock/Gabrielle Adcock (ENG) v Praveen Jordan/Debby Susanto (INA)
3) Nozomi Okuhara (JPN) v Carolina Marin (ESP)
4) Chen Long (CHN) v Viktor Axelsen (DEN)
5) Ratchanok Intanon (THA) v Wang Yihan (CHN)
6) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN) v Kento Momota (JPN)
