Venue : Riocentro Pavilion 4, Rio de Janeiro-BRA Schedule : 11-20 August 2016 Rio Olympic Website : https://www.rio2016.com/en/badminton BWF Olympic Website : http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/ Full Draw link : http://www.badmintoncentral.com/forums/index.php?threads/the-draw-in-full.165718/ BWF Live Score : http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/live/ Tournamentsoftware link : http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=3400A457-E0A4-4C87-89CA-C9A6CF1B2C0D Live Streaming & Live TV Broadcast information : http://www.badmintoncentral.com/for...ing-and-tv-broadcast-for-rio-olympics.165856/ Rio de Janeiro time : http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=1307&forma=Find Time DAY-2 ORDER OF PLAY (08.00am local time, 3 courts) => http://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/results/2595/rio-2016-olympic-games/2016-08-12 *Match Highlights : - Zhang N/Zhao YL (CHN) v Lee CH/Chau HW (HKG) - Xu C/Ma J (CHN) v Mateusiak/Zieba (POL) - Muskens/Piek (NED) v Gutta/Ponnappa (IND) - Fischer/Pedersen (DEN) v Adcock/Adcock (GBR) - Ahsan/Setiawan (INA) v Endo/Hayakawa (JPN) - Jung KE/Shin SC (KOR) v Luo Ying/Luo Yu (CHN) Most of seeded players had no problem to clear opening hurdle, several marathon matches happened in first day of this high level tournament. Xu C/Ma J almost bit the dust against Great Britain married couple Chris and Gabby Adcock. Endo/Hayakawa also experienced thrilling match before won over China number two, Chai/Hong with scoreline ended 23-21 at deciding game. Men's doubles London 2012 silver medalist Boe/Mogensen battled hard to overcome GBR combination Ellis/Langridge also mixed doubles recent All England champion Jordan/Susanto needed extra game to dispose tricky Hong Kong duo, Lee/Chau. Title contenders in singles category started Rio campaign superbly, both Lee Chong Wei and Carolina Marin demolished their opponent in short duration also defending champion Lin Dan and Li Xuerui displayed they're in good shape. Second day competition will see some interesting and close encounters in doubles category. The Adcocks need desperately a win to keep their chance alive after lost narrowly to Xu/Ma yesterday. Luo twin sisters booked important win to defeat Danish finest Pedersen/Juhl and another tough rival are waiting them today, Korean Jung KE/Shin SC.
Looking at the schedule, it will be another day of dull and one sided matches. After yesterday's match against the representative of Suriname (who is beatable by most of us Bcers here, no disrespect to the youngster as he still learning the skills), LCW's next match is on Sunday, 3 days of inaction in between matches in this so called tough tournament.
Fischer/Pedersen (DEN) v Adcock/Adcock (GBR) Ahsan/Setiawan (INA) v Endo/Hayakawa (JPN) Only these matches interest me today.
you're kidding right? according to BWF badminton now is the largest indoor sport with over 250 million participants. lets say 50/50 single/double and 50/50 male/female split, there are about 62.5 million male single players in the world. Soren Opti at 19 is currently ranked at world 318, i.e. better than approximatly 62.5 million players in the world incl most of us Bcers here imho, quite an achievement that no one should look down on
Not kidding. I am not looking down on this kid. It's just that he is not there yet. And when you have a rank 318 player taking part, this isn't a high quality tournament. Nothing to shout about.
Link for stream for courts please! I've got the MS game between INA vs USA that BBC are broadcasting already
Alan, take a look at the "video section" section here, and you'll know why. The board is dominated by star quality talents... Perhaps Soren Opti should sign up and submit his match vs. LCW in that section, to get some useful input from the "grandmasters of couch-coaching"? I often wonder, reading many of the posts in here, how many of my fellow BCers have actually played at a high level, or played against a player of a high level? Seeing how a top-5 player can totally demolish a top 200 player, and then knowing that said top 200 player would destroy a rank 1000 player - and honestly, that only a very small percentage of the BC'ers would be able to have a meaningful match against a rank 1000 player.... I myself have played against at least 3 players that went on to become world champions. (and I played them when we were at ages 16-20). I also regularly see some of the best players in the world live and in practice, so I have tremendous respect for them and their game. My kids are being trained every week, by a top-100 player, and I can tell you, he can do some sick things when he plays with our juniors. Then again, I watched him get beaten up by a top-10 player at a tournament. You could easily think that he perhaps was not that great, if that was the only match you had seen him play. So many badminton players underrate what they see on court, when they are on the sidelines. I see this trend across the board, from juniors to recreational players. Typically, if you have a 16 year old reasonably talented player, or a recreational player at age 30+ that plays 3 times a week, but never got real proper technical/footwork practice done as a kid - and they watch an old elite player, say a former top-500 player now turned 40+, they all think they can beat him. But they get wiped of the court if they try. This is so funny. Especially in doubles! At least, it's funny when you are the 40+ year old ;-)
OK, my last post was NOT intended to mock the good BC members that post videos to improve their game - I have great respect for them. At least they are honest, have courage and are trying to improve. Just to clarify.
http://videostream.dn.ua/videopage/videoPage.php?g=c2J2b2JoK2F0Y3ZsbmhZ&c=en&i=eWlhaXVidGd1bA№f№f non-hd but better than nothing?