2016 TOTAL BWF Thomas-Uber Cup Finals - Day 1 (15th May) : Group Stage

Why in the world is China-Mexico in Court 1 -except for the fact that China is the host country -_-... That's 5-0 straight games ,assured, with probably less than 10 points for the opponents... Japan-France would have been a lot more interesting...

 

How on earth can anyone bench Lin Dan. Chen Long should have been benched and LD should have played as first singles.Thank,CLELY for telling the lineup and saving my time.

 

Heard LYB told Wang Shixian to start all over again from Under 10.Poor girl was used as a tool throughout Olympic qualification.

 

Interesting to compare the world rankings of the TC teams of IND and THA. Despite their lower rankings, Thailand still won.

INDIA versus THAILAND (2-3)

1 MS1
Ajay JAYARAM WR21 lost to Tanongsak SAENSOMBOONSUK WR26 16-21 21-12 14-21
2 MD1
Manu ATTRI / Sumeeth Reddy B. WR20 lost to Bodin ISSARA / Nipitphon PUANGPUAPECH WR29 17-21 6-21
3 MS2
Sai Praneeth B. WR34 beat Khosit PHETPRADAB WR98 21-11 21-16
4 MD2
Akshay DEWALKAR / Satwiksairaj RANKIREDDY WR30 lost to Puavaranukroh DECHAPOL / Kedren KITTINUPONG WR31
15-21 21-14 15-21 (Akshay's usual partner was Pranaav Jerry CHOPRA)
5 MS3
Sourabh VERMA WR180 beat Adulrach NAMKUL WR201 21-17, 16-21, 21-19

 

Except for MS2, the rankings are pretty close.

 

Being the 'old man' of the team, LYB has to give more rest to LD.

Actually China can just use their second stringers to give them the exposure.

Match overview
Order Event

CHINA[CHN] - [MEX] MEXICO
1 MS1
Long CHEN v Lino MUNOZ
2 MS2
Houwei TIANv Job CASTILLO
3 MS3
Bin QIAO v Luis Ramon GARRIDO
4 MD1
Junhui LI/ Yuchen LIU v Job CASTILLO / Lino MUNOZ
5 MD2
Wei HONG/ Siwei ZHENG v Lopez ANDRES /Luis Ramon GARRIDO

 

MD is still India's weakness obviously

 

This you are right. If only India could have won one of the MD match, they could have won the match today 3-2. Too bad.

 

It will be interesting to see how many points in all that Mexico can get from mighty China.

 

Well Munoz of Mexico is doing okay against CL 4-5.

 

And he is leading 7-6.

 

Chen Long struggling against Munoz of Mexico. Good.

 

But I think Munoz had a slight injury to this right heel after a bad landing at the net. He now trails 7-9.

 

Malaysia, Korea and Denmark can easily get the first point from China.Indonesia would get the first doubles point for sure. While Korea and Japan would fancy their chance against Fu/Zhang.

 

Chen Long's smash has lost its stability of 2015.

 

Still can't believe LYB dropped Wang Shixian in favour of Sun Yu

 

Good time to blood China's future stars.

 

Is there streaming for court 2?

 

More like 'you are worthless'. Its not like a VIP rest given to Lin Dan. I am sure she wouldn't be too happy about the decision

 

Who needs sleeping pills when you can watch Tian Houwei?