2016 Yonex Open JAPAN Superseries : Round of 16 & Quarterfinals (22nd & 23rd September)

[CLELY]

Akane's early induction into the senior circuit is bearing fruit for her unlike her peer He Bingjiao who's only starting to play regularly at the senior level lately after she's no longer eligible for the junior tournaments.

Time for HBJ to make up for all the lost opportunities, esp when all three of CHN WS mainstays are out of action. The other one is of course Sun Yu who has to step up to the plate as quickly as possible while Chen Yufei is still having to compete at the junior level.

Two Wangs have announced retirement, Li Xuerui is recuperating her knee surgery, they have no many options except Sun Yu, He BJ and Chen YF.

 

[Justin L]

Wonder where to watch Ct1 after this AY - NO match is over.

 

[Justin L]

Two Wangs have announced retirement, Li Xuerui is recuperating her knee surgery, they have no many options except Sun Yu, He BJ and Chen YF.

Exactly, until LXR comes back fully match fit 6 - 9 months later, CHN WS have to depend on their second stringers, with the exception of Sun Yu perhaps, to cover the big gap.

 

[Justin L]

Any Ct1 livestream, fellows ?

 

[CLELY]

Finally Akane Yamaguchi scores first victory of 7 meetings against defending champion Nozomi Okuhara, 21-11 / 23-21.

 

[CLELY]

Any Ct1 livestream, fellows ?

Too bad videostream is still down, He BJ v Intanon must be interesting to watch.

 

[Justin L]

Too bad videostream is still down, He BJ v Intanon must be interesting to watch.

That's what pissed me off. I don't enjoy following livescore, so may go do something else while I still have quite a bit of time on hand.

 

[Justin L]

I must say Son Wan Ho carries on his fine Olympic form but, frankly, I don't think it's still good enough to upset LCW, again jumping ahead of myself.

 

[Justin L]

Livescore, heck no livesteeam, shows Intanon drops G1, 20-22, but if, as I expect, Intanon's stamina is much better, she'd turn the match around in G2 and G3.

 

[Baddyforall]

Livescore, heck no livesteeam, shows Intanon drops G1, 20-22, but if, as I expect, Intanon's stamina is much better, she'd turn the match around in G2 and G3.

Here you go, the livestream

 

[Justin L]

Found one livestream

 

[Justin L]

As expected, even stevens, now for the decider.

 

[Justin L]

HBJ gets IR out of position and mishits a sitter. Swell.

 

[Justin L]

A couple of unforced errors from HBJ to trail 5-9...

 

[Justin L]

Intanon moving very well, attacking and defending better than HBJ.

 

[hellohello]

Wow Ratcnahok is playing so well here. So energetic. So good of Ratchanok. Wow she really has got good stamina and can still win depsite the game being dragged to the third set.

 

[hellohello]

Okay Ratchanok is leading 14-10 now. She is on her winning streak now.

 

[Baddyforall]

May is such an error prone. She need to focus and play simple shots rather than going for crazy shots. But He bingjiao played really well when it matters. She was calm and composed , without giving much errors on her shots during the trailing end of the match.

 

[lodoss]

RI lost to stamina again

 

[Baddyforall]

Srikanth also should learn how to keep focused from chinese players. He is one of the mentally weak players in the world. He had 4 points lead and suddenly lost to Marc.