Huang Dongping is not very effective at the front court, the CHN are often forced to lift and cede control to the Adcocks
SEMIFINALS (02.00pm) => http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/s...9AE50C-EF33-4E21-9404-098D0142984C&d=20161105 Two Indian MS players, Verma brothers enter semifinal spot, the older Sourabh disappointed home veteran Marc Zwiebler in rubber games, recent TPE Grand Prix champion is favoured to end the less experienced Danish teenager Anders Antonsen journey and books final spot. Shi Yuqi played another long duration match to overcome Indonesian future star Jonatan Christie, similar script with French Open quarterfinal duel, the Chinese new star dropped first game but came back stronger in next two games. Shi will up against 2015 India IC winner Sameer Verma who knocked out Ukranian Artem Pochtarov comfortably at last eight. Top-seed He Bingjiao is surrounded by Thailand rivals, her major stumbling block in this GP Gold. Both He and Busanan had relatively easy hurdle at three previous rounds, an interesting tie of players from same generation. Looking at the head to head statistics, the Chinese won their last encounter in three games a year ago. On the opposite draw, the higher-ranked Porntip has slight advantage to eliminate her compatriot Nitchaon Jindapol who looks struggling en route to semifinal, eliminated all her opponents with rubber games including Taiwanese fresh talent, Lee Chia Hsin yesterday. Local sole survivor Fuchs/Schoettler find stern test this evening, current SUI GP Gold champion Astrup/Rasmussen, other semifinal match will pit world #20 Chen HL/Wang CL against Malaysian youngsters Ong YS/Teo EY. In women's doubles category, newly-crowned French Open champion, Chen QC/Jia YF have Indonesian pair Nuraidah/Pradipta at today's semifinal and they look unstoppable to bag another final ticket after last week in Paris while their teammates Huang DP/Li YH will take on the well-improved Thailand combination Kititharakul/Prajongjai. Heavyweight favourite, China sensational talents Zheng SW/Chen QC are on the way to last round, they will face surprising semifinalist Sweden pair Ruponen/Hogstrom. The more exciting mixed doubles clash will be contested at top-half draw, number one seed The Adcocks have recent SCG Thailand Open winner Malaysian duo Tan KM/Lai PJ. Reigning Dubai Superseries Finals champion experienced thrilling match last night to eliminate Chinese new partnerships Wang YL/Huang DP. LIVE TV COVERAGE (02.00pm, court 1) : 1) Chris Adcock/Gabrielle Adcock (ENG) v Tan Kian Meng/Lai Pei Jing (MAS) 2) Anders Antonsen (DEN) v Sourabh Verma (IND) 3) Michael Fuchs/Johannes Schoettler (GER) v Kim Astrup/Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN) 4) Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan (CHN) v Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah/Rizki Amelia Pradipta (INA) 5) He Bingjiao (CHN) v Busanan Ongbamrungphan (THA)
Both Li Yinhui and Huang Dongping are hardhitters at the back, neither are very effective at the front court.
Just caught the final few points of G1, Shi Yuqi vs Sameer Verma. SYQ started well but it seems Sameer closed the gap to just 1 pt 18-19 before SYQ wrapped up the set. SYQ looking stretched.
SYQ looking tired,thanks to Jonatan, error-prone now. Even if he beat Sameer, Sourabh will come out on top tomorrow, a good chance.
Sameer didn't make the most of his opportunities, SYQ playing a controlled game to conserve energy and it worked for him.
This young CHN WD pairing is being put through the grindstone, going deep in their third back-to-back tournaments. If they can survive this ordeal, they can handle any tough,long attritional battles one after another in future tournaments.
