I believe.. ..the location of the tourney is in Saarbrücken, in Germany. Luxembourg, itself, borders around Germany, France & Belgium. So, technically, eventhough it's called the Luxembourg Bitburger Open, the tourney itself is in Germany. Here's the "translated" version of the official website: http://translate.google.com/transla...itburger-open.de/cms/index.php&hl=en&ie=ASCII Here's the map. Notice Saarbrücken in the lower right hand side. The city of Bitburg is towards the middle, up north, also along the border:
Hmm, the two upsets so far in MS division are top-seed Wacha lost to CHN youngster Lu Yi and third seed Anup Sridhar defeated by home player Marc Zwiebler. I guess MAS Lee Tsuen Seng has bright chance to win title here.
ok, i just read a few texts on the bitburger-open homepage. its offical name is " Bitburger SaarLorLux Badminton Open". that means that this tournament is a cooperation of different regions of germany, france and luxembourg! in this wikipedia-link, it is explained! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaarLorLux
In the Bitburger Open, second seed Jiang Yanjiao advanced with an easy win over Jill Pittard of England. The other two Chinese had to beat seeded players to advance. Zhu Jingjing trounced 7th seed Larisa Griga of Ukraine 21-10, 21-10 and will face top seed Xu Huaiwen of Germany in the quarter-finals. Judith Meulendijks, who elected to play in Europe rather than attempt to repeat her stunning Macau Open victory last year, could not escape Chinese domination as she fell to 2006 World Junior Champion Wang Yihan (pictured) in straight games. In the men's event, Lu Yi had an easy win over top seed Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland before having more trouble with Peter Mikkelsen of Denmark 21-13, 17-21, 21-18. He will be joined in the quarter-finals by compatriots Qui Yanbo and Wu Yunyong, along with two Danes, two Germans, and second seed Lee Tsuen Seng of Malaysia
Do you know how old Lu Yi is? Is he Chn's youngster? In his profile in BWF: http://www.internationalbadminton.org/playerinfo.asp?playerid=14868 looks like he has been around for 5 years, since 2002. Yet, he has really good performance in this tourney so far, tomorrow he will meet a tough Dane Joachim Persson [4], and if he can handle this, he most likely will meet Lee Tsuen Seng [2] of Malaysia in the final.
All Chinese Final in WS and WD? In the Women Singels, the Chinese player dominate the semifinal, with Zhu Jingjing (who has just upset top seeded Xu Huaiwen 21-19; 21-19) will face Wang Yihan (after won over 4th seeded Ella Diel). In the other semis, 2nd seeded Jiang Yan Jiao will face the 3rd seeded Juliane Schenk. It seems like it will be All Chinese Final in the WS. Meanwhile, in the Women Doubles semifinal, the top seeded Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen most likely will win over Shruti S Kurian/Jwala P Gutta, and will face with Pan Pan/Tian Qing or the English Joanne Nicholas/Natalie Munt in the final. I smell it will be All Chinese Final int the WD, too.
China WS impressive with Zhu Jingjing disposing of Xu Huaiwen and Wang Yihan doing the same to Meulendijks.
MS Lee TS v Zwiebler Lu Yi v Persson Final Prediction: Lee bt Persson WS Zhu JJ v Wang YH Jiang YJ v Schenk Final Prediction: Jiang bt Wang MD Boe/Mogensen v Sun JJ/Xu Chen He HB/Shen Y v Blair/Lindley Final Prediction: Boe/Mogensen bt He/Shen WD Yang/Zhang v Kurian/Gutta Pan/Tian v Nicholas/Munt Final Prediction: Yang/Zhang bt Nicholas/Munt XD Kindervater/Piotrowski v Blair/Bankier Xu Chen/Tian Qing v Hopp/Overzier Final Prediction: Kindervater/Piotrowski bt Xu/Tian
marc zwiebler lost in 3 sets after a big fight with tsuen seng lee!!! marc did very well in this tournament after having a long injury in his back! i hope he can play like that in the future, too!! in ws, juliane schenk beated yanjiao jiang in 3 sets, tomorrow she will play the final against wang yihan! in mxd, kristof hopp/birgit overzier beat chen xu/qing tian in 2 sets, the´ll face blair/bankier in the final. so we got 7 "europeans" and 3 "asians" (pairs or singles) in the final. europe will win definitely the md and mxd title!
Final fixture.., so the Final fixture are as follow....... MD Mathias Boe[DEN] Carsten Mogensen[DEN] vs [ENG] Robert Blair [5][ENG] David Lindley WS Yihan Wang[CHN] vs [GER] Juliane Schenk [3 MS Yi Lu[CHN] vs [MAS] Tsuen Seng Lee [2] WD Wei Yang [1][CHN] Jiewen Zhang[CHN] vs [ENG] Joanne Nicholas [7][ENG] Natalie Munt XD Robert Blair[ENG] Imogen Bankier[SCO] vs [GER] Kristof Hopp [2][GER] Birgit Overzier
China guarantes 1 title from WD..... Wang Yihan may make it 2 for China....hope Lu Yi can upset lee ts
Today, we have a livestream with 6 Camera-positions (1 net camera) and super-slomotion and 540 kbit/s. Have fun!
Another CHN success story beside Macau Open. Lu Yi, Wang Yihan and top-seed Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen delivered victorius for the Great Wall yesterday... The surprising result, Lu Yi (his age is 21 or 22?!) has defeated top,second,fourth seed in this tourney, Wacha-Lee Tsuen Seng-Joachim Persson en route to win MS title.
hi. can you say what you think about the livestream? what was good? what was bad? we want to do next year something better and need your opinion.
the livestream was good actually but it is too slow to wait the livestream to buffering.... can you upgrade the livestream more faster next year?? and also it requires Windows media player 11 or other onli.... i believe some user does not have the requirement and cant watch the live streaming.... ok, thats my opinion....
