21-6! I had been expecting Nozomi to be giving some diplomatic points, especially to a fellow countryman in an international tournament. But she must be really pumped up after that disappointingly close loss to Sindhu in the AJC final last week.
Roman/Elisabeth played against Shintaro/Reiko in the World Championships last year. [video=youtube;D91bh8022DY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D91bh8022DY[/video]
last week at the US Open, Misaki Matsutomo played with Kenichi Hayakawa. This week she is playing with a weaker partner in Hiroyuki Saeki and they are about to lose the 1st game to the Austrian pair quite easily
Joycelyn Ko came back from 11-16 in the rubber to win the match against the 4th seeded Michelle Chan Ky 19-21 21-16 21-18 in just under an hr. She is also the 1st Canadian to beat another opponent from a different country
Michelle Li squeaks through by the skin of her teeth 23-21 in the rubber. She had a massive 16-6 lead but frittered it away and faced 2 match points before hauling herself off the canvas to pip the Japanese girl at the line.
Jocelyn _was_ the 1st Canadian to beat a non-Canadian, but that was in only the 8th scheduled match against Sarada Jasti on day 1. Since then there have been others.
Looking at the QF schedule, I'd say 2 or at most 3 Canadians will survive, and even that's a tough ask. Ng/Gao stand the best chance to make it through.
Ng/Ng just won their match 24-22 in G2. Advance to SF. Michelle Li evens up at 19-19 but ZBW leads again 20-19, and takes G2 21-19. To the rubber
MD top-seed Austrian's Koch/Zauner won over TPE pair Chen CJ/Lu CB in tight rubber games, 24-22 / 17-21 / 21-19.
Three Japanese WS in last four, Sayaka-Nozomi-Shizuka against local hope Michelle Li, possibly all Japan final here, let's see
