I think so...XD draw is not bad.....MS is tough draw..WD ..is really realy tough..and WS? not easy to beat Tine...Maria still needs to overcome Schenk first....
Fu/Cai also have to meet the "old men of badminton" JE/ML, so, not that bad me thinks. Not for the Msia uncles at least.
indeed its MD and XD. WS hasnt been since audina left INA and in MS Sony normally delivers at big tourneys but 3 strong MS players from China will be to big a mouthful I think. Taufik in my opinion hasnt been anywhere near his top for the last 2 years and seems on his way to retire.
Overall Draw R16 match ups: MS: Lin Dan vs PSH Peter Gate vs Shoji Sato / Sridhar Anup Chen Jin vs Kehlhoffner Taufik / Wong Choong Hann vs Nguyen Tien Minh Jonassen / Lee Hyun il vs Andrew Smith Bao Chun Lai vs Wacha Sony / Boonsak vs Rai Raju Lee Chong Wei vs Pablo Abian WS: Xie Xing Fang vs Xing AiYing Xu HuaiWen vs Yip Pui Yin / Tracey Lu Lan v Anna Rice Wong Mew Choo vs Petya Maria Kristin vs Tine Saina vs Wang Chen Eriko Hirose vs Pi HongYan Jun Jae Youn vs Zhang Ning MD: Kido/Hendra vs Guo/Xie KKK/TBH vs Sakamoto/Ikeda JJS/LYD vs Jonas/Paaske Logozs/Mateusiak vs Warfe/Smith Luluk/Alvent vs Tadashi/Keita LWW/CTF vs Hwang Jiman /LJJ Bach/Malaythong vs Dednam/Dednam Jens/Martin vs Caiyun/FHF WD: Yang Wei/Zhang Ji wen vs Vita/Natsir Luiz/Tanaka vs Maeda/Suetsuna LKW/LHJ vs Wong/Chin Li/Jiang vs Eva/Mesinee Botts/Edwards vs Chien/Cheng Emms/Kellog vs Wei Yili/Zhang Ya Wen Juhl/Kristensen vs Shiota/Ogura YY/Dujing vs Ha/Kim XD: Nova/Natsir vs Han/Hwang Sudket/Saralee vs Beres/valerie Hehanbin/Yuyang vs clark/Kellog Mateusiak/Nadiezda vs ahwan/cupidon Juhl/Layborn vs hendri/Liyujia Vita/Flandy vs hopp/Brigit Cooper/Flavell vs LYD/LJJ ZB/GL vs Emms/Robetrson
Hum... Drawing phase is over. And we all know the full list of who will go against who. Now, let's pray hard for them everyday, starting from today, so that they can give their 200% in OG!
...except FHY/CY... I guess that is the homeground advantage... But they managed to separate two pairs from the same country into different halves.
Obviously, XD is still INA best hope to bag gold. MD is hard to say since Kido/Setiawan have crazy draw. MS draw isn't good prospect for INA representative. TH's opponent are Wong Choong Han, likely Nguyen Tien Minh, and CJ (quarterfinal). Meanwhile SDK will challenge Boonsak at second round and one of strong-fave LCW at quarter. Forget it about WS and WD, Maria has an uphill task to defeat Tine. Also a big obstacle for Vita/Lilyana to face Olympic Champion Yang/Zhang despite INA pair lost to them in tight match at Uber Cup Final last May.
Very interesting draws.. ..once again, the draws are turning out to be quite interesting and unpredictable. But wished if there are even number of competitiors, in each event.
2008 Beijing Olympic Games Badminton Draw . Greetings, Well, I have just looked at the draw. Tracey Hallam is not seeded. Wong Mew Choo is seeded 8. Tine Rasmussen is in the draw. Don't know what happened to the Excel Spreadsheet earlier. Below, you can find the latest Excel Spreadsheet that was sent to me. Cheers... chris@ccc .
Here's a quick look at the draws..MS draw ..(courtesy of internationalbadminton.org) for those interested, while they are preparing the official draws to be posted on tournamentsoftware.com website. MS draw-
MD is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! expect to see the most upsets there. it seems like the odds are stacked up against china in most of the disciplines. it was kind of funny to see zhengbo/gaoling vs robertson/emms first round hahahaah
