"In the European Men's Team Championships Denmark is topping the seeding ahead of England and the Netherlands, while Germany, Russia and France are the remaining seeded teams. Denmark is also seeded as number one in the European Women's Team Championships - here ahead of the Netherlands and Russia, while Germany, France and Bulgaria are seeded fourth, fifth and sixth respectively. The six seeded teams will be placed in the groups 1-6, pending on their seeding (first seeded goes into group 1, second seeded goes into group 2 etc.) while the remaining teams will be drawn into the groups on a random basis". See http://emwtc.badmintoneurope.com/news_item.aspx?id=29023
European Preliminaries Draw You can check the draw on: http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draws.aspx?id=B451C349-1669-4705-ABA5-97292158230C See also the news on Badminton Europe website: http://emwtc.badmintoneurope.com/news_item.aspx?id=29470
Undoubtedly, Denmark will out as winner of group A, both Men's & Women's team. Easy opponents for Danish shuttlers in group-stage matches.
Men's Team Semifinal 1 -- Denmark vs winner of Germany vs Russia Semifinal 2 -- Poland vs winner of Ukraine vs Netherlands Women's team Semifinal 1 -- Denmark vs winner of Germany vs Bulgaria Semifinal 2 -- Netherlands vs winner of Scotland vs Russia One of European badminton powerhouse, England team has no chance to advance into TUC Final round in KL upcoming May...
Scary stuff England badminton squads crash out of Thomas and Uber Cup qualifiers Team England's hopes of reaching the Thomas Uber Cup finals in Malaysia in May were dashed after local favourites Poland won through 3-2. By Telegraph staff Published: 4:22PM GMT 19 Feb 2010 The men’s squad, who were second seeds and expected to reach the semi-finals, looked to be getting off to a good start when three-times English National champion Rajiv Ouseph took the first game off Przemyslaw Wacha - but the experienced Polish No. 1 roared back to take the match 15-21 21-15 21-14. In the second rubber National runners-up Chris Adcock and Robert Blair let slip a winning position when they led by a game and 12-8 before falling to Michal Logosz and Adam Cwalina 15-21 22-20 21-19. Clark and Robertson set for test And it was game over when Carl Baxter went down 21-17 21-14 against Hubert Paczek in the second singles. Chris Langridge and Anthony Clark won the first game of their doubles 21-14 before Robert Mateusiak and Wacha retired with the winning lead secured. In the last match Rafal Hawal took the first game against Harry Wright 21-17 but retired when trailing 11-10 in the second to make the final score 3-2. There was disappointment for the women's squad this afternoon as they lost all three singles as they went down 4-1 to Russia in their Uber Cup group decider. English National champion Elizabeth Cann took Ella Diehl to three games before going down 21-10 17-21 21-11. Then Rachel Howard lost to Tatiana Bibik 21-18 21-10, leaving Kate Robertshaw in her second, England appearance, facing a must-win contest against doubles specialist Nina Vislova. The Yorkshire girl put up a plucky display, winning the first game, before going down 21-23 21-17 21-12. That meant England had lost before they could bring their two strong doubles pairs into play. Heather Olver and Mariana Agathangelou stopped the slide by beating Ksenia Polikarpova and Anastasia Prokopenko 21-9 21-18 but Jenny Wallwork and Gabby White went down to Vislova and Valeria Sorokina 21-15 21-16 to end Team England's hopes of reaching the Uber Cup Finals in Kuala Lumpur in May.
^^Looking ahead (in 2+ yrs time)..^^ ..i hope ENG will find determined & capable shuttlers to represent their country come the 2012 OG (as well as the 2012 T&UC). The women's department, even with White & Wallwork anchoring, looks to be the most challenged. Whilst the men's department still has a chance, granted Andrew Smith and Rajiv Ouseph buck up. Robertson and Clarke could still hold their own, but they're really getting up there in age.
I am supried no one post the results of the Europe Prelim. ForThomas Cup: 1. Denmark. (As expected) 2. Polandia. (A suprise here cause they beat England in group draw) 3. Germany (As expected) 4. Ukraine. (I am very suprise they are the Semifinalist team. They beat France and Netherland in their way to SF) (I expected at least England will be in the SF) For Uber Cup: 1. Denmark (No suprise here) 2. Russia. (They got good draw) 3. Germany (even without XHW, this team was too strong for others except the danes) 4. Netherland. (As expected) I am not expected England Uber team can move on in to SF cause they got Zero good Women single players.
There was something in the thread: Which countries will advance to the Final Rd. IMO however Russia (women, seeded*3) could win vs Germany, of course with more troubles because of Vislova's injury... (she was playing till Saturay only).
