This time, the top Chinese players come in full force to warm up for the All England next week. However, there are some notable absentees in some fields, especially in men's doubles. Top Indonesian, Denmark, and Malaysian pairs choose not to come this time, leaving the field open for Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng to grab their first title of the year. Men's singles could perhaps be the most competitive with some big names from China and Korea. Meanwhile, the Chinese would be also expected to dominate the women's singles and doubles with all their top players competing in full force. The mixed doubles is pretty open as well, and I do expect to see some surprises as early as the first round. A few interesting matches: Lin Dan vs Sho Sasaki Yohan Wiratama Hadikusumo vs Wu Yun Yong Lu Yi vs Pei Wei Chung Krishnan Yogendran vs Chen Jin Lee Jae Jin/Jung Tae Keuk vs Tadashi Ohtsuka/Keita Masuda Seo Yoon Hee vs Lu Lan Hwang Hye Yoon vs Lee Yun Hwa Jiang Yanjiao vs Wang Lin Kumiko Ogura/Reiko Shiota vs Ha Jung Eun/Hwang Yu Mi Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen vs Lee Yong Dae/Hwang Yu Mi Yoo Yeon Seong/Ha Jung Eun vs Daniel Shirley/Sara Runesten-Petersen
Jang Young Soo (MS) - Korea Jang Soo Young (WS) - Korea Lu Yi (MS) - China Li Yu (MS) - China Pass me an aspirin.
I think it will be easy for Lu Yi and Chen Jin. The other one is 50-50 for me. Lee JJ/Jung TK did not perform that well in the Swiss Open. The Japanese are a tough obstacle. This match is interesting to watch. WS has by far the most interesting 1st round encounters. Also: Hirose v Schenk Mori v Karachkova It's been a while since we last saw the Japanese.
Interesting matches indeed... This is a good tournament to evaluate various player's level of form before the All England.
XD Results Partial Round 2 pairings (with predictions in bold): Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung vs Kristof Hopp/Birgit Oversier Guo Zhendong/Yu Yang vs Robert Adcock/Jenny Wallwork Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen vs Vladislav Druzchenko/Elena Nozdran Robert Blair/Natalie Munt vs Keita Masuda/Tomomi Matsuda Andrew Bowman/Kirsteen Mcewan-Miller vs Daniel Shirley/Sara-Runesten-Petersen Simon Archer/Ella Trip vs Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty
One interesting result: Sho Sasaki leads Lin Dan 15-12 I have earlier mentioned that this could be an interesting match to follow.
result of the day result of the day http://www4.milon.de/sport/turnierspiele.php?TurnierID=2562&STYLE=printer
Updates MIXED DOUBLES ROUND 2 Matches Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung vs Kristof Hopp/Birgit Oversier Guo Zhendong/Yu Yang vs Robert Adcock/Jenny Wallwork Xie Zhongbo/Zhang Yawen vs Vladislav Druzchenko/Elena Nozdran Robert Blair/Natalie Munt vs Keita Masuda/Tomomi Matsuda (Match of the Round) Robin Middleton/Sarah Bok vs David Lindley/Suzanne Rayappan Andrew Bowman/Kirsteen Mcewan-Miller vs Daniel Shirley/Sara-Runesten-Petersen Simon Archer/Ella Trip vs Anggun Nugroho/Yunita Tetty Ingo Kindervater/Katrin Piotrowski vs Zhang Jun/Gao Ling
More interesting results Roman Spitko leads Shon Seung Mo 15-11, 7-6 Yousuke Nakanishi leads Niels Christian Kaldau 15-13, 7-2 Yohan Wiratama Hadikusumo tied with Wu Yun Yong 15-13, 11-15 (Match of the Round)
I am now following the match between Roman Spitko and Shon Seung Mo through the online-score. Shon nearly wrapped up the second set with game point at 14-10, but Spitko made it 14-14. He's now 2 points away from a big upset, leading 15-14. The match between Yohan and Wu is also close, with Wu leading in the third set 9-7.
Shon indeed had game point, leading 14-10 in the second set, before succumbing 14-17. He lost to Roman Spitko.
Wu Yun Yong is still leading Yohan Wiratama Hadikusumo 13-9 in the rubber game. After a tight start, Lu Yi stormed ahead and took the first set against Pei Wei Chung, 15-6.
