The German pair Roman Spitko/Michael Fuchs just take the first set off Guo Zhendong/Xie Zhongbo 21-17.
Nothing is more valuable than a lesson learnt the hard way here for Bona Septano/Mohd Ahsan...against the World Championships Bronze Medallist Shuichi Sakamoto/Shintaro Ikeda...and nearly scoring an upset win, only to see the Japanese pair turned the tables and scored the victory 12-21, 21-19, 21-16! It was simply a case of so near...yet so far
Bona-Ahsan probably are compacent when they get to 19-15....and thought they won...they should now put it in their mind that they have not won the tie until they reached the point 21.....so hope Bona would go home now and have a hard thinkabout
2 of INA's XD pairs have advanced, while the other 2 fell, including the seeded Devin Lahardi/Lita Nurlita who lost to Rasmus Bonde/Christina Pedersen (which confirmed my fear) The 2 promising pairs Mohd Rijal/Greysia Polii and Tantowi Ahmad/Yulianti showed us why they are INA's future as they won in rubber-sets. Towi/Yuli will challenge the top-seed He Hanbin/Yu Yang while Rijal/Grace will have a winnable tie against Robin Middleton/Liza Smith. The English pair beat Anggun Nugroho/Endang Nursugianti 21-19, 21-19 last night.
As expected, only Maria Kristin Yulianti managed to go further in the WS, beating Filipa Lamy easily 21-11, 21-6. Fransisca Ratnasari lost to Wang Yihan in two close sets 18-21, 21-23; while Aprilia Yuswandari also lost to Petya Nedeltcheva 21-23, 9-21. Maria has a tough match against the third-seed Eriko Hirose today.
