The India Open 2008 seems to be lacking in many respects, more so when it comes to information on what's happening Some results (qualifying): Women’s singles: 2nd round Fu Mingtian (Sin) bt Chen Jiayuan (Sin) 21-14, 21-9 Sikki Reddy (Ind) bt Dhanya Nair (Ind) 13-7 (conceded) Gayatri Varatak (Ind) bt Gu Juan (Sin) 21-19, 21-16 Kamila Augustyn (Pol) bt Aparna Balan (Ind) 21-18, 21-14 Mixed doubles: 2nd round Sheng Shiun Liao & Li Ying Chang (Tpe) bt Alwin Francis & Nitya Sosale (Ind) 21-19, 21-11 V. Diju & Jwala Gutta (Ind) bt Shanker Gopan & Sikki Reddy (Ind) 21-11, 21-4 Yu Yan Vanessa Neo & Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (Sin) bt Jien Guo Ong & Yin Loo Lim (Mas) 20-22, 22-20, 21-17 Sheng Mu Lee & Chia Chen Yang (Tpe) bt Anggun Nugroho & Endang Nursugianti (Ina) 21-15, 21-13
[Mixed doubles: 2nd round Sheng Shiun Liao & Li Ying Chang (Tpe) bt Alwin Francis & Nitya Sosale (Ind) 21-19, 21-11 [/quote] This should be first round..because the winner has to play Rizki/Yao Lei to qualify......unless Rizki/Yao Lei got promoted to Main Draw
Some Sidelights A few links to news articles: The Hindu - General Report Indiatimes - On Indian players The New Straits Times - On Wong Choong Hann The Indian Express - General Report Vietnam Net - On Nguyen Tien Minh The Indian Express - On Arvind Bhat & NLP Enjoy reading
Disappointing, considering the experience of both Anggun and Endang But, as I have mentioned so many times, I like the Chinese-Taipei pair of Fang Chieh-Min/Lee Sheng-Mu and this XD pair contains one half of it.
The way this tournament is being run and reported , it's just as well we don't have a PAW on it. It would be a total disaster, much worse than my port and cigar adventures .
I will SMS everybody before I PAW...hehe Some are playing now...I just called them ...too noisy though
OK actually... for Sandy. Imagine the headache he'd have trying to organize it, get results, etc etc. Might have to commit him to an asylum after that
I did for him in Macau..remember? hehe...I sent SMS all results on first 2 days.... I and Fastdrop collected all scores..hehe
BAD NEWS!! Bona cancelled his play today as Kido's father pass away this morning. Bona is going back to Jakarta tonight. I got SMS from Jo Novita