I include badMania's MD analysis from another thread My prediction for the winners are: Choong/Lee Chan/Koo Fu/Cai Boe/Mogensen Chew/Wong Candra/Sigit Markis/Hendra Tan/Ong
In the WD, the most possible upset that I can see is Schjoldager/Andersen v Tripp/Wright (8*) I think the other seeds will safely go through. In the XD, Clark/Kellogg v Laybourn/Juhl (8*) The other seeds should safely advance.
MS (R32) - selected matches, predicted winners first Lin Dan (1*) v Ronald Chen Yu v Ng Wei (9*) Sony v Kuan Beng Hong (12*) Peter Gade (3*) v Roslin Wong CH (11*) v Gong Weijie The R16 will be held later in the day.
Yup...mostly agree, alto I hope Hendra/Joko will win Last one is tough to call....the Thai pair has more experience ?
WS (R32) - selected matches, predicted winners first Wang Chen (5*) v Jiang Yanjiao Yu Hirayama (qualifier) v Yonekura Mia v Pi (3*) - Mia to reverse the Singapore Open result Xu Huaiwen (6*) v Nedeltcheva Hirose v Yao Jie (4*) The R16 will be held later in the day.
Hendra/Joko had a gigantic battle with Othsuka/Masuda day earlier while Koo/Chan had an easy match against the Danes. i hope Koo/Chan can raise their game tonite and justify their seeding. same scenario for Tan/Ong and Sudket/Patapol.
I hope Lulu/Alven can revenge Flandy/Eng to beat Comeback veterans Chong/Lee even in their homeground....
Hehe....they scraped through 17-16 in the second set after losing the first set. The third set was tight too. Yet, it was a good experience for them as the Jap pair is technically better (WR 27). Last week, they beat Mohd Tazari/Lin (WR 14), so, anything is possible. Hopefully, they still have the stamina to beat the inconsistent Chan/Koo (who lost to Flandy/Eng Hian last week). If PBSI continues to send them to the high-rated tourneys after the WC (China Open, Indonesian Open, etc), I will expect them to be in the top 10-15 in a year time!
Although I would very much like them to beat the Malaysian pair (Luluk/Alven is still my fav pair right now), it seems that the Indonesian pair is inconsistent at the moment and with the poorer head-to-head record, Chong/Lee has the slight advantage. Of course, it will be great if Luluk/Alven can recover the form which brought them 2 majors late last year
Two upsets so far! World number one Xie Xf lost to Li Li in three games while Zhang Jun/Gao Ling lost to the rather unknown Thai pair in MX! Jiang Yj lost to Wang Chen, 0-2. Mia avenged her defeat over Pi HY , she won easily.The seeded pairs went through for the rest of the matches in MX.
Malaysia Open Day 2 Malaysia Open 07/07/05 Women's Singles Round 1 1) LILi SIN bt XIE Xingfang 1* CHN (11/5,7/11,11/8):crying: 2) RICE Anna CAN bt PRUTSCH Simone AUT (11/8,4/11,11/2) 3) WANG Chen 5* HKG bt JIANG Yanjiao CHN (13/10,11/4) 4) HIRAYAMA Yu JPN bt YONEKURA Kanako JPN (11/8,4/11,11/8) 5) MIA AUDINA NED bt PI Hongyan 3* FRA (11/7,11/5) 6) LU Lan CHN bt PONSANA Salakjit THA (9/11,11/8,11/4) 7) ZHOU Mi 8* CHN bt LEE Yun Hwa KOR (11/5,11/3) 8) ZHU Lin CHN bt MUDUKASAN Sutheaswari MAS (11/5,11/0) 9) JANG Soo Young KOR bt WEMYSS ~ Yuan SCO (11/8,11/3) 10) XU Huaiwen 6* GER bt NEDELTCHEVA Petya BUL (4/11,11/7,11/6) 11) ZHANG Bei Wen SUB SIN bt VATTIER Tatiana FRA (11/9,11/8) 12) YAO Jie 4* NED bt HIROSE Eriko JPN (11/5,11/4) 13) MORI Kaori JPN bt MEEMEK Monthila THA (11/6,11/2) 14) HALLAM Tracey 7* ENG bt HWANG Hye Youn KOR (11/7,11/8) 15) SEO Yoon Hee KOR bt REID Charmaine CAN (11/2,11/4) 16) ZHANG Ning 2* CHN bt CHENG Shao-Chieh TPE (11/1,11/2)
WS (R16) - predicted winners first Li Li v Anna Rice - first seed Xie XF ousted by Li Li Wang Chen (5*) v Yu Hirayama Mia v Lu Lan Zhou Mi (8*) v Zhu Lin Xu Huaiwen (6*) v Jang Young Soo Yao Jie (4*) v Zhang Beiwen (Sin) Mori v Hallam (7*) - will be tight Zhang Ning (2*) v Seo Yoon Hee
And the bad thing about that is that, with of exception of Boonsak and Salakjit, their surnames are terribly long and complicated.
I don't hope to see more shocking results than those two. It anyway makes the WS top half more interesting.
